My research explores decolonizing imaginations that extend beyond discourses of repatriation and the return of original artifacts. I focus on the Egyptian artifact replica production’s role in preserving and remaking histories.

Sanctuaries of Health: The Postwar Construction of Hospital Care in Gaza, 1948-1954 Explain your research in 1-5 sentences My research project focuses on the Church Missionary Society (CMS) Hospital of Gaza City as a case study for exploring the re-construction of the Gazan medical infrastructure following the 1948 Arab-Israeli War....

Representations of Menstruation in Contemporary US Self-Help and Popular Science Writing: The Impure, The Holy, and The Everyday My research is focused on menstrual health education and the myths surrounding it. In both secular and Christian literary spaces, the menstruating body is conceived as a “problem,” and often rendered taboo...

This study utilizes an ethnographic approach to analyze the dynamics within multiple laboratories in the Neurology Department at Johns Hopkins in order to render visible the invisible labor that is important to the operation of such unitary laboratories.

Medicalization & Menopause: Women’s Health Beyond Reproduction This past summer, I conducted an ethnography in Karachi, Pakistan where I explored questions related to menopause. I was interested in how perimenopausal and menopausal women acquire and understand health information. This idea started in undergrad when I was investigating how young, New...

At Hopkins, these interests in hacking and hacker politics coalesce around what is often referred to as “hacktivism.” While this concept is used in contemporary mass and popular media, this concept has slightly deeper roots. makes the rounds in the news today, it has precedents in earlier periods.

Hirsutism and Navigating the Gender Binary in Clémentine Delait’s Les memories de la femme à barbe Explain your research project My research project is motivated by the fact that hirsutism (excessive hair growth) in women and people assigned female at birth was a phenotypic contradiction to dualisms separating “male” from...

Genetic information has long played a central role in Jewish identity and has been one way for Jews and non-Jews alike to define Jewish peoplehood. An examination of how this massive repository of Jewish genetic data is being mobilized and understood is therefore vital to understanding the construction of Jewish...

As a public health major myself I became intrigued by the flawed healthcare system that made my aunt move across the world for treatment. In the summer of 2023 I traveled to Egypt, through the help of the MSH Research Fellows grant, to study the state of its healthcare system.

Understanding Barriers to Vaccine Administration Describe your research in 1-5 sentences: My project is entitled Understanding Barriers to Vaccine Administration: A Physician-Patient Perspective in Ethiopia. My goal with the project is to uncover and understand the reasons behind the disparity in vaccination coverage between countries in the Global North and...

Chemical Shackles: psychotropic abuse in carceral states Explain your research project My research project focuses on the trends of psychotropic abuse in jails and prisonsin the United States since the early 1970’s, when the War on Drugs, as we know it, kicked intogear and funneled millions into the carceral system....

At the core of this research, I explore how the French configured tropical medicine as an epistemological colonization of the body and construed their ‘civilizing mission’ as a scientific expedition.

When the Physician Meets Indigenous Healers: Oku Ampofo, Herbalists, and the Making of Traditional Medicine Scientific in Postcolonial Ghana. Describe your research in 1-5 sentences. This project explores the history of the Center for Scientific Research into Plant Medicine (now Center for Plant Medicine Research (CPMR)). The Center was established...

My overall vision for this project is to track the evolution of holism within the path of medicine, with part one focusing on the requirements for medical school, part two focusing on the changes in the medical school courses required for medical students, and part three being changes made to...

Care Choreographies and the Making of the Psychosocial in Genetic Counseling Explain your research project Since the dawn of the Human Genome Project, genetic counselors have occupied a privilegedspace at the National Institutes of Health: consenting patient-participants into clinical trials,carrying out roles ranging from shuttling samples to running clinical trials,...

Nature, Pulled by Strings: Mourning at a Green Burial Cemetery in New England Describe your research in 1-5 sentences: Given their increasing predominance on the American landscape, I am curious if green burial cemeteries instill a new form of mourning within American culture. Green burial cemeteries practice a form of...

Traditional Medicine and Its Integration in Bolivia Explain your research in 1-5 sentences My project explores the integration of traditional medicine in modern Bolivia, through focusing on the city of Cochabamba. I conducted ethnographic research, which included interviews with hospital workers and traditional healers. How did you come to this...

Pronouncing Death: Language and Affliction in an Industrialized Mexico Explain your research project Against the backdrop of spectacularized drug violence, this project considers how slower forms of violence—environmental toxicity, poverty, and insufficient health care—also reshape what it is to live and die in Mexico. The rapid clip of ongoing industrialization...