Medical Humanities Postdoctoral Fellowship

The Humanities Research Center, with support from the Office of the Provost, awards one Postdoctoral Fellowship in Interdisciplinary Medical Humanities for a two-year appointment. In consultation with a faculty mentor, the Fellow develops an introductory-level interdisciplinary medical humanities course that is taught once each year of the fellowship. In addition to teaching, the Fellow collaborates with the faculty mentor to develop a year-long series of lunch lectures with invited outside speakers, held at Rice and at nearby medical institutions. The Fellow is expected to make significant progress in research and to present that research at a lunch lecture.

2010-12 Medical Humanities Postdoctoral Fellow 

Wilson Will, PhD in medical anthropology, McGill University Long interested in the intersections of medicine, culture, and religion, Wilson Will's dissertation, "Making Hospital Chaplains in an Age of Biomedicine," draws upon two years of participant observation to explore the training and work of religious specialists in a secular, inner-city teaching hospital in the eastern U.S. At Rice, he will continue his research on the biomedicalization of American religion and, among other activities, will co-develop and teach a new, introductory course on medical humanities. Previously, he earned an MSc in social anthropology at the London School of Economics and designed his own major in International Public Health at Pomona College for the BA.