Rena Selya is a historian and archivist of 20th-century biomedicine. She has published a biography of the Nobel Prize–winning virologist and political activist Salvador Luria and is currently researching the life of Evelyn M. Witkin. She has taught the history of science and American history at Harvard University, the University of California, Los Angeles, and Santa Monica College. She is now the archivist at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center.