
Chernoh Bah
Graduate Affiliate - History, entered 2017
Advisor: Helen Tilley
chernohbah2022@u.northwestern.edu
The SHC program welcomes students through all the humanities and social science departments.
Graduate Affiliate - History, entered 2017
Advisor: Helen Tilley
chernohbah2022@u.northwestern.edu
Cluster Fellow - Theater and Drama, entered 2018
Advisors: Dassia Posner and Marcia Grabowecky
anadiazbarriga@u.northwestern.edu
Cluster Fellow - Comparative Literature Studies, entered 2019
Advisor: Evan Mwangi
RainaBhagat2024@u.northwestern.edu
Cluster Fellow - History, entered 2020
Advisor: Keith Woodhouse
John's research areas include the history of economic life, political history, and the history of science, with a focus on the nonprofit sector in the twentieth century. He has a B.A. in history from Bowdoin College.
Graduate Affiliate - English, Comparative Literature, entered 2020
Advisors: Jim Hodge and Patrick Noonan
josechavez2025@u.northwestern.edu
Graduate Affiliate - Rhetoric and Public Culture, entered 2012
Advisors: Claudio Benzecry and Dilip Gaonkar
beatrice.choi@u.northwestern.edu
Graduate Affiliate - History, entered 2021
Advisor: Barbara Newman
Graduate Affiliate - SESP, Learning Sciences, entered 2021
Advisor: Reed Stevens
bradleydavey2026@u.northwestern.edu
Bradley is working on an ethnography of professional coffee roasters and their use of science and technology to produce one of America’s most cherished goods. He is interested in dissolving the boundaries that surround K-12 science education by expanding what counts as "science".
Cluster Fellow - Sociology, entered 2019
Advisor: Steven Epstein
Graduate Affiliate, English, entered 2014
Advisor: Harris Feinsod
MariaDikcis2014@u.northwestern.edu
Research Fellow, History, entered 2022
Advisor: Paul Ramirez
maremoto@u.northwestern.edu
Curriculum Vitae
Graduate Affiliate - Sociology, entered 2020
Advisor: Bruce Carruthers
ryanfajardo2025@u.northwestern.edu
Cluster Fellow - Sociology, entered 2015
Advisor: Steven Epstein
MalloryFallin2015@u.northwestern.edu
Mallory is interested in Science and technology, Race, Medical sociology, Sociology of Knowledge
Cluster Fellow - History, entered 2017
Advisor: Daniel Immerwahr
dexterfergie2023@u.northwestern.edu
Graduate Affiliate - History, entered 2016
Advisors: Peter J. Carroll and Melissa Macauley
MatthewForeman2021@u.northwestern.edu
Matthew received a BA in History and Philosophy from the University of Hong Kong and an MSt in Global and Imperial History from Oxford. His interests lie at the intersection of knowledge production, the human sciences and biopolitics.
Graduate Affiliate - Ph.D. Candidate, African American Studies, entered 2013
Advisor: Sylvester Johnson
claudiagarciarojas2018@u.northwestern.edu
Claudia is completing a dissertation titled "Blackness and the National Security Paradigm". Her research interests include Black social and political thought, security and surveillance studies, continental philosophy, and intellectual histories of race and science.
Graduate Affliate - Media, Technology & Society, entered 2022
Advisor: Pablo Boczkowski
Cluster Fellow - Anthropology, entered 2020
Advisor: Rebecca Seligman
gerphagerlin2025@u.northwestern.edu
Cluster Fellow - Sociology, entered 2018
Advisor: Steven Epstein
PhilipGrace2023@u.northwestern.edu
Cluster Fellow - English, entered 2023
Advisor: TBD
mariacornejo2028@u.northwestern.edu
Graduate Affiliate - History, entered 2015
Advisor: Ken Alder
MelanieHall2012@u.northwestern.edu
Cluster Fellow - Sociology, entered 2016
Advisor: Steven Epstein
austinjenkins@u.northwestern.edu
Austin holds a B.S. in the sociology of law, criminology, and deviance from the University of Minnesota. He is interested in the development of disease notions of addiction in the American nineteenth century and their reconfiguration in contemporary forms of legally-coerced substance abuse treatment.
Graduate Affiliate - History, entered 2017
Advisor: Haydon Cherry
normanjoshua2015@u.northwestern.edu
Graduate Affiliate, Theater and Drama, entered 2019
Advisor: Dassia Posner
ClaudiaKinahan2024@u.northwestern.edu
Graduate Affiliate - Sociology, entered 2022
Advisor: Anthony Chen
MichelleLee2028@u.northwestern.edu
Michelle Lee is a PhD student in Sociology. Her research interests are in economic sociology, technology, and globalization.
Cluster Fellow - History, entered 2019
Advisor: Lydia Barnett
Graduate Affiliate - History, entered 2017
Advisor: Amy Stanley
youjiali2014@u.northwestern.edu
Graduate Affiliate - Anthropology, entered 2021
Advisor: Hirokazu Miyazaki
meng-runglin2026@u.northwestern.edu
Cluster Fellow - History, entered 2022
Advisor: Lydia Barnett
hughmilner2022@u.northwestern.edu
Cluster Fellow, Sociology, entered 2022
Advisor: Steven Epstein
jorgeochoa2027@u.northwestern.edu
Cluster Fellow - English, entered 2021
Advisor: Laurie Shannon
phoebepan2027@u.northwestern.edu
Cluster Fellow - Spanish & Portuguese, entered 2020
Advisor: Emily Maguire
GabrielRestrepoParrado2025@u.northwestern.edu
Cluster Fellow - Art History, entered 2014
Advisor: Claudia Swan
SandraRacek2014@u.northwestern.edu
Sandra received her MA from University College London in the History of Art and a BA from Fordham University. She is interested in medical imagery form the early modern period in Europe.
Graduate Affiliate - Cultural Anthropology, entered 2017
Advisor: Adia Benton
kaelinrapport2022@u.northwestern.edu
Kaelin has a Master of Applied Anthropology from the University of Maryland. His areas of interest are: Critical Medical Anthropology, Public Health, Cancer, Population Studies, Disease Prevention and Research Implementation.
Cluster Fellow - Screen Cultures, entered 2016
Advisor: Jake Smith
BenjaminRiggs2020@u.northwestern.edu
Ben earned a BA in Media Arts from the University of New Mexico and an MA in Communication and Education from Columbia University. He is interested in playful experiences with science across different media, particularly narrative entertainment media, and the formation of youth science cultures.
Graduate Affiliate - Sociology, entered 2013
Advisor: Charles Camic
christopherrobertson2013@u.northwestern.edu
Graduate Affiliate - Performance Studies, entered 2018
Advisor: Ramón Rivera-Servera
arnaldorodriguez2022@u.northwestern.edu
Arnaldo Rodríguez-Bagué is a transdisciplinary artist and curator. He has a BA in Anthropology from the University of Puerto Rico. His research practices are concerned with island geography from the intersections of Performance Studies, Environmental Humanities, Island Studies and Archipelagic American Studies.
Cluster Fellow - MTS and Law School, entered 2013
Advisor: Aaron Shaw
t-rousse2019@nlaw.northwestern.edu
Graduate Affiliate - Art History, entered 2014
Advisor: Hannah Feldman
talia.shabtay@u.northwestern.edu
Graduate Affiliate - Sociology, entered 2022
Advisor: Wendy Espeland
mirandasimes2028@u.northwestern.edu
Cluster Fellow - Art History, entered 2017
Advisor: Stephen Eisenman
McKenziestupica2023@u.northwestern.edu
Graduate Affiliate - Media, Technology, Society, entered 2020
Advisor: Pablo Boczkowski
Facundo Suenzo is a Ph.D. student interested in urban sociology, technological infrastructures, and inequalitie. He received a BA in Communication (Universidad de San Andrés (UdeSA), MA in Sociology (Universidad Nacional del General San Martín (IDAES/UNSAM), and a MA in Media, Technology, and Society (Northwestern University). He is affiliated with the Digital Apothecary Lab, led by Dr. Moya Bailey and coordinator for the Center for Latinx Digital Media.
Cluster Fellow - English, entered 2017
Advisor: Julia Stern
adamsyvertsen2025@u.northwestern.edu
Cluster Fellow - Sociology, entered 2015
Advisor: Wendy Espeland
OmriTubi2015@u.northwestern.edu
Graduate Affiliate, Political Science, entered 2018
Advisor: Hendrik Spruyt
dinaraurazova2024@u.northwestern.edu
Cluster Fellow - History, entered 2015
Advisor: Peter J. Carroll
RachelWallner2020@u.northwestern.edu
Rachel studies discourse on science and the formation of academic disciplines in twentieth-century China. Her research focuses on the politics of Chinese geographic knowledge production during the Second World War.
Graduate Affiliate - Sociology, entered 2020
Advisor: Gary Alan Fine
Xi Wang is a doctoral student interested in culture, religion, and science and technology studies. She explores the dynamic interactions among human suffering, therapeutic culture, and mental health knowledge and practices. Her current empirical project is about China's mental health industry in a global context.
Graduate Affiliate - Sociology, entered 2017
Advisor: Carol Heimer
DevinWiggs2023@u.northwestern.edu
Graduate Affiliate - History, entered 2017
Advisor: Peter J. Carroll