Postdoctoral Fellows

Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Abigail Bline is a multi-disciplinary scientist with research and training in environmental science, toxicology, and public health. As a fellow with the Social Science Environmental Health Research Institute, PFAS Project Lab, and Silent Spring Insti…

Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Elissia Franklin joined Northeastern University as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow with a dual appointment at Silent Spring Institute. Dr. Franklin’s research evaluates chemical exposure injustice among women based on race, education, and other demogr…

Postdoctoral Research Associate

Kim is a member of the interdisciplinary PFAS Project lab and her work involves modeling presumptive PFAS contamination sites and studying the interactions of environments, communities, and governments on PFAS contamination. Previously, she studied t…

Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Katharina Hecht is a Postdoctoral Research Associate in the International Business and Strategy Group at the D’Amore-McKim School of Business and a Lecturer in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology in the College of Social Sciences and H…

Postdoctoral Fellow (Computing Innovation Fellow)

Leah Horgan is a critical informatics scholar and designer whose work examines the intersection of technology, design, and urbanism. They have a background in media design, received their PhD in Informatics from the University of California, Irvine, …

Postdoctoral Research Associate

Steven Lauterwasser is a political and cultural sociologist who studies polarization and the production of politicized knowledge. Using diverse quantitative methods, his work explores the co-constitution of identity, meaning, and political conflict. …

Postdoctoral Research Associate

Casey joined the SSEHRI team in July 2023. She conducted dissertation research assessing the exposure experiences of 27 families impacted by asthma using air quality sensors with National Science Foundation support. Currently, with a dual appointment…

Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Vivian Underhill’s scholarship bridges groundwater hydrology, anthropology, and feminist and critical race science studies toward community-engaged research on oil, groundwater, and the environmental justice issues surrounding their extraction. She h…

Postdoctoral Research Associate

Kayleigh Ward’s research investigates how post-disaster communities handle and address co-evolving issues around community decline. More recently her work has extended to investigating the effects of community based reconstruction, social infra…