Disaster Studies

This series of essays, drawing on insights from research on disasters and public health crises, will highlight how social research can shed light on the mutual effects of social inequality and events such as the Covid-19 pandemic over time.
This theme of our "Covid-19 and the Social Sciences" essay series has been curated by Scott Gabriel Knowles, professor of history at Drexel University, and Alexa Dietrich, program director of the SSRC's Scholarly Borderlands initiative, the Transregional Collaboratory on the Indian Ocean, and the Religion and the Public Sphere program.