I am excited to return as an instructor for STaRT @ Rice Program through the School of Social Sciences this year from October 6-9, 2023, where I will be teaching undergraduate, graduate students, and professionals in the Houston area about how to use illness narratives to address health inequalities proactively.

The description of the workshop can be found below:

This workshop is an introduction to how the art of storytelling can help us reimagine the human aspects of illness for doctors and patients and speculate interventions into the structural conditions that predispose people to being sick. Drawing on ethnographic methods of social discourse analysis, this workshop aims to get participants to open up our diagnostic sensibilities about what makes individuals, groups, and societies sick. We will address interviewing techniques, developing a questionnaire, media analysis, and explore experimental techniques such as collaging and creative writing to recent people at the heart of redressing health inequalities.