Ben Schneider

Ben Schneider

Graduate Student

Email: bkschneider@mednet.ucla.edu

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Biography

Ben Schneider is an MD/PhD student in the history department studying the relationships between hospitals and neighborhoods in twentieth-century Los Angeles. He is interested in questions of health activism, hospital expansion, and health policy in American cities. He is working on a dissertation on the history of Los Angeles General Medical Center from the 1960s-1990s.

 

Field of Study

History of Science

Subfield

History of Medicine

Awards & Grants

Mellon Foundation ACLS Dissertation Innovation Fellowship, 2026-2027.

https://www.acls.org/fellow-grantees/ben-schneider/

Advisor(s)

Elizabeth O'Brien