Graduate Student Affiliates

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

Hawa Adaweh
PhD Student, Psychological & Brain Sciences
- Email: a.hawa@wustl.edu
Child Psychiatric Disorders
Childhood Adversities
Disparities in Diagnoses
Mental Health
Psychosis

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

SynClaire Arthur
Doctoral Student, Psychological & Brain Science
- Email: a.synclaire@wustl.edu
Adolescents
Black/African American
Education
Identity
Social Justice
Sociopolitical Development
Trauma

Autumn Asher BlackDeer
Doctorl 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

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

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

Marc Blanc
Graduate Student, English and American Literature
- Email: m.blanc@wustl.edu
African American literature
Midwestern regionalism
Print culture studies/history of the book
Radical and left-wing movements

Allison Brown
JD Candidate, Law School
- Email: allison.brown@wustl.edu
Critical Race Theory
Law School Curriculum

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

Rene Canady
Phd Student, Sociology
- Email: c.janet@wustl.edu
Black Health Resistance
Bioethics
Biomedical racism
Healthcare
Liberation theory
Social inequality

Judith Carlisle
Graduate Student | Philosophy, Neuroscience, Psychology
- Email: judith.carlisle@wustl.edu
Groups
PTSD
Racism and Discrimination
Trauma
Traumatic Memory

Diana Castellanos
Doctoral Student, Occupational Therapy
- Email: castellanos.d@wustl.edu
Early exposure to healthcare careers
Educational inclusion
Diversity
Mentorship Developing

Rajnesh Chakrapani
Graduate Student, Comparative Literature International Writers Track
- Email: c.rajnesh@wustl.edu
Immigration and Migration
Social Justice
Translation
Gender
Speculative Archive
Diasporic Writing
Documentary Poetics

Sneha Chaturvedi
MD/PhD Student, Division of Biology and Biomedical Sciences
- Email: sneha.chaturvedi@wustl.edu
Education
Equity
Gender
Medicine
Neurodevelopment
Sex differences

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

Cristina Correa
Phd Student, Comparative Literature- International Writers Track
- Email: c.correa@wustl.edu
Caribbean
Creative-critical
Diaspora
Ecocriticism
Grief
Latine
Poetics

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

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

Elena Farel
Graduate Student, Musicology
- Email: e.farel@wustl.edu
American Opera
Black Opera
Canon Formation
Musicians
Music Criticism

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

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

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

Nayive Gaytán
Graduate Student, Arts & Sciences / Hispanic Studies
- Email: g.nayive@wustl.edu
Environmental History
Latin America
Popular Culture
Social Movements

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

Kate Hoppe
PhD Student, Brown School/Public Health Sciences
- Email: hoppe.k@wustl.edu
Climate Change
Community Engineering
Community Resilience
Equity
Policy Change
Social Determinants
Social Innovation

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

Ryan Hung
Graduate Student, Arts and Sciences/Theatre and Performance Studies
- Email: ryanhung@wustl.edu

John Daniel Ibembe
Graduate Student, Anthropology
- Email: i.johndaniel@wustl.edu
Gender
Sexuality
Sexual Geographies
Mobility
Risk

Nadia Jackson-Fitch
PhD Student, Sociology
- Email: f.nadia@wustl.edu
Colorism
Neighborhoods
Police Contact
Quantitative Methods
Race

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

Haley Kaplan
School of Medicine/Occupational Therapy
- Email: h.d.kaplan@wustl.edu
Federal Regulatory Affairs
Health Care Reform
Health Disparities
Social Determinants of Health
Stroke Rehabilitation

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

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