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History professor, Carol Symes, who specializes in medieval studies, along with professors in anthropology and French and Italian, compare past plagues with the current COVID-19 health crisis.
Carol Symes, professor of medieval history, lectures about the 14th-century bubonic plague, or "Black Death," and what we can learn from it in light of the current COVID-19 pandemic.
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- Assistant Professor of History, Rana Hogarth, has been named as one of LAS's 2020-2021 Helen Corley Petit Scholars for her contributions in education and research.
- Saniya Ghanoiu, Department of History graduate student, has been awarded the sixth annual Graduate Student Leadership Award by The Graduate College.
- Epidemics often bring a search for scapegoats, with anti-Asian harassment in the wake of COVID-19 as the latest example. Rana Hogarth, Assistant Professor of History, points to social and political tensions as underlying reason why groups blame the marginalized for outbreaks during epidemics.
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