Postdoctoral Fellowship
In 2013, the McGovern Center launched the Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Medical Humanities and Bioethics. Fellows work with the Center for two years and are provided with opportunities to apply the humanities to healthcare through teaching, research, and scholarship. Our fellows teach in Center electives, such as Introduction to Medical Humanities and Humanistic Elements of Medicine, give presentations aligned with the McGovern Medical School curriculum, facilitate small groups in ethics courses across the university, and develop their own courses, such as “Doctors in Medicine,” “Quackery in Medical History,” and “Lived Experiences of Illness.”
To date, the Center has welcomed 7 postdoctoral fellows, with its 8th fellow who joined in Fall 2022.
Margarita Ortiz, JD, MA
Postdoctoral Fellow, McGovern Center for Humanities and Ethics
2018-2019
Timothy Houk, PhD, MA
Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy, College of the Sequoias
2016-2018
Christine Wieseler, PhD, MA
Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona
2016-2017
Alina Bennett, PhD, MPH, MA
Regional Ethicist, Kaiser Permanente; and Lecturer, Department of Health Sciences, California State University, East Bay
2015-2016
Keisha Ray, PhD
Associate Professor; McGovern Professor of Oslerian Medicine; Director, Medical Humanities Scholarly Concentration; and Director, Longitudinal Themes, McGovern Center for Humanities and Ethics, McGovern Medical School at UTHealth Houston
2014-2016
Woods Nash, PhD, MPH
Assistant Professor, Department of Behavioral and Social Sciences, University of Houston College of Medicine
2014-2015
Claire Clark, PhD, MPH
Associate Professor, Department of Behavioral Science; Director of Graduate Studies in Clinical and Translational Science; and Director of Undergraduate Certificate in Medical Behavioral Science, University of Kentucky College of Medicine
2013-2014
Ben Saxton, PhD
Writer; Visiting Assistant Professor, Bard Early College; and Adjunct Instructor, Program in Medical Ethics & Human Values, Tulane University School of Medicine