Archive: Students
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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 published by New Degree Press next July.
Category: Media
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“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 professionals to France’s colonial empire. It focuses on what medical bills can tell us about the history of French colonialism in India.
Category: Scholarship
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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-Lee Sangastiano, is now on display at the Gelardin Center Exhibit Area, in the Georgetown University Library’s first floor.
Category: Announcements
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Ella Castanier Awarded a Kalorama Fellowship
Ella Castanier (COL’24) was awarded one of the 2022 Kalorama Summer Research Fellowships, to support her history of medicine project titled, “Checking the Monster Scourge”: Black Healthcare Workers During the 1918 Influenza Pandemic in Philadelphia.
Category: Media
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Ella Castanier and Saba Nia Presented their Research at the 2022 Colloquium for Research in the Social Sciences and Humanities, Hosted by Georgetown College
Ella Castanier (COL’24) and Saba Nia (COL’23) presented their research at the 2022 Colloquium for Research in the Social Sciences and Humanities, which took place on April 21, 2022.
Category: Past events
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“Helen Dominic Is Examining the Power that Listening Can Have on Healing,” Georgetown College Talks about the Research of our 2022-23 Fellow
Georgetown College writes about Helen Dominic, and her research in improvements in the ways we handle immigrant care.
Category: Media
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Ella Castanier Presented a Paper at the 12th Annual Texas A&M History Graduate Student Organization History Conference
Ella Castanier (COL’24) presented a paper at the 12th Annual Texas A&M History Graduate Student Organization History Conference, which took place on February 18 and 19, 2022.
Category: Past events
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“New Uses of Conscience-Based Claims Hinder Progress on Abortion Rights,” Kayla Zamanian and Andrés Constantin Write on OpenGlobalRights
Kayla Zamanian (SFS’23), co-authors piece about how conscientious objection has been increasingly used to hinder abortion rights on OpenGlobalRights.
Category: Media
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The medical humanities transformed my perspective on medicine
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 through the covid-19 pandemic has proven to me how important it is to bring a social, cultural, and historical approach to medicine and public health.
Category: Student perspectives
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The medical humanities shape us, inform how we practice medicine and how we approach our patients
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 through the covid-19 pandemic has proven to me how important it is to bring a social, cultural, and historical approach to medicine and public health.
Category: Student perspectives