Translational Humanities Project

Core Team

Kirsten Ostherr
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
Travis Alexander

Postdoctoral Fellow, Rice Academy of Fellows


Jay Arora
Jay Arora

Graduate Research Assistant, Department of English

Serena Barbieri
Serena Barbieri

Medical Futures Lab Fellow; Lead Graduate Research Assistant (Fall 2020-present), Department of History


Alekhya Gurram
Alekhya Gurram

Undergraduate Research Assistant, Sophomore Majoring in Health Sciences and Spanish & Portuguese


Meghana Nadella
Meghana Nadella

Undergraduate Research Assistant, Junior Health Sciences and Visual and Dramatic Arts Double Major, Minor in Medical Humanities

Isabel Kilroy
Isabel Kilroy

Research Assistant, Cognitive Sciences Major, Medical Humanities Minor


Keith McCall
Keith McCall

Lead Research Assistant (Summer 2020); Rice University PhD in History; Postdoctoral Fellow


Lindsay Graham
Lindsay Graham

Graduate Research Assistant, Doctoral Candidate, Department of English, Rice University

John Mulligan
John Mulligan

Humanities Computing Researcher/Facilitator, Center for Research Computing


Conor Rork
Conor Rork

Undergraduate Research Assistant, Senior Majoring in Neuroscience and Classical Studies, Senior, Rice University, Brown College '21

Project Advisors

Lan A. Li, PhD
Lan Li, PhD

Assistant Professor, Department of History


Robert Peckham
Robert Peckham

Project Advisor

Thank You


Special thanks to the following individuals, who provided valuable beta-testing feedback for the project: Dr. Allen Matusow, Chloe Krane, Dr. Marcia Brennan, Dr. John Cornwell, Dr. Lise Saffran, and Dr. Kaisu Koski.