Archive: Students

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Perspectives

Why Medical Humanities

I am a junior majoring in Computer Science, Ethics, and Society, passionate about responsible AI, policy, and biotech. I chose Medical Humanities to investigate how technological…

September 22, 2025

Perspectives

Why Medical Humanities

I’m Michael Cormack (CAS’28) from Manhattan Beach, California. I’m on the pre-med track and currently deciding between Biochemistry and Neurobiology. I have always loved…

September 22, 2025

Perspectives

Why I Chose Medical Humanities

The medical humanities program has been the highlight of my academic experience at Georgetown thus far. . . . Studying medical humanities has become imperative to me since living…

September 11, 2025

Perspectives

The medical humanities asks me to engage with what it means to be human; it asks me to engage with humanity

The medical humanities program has been the highlight of my academic experience at Georgetown thus far. . . . Studying medical humanities has become imperative to me since living…

November 1, 2023

Perspectives

The medical humanities allows me to explore interests not limited to the traditional medical world

The medical humanities program has been the highlight of my academic experience at Georgetown thus far. . . . Studying medical humanities has become imperative to me since living…

November 1, 2023

Announcements
Media

Ella Castanier Received a Penner Research Award

Ella Castanier (COL’24) received a Penner Family Experiences Award, which provides undergraduate students experiential learning.…

October 6, 2022

Media

Carpe Diem, Saba Nia’s Debut Novel, Will Be Out in July

Carpe Diem, the debut novel of Saba Nia (COL’23), Psychology Major and Creative Writing and Biology Minor, and one of our 2020-2021 Research Fellowships recipients, will be…

June 14, 2022

Media
Past events

Press the Button: Lifelines, Featuring Elisa Reverman

In this episode of the Press the Button podcast, Lovely Umayam and Elisa Revernman talk about the Bombshelltoe Collective‘s Lifelines Project, a collection of personal…

June 13, 2022

Scholarship

“Healing on Credit: Medical Bills and the Politics of Medicine in Eighteenth-Century Pondichéry”

This article presents part of the research Jakob Burnham has been conducting in his 2021-2022 Medical Humanities Research Fellowship, which explores the centrality of medical…

May 17, 2022

Announcements

Anjali Britto’s “What the Lockdown Gave Me” on Display at the Gelardin Center Exhibit Area

“What the Lockdown Gave Me”, the mixed media project that Anjali Britto (SFS'22) developed as her Medical Humanities 2020-2021 Research Project, under the guidance of Toni…

May 6, 2022