
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

Naomi Kim
Graduate Student, English
- Email: naomi.kim@wustl.edu
Asian American Studies
Critical Race Theory
Ethnicity and Migration
Korean diaspora
Religion and Literature

Hannah Kinzer
PhD Student, Public Health Sciences
- Email: h.kinzer@wustl.edu
Global Health
Health Communications
Infectious Diseases
Migration
Mixed-Methods
One Health
Public Health
Zoonotic Disease

Han Koehle
PhD Student, Sociology
- Email: h.koehle@wustl.edu
Epistemic Justice
Eugenics
Health Care
Health Justice
Normality
Scientific Racism
Social History

Brynn Mackenzie Lau
MPH Student, Brown School
- Email: brynn.l@wustl.edu
Health Disparities
Health Equity
Health Outcomes
Health Policy and Systems
Health Services
Immigrant Health

Jihye Lee
Doctoral Student, Brown School
- Email: jihye.l@wustl.edu
Social Policy
Poverty
Economic Integration
Child Maltreatment
Undocumented Immigrant
Refugee
Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA)

Messi Lee
PhD Student, Division of Computational and Data Sciences
- Email: hojunlee@wustl.edu
Language
Machine Learning
Quantitative Methods
Stereotyping and Prejudice

Sharlene Lee
Graduate Student, Sam Fox School of Design and Visual Arts
- Email: sharlenelee@wustl.edu
Cultural identity
Feminist Theory
Immigration
Language
Projection Mapping
Video Art

Fang Liu
Graduate Student, Music Department
- Email: fang.y.liu@wustl.edu
Asian American studies
Music
Music performance practice
Racial issues
Social justice

Tewodros Liyew
Graduate Student, Brown School
- Email: l.tewodros@wustl.edu
Conflicts and disasters
Mental Health
Non-communicable diseases
Health policy
Health systems

Dominique Lockett
Graduate Student, Political Science
- Email: dlockett@wustl.edu
Big Data
Communication
Hate Speech
Misinformation
Racial Resentment
Social Media
Quantitative Methods

Salvador Lopez Rivera
Graduate student, Romance Languages and Literatures
French Far-Right
Neoliberalism
Race, Ethnicity and Language in Contemporary France
Representations of Postindustrial Spaces in Contemporary French Writing
Sex and Gender Minorities in Contemporary France

Tess Losada Miner
MFA Candidate in Dance, Performing Arts Department
- Email: l.tess@wustl.edu
Bicultural Straddling
Choreography
Dance Education
Liminality
Mixed Race Experience
Modern/Contemporary Dance
Ritual in Dance

Chenxi Luo
PhD Candidate, History
- Email: chenxiluo@wustl.edu
Global Studies of Slavery
Ethnicity and Race
Migration and Diaspora
Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Law and Society

Luisa Madrigal Marroquín
Graduate Student, Anthopology
- Email: luisam@wustl.edu
Childhood Stunting
Nutrition Science
Race
Guatemala

Gicela Medina
Hispanic Studies PhD Student
- Email: gicela@wustl.edu
Central America
Afro-Latinx
Migration
Gender
Literature

Grace Mensah-Fosu
English Department
- Email: g.mensah-fosu@wustl.edu
African culture/Literature
African Diaspora
Ethnicity
Linguistic transcreations
Identity
Mental/physical health
Postcolonial Studies

Alex Mouw
Doctoral Candidate, English | Lynne Cooper Harvey Fellow in American Culture Studies
- Email: alexmouw@wustl.edu
American Culture Studies
Lyric Studies
Modernism
Poetry and Poetics
U.S. Historiography

Judith Mwobobia
PhD Student, Brown School
- Email: J.mwobobia@wustl.edu
Health Communication
Mental Health
Black
Adolescents

Lauren Nacke
MSW, LCSW, PhD Student, Brown School / Public Health Sciences
- Email: l.nacke@wustl.edu
Health Equity
Maternal Health Policy
Reproductive Rights

Portia Nartey
Social Work PhD Student, Brown School
- Email: portianartey@wustl.edu
Community-engaged Research
Cultural Gender Norms
Economic Empowerment Interventions
Global Health
International Social and Economic Development
Sexual Risk Behaviors
Women and Girls Socioeconomic Development

Khoi Ngo
Graduate Student, Sociology
- Email: khoi@wustl.edu
Criminal Justice
Policing
Mass Incarceration
Racial Stratification
Law
Social Movement
Quantitative Methods

Anthony Nixon
Phd Student, Brown School / Public Health Sciences
- Email: nixonanthonyj@wustl.edu
Black Families
Epidemiology
Father involvement
Health Equity
Maternal and Child Health
Reproductive Justice
Social Determinants of Health

Oreoluwa Oginni
Graduate Research Assistant, Public Health
- Email: o.g.oginni@wustl.edu
Implementation strategy mechanisms
Physical activity,
Open street (ciclovia)
Nutrition programs(food-based dietary guidelines)
Qualitative methods
Latin America
Scoping review

Deidi Olaya Rodriguez
PhD Candidate, Brown School- Social Work
- Email: deidi.o@wustl.edu
Feminist economics, Bargaining Power, Gender, Global social policy, Intimate partner violence (IPV), Latin America

Ilana Olin
MD/PhD Student, School of Medicine
- Email: i.olin@wustl.edu
Anti-racism
Bias mitigation
Educational interventions
Health disparities
Medical education
Social determinants of health

Crystal Payne
Graduate Student, English and American Literature
- Email: c.payne@wustl.edu
Black diaspora
Border Theory
Caribbean Studies
Exile
Hemispheric American Studies
Migration and movement
Postcolonial theory

Garrett Pekarek
PhD Student, Sociology
- Email: g.e.pekarek@wustl.edu
Colonialism
Experimental Methods
Immigration

JaNiene Peoples
PhD Student, Brown School
- Email: e.peoples@wustl.edu
Mental and behavioral health disparities
Risk and resilience among Black adolescents and emerging adults
Substance use
Health behavior change
Intervention research

Nancy Jacquelyn Pérez-Flores
PhD Student, Social Work
- Email: pnancy@wustl.edu
Discrimination
Health and Mental Health Disparities
Immigration
Mental Health Literacy
Qualitative Methods
Race/ethnicity
Social Determinants of Health
Stigma

Annamaria Prati
PhD candidate in the Department of Political Science
- Email: aprati@wustl.edu
International Relations
Mixed Methods
Statebuilding
Traditional Governance
United Nations

Sangami Pugazenthi
MD, School of Medicine
- Email: s.pugazenthi@wustl.edu
Health disparities
Social determinants of health
Medical Specialty Decision Making
Perceptions of Neurosurgery

Eugen Resendiz Bontrud
Doctoral Student in Public Health Sciences, Brown School
- Email: eugen@wustl.edu
Built Environment

Mustafa Rfat
PhD Student in Social Work, Brown School
- Email: m.rfat@wustl.edu
Refugees/immigrants
Disability
Education
Economic Empowerment
Mental Health

Antonia Roach
Graduate Student, Sociology
- Email: a.m.roach@wustl.edu
Access
Food Apartheid
Health
Race
Social Movements

Andre’A Roper
PhD, English and American Literature
- Email: a.l.roper@wustl.edu
African American Literature
African Diaspora
Eco-criticism
Education
Ethics
Humanitarianism
Postcolonial Studies

Tasman Rosenfeld
PhD student, Division of Biology & Biomedical Sciences (Ecology and Evolutionary Biology)
- Email: tasman@wustl.edu
biodiversity
conservation
cultural diversity
indigenous autonomy
international collaboration
land practices

Celia Rothenberg
PhD Student, Hispanic Studies
- Email: c.b.rothenberg@wustl.edu
Gender
Feminist Theory
Transatlantic and Afro-Diaspora studies
Postcolonialism
Afro-Latin America
Racial Stratification

Christopher Salango
MFA Dance Graduate Student, Performing Arts Department
- Email: c.j.salango@wustl.edu
Asian Studies
Dance Pedagogy
Dance Science
Dunham Technique
Education
Filipinx America
Queerness

Lourdes del Mar Santiago Lebron
MFA Dance Graduate Student, Performing Arts Department
- Email: l.d.santiagolebron@wustl.edu
Caribbean Dance Traditions
Dance (Physical Practice)
Critical Dance Studies
Embodied Practices in Research
Puerto Rican
Queer Latine Performance
Feminism in the Caribbean

Emani Sargent
PhD Student, Brown School
- Email: sargente@wustl.edu
Black families
Community health
Gender minorities
Health Disparities
Mental Health
Sexual Health
Social Determinants of Health

Armin Sauermann
Phd Student, Arts & Sciences/Sociology
- Email: a.sauermann@wustl.edu
Gun Violence, Guns in Society, Inequality, Political Sociology

Molly Schneider
Doctoral Student, Sociology
- Email: m.a.schneider@wustl.edu
Critical Race Theory
Social Movements
Culture
Legacies of Racial Violence
Education
Reproduction of Inequality
Reparations

David Schwartzman
Olin Business School
- Email: dschwartzman@wustl.edu
Payment Models
Primary Care
Health Disparities

Maria Siciliano
Graduate Student, English and American Literature
- Email: m.j.siciliano@wustl.edu
Affect Theory
American Culture Studies
Critical Race/Ethnicity Studies
Form/Genre
Memory/Forgetting
Trauma Studies
Visual Culture

Ella Siegrist
PhD Student, Sociology
- Email: ellasiegrist@wustl.edu
Gender
Punishment
Race and Racism
Reproductive Justice

Junlachak Siriprakorn
PhD Student, Brown School
- Email: j.peter.s@wustl.edu
Adverse Childhood Experiences
Carceral Reform
Health Disparities
Marxist Critical Theory
Queer/Feminist/Affect Theory
The Phenomenology and Jurisprudence of Race
Trauma and Addiction

Christina Smiley
PhD Student, Music
- Email: c.d.smiley@wustl.edu
Classical Music
Gender
Politics
Race
Religion

Ivy Smith
PhD Student, McKelvey School of Engineering, Computational and Data Sciences
- Email: ivy.s@wustl.edu

Lorraine Stippec
MFA Candidate, Performing Arts Department
- Email: l.stippec@wustl.edu
Choreography
Contemporary Dance
Cultural Identity
Dance Pedagogy
Embodiment
Performative Actions
PTSD

Nicole Strombom
PhD Student, Public Health Sciences
- Email: n.a.strombom@wustl.edu
Disparities
Equity
Justice
Health
Legal

Magdalena Suárez Pomar
PhD Student, Romance Languages and Literatures
- Email: m.suarezpomar@wustl.edu
Ethnicity
Indigenous Latin America
Intellectual movements
Migration
Popular Culture
Racialization