Projects
Since 2023, I have served as an editorial assistant and project manager for the Case of the Human project in anticipation of the Lancet Global Social Medicine Case Series. This broader project aims not merely at translating existing theory across humanities and medicine, but rather at co-producing new plural knowledge of the human that transcends epistemological boundaries. It addresses, “What is the human?” and “What does the category of the human do?” The aim is to create novel, multidisciplinary, and pluralistic knowledge on the human via: 1) co-developing novel, plural knowledge on the human, through a multidisciplinary research conference series; 2) disseminating new knowledges on the human, through a collaborative case series published in The Lancet; and 3) fostering community reflection and personal engagement on the human, through collective writing on this collaborative process. The project is led by a group of scholars and practitioners in medicine, the humanities, and the humanistic social sciences, in partnership with Janna Palmer, Executive Editor at The Lancet.
Cris Yanes, Isa Torres, and I launched this site in February of 2023 as a group of MD-PhD trainees pursuing graduate degrees in the social sciences and humanities. Our aim is to help prospective students understand the application process to the MSTP, and to bring together current trainees across the varied programs to foster our small yet mighty community.
Mexican Exposures (MEXPOS) brings together medical anthropologists, environmental health scientists and environmental engineers to arrive at a better understanding of the larger histories, life circumstances, and environments that shape health, disease, and inequality in Mexico City. Through several collaborative projects, the project's aim is to ask and answer complex questions that cannot be answered through only one form of methodological expertise alone. I served as the project manager from 2022-2023 for the collaboration between NESTSMX, the Center for Global Health Equity, and Mexico's National Institute for Public Health on research surrounding the effects of water intermittency on health, gender, and economic opportunity using the ENSANUT, as well as the ethnographic liaison and project manager for a Household Chemical Assessment pilot study from 2022-2023 at the Institute for Exposomic Research in the Icahn School of Medicine at Mt. Sinai through Programming Research in Obesity, Growth, Environment and Social Stressors (PROGRESS).
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The Global Feminisms Project archives oral history interviews with individuals who identify themselves as working on behalf of issues related to women and gender in different national contexts. The project produces an open-access archive of these oral histories as well as pedagogical materials for students, educators, researchers, activists, and more to use them. I served as a program coordinator and technical lead for this project between 2019-2020 and 2022-2023, as well as participated in the special project of documenting the history of the Women's and Gender Studies Department at the University of Michigan from 2023-2024.
I held a research assistant position in this lab at the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis and completed a summer research fellowship in 2021 through the Leah Menshouse Springer Summer Opportunities Program on the protective role of Sirtuin 3 in response to irradiative cardiac toxicity in rodent models.
This project explored how patients and providers in a safety net clinic in SE Michigan came to conceptualize and perform care as part of an undergraduate honors thesis in the Department of Anthropology. It won the 2020 Marshall Sahlins Social Science Award for Best Undergraduate Honors Thesis and Excellence in the Social Sciences at the University of Michigan.
