Archive: Emily Mendenhall

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“On Symbols and Scripts: The Politics of the American COVID-19 Response”

Emily Mendenhall and her co-authors argue that, to unravel the American COVID-19 crisis —and to craft effective responses—, a more sophisticated understanding of the…

March 19, 2021

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Georgetown Now: A Conversation with Georgetown President John J. DeGioia featuring Emily Mendenhall

Conversation between Georgetown President John J. DeGioia and Emily.…

February 24, 2021

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“A Spectrum of (Dis)Belief: Coronavirus Frames in a Rural Midwestern Town in the United States”

Emily Mendenhall and her co-authors investigate how society in rural America reacted to the coronavirus outbreaks of 2020. Without government COVID-19 mandates, conflicting moral…

February 9, 2021

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“’Thinking Too Much’: A Systematic Review of the Idiom of Distress in Sub-Saharan Africa”

In this systematic review, Emily Mendenhall and her co-authors take a look at the idiom “thinking too much”. This idiom is employed in cultural settings worldwide to express…

January 2, 2021

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Everybody Hates Me: Let’s Talk About Stigma Podcast: Dr. Emily Mendenhall, Stigma, Syndemics and Diabetes

Emily Mendenhall discusses with host Dr. Carmen Logie the concept of syndemic, based on her global research on diabetes, HIV, violence, depression and.…

December 23, 2020

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“The COVID-19 Syndemic Is Not Global: Context Matters”

In this publication, Emily Mendenhall argues that, before defining a disease like COVID-19 as a syndemic, we need to look at the context.…

October 22, 2020

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“Evaluating the Mental Health Impacts of the COVID-19 Pandemic: Perceived Risk of COVID-19 Infection and Childhood Trauma Predict Adult Depressive Symptoms in Urban South Africa”

Emily Mendenhall, Andrew Wooyoung Kim and Tawanda Nyengerai evaluate the mental health impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic in Soweto, a major township in South Africa, a society…

September 8, 2020

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“Metabolic Reflections: Blurring the Line between Trauma and Diabetes”

Emily Mendenhall argues for clinical studies of diabetes to recognize the impacts of chronic stress and trauma on metabolism. In her anthropological research, she has identified…

August 24, 2020

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“How an Iowa Summer Resort Region Became a COVID-19 Hot Spot”, Emily Mendenhall Writes about her Research in Vox

Drawing on her research about the COVID-19 response in the Iowa Great Lakes region, Emily Mendenhall writes about the high number of cases and people's reluctance to wear masks,…

August 8, 2020

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“America Should Prepare for a Double Pandemic”, The Atlantic Explores Emily Mendenhall’s Research

On its coverage of America's need to prepare for new disease outbreaks, The Atlantic highlights Emily Mendenhall's research about syndemics and the influence that every aspect of…

July 15, 2020