COVID Studies

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A Reader

Alexa S. Dietrich, Scott Gabriel Knowles, Rodrigo Ugarte , Joie Acosta

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English

University of Pennsylvania Press
07 July 2026

General & world history; 21st century history: from c 2000 -; Social impact of disasters; Illness & addiction: social aspects

Series: Critical Studies in Risk and Disaster

A ""state of the field"" collection of essays that presents the latest research on the pandemic from a range of disciplines

COVID Studies is a ""state of the field"" collection of essays that presents the latest research on the pandemic from a range of disciplines, including sociology, anthropology, public policy, political science, history, and science and technology studies. Though varied in their methodologies, whether ethnography, data analysis, or archival research, the contributors together view COVID not as an isolated event with a discrete beginning and end, but rather as an ongoing crisis that resulted from and has shaped underlying social and political conditions.

As the essays demonstrate, COVID is a nested disaster: a deadly and debilitating virus woven through traumatically inadequate health systems in the United States and around the world. COVID is also a compound disaster, entangled with climatic disasters of land, air, and sea, and grinding against the tragedies of migration, war, and political dysfunction. Taking COVID and its lessons out of the museum of past disasters, where powerful people and institutions want it to remain, this volume puts it right back into the middle of our lives, where it belongs for now, and surely for a very long time to come.

Although no longer formally acknowledged as a pandemic by global health officials, COVID nevertheless is a continuing disaster due to its toll on life, health, economy, safety, and justice. Examining the pandemic as a process that was shaped by longer histories of what came before it and that continues to make new realities in the present, the contributors suggest that we are still researching and writing from inside the disaster.

Contributors: Joie Acosta, George Aumoithe, Anirban Kapil Baishya, Tanya Buhler Corbin, Jih-Fei Cheng, Moon Choi, Vivian Choi, Nishaant Choksi, Aaron Clark-Ginsberg, Sukanya Deogam, Alexa S. Dietrich, Kim Fortun, Alice Fothergill, Danya Glabau, Monica H. Green, Dolly Jørgensen, Dani Joslyn, Christine Keeves, Hyunah Keum, Scott Gabriel Knowles, Christos Lynteris, Tyesha Maddox, Rachel Margolis, Katherine A. Mason, Luke J. Matthews, Darshana Sreedhar Mini, Samantha Montano, Courtney Page-Tan, Hyeonbin Park, Lori Peek, Elisa Perego, Kalpesh Rathwa, Rashawn Ray, Monica Sanders, Amanda Savitt, Sarah Senk, Robert Soden, Jacob Steere-Williams, Cécile Stephanie Stehrenberger, Kathleen Tierney, Rodrigo Ugarte, Kristin Urquiza, Ashton M. Verdery, Carlos Villegas, Haowei Wang, Jacqueline Wernimont, Sarah S. Willen, Heather M. Wurtz, Myungji Yang, Carl A. Zimring.

Contributions by: Joie Acosta, George Aumoithe
Edited by: Alexa S. Dietrich, Scott Gabriel Knowles, Rodrigo Ugarte
Imprint: University of Pennsylvania Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm,
ISBN: 9781512829495
ISBN 10: 1512829498
Series: Critical Studies in Risk and Disaster
Pages: 384
Publication Date: 07 July 2026
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Alexa S. Dietrich is an interdisciplinary environmental health scientist, trained in anthropology and epidemiology. She is the author of The Drug Company Next Door: Pollution, Jobs, and Community Health in Puerto Rico. Scott Gabriel Knowles is Senior Director of Research at the Defense Industrial Base Institute and Research Professor in the Department of History at Northeastern University. Rodrigo Ugarte is Editor at the Social Science Research Council (SSRC), currently overseeing the Just Tech program's online platform. He edited an earlier version of this collection of pieces, which were published in the SSRC's online publication Items: Insights from the Social Sciences.

Reviews for COVID Studies: A Reader

""The pandemic is not a page we have turned. It is a force still reshaping our health, politics, and deepest assumptions about what we owe one another. With roots in the Social Science Research Council's 'Covid-19 and the Social Sciences' platform and the question we posed there—what is 'society after pandemic'?—this remarkable collection is a resounding reply and an indispensable archive of a transformative and still-unfolding moment."" - Alondra Nelson, Institute for Advanced Study ""COVID Studies does so much more than think 'about' the pandemic and its aftermath. The chapters record moments, concerns, and the uneven ways the pandemic has imprinted on our lives."" - Todd Meyers, McGill University