Editorial Board
Medical Humanities Editorial Board members have agreed and adhere to the BMJ Editor Roles and Responsibilities guidelines; including our Editor policy on competing interests.
Editor
Brandy Schillace
Cleveland, Ohio, USA
Author and historian Dr. Brandy Schillace (skil-a-chay) works at the intersections among medicine, history, technology, and literature. Over the past decade, Brandy has served as an assistant professor of literature, managing editor for a medical anthropology journal, and senior research associate and public outreach for a medical museum. As Editor-in-Chief of MH, Brandy provides a platform for conversation around medicine and its engagement with the humanities, social sciences, global health, and the public.
Declaration of Interests: Nothing to Declare
Deputy Editor
Ciara Breathnach
Ciara Breathnach is Associate Professor in History at the University of Limerick. Breathnach is currently Visiting Professor at Corpus Christi College, University of Cambridge and held a Fulbright Scholar Award in 2022 at New York University AY2022/23. She has published widely on Irish socio-economic, gender, cultural and health history.
University of Limerick
Limerick, Ireland
Associate Editors
Rebecca Barr
Rebecca Anne Barr is a Lecturer in Gender and Sexualities at Jesus College Cambridge whose research focuses on representations of gender and sexuality in eighteenth-century fiction, with a particular emphasis on masculinity.
University of Cambridge
Cambridge, UK
Rachel Murphy
Rachel Murphy is based in the Department of History at the University of Limerick, where she lectures on the MA History of Family. Her research focuses on aspects of gender and class in nineteenth and twentieth century Ireland.
University of Limerick
Limerick, Ireland
Robbie Duschinsky
Dr Robbie Duschinsky is Head of the Applied Social Science Group within the Primary Care Unit and Director of Studies in Sociology at Sidney Sussex College.
University of Cambridge
Cambridge, UK
Sue Spencer
Sue is a former nurse who is now immersed in arts and humanities utilising them and exploring how they can impact on staff and student wellbeing. Sue is a poet and facilitator and regularly runs workshops for harassed professionals. Sue has a particular passion for exploring poetic pedagogy and hopes that this can be developed within the medical humanities.
Newcastle University
Newcastle, UK
Blog Editor/Associate Editor
Cristina Hanganu-Bresch
Saint Joseph University
Pennsylvania, USA
Cristina Hanganu-Bresch holds a PhD in Rhetoric and Scientific and Technical Communication and is Associate Professor English at St. Joseph’s University. She has researched and published on the history of psychiatry and in particular the discursive mechanisms of psychiatric diagnoses.
Blog Content Editor
Janina Levin
University of the Sciences in Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania, USA
Blogs Assistant
Chris Pak
Swansea University,
Swansea, UK
For blog submission enquiries, please contact Editor-in-Chief Dr Brandy Schillace (brandy@bschillace.com) directly.
Film and Media Correspondent
Khalid Ali
Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals
Brighton, UK
Global Health Correspondent
Ayesha Ahmad
University College London Medical School
London, UK
Editorial Board
Eva Ahren
Karolinska Institutet
Stockholm, Sweden
Jacqueline D. Antonovich
Muhlenberg College
Pennsylvania, USA
Annamaria Carusi
InterChange Research
London, UK
Michael Daly
RCSI University of Medicine and Health Sciences
Dublin, Ireland
Michael DeGeorgia
University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Centre
Ohio, US
Luna Dolezal
University of Exeter
Exeter, UK
Danielle Giffort
St. Louis College of Pharmacy
Missouri, USA
Monica Greco
Goldsmith’s University of London
London, UK
Anne Hudson Jones
The University of Texas
Texas, US
David Jones
Harvard University
Massachusetts, US
Chisomo Kalinga
University of Edinburgh
Edinburgh, UK
Daniel Laforest
University of Alberta
Alberta, Canada
Stuart Murray
University of Leeds
Leeds, UK
Henry Ng
Cleveland Clinic Foundation
Cleveland, USA
Fran Pheasant-Kelly
University of Wolverhampton
Wolverhampton, UK
Laura Salisbury
University of Exeter
Exeter, UK
Neil Vickers
Kings College London
London, UK
Jaipreet Virdi
University of Delaware
Delaware, US
Shelley Wall
University of Toronto
Toronto, Canada
Angela Woods
Durham University
Durham, UK
Publishing Team
Publishing Assistant: Simran Kang
Publisher: Alice Shuttleworth
Head of Portfolio: Richard Sands