I am co-editor of narrative nonfiction at Tendon, a literary magazine publishing creative and critical work across the medical humanities. Housed within Johns Hopkins’s Center for Medical Humanities and Social Medicine, it has been going since 2019. Our section looks for memoir, reporting, essays, vignettes, and more. Find upcoming calls for submissions on our Submittable portal: https://tendonmag.submittable.com/submit.

I edit public history reviews for the journal. We’re interested in reviews of podcasts, museum exhibits, walking tours, digital projects—anything that makes history feel vibrant for a general public. Please reach out to talk about ideas for something you’d like to cover! You can find author guidelines here: https://journals.troy.edu/index.php/JSAHMS/about/submissions#authorGuidelines

I lead ongoing research—beginning with a Hugh Hawkins fellowship project for 2024-2025—tracing the origin of three human remains on view at Johns Hopkins University and mapping those onto the larger international trade in anatomized human remains in the nineteenth century and beyond. With assistance from several librarians and archivists (especially Allison Seyler), this work follows the journeys of human remains through the school from the 1890s to the present. So far, this work has included a publicly accessible digital humanities project, an ArcGIS StoryMap.