
Asha Larson-Baldwin
Graduate Student, Sociology
- Email: a.larson-baldwin@wustl.edu
Collective memory, community building, symbolic landscapes, monuments, redress, urban design

Masoomeh Faghankhani
Graduate Student Research Assistant, Brown School, Public Health Department
Mental, behavioral, and social health
Women’s mental health
Psychosis
Psychosocial stress
War-torn women
Middle East
Public health
Evidence-based Medicine
Knowledge Translation

Jeanne Rosine Abomo Edou
Graduate Student, Hispanic studies and comparative literature
- Email: a.jeannerosine@wustl.edu
Afrofuturism
Afrorealism
Afropolitanism
Amefricanity
Critical Race Theory
Cultural Theory
Post-apocalyptic Era
Post-colonial Theory
Post-human Era

Karla Aguilar Velazquez
Hispanic Studies PhD Student, Romance Languages and Literatures & Museum Educator at the Kemper and the Pulitzer Museum, Curator at the Center of Creative Arts (COCA)
- Email: kpaguilarvelasquez@wustl.edu
Afro-spirituality
Folklore
Hispanic Caribbean
Memory Studies
Museum Studies
National histories
Witchcraft

Charles Alba
PhD Student, Division of Computational & Data Sciences
- Email: alba@wustl.edu
Socio-economic factors
Public health outcomes
Big data
AI

Rebecca Amonor
Graduate Student, English and American Literature
- Email: rebecca.amonor@wustl.edu
African Diaspora
African American
Black Feminist Geography
Contemporary novels
Digital Humanities
Ethnicity and Migration

Iteoluwakiishi (Rebecca) Arigbabu
Graduate student, Sociology
- Email: a.iteoluwakiishi@wustl.edu
Black/African Immigrants
Ethnicity & Immigration
Ethno-Racial Identities
Social and Economic Integration and Inequalities

Maegan B. Arney
Doctoral Student, Education
- Email: maegan.arney@wustl.edu
Collective Expertise
Distributed Cognition
Intersectional Identity
Team Performance

SynClaire Arthur
Doctoral Student, Psychological & Brain Science
- Email: a.synclaire@wustl.edu
Adolescents
Black/African American
Education
Identity
Social Justice
Sociopolitical Development
Trauma

Jihye Baek
PhD Student, Brown School
- Email: jbaek@wustl.edu
Aging in place
Loneliness and social isolation
Minority older adults
Social and health service integration
Technology in aging

Jessica Baran
Graduate Student, Art History and Archaeology
- Email: JABARAN@WUSTL.EDU
Hemispheric American culture studies
African American art
Latin American art
Feminist and queer theory
Art criticism
Ekphrastic poetry
Public/place-based art

Anj Barrett
PhD Student, Psychological and Brain Sciences
- Email: anjuiibarrett@wustl.edu
Cognitive development
Social cognition
Race and ethnicity
Social learning
Epistemic Trust

Saria Bechara
Graduate student, Brown School
- Email: b.saria@wustl.edu
Community-Engaged Research
Ethnicity and Migration
Forced Migration
Health Disparities
Human Rights
Migration Policy
Multidimensional Deprivation

Daria Berman
PhD Candidate, History
- Email: b.daria@wustl.edu
Critical Race Theory
Cultural Flows and History
Diaspora
Ethnicity and Migration
Gender
Law
Religion

Ri’enna Boyd
PhD Student, Brown School/Public Health
- Email: b.rienna@wustl.edu
Community-Engaged Research
Intervention Research
Mixed-Methods
Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Health
Reproductive Justice

Kyria Brown
PhD Student, Social Work
- Email: kyria.brown@wustl.edu
Birth work
Family Regulation System abolition
Liberatory harm reduction
Perinatal harm reduction
Perinatal substance use
Relational Cultural Theory
Reproductive justice

Jay Buchanan
Graduate Student, Art History and Archaeology
- Email: buchanan.james.g@gmail.com
Critical poetics
Feminist and queer theory
Network aesthetics
Modern and contemporary art
Political history (US and Latin America since 1850)
Queer-of-color critique

Diana Castellanos
Doctoral Student, Occupational Therapy
- Email: castellanos.d@wustl.edu
Early exposure to healthcare careers
Educational inclusion
Diversity
Mentorship Developing

Rajnesh Chakrapani
PhD Student, Comparative Literature
- Email: rajneshchakrapani@gmail.com
Immigration and Migration
Social Justice
Translation
Gender
Speculative Archive
Diasporic Writing
Documentary Poetics

Varun Chandrasekhar
PhD Student, Music
- Email: c.varun@wustl.edu
African-American Studies
Black Modernism
Existentialism
Jazz
Music Theory
Phenomenology

Sneha Chaturvedi
MD/PhD Student, Division of Biology and Biomedical Sciences
- Email: sneha.chaturvedi@wustl.edu
Education
Equity
Gender
Medicine
Neurodevelopment
Sex differences

Yhovana Karen Chura Cussi
Graduate Student, Anthropology
- Email: c.yhovanakaren@wustl.edu
Decolonization
Education
Indigenous Languages
Policy

Mayah Clayton
MPH Student, Brown School
- Email: c.lamayah@wustl.edu
Black flight
Criminal justice
Health disparities
Mental health
Social policy
Structural racism
Woman’s health

Philesha Colquitt
Doctoral Student, Arts and Sciences/Anthropology
- Email: c.philesha@wustl.edu
Anthropology
Black Feminist Theory
Queer Theory
Rural Studies
Sexuality Studies
Southern Studies

Cristina Correa
Phd Student, Comparative Literature- International Writers Track
- Email: c.correa@wustl.edu
Caribbean
Creative-critical
Diaspora
Ecocriticism
Grief
Latine
Poetics

Mary Cox
Graduate Student, Psychological & Brain Sciences
- Email: c.mary1@wustl.edu
Health Disparities, Psychosocial Stress, Stress Physiology

Drew Crenshaw
PhD Student, Brown School
- Email: crenshaw.d@wustl.edu
Built environment
Climate Change & Health
Commnunity-engaged Research
Food Security
Health Policy
Urban Health

Debbie Dada
PhD Student, Brown School, Public Health Sciences
- Email: d.a.dada@wustl.edu
Dissemination and implementation science
Global health justice
Health equity

Tolu Daniel
Comparative Literature & Thought
- Email: toludaniel@wustl.edu
Black Solidarity, Ethnicity and Migration, Racial Capitalism, Cultural Flows

Lukas Daniels-Day
PhD Candidate, Arts & Sciences/ Anthropology
- Email: d.lukas@wustl.edu
Feminist Theory, Health Disparities, Psychosocial Stress, Gender, Reproductive Justice, Quantitative Methods, Qualitative Methods

JJ Degner-Lopez
PhD Student, Art History and Archaeology
- Email: d.jj@wustl.edu
Art History
Chinese Art
Colonial Latin America
Early Modern Studies
Ming Dynasty

Grace DeHorn
PhD Candidate, Brown School of Social Work
- Email: dehorn@wustl.edu
Economic Security
Employment
Social Policy

Paige DeVos
PhD Student, Anthropology
- Email: d.paige@wustl.edu
Archaeological Ethics
Archaeology
Atlantic World
Colonialism
Foodways
West Africa
Zooarchaeology

Alex DiChristofano
PhD Student, Division of Computational & Data Sciences
- Email: a.dichristofano@wustl.edu
Algorithmic fairness and bias
Data science
Housing
Machine learning
Resource allocation

Joey Dickinson
Ph.D. Student, Sociology
- Email: d.joey@wustl.edu
Diversity Threat
Education
Immigration
Political Socialization
Quantitative Methods

Katie DiDomenico
PhD Candidate, Arts & Sciences/Art History & Archaeology
- Email: didomenico.k@wustl.edu
Atlantic World
Caribbean
Colonialism
Early Modern Art
Material Culture
Race and Racialization
Slavery

Mykah Doolin
Graduate Assistant, Arts & Sciences/ Psychological and Brain Sciences
- Email: d.mykah@wustl.edu
Black Feminism, Education, Identity development, Intersectionality, Media Psychology, Pop Culture, Socialization

Grace Drake
Doctoral Student, Psychological and Brain Sciences
- Email: drake.g@wustl.edu
Confronting Bias
Inclusion & Belonging
Heterosexism
Perceptions of Allyship
Prejudice Reduction
Racism
Sexism

Rebecca Dudley
Graduate Student, Anthropology
- Email: rebecca.a.dudley@wustl.edu
Capitalism
Environmental Anthropology
Historical Anthropology
Industrial Agriculture
Memory
Slavery
The U.S. South

Helen Etya’ale
PhD Student, Brown School
- Email: e.helen@wustl.edu
Equitable health access
Equitable health service delivery
Community engagement
Health systems strengthening
Dissemination and implementation science

Laura Evers
PhD Student, English and American Literature
- Email: e.laura@wustl.edu
20th century African American Autobiographies and Novels
Documentary Film
Documentary Poetics
Intermediality/multimodality
Pedagogical Practices
Visual Culture

Gloria Fall
Graduate Student, Anthropology
- Email: fall@wustl.edu
medical anthropology, psychological anthropology, queer of color critique, embodiment, illness labeling, race and racialization

Franzi Finkenstein
PhD Student, German; Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
- Email: f.finkenstein@wustl.edu
Feminist & Queer Theory and Methodology
Gender & Sexuality
German-Jewish Studies
Life Writing
Literary Criticism
Mobility & Migration
Performance

Sara Flores
PhD Student, English
- Email: flores.sara@wustl.edu
Ethnicity and Migration
Latine/x Literature
Multiethnic American Literature
Popular Culture
Religion and Identity Formation

Milena Franco-Silva
PhD Student, Brown School
- Email: f.milena@wustl.edu
Active Mobility
Built Environment
Health Disparities
Livability
Urban Health

Danae Gaytan
Graduate Student, Educational Psychology
- Email: d.gaytan@wustl.edu
Belonging
Critical Race Theory
Latinos
Motivation
Higher Education

Nayive Gaytán
Graduate Student, Arts & Sciences / Hispanic Studies
- Email: g.nayive@wustl.edu
Environmental History
Latin America
Popular Culture
Social Movements

Dagem Gebremichael
Graduate Student, Brown School of Public Health
- Email: d.a.gebremichael@wustl.edu
Digital Health
Data Analysis
Equity
Health disparities
Healthcare Quality
Public Health
Quantitative methods

Raul Gierbolini
PhD Student, Public Health Sciences, Brown School
- Email: g.raul@wustl.edu
Dissemination & Implementation Science
Health Equity
Latin America
Physical Activity

Maysoon Harunani
PhD Candidate, McKelvey School of Engineering/Department of Biomedical Engineering
Color Science
Health Disparities
Health Equity
Medical Device Design
Skin Color
Structural Racism
Systemic Racism

Odalis Hernandez
PhD Student, Public Health
- Email: h.odalis@wustl.edu
– Big data
– Critical race theory
– Healthcare utilization
– Health equity
– Machine learning
– Quantitative methods
– Systems thinking

Miguel Hernandez-Rovira
- Email: h.miguel@wustl.edu
Physician-Patient Race Concordance
Health Care Access
Healthcare Disparities
Social determinants of health

Dominque Horton
PhD Student, Brown School
- Email: d.horton@wustl.edu
African American families
Anti-racism pedagogy
K-12 Education Policy, Equity, and Outcomes
Racism and Poverty
Social Work Education
Culturally Responsive Practice

John Daniel Ibembe
Graduate Student, Anthropology
- Email: i.johndaniel@wustl.edu
Gender
Sexuality
Sexual Geographies
Mobility
Risk

Ekua Mbrah Inkoom
PhD Student, Romance Languages and Literatures and CRE2 Graduate Assistant
- Email: e.inkoom@wustl.edu
Africa
Cultural Diplomacy
Diaspora
Migration
Public Diplomacy
Spain
Transculturalism

Khrystal Johnson
Graduate Student, Psychological and Brain Sciences
- Email: j.khrystal@wustl.edu
Artistic Expression
Black Feminist Thought
Consensual Qualitative Research
Identity
Psychiatric Disorders
Social Stress

Elizabeth Joseph
Doctoral Candidate, School of Medicine/Occupational Therapy
- Email: e.r.joseph@wustl.edu
Abrahamic Religions in South Asia
Caste Discrimination
Caste and Religion
Immigrant Health Disparities
Ethnic Group Hierarchy/Hierarchies
Racial Identity and Discrimination
Religious and Cultural Identity
South Asia

Safa Khatib
PhD Candidate, Comparative Literature
- Email: safa@wustl.edu
Gender
Class
Translation
Nationalism
Psychoanalysis