Rachel E. Wilbur, PhD, MPH, is an Assistant Research Professor with IREACH in the Elson S. Floyd College of Medicine and is descendant Tolowa and Chetco. Her research focus is on the role of cultural engagement and revitalization in promoting wellbeing for American Indian and Alaska Native communities, and she is particularly invested in community- and strengths-based research. She received both her MPH in health behavior and her PhD in biological anthropology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill before continuing her training as a postdoctoral fellow in Indigenous Community Wellbeing at Harvard Medical School, where she was also a scholar with the Harvard University Native American Program. She currently serves as a member of the National Institutes of Health All of Us Research Program Indigenous Research Working Group.
Archives: Affiliates
Okonek, Taylor
Taylor is currently an Assistant Professor of Statistics at Macalester College, and completed her Ph.D. in Biostatistics at the University of Washington (UW) under the supervision of Jon Wakefield (a CSDE Affiliate) in Summer 2023. Her current line of research involves developing new statistical methods for estimating child mortality in low- and middle-income countries with complex survey data. She is currently working towards involving undergraduates at Macalester College in research projects related to age heaping and official statistics production for the United Nations. Her new lines of research is actively pursuing research with collaborators at Macalester related to ecological interactions in communities that live in close contact with large mammals, and the impact these interactions have on human and animal populations.
Casey, Joan
Joan Casey is an environmental epidemiologist and an Assistant Professor in the Department of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences at the University of Washington School of Public Health. She received her PhD in Environmental Health Sciences from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health (JHSPH) in 2014, advised by Dr. Brian S. Schwartz. She holds a BS in Biological and Environmental Engineering from Cornell University and an MA in Applied Physiology from Columbia University. She completed a Robert Wood Johnson Health & Society Postdoctoral Fellowship, where she had the opportunity to initiate ongoing interdisciplinary collaborations. She studies climate-related environmental challenges while considering the important role of social determinants of health, with the goal of informing policy decisions.
d’Alpoim Guedes, Jade
Jade d’Alpoim Guedes is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Washington. Dr. D’Alpoim Guedes is an environmental archaeologist and ethnobiologist who employs an interdisciplinary research program to understand how humans adapted their foraging practices and agricultural strategies to new environments and have developed resilience in the face of climatic and social change. She employs a variety of different methodologies in her research including archaeobotany, paleoclimate reconstruction and computational modeling. Dr. d’Alpoim Guedes’ primary region of focus is Asia, where she has worked extensively in China, but also has interests in Nepal, Thailand and Pakistan. Dr. d’Alpoim Guedes also works closely with crop scientists to examine the potential of landraces of traditional crops such as millet, wheat, barley and buckwheat for modern agricultural systems.
Xu, Jing
Jing Xu is currently an Affiliate Assistant Professor at the Department of Anthropology at the University of Washington and a Wenner-Gren Foundation Hunt Postdoctoral Fellow. She received her Ph.D. in anthropology from Washington University in St. Louis and completed postdoctoral work in developmental psychology at the University of Washington. Her work uses interdisciplinary and mixed methods approaches to examine child development and family wellbeing in diverse populations and cultural contexts. As an anthropologist and a developmental scientist, her research covers various lifestages and populations spanning multiple geographic regions and historical periods, i.e., contemporary China, America and Europe, Cold-War era Taiwan. Her latest project is relevant to migration studies, examining differences in developmental patterns across migrant and non-migrant families in three countries (The Republic of Congo, the U.S., and the UK).
Godfrey, Emily
Emily Godfrey is a University of Washington Professor of Family Medicine, with a joint appointment in UW Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology on the clinician-researcher track. She is a board-certified practicing family physician with fellowship training in family planning and reproductive health. With funding from Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI), the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation, Society of Family Planning, industry and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), she has combined her background in primary care, public health and experience in clinical trials, observational studies, quality improvement, and patient-centered outcomes research (PCOR) to build a robust research portfolio around women’s health issues. Since joining UW in 2012, she has secured funding as the principal investigator (PI) or Co-PI of a total of 18 grants and has 60 peer-reviewed publications in my focused area of investigation.
Ramesh, Aditya
Aditya Ramesh joined the UW History Department in Winter 2024, from the University of Manchester, where he was a Presidential fellow in Environmental History. Previously, he was a postdoctoral fellow at the Center for the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine at the University of Manchester. His work revolves largely around environmental history, agrarian history, and the history of science, technology, and medicine in South Asia.
Dattani, Kavita
Kavita Dattani is a feminist researcher of digital technologies and data. Broadly, Kavita’s work seeks to uncover the ways in which data-driven digital technologies are enabling new forms of violence and marginality and the potentials for more progressive data futures. Kavita’s research has spanned different kinds of data-driven technologies: Biometric and Financial Technologies, Digital Dating Apps, and Digital Labour Platforms.
Johfre, Sasha
Sasha Johfre is an Assistant Professor of Sociology and core faculty in the Center for Statistics and the Social Sciences at the University of Washington. Her research considers the creation and consequences of conceptual categories, including ways that human difference (e.g. based on gender, race, age, etc.) is seen as real and natural. Her overall goal is to create new conceptual and methodological tools that help people understand, interrogate, and intentionally engage in social processes. She is currently working on projects related to what I call the “natural-is-better cultural logic”; age as a socially constructed system of inequality; methods to more responsibly measure and interrogate social difference; and the intersectionality of interpersonal perception of social categories.
McElroy, Erin
Erin McElroy is an Assistant Professor of Geography at the University of Washington. McElroy’s work focuses upon intersections of gentrification, technology, digitality, empire, and racial capitalism in the US and in Romania, alongside housing justice organizing, countermapping, and transnational solidarities. This informs the focus of their manuscript, Silicon Valley Imperialism: Techno Fantasies and Frictions in Postsocialist Times, forthcoming with Duke University Press. McElroy is cofounder of the Anti-Eviction Mapping Project—a data visualization, counter-cartography, and digital media collective that produces tools, software, maps, reports, murals, zines, oral histories, and more to further the work of housing justice. Recently the collective published Counterpoints: A San Francisco Bay Area Atlas of Displacement & Resistance. Commitments to public scholarship also informs McElroy’s work coediting the Radical Housing Journal—an open access publication that foregrounds housing research and organizing transnationally. At UW, McElroy runs the Anti-Eviction Lab, where much of the student and community partner driven research focuses upon Landlord Tech Watch—a platform dedicated to producing collective knowledge about landlord-driven data grabbing and algorithmic techniques.