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”: Black Healthcare Workers During the 1918 Influenza Pandemic in Philadelphia.
Category: Media
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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 Science & Medicine – Mental Health journal. The conversation centers around how interdisciplinary dialogue can improve the way we study flourishing and health – and the clinical and policy interventions we propose.
Categories: Media, Past events
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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 Case of Okoboji.
Categories: Media, Past events
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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 impact.
Category: Scholarship
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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 Trauma Narrative”.
Category: Media
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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 towards masks, to understand how the decision to wear a mask reflects people’s perceptions of risk and views about government.
Categories: Media, Past events
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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 2024.
Category: Media
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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 care.
Category: Media
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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 occurred in the COVID summer of 2020. State political failures, local negotiations among political and public health leaders, and community (dis)belief about the virus resulted in Okoboji being declared a hotspot just before the Independence Day weekend, when an influx of half a million people visit the town.
Category: Scholarship
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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 pandemic.
Category: Media