COVIDCalls

Today we have a discussion of the pandemic in rural America with political scientist Keith Mueller. Keith J. Mueller, Ph. D., is Gerhard Hartman Professor and head of the Department of Health Management and Policy, University of Iowa. He is also the Director of the Rural Policy Research Institute Center for Rural Health Policy Analysis and Chair of the RUPRI Health Panel. He has served as Presiden...

Today we have a discussion of THE COVID-19 ORGANIZATIONAL CRISIS IN FRANCE with Olivier Borraz and Ptrick Castel. Olivier Borraz is a CNRS research professor at Sciences Po in Paris. He is the director of the Center for the Sociology of Organisations (CSO), a leading research center in sociology in France. His work focuses on risk governance and more recently emergency preparedness. He has publish...

Today we have a discussion of DENIAL, DEMOCRACY, AND WITNESSING IN THE AGE OF COVID-19 AND CLIMATE CHANGE with political scientist Nancy Rosenblum. Nancy Rosenblum is the Harvard University Senator Joseph Clark Professor of Ethics in Politics and Government emerita. Her field of research is historical and contemporary political thought. Her book Good Neighbors: The Democracy of Everyday Life in Am...

Today we have a memorial session to remember those lost needlessly to the pandemic, with Pamela Addison, Rafe Offer, Cecile Stehrenberger, and Lori Peek.

Today we have a discussion of COVID-19 & the technology of response in Asia with Yeonsil Kang and Hallam Stevens. Yeonsil Kang is a currently a visiting assistant professor at Drexel University’s history department. She is interested in understanding the intersections of the environment, science/technology, and disasters especially in East Asia. She is working on a project, Mineral Time, Bodily Ti...

Today we have a discussion of COVID-19 Memorials with Chris Kocher, Joanna Hutchinson, Katherine Fugate, and Madeleine Fugate Chris Kocher is the founder and executive director of COVID Survivors for Change .  He is also the co-creator of a project, National COVID-19 Remembrance , an art installation and memorial to victims of COVID-19 that involved 20,000 empty seats on the Ellipse in Washington,...

Today we have a discussion of poverty and the long term economic impacts of the pandemic with Megan Curran and Zach Parolin. Megan Curran and Zachary Parolin are Postdoctoral Research Scientists at the Columbia University Center on Poverty and Social Policy. They examine policy strategies for poverty reduction and how the tax system and social safety net can better support children and families. T...

Today we have a discussion of friendship and loss in the age of COVID-19 with writer Jared Misner. Jared Misner is a writer who lives in Charlotte, NC—he graduated from journalism college at U Florida.  He is a social media manager at Davidson College. His work has appeared in NYT, Our State, Charlotte Magazine, Chronicle of Higher Education.

Today we have sociologist Ryan Hagen, co-director of the NYC Covid-19 Oral History, Narrative and Memory Archive. Ryan Hagen is a postdoctoral research fellow in the department of sociology at Columbia University who studies risk and social change. His research explores how people imagine future dangers and try to avoid them, and how this process of risk perception and management shapes the social...

Today we have a discussion of the digital divide, the tech industry, and COVID-19 with Roger Cheng. Roger Cheng is the executive editor and head of CNET News, where he manages everything from daily breaking stories to larger investigative packages. Prior to this, he was on the telecommunications beat and wrote for Dow Jones Newswires and The Wall Street Journal for nearly a decade.

Today we have a discussion of the Viral Art Project with Mark Kelner. Mark Kelner is a visual artist and filmmaker based in Washington, DC and Brooklyn. A graduate of George Mason University, where he studied with the esteemed novelist Vasily Aksyonov, his work has appeared in Artenol, The Atlantic, The Washington Post and The Times among other media outlets.  His practice centers on the distortio...

Today we have a discussion with Alex J. Goldstein, the creator of Faces of COVID. Alex Goldstein created FacesOfCOVID in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic as a means of lifting up the stories behind the statistics of those lost to COVID and affirming their dignity, and holding our government leaders accountable for our failures to adequately respond to the pandemic.  Goldstein is currently C...

Today we have a discussion of anti-Chinese Stigma during the COVID-19 pandemic with Njoki Mwarumba and Jack Rozdilsky. Njoki Mwarumba Ph. D. is an Assistant Professor of Emergency Management and Disaster Preparedness at the University of Nebraska Omaha. Dr. Mwarumbas dissertation was an examination of select indicators of social vulnerability and determinants of health, and their impact on the glo...

Today we have a discussion of the social sciences and COVID-19 with Alondra Nelson. Alondra Nelson, President of the Social Science Research Council and Harold F. Linder Professor at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, is an acclaimed researcher and author, who explores questions of science, technology, and social inequality. Nelson’s books include, Body and Soul: The Black Panther Part...

Today we have a discussion of musicians and how they are coping with the pandemic with Rafe Offer, and a public health update with Esther Chernak. Rafe Offer has held senior positions with some of the world’s largest companies, including as Marketing Director for Disney.  Rafe continues to consult top companies including Microsoft, Aviva, The Daily Mail Group and Amazon.  Rafe is CEO and co-founde...

Today we have a special COVIDCalls discussion about the pandemic, the election, and the path ahead with some very special guests: Sharrelle Barber, Billy Fleming, Cynthia Rivas, Olivia Troye, Fiana Tulip, & Kristin Urquiza.  

Today I will speak with Andrew Revkin! Previously he was strategic adviser for environmental and science journalism at National Geographic Society . Through 2017 he was senior reporter for climate change at the independent investigative newsroom ProPublica . He was a reporter for The New York Times from 1995 through 2009. In 2007, he created the Dot Earth environmental blog for The Times. The blog...

Today we have an election day discussion about voting with Yajaira Ayala, Kora Fortun, and Sharrona Pearl.

Today we have an election eve COVIDCalls discussion with Darien Williams, Rich Frankel, and Colleen Hagerty. Richard E. Frankel is currently Associate Professor of modern German history and the Sagrera Family Memorial/BORSF Endowed Professor in History at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. His research interests center on nationalism, antisemitism, immigration, and political culture. His fi...

Today we have a discussion of COVID-19 and the postal service with Ryan Ellis and Richard John. Ryan Ellis is an Assistant Professor of Communication Studies at Northeastern. Ryan’s research and teaching focuses on topics related to communication law and policy, infrastructure politics, and cybersecurity. He is the author of Letters, Power Lines, and Other Dangerous Things: The Politics of Infrast...

Today we have a researchers’ roundtable with Angie Mejia, Chandi Katoch, and Jorge Benavides Rawson. Jorge Benavides-Rawson is a PhD Candidate in Anthropology at the George Washington University and a Visiting Fellow in the Harvard Kennedy School’s Program on Science, Technology and Society (STS). His dissertation research examines the interaction of public health policy-makers, scientists, and th...

Today we will talk about COVID-19 and the digital divide with Blair Levin. Blair Levin is a nonresident senior fellow with the Metropolitan Policy Program at the Brookings Institution. He serves as the executive director of Gig. U: The Next Generation Network Innovation Project, an initiative of three dozen leading research university communities seeking to support educational and economic develop...

Today we will talk about life in quarantine with Areum Jeong, Yeonsil Kang, and Hilde Van den Bulck Areum Jeong is an Assistant Professor in Humanities at Sichuan University-Pittsburgh Institute (in Chengdu, China) where she teaches English Composition, K-pop, Korean Film, and New Media. Her research takes a transnational approach to Korean and Korean American film, literature, theater and perform...

Today we will talk about the Pandemic Journaling Project with Kate Mason and Sarah Willen. Katherine A. Mason, PhD is a medical anthropologist and Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Brown University.  She is Co-Founder of the Pandemic Journaling Project. Her first book,  Infectious Change: Reinventing Chinese Public Health after an Epidemic  (Stanford, 2016), draws on fieldwork in southeastern...

Today we will talk about the experience of high school students living in the midst of a pandemic with Jazmil Castillo, Andrea Velez Padilla, Sydney Reid,  Shoshi Satran, and Tess Wolf. I have a co-host today, one listeners of COVIDCalls know well: Shivani Patel.  She is a second-year student at Drexel University studying Finance and Economics. She is also a production assistant here at COVIDCalls...