Philip N. Alexander

Philip N. Alexander is a Research Associate in MIT’s Program in Writing and Humanistic Studies and a Research Consultant for the MIT Black History Project. For more than 35 years, he has investigated the history of science and medicine and contributed to biographies, exhibitions, and other projects concerning MIT’s history.

Alexander is the author of A Widening Sphere: Evolving Cultures at MIT (MIT Press, 2011), a study of the Institute’s development through the lives and leadership of its first nine presidents.