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Education
Ph.D.
New York University, American Studies, Department of Social & Cultural Analysis, 2021
New York University, American Studies, Department of Social & Cultural Analysis, New York, NY, 2019. Examination fields: Science, Technology, & Society (passed with distinction); Social & Political Theory (passed with distinction).
M.Phil.
B.A.
Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, NY, 2015
Fellowships and Grants
Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship in Disability Studies, Brown University, Cogut Center for the Humanities/Department of American Studies and Program in STS
Fall 2021 - Spring 2023
Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowship (awarded, declined)
2021-2022
2020-2021
NYU COVID-19 Research Catalyst Grant, “Disability Equity in the Time of COVID-19.” PIs: Faye Ginsburg, Mara Mills, Rayna Rapp, and Arthur Caplan
NSF Doctoral Dissertation Research Grant (Science, Technology, and Society)
2020 - 2021
2019 - 2020
Penfield Dissertation Fellowship
Analyzing Relationships Between Disability, Rehabilitation, and Work (ARDRAW) Grant, Social Security Administration
2018 - 2019
2018
Summer Research Grant, Department of Social & Cultural Analysis
2017
Summer Research Grant, Department of Social & Cultural Analysis
2017
NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program Honorable Mention
2015 - 2020
Henry M. MacCracken Doctoral Fellowship, New York University
2014
Leadership Alliance-Mellon Initiative Fellowship, New York University
2013
C3-LADO Undergraduate Fellowship, Columbia University
Awards
2019
Society for Medical Anthropology, Disability Research Interest Group Travel Grant/Paper Award
2017
American Studies Association Critical Disability Studies Paper Prize
Publications
2023
“Viral Entanglements: Impairment, Patient Profiles, and the Making of ‘Contested Illness,’” Osiris 39: Special Issue, “Beyond Medicalization: Disability and the Sciences” ed. Jaipreet Virdi, Mara Mills, and Sarah F. Rose (proposal accepted, issue in preparation)
2020
2016
“Beyond Eight Hours Rest: Sleep, Capitalism, and the Biological Body” review essay for Dialectical Anthropology 40(3)
Policy Reports
2019
“‘Being a Patient’s a Full Time Job’: Perspectives of People with ME/CFS Toward Work Incentives” (Delmar, NY: Policy Research, Inc./Social Security Administration). Accessible online.
2019
“Disability, Bias, and AI” (New York, NY: AI Now Institute). With Meredith Whittaker, Meryl Alper, Cynthia L. Bennett, Sara Hendren, Liz Kaziunas, Mara Mills, Meredith Ringel Morris, Joy Rankin, Emily Rogers, Marcel Salas, and Sarah Myers West. Accessible online.
Conference Presentations
2020
Roundtable on Sustainability, Accessibility, and the Future of Professional Meetings, American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting (virtual conference)
2020
“Viral Entanglements: Disease Paradigms, HIV/AIDS, and the Emergence of a Contested Illness,” Society for the Social Studies of Science Annual Meeting (virtual conference)
2020
2019
“Nested Contestations: Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, Patient Profiles, and Debility,” Northeast STS Graduate Conference, Troy, NY
“Unwitting Patient Activism: Thinking with Brain Fog, Symptom Talk, and Exhaustion,” American Anthropological Association/Canadian Anthropological Association Annual Meeting, Vancouver, BC (winner, Society for Medical Anthropology Disability Research Interest Group award)
2019
“‘The Syndrome of Just Being Sick’: White Women, Stress, and Chronic Fatigue in the Post-War U.S.,” National Women’s Studies Association Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA
2019
“Biosociality Without Biomarkers: Impairment, Fatigue, and the Making of a Contested Diagnosis,” Society for the Social Studies of Science Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA
2017
“Sick and Tired: Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and ‘Anti-Scientism(s),” American Studies Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL (winner, ASA Critical Disability Studies Caucus Prize)
2017
“Patient Expertise and Ambivalent Medicalization: The Case of CFS/ME,” Society for the Social Studies of Science, Boston, MA
Invited Presentations
2020
“Conducting Research During COVID-19,” University of Chicago, Department of Comparative Human Development
2019
“Chronic Illness and Feminist Archives: Care, Knowledge, and Queer Kinship,” Lesbian Herstory Archives Panel at the BKLYN LGBTQ+ History Series, Brooklyn Community Pride Center, Brooklyn, NY.
2016
“Queer Theory, Feminism, and the Politics of Diagnosis: An Archaeology of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome,” Department of LGBT Studies, Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, NY
Teaching
Fall 2020
Teaching Assistant (NYU, Department of Social & Cultural Analysis) Intersections: Race, Gender, and Sexuality in Global Perspective
Spring 2020
Instructor (Sarah Lawrence College, Program in LGBT Studies) Engendering the Body: Sex, Science, and Trans Embodiment
Fall 2018
Teaching Assistant (NYU, Department of Social & Cultural Analysis) Intersections: Race, Gender, and Sexuality in Global Perspective
Summer 2018
Instructor (NYU, Department of Social & Cultural Analysis) Approaches to Gender and Sexuality Studies
Fall 2017
Teaching Assistant (NYU, Department of Social & Cultural Analysis) Intersections: Race, Gender, and Sexuality in Global Perspective
PANELS, CONFERENCES, AND RELATED EVENTS ORGANIZED
2020
Open Panel Co-Organizer (with Laura Mauldin and Helen Fietz), “Infrastructures of Care: Disability, Autonomy, Inter/Dependencies.” Society for the Social Studies of Science, August 18-21, virtual conference.
2017
Co-Organizer, “Ecologies of the Future-Present,” Department of Social & Cultural Analysis Graduate Student Conference
Service
Peer Review, Public Culture
2020
2018 - 2021
Program Administrator, NYU Center for Disability Studies
2017 - 2021
Co-Founder/Organizer, Writing the Body: Science, Species, Biomedicine Working Group
2016 - 2017
Graduate Studies Committee Student Representative, Department of Social & Cultural Analysis
2016 - 2017
Graduate Student Committee, Department of Social & Cultural Analysis
public humanities / other
2020
Podcast Guest, “The Pandemic and the Patient’s Experience,” with Danya Glabau and Scott Knowles, #COVIDCalls
Professional Affiliations
American Anthropological Association
Association for Queer Anthropology
American Studies Association
Disability History Association
Society for Disability Studies
Society for Medical Anthropology
Society for the Social Studies of Science