Tabea Cornel(History of Science, Technology, and Medicine Fellow)is a doctoral candidate in the Department of History and Sociology of Science at the University of Pennsylvania. Tabea loves science. She holds a Graduate Certificate in Social, Affective, and Cognitive Neuroscience (SCAN) from Penn’s Center for Neuroscience & Society, an M.A. in the History and Culture of Science and Technology from Technische Universität Berlin, and a B.Sc. in Mathematics from Freie Universität Berlin. The attempts to use classification and quantification to tame unruly human characteristics and behaviors are Tabea’s major research interest. Her dissertation, Sinister Intersectionality: A Left-Handed History of Neuro-Centrism, ca. 1865–2015, traces brain-linked anatomical, genetic, and hormonal theories of the origins of manual preference and the naturalization of stereotypes about left-handers. Tabea prefers to use her right hand for most of her daily activities, but she threads a needle with the left.
