Marco Ramos

Marco Antonio Ramos, MD PhD, is a historian, psychiatrist, and Assistant Professor in the History of Medicine and Department of Psychiatry at Yale University. His research focuses on the intersection of psychiatry, psychoanalysis, and political imagination across the Americas in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. His first book Just Dreams: Radical Psychiatry, Terror, and Human Rights in Cold War Argentina (under contract with UNC Press) draws on the personal archives of survivors and physician-activists to recover the radical, if fleeting, visions of an anti-capitalist and liberatory psychoanalysis that “disappeared” amid the fascist terror of the last dictatorship in 1970s Argentina. His award-winning writing has appeared in clinical, academic, and popular journals, including the American Historical Review, Bulletin of the History of Medicine, New England Journal of Medicine, JAMA, and the Boston Review. His research has been supported by the National Institutes of Health, the National Science Foundation, the Social Science Research Council, and the American Psychiatric Association.

Along with Dr. Ayah Nuriddin, Dr. Ramos is also co-director of the Community Histories Lab (CHL) at Yale School of Medicine. The CHL aims to unearth local histories of New Haven and Yale University that promote justice along the lines of race, class, disability, gender, and sexuality.