David Sherman
Associate Professor, English, Brandeis University
Specializations:
Global modernism
Elegy and the politics of commemoration
Public sphere theory
Comedy
Literature in the criminal justice system
Literature and philosophy
Course idea:
Death and Feminism. A course on feminist and queer mortuary politics, including attention to literature, visual art, performance, and other expressive practices as sites of cultural intervention in the lives of the dead.
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Alecia McGregor
Assistant Professor, Community Health, Tufts University
Specializations:
Health inequities
Health care outcomes
Maternal health
Urban health policies
Course idea:
Non specified
Alecia McGregor earned her Ph.D. in Health Policy from Harvard University in 2014, where she received a certificate in Latin American Studies and was a National Institute of Mental Health trainee. From 2014 to 2016 she was a Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Center for Health and Wellbeing at Princeton University. At Princeton, she helped launch an initiative on Race, Inequality and Health Policy in the United States.
Dr. McGregor's research focuses on health inequalities and the political determinants of health. She has done work on HIV/AIDS disparities, religion and public opinion, mental health and substance abuse policy, and urban health policies; and her research draws on multiple approaches including quantitative, qualitative, comparative, and survey analyses. Her doctoral dissertation analyzed the politics of health care provision in both the United States and Brazil. Currently, she is researching the drivers and consequences of hospital closures in the U.S., and the politics of drug treatment policy in the U.S. and Brazil. Outside of work, she enjoys bicycling, tennis, and anything outdoors.
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Christopher Schmitt
Assistant Professor, Anthropology, Boston University
Specializations:
Mechanistic and adaptive aspects of developmental variation in primates
Genetics and genomics
Behavioral ecology
Physiology
Morphometrics
Course idea:
Non specified
Dr. Christopher Schmitt is a biological anthropologist whose research explores mechanistic and adaptive aspects of developmental variation using techniques from behavioral ecology, physiology, morphometrics, and genomics.
Through intensive fieldwork across Africa and the Caribbean with the International Vervet Research Consortium, Dr. Schmitt has collected biological samples from over two thousand wild vervet monkeys. Current projects in his lab using this dataset include characterizing evolutionary patterns in the developmental morphometrics and physiology of various vervet populations, including the use of population and comparative genomic techniques. Dr. Schmitt also investigates the genomics of metabolic function and disorders during development in over 700 fully sequenced and pedigreed captive vervets at Wake Forest University. Work in his lab is ongoing to assess the phenotypic impact captive-identified obesity-related genes in his extensive wild sample, assessing variability in phenotype expression and population-specific selection based on local ecology and anthropogenic impacts. Field work for these projects is ongoing (UROP students are welcome to apply), and can be followed on social media at #BUvervets.
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Kareem Khubchandani
Mellon Bridge Assistant Professor, Drama & Dance, Tufts University
Specializations:
Performance studies
Queer studies
South Asian studies
Course idea:
Non specified
Kareem Khubchandani (any pronouns) is Associate Professor of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies at Tufts University. He is the author of Ishtyle: Accenting Gay Indian Nightlife (University of Michigan Press, 2020), which received the 2019 CLAGS: Center for LGBTQ Studies Fellowship award, the 2021 Dance Studies Association de la Torre Bueno best book award, and the 2021 ATHE Outstanding Book Award. Kareem is co-editor of Queer Nightlife (University of Michigan Press) and curator of www.criticalauntystudies.com. He holds a Ph.D. in Performance Studies from Northwestern University, and previously served as Embrey Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow at the Center for Women's and Gender Studies at the University of Texas at Austin.
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Amey Victoria Adkins Jones
Assistant Professor, Theology; African and African Diaspora Studies, Boston College
Specializations:
Mariology
Sexual Ethics
Race and Gender
Black Feminist/Womanist Theology
Religious Visual Culture
Human Trafficking
Prison Industrial Complex
Course idea:
Non specified
Amey Victoria Adkins-Jones ("AVA") is Assistant Professor of Theology and African and African Diaspora Studies at Boston College.
Her scholarship specializes in Mariology and womanist/black feminist thought.
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Sabra Katz-Wise
Research Scientist, Division of Adolescent/Young Adult Medicine, Boston Children’s Hospital and Instructor, Department of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School
sabra.katz-wise@childrens.harvard.edu
Specializations:
LGBTQ health inequities
Sexual orientation and gender identity development and fluidity
Psychosocial functioning of families with transgender and/or nonbinary youth
Course idea:
None specified
Dr. Sabra L. Katz-Wise, PhD (she/her) is an Associate Professor in Adolescent/Young Adult Medicine at Boston Children’s Hospital, in Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School, and in Social and Behavioral Sciences at the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health. She is also Adjunct Faculty at The Fenway Institute. She is Director of the Harvard SOGIE (Sexual Orientation Gender Identity and Expression) Health Equity Research Collaborative, and she is a Senior Faculty Advisor for the Boston Children’s Office of Health Equity and Inclusion. Dr. Katz-Wise’s research uses community-engaged mixed methods to investigate sexual orientation and gender identity development and fluidity, health inequities related to sexual orientation and gender identity in adolescents and young adults, and psychosocial functioning in families with transgender and nonbinary youth. Her work has been funded by several grants from the National Institutes of Health and the Boston Children’s Aerosmith Endowment Fund and is widely published in peer-reviewed journals. In addition to research, Dr. Katz-Wise is involved with advocacy efforts to improve the workplace climate, patient care, and learning environment for LGBTQ+ individuals, including her role on the Queer Leadership Council for the Boston Children’s Rainbow Alliance and member of the Boston Children’s Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Council.
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Shameka Powell
Assistant Professor of Education, Tufts University
Shameka.Powell@tufts.edu
Specializations:
Sociology of education
Race theory
Educational Equity
Social Context of Schooling
Course idea:
None specified
Shameka N. Powell is an Associate Professor of Educational Studies and affiliated with the Master of Arts in Teaching program in the Department of Education. Dr. Powell's research focuses on equality of educational opportunity and the intersections of race, class, gender in school spaces. Specifically, they interrogate how institutional agents create, exacerbate, and alleviate stratification patterns within schools. Additionally, Dr. Powell examines critical literacy approaches teachers and students employ within classrooms. They situate their research within Critical Race Theory and Queer of Color Theories.
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Brittany Charlton
Instructor, Harvard Medical School and Boston Children's Hospital
bcharlton@mail.harvard.edu
Specializations:
- Epidemiology
- LGBTQ health
Course idea:
None specified
Dr. Brittany Charlton is an Assistant Professor at Harvard Medical School, Boston Children’s Hospital, and the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health's Department of Epidemiology. She is also an Associate Epidemiologist in the Channing Division of Network Medicine at Brigham and Women's Hospital and a Lecturer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Dr. Charlton's epidemiologic research primarily focuses on reproductive health. One area of her work examines the development and prevention of sexual orientation-related disparities with a focus on reproductive health topics such as HPV/cervical cancer, teen pregnancy, and family planning. A second area of her research investigates the health effects of using contraceptives. Previously, Dr. Charlton worked on Capitol Hill as well as for non-profit organizations including NARAL and the Center for Reproductive Rights. She completed a year of national service in AmeriCorps, during which she was based at New York’s LGBT Callen-Lorde Community Health Center. Dr. Charlton trained as a predoctoral fellow at Brigham and Women’s Hospital’s Ob/Gyn Epidemiology Center and was a Visiting Scientist at the Statens Serum Institut in Copenhagen, Denmark. She completed the Postdoctoral Fellowship in Sexual Orientation and Health Disparities Research at Boston Children’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School. Dr. Charlton holds a BA from The New School as well as an MSc and ScD from the Department of Epidemiology at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.