Taylor Elizabeth Dysart (she/her/hers) is a historian of medicine and science with a regional focus on Amazonian Latin America. She is currently a Ph.D. candidate in the History and Sociology of Science at the University of Pennsylvania, where she is also completing a Graduate Certificate in Latin American and Latinx Studies. Her research examines how sacred plants and folk and Indigenous knowledges from the northwestern Amazon contested the material and conceptual category of "the psychedelic" across the human, life, and mind sciences throughout the twentieth century. Before joining the American Philosophical Society, she was the Allington Dissertation Fellow at the Science History Institute.
Project: “The Psychedelic Century: The Amazonian Origins of the Global Science and Medicine of Hallucinogens in the Long Twentieth Century”