BBQ+ Team

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Caitlin Gunn

Director of Pedagogy
Predoctoral Fellowship Advisor

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  • Caitlin Gunn is a feminist educator, researcher, and consultant based in Baltimore, Maryland. She currently holds a position as a Senior Educational Developer at Georgetown University's Center for New Designs and Learning in Scholarship (CNDLS). She earned her doctorate in Feminist Studies from the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities in 2020, followed by a year as a Postdoctoral Fellow of Humanities Pedagogy at Harvard University as part of her tenure as a 2020-2021 ACLS Emerging Voices Fellow. Gunn’s scholarship focuses on Black feminist interventions in science fiction and media studies. She utilizes those interventions as pedagogical tools to create space for underrepresented students to build the futures they deserve and desire, inside and outside of academia. Read more

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Ashley Butler

Director of Operations

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  • Ashley focuses on managing the logistics and day to day activities of the Center. She comes with over 10 years of entrepreneurial, HR/recruiting and strategic planning experience in various industries including fashion, health/beauty/wellness, non-profits, and consulting. In her spare time she enjoys dance parties and movie nights with her daughter.

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Soha Bayoumi

Director of Fellowships
Advanced Doctoral Fellowship Advisor

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  • Soha Bayoumi is Senior Lecturer in the Medicine, Science, and the Humanities Program at the Johns Hopkins Krieger School of Arts and Sciences. Her work is informed by political theory, gender studies, and postcolonial studies and centers the ways in which medical expertise is shaped by and deployed in different political contexts, particularly in the Middle East. She is presently completing two book projects, one (with Sherine Hamdy) on the work of doctors in the Egyptian uprising of 2011 and its aftermath, and the other on the social and political roles of doctors in relation to health and justice in postcolonial Egypt. She serves as editor-in-chief for the Journal of Middle East Women's Studies and as associate editor for the Journal of Islamic and Muslim Studies.

Eli Nelson

Undergraduate Fellowship Advisor
Co-Founder

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  • Eli (Mohawk) is an Assistant Professor in American Studies at Williams College and Director of Fellowships at the Center for Black, Brown, and Queer Studies. He got his PhD in History of Science at Harvard University in 2018. He works on the history of Native science, critical Indigenous theory, Indigenous science fiction and futurism, and gender and sexuality.

Ahmed Ragab

Director
Co-Founder
Postdoctoral Fellowship Advisor

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  • Ahmed Ragab is a historian of medicine, physician and filmmaker. He is associate professor of the history of medicine at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. He is also the Chair of the Medicine, Science and the Humanities Program at Kreiger School of Arts and Sciences, Johns Hopkins University. He serves as co-editor of Osiris (one of the two flagship journals of the History of Science Society) and as the editor of the Global Histories of Medicine, Science, Race and Colonialism book series at Johns Hopkins University Press. He received his MD from Cairo University in 2005 and PhD from the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes in Paris in 2011.

Board of Directors

Ahmed Ragab

Board Member
Co-Founder

ahmed_ragab@bbqplus.org
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Eli Nelson

Board Member
Co-Founder

eli_nelson@bbqplus.org
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