Andi Johnson, PhD, MA

Andi Johnson, PhD, MA is a Senior Lecturer in the History & Sociology of Science Department at the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Johnson specializes in the anthropology and history of science and medicine. Her research tracks the rise of exercise physiology in the U.S. from the 1920s and explores the transnational networks and practices through which exercise physiology travels today. Dr. Johnson teaches undergraduates in the Health & Societies, and Science, Technology, & Society majors at Penn. She teaches subjects including the history of health policy in the U.S., especially regarding insurance, and the social basis of health and illness. She has graduate degrees in Anthropology and in the History and Sociology of Science.