Graduate Student

Emily Martin is a fourth year PhD candidate interested in the history of medicine, racial susceptibility, and diet in the nineteenth and twentieth century United States.

Her dissertation explains how American public health at the turn of the twentieth century looked to food and diet to rationalize and exercise control over disease, ensuring that the cause and spread of the disease was linked to undesirable groups with undesirable diets. She uses a series of five case studies on diet and disease in US history between 1830 and 1930 to tell a story of surprising...

I am a PhD student at the Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley, and a researcher in the Department of Radiation Oncology at the University of California, San Francisco, having previously earned my MD and MPH degrees. My research focuses on the intersection of professionals and emerging technologies, drawing from the fields of medical sociology, organizational theory, and science and technology studies. I am particularly fascinated by the evolving relationship between physicians and artificial intelligence, the phenomenon of physician influencers, and the social...

Lisa Ng is a PhD student in the Ethnic Studies Department at the University of California, Berkeley. She is interested in exploring the shifting dialectic between race, waste, and technology. Her research examines how trash is used as a confrontational political tool in various social movements against local and global neoliberal economic policies, and how these techniques of resistance represent new imaginations of futurity and relationality.

My current research studies the (dis)locations of topicality in relation to the emergence of zoonoses and vector-borne diseases in the Global North. My focus lies on Chagas, a parasitic disease transmitted by an insect vector, that has gained its epidemiological relevance in the US through its association with human migration from Latin America despite growing evidence of local...