Office Address: Nau 484
Personal Website

Field & Specialties

• History of Science, Technology, and Medicine
• History of Capitalism
• Science and Technology Studies (STS)
• Environmental History

Education

• PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2014
• MPhil, University of Cambridge, 2007
• BA, Columbia University, 2006

Biography

David Singerman is a historian of science, technology, medicine, and capitalism. His first book, Unrefined: How Capitalism Reinvented Sugar will be published in September 2025 by the University of Chicago Press. His second book project is a new history of drugs and performance in sports.

His research has been supported by the National Science Foundation, Social Science Research Council, and Chemical Heritage Foundation, among others. In 2015 his dissertation was awarded prizes for best dissertation in business history by the Business History Conference and the Association of Business Historians (UK). Before coming to UVA he was a postdoctoral associate at Rutgers University and a research associate at Harvard Business School.

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