Dr. Marissa Mika is a writer and editor living in Berkeley, California.

She is the author of Africanizing Oncology: Creativity, Crisis, and Cancer in Uganda, which was a finalist for both the ASA Best Book Prize and the Bethwell A. Ogot Award for Best Book in East African Studies in 2022.

Before taking an early retirement from academia, Dr. Mika was the founding director of the medical humanities program at the University of Global Health Equity in Rwanda.

Trained as a historian and anthropologist of medicine, science, and technology in Africa, she has a PhD from the University of Pennsylvania in the History and Sociology of Science and a MHS in International Health from Johns Hopkins.

She would love to talk with you about your research and about bringing your big, beautiful, bold, brilliant book into the world.