Anne Harrington and Charles Rosenberg are both Professors of the History of Science at Harvard University. Rosenberg is also the Ernest E. Monrad Professor in the Social Sciences.

Harrington received her Ph.D. in the History of Science from Oxford University in 1985. She is currently Co-Director of the Harvard University Mind, Brain, and Behavior Initiative. Harrington is also currently a consultant for the MacArthur Foundation Research Network on Mind-Body Interactions, where she has worked on projects ranging from placebo effects to the effects of meditation on emotional health in the workplace. In addition to publishing some 45 articles and producing two edited collections, she is the author of two books, Medicine, Mind and the Double Brain (1987) and Reenchanted Science: Holism and German Culture from Wilhelm II to Hitler (1997).

Rosenberg has written widely on the History of Medicine and Science and is best known for his Cholera Years, the United States in 1832, 1849, and 1866 [1987]; The Trial of the Assassin Guiteau, Psychiatry and Law in the Gilded Age [1968]; No Other Gods: On Science and American Social Thought [1976]; The Care of Strangers: The Rise of America's Hospital System [1987]. He has also co-authored or edited another half-dozen books and is currently at work on a history of conceptions of disease during the past two centuries.

Rosenberg is a recipient of many professional awards, including the George Sarton Medal (for lifetime achievement) from the History of Science Society. Among his extensive editorial duties are a term as editor of Isis, the History of Science Society journal, and as editor of a Cambridge University Press series on the social history of medicine (now including some forty titles).