People

Karen Lloyd is Assistant Professor in the Department of Art. Her research focuses on art  patronage and politics in early modern Italy; in addition to courses in Renaissance and Baroque  art, she teaches an introductory course on Art & Medicine. 

Lisa Diedrich is Professor and Chair of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. Her research and teaching interests are in critical medical studies, disability studies, feminist science studies,  and graphic medicine. She is the author of Indirect Action: Schizophrenia, Epilepsy, AIDS, and  the Course of Health Activism and Treatments: Language, Politics, and the Culture of Illness. More about Diedrich's work can be found on her website and on the Drawing | Teaching | Healing: Graphic Medicine in Actionblog.

Andrew Flescher is a Professor of Public Health and English. He is a scholar of biomedical ethics,  ethics and literature, comparative religious ethics, public health, and health care policy, also  serving Stony Brook Hospital in a clinical setting as a Living Donor Advocate and sitting on its  Living Donor Committee and Organ Donor Council. He is the author of 4 books, Heroes, Saints,  and Ordinary Morality, The Altruistic Species (winner of the Choice Award), Moral Evil (winner  of the Prose Award), and The Organ Shortage Crisis in America. 

Nancy Tomes is Distinguished Professor of History. Her research and teaching interests include  the history of health and health care. She is the author of four books: The Art of Asylum  Keeping, Madness in America: Cultural and Medical Perceptions of Mental Illness Before 1914,  The Gospel of Germs: Men, Women and the Microbe in American Life (winner of the 2001  Welch Medal) and Remaking the American Patient: How Madison Avenue and Modern Medicine Turned Patients into Consumers (winner of the 2017 Bancroft Prize.)

Elise Armani is a Ph.D. student in Art History and Criticism at Stony Brook University. She is a Graduate Council Fellow, a recipient of the Miriam and Maurice Goldberger Fellowship, and the 2020-21 president of the Art History Graduate Student Organization. Her research focuses on art and immigration policy in 20th century New York. As a graduate student lecturer at Stony Brook, she teaches introductory courses on Art & Medicine and Digital Media.