People

Dr. Jessica Howell (Convenor)
Professor Howell works in the Department of English. Her work focuses on colonial and postcolonial literature and health, with an interest in global health and the Humanities. In addition to initiating the Glasscock Health Humanities Working Group, Seminar and Laboratory, she has developed an undergraduate concentration and a minor in English in Health Humanities.

Dr. Tasha Dubriwny
Dr. Dubriwny is an Associate Head for Graduate Studies and Associate Professor in the Department of Communication and Journalism. Dr. Dubriwny’s research focuses on the intersection of health and politics. Her first book, The Vulnerable Empowered Woman: Feminism, Postfeminism, and Women’s Health, surveys popular media discourse about women’s health issues, including prophylactic mastectomies, cervical cancer, and postpartum depression.

Professor Violet Johnson
Professor Johnson is a Professor of History and Senior Associate Dean for Faculty Development, Qatar. She focuses on race, ethnicity and immigration, African American history, African history, and the history of the African Diaspora. She has written extensively on the Black immigrant experience in America.

Professor Barbara Gastel
Professor Gastel is a is professor of integrative biosciences, humanities in medicine, and biotechnology at Texas A&M University. She is a physician specializing in biomedical writing and editing. She also coordinates the master’s degree program in science and technology journalism.

Dr. Dianne Kraft
Dr. Kraft is Instructional Assistant Professor in the College of Medicine. In addition to issues of diversity in medicine and medical education, her work focuses on intimate partner violence in medicine. She also teaches medical students in the Humanities in Medicine Department at TAMU.

Dr. Hoi-eun Kim
Dr. Kim is an Associate Professor of History. His work focuses on the History of Medicine and History of Pharmaceuticals.

Dr. Susan Stabile 
Dr. Stabile is an Associate Professor of English. Her work focuses on creative nonfiction, including illness memoir, and Narrative Medicine. Dr. Stabile teaches on the Health Humanities minor in English.

Dr. Sara DiCaglio
Dr. DiCaglio is an Assistant Professor in English at Texas A&M. Her work focuses on the rhetoric of health and medicine; health humanities; and pedagogy. Dr. DiCaglio also teaches courses on women’s health and rhetoric for the Health Humanities minor in English.

Michelle Yeoman
Ms. Yeoman is a Lecturer in the Department of Biology. Her work focuses on narrative and storytelling in health communication, maternal and infant mortality, food and nutrition, and health and gender disparities.