The Works-in-Progress series provides faculty from around campus the opportunity to showcase their research projects dealing with the intersection of medicine, arts, and the humanities to an interdisciplinary audience.
2024
- Ina Kim (PhD Candidate, Anthropology), Making "abnormal" bodies for care: Irradiated bodies and medicalization in post-nuclear Japan
- Nastasya Kosygina, (PhD Candidate, Visual Studies), Gutting the Eternal City: Early Modern Anatomy and the Archaeology of Rome's Urban Body
- Maggie Woodruff, (PhD Candidate, Anthropology), Productive Encounters: Bureaucracy, Dispossession, and Discourse of Unhoused LA
- Rebecca Korf, (PhD Candidate, Logic and Philosophy of Science), Values, Science, and Medicine Through a Social Lens
2023
- John Gillespie (PhD Candidate, Comparative Literature), "Anti-Sisyphus, or Anti-Blackness and Suicide: Outline of an Afropessimist Thanatology"
2022
- Gwen Pare (PhD Candidate, Spanish & Portuguese), "Derek Walcott's Omeros, the wound of slavery and crafting resistance"
2021
- Ayuko Takeda (PhD Candidate, History), Memories of Internment: U.S. 'Rehabilitation' and Militarization of Okinawa (1945-)
- Qianru Li, (PhD Candidate, Drama) "Who Will Look After Me?: Transnational Legacies of China's One-Child Policy"
- Sarah O'Dell (PhD Candidate, English), "Renewing the Medical Imagination: R.E. Havard, C.S. Lewis, and the Inklings"
2020
- Samantha Carter (PhD Candidate, Visual Studies), "Glass Playground: Passion Points & Complex Learning"
- Jonathan Alexander (English), "STROKE BOOK: The Queer Story of a Blindspot"
- Emily Baum (History), "Cold War Acupuncture: The Politics of Medicine in 1970s China and the United States"
- Mark Fisher (Neurology), "Cognition and Political Ideology: A Study of Neuropolitics"
- Ashley Hope (Medicine), "The Reflections Project: Long Day's Journey Into Night & Addiction"
- Miriam Bender (Nursing) & Joel Veenstra (Drama), “Improvisation to Improve Inter-Professional Healthcare Communication: Developing and Piloting a Workshop”
- James Steintrager (English), “Drinking Problems and Drinking Solutions: The Psychology and Poetics of Alcoholic Excess in Early Modern England”
- Andrew Palermo (Drama), “Creatively Able”
- Daphne Lei (Drama), “Thriving in Difference: I Dream of Chang and Eng“
- Sarah Mellors (PhD Candidate, History), “Less Reproduction, More Production: Birth Control in the Early People’s Republic of China, 1949-1958”
- Jessica Millward (History), “Broken Black Bodies: African American Women and Intimate Violence in the 19th Century South”
- Rebeca Helfer (English), “Memory and Medicine in Early Modern England: The Case of Robert Burton’s The Anatomy of Melancholy (1612)”
- Mark Fisher (Neurology), “Emotion and Cognition in Presidential Politics”
- Linda Vo (Asian American Studies) and Tram Le, “Vietnamese American Stories: Narratives of Health and Healing”
- Michael Montoya (Anthropology), “Equity, Knowledge, and Health: Community Engagement and the Art of Relational Politics”
- Andrew Highsmith (History), “Toxic Metropolis: Cities, Suburbs, and the Battle over Public Health in Modern America”
- Alka Patel (Art History), “Medicine, Photography, and Empire: Dr. Benjamin Simpson, OBE, in India”
- Anthony Kubiak (Drama), “Performing the Double Blind: Theater as Placebo / Placebo as Theater”
- Kristen Monroe (Political Science), “Trudi: Aging and the Limits of Empathy for Human Compassion”
- Frank Meyskens (Medicine), “Bulletproof Vest: ‘Aching for Tomorrow’ and ‘Believing in Today'”
- Kelli Sharp (Dance), “A Healing Art: The Yin and Yang of Dance and Neurorehabilitation”
- Emily Baum (History), “Translating the Pathological Mind: Psychiatry and Modern China, 1900-1930”
- Tan Nguyen (Family Medicine), “Poetry in the Clinic”
- Lyle Massey (Art History), “Against the ‘Statue Anatomized’: Vision, Practice, and Pictures in 18th Century Anatomy”