
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
Advisor:
anadiazbarriga@u.northwestern.edu
Cluster Fellow - Comparative Literature Studies, entered 2019
Advisor:
RainaBhagat2024@u.northwestern.edu
Cluster Fellow - History, entered 2016
Advisor: Helen Tilley
ColinBos2022@u.northwestern.edu
Colin specializes in the history of medicine and West African intellectual history. He has received both a CLIR/Mellon Fellowship and an SSRC International Dissertation Research Fellowship to support his dissertation research on West African archeological sciences next year.
Graduate Affiliate - Rhetoric and Public Culture, entered 2012
Advisors: Claudio Benzecry and Dilip Gaonkar
beatrice.choi@u.northwestern.edu
Graduate Affiliate, English, entered 2014
Advisor: Harris Feinsod
MariaDikcis2014@u.northwestern.edu
Graduate Affiliate - History, entered 2017
Advisor: Deborah Cohen
gilengelstein2020@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 Affiliate - Ph.D./MPH candidate, Anthropology, entered 2014
Advisor: Rebecca Seligman
livia.garafalo@u.northwestern.edu
Livia has a BS and MA in Cultural Anthropology from the University of Bologna, Italy. Her research examines how lay and expert framings risk, culpability, and brain health converge in the understanding and care of Traumatic Brain Injury in public health in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Cluster Fellow - Anthropology, entered 2020
Advisor: Rebecca Seligman
gerphagerlin2025@u.northwestern.edu
Cluster Fellow - Sociology, entered 2018
Advisor: Steve Epstein
PhilipGrace2023@u.northwestern.edu
Graduate Affiliate - History, entered 2015
Advisor: Ken Alder
MelanieHall2012@u.northwestern.edu
Cluster Fellow - Sociology, entered 2016
Advisor: Carol Heimer
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.
Cluster Fellow - History, entered 2014
Advisors: Susan Pearson and Lydia Barnett
Bennett has a BFA in Fiber and Material studies from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and an MA in Museum Studies from the University of Florida. Her interests include natural history, visual culture, and animal studies. For 2019, she received a fellowship for Northwestern's Center for Native American and Indigenous Research.
Graduate Affiliate - History, entered 2017
Advisor: Haydon Cherry
normanjoshua2015@u.northwestern.edu
Graduate Affiliate - Anthropology, entered 2018
Advisor: Christopher Kuzawa
andrewkim2022@u.northwestern.edu
Andrew has a B.S. in Anthropology & Human Biology from Emory University. His interests include human biology, global mental health, developmental origins of health and disease, cross-cultural psychiatry and critical medical anthropology.
Graduate Affiliate, Theater and Drama, entered 2019
Advisor: Dassia Posner
ClaudiaKinahan2024@u.northwestern.edu
Graduate Affiliate - Art History, Global Modern and Contemporary, entered 2012
Advisor: Stephen Eisenman
jacobleveton2017@u.northwestern.edu
Graduate Affiliate - History, entered 2017
Advisor: Amy Stanley
youjiali2014@u.northwestern.edu
Graduate Affiliate - History, entered 2017
Advisor: Deborah Cohen
katyamaslakowski2021@u.northwestern.edu
Cluster Fellow - Spanish & Portuguese, entered 2020
Advisor: TBD
GabrielRestrepoParrado2025@u.northwestern.edu
Graduate Affiliate - History, entered 2017
Advisor: Paul Gillingham
jaysonporter2021@u.northwestern.edu
Jayson has received has received a Fulbright-García Robles (IIE) grant for 2019-2020 to fund his dissertation research in Mexico in 2019-20 for his project on engineering modernity and extermination campaigns.
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.
Cluster Fellow - 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
Cluster Fellow - Art History, entered 2017
Advisor: Stephen Eisenman
McKenziestupica2023@u.northwestern.edu
Cluster Fellow - English, entered 2017
Advisor: Julia Stern
adamsyversten2025@u.northwestern.edu
Cluster Fellow - Sociology and Law School, entered 2013
Advisor: Carol Heimer
Ari has a BA from Wesleyan University in Sociology & Neuroscience, and has done research for the Department of Global Health & Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School. She received a Doctoral Fellowship from the American Bar Foundation to complete her dissertation, “Criminal Prosecution of Prisoners with Mental Illness.”
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 2017
Advisor: Carol Heimer
DevinWiggs2023@u.northwestern.edu
Graduate Affiliate - History, entered 2017
Advisor: Peter J. Carroll
Cluster Fellow - Sociology, entered 2012
Advisor: Jeremy Freese
vincentyung@u.northwestern.edu
Vincent received a BA in Sociology and a BS in Genetics and Plant Biology from UC Berkeley. His interests lie at the intersection of laboratory research, knowledge commodification, and higher education.