Grad Student - BCSM

Joel Ferrall

Anthropology and Medicine, University of Southern California

Benjamin Fields

Sociology, UC Berkeley

Ale Geisel-Zamora

Anthropology, UC Berkeley

Ale Geisel-Zamora is a Ph.D. student in Biological Anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley. She is interested in how environmental and social adversity shape variations in human biology and influence minority health disparities. Her research explores these connections through an examination of physiological stress with a focus on female reproductive health and aging at midlife including the menopausal transition.

Jeremy Gottlieb

UCSF-UCB Medical Anthropology, UC Berkeley

Jeremy Gottlieb is an MD-PhD student in medical anthropology. They study changing ideas of the human and subjectivity through ethnographic research with neuropsychiatric researchers, clinicians, and those living with Deep Brain Stimulation as a treatment for psychiatric illnesses.

Anissa Hall

Social Welfare, UC Berkeley

Anissa Hall (she/her) is an MSW/PhD student passionate about exploring Black intergenerational trauma, with a focus on how the legacy of U.S. anti-Black racism and oppression, compounded by a severance from Indigenous African ways of knowing, being, and healing, has resulted in a uniquely African American – or Soulaan – experience of intergenerational trauma. Her work also aims to explore the ways this legacy of trauma and institutionalized oppression affects healing across Afro-Diasporic communities. She believes that by interrogating the ways that historical and ongoing...

Alein Y. Haro-Garcia

Public Health, UC Berkeley

Sara Johnsen

Sociology, UCLA

Nazineen Kandahari

UCB-UCSF Joint Medical Program, UCB/UCSF

Bri Matusovsky

Medical Anthropology, UCSF-UC Berkeley

Bri Matusovsky's dissertation research follows green monkeys (Chlorocebus Sabaeus), invasive pests on the island of St. Kitts, a primarily Black Caribbean island with small minorities of wealthy white and East Indian residents who control a significant amount of its wealth and resources. Green monkeys were introduced as a by-product of the trans-Atlantic slave trade and are now differently valued in scientific research, tourism, and conservationism. The increasing frequency of encounters between humans and monkeys, and related food insecurity experienced by both humans and monkeys, is...

Farnam Mohebi

Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley

Farnam Mohebi is 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. She has previously earned her MD and MPH degrees. Her research focuses on the intersection of professionals and emerging technologies, drawing from the fields of medical sociology, organizational theory, and science and technology studies. She is particularly fascinated by the evolving relationship between physicians and artificial intelligence, the phenomenon of physician influencers, and...