Faculty Highlights
While offering dynamic courses to our students and providing service critical to making GHS the outstanding program that it is, our cutting-edge faculty have continued to spread their expertise and insights to broader audiences within and beyond Northwestern.
Congrats Prof. Charlayne Mitchell and Prof. Sarah Rodriguez for their new publications that came out this summer.
- Dr. Mitchell had two new co-authored publications: “From Practice to Praxis: Advancing Anthropological Practice through Black Feminist Methods,” and “New Teaching in Participatory Methods for Practicing Anthropology,” both in Practicing Anthropology.
- Dr. Rodriguez’s latest publication, “The Creation and Circulation of Evidence and Knowledge in American Medicine through the Lens of the ‘Husband’s Stitch,’ came out in the Bulletin of the History of Medicine in June—the premiere journal in the field.
Dr. Elham Hoominfar (pictured left) co-organized and moderated a pioneering bilingual panel, “Women, Life, Freedom,” bringing together several feminist scholars and social activists to discuss the movement for women’s rights in Iran and globally in the wake of the mass protests in Iran following the death of Jina Mahsa Amini in police custody in September 2022. The conference was particularly unique in that it was bilingual, with panels held in both Farsi and English, and a live AI translator used to ensure linguistic access to all participants.
Dr. Rodriguez (pictured right) was active this fall in speaking initiatives on campus, including moderating a panel, “Abortion Access Today: Global Insights and Comparisons” at the Buffett Institute for Global Affairs, participating on an
expert panel after the 2024 election, “What Next? Global Implications of the New US Administration,” and speaking at Grand Rounds in the Department of OBGYN at the Feinberg School of medicine on “From Family Planning to Reproductive Justice in the United States”.
Dr. Sullivan co-organized a panel, “Going with your Gut: Visceral Ethics, Justice and Praxis in Anthropology,” for the American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting in Tampa, Florida in November, and presented a paper on her work on global health voluntourism. She also got a shout out as a mentor in Northwestern Magazine, was featured on Weinberg College’s YouTube channel, and taught a course for the Alumnae of Northwestern University Continuing Education program on health policy and politics.