Dr. Mat Savelli has taught in the Arts & Science Program since 2016 and co-teaches the Level I Inquiry course (ARTSSCI 1C06 / Inquiry: Global Challenges). He also offers courses in the Department of Health, Aging, and Society on mental health and illness.

Dr. Savelli received an Honours BA in History at McMaster before moving to the University of Oxford for an MSc in Russian and East European Studies and a DPhil in the History of Medicine. Although trained as a medical historian, Dr. Savelli pursues research that covers a wide variety of topics, including the history of psychiatry in Eastern Europe, the global advertising of psychoactive substances, and corporate strategies employed in cigarette packaging. His work appears in a variety of journals, including Social History of Medicine, History of the Human Sciences, and Tobacco Control. He has published several co-edited volumes (Psychiatry in Communist Europe and Global Transformations in the Life Sciences 1945-1980) and textbooks (Health & Society: Critical Perspectives and An Introduction to Mental Health and Illness: Critical Perspectives).

Dr. Savelli enjoys supervising Arts & Science students completing theses and independent projects on a wide variety of topics.