Archive: Media and Scholarship

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Ella Castanier Awarded a Kalorama Fellowship

Ella Castanier (COL’24) was awarded one of the 2022 Kalorama Summer Research Fellowships, to support her history of medicine project titled, "Checking the Monster Scourge":…

April 21, 2022

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Social Science & Medicine – Mental Health Video Podcast: Emily Mendenhall on Flourishing and Health in Critical Perspective

Emily Mendenhall and Sarah S. Willen talk about “Flourishing and Health in Critical Perspective: An Invitation to Interdisciplinary Dialogue,” the first series of the Social…

April 13, 2022

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Iowa Public Radio – Talk of Iowa: Emily Mendenhall on When Okoboji Became a COVID-19 Hotspot

Emily Mendenhall joins host Charity Nebbe to share what she learned when she studied the pandemic in her hometown — Okoboji —, for her book Unmasked: COVID, Community and the…

April 8, 2022

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“An Extraordinary Sequel: The ‘Russian’ Influenza and Enduring Sequelae in Victorian Culture”

Dr. Lakshmi Krishnan examines the ‘Russian’ influenza pandemic’s enduring cultural and biosocial.…

April 5, 2022

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“On Suffering, Trauma, and Resilience”, The Yale Review Interviews Aminatta Forna

In this interview, James Surowiecki, consulting editor at The Yale Review, talks with Aminatta Forna about her recently published essay “Who Owns Your Story? Transcending the…

April 1, 2022

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COVID, Quickly, Episode 27: “Second Boosters, Masks in the Next Wave and Smart Risk Decisions”, Scientific American Looks at Emily Mendenhall’s Research About Attitudes Toward Masks

In this episode of the "COVID, Quickly", Scientific American’s senior health editors Tanya Lewis and Josh Fischman look at Emily Mendenhall's research on people's attitudes…

April 1, 2022

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The Bookseller Talks about Rift, Aminatta Forna’s New Book Project

According to The Bookseller, William Collins made a "substantial deal" to publish Aminatta Forna's new book project, Rift, slated for publication in.…

March 31, 2022

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“Helen Dominic Is Examining the Power that Listening Can Have on Healing,” Georgetown College Talks about the Research of our 2022-23 Fellow

Georgetown College writes about Helen Dominic, and her research in improvements in the ways we handle immigrant.…

March 16, 2022

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Unmasked

In this book, Emily Mendenhall writes about what happened in her hometown, Okoboji, a small Iowan tourist town, when a collective turn from the coronavirus to the economy…

March 16, 2022

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“Where There Is No Hospital”, Aminatta Forna’s Writing about the Book that Saved Lives

Aminatta Forna writes about how the book Where There Is No Doctor was used to save lives during the 2014 Ebola.…

March 10, 2022