Core Team
Kirsten Ostherr, PhD, MPH
Director, Medical Humanities Program;
Director & Co-founder, Medical Futures Lab; PI, Translational Humanities Project;
Chair, Department of English;
Gladys Louise Fox Professor of English
Travis Alexander
Postdoctoral Fellow, Rice Academy of Fellows
Jay Arora
Graduate Research Assistant, Department of English
Serena Barbieri
Medical Futures Lab Fellow; Lead Graduate Research Assistant (Fall 2020-present), Department of History
Alekhya Gurram
Undergraduate Research Assistant, Sophomore Majoring in Health Sciences and Spanish & Portuguese
Meghana Nadella
Undergraduate Research Assistant, Junior Health Sciences and Visual and Dramatic Arts Double Major, Minor in Medical Humanities
Isabel Kilroy
Research Assistant, Cognitive Sciences Major, Medical Humanities Minor
Keith McCall
Lead Research Assistant (Summer 2020); Rice University PhD in History; Postdoctoral Fellow
Lindsay Graham
Graduate Research Assistant, Doctoral Candidate, Department of English, Rice University
John Mulligan
Humanities Computing Researcher/Facilitator, Center for Research Computing
Conor Rork
Undergraduate Research Assistant, Senior Majoring in Neuroscience and Classical Studies, Senior, Rice University, Brown College '21
