SURF Mentoring

Potential projects/topics: "The Afterlives of John Henry" will give undergraduate student researchers the opportunity to analyze how chronic racialized stress is assessed through the concept of "John Henryism." What is the impact of using this Black folk hero in biomedicine? How is this used for Black communities and other racial groups in medical and public health research on stress? And how might this provide new points of intervention on how we approach racial resilience in the face of unequal health outcomes along racial lines without saying those inequalities are biological?

Potential skills gained: critical analysis skills; illness narrative training; concept mapping; literature review

Required qualifications: ideally, students should have experience with at least one medical humanities course and experience reading scientific papers

Direct mentor: Faculty/P.I.