BBQ+ Team
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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 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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Chris is a Black non-binary educator, writer, advocate, and coach with a passion for holistic wellness. They began their career in higher education, serving for 10 years and focusing on counseling and student development, with an emphasis on supporting first-generation students of color as they enter and navigate the academy. Chris also has experience in the non-profit space and served as the Talent and Training Manager at Re-Center, whose mission is to activate youth and adults to drive transformative change towards racially just schools and communities in Connecticut. Chris was formerly the Coordinator for the University of Connecticut’s Rainbow Center and was inspired to join the cultural center due to a passion for creating and supporting academic systems that function as both inclusive environments and spaces that can meet the needs and honor the lived experience of all students. Throughout their various roles, Chris has always taken the words of James Baldwin to heart, believing that “Not everything that is faced can be changed; but nothing can be changed until it is faced”, and uses these words as motivation for the critical social-justice work that remains to be done within communities. Chris received their master's in counselor education and a bachelor's in english literature from Central Connecticut State University.
Soha Bayoumi
Director of Fellowships
Advanced Doctoral Fellowship Advisor
soha_bayoumi@bbqplus.org
she/her
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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.
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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.
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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.
