Michelle Yeoman is a lecturer in the department of Veterinary Integrative Biosciences at Texas A&M University and pursuing her Ph.D. in Anthropology at Texas A&M University. Yeoman teaches undergraduate courses focused in writing and science journalism. She also leads a study abroad program that focuses on veterinary medicine in Thailand. Her research focuses on using narratives, medical melodramas, and social media to explore the sociocultural construction of professional identity in medical settings–and how these identities are culturally mediated through gender, power, and privilege.