rmccrary@uwaterloo.ca
Location: ML 241
Robin McCrary, PhD, MFA, MPH(c) is a Creole public health humanist. Author (as Micah McCrary) of Teaching Cultural Dexterity in Creative Writing (Bloomsbury) and Island in the City (University of Nebraska) his work also appears or is forthcoming through Health Professions and Comics, the Health Humanities Consortium, the Canadian Association of Health Humanities, and the Graphic Medicine International Collective. Serving as 2024–2025 Fulbright Canada Research Chair in Anti-Racism and BIPOC Communities and Visiting Scholar in Health Humanities at the University of Waterloo, Dr. McCrary lives on Haudenosaunee homelands, where he is associate teaching professor in the Writing Studies and Health Humanities programs at Syracuse University. He also serves as mentor-teacher and low-residency faculty in Wilkes University’s Maslow Family Graduate Program in Creative Writing.
Selected Publications
Li, Mona Y., McCary, R.M., and Amerisa Waters. “Graphic Medicine and Public Health.” Health Professions and Comics: An Interprofessional Guide to Graphic Medicine, edited by Brian Callender and Kathryn West. (Forthcoming.)
McCrary, Micah. Teaching Cultural Dexterity in Creative Writing. Bloomsbury Academic, 2023.
Fellowships and Awards
Fulbright Canada Research Chair Award, 2024–2025
Courses Taught
HHUM 312/COMMST 491 – Cross-Cultural Care Traditions
Research Areas
- Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL)
- Public Health Humanities
- Narrative Public Health Ethics
- Graphic Medicine & Graphic Public Health
- Migrant & Refugee Health Literacy
- Public Health Writing