Graduates & Research
Each year, our fourth-year students complete artistic and research projects exploring a topic of their choosing related to medical humanities and ethics. Recent graduates’ research projects are listed below. Those projects designated with an * received a 2025 Karff Award.
We encourage our students to consider publishing their work and research. Medical humanities students have published reflections written during third-year journals, collaborated on essays and research papers with faculty, and submitted opinion pieces to various publications. Those interested in publishing may consider some of these medical student publication venues.
| Surbhi Banubakode Dance Therapy and Its Applications for Emotional Regulation, Depression, and Dementia |
Gabrielle Hoyumpa The Impact of Social Phone Calls on Older Adults and Medical Students |
| Soren Cobb Visual Art in Hospitals: Exploring the How and Why of Its Therapeutic Benefits to Inform Practical Art-Implementation Strategies |
Daniel Hrncir The Sound and the Fury: Looking Beyond the DSM, a Feminist Perspective |
| Amanda Davis A Physician, a Poet: The Utility of Pathographies in Counteracting the Socialization of Physicians* |
Megan Jiao Betwixt and Between: Playing with Liminality and the Liminoid in Before Your Eyes, a Transformative Video Game on the Transience of Life* |
| Christina Dias The History of Organ Transplantation and Impacts on Marginalized Populations in Modern Medicine: An Anthropological Literary Review |
Anna Matuk An Introduction to Intersex Rights Through Stories |
| Patricia Guzman To Sleep, Perchance to Dream: An Exercise in Narrative Medicine |
Emma Thames Plastic & Havoc: A Poetic and Analytical Exploration of Medical Waste* |
| Mariah Wedelich Motherhood in Medicine |
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