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.

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.

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 […]

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.

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 […]

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.

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 […]

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, […]