Adam Warren PhD

Adam Warren is Associate Professor of Latin American history in the Department of History at the University of Washington, Seattle. A specialist in colonial and republican Peru and the history of medicine and science, his scholarship focuses on how medical and scientific research have been used to explain social inequalities and frame projects of population reform and control in the Andes. He is the author of Medicine and Politics in Colonial Peru: Population Growth and the Bourbon Reforms, published by University of Pittsburgh Press in 2010, co-author of Baptism Through Incision: The Postmortem Cesarean Operation in the Spanish Empire, published by Penn State University Press in 2020, and co-editor of Empire, Colonialism, and the Human Sciences: Troubling Encounters in the Americas and Pacific, forthcoming from Cambridge University Press. He currently co-directs the Tepoztlán Institute for Transnational History of the Americas.