Professor Hammonds received a Bachelor of Science in Physics (Spelman College, 1976), a Bachelor of Electrical Engineering (Georgia Institute of Technology, 1976) and a Ph.D. in the History of Science (Harvard University, 1993). She was Five College Minority Fellow (1989-1990) and also a Visiting Assistant Professor of the History of Science at Hampshire College (1990-91). During the academic year 1994-1995 she was a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow and member of the School of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Studies at Princeton. Her research is in the history of medicine and public health in the United States, with a special focus on the study of race and gender in science and medicine. She is the author of The Search for Perfect Control: A Social History of Diphtheria in New York City, 1880-1930.

Selected Bibliography

Hammonds, Evelynn Maxine. "Black (W)holes and the Geometry of Black Female Sexuality," differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies, Summer/Fall, 1994, vol. 6, no. 2/3.

------. Childhood's Deadly Scourge: The Campaign to Control Diptheria in New York City. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999.

------ Barbara Laslett, Sally Gregory Kohlstedt, Helen Longino, eds. Gender and Scientific Authority. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996

------. "No Trifling Matter." The Women's Review of Books 7, no. 9 (1990): 1.

------. "Kate Rushin," Contemporary Lesbian Writers of the United States: A Bio-Bibliographical Critical Sourcebook, Pollack, Sandra and Knight, Denise D., eds., Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1993.

------. "Race, Sex, AIDS: The Construction of 'Other'." Radical America 20, no. 6 (1987): 28-36.

------. "The Search for Perfect Control: A Social History of Diphtheria, 1880-1930." Ph.D. dissertation, Harvard University, 1993.

------. and Helen Longino, "Conflicts and Tensions in the Feminist Study of Gender and Science," Conflicts in Feminism, Hirsch, Marianne and Keller, Evelyn Fox, eds., New York: Routledge, 1990.