Professor of History of Science, Medicine, and Technology
Professor Leslie spent four decades at Johns Hopkins, primarily studying the Cold War in the US and globally. He twice won the George Owen Award for undergraduate teaching, and supervised 19 PhD dissertations. He served in a number of leadership roles for the Society of the History of Technology and the History of Science Society. As a founding trustee of the D.W. Kim Foundation he has supported the history of modern East Asian science, technology, and medicine. Most recently, he has studied architecture and urban geography, focusing on the aerospace industry in Southern California, and has written extensively on university and hospital design in Pakistan, Bangladesh, and East and West Africa.
Current Interests: Faculty Mentoring, History of Johns Hopkins University, History of underrepresented groups in the history of science, technology and medicine