Core Team
![Kirsten Ostherr](/sites/g/files/bxs4151/files/styles/thumbnail_small_170x170/public/2020-07/Ostherr-Headshot-2016-200x300.jpg.jpeg?itok=PJdm0MlX)
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](/sites/g/files/bxs4151/files/styles/thumbnail_small_170x170/public/2020-11/view-1.jpg.jpeg?itok=vuGks0Oz)
Postdoctoral Fellow, Rice Academy of Fellows
![Jay Arora](/sites/g/files/bxs4151/files/styles/thumbnail_small_170x170/public/2020-12/grad%20-%20jay%20arora%208.2020_0%20%281%29.jpeg?itok=GAEaAL_4)
Graduate Research Assistant, Department of English
![Serena Barbieri](/sites/g/files/bxs4151/files/styles/thumbnail_small_170x170/public/2020-11/view_0.jpg.jpeg?itok=xasrAULG)
Medical Futures Lab Fellow; Lead Graduate Research Assistant (Fall 2020-present), Department of History
![Alekhya Gurram](/sites/g/files/bxs4151/files/styles/thumbnail_small_170x170/public/2020-11/view.jpg.jpeg?itok=9jPHJae1)
Undergraduate Research Assistant, Sophomore Majoring in Health Sciences and Spanish & Portuguese
![Meghana Nadella](/sites/g/files/bxs4151/files/styles/thumbnail_small_170x170/public/2021-02/IMG_1866.JPG.jpeg?itok=NEn03-aX)
Undergraduate Research Assistant, Junior Health Sciences and Visual and Dramatic Arts Double Major, Minor in Medical Humanities
![Isabel Kilroy](/sites/g/files/bxs4151/files/styles/thumbnail_small_170x170/public/2021-04/Isabel-Kilroy-Headshot.jpg.jpeg?itok=6W-RV1nQ)
Research Assistant, Cognitive Sciences Major, Medical Humanities Minor
![Keith McCall](/sites/g/files/bxs4151/files/styles/thumbnail_small_170x170/public/2020-10/McCall_Headshot.jpg.jpeg?itok=GuTgzMXB)
Lead Research Assistant (Summer 2020); Rice University PhD in History; Postdoctoral Fellow
![Lindsay Graham](/sites/g/files/bxs4151/files/styles/thumbnail_small_170x170/public/2020-08/LDG_picture.jpg.jpeg?itok=CtuD-jKD)
Graduate Research Assistant, Doctoral Candidate, Department of English, Rice University
![John Mulligan](/sites/g/files/bxs4151/files/styles/thumbnail_small_170x170/public/2020-08/view_0.jpg.jpeg?itok=dwRS5dsI)
Humanities Computing Researcher/Facilitator, Center for Research Computing
![Conor Rork](/sites/g/files/bxs4151/files/styles/thumbnail_small_170x170/public/2020-08/Headshot.jpg.jpeg?itok=yEVjLDqu)
Undergraduate Research Assistant, Senior Majoring in Neuroscience and Classical Studies, Senior, Rice University, Brown College '21