Research Team
Project Coordinators
![Color photo of Faye Ginsburg standing in front of a microphone at a podium.](https://i0.wp.com/disabilitycovidchronicles.nyu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/faye-ginsburg.jpg?fit=294%2C294&ssl=1)
Faye Ginsburg
Co-Director, Center for Disability Studies; Professor, Anthropology, NYU
![Color photograph of Mara Mills lecturing](https://i0.wp.com/disabilitycovidchronicles.nyu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/mara-mills.jpg?fit=300%2C300&ssl=1)
Mara Mills
Co-Director, Center for Disability Studies; Associate Professor, Media, Culture & Communication, NYU
![Color photograph of Rayna Rapp smiling at camera](https://i0.wp.com/disabilitycovidchronicles.nyu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/rayna-rapp-e1645045520210.png?fit=221%2C221&ssl=1)
Rayna Rapp
Professor Emerita, Anthropology; Affiliate, College of Global Public Health, NYU
![Harris looks intently into the camera, trying awkwardly to convey "serious, fun, hip, welcoming, new professor." Harris is genderqueer, has light skin (once described by a famous drag queen as "peaches and cream"), shoulder-length hair, and thick glasses, and stands in front of a background of plants.](https://i0.wp.com/disabilitycovidchronicles.nyu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/Harris-Kornstein-headshot-Feb2022-scaled-e1644881504247.jpg?fit=300%2C300&ssl=1)
Harris Kornstein
Assistant Professor, Public & Applied Humanities, University of Arizona
(PhD, Media, Culture, and Communication, NYU)
Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Researchers
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Tommaso Bardelli
Postdoctoral Fellow, Prison Education Program, Social & Cultural Analysis, NYU
![Color photograph of Salonee Bhaman](https://i0.wp.com/disabilitycovidchronicles.nyu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/salonee-bhaman-e1644881848105.jpg?fit=300%2C300&ssl=1)
Salonee Bhaman
PhD Candidate, History, Yale University![Color photograph of Yan Grenier](https://i0.wp.com/disabilitycovidchronicles.nyu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/yan-grenier.jpg?fit=300%2C300&ssl=1)
Yan Grenier
FRQSC Postdoctoral Fellow, Anthropology and Center for Disability Studies, NYU
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Victoria Netanus Grubbs
Black Studies Collaboratory Postdoctoral Fellow, UC Berkeley
(PhD, Media, Culture, and Communication)
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Shuting Li
PhD Student, Anthropology, NYU
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Nadia Mbonde
PhD Student, Anthropology, NYU
![Color photograph of Emily Lim Rogers](https://i0.wp.com/disabilitycovidchronicles.nyu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/emily-lim-rogers.jpg?fit=300%2C300&ssl=1)
Emily Lim Rogers
Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in Disability Studies, Cogut Institute for the Humanities, Brown University
(PhD, Social & Cultural Analysis, NYU)
![Color photograph of Cara Ryan](https://i0.wp.com/disabilitycovidchronicles.nyu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/cara-ryan.jpg?fit=290%2C300&ssl=1)
Cara Ryan
PhD Candidate, Anthropology, NYU
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Aiyuba Thomas
MA Student, Gallatin School of Individualized Study, NYU (Social Entrepreneurship and Racialized Capitalism)
Affiliate Researchers
![Color photograph of Arthur Caplan](https://i0.wp.com/disabilitycovidchronicles.nyu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/arthur-caplan.jpg?fit=300%2C300&ssl=1)
Arthur Caplan
Professor of Bioethics, Dept. of Population Health, NYU Langone
Co-PI, NYU Covid-19 Research Catalyst Grant
![Rachel Fish smiling White woman with dark brown, wavy hair and grey glasses, standing in front of book shelves](https://i0.wp.com/disabilitycovidchronicles.nyu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/rachel-fish-e1647580386624.jpeg?fit=300%2C300&ssl=1)
Rachel Fish
Assistant Professor, Teaching & Learning, NYU
![Headshot of White woman with wavy light brown hair wearing large silver earrings and standing in front of brick wall.](https://i0.wp.com/disabilitycovidchronicles.nyu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/alexandra-freidus-e1658171356117.jpg?fit=300%2C300&ssl=1)
Alexandra Freidus
Assistant Professor, Educational Leadership, University of Connecticut
![Shannon O’Neill A white queer woman is wearing a wrinkled black linen outfit. She has oversized glasses and her long brown hair is pulled to one side and draped over her shoulder. Her smile and posture (with her hands in her pockets) convey her internal, awkward bemusement at the experience of her usually unprofessional-self taking a professional headshot.](https://i0.wp.com/disabilitycovidchronicles.nyu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/ONeill_headshot-scaled-e1647580158134.jpg?fit=300%2C300&ssl=1)
Shannon O’Neill
Curator for Tamiment-Wagner Collections, NYU Special Collections![Sarah Vázquez-Xu Color photograph of Sarah Vázquez-Xu](https://i0.wp.com/disabilitycovidchronicles.nyu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/sarahvazquezxu_profile_1-scaled-e1644883211361.jpeg?fit=300%2C300&ssl=1)
Sarah G. Vázquez
Doctoral Research Fellow, Anthropology and Education, Teachers College, Columbia University![A white woman with shoulder length wavy golden hair is trying to look professional for a headshot while wearing a golden turtleneck and gold glasses.](https://i0.wp.com/disabilitycovidchronicles.nyu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/emily-watlington-scaled-e1647579670253.jpg?fit=300%2C300&ssl=1)
Emily Watlington
Assistant Editor, Art in America