Graduate Fellows
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Lindsey Grubbs
Lindsey Grubbs is a Hecht-Levi Postdoctoral Fellow at the Berman Institute of Bioethics. She holds a Ph.D. in English from Emory University, where she also obtained a certificate in bioethics. Grounded in the health humanities and feminist disability studies, her research and teaching focus on the literary and cultural history of medicine in America and […]
Catherine Freddo
Catherine Freddo is a Ph.D. candidate in German and Romance Languages and Literatures at Johns Hopkins University. She is based in the Italian section, where she focuses on the intellectual history of early modern Europe. Her dissertation, entitled “Vox Populi: Vernacular politics in early modern Italy”, explores the correlation between civic identity and vernacular language […]
Alex Parry
Alex Parry is an Assistant Professor of Health Humanities and Bioethics at the University of Rochester Medical Center and a historian of public health. His research focuses on injuries, product safety, and child health. He received his M.A. in Literary and Cultural Studies from the University of Oklahoma and his Ph.D. in the History of […]
Durgesh Solanki
Durgesh Solanki is a PhD student in the Sociology department. His research interests lie in medical sociology, urban inequality, empire, and the comparative study of caste and race. Durgesh’s current work examines the relationship between colonialism and the development of sanitation systems in the spread and management of plague epidemics in the late 19th and […]
Sarah Roth
Sarah Roth is a writer and PhD candidate in the Department of Anthropology at Johns Hopkins University. Trained and licensed as a genetic counselor, Sarah is a graduate fellow at the Center for Medical Humanities & Social Medicine, where she is a founding editor of Tendon. A Pushcart Prize nominee, Sarah’s debut chapbook, Inheritances, is forthcoming […]
Kat Haklin
Kat Haklin is a PhD candidate in French Literature at the Johns Hopkins Krieger School of Arts and Sciences. Her dissertation entitled “Espaces clos, espaces éclos: Enclosure in French Literature from Les Fleurs du Mal to Germinal” focuses on the concept of enclosure—defined as the perception of spatial surroundings that appear to close inwards—and demonstrates […]