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
Valencia Alvarez
Graduate Student, Brown School
- Email: alvarez.v@wustl.edu
Community Activism
Health Equity
Human Rights
Immigrant Health
Latin America
Social Justice
Social Work
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
Jennifer Beatty
Doctoral Student, Psychological and Brain Sciences
- Email: jenn.beatty@wustl.edu
bias
bias reduction
bias regulation
defensiveness
discrimination
emotion regulation
prejudice
racism
stereotyping
stigma
quantitative methods
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
Cilka Bidwell
PhD Student, Sociology
Children of Immigrants
Filipino Americans
Intimate Partnerships
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
Kaché Claytor
PhD Candidate, Romance Languages and Literatures, Hispanic Studies
- Email: kache.claytor@wustl.edu
Jacquelyn Coats
Doctoral Student, Social Work
- Email: coatsj@wustl.edu
Black feminism
Discrimination
Health disparities
Racism
Social determinants of health
Social gerontology
Stress
Akilah Collins-Anderson
PhD Student, Public Health Sciences
- Email: acollins-anderson@wustl.edu
Chronic Disease
Dissemination & Implementation Science
Health Education
Mental & Behavioral Health Disparities
Social Determinants of 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
Edward Delali Darku
Doctor, Brown School
- Email: d.darku@wustl.edu
Ethnicity
Health disparities
Obesity
Public health
Race
Socioeconomic factors
Weight gain
Chronic Diseases
Metabolic Syndrome
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
Abraham Diaz
Master of Architecture, Sam Fox School of Design and Visual Arts
- Email: a.d.diaz@wustl.edu
Affirmative Abolitionism
Architecture
Architecture Theory
Carcerality
Trauma-informed
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
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
Yamile Ferreira
PhD Student, Romance Languages and Literature
- Email: yamileferreira@wustl.edu
Ethnicity and Migration
Feminist Theory
Gender and Sexuality
History of Education
Intellectual Women
Print Culture
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
Charlotte Fressilli
PhD Student, English Department
- Email: csfressilli@wustl.edu
20th/21st American literature
Italian American Literature and Film
Memory Studies
Narratives of Harm
Grievance
Whiteness
White Ethnicity
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
Amarnath Ghosh
Graduate Student, Arts and Sciences-Performing Arts Department
- Email: amarnath@wustl.edu
Growth
Evolution
Bond
Explore
Attribute
Humanity
Empathy
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
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