The Research Defense: Experiencing a Pandemic While Researching One
COVID-19
The Research Defense: Experiencing a Pandemic While Researching One
This post is part of a series focused on highlighting outstanding defense videos from the graduating class of fall 2022. Each post features a brief interview with the student about their experience in the MA program and includes their research defense video.
Overcoming the Pandemic: Unforeseen Challenges in Public History Work
Written By Alex Fierro
A 1947 Postcard showing the entrance to Good Samaritan Hospital Published September 9, 2022 History Public History Faculty Erin Craft, Mark Tebeau Students Alex Fierro Partners Arizona Historical SocietyWith the onset of the Covid-19 Pandemic in early 2020, those working in the realm of public history, like the rest of the world, confronted a number of daunting and unprecedented challenges.
JOTPY Has Diverse Oral Histories For Pandemic Research
Blog post by Jason Inskeep
During the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, a constant stream of information barraged humans with alarming news, death statistics, and polarizing political stances. A wide variety of social media, forums, and video conferencing programs provided people an outlet.
Fear: The Human Experience that Binds Us
Blog post by Pamela Zupo
Whether it is called the plague, the Black Death, or the Coronavirus, widespread disease has a way of generating fear and outright terror among those living within its invisible presence. Epidemics, such as the pestilence that afflicted the Iberian Peninsula of Spain during the late sixteenth century still resonate with historical truths that can be felt five hundred years later.
Uncertainty and Fear as a Universal Conditions
The Great Castilian Plague of 1596-1601 and the Covid-19 Pandemic of today
By Sarah Peterson
Not much has changed in human history between the Castilian Plague of 1596-1601 and the COVID-19 pandemic of 2020-now. Sure, we understand science and data more than our ancestors, but common themes abound between our shared experience today and the lives of those caught-up in the late sixteenth-century Castilian pestilence.
Street Art in the Plague Years
Blog post by Monica Ruth
Shuttered businesses, deserted streets, and contagion among the people… elements of disarray and decay, signals and signs of the end of – or at least pause from – familiar economic and social patterns. These changes have revealed a wellspring, sparking and spawning of new life and advantageous growth in street art.
“Kung Flu,” the Power of Words, and the Impact on AAPI Identity
Blog post by Kathryn Jue
Asian and Pacific Islanders are fighting two pandemics – COVID-19 and anti-Asian racism.[i] The rise of anti-Asian crimes is now a focal point in a pandemic year, but this is not something that came out of nowhere.[ii]
“Rural Voices” Pandemic Collection Shares Quiet Stories of Loss and Hope During COVID-19
Blog post by Clinton P. Roberts
As the nightly news rattled off statistical numbers, my grandmother sat quietly in her house, mourning a loss, unable to see her husband’s grave. Her daily visits to the cemetery marked an otherwise unbroken routine for over five years.