We investigate the everyday governance and decision-making practices of educators to care for the health and well-being of pre-K–12 students during the COVID-19 pandemic. Through multi-sited, multi-scaled, mixed-methods, community-engaged research at two schools in the San Gabriel Valley region of Southern California, we examine how teaching models for physical and mental well-being are being adapted …

Everyday Decision-Making during a Pandemic: How Local Schools Attend to the Health and Well-Being of Students Read More »

Our project focuses on the health, economic, and social impact of Covid-19 on African, Asian, and Latinx immigrant and refugee communities in the United States. Our research will contribute to a curated digital collection of news reports, data, perspectives, and other resources documenting the experiences of immigrants and refugees across the country. Created at the …

Documenting and Archiving the Impact of Covid-19 on African, Asian, and Latinx Immigrant and Refugee Communities Read More »

The closure of universities and the move to online classes due to the Covid-19 outbreak have emphasized inequalities in regions such as Latin America. This research looks at the impact of Covid-19 on higher education in this region. Drawing on Colombia’s largest public university, the National University of Colombia (UNAL), this study sets out to …

Covid-19 and the Education Crisis in the Global South: Digital Divide in Public University Students and Teachers in Colombia Read More »

This project examines the effects of South Korea’s Covid-19 pandemic response on the Korean nation, governance, and citizenship. In particular, it examines how the surveillance technologies and techniques, lauded by many around the world as a template for contact tracing elsewhere, deliberately target non-normative behaviors and practices of Korean citizens (such as collecting financial data …

Queering the Surveillance Assemblage: Covid-19 and Homophobia in South Korea Read More »

Loneliness is a heavy burden, with long-term costs to well-being and public health. LGBTQ+ individuals are especially vulnerable to loneliness and its consequential impacts over time, including increased suicidal behavior, clinical depression and anxiety, elevated risk of heart failure and stroke, and cognitive decay. During this pandemic, social restrictions have created an environment especially facilitative …

Loneliness, Well-Being, and Meaningful Digital Connections in LGBTQ+ Individuals during Covid-19 Read More »

Our project aims at examining the colonial government’s response to pandemics in Nyasaland, now known as Malawi, especially the Spanish influenza of 1918–1919. The project focuses on lessons that can be drawn from past epidemics in responding to Covid-19. The following questions will be addressed: What practices were used to contain past pandemics? How successful …

Pandemics Past and Present: Lessons from Malawi’s Responses to the Spanish Flu (1918), Smallpox (1922), and Covid-19 (2020) Read More »

The rapid rise of SARS-CoV-2 infection and the tragedy of the Covid-19 pandemic has been showing how unprepared societies are to respond to public health emergencies. Making matters worse, the production of ignorance in a global arena promoted by society and political leaders has been an interesting sociological phenomenon of the 2020’s coronavirus crisis. In …

Viral Agnotology: Covid-19 Denialism amidst the Pandemic in Brazil, the United Kingdom, and the United States Read More »

New York City was the epicenter of the Covid-19 pandemic in Spring 2020 with many low-income Hispanic workers still reeling from its economic and health impacts. Drawing on a survey conducted in collaboration with the Mexican Coalition of New York City, administrative and census data, as well as 20 in-depth interviews, we propose a mixed-method …

Revisiting the Hispanic Health Paradox: The Housing and Work Experiences of Immigrants in NYC during the Covid-19 Pandemic Read More »

Throughout Nairobi’s history, urban poor communities have been targeted by containment measures—for racial reasons, out of public health concerns, for economic purposes, or for political gains. This project compares current containment measures to combat Covid-19 with this history. It looks at poor residents’ responses to containment both historical and current, and how containment measures are …

Containment and Distrust: Impacts of Covid-19 responses and historical containment on city making from below in Nairobi Read More »