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Bill Rankin

Associate Professor of History; Chair of the Program in the History of Science and Medicine
Yale Department of History

Bill Rankin’s research focuses on the intersection of science, technology, and geography, from the territorial scale of states and globalization down to the scale of individual buildings. He is particularly interested in the political effects of geographic knowledge—in mapping, the environmental sciences and technology, and methodological problems of digital scholarship, spatial history, and geographic analysis (including GIS).

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william.rankin@yale.edu

Office: HQ 250