Greg Eghigian is a historian of the human sciences and medicine, with a particular interest in how deviance, abnormality, and disability have been historically perceived, understood, and treated in modern Europe and the United States. He specializes in German history, and is presently working on a book that examines the science and medicine behind efforts to rehabilitate prisoners in Nazi, East, and West Germany. His interests extend beyond Germany, however, and he also conducts research and teaches courses on the history of psychiatry, the history of science and medicine, and the historical anthropology of the self in the western world.