Gina Surita

Position
Alumni; Ph.D. 2022
Bio/Description

Gina Surita is a Postgraduate Research Associate in the Department of History at Princeton University. She earned her PhD in History of Science from Princeton in 2022 and her BA from Cornell University in 2016 double-majoring in Biological Sciences (concentration in Animal Physiology) and Science & Technology Studies. 

Her dissertation examined the history of cellular metabolism and bioenergetics research in physiology and biochemistry from 1900 to 1970. Other ongoing projects focus on the intertwined histories of hormones and cancer as unstable biomedical categories in the twentieth century. 

Dissertation Title:

"The "Currency of the Cell": Energy Cycles and the Remaking of Metabolism, 1900 – 1970"

Degree Year
2022
Year of Study
Alumni
Area of Interest
Gender & Sexuality
Intellectual History
Life Sciences
Material Culture
Medicine & Health
Home Department & Other Affiliations
History
Period
19th Century
20th Century
Region
Europe
United States