Elleen Xue
Research Interests: History of medicine; history of the body; medical humanities; global health; health policy.
Elleen Xue is an A.M. student in the Department of the History of Science. Her research traces how medical concepts such as qi, humors, and hormones travel across Chinese and Greco-Roman traditions and reappear in contemporary debates around mental health and endocrine disorders.
Elleen’s undergraduate thesis in Classics examined the continuities and complexities of Hippocrates’ Diseases of Young Girls, Sophocles’ Trachiniae, and Euripides’ Hippolytus, offering a comparative analysis of how female pathology and suffering are represented and received in ancient medicine and literature.
Prior to her A.M., Elleen worked for the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies as an intern under the Health Security and Community Resilience team. She also supported United Nations Representative and Chief Administrative Officer of the Beijing Changier Education Foundation Emma Chen-Banas on initiatives addressing global HIV/AIDS transmission risks, prevention challenges, and sexual education for youth. She intends to become a physician-historian.
Previous Degrees:
A.B., Classics, Princeton University