Alumni Affiliates
Jean Allman
Former JH Hexter Professor in the Humanities, Director of the Center for the Humanities
- Email: jallman@wustl.edu
Decolonization/Decolonial
Knowledge production and higher education
Reparations
Autumn Asher BlackDeer
Former Doctoral Candidate, Brown School of Social Work
- Email: autumn.asher@wustl.edu
Antiracism
Behavioral Health
Decolonization
Indigenous Communities
Social Justice
Sovereignty
Structural Violence
David Balmaceda
Doctoral Candidate in Applied Linguistics | Graduate Certificate in Higher Education | Former Fulbright Grantee 2013-2015
- Email: dbalmaceda@wustl.edu
Applied Linguistics
Gender and Second Language Enrollment
Language and Education
Language and Global or Transnational Mobility
Language Acquisition and Use
Language Program Development
Allison Brown
Former, Law School Student
- Email: allison.brown@wustl.edu
Critical Race Theory
Law School Curriculum
Tashalee Brown
Former Fellow, Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
- Email: browntr@wustl.edu
Eating disorders, computational psychiatry, cultural psychiatry, education, electrophysiology, health disparities, mental health disparities, neurosteroids, psychiatric disorders, psychology, psychotherapy, public health, racism, structural racism
Ivan Bujan
Former Postdoctoral Affiliate, Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
- Email: ibujan@wustl.edu
AIDS studies
Contemporary visual cultures
Critical theory
Critical gender, race, and sexuality studies
Performance studies
Queer and trans of color critique
Rene Canady
Former PhD Student, Sociology
- Email: c.janet@wustl.edu
Black Health Resistance
Bioethics
Biomedical racism
Healthcare
Liberation theory
Social inequality
Judith Carlisle
Former Graduate Student, Philosophy, Neuroscience, Psychology
- Email: judith.carlisle@wustl.edu
Groups
PTSD
Racism and Discrimination
Trauma
Traumatic Memory
Jordan Cole
Former Neurogenetics Fellow, Neurology
- Email: jordan.cole@wustl.edu
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
Health disparities
Neurodevelopmental disorders
Neurogenetics
Social determinants of health
Nicholas Crawford
Former Postdoctoral Fellow in Environment/Environmental Justice
- Email: nicholas.crawford@wustl.edu
Early America & the Atlantic World
Environmental Racism & Inequality
Food Studies
Health
Slavery & Emancipation
Ashley Dennis
Former Postdoctoral Fellow, African and African American Studies
- Email: dashley@wustl.edu
African American Studies
Black Women's History
History of Education
Black Children's Literature
Social Movements
Michael Esposito
Former Assistant Professor, Sociology
- Email: michaele@wustl.edu
Population Health
Race and Ethnicity
Statistical Methodology
Social/Spatial Context
Elena Farel
Former Graduate Student, Musicology
- Email: e.farel@wustl.edu
American Opera
Black Opera
Canon Formation
Musicians
Music Criticism
Daniel Fister
Graduate Student, Music
- Email: d.fister@wustl.edu
A Cappella
American Music
Ethnography
Music and Race
Popular Music
Whiteness
Voice and Sound Studies
Viviana Ghiglino Gonzales
Former MA Student, Anthropology
- Email: g.viviana@wustl.edu
Global Pharmaceuticals
Clinical Trials
Scientific Disparities
Health Disparities
Anthropology of Peru
Anthropology of development
Indigenous-Latin America
Lina Han
Former Postdoctoral Research Associate in Finance, Olin Business School
- Email: han.l@wustl.edu
Behavioral Finance
Diversity Research
Fintech
Investments
Sustainable Finance
Kate Hoppe
Former PhD Student, Brown School/ Public Health Sciences
- Email: hoppe.k@wustl.edu
Climate Change
Community Engineering
Community Resilience
Equity
Policy Change
Ryan Hung
Former Graduate Student, Arts and Sciences/Theatre and Performance Studies
- Email: ryanhung@wustl.edu
Princess Imoukhuede
Former Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Director of Diversity Initiatives McKelvey School of Engineering
- Email: imoukhuede@wustl.edu
Women of Color in Engineering
Black women in Biomedical Engineering
Racial Equity in Science and Engineering
Odis Johnson Jr., PhD
Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of Social Policy & STEM Equity; Director, Institute in Critical Quantitative, Computational, & Mixed Methodologies; Executive Director, Hopkins Center for Safe and Healthy Schools; Senior Fellow, 21st Century Cities Initiative
- Email: ojohns06@jhu.edu
Neighborhoods; Policing; Housing; Policy; Race; Gender
Meredith Kelling
Graduate Student, English Literature
- Email: mlkelling@wustl.edu
1968
Critical Race Theory
Feminist Theory
Food Studies
Material Culture
New Left
Working Class Writing
Anwesha Kundu
Former Graduate Certificate in Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
- Email: anweshakundu@wustl.edu
Postcolonial Studies
Feminist Theory
Affect Theory
Race Studies
Anglophone Literature
20th-century Literature
Savannah Larimore
Former Postdoctoral Research Associate
- Email: savannahlarimore@wustl.edu
Discrimination, health disparities, infant health, maternal health, migration, mobility
Hedwig Lee
Former Co-director, CRE2; Professor of Sociology; Courtesy, Brown School; Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Affiliate
- Phone: 314-935-5790
- Email: hedwig.lee@wustl.edu
Criminal Justice; Family; Gender; Health Disparities; Population Health; Social Stress, Structural Racism
Stephanie Li
Former Lynne Cooper Harvey Distinguished Professor of English
- Email: stephanie.li@wustl.edu
American Literature
Blackness
Gender and Sexuality
Popular and Political Culture
Racial Representations
Whiteness
Robin McDowell
Former Assistant Professor of African and African American Studies
Black Ecology
Black Geographies
Design Methods
Environmental Racism
Louisiana
Racial capitalism
History of U.S. Slavery
Soledad Mocchi-Radichi
Former Graduate Student, Department of Romance Languages and Literatures
- Email: mocchiradichi@wustl.edu
Afro-Latin America
Ethnicity and Migration
Leisure Studies
Popular Culture
Street Life
Urban Cultural Studies
William Nomikos
Former Assistant Professor, Political Science
- Email: wnomikos@wustl.edu
African Politics
Civil War
Experimental Methods
Ethnic Conflict
International Relations
Legacies of Colonialism
Peacekeeping
Madeline Owens Jansen
Former Resident Physician, School of Medicine Department of Psychiatry
- Email: mojansen@wustl.edu
Mental health; m-health; multiracial youth; public health; racial bias in medical education; queer/trans* youth; suicide prevention
Michael Park
Former NIMH T32 Postdoctoral Fellow
- Email: p.michael@wustl.edu
Ethnicity; Immigration; Race; Racial/ethnic stereotypes; Racial/ethnic disparities in mental health and mental health care
Rujvee Patel
Former Postdoctoral Research Associate, Washington University in Saint Louis School of Medicine, Department of Neurosurgery, Pennicooke Lab
- Email: rujvee@wustl.edu
3D Motion capture
Access to Spine Surgery
Cervical Myelopathy
Health Disparities
Health Equity
Opioids after spine surgery
Social determinants of health
Juan Manuel Ramírez Velázquez
Former PhD Candidate, Romance Languages and Literatures
Colonial Latin America
Critical Race Theory
Displacement
Ethnicity
Gender
Migration
Mobility
Grace Reid
Former PhD Candidate, Psychological & Brain Sciences; Chancellor's Fellow
- Email: reid.g@wustl.edu
Developmental Psychology
Intersectionality
Race
Social Cognition
Michael Sanders
Former Postdoctoral Fellow
- Email: m.j.sanders@wustl.edu
Critical Race Theory; Legal Studies; Queer Studies; Race and Speculative Literature; Race and Transgressive Art; Religious Studies
Kelly Schmidt
Former Postdoctoral Fellow, African and African American Studies
- Email: kschmidt@wustl.edu
Collective Memory and Commemoration
Family
Migration
Repair work
Resistance
Slavery - Higher Education
Slavery - Religion
Jeremy Siow
Graduate Student, Political Science
- Email: wsiow@wustl.edu
Comparative Politics
Political Socialization
Southeast Asia Politics
Ethnic and Race Politics
Education Policy
Quantitative Methods
Rami Stucky
Former Lecturer, Music
- Email: ramis@wustl.edu
Music and Migration
Black Music and Capitalism
Digital Humanities
Sicong Sun
Former Postdoctoral Research Associate, Brown School
- Email: sicong.sun@wustl.edu
Asset Building
Financial Capability
Poverty and Inequality
Quantitative Methods
Structural Racism
Social Determinant of Health
Social Policy
Yun (Sherry) Wang
Assistant Professor, School of Pharmacy, Chapman University
- Email: yunwang@chapman.edu
Racial and economic disparity in health
Clara Wilkins
Former Associate Professor, Psychological and Brain Sciences
- Email: clara.wilkins@wustl.edu
Appearance
Health Disparities
Intergroup Relations
Prejudice, Stereotyping & Discrimination
Social Hierarchy Maintenance
Eliza Williamson
Former Lecturer, Latin American Studies
- Email: eliza.williamson@wustl.edu
Care
Childbirth
Disability
Feminist Theory
Health Disparities
Health Policy
Reproduction
Rachel Witt
Former Clinical Fellow, Department of Pediatrics, Division of Newborn Medicine
- Email: witt_r@wustl.edu
Preterm Infant Health; Health Disparities; Parental Stress; Breastfeeding and Human Milk; Infant Mortality; Social-Ecological Model; Mixed Methods
Serena Xiong
Former Postdoctoral Research Scholar, Surgery
- Email: xiongs@wustl.edu
Health Disparities
Health Equity
Community-based Participatory Research
Mixed-Methods
Implementation Science
Rafia Zafar
Former Professor of African and African American Studies/English
- Email: zafar@wustl.edu
Foodways; Harlem Renaissance; the slave narrative; U.S. literary history
Liwei Zhang
Former Research Assistant Professor, Brown School
- Email: liweiz@wustl.edu
Child maltreatment
Economic resources
Financial support policy
Immigrant and racial/ethnic minority families
Quantitative and mixed methods