Rachel Adams
Professor, Department of English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University
Rachel Adams is the director of the “Precision Medicine: Ethics, Politics and Culture.” She is Professor of English and American Studies at Columbia University, where she specializes in 19th- and 20th-century literatures of the United States and the Americas, media studies, theories of race, gender, and sexuality, medical humanities and disability studies.
Rachel Adams
Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University
Rachel Adams is the director of the “Precision Medicine: Ethics, Politics and Culture.” She is Professor of English and American Studies at Columbia University, where she specializes in 19th- and 20th-century literatures of the United States and the Americas, media studies, theories of race, gender, and sexuality, medical humanities and disability studies. Her most recent book is Raising Henry: A Memoir of Motherhood, Disability, and Discovery, published by Yale University Press in 2013. She is the author of Continental Divides: Remapping the Cultures of North America (University of Chicago Press, 2009) and Sideshow U.S.A.: Freaks and the American Cultural Imagination (University of Chicago Press, 2001). She is co-editor (with David Savran) of The Masculinity Studies Reader (Blackwell Press, 2001) and (with Sarah Casteel) a special issue of Comparative American Literature on "Canada and the Americas." She is editor of a critical edition of Kate Chopin's The Awakening (Fine Publications, 2002). Her articles have appeared in journals such as American Literature, American Literary History, American Quarterly, Minnesota Review, Camera Obscura, GLQ, Signs, Yale Journal of Criticism and Twentieth-Century Literature. She has also written for the The New York Times, Salon, Chronicle of Higher Education, Gastronomica, and the Times of London and blogs for The Huffington Post. In 2010, she won the Lenfest Distinguished Faculty Award.
Working Group Affiliations
Precision Medicine: Ethics, Politics and Culture, Project Director
The Future of Disability Studies, Project Director
Katherine Bergevin
Katherine Bergevin is a PhD Candidate in English and Comparative Literature, specializing in anglophone literatures of the Atlantic world. She holds a graduate certificate in feminist scholarship from Columbia's Institute for Research on Women, Gender, and Sexuality.
Katherine Bergevin
Doctoral Candidate, English and Comparative Literature
Katherine Bergevin is a PhD Candidate in English and Comparative Literature, specializing in anglophone literatures of the Atlantic world. She holds a graduate certificate in feminist scholarship from Columbia's Institute for Research on Women, Gender, and Sexuality.
Her dissertation examines the emergence in the long eighteenth century of recognizably modern representations of pregnancy and the foetus, in dialogue with the expansion of the penitentiary; ultimately demonstrating that descriptions of pregnancy, gestation, and childbirth comprised a vital thread within the emergence of modern structures of carceral discipline.
She has taught a variety of courses at Columbia, including Literature Humanities, University Writing, and the senior undergraduate seminar “Jane Austen and the Enlightenment Mind.”
Katherine holds a BA in English and History from the University of Toronto, where she also completed an MA in English supported by the Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada as a 2012 Joseph-Armand Bombardier Master’s Fellow. She is the current Rapporteur for the Columbia University Seminar in Eighteenth-Century European Culture.
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Emily Bloom
Mellon Public Humanities Fellow, Sarah Lawrence College
Emily Bloom is a Mellon Public Humanities Fellow at Sarah Lawrence College. She is the author of The Wireless Past: Anglo-Irish Writers and the BBC, 1931-1968 (Oxford University Press, 2016), which was awarded the First Book Prize by the Modernist Studies Association.
Emily Bloom
Mellon Public Humanities Fellow, Sarah Lawrence College
Emily Bloom is a Mellon Public Humanities Fellow at Sarah Lawrence College. She is the author of The Wireless Past: Anglo-Irish Writers and the BBC, 1931-1968 (Oxford University Press, 2016), which was awarded the First Book Prize by the Modernist Studies Association. Her current work explores the interrelations between disability, media, technology, gender, and literature. She has contributed chapters to The Edinburgh Companion to Modernism and Technology, Irish Literature in Transition (Cambridge UP), and The Critic as Amateur (Bloomsbury) and has published articles in The Irish Times, International Yeats Studies, Éire-Ireland, and Texas Studies in Literature and Language. Her review essay, “Mother of a Pandemic,” on motherhood, pandemics, and the gothic appeared in Public Books in January 2021. Dr. Bloom is currently at work on a work of narrative non-fiction about motherhood and technology.
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Randi Hutter Epstein
Lecturer, English Department, Yale College, Writer in Residence, Yale University School of Medicine, and Adjunct Professor, Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism
Randi is a medical writer and a reporter for the London Bureau of the Associated Press and was the London bureau chief of Physicians’ Weekly. Randi’s writing focuses on the interplay between medicine and society. In other words, how cultural attitudes influence medical treatment, public health and research, and vice versa.
Randi Hutter Epstein
Lecturer, English Department, Yale College, Writer in Residence, Yale University School of Medicine, and Adjunct Professor, Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism
Randi is a medical writer and a reporter for the London Bureau of the Associated Press and was the London bureau chief of Physicians’ Weekly. Randi’s writing focuses on the interplay between medicine and society. In other words, how cultural attitudes influence medical treatment, public health and research, and vice versa. Her articles have appeared in the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Daily Telegraph, Guardian Parents, More, and other national publications. She is also the author of Get Me Out: A History of Childbirth from the Garden of Eden to the Sperm Bank (released by W.W. Norton, Jan 2010) and AROUSED: The History of Hormones and How They Control Just About Everything (W.W. Norton, 2018). Randi earned a B.S. from The University of Pennsylvania where she studied the history and sociology of science; an M.S. from Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism; an M.D. from Yale University School of Medicine, and an M.P.H. from Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health.
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George Estreich
Fellow, Creative Nonfiction, Oregon State University
George Estreich's publications include a book of poems, Textbook Illustrations of the Human Body, which won the Gorsline Prize from Cloudbank Books; the Oregon Book Award-winning memoir The Shape of the Eye; and Fables and Futures: Biotechnology, Disability, and the Stories we Tell Ourselves, which NPR's Science Friday named a Best Science Book of 2019. Estreich has also published prose in The New York Times, Salon, The American Medical Association Journal of Ethics, Tin House, and McSweeney’s Internet Tendency.
George Estreich
George Estreich's publications include a book of poems, Textbook Illustrations of the Human Body, which won the Gorsline Prize from Cloudbank Books; the Oregon Book Award-winning memoir The Shape of the Eye; and Fables and Futures: Biotechnology, Disability, and the Stories we Tell Ourselves, which NPR's Science Friday named a Best Science Book of 2019. Estreich has also published prose in The New York Times, Salon, The American Medical Association Journal of Ethics, Tin House, and McSweeney’s Internet Tendency. He lives in Corvallis, Oregon, with his family, where he teaches in Oregon State’s MFA program in Creative Nonfiction. More: georgeestreich.com
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Meredith Gamer
Fellow, Heyman Center for the Humanities, Columbia University
Meredith Gamer specializes in the visual and material culture of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Europe, with a focus on Britain and the British Empire. Her research and teaching interests include the relationship between art and violence, print culture, medical illustration, and representations of race and slavery. Professor Gamer’s current book project, The Sheriff’s Picture Frame: Art and Execution in Eighteenth-Century Britain, centers on the spectacle of punishment in Britain’s long eighteenth century.
Meredith Gamer
Fellow, Heyman Center for the Humanities, Columbia University
Meredith Gamer specializes in the visual and material culture of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Europe, with a focus on Britain and the British Empire. Her research and teaching interests include the relationship between art and violence, print culture, medical illustration, and representations of race and slavery. Professor Gamer’s current book project, The Sheriff’s Picture Frame: Art and Execution in Eighteenth-Century Britain, centers on the spectacle of punishment in Britain’s long eighteenth century. She is also at work on a new book-length study, which examines the visual culture of pregnancy, childbirth, and motherhood in the British Atlantic world. Gamer is the recipient of a 2018-2019 Faculty Mentoring Award from the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. Her work has been supported by fellowships and grants from the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts (CASVA), Huntington Library, Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, and Woodrow Wilson Foundation, among other institutions.
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Megan Glasmann
Meg recently graduated with her J.D. (with honors) from the University of Utah S.J. Quinney College of Law. While in law school, Meg conducted research as a fellow for the Utah Center for Excellence in Ethical, Legal, and Social Implications Research (UCEER) funded by the National Institute of Health (NIH). Her research focused on reproductive healthcare, legislative history and intent, bioethics, and linguistic considerations of pseudo-medical-legal terminology across academic and applied disciplines. Her current research relates to abortion attitudes among law and medical students. Meg also collaborates with the Sterilization and Social Justice Lab on research related to reproductive healthcare policy and legislative history analyses.
Before law school, Meg completed a Masters of Education and Masters of Philosophy in Educational Psychology from the University of Utah, where she completed coursework in neuroscience, neuropsychology, statistics, and robust research methodology. Meg attended Stanford University and the University of Utah for her undergraduate program of study in psychology and positive psychology, competing for both universities as a varsity javelin thrower.
Rishi Goyal
Assistant Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine and the Institute of Comparative Literature, Columbia University
Rishi Goyal, MD, PhD is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Emergency Medicine and the Institute of Comparative Literature at Columbia University where he is the Director of the Medicine, Literature and Society Major. Dr. Goyal is also an Adjunct Associate Professor of Humanities at the University of Southern Denmark. Dr. Goyal received his MD (2001) and his PhD in English and Comparative Literature (2010) from Columbia University. He was Chief Resident in Emergency Medicine at New York-Presbyterian Hospital (2009-10). Dr. Goyal’s research, writing and teaching focuses on the reciprocal transformations that result when new ideas about health, disease and the body find forms of expression in fiction and memoirs.
Rishi Goyal
Assistant Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine and the Institute of Comparative Literature, Columbia University
Rishi Goyal, MD, PhD is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Emergency Medicine and the Institute of Comparative Literature at Columbia University where he is the Director of the Medicine, Literature and Society Major. Dr. Goyal is also an Adjunct Associate Professor of Humanities at the University of Southern Denmark.
Dr. Goyal received his MD (2001) and his PhD in English and Comparative Literature (2010) from Columbia University. He was Chief Resident in Emergency Medicine at New York-Presbyterian Hospital (2009-10). Dr. Goyal’s research, writing and teaching focuses on the reciprocal transformations that result when new ideas about health, disease and the body find forms of expression in fiction and memoirs. His most recent work explores the political, aesthetic, and social dimensions of the representation of physical trauma in literature. His writing has appeared in The Living Handbook of Narratology, Aktuel Forskning. Litteratur, Kultur og Medier, and The Los Angeles Review of Books among other places. He is a co-founding editor of the online journal, Synapsis: A Health Humanities Journal, and is the recipient of multiple grants and awards including a recent NEH grant.
Working Group Affiliation
Motherhood and Technology, Project Director
Arden Hegele
Lecturer in the Discipline of English and Comparative Literature, Medical Humanities Fellow English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University
Arden Hegele, PhD, specializes in nineteenth-century British literature and the medical and health humanities. She is interested in the intersection of medical knowledge with formalist and historicist literary approaches.
Arden Hegele
Lecturer in the Discipline of English and Comparative Literature, Medical Humanities Fellow English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University
Arden Hegele, PhD, specializes in nineteenth-century British literature and the medical and health humanities. She is interested in the intersection of medical knowledge with formalist and historicist literary approaches. Her two forthcoming scholarly books are Romantic Autopsy: Literary Form and Medical Reading (Oxford University Press) and Culture and Medicine: Critical Readings in the Health and Medical Humanities, co-edited with Dr. Rishi Goyal (Bloomsbury). Her research in Romanticism has been published in core journals, such as European Romantic Review, Romanticism, The Byron Journal, and Keats-Shelley Journal, and she has also published in Partial Answers, Gender and Education, and Persuasions. Her book reviews are featured in Public Books, Review 19, Studies in Romanticism, Victorian Network, Partial Answers and Avidly. At Columbia, Hegele has taught in the Department of English and Comparative Literature, in the Medical Humanities major at the Institute for Comparative Literature and Society, and in the Department of Medical Humanities and Ethics at Columbia University Irving Medical Center. She is a co-founding editor (with Dr. Rishi Goyal) of Synapsis: A Health Humanities Journal. Other projects have included the direction of the Explorations in the Medical Humanities Series at the Society of Fellows and Heyman Center for the Humanities; co-direction of the Motherhood and Technology Working Group at the Center for the Study of Social Difference; coordination of the “Increasing Covid-19 Vaccine Confidence” project; and administration of the Consortium of Humanities Centers and Institutes Health and Medical Humanities Network, including hosting its Summer Institute at Columbia Global Centers | Paris.
Working Group Affiliation
Motherhood and Technology, Project Director
Kathleen Hammond
Kathleen (Katie) Hammond (she/her) is an Assistant Professor in the Lincoln Alexander School of Law at Toronto Metropolitan University where she is founder and director of the Health Law and Innovation Group.
Prior to joining the Lincoln Alexander School of Law, she was a Postdoctoral Fellow with the Research Group on Health and Law at McGill University’s Faculty of Law and a visiting scholar with the Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law and Policy at Harvard Law School. She holds a JD and BCL from McGill University. She completed an MPhil in Multi-Disciplinary Gender Studies and PhD in Legal Sociology at the University of Cambridge where she was a Gates Cambridge scholar and a Commonwealth scholar.
Her research spans across health law and policy, science and technology law, constitutional law, and gender and families. In particular, she specializes in the areas of reproduction and abortion, assisted reproductive technologies (including egg, sperm and embryo donation, surrogacy and egg freezing), health equity, and new genetic testing technologies.
She has held a number of fellowships, including with the Fondation Brocher in Geneva, Switzerland, the Embryo Project at the Center for Biology and Society at Arizona State University, and with the Marine Biological History Project in Woods Hole, Massachusetts. She has been involved with policy development on reproduction for organizations such as the World Health Organization, where she was involved with organizing, and participated in the consultation for the WHO’s first ever glossary and guidelines on infertility.
Her current projects are funded by grants from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. She has published widely in peer-reviewed journals including Anthropology & Medicine, the International Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics, McGill Journal of Law and Health, the Journal of Public Health Policy, the Canadian Journal of Law and Society, and Dalhousie Law Journal.
Anna Krauthamer
Ph.D. Candidate, English & Comparative Literature, Columbia University
Anna Krauthamer is a Ph.D. candidate in Columbia's English & Comparative Literature department, where she studies and writes about contemporary novels, theories of literary character, and disability. She is currently beginning a dissertation project focused on character typologies in contemporary fiction.
Anna Krauthamer
Ph.D. Candidate, English & Comparative Literature, Columbia University
Anna Krauthamer is a Ph.D. candidate in Columbia's English & Comparative Literature department, where she studies and writes about contemporary novels, theories of literary character, and disability. She is currently beginning a dissertation project focused on character typologies in contemporary fiction. Prior to beginning her graduate studies, she worked in publishing at a literary agency and later as the assistant director of Columbia's Center for Critical Thought. Her writing has appeared in Avidly and The LA Review of Books, and is forthcoming at several other venues.
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Motherhood and Technology, Graduate Assistant
Aya Labanieh
Ph.D. Candidate, English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University
Aya Labanieh is a Ph.D. candidate in the English and Comparative Literature Department, where she works on imperial conspiracies and their conspiracy-theory afterlives in 20th and 21st century Middle Eastern literature and politics. Her broader interests include conspiratorial thinking within a global digital context, and how conspiracy theories function as alternate histories, heretical discourses, popular critiques, epistemic injuries, and modern enchantments.
Aya Labanieh
Ph.D. candidate, English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University
Aya Labanieh is a Ph.D. candidate in the English and Comparative Literature Department, where she works on imperial conspiracies and their conspiracy-theory afterlives in 20th and 21st century Middle Eastern literature and politics. Her broader interests include conspiratorial thinking within a global digital context, and how conspiracy theories function as alternate histories, heretical discourses, popular critiques, epistemic injuries, and modern enchantments. Aya is an instructor of record for writing composition at Columbia University, a Public Humanities Fellow with the Heyman Center's ZIP Code Memory Project, a Lead Teaching Fellow with the Center for Teaching and Learning, and the Assistant Editor at the Journal of Arabic Literature. Her writing has appeared in the MOSF Journal of Science Fiction, Politics/Letters quarterly, and Aeon magazine. Before coming to Columbia, she received three B.A. degrees (with honors) in Comparative Literature, Philosophy, and French Literature from the University of California, Irvine.
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Zip Code Memory Project: Practices of Justice and Repair, Social Engagement Project
Jennifer Luong
Fellow, Constitutional and Human Rights Lawyer, JD University of Toronto
Jennifer Luong is a Canadian constitutional and human rights lawyer whose practice focuses on equality challenges to parentage laws and the constitutional right to collective bargaining. She represented the Attorney General of Ontario in Grand et al. v. Ontario, the settlement of which led to the passage of Ontario's All Families are Equal Act, 2016 and in Re S.M., in which the Ontario Superior Court struck down the spousal requirement for joint adoption applications as unjustifiably discriminating on the basis of marital status.
Jennifer Luong
Constitutional and Human Rights Lawyer, JD University of Toronto
Jennifer Luong is a Canadian constitutional and human rights lawyer whose practice focuses on equality challenges to parentage laws and the constitutional right to collective bargaining. She represented the Attorney General of Ontario in Grand et al. v. Ontario, the settlement of which led to the passage of Ontario's All Families are Equal Act, 2016 and in Re S.M., in which the Ontario Superior Court struck down the spousal requirement for joint adoption applications as unjustifiably discriminating on the basis of marital status. She received her AB (Mathematics) from Dartmouth College in 2009 and her JD from the University of Toronto in 2013.
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Katherine Magyarody
Fellow, English, PhD University of Toronto
Katherine Magyarody is an author of young adult fiction and an academic researcher. She is the recipient of a 2017 Robert J. Dau PEN Award for Emerging Writers and her debut novel, The Changeling of Fenlen Forest, was longlisted for the 2020 Sunburst Award for Excellence in Canadian Literature of the Fantastic. Her academic research centers on the representation of peer groups as a method of imperial cultural consolidation nineteenth-century children’s literature.
Katherine Magyarody
Author and Independent Scholar PhD University of Toronto
Katherine Magyarody is an author of young adult fiction and an academic researcher. She is the recipient of a 2017 Robert J. Dau PEN Award for Emerging Writers and her debut novel, The Changeling of Fenlen Forest, was longlisted for the 2020 Sunburst Award for Excellence in Canadian Literature of the Fantastic. Her academic research centers on the representation of peer groups as a method of imperial cultural consolidation nineteenth-century children’s literature. She has published articles in Nineteenth-Century Literature, Nineteenth-Century Gender Studies, Hungarian Studies Review, the Children’s Literature Association Quarterly, Marvels and Tales: Journal of Fairy Tale Studies, and The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Victorian Women’s Writing. Her reviews of contemporary children’s fiction and nonfiction appear in School Library Journal.
Selina Makana
Fellow, African History, University of Memphis
Selina Makana is an Assistant Professor of African history at the University of Memphis. Her research and teaching focus on African women’s social history, gender and militarism, transnational feminisms, and African diaspora studies. Her current monograph uses oral interviews with former women combatants and archival records to probe the relationship between gender and militarism in contemporary Angola.
Selina Makana
Assistant Professor of African History, University of Memphis
Selina Makana is an Assistant Professor of African history at the University of Memphis. Her research and teaching focus on African women’s social history, gender and militarism, transnational feminisms, and African diaspora studies. Her current monograph uses oral interviews with former women combatants and archival records to probe the relationship between gender and militarism in contemporary Angola. This research explores how nationalist projects and armed insurgent organizations utilize gender—in particular ideas of masculinities and femininities —to consolidate power and perpetuate violence. In 2017-2020, she was a Postdoctoral Research Scholar at the Institute for Research on Women, Gender, and Sexuality and a lecturer in the Department of Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies at Columbia University. She holds a Ph.D. in African Diaspora Studies and a Graduate Certificate in Gender and Women’s Studies from the University of California-Berkeley. Makana has been a Fulbright Fellow at Stanford University. Her recent publications have appeared in Meridians: Feminism, Race, and Transnationalism, Gender & History, and The Oxford Encyclopedia of African Women’s History. Selina Makana is a member of the African Feminist Initiative and serves on the editorial advisory board of Feminist Africa.
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Nancy King Reame
Professor, Department of Emerita of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, School of Nursing, Columbia University
Nancy King Reame, MSN, PhD, FAAN authored the chapter "Toxic Shock Syndrome and Tampons: The Birth of a Movement and a Research Vagenda" in The Palgrave Handbook of Critical Menstruation Studies (Bobel et al) 2020. The handbook, which is free and down-loadable can be found here: https://link-springer-com.ezproxy.cul.columbia.edu/book/10.1007%2F978-981-15-0614-7.
Nancy King Reame
Mary Dickey Lindsay Professor (Emerita) of Health Promotion and Risk Reduction, School of Nursing
Nancy King Reame, MSN, PhD, FAAN authored the chapter "Toxic Shock Syndrome and Tampons: The Birth of a Movement and a Research Vagenda" in The Palgrave Handbook of Critical Menstruation Studies (Bobel et al) 2020. The handbook, which is free and down-loadable can be found here: https://link-springer-com.ezproxy.cul.columbia.edu/book/10.1007%2F978-981-15-0614-7. In 2020, she was a member of the National Academy of Medicine committee that published the consensus study report on The Clinical Utility of Compounded Bioidentical Hormone Therapy in response to a request by the Food and Drug Administration. Nancy Reame provides ongoing commentaries for the journal Menopause, on such issues as the safety and efficacy of new breakthrough drugs for the treatment of menopausal hot flashes: KNDY neuron antagonists (Reame, April 2020), estetrol (August, 2020), and the effects of COVID on the management of menopausal symptoms (July, 2021). She continues to serve as a regular member of the screening panel for the prestigious Kavli Prize in Science Journalism, the annual international award program begun in 1945 by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) for excellence in science journalism for the public.
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Lilith Todd
Lilith Todd is a Ph.D. candidate in Columbia's Department of English and Comparative Literature, where she is studying 17th- and 18th-century British and Transatlantic literature. Broadly, her research interests include representations of domesticity, maternity, and bodily sensations, the histories of nursing, sex work, and surrogacy, and the various flows of water, bodily fluids, products, and poetic beats.
Lilith Todd
Lilith Todd is a Ph.D. candidate in Columbia's Department of English and Comparative Literature, where she is studying 17th- and 18th-century British and Transatlantic literature. Broadly, her research interests include representations of domesticity, maternity, and bodily sensations, the histories of nursing, sex work, and surrogacy, and the various flows of water, bodily fluids, products, and poetic beats. She has an article forthcoming from The Eighteenth-Century: Theory and Interpretation on the nurse, washerwoman, and poet Mary Collier and her work with bodily fluids. Before coming to Columbia, she received her B.A. in English (with honors) and in History from Brown University.
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Naazanene Vatan
Doctoral Student, Health, Medicine and Society, University of Cambridge
Naazanene Vatan is a medical student at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. Her interests include the intersections of literature and medicine; pregnancy and childbirth; and philosophies of scientific progress. Naazanene graduated with a B.A. from Columbia College in Biology and Medicine, Literature, and Society.
Naazanene Vatan
MPhil Candidate, Health, Medicine and Society, University of Cambridge
Naazanene Vatan is a medical student at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. Her interests include the intersections of literature and medicine; pregnancy and childbirth; and philosophies of scientific progress. Naazanene graduated with a B.A. from Columbia College in Biology and Medicine, Literature, and Society. She earned her M.Phil from the University of Cambridge, where she wrote her dissertation on obstetric epidural anesthesia use in the U.K. in the 1980s.
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Hannah Zeavin
Fellow, Science and Technology, UC Berkeley
Hannah Zeavin is a Lecturer of Science and Technology in the Department of History at UC Berkeley, and is on the Executive Committee's of the Berkeley Center for New Media and the UC Berkeley Center for Science, Technology, Medicine, and Society. Her research focuses on the coordinated histories of information, media, technology, medicine and the mind. Zeavin's first book, The Distance Cure: A History of Teletherapy is out from the MIT Press and she is at work on her second book, Mother's Little Helpers: Technology in the American Family (under contract MIT Press), which investigates the ways in which technologized parenting interacts with moral, medical, and psychiatric concepts of parental fitness, presence, and absence across the 20th century and into our present.
Hannah Zeavin
Hannah Zeavin is a Lecturer of Science and Technology in the Department of History at UC Berkeley, and is on the Executive Committee's of the Berkeley Center for New Media and the UC Berkeley Center for Science, Technology, Medicine, and Society. Her research focuses on the coordinated histories of information, media, technology, medicine and the mind. Zeavin's first book, The Distance Cure: A History of Teletherapy is out from the MIT Press and she is at work on her second book, Mother's Little Helpers: Technology in the American Family (under contract MIT Press), which investigates the ways in which technologized parenting interacts with moral, medical, and psychiatric concepts of parental fitness, presence, and absence across the 20th century and into our present. Other work has appeared or is forthcoming from differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies, The Guardian, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Review of Books, Slate, and beyond. For more information see: Zeavin.org.
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Helen Zhao
PhD Candidate, Philosophy, Columbia University
Helen Zhao is a PhD candidate in Philosophy at Columbia University, specializing in the philosophy of science and medicine. As the inaugural Graduate Fellow in Medical Humanities, she is the Network Administrator for the CHCI Health and Medical Humanities Network.
Helen Zhao
PhD Candidate in Philosophy, Columbia University
Helen Zhao is a PhD candidate in Philosophy at Columbia University, specializing in the philosophy of science and medicine. As the inaugural Graduate Fellow in Medical Humanities, she is the Network Administrator for the CHCI Health and Medical Humanities Network.
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