Stanford Humanities Center
The graduating senior reflects on her year as a Hume Honors Fellows at the Humanities Center.
Jun 9, 2026
Kristine is a Stanford senior whose work connects biomaterials research, ethical analysis, and visual culture. She conducts her symbolic systems honors research in the Heilshorn Biomaterials Group on neural organoid development and is completing an Honors in the Arts thesis titled “The Shape of Suffering,” a digital exhibition that explores how pain is represented across history, science, and contemporary art. Her work brings together scientific inquiry and humanities scholarship to examine how societies understand the body and the experience of suffering.
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