She specializes in the history of gender, sexuality, and the female body in medieval and Renaissance Europe, as well as categories and practices of experience and observation in the Middle Ages.
She received her M.Phil in the Combined Historical Studies of the Renaissance at the Warburg Institute, University of London, and earned a Ph.D. in the History of Science at Harvard in 1981.
[1] Wonders of Nature, which she co-authored with Lorraine Daston, won the Pfizer Award of the History of Science Society for the best book in the history of science in 1999; the book was translated into Italian and German.
[2] In 2002, Park was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
[3] Her book Secrets of Women: Gender, Generation, and the Origins of Human Dissection (2006) won the Margaret W. Rossiter History of Women in Science Prize in 2007[4] and the American Association for the History of Medicine William H. Welch Medal in 2009.