Graduate Students

Research Areas
Kamil Ahsan's picture Kamil Ahsan
PhD Candidate
kamil.ahsan@yale.edu
Environmental history; coral reefs; history of biology; pacific history
Thomas Anderson's picture Thomas Anderson
PhD Candidate
t.anderson@yale.edu
Poisons; Climatology and the Environment; Caribbean medical exchanges and conflicts; Enlightenment Atlantic; Experimentation; Ethnobotany; Material history & critical archival studies
Ana Cristina Betancourt's picture Ana Cristina Betancourt
PhD Student
anacristina.betancourt@yale.edu
History of Natural History; History of Botany; Museums; Hispanic Caribbean; 19th century; U.S. Imperialism
Estrella Castillo's picture Estrella Castillo
PhD Candidate
estrella.castillo@yale.edu
Critical theories in science & religion; community-engaged methodologies; traditional Indigenous knowledge & settler scientific thought; techno-optimism in psychedelic & land sciences; Indigenous religions & medicines under U.S. & international law
Hailey Davis's picture Hailey Davis
PhD Student
hailey.davis.hd394@yale.edu
Breeanna Elliott's picture Breeanna Elliott
PhD Candidate
breeanna.elliott@yale.edu
Africa; HSHM; ethnobotany; oral history; gender; Indian Ocean slave trade networks; traditional medicine and healing systems in Madagascar and Tanzania
Kristine Ericson's picture Kristine Ericson
PhD Candidate
kristine.ericson@yale.edu
History of design and technology; material and visual culture; STS; history of the built environment; history of natural history; US cultural history; digital humanities
Sebastian Fernandez-Mulligan's picture Sebastian Fernandez-Mulligan
PhD Candidate
sebastian.fernandez-mulligan@yale.edu
History of Math; History of Physical Sciences; Computing; Data and Algorithms
Sophie Grapentin's picture Sophie Grapentin
PhD Student
sophie.grapentin@yale.edu
Nineteenth and twentieth century Europe, history of medicine, history of the body
Sydney Green's picture Sydney Green
MD/PhD Candidate
sydney.green@yale.edu
History of medicine; intimate partner violence; race and medicine; Black feminism
Sara Hollar's picture Sara Hollar
Graduate School Student
sara.hollar@yale.edu
history of reproduction, 20th-century U.S., material and visual culture, history of specimen collection, disability studies
Nivetha Karthikeyan's picture Nivetha Karthikeyan
PhD Student
niv.karthikeyan@yale.edu
History of computing; 20th century US and South Asia; immigration; transnational knowledge and labor exchange; critical race and ethnic studies, STS
Lauren Killingsworth's picture Lauren Killingsworth
MD/PhD Student
lauren.killingsworth@yale.edu
history of medicine and public health, environmental history, health policy, zoonotic disease, animal studies, medical cartography
Caitlin Kossmann's picture Caitlin Kossmann
PhD Candidate
caitlin.kossmann@yale.edu
twentieth-century environmental and planetary science, history of biology, scientific community, scientific myth and metaphor, material culture studies, gender and science, feminist STS, Anthropocene discourse
Anthony Liddie's picture Anthony Liddie
PhD Student
anthony.liddie@yale.edu
Kenya Loudd's picture Kenya Loudd
PhD Candidate
kenya.loudd@yale.edu
The experiences of people of African descent within the U.S. & throughout the Diaspora at the nexus of race, disability, education & institutionalization; systematic & institutional discrimination's role in opression
Oliver Lucier's picture Oliver Lucier
PhD Candidate
oliver.lucier@yale.edu
History of Climate Science; Global Environmental History; History of Ecology; History of Climate Change; Histories of Desertification, Biodiversity, and Agriculture
Dalena Ngo
PhD Student
dalena.ngo@yale.edu
Libby O'Neil's picture Libby O'Neil
PhD Candidate
libby.oneil@yale.edu
history of psychology and the behavioral sciences, history of technology, modern history, global history, STS
Nora O'Neill's picture Nora O'Neill
MD/PhD Student
nora.oneill@yale.edu
history of medicine; disability studies; reproductive justice; narrative medicine
Alicia Petersen's picture Alicia Petersen
PhD Candidate
alicia.petersen@yale.edu
History of science and medicine; history of the body; book history; early modern England and France
Charlotte Rich's picture Charlotte Rich
PhD Student
charlotte.rich@yale.edu
History of Reproductive Health, 19th Century Irish Migration, History of Sexuality, Urban History
Hayley Serpa's picture Hayley Serpa
Graduate School Student
hayley.serpa@yale.edu
History and Anthropology of Population; Critical Demography; Indigenous Epistemologies; STS; Community-Engaged Research; Andes-Amazon
Madeleine Sheahan's picture Madeleine Sheahan
PhD Candidate
madeleine.sheahan@yale.edu
Early modern history of medicine; gender and women’s history; embodied and artisanal knowledge; social, cultural, and material history
Wonik Son's picture Wonik Son
PhD Student
wonik.son@yale.edu
history of global health, STS, disability studies, environmental history, development, global history, visual studies
Samuel Suh's picture Samuel Suh
MA Student
sam.suh@yale.edu
History of medical education, history of medicinal culture, medical humanities, holism in medicine, patient-physician relationship
Madeleine Ware's picture Madeleine Ware
PhD Candidate
madeleine.ware@yale.edu
Histories of Medicine and Public Health; Gender and Sexuality; Reproductive Health; 19th and 20th-century Physical Culture and Fitness; Britain and Empire