The Initiative for Critical Disaster Studies publishes Working Papers in Critical Disaster Studies.
Series 1: Historical Approaches to Covid-19
Series 1 of Working Papers in Critical Disaster Studies will be published in the winter of 2020-21. The editorial committee is Carla Brisotto (University of Florida), Julia Engelschalt (Universität Bielefeld), Julia Irwin (University of South Florida), Valerie Marlowe (University of Delaware), and Jacob Remes (New York University). This series is organized under the auspices of the Historical Approaches to Covid-19 Working Group of the National Science Foundation-funded Social Science Extreme Events Research (SSEER) Network and the CONVERGE facility at the Natural Hazards Center at the University of Colorado Boulder (NSF Award #1841338). Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the NSF, SSEER, or CONVERGE. As papers are published, you will be able to find them on this page.
- “Silence in the Oral Archive: Power, Disaster, and Oral History,” by Michael Menor Salgarolo
- “Covid-19 as a Zoonotic Moment: Placing the Animal at the Forefront of the History of Pandemics,” by Nicolo Paolo P. Ludovice
- “Humor and Verse in Newspaper Print: Social Commentaries on the ‘Spanish Flu’ Pandemic of 1918-1919,” by Bonnie M. Miller
- “Civic Health: Government Responses to Epidemics in Late-Eighteenth Century America,” by Kristin E. Tremper
- “Battling Flood in the Midst of Covid-19: The Plight of Assam,” by Ananya Gogoi
- “For Health or for Profit: Covid-19 and the History of Big Pharma in the United States,” by Emma Day
- “Epidemics and Empires: Historicizing Covid-19 in Native Communities,” by Jessica J. Hauger
- “Smelling Contagion: The Sensory Experience of Plague in Seventeenth-Century London and the Covid-19 Pandemic,” by Holly Dugan, Marissa Nicosia, and Lisa W. Smith