Position Type: Lab Affiliate

Francesca Talenti, animator

Francesca Talenti is a director and designer who has exhibited her work from The Folger and The Guthrie, to Sundance and PBS National by way of Mumbai, Göteborg, Casablanca and[…]

Andrea Kim

Andrea Kim studied new media and documentary film at Duke. She is interested in theories of embodiment and the mediation of space. Throughout the years, she has produced videos ranging[…]

Libby Dotson

Libby Dotson graduated from Duke University with a degree in Cultural Studies and International Comparative Studies. She now works as a research associate in the Duke Center for Global Women’s[…]

Ray Barfield

Ray Barfield is Professor of Pediatrics and Christian Philosophy at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina. He received his MD and his PhD (in philosophy) from Emory University. He is[…]

Jeff Polish

Jeff Polish teaches the HHL course Storytelling in Medicine and Health, which is team-taught and designed to help bridge the widening gap between doctors and their patients. Through an exploration of[…]

Sneha Mantri

Dr. Mantri joined the Duke faculty in 2018 as Assistant Professor of Neurology, specializing in movement disorders. Her long-standing interest in the overlap between literature and medicine led her to complete[…]

Marina Tsaplina

Marina Tsaplina is an interdisciplinary performing artist working in the field of the Medical/Health Humanities.  Upon invitation by Deborah Jenson and Neil Prose, she had the great pleasure to perform[…]

Charmaine Royal

Charmaine Royal is associate professor of African & African American Studies, Biology, and Community & Family Medicine at Duke University. She is also core faculty in the Duke Initiative for[…]

Ashley Elrod

Ashley L. Elrod is an Instructor of History at Duke University, where she earned a doctoral degree in History in 2017. Her teaching and research interests focus on the early[…]