Alexandre White, PhD is an Associate Professor in the Johns Hopkins, Department of Sociology. He earned a B.A. in Black Studies from Amherst College, an MSc. in Sociology from the London School of Economics and Political Science and a PhD in Sociology from Boston University. He is jointly affiliated with the Department of the History of Medicine as an Assistant Professor in the School of Medicine and is a Director of the Center For Medical Humanities and Social Medicine at Johns Hopkins. His past research culminating the in book, Epidemic Orientalism: Race, Capital and the Governance of Infectious Diseases (Stanford 2023) examines the social effects of infectious epidemic outbreaks in both historical and contemporary settings as well as the global mechanisms that produce responses to outbreak. White has published extensively in social science journals on the topics of racism, slavery and medicine including in the journals, Sociology of Race and Ethnicity, Theory and Society and Social Science History. His current work with the Mellon-funded project Black Beyond Data has resulted in the creation of Underwriting Souls. This project aims to contextualize our understanding of a particular archive of slavery, one centered on the financial systems that formed and maintained the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade until its demise in the British Empire in 1807.

Contact: alexandrewhite@jhu.edu