Coronavirus Toll

Comparing COVID Deaths and Political Persuasion in the US
Insights
April 1, 2022

Comparing COVID Deaths and Political Persuasion in the US

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How Will COVID-19 Affect Academic Freedom?
Communication
June 28, 2021

How Will COVID-19 Affect Academic Freedom?

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‘Misery Index’ Reveals COVID-19 Impact on American Lives
Public Policy
June 10, 2021

‘Misery Index’ Reveals COVID-19 Impact on American Lives

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COVID-19: Blood on Whose Hands?
Public Policy
May 16, 2021

COVID-19: Blood on Whose Hands?

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Open Letter Defends Social Science, Humanities in Wake of Pandemic

Open Letter Defends Social Science, Humanities in Wake of Pandemic

This week, almost 60 learned societies, associations and higher-education serving groups signed onto an open letter that argues “humanistic education and scholarship must remain central to campus communities and conversations.”

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Beyond Illness: COVID-19 is Hurting Women In Academia

Beyond Illness: COVID-19 is Hurting Women In Academia

Women are facing additional constraints as a result of COVID-19. These range from the added burdens and responsibilities of working from home, through to the fact that fewer women scientists are being quoted as experts on COVID-19, all the way to far fewer women being part of the cohort producing new knowledge on the pandemic.

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Anthropology Webinars Explore Fieldwork, Public Health, & Coronavirus

Anthropology Webinars Explore Fieldwork, Public Health, & Coronavirus

In light of the global coronavirus pandemic, anthropologists around the world have been preparing to utilize knowledge gained from past pandemics to […]

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Gyms, Bars, Cafes– We’ve Lost A Certain Intimacy In Society

Gyms, Bars, Cafes– We’ve Lost A Certain Intimacy In Society

Social distancing during the COVID-19 pandemic implies many painful losses. Among them are so-called “third places” – the restaurants, bars, gyms, houses […]

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Zoom – As It (Didn’t) Happen

Zoom – As It (Didn’t) Happen

Academics are not immune to the follies that often accompany their first interfaces with using Zoom.
Here performative social scientist Kip Jones offers a light piece with a serious message that the typical managerial methods will one way or the other find their way into working virtually.

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Is Our War with the Environment Leading to Pandemics?

Is Our War with the Environment Leading to Pandemics?

Climate change is undermining human health globally in other profound ways. It’s a risk multiplier, exacerbating our vulnerability to a range of health threats.

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Bringing Realism to Criminology: Roger Matthews, 1948-2020

Bringing Realism to Criminology: Roger Matthews, 1948-2020

Roger Matthews, one a group of influential British criminologists who challenged both the dominant rightist “administrative” conception of law and order and what they viewed an idealistic perspective of crime from the left, has died from the effects of the coronavirus.

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