Graduate Program News Current Graduate Students Katherine Arner
Email: karner1@jhmi.edu Lisa Boult
Lisa received her BA from Radcliffe College, her MD from Yale University and Her MPH from the University of Minnesota. Her research interests include the history of disease, the history of aging, and 18th and 19th century American medicine. She is a faculty member in the Division of Geriatrics at the Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center.
Email:lboult1@jhmi.edu Sandra Eder
Sandra received her M.Phil in History from the University of Vienna, Austria and her MA in American Studies from Columbia University. She is interested in the history of 20th century biomedicine, especially post WW II endocrinology, sexuality, gender and sexual differentiation.
Email: seder1@jhmi.edu Melissa Grafe
Melissa's interests lie with the history of medicine in 18th and 19th century America, focusing on folk cures and social medicine. She is a public historian with experience in the museum field.
Email: mgrafe1@jhmi.edu Ami Karlage
Ami is a Harvard graduate who was research assistant to the physician and medical writer Atul Gawande. She is interested in 20th century biomedicine, with a focus on genetics and bioethics in the second half of the twentieth century.
Email: akarlag1@jhmi.edu Susan Lamb
Susan holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts from York University and a Master of Arts in History from the University of Toronto. Her primary area of research is the history of psychiatry and the development of psychosomatic medicine and its practitioners in the twentieth century. She maintains a strong interest in combining material culture methodologies with traditional historical sources, and using the objects and artifacts of medicine to grapple with new questions about its past.
Email: slamb4@jhmi.edu Seth LeJacq
Email: Abigail Markoe
Abigail got her B.A. in the History and Philosophy of Medicine from The George Washington University. She studies the history of public health and medicine in southern Africa, specifically the history of maternal and child health in Zambia. She is also working towards a Masters of Health Sciences in International Health at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, combining her historical and contemporary interests in African child health.
Email: amarkoe1@jhmi.edu Andrew Nelson
Email: anelso24@jhmi.edu Massimo Petrozzi
Massimo studied philosophy at the University of Rome "La Sapienza". His general interests include the representation of non-human animals’ bodies in science and medicine in 17th and 18th century Italy and the relationship between gender, science, and medicine.
Email: mpetroz1@jhmi.edu Christopher Pierce Salguero
Pierce is interested in Buddhism's role as a vehicle for medical knowledge and crosscultural exchange throughout Asia. After having written an MA thesis on religion and traditional medicine in 18th to 20th century Thailand, he is now concentrating on Buddhist healing in early medieval China (200 to 600 AD). This fascinating period saw the introduction of new texts, ideas, and practices from India and Central Asia, and their integration into the Chinese indigenous worldview. His broader interests are in the history of religious healing and crosscultural exchange globally—what he calls "world history through the history of religion and medicine."
Email: pierce@jhmi.edu Ellen Silbergeld
Email: esilberg@jhsph.edu Olivia Weisser
Olivia graduated from Wesleyan University with a BA in History. She now studies the history of patients and sickness in early modern England. Her dissertation is tentatively titled, "Gender and Illness in 17th-century England"
Email: oweisser@jhmi.edu | 
