Faculty Affiliates

Jonathan Judaken
Goldstein Professor of Jewish History and Thought
- Email: judaken@wustl.edu
Anti-Semitism
Critical Philosophy of Race
Critical Theory
Existentialism
Judeophobia
Post-Holocaust Philosophy

Hyeok Hweon Kang
Assistant Professor of East Asian Languages and Cultures, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures
- Email: hhkang@wustl.edu
East Asian Science and Technology, Non-Western Epistemology, Cultural Flows and History, Slavery, Ethnicity and Migration

Mona Kareem
Assistant Professor, Jewish, Islamic & Middle Eastern Studies
- Email: hmuna@wustl.edu
Ethnicity and Migration
Global South
Indian Ocean
Literary Cultures
Slavery

Jessica Kersey
Instructor, Occupational Therapy
- Email: jkersey@wustl.edu
Brain Injury
Disability
Community living and participation
Social participation and isolation
Community-engaged research

Dineo Khabele
Professor and Chair, School of Medicine/Obstetrics and Gynecology
- Email: khabeled@wustl.edu
Cancer disparities
Health disparities
Equity in medicine and science

Bomin Kim
Lecturer, Sam Fox School of Design / Architecture and Urban Design
- Email: kim.b@wustl.edu
Infrastructure, Social Sustainability, Resilience, Urbanism, Spatial Justice, Climate Justice

Pauline Kim
Daniel Noyes Kirby Professor of Law
- Email: kim@wustl.edu
Algorithmic Bias; Big Data: Employment Discrimination; Inequality; Labor and Employment Law; Race and Gender Bias

Meghan Kirkwood
Assistant Professor, Sam Fox School/Visual Arts
- Email: meghan.kirkwood@wustl.edu
Natural resources
Landscape photography
South Africa

Trish Kohl
Professor of Social Work, Michelle K. Trulaske Endowed Chair and Research Director, Hermann Center
- Email: pkohl@wustl.edu
Early childhood mental health
Health disparities
Child maltreatment preventions
Early adversity

Heidi Aronson Kolk
Assistant Professor, Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts
- Email: hkolk@wustl.edu
History of U.S. cities
History of design
Material and visual culture
Urban planning
Space and place
Politics of memory
Racial exclusion.

Elena Kravchenko
Lecturer in Religious Studies
- Email: e.v.kravchenko@wustl.edu
Critical Race Theory, Diaspora and Migration Studies, Feminist Theory, Material Culture Theories and Methods, Religion, Gender, Race, and Ethnicity.

James Krings
Assistant Professor of Medicine, School of Medicine/Department of Medicine
- Email: kringsj@wustl.edu
Asthma
Dissemination and implementation science
Health disparities

Shreyas Krishnan
Assistant Professor, Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts
- Email: sravikrishnan@wustl.edu
Comics
Visual Culture
Gender
South Asia

Esther Viola Kurtz
Assistant Professor of Music
- Email: ekurtz@wustl.edu
African Diasporic Music and Dance
Afro-Latin America
Capoeira Angola
Decolonization
Ethnomusicology
Racial Politics
Radical Humanism

Samuel Kye
Assistant Professor, Sociology
- Email: samuel.kye@wustl.edu
Asian Americans
Community and Urban Sociology
Demography
Race and Ethnicity

Bradley Larsen
Associate Professor of Economics, Olin Business School, National Bureau of Economic Research
- Email: blarsen@wustl.edu
Bargaining, occupational licensing, price discrimination, online markets

Husain Lateef
Assistant Professor at the Brown School
- Email: hlateef@wustl.edu
Adolescent Development, African-Centered Theory, Black Youth, Cultural Socialization, Juvenile Justice, Post-Conviction Law & Social Work Practice

Seanna Leath
Assistant Professor, Psychological and Brain Sciences
- Email: leath@wustl.edu
Black Family Systems
Black Feminist Theory
Education
Gendered Racial Identity Development
Psychosocial Stress
Qualitative Methods

Daphne Lew
Instructor, Division of Biostatics
- Email: daphne.lew@wustl.edu
Biostatistics
Clinical Trials
Health Disparities
Longitudinal Data Analysis
Patient-Reported Outcomes
Social Determinants of Health

Brittany Lewis
Assistant Professor, Olin Business School, Finance
- Email: lewis.b@wustl.edu
Banking
Finance
Mortgages
Race
Regulation
Servicers
Shadow-banks

Min Lian
Assistant Professor of Medicine
- Email: mlian@wustl.edu
Cancer; Covid-19; Geographic Information Systems; Health Disparity; Spatial Epidemiology; Spatial Statistics; Substance Use Disorders.

Nan Lin
Professor of Mathematics & Statistics
- Email: nlin@wustl.edu
Big Data, High-dimensional Statistical Methods, Mediation Analysis, Multiple Testing, Quantile Regression, Biostatistics and Bioinformatics

Sunny Lin
Assistant Professor, School of Medicine, Institute for Informatics, Center for Health Economics and Policy
- Email: linsc@wustl.edu
Quantitative methods
Population health
Health policy
Health information technology
Systems thinking

Ying Liu
Assistant Professor, Medical School/Surgery; Siteman Cancer Center
- Email: yliu3@wustl.edu
Cancer health disparities
Breast cancer
Lung cancer
Healthcare access
Cancer treatment
DNA damage repair

Jorge Llibre-Guerra
Assistant professor of Neurology
- Email: jllibre-guerra@wustl.edu
Education
Ethnicity
Neurodegeneration
Health Disparities
Risk factors

Julia López
Assistant Professor of Medicine
- Email: julialopez@wustl.edu
Community engagement, HIV & AIDS, mental and behavioral health, mixed-method design, sexual and gender minority health, STIs, trauma-informed care

Kenneth Ludmerer
Mabel Dorn Reeder Distinguished Professor of Medicine and the History of Medicine, School of Medicine, Department of History
- Email: kludmere@wustl.edu
Medical Education
Racial equity in medicine

Zakiya Luna
Associate Professor; Dean's Distinguished Professorial Scholar, Sociology
- Email: lunaz@wustl.edu
Black Feminism
Critical Race Theory
Feminist Theory
Human Rights
Intersectionality
Social Movements

Elizabeth Mallot
Assistant Professor, Biology
- Email: mallott@wustl.edu
Big Data
Cardiometabolic Disease
Environmental Racism
Gut Microbiome
Health Disparities

Raven Maragh-Lloyd
Assistant Professor, African and African American Studies, Film and Media Studies
- Email: lloydr@wustl.edu
Black digital publics
Black Feminist Thought
Algorithmic justice
Technoculture

Lori Markson
Professor or Psychological & Brain Sciences; Faculty Development Fellow, Office of the Provost
- Email: markson@wustl.edu
Social cognitive development
Trust across diverse contexts
Racial socialization
Children’s understanding of inequality

Caline Mattar
Assistant Professor, School of Medicine
- Email: cmattar@wustl.edu
Antimicrobial Resistance
Equity
Global Health
Health Policy
Implementation science
Infection Prevention

William J. Maxwell
Professor, Arts and Sciences / English and African and African American Studies
- Email: wmaxwell@wustl.edu
Black writing
Critical Race Theory
Race and Class

Thembelani Mbatha
Postdoctoral Fellow ('23 - '24); Assistant Professor ('24 - ), African and African American Studies
- Email: mbatha@wustl.edu
African and Postcolonial Literatures
Critical Memory Studies
Black Studies
Race and Modernity

Caitlin McMurtry
Assistant Professor, Brown School
- Email: mcmurtry@wustl.edu
Firearm Deregulation
Health Disparities
Health Politics
Racial/Ethnic Discrimination
Policing

Molly Metzger
Senior Lecturer, Brown School
- Email: mmetzger22@wustl.edu
antiracist policy
community land trusts
community organizing
economic justice
fair housing
housing justice
tax incentives

Sharvari Mhatre
Visiting Assistant Professor, Sam Fox School of Design and Visual Arts
- Email: mhatre@wustl.edu
Cross-cultural Collaboration
Built Environment
Design Agency
Design Technology
Material Culture

Miguel Minaya
Assistant Professor of Psychiatry
- Email: MIGUEL.MINAYA@WUSTL.EDU
Neurology
Diverse human populations
Diverse genetic backgrounds
Tauopathies
iPSCs
Genetics
Transcriptomic profiles

Margot Moinester
Assistant Professor of Sociology
- Email: mmoinester@wustl.edu
Health, Immigration, Inequality, Law, Policing and Social Control

Diana Montano
Assistant Professor of History
- Email: dmontano@email.wustl.edu
Environment, Ethnicity, Law, Technology, Transnational business/professional networks

Mabel Morana
- Email: moranamabel@gmail.com
Critical Race and Cultural Studies in Latin American cultures
Migration and Borders
Race and the Nation
Race in Modernity

John Morris
MD, Neurology
- Email: jcmorris@wustl.edu
Social determinants of health
Health disparities

Lucia Motolinia Carballo
Assistant Professor, Politcal Science
- Email: luciam@wustl.edu
Comparative Politics
Distributive Politics
Electoral Institutions
Quantitative Methods
Legislative Behavior

Clive Muir
Teaching Professor, Olin Business School
- Email: muir@wustl.edu
Business narrative
Counter-narratives
Entrepreneurial thinking
Organizational change
Rhetorical strategy
Self-presentation
Storytelling

Kelley Murphy
Assistant Professor, Sam Fox/College of Architecture
- Email: kelleyv@wustl.edu
Architecture
Emerging technology
Materiality
Public art
Identity
Race and design
Diversity

Mungai Mutonya
Teaching Professor, A&S/African and African American Studies
- Email: mmutonya@wustl.edu
Africa, Language mapping, Ethnicity and Migration, Multilingualism, Language Contact,
Sociolinguistics, Swahili Studies

Mitra Naseh
Assistant Professor, Brown School
- Email: naseh@wustl.edu
Economic and social integration of minoritized and racialized groups
Multidimensional poverty
Migration policy
Trauma and forced migration
Well-being of refugees and immigrants

Bronwyn Nichols Lodato
Assistant Professor, Education and African and African-American Studies
- Email: bronwyn@wustl.edu
Identity development
Race and ethnicity
Shock effects
Inequality
Public policy
Environmental justice
Mixed methods

Michael Olson
Assistant Professor of Political Science
- Email: michael.p.olson@wustl.edu
Legislative Politics, Electoral Politics, Democracy in the United States, Politics of the U.S. South