Archive: Emily Mendenhall

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Aaron Gronstal Creates Comic Illustrations to Translate Emily Mendenhall’s Unmasked into Visual Form

Aaron Gronstal, an astrobiologist and visual artist from Okoboji, uses comic illustrations to translate Emily Mendenhall's Unmasked: COVID, Community, and the Case of Okoboji…

May 3, 2022

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Emily Mendenhall Presented Her Latest Book at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

Emily Mendenhall spoke about newest book, Unmasked: COVID, Community, and the Case of Okoboji at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public.…

April 19, 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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The Annual Maloy Distinguished Lecture on Global Health | Unmasked: COVID, Community, and the Case of Okoboji by Emily Mendenhall

On April 4 , 2022, the Science, Technology and International Affairs (STIA) Program, in partnership with the Global Health Initiative and the Mortara Center for International…

April 4, 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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Launch of Emily Mendenhall’s New Book Unmasked

On March 19, 2022, Emily Mendenhall and Rebecca Katz met at the Politics and Prose independent bookstore to discuss her recently launched book,.…

March 19, 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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“What Will We Tell Our Grandkids About The Last Two Years?”, Emily Mendenhall’s Reflections on Scary Mommy

"What stories will we tell our grandchildren? How will the pandemic look to us in 10, 20, 30 years, or more? How will the pandemic period affect how we relate to each other in…

March 8, 2022

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NutrireCoLab Episode 6: Emily Mendenhall Interviews Lauren Carruth about her New Book Love and Liberation

Emily Mendenhall interviews medical anthropologist Lauren Carruth about her decades of work in the Somali Region of Ethiopia. Carruth describes how she traveled around the…

March 2, 2022