
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

Carolyn Liu
PhD Student, English
- Email: carolyn.l@wustl.edu
Afro-Asian Intimacies, Asian American literature, Avant-garde/Experimental Form, Diaspora Studies, Global Asias, Poetry and Poetics, Race and Ethnicity.

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

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

Lauren Malone
Ph.D. Student, Department of Anthropology
- Email: l.h.malone@wustl.edu
African archaeology, climate change, museum heritage collections, resilience, science communication, social networks, zooarchaeology

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

Michelle Monter Arauz
PhD Student in Hispanic Studies, Romance Languages and Literatures
- Email: michellemonter@wustl.edu
Decoloniality, Gender, Translation, Mexican Literature, Border 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

Yining Pan
Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Anthropology
- Email: p.yining@wustl.edu
Assisted Reproductive Technologies, Feminist and Queer Theory, Medical Anthropology, Political Economy, Reproduction, Social Inequalities, Science and Technology Studies

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

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

Gabriel Ridout
PhD student, English
- Email: g.ridout@wustl.edu
Black Studies, Contemporary American Literature, Filipinx American Studies, Poetry and Poetics, Trans of Color Critique, Visual Culture

Renzo Rivas Echarri
PhD student in Hispanic Studies, Romance Languages and Literatures
- Email: c.rivasecharri@wustl.edu
Capitalocene, Ecocriticism, Environmental studies, ethnicity, extractivism, Indigenous studies, Latin America

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

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

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

Yadira Tejeda
Graduate Student, Brown School of Social Work
- Email: t.yadi@wustl.edu
Latinx Families
Child Welfare System

Hilary Thibodeau
Brown School, Social Work PhD
- Email: h.thibodeau@wustl.edu
Drug Policy
Harm Reduction
Housing
Neighborhoods
Substance Use
Systems Science

Courtney Thornton
Graduate Student, Department of Sociology
- Email: c.thornton@wustl.edu
Health Disparities
Family Policy
Medical Racism
Reproduction

Francisco Tijerina
Graduate Student, Romance Languages and Literatures/Hispanic Studies
- Email: francisco@wustl.edu
Contemporary
Energy
Extractivism
Latin America
Literature
Minerals
Oil

Joshua Tobin
Graduate Student, School of Medicine
- Email: joshua.tobin@wustl.edu
Healthcare disparities
Anti-racism
Medical Education
Interpersonal racism
Implicit bias

Juana Torralbo
Graduate Student, Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures
German-Jewish Studies
Holocaust Studies
Translation Studies
Transnational Literature

Daniela Tuda
PhD Candidate, Brown School of Social Work
- Email: daniela.tuda@wustl.edu
Adolescent Mental Health
Community-Based Interventions
Cultural Responsiveness
Ethnoracial Minoritized Populations
Suicide Prevention
Social Connectedness
Qualitative Research

Tumaini Ussiri
Graduate Student, English and American Literature
- Email: tussiri@wustl.edu
Slavery
Critical Race Theory
Black writing
Blackness
Digital Humanities
19th/20th-century African American Literature

Shauntal Van Dreel
PhD Student in Social Work, Brown School, T32 NIMH Predoctoral Fellow
- Email: s.vandreel@wustl.edu
LGBTQIA+
Adolescents
Mental Health Interventions
K-12 Education Policy
Community Engaged Research

Zeles Vargas
Graduate Student, Anthropology
- Email: zelesvargas@wustl.edu
Colorism
Policing
Queer of Color Critique
Street Life
World-building
Violence