Archive: Emily Mendenhall
54 Articles
- Past events
Invisible Illness: A History, from Hysteria to Long Covid
On Monday, January 12, the Mortara Center for International Studies hosted the book launch of Invisible Illness: A History, from Hysteria to Long Covid, the latest work by…
January 19, 2026
- In the Press
- Media and Scholarship
Long COVID and Patient Activism: Insights from Professor Emily Mendenhall
In a recent interview with Georgetown’s School of Foreign Service, Professor Emily Mendenhall explores how patient activism particularly online—has shaped public and medical…
January 17, 2026
- In the Press
- Media
- Media and Scholarship
Professor Emily Mendenhall Awarded Prestigious Fellowship for Long COVID Research
Professor Emily Mendenhall, a leading medical anthropologist at Georgetown University, has been awarded a prestigious fellowship recognizing her influential work at the…
January 17, 2026
- In the Press
- Media and Scholarship
- Scholarship
“Savoring Care Flourishing with Diabetes Across Cultures” by Professor Emily Mendenhall and Professor Jessica Hardin
Savoring Care challenges conventional narratives about living with type 2 diabetes. A chronic condition defined by insulin resistance and radical transitions in lifestyle, type 2…
January 14, 2026
- Past events
On Call: A Conversation With Dr. Anthony Fauci
On November 6, 2025 in Gaston Hall, the Medical Humanities Initiative hosted a fireside chat with Dr. Anthony Fauci, exploring his latest book On Call and reflecting on the…
November 16, 2025
- Past events
Work and Life in Crisis: The Medical Humanities Responds to COVID-19
Hosted by Medical Humanities Visiting Scholar Cora Salkovskis, this medical humanities colloquium featured scholarship and discussions from Johns Hopkins University historian of…
March 14, 2024
- Past events
Conversation in Medical Humanities with Professor Langley and Professor Mendenhall
On November 28th, the first in a series of Conversations in Medical Humanities events was held. The Conversations in Medical Humanities series will be a sequence of events where…
November 28, 2023
- Announcements
- Scholarship
“Core Faculty Member, Dr. Emily Mendenhall, awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship”
Our very own Dr. Emily Mendenhall has been selected as a 2023 Guggenheim Fellowship recipient for her work in medical anthropology and public.…
April 13, 2023
- Scholarship
“Syndemics and Clinical Science”
Emily Mendenhall and her co-authors discuss the emergence of syndemics, how epidemics interact, and what scientists, clinicians and policymakers can do with this.…
July 21, 2022
- Media
- Past events
Emily Mendenhall Presents Her Book Unmasked in the New Books in Science, Technology, and Society podcast
Emily Mendenhall tells host Austin Clyde the story of her most recent book, Unmasked: COVID, Community and the Case of Okoboji from the New Books in Science, Technology, and…
May 23, 2022