Join us in congratulating graduate student Carter Barnett who was awarded an Azrieli Fellowship to conduct dissertation research in Jerusalem. As part of the award, he’ll be a Resident Fellow at the W.F. Albright Institute for Archaeological Research and a Visiting Research Fellow at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, working under the mentorship of Dr. Liat Kozma.

Carter’s project investigates how patients, Christian missionaries, and colonial officials used and understood mission hospitals in nineteenth and twentieth-century Palestine. This work builds on existing scholarships in the social history of medicine to incorporate a diversity of historical perspectives beyond medicalization narratives prone to simplification. Rather than solely attributing the proliferation of mission hospitals to medical efficacy or colonial intervention, his project evaluates the paradoxical hospitality of missionary institutions.