Medical Humanities Program Resources for Graduate Students
The program in Medical Humanities supports graduate students who are pursuing PhDs in a broad range of fields at Rice. Our faculty teach relevant graduate seminars in the schools of Humanities and Social Sciences, as well as undergraduate courses that can sometimes count as graduate courses with additional reading, writing, and discussion sections. In addition, many of our faculty have ongoing research collaborations in the Texas Medical Center that may offer opportunities for graduate research and training.
We have recently launched a Texas Health Humanities Research Group that includes faculty, postdoctoral fellows, and graduate students from a wide range of area institutions, including University of Texas, Baylor, University of Houston, Texas A&M, and University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston. The Program in Medical Humanities is developing a graduate certificate in medical/health humanities. Please check back for updates.
Graduate students and postdoctoral fellows are welcome to join the group. To do so, please email lre1@rice.edu.
Information on individual faculty members is listed below:
- Martin Blumenthal-Barby
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Department: Classical and European Studies; Cinema and Media Studies
Courses currently (or recently) taught at the graduate level (or undergrad level with grad option): Politics of the Flesh - Nia Georges
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Department: Anthropology
Courses currently (or recently) taught at the graduate level (or undergrad level with grad option) : Advanced Seminar in Medical Anthropology
Graduate Supervision Field: Medical Anthropology
- Gisela Heffes
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Department: Modern and Classical Languages and Cultures
Courses currently (or recently) taught at the graduate level (or undergrad level with grad option) : Disabled Bodies: Illness and Literature in Latin America, spring 2019 (in Spanish).
- Kirsten Ostherr
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Department: English
Courses currently (or recently) taught at the graduate level (or undergrad level with grad option) :The Quantified Self: A Techno-Human Experiment; The Body of Visual Culture; Medicine and Media (undergrad but with grad option available).
Graduate Supervision Field: Visual Media; Medicine, Science, and Technology studies; Critical Data Studies; History of Medicine and Public Health
Other relevant information or grad opportunities: Medical Futures Lab has grad opportunities including TA and RA roles in health technology design projects, as well as involvement in conferences and symposia sponsored by the MFL.