Late July Update: Summer Research Team 2020 going strong!  From upper left; Syona Hariharan, Emily Mendenhall, Allie Cho, Emma Morris, RJ Atwal, Anthony Panasci, Maydha Dhanuka, Lindile Cele, Emma Backe, Arthur Rodriguez

COVID MENTORING: Late July Update: Summer Research Team 2020 going strong! From upper left; Syona Hariharan, Emily Mendenhall, Allie Cho, Emma Morris, RJ Atwal, Anthony Panasci, Maydha Dhanuka, Lindile Cele, Emma Backe, Arthur Rodriguez

Summer 2020 Research Team (top left to bottom right): Lindile Cele (Wits), Emily Mendenhall (Georgetown/Wits), Maydha Dhanuka (Georgetown), Anthony Panasci (Georgetown), Andrew Kim (Northwestern/Wits), Emma Morris (Georgetown), Natalie Kim (Georgeto…

Summer 2020 Research Team (top left to bottom right): Lindile Cele (Wits), Emily Mendenhall (Georgetown/Wits), Maydha Dhanuka (Georgetown), Anthony Panasci (Georgetown), Andrew Kim (Northwestern/Wits), Emma Morris (Georgetown), Natalie Kim (Georgetown), Emma Backe (George Washington University), Edna Bosire (Wits)

Introducing Final Presentations for the Syndemics Centennial Lab

Introducing Final Presentations for the Syndemics Centennial Lab

End-of-seminar meditation session - here is the Centennial Lab group!

End-of-seminar meditation session - here is the Centennial Lab group!

 
With PhD candidate Edna Bosire at Wits; we’ve worked together since 2014, first in Kenya and now in South Africa.

With PhD candidate Edna Bosire at Wits; we’ve worked together since 2014, first in Kenya and now in South Africa.

PhD Students

I have worked with PhD students at academic institutions around the world, from DC to Johannesburg and Delhi. For a decade, I conducted research and mentored PhD students at the University of the Witwatersrand. To the right, I am with my first PhD student, Dr. Edna Bosire, who now holds a faculty position as a medical anthropologist at Aga Khan University’s Brain and Mind Institute in Nairobi, Kenya.

Full List of Mentees

Post-Doctoral Fellows

Dr. Jordan Wilson, Earth Commons 2024-2026

Dr. Diana Reyes, STIA 2024-2025

Dr. Elena Lesley, STIA 2022-2023

 

PhD Committees

Sostina Matina, University of the Witwatersrand, Public Health, 2025 (primary)

Dylan A. Proctor, Georgetown University, History, 2022

Sara E. Fischer, Georgetown University, Government, 2022

Andrew Wooyoung Kim, Northwestern University, Anthropology, 2020

Edna N Bosire, University of the Witwatersrand, Medical Anthropology and Medicine, 2020 (primary)

 

Honors Theses and Global Health Initiative Mentees

Nina Chereath, Global Health Institute Fellow

Jake Lang, STIA-SFS, 2025

Dhruvi Banerjee, anthropology, 2025

Benjamin Oestricher, African Studies, SFS, 2025

Kenton Kaplan, STIA-SFS, 2023

Marie Couturier, STIA-SFS, 2023

Sarah Weber, STIA-SFS, 2023

Anya Wahal, STIA-SFS, 2023

Julia Damski, GHI Fellow, 2023

Isabella Turilli, STIA-SFS, 2022

Allison Cho, STIA-SFS, 2022

Megan McGuire, STIA-SFS, 2022

Shuait Nair, STIA-SFS, 2022

Yash Dhuldhoya, GHI Fellow 2022

Maydha Dhanuka, STIA-SFS, 2021

Emma Morris, STIA-SFS, 2021

Patrick Walsh, STIA-SFS, 2021

Syona Hariharan, GHI Fellow 2021

Natalie Kim, GHI Fellow 2020

Zachary Gallin, STIA-SFS, 2020

Zachary Thompson, STIA-SFS, 2020

Sonia Vohra, STIA-SFS, 2020

Ella Nudell, GHI Fellow 2019

Abigail Ulman, STIA-SFS, 2019

Libby Bassini, STIA-SFS, 2019

Sarah Harper, STIA-SFS, 2019

Adam Wagner, STIA-SFS, 2019

Angela Wong, GHI Felow 2019

Madeleine Lambert, GHI Fellow 2019

Reena Goswami, GHI Fellow 2018

Ellen Bannon, GHI Fellow 2018

Arista Jhanjee, STIA-SFS, 2018, GHI Fellow 2017

Marina Smith, STIA-SFS, 2018, GHI Fellow 2018

Katelyn Shahbazian, STIA-SFS, 2018, GHI Fellow 2018

Jacqueline Kimmell, STIA-SFS, 2017

Hannah Gerdes, STIA-SFS, 2016

Hannah Stowe McMurry, STIA-SFS, 2015 (mentee/RA)

Bernadette Nelson, STIA-SFS, 2013 (mentee/RA)