Critical Health Humanities

CRITICAL HEALTH HUMANITIES SPEAKER: Rijul Kochhar, Harvard University Rijul Kochhar is a historian of science and an anthropologist. His research interests focus on transnational histories of the life sciences and infectious diseases; the rationality of...

CRITICAL HEALTH HUMANITIES SPEAKER: Sari Altshuler, Northeastern University Sari Altschuler’s research focuses primarily on American literature and culture before 1865, disability studies, and the health humanities, broadly understood. She is the author...

CRITICAL HEALTH HUMANITIES SPEAKER: Emily Harrison, Wellesley College I am an Assistant Teaching Professor in the Department of Women’s and Gender Studies at Wellesley College. I hold a PhD in the History of Science, an SM in Global Health and Population...

CRITICAL HEALTH HUMANITIES SPEAKER: Tanya Sheehan, Colby College Tanya Sheehan is Ellerton M. and Edith K. Jetté Professor of Art; Director of Academic and Scholarly Engagement at the Colby Museum’s Lunder Institute for American Art (2025-); Chair of the...

CRITICAL HEALTH HUMANITIES SPEAKER: Yesmar Oyarzun, Brandeis University Yesmar Oyarzun is a sociocultural and medical anthropologist whose research focuses on how embodied social difference interacts with medical, scientific, and lay perception of the...

CRITICAL HEALTH HUMANITIES SPEAKER: Amy Moran-Thomas, MIT Amy Moran-Thomas is Associate Professor of Anthropology at MIT. Her ethnographic research focuses on how health technologies and ecologies are designed and come to be materially embodied—often...

CRITICAL HEALTH HUMANITIES SPEAKER: Every Ocean Hughes, Artist Every Ocean Hughes (b. 1977, lives and works in Stockholm and New York) is a transdisciplinary artist and writer. Her work has been shown in solo exhibitions at the Whitney Museum of American...

CRITICAL HEALTH HUMANITIES SPEAKER: Andrew Lea, University of Rochester Andrew Lea is a physician-historian at the University of Rochester, where he works as a general internist at Strong Memorial Hospital and an assistant professor of health humanities...

CRITICAL HEALTH HUMANITIES SPEAKER: Martin Summers, Boston College Martin Summers is a cultural historian of the nineteenth- and twentieth-century U.S., with particular research and teaching interests in race, gender, sexuality, and medicine. He regularly...

CRITICAL HEALTH HUMANITIES SPEAKER: Gabeba Baderoon, Penn State / Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study Gabeba Baderoon is an Associate Professor of Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies, African Studies, and Comparative Literature and holds courtesy...