what we are writing and reading
by Colby faculty:
Allbritton, Dean. Feeling Sick: The Early Years of AIDS in Spain. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2023.
El-Shaarawi, Nadia. “Living an Uncertain Future: Temporality, Uncertainty, and Well-Being Among Iraqi Refugees in Egypt.” Social Analysis 59, no. 1 (March 2015): 38-56.
__________. “A Transit State: The Ambivalences of the Refugee Resettlement Process for Iraqis in Cairo.” American Ethnologist 48, no. 4 (November 2021): 404-417.
Halvorson, Britt. Conversionary Sites: Medical Aid and Global Christianity from Madagascar to Minnesota. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2018.
Halvorson, Britt, and Joshua Reno. “Epistemic Stitching of Race, Power, and Modernity in Recent Work on White Supremacy.” Anthropological Theory (Spring 2024).
__________. “The Gendering of Anthropological Theory since 2000: Ontology, Semiotics, and Feminism.” Current Anthropology 64, no. 5 (October 2023): 475-97.
Hudson, Suzanne, and Tanya Sheehan, eds. Modernism, Art, Therapy. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2024.
__________. “Looking After: On Art and Healing.” Critics Page. The Brooklyn Rail. March 2024.
Isfahani, Khosro Kalbasi, and Tiffany D. Creegan Miller. “Access Denied: Health and Justice Under Siege.” Synapsis: A Health Humanities Journal. October 3, 2023.
Miller, Kassandra. Time and Ancient Medicine: How Sundials and Water Clocks Changed Medical Science. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023.
Miller, Melissa. “Pregnancy and Writing the Female Body in Lyudmila Ulitskaya’s The Kukotsky Case.” All the Russias, blog of the Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia, NYU. March 2024.
Miller, Tiffany D. Creegan. “Kaqchikel Maya Hearts.” Synapsis: A Health Humanities Journal. February 14, 2024.
__________. The Maya Art of Speaking Writing: Remediating Indigenous Orality in the Digital Age. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2022.
__________. “Ri k’ak’a tzij: Kaqchikel Maya Neologisms in Response to COVID-19.” Synapsis: A Health Humanities Journal. October 21, 2021.
Sheehan, Tanya. “‘A Different Kind of Struggle’: Jacob Lawrence’s Hospital Series and the Politics of Art as Therapy.” The Art Bulletin 106, no. 2 (June 2024): 39-64.
__________. Doctored: The Medicine of Photography in Nineteenth-Century America. University Park: Penn State Press, 2011.
__________. “Introducing Medical Humanities in Secondary Schools.” The Polyphony (blog), September 30, 2021.
Sibara, Jay. “Adam’s Rib: Trans Without Medicine.” The Cincinnati Review 21, no. 1 (Spring 2024).
__________. “Disability and Dissent in Ann Petry’s The Street.” Literature and Medicine 36, no. 1 (2018): 1-26.
Sibara, Jay, and Sarah Jaquette Ray, eds. Disability Studies and the Environmental Humanities: Toward an Eco-Crip Theory. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2016.
Starikov, Konstantin, and Melissa L. Miller, eds. The Russian Medical Humanities: Past, Present, and Future. Lanham: Lexington Books, 2021.
Tate, Winifred. Drugs, Thugs, and Diplomats: U.S. Policymaking in Colombia. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2015.
by PHIL partners and guests:
Altschuler, Sari. The Medical Imagination: Literature and Health in the Early United States. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2018.
Altschuler, Sari, Jonathan M. Metzl, and Priscilla Wald, eds. Keywords for Health Humanities. New York: New York University Press, 2023.
Arabindan-Kesson, Anna. “The Viral and the Virus: Representations of Parangi in Colonial Sri Lanka.” Ars Orientalis 51 (2021).
Benjamin, Ruja. “Informed Refusal: Toward a Justice-Based Bioethics.” Science, Technology, and Human Values 41, no. 6 (2016): 967-90.
__________. Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code. Polity, 2019.
__________.Viral Justice: How We Grow the World We Want. Princeton University Press, 2022.
Hamilton, Dell Marie, and Lilly Marcelin. Call and Response: A Narrative of Reverence to Our Foremothers of Gynecology (exhibition). Cambridge, MA: Hutchins Center for African and African American Research, Harvard University, 2023.
Ostherr, Kirsten. “Artificial Intelligence and Medical Humanities.” Journal of Medical Humanities (July 2020).
__________. “How Do We See COVID-19? Visual Iconographies of Racial Contagion.” American Literature 92, no. 4 (2020): 707-22.