Archive: Media and Scholarship
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“Savoring Care Flourishing with Diabetes Across Cultures” by Professor Emily Mendenhall and Professor Jessica Hardin
Savoring Care challenges conventional narratives about living with type 2 diabetes. A chronic condition defined by insulin resistance and radical transitions in lifestyle, type 2…
January 14, 2026
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Book Launch: “Invisible Illness” by Professor Emily Mendenhall
Monday, Jan 12, 2026 | 4:00pm – 5:30pm EST | Mortara Center for International Studies Join us for the launch of Professor Emily Mendenhall’s latest work, Invisible…
January 8, 2026
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Dean Christopher King Receives the 2025 Vincent C. Gray Health Equity Award
(November 12, 2025) — The District of Columbia Hospital Association (DCHA) has selected Christopher J. King, PhD, MHSc, FACHE, dean of Georgetown’s School of…
November 29, 2025
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The New Clinician-Scholars—Dual Training in Medicine and Humanities Drives Health Research Innovation
Dr. Lakshmi Krishnan, Founding Director of the Medical Humanities Initiative at Georgetown University, co-authored a new JAMA Viewpoint titled “The New Clinician-Scholars…
October 26, 2025
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Medical Humanities Research Fellowship
Are you ready to bring your vision for a medical humanities research project to life? The Georgetown Medical Humanities Initiative is funding undergraduate ($1),…
September 26, 2025
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“David Pickel “Malarial Landscapes in Roman Italy: A View from Poggio Gramignano (Lugnano in Teverina, Umbria)”
Dr. David Pickel explores the entangled relationship between humans, the environment, and malaria, showcasing the interpretative utility of archaeological remains for studying…
April 18, 2023
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Art, Humor, and Gender in the Second World War Plastic Surgery Ward
Dr. Christine Slobogin (CAS ‘16) is a health humanities scholar who uses art and visual culture as a way to understand ethics, emotion, medicine, and gender. She was an Art…
April 14, 2023
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“Core Faculty Member, Dr. Emily Mendenhall, awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship”
Our very own Dr. Emily Mendenhall has been selected as a 2023 Guggenheim Fellowship recipient for her work in medical anthropology and public.…
April 13, 2023
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Medical Humanities and Global Medieval Studies Workshop: Millennium Epidemics
Join us for the Millennium Epidemics Workshop in…
February 21, 2023
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Dr. Lakshmi Krishnan Featured in Nautilus Magazine Article “Are We Doctors or Data Workers?”
Michael Denham explores the impact of electronic health records (EHR) on physician professional identity and physician-patient relationships in this Nautilus Magazine article,…
January 13, 2023