Kymberley “Kym” Chu is a PhD student in the Anthropology Department. In her ethnographic work, she examines a wide range of human-nonhuman primate interfaces in Peninsular Malaysia. Kym is interested in how scientific paradigms such as ecology and its behavioral research methodologies mediate social relations between her human interlocutors and the free-ranging monkeys they interact with.

An amorous poet, story-keeper, performer, and feminist cartographer, Runnie has worked through the question of how the figure of the black captive maternal emerges in early modern cartography and archives of contemporary migration across the Caribbean and the Mediterranean. She has previously conducted research in Rio de Janeiro, and Salvador, Bahia, documenting the infrapolitics of black Brazilian women crafting resistance against state-sanctioned terror and forced displacement.

Chelsea Guo is a PhD Candidate in Political Theory in the Department of Politics. Her research interests are in political and social epistemology, feminist theory, democratic theory, and public law.

Kelsey Henry is an interdisciplinary historian whose work integrates perspectives from Black studies, histories of science and medicine, and disability studies. Her research asks how the conflation of Blackness and developmental disorder became integral to the language and logic of antiblack racism in the United States.

Katie Horan is an undergraduate in the Department of Religion, researching the interplay between religion and disability in the 21st century through ethnographic projects in communities that privilege people with intellectual, cognitive, and developmental disabilities. She runs a not-for-profit initiative that is pushing to make the bridal…

Timothy Y. Loh is a sociocultural anthropologist. Bringing together medical anthropology, linguistic anthropology, and science and technology studies, his ethnographic research examines sociality, language, and religion in deaf and signing worlds spanning Jordan, Singapore, and the United States.

Sonya Merutka is a Ph.D. student in Art & Archaeology with a focus on performance, queer theory, critical race and disability studies, and poetics within modern and contemporary art. As a recent Helena Rubinstein Fellow in Critical Studies at the Whitney Museum of American Art Independent Study Program, they developed a project on language, dysfluency, and crip temporality in performance.

Sophia Millman is a third-year Ph.D. student in the Department of French & Italian. During the 2023-2024 academic year, she is excited to continue teaching French, to work as a fellow at the Writing Center, and to be part of the instructional team for “Introduction to Gender & Sexuality Studies.”

Moad Musbahi is a joint Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Anthropology and the Interdisciplinary Doctoral Program in the Humanities. He researches the entanglements between bodily ailments, oral performance and financial relations within communities who claim ancestral belonging across Algeria, Libya, Niger and Mali.

Jiya is a historian of disability, the body, gender, sexuality, and caste, colonial and post-colonial South Asia, and transnational welfare. Her dissertation focuses on the centrality of disability welfare to imperialism and nationalism in India between the 1930s and 1990s.

Sara Purinton joins UCHV as the Postdoctoral Researcher in Moral Philosophy. Her research focuses on the nature and ethics of disability. Methodologically, her work is united by a commitment to studying disability from the margins, in the sense of starting the study of disability from non-paradigmatic instances of the category. She is currently…

Erin Raffety is a Practical Theologian and a Cultural Anthropologist who has studied foster families in China, Christian congregations in the United States, and people with disabilities around the world. She is currently researching how experiences of long COVID and chronic illness affect individuals’ access to spiritual care and religious…

I am a PhD candidate in the Department of Near Eastern Studies at Princeton University, interested in colonial South Asia. In December 2019, I completed my B.A. in Global Affairs with a concentration in the Middle East and North Africa at George Mason University.

Aliya Ram is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Comparative Literature and the Interdisciplinary Doctoral Program in the Humanities, as well as a certificate student in African American Studies and Gender and Sexuality Studies. Her work explores the relationships between aesthetic innovation, subject formation and coercive social bonds…

John White is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Art & Archeology. His research examines art objects and material culture that embody the intersections of art, nature, and science in early modern (northern) Europe, construed in a global context. Always driven by an attention to materials and materiality, his work has centered on…

Megan Wicks is a doctoral candidate in Princeton University’s Philosophy Department, who completed their undergraduate degree at Columbia University in New York City. Their work, which sits primarily in Aesthetics and Philosophy of Language, concentrates on hermeneutic methodology and meaning construction.