Michael Sappol received his B.A. in English at the City College of New York, and later completed his Ph.D. in history at Columbia University. Afterwards, he acted as a historian, exhibition curator and scholar-in-residence in the History of Medicine Division of the National Library of Medicine. Sappol is currently a visiting researcher at the University of Uppsala in Sweden studying the history of medicine. From his own biography,




Sappol's current projects include two new books: Anatomy’s photography: Objectivity, showmanship and the reinvention of the anatomical image, 1860-1950 and Queer anatomies: Perverse desire, medical illustration and the epistemology of the anatomical closet. He is also the curator to the website "Medical Movies: Films from the National Library of Medicine". His most recent book is Body Modern: Fritz Kahn, Scientific Illustration and the Homuncular Subject (University of Minnesota Press, 2017).

His full CV is available here.

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