Teaching COVID-19:

An Anthropology Syllabus Project

This developing document is designed to collect and share resources for anthropologists and
other social scientists teaching about COVID-19.

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to share teaching resources (lecture slides, class activities, labs, etc.) and suggest
readings, films, or other materials. Add your name to the Contributors list at the end.

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Document editors: Nina Brown (nbrown2@ccbcmd.edu); Angela Jenks (ajenks@uci.edu);

Katie Nelson (knelson@inverhills.edu); Laura Tilghman (lmtilghman@plymouth.edu).

Class Activities, Lessons, and Labs

● Data; Statistics: Honnor, Patrick. 2020. “Dangerous Numbers? Teaching About Data
and Statistics Using the Coronavirus Outbreak.” New York Times, February 27.
● Education; Children; Gender: Daniels, Nichole. 2020. “Lesson of the Day: ‘When Can
We Go to School?’ Nearly 300 Million Children Are Missing Class.” New York Times,
March 6.
● Activity/Assignment suggestion: From Jonah Rubin (@js_rubin), Last Med Anthro class
of the term at @KnoxCollege1837 is tomorrow. Students will embody one of our authors
and speak about how they would understand and suggest responding to COVID-19.
Some will write papers about that as well.
● Multimodal class project: From Dada Docot (Purdue, @dadadocot): Goal: To make
and share responsibly produced media focused on the expansive issues surrounding the
outbreak. Instructions: Produce a shareable work using any medium of your choice with
the broad theme -- “coronavirus.” Students can choose to create a short film,
infographic, public service announcement, comics, trailer, animated work, a series of
photographs, etc. Sample topics could include: caring for the elderly during the outbreak;
coronavirus and pets; universities’, rural towns’ and cities’ responses to the outbreak;
race, racialization, and xenophobia; containment and borders, etc. The output out of this
project must 1) be based on research, 2) shareable/open source, and 3) respectful of
cultural minorities. To find resources for your project, visit this open-source syllabus
(LINK to this COVID-19 syllabus -- Thank you!!!). Platforms that could be used for
uploading your project include Youtube, Instagram, TikTok, Twitter, Facebook, etc.
Submit the link to your project accompanied by a 300-word abstract.
 ● New York Times Learning Network: Coronavirus Resources: Teaching, Learning and
Thinking Critically - a website that promises to continually update as the pandemic
proceeds with free teaching resources and activities.
● Public/Global Health response to pandemics, 1: The Great Flu is an online game in
which players select a fictional virus (of varying difficulty for game play) and then must
quickly make decisions about how to respond to an outbreak.
● Public/Global Health response to pandemics, 2:Solve the Outbreak is another online
activity in which players select a virus and location and then work to solve an outbreak.
This online activity is hosted by the CDC.
● Geography of COVID-19: Lesson plan and materials from World Regional Geography
Lab Manual.
● Research COVID-19 from an Anthropological Perspective (from a Parasites in
Human Evolution course): From Tara Robins: For this assignment, you will do
external research on the currently spreading coronavirus, called COVID-19. Try to
analyze this virus from an anthropological perspective, applying your knowledge of both
evolutionary theory and biocultural anthropology. The assignment is a 3 to 5 page
double-spaced research paper that answers the following questions from an
anthropological perspective (when possible): What is COVID-19? How did it likely start?
How does it spread? Why has it been so successful at spreading around the world?
What can be and is being done to slow/stop its progression, and what methods are most
effective? Why is an anthropological perspective important for understanding the spread
of this pathogen? Make sure to assess your sources for credibility, cite your sources,
and include a list of citations. Upload your paper here on Canvas as a .doc or .pdf file.

Lecture slides
● Amara Miller, CSU East Bay, The Social Science of COVID-19

Readings/Materials (with preliminary categories)

Note: Many of these are news articles, and it’s best to pay attention to the dates. As the
situation develops, statistics and other info may change rapidly.

What is COVID-19?: Background, Timelines, Resources

● World Health Organization: Coronavirus
● CDC: Coronavirus Disease 2019
● Ars Technica “Don’t Panic: the comprehensive Ars Technica guide to the coronavirus.”
Updated daily at 3pm EDT.
● Belluck, Pam. “What Does Coronavirus Do to the Body?” New York Times, March 11,
2020.
● Cyranoski, David. 2020. “Mystery deepens over animal source of coronavirus.” Nature
News, February 26.
● Doucleff, Michaeleen, and Jane Greenhalgh. “Why Killer Viruses Are On The Rise.” NPR
All Things Considered, audio and text, February 14, 2017
 ○ NPR produced several articles in 2017 under the #KillerViruses tag. This one
provides a general background to zoonosis and efforts to track/predict outbreaks.
● Williams, Shawna. “Studies Estimate Incubation Time, Infectious Period of SARS-CoV-
2.” The Scientist, March 10, 2020.

Overviews, Resource Roundups, and Special Collections

● Duke University Press, Free access to books and journal articles on pandemics
● Jugovic-Spajic, Anika. 2020. “Web Roundup: What Can the Coronavirus Outbreak Tell
Us About Capitalism, White Supremacy, and Climate Change?” Somatosphere,
February 28.
● COVID-19 Forum, Somatosphere
“Somatosphere’s COVID-19 Forum brings together seventeen anthropologists and
historians in an effort to share ideas, analytical frameworks and concerns about the
ongoing epidemic from interdisciplinary perspectives.”

Anthropologists’ reports and reflections

● Boke, Charis. “Fever/Rest.” March 14, 2020. [Personal reflection as well as discussion of
reactions to the Yellow Fever epidemic.]
● Lynteris, Christos. COVID-19 Forum: Introduction. Somatosphere, March 6, 2020.
● Haruyama, Justin, Laura Meek, and Ria Sinha. 2020. “Going Viral in Hong Kong.”
Anthropology News website, March 3, 2020. DOI: 10.1111/AN.1364
● Raffaetà, Roberta. “From Italy: Anthropological Reflections on Coronavirus COVID-19”
(audio with transcript)

Anthropologists’ roles in health emergencies

● Moran, Mary, and Daniel Hoffman. 2014. “Ebola in Perspective” Hot Spots, Fieldsights,
October 7. [many contributions to this collection offering various perspectives on the
West Africa Ebola epidemic]
● Sams, Kelley, Alice Desclaux, Julienne Anoko, Francis Akindès, Marc Egrot, Khoudia
Sow, Bernard Taverne, Blandine Bila, Michèle Cros, Moustapha Keïta-Diop, Mathieu
Fribault, and Annie Wilkinson. 2017. "From Ebola to Plague and Beyond: How Can
Anthropologists Best Engage Past Experience to Prepare for New Epidemics?." Member
Voices, Fieldsights, December 7.
● Stellmach, Darryl et al. 2018. “Anthropology in public health emergencies: what is
anthropology good for?” BMJ Global Health 3 (2): e000534.doi: 10.1136/bmjgh-2017-
000534

Anthropological and Sociohistorical perspectives on infectious disease/epidemics

● See Other COVID-19 Syllabus Projects for extensive social science and historical
scholarship on epidemics
● Abramowitz, Sharon. 2017. “Epidemics (Especially Ebola).” Annual Review of
Anthropology 46(1): 421-445
 ● Barry, John M. “How the Horrific 1918 Flu Spread Across America.” Smithsonian
Magazine, November 2017.
● Harvard Library, “Contagion: Historical Views of Diseases and Epidemics”
○ Description of archives: “This online collection offers important historical
perspectives on the science and public policy of epidemiology today and
contributes to the understanding of the global, social–history, and public–policy
implications of diseases.”
● Lasco, Gideon. “Why Face Masks Are Going Viral.” Sapiens, February 7, 2020.
● Lynteris, Christos. 2020. “Why Do People Really Wear Face Masks During an
Epidemic?” New York Times, February 13.
● Rosenberg, Charles E. 1989. “What is an epidemic: AIDS in historical perspective.”
Daedalus 118 (2): 1-17.
● Sangaramoorthy, Thurka. 2014. Treating AIDS: Politics of Difference, Paradox of
Prevention. Rutgers University Press.
● Snowden, Frank M. 2019. Epidemics and Society: From the Black Death to the Present.
Yale University Press.
● Wright, Robin. “Coping, Camaraderie, and Human Evolution Amid the Coronavirus
Crisis.” New Yorker, March 12 2020.
● Zhan, Mei. 2005. “Civet Cats, Fried Grasshoppers, And David Beckham's Pajamas:
Unruly Bodies After Sars” American Anthropologist 107(1)31-42.
https://Doi.Org/10.1525/Aa.2005.107.1.031
● Sams, Kelley, Alice Desclaux, Julienne Anoko, Francis Akindès, Marc Egrot, Khoudia
Sow, Bernard Taverne, Blandine Bila, Michèle Cros, Moustapha Keïta-Diop, Mathieu
Fribault, and Annie Wilkinson. 2017. "From Ebola to Plague and Beyond: How Can
Anthropologists Best Engage Past Experience to Prepare for New Epidemics?." Member
Voices, Fieldsights, December 7.

Ethnographies of pandemics (overlap with above?)

● Gomez‐Temesio, Veronica. “Outliving Death: Ebola, Zombies, and the Politics of Saving
Lives.” American Anthropologist 120, no. 4: 738-751.
https://doi.org/10.1111/aman.13126.

Ethnographic methods in outbreaks/public health investigations

● Kroeger, Karen A., Thurka Sangaramoorthy, Penny S Loosier, Rebecca Schmidt, DeAnn
Gruber. 2018. “Pathways to congenital syphilis prevention: A rapid qualitative
assessment of barriers, and the public health response, in Caddo Parish, Louisiana.”
Sexually Transmitted Diseases 45(7): 442-446. doi: 10.1097/OLQ.0000000000000787.
● Sangaramoorthy, Thurka and Karen Kroeger. 2020. Rapid Ethnographic Assessments:
A Practical Approach and Toolkit For Collaborative Community Research. Routledge.
● Sangaramoorthy, Thurka and Karen Kroeger. 2013. “Mobility, Latino Migrants, and the
Geography of Sex Work: Using Ethnography in Public Health Assessments.” Human
Organization 72(3):263–272. doi:10.17730/humo.72.3.q1m53143x42p0653.
Anthropological perspectives on public health/epidemiology
● Briggs, Charles L. 2004. "Theorizing Modernity Conspiratorially: Science, Scale, and the
Political Economy of Public Discourse in Explanations of a Cholera Epidemic."
American Ethnologist 31 (2):164-187.
● Kitta, Andrea. 2019. The Kiss of Death: Contagion and Contamination in Folklore. Utah
State University Press. (50% off with code INFODEMIC20) https://upcolorado.com/utah-
state-university-press/item/3703-the-kiss-of-death)
● Lynteris, Christos and Branwyn Poleykett. 2018. “The Anthropology of Epidemic Control:
Technologies and Materialities.” Medical Anthropology 37 (6): 433-441. Introduction to a
special issue on Technologies and Materialities of Epidemic Control.
https://doi.org/10.1080/01459740.2018.1484740
● Mason, Katherine. 2016. Infectious Change: Reinventing Chinese Public Health after an
Epidemic. Stanford University Press. [Ethnography about the professionalization and
ethics of public health in China following the 2003 SARS epidemic]

Global health
● Janes, Craig R. and Kitty K. Corbett. “Anthropology and Global Health.” Annual Review
of Anthropology 2009 38:1, 167-183.

The “Outbreak Narrative”

● Benton, Adia. 2020. “Race, epidemics, and the viral economy of health expertise.” The
New Humanitarian, February 4 2020.
● McCormick, S. and Whitney, K. 2013. The making of public health emergencies: West
Nile virus in New York City. Sociology of Health & Illness, 35: 268-279.
doi:10.1111/1467-9566.12002
● Wald, Priscilla. 2008. Contagious: Cultures, Carriers, and the Outbreak Narrative.
Durham: Duke University Press.

How do scientists know what they know about viruses?

● Dr. John Campbell video lectures: https://www.youtube.com/user/Campbellteaching
● Caduff, Carlo. The pandemic perhaps: dramatic events in a public culture of danger.
Univ of California Press, 2015. [free excerpt of first chapter available online at UCAPress
website]

Vaccines, Treatment, and Biomedical Ethics

“Unnatural” Disasters
● Film Series: Unnatural Causes: California Newsreel. 2008: https://unnaturalcauses.org/
Climate and Environment

Governance

Borders and Movement (see also “Structural Vulnerability” for issues related to
immigration)
● Benton, Adia. “Border Promiscuity, Illicit Intimacies, and Origin Stories,” Somatosphere,
March 6 2020.
● Taylor, R.C. 2013. “The politics of securing borders and the identities of disease.”
Sociology of Health & Illness, 35: 241-254. doi:10.1111/1467-9566.12009

Militarization and Securitization

● Benton, Adia. “The Epidemic Will be Militarized: Watching Outbreak as the West African
Ebola Epidemic Unfolds.” Cultural Anthropology, Hot Spots Series. (Ebola comparison)

Surveillance
● Sangaramoorthy, Thurka. 2012. “Treating the numbers: HIV/AIDS surveillance,
subjectivity, and risk.” Medical Anthropology, 31(4):292-309. doi:
10.1080/01459740.2011.622322.

Racialization and Xenophobia

● Aguilera, Jasmine. “Xenophobia 'Is A Pre-Existing Condition.' How Harmful Stereotypes
and Racism are Spreading Around the Coronavirus.” Time Magazine, February 3, 2020.
● Lee, Matthew. 2020. “Coronavirus fears show how ‘model minority’ Asian Americans
become the ‘yellow peril.” NBC News, March 9.
● Lee, Marie Myung-Ok. 2020. “‘Wuhan coronavirus’ and the racist art of naming a virus.”
Salon, February 7.
● Dillard, Coshandra. “Speaking Up Against Racism Around the New coronavirus.”
Teaching Tolerance, February 14, 2020.
● Neves, Joshua. “The Coronavirus (Covid-19), Anti-chinese Racism, And The Politics Of
Underglobalization.” Duke University Press Blog, March 11 2020.

Syndemics
● Eligon, John. 2020. “For Urban Poor, the Coronavirus Complicates Existing Health
Risks.” New York Times, March 7.
● Nordling, Linda. “'A ticking time bomb:' Scientists worry about coronavirus spread in
Africa.” Science Magazine - News, March 15 2020. doi:10.1126/science.abb7331

Structural vulnerability
● Calarco, Jessica. “Online learning will be hard for kids whose schools close – and the
digital divide will make it even harder for some of them.” The Conversation, March 13
2020.
 ● Chapin, Angelina. “An outbreak of coronavirus along the border could be deadly and
devastating.” Huffington Post, March 11, 2020.
● Finerman, Grace. 2020. “Homeless shelters struggle with social distancing during
COVID-19 scare.” WKYT, March 8.
● Galea, Sandro. 2020. “The Poor and Marginalized Will Be Hardest Hit by Coronavirus.”
Scientific American, March 9.
● “Detroit Set to Restore Water Service Amid Coronavirus Fears.” New York Times, March
9, 2020.
● Herman, Bob. “Paul Farmer on the coronavirus: ‘this is another caregivers’ disease.’”
Axios, March 9, 2020.
● Hume, Tim. “No Soap, Little Water, and No Way Out: Refugee Camps Brace for
Coronavirus.” Vice News, March 13 2020.
● Jones, Sarah. “The Coronavirus Puts the Class War Into Stark Relief.” Intelligencer,
March 10, 2020.
● Thurston, Domina. “America’s poorest children won’t get nutritious meals with school
cafeterias closed due to the coronavirus.” The Conversation, March 13 2020.
● Yuan, Li. 2020. “In Coronavirus Fight, China’s Vulnerable Fall through the Cracks.” New
York Times, March 9.
● Zaman, Muhammad. “Opinion: Refugees Are Especially Vulnerable To COVID-19. Don't
Ignore Their Needs.” NPR, March 11 2020.

Incarceration
● McKinley, Jesse. 2020. “Cuomo’s Fix for Sanitizer Shortage: 100,000 Gallons Made by
Prisoners.” New York Times, March 9.

Disability
● Charis Hill, “‘The Cripples Will Save You’: A Critical Coronavirus Message from a
Disability Activist”

Mental Health/Psychology/Panic
● Brewis, Alexandra, and Amber Wutich. “The Social Dangers of Saving Others From
Coronavirus: Lessons from the frightening days of MERS.” Psychology Today, March
11, 2020.
● Glassner, Barry. “When fear upends daily life.” LA Times, March 12, 2020.

Gender
● In-gyu, Oh. “Why are Women in their 20s More Susceptible to Coronavirus in Korea?”
The Korea Times, March 9, 2020.
● Godderis, R. and Rossiter, K. 2013. ‘If you have a soul, you will volunteer at once’:
gendered expectations of duty to care during pandemics. Sociology of Health & Illness,
35: 304-308. doi:10.1111/j.1467-9566.2012.01495.x
● Jeltsen, Melissa. “Home is Not a Safe Place for Everyone.” Huffington Post, March 12
2020.
 ● Wenham, Clare, Julie Smith, and Rosemary Morgan. 2020. “COVID-19: the gendered
impacts of the outbreak.” Lancet.

Health infrastructure
● Specht, Liz. “What does the coronavirus mean for the U.S. health care system? Some
simple math offers alarming answers.” STAT, March 20, 2020.
● Street, A. (2012). Affective infrastructure: Hospital landscapes of hope and failure.
Space and Culture, 15(1), 44-56. https://doi.org/10.1177/1206331211426061

Health insurance/financing

Work (labor protection, sick-leave policies, etc.)

● “For how long are workers guaranteed paid sick leave?” World Policy Center map
● “How Lack of Paid Sick Leave is Complicating US Virus Response.” PBS News Hour,
March 6, 2020. [video & transcript]
● Law, Tara. 2020. “Americans are Being Encouraged to Work from Home During the
Coronavirus Outbreak. For Millions, that’s Impossible.” Time, March 9.
● Mull, Amanda. 2020. “The Coronavirus Customer-Service Crisis When the public panics,
service workers are the first to deal with it.” The Atlantic, March 13
● Wong, Julia Carrie. 2020. “Coronavirus divides tech workers into the ‘worthy’ and
‘unworthy’ sick.” The Guardian, March 12.
● Gamio, Lazaro. 2020. “The workers who face the greatest coronavirus risk.” New York
Times, March 15. [Interactive graphic showing jobs most at risk of exposure to infection,
along with median salaries]

Authoritarianism

Political economy, Capitalism, Neo-liberalism

● Benton, Adia and Kim Yi Dionne. 2015. "International Political Economy and the 2014
West African Ebola Outbreak." African Studies Review, 58 (1): 223-236.
● Gertz, Geoffrey. 2020. “The Coronavirus will reveal hidden vulnerabilities in global
supply chains.” Brookings, March 5.
● Yong, Ed. “The New Coronavirus Is a Truly Modern Epidemic: New diseases are mirrors
that reflect how a society works—and where it fails.” The Atlantic, February 3, 2020.
○ Written early in the epidemic so some statistics about COVID-19 will be outdated,
but makes interesting comparisons to previous pandemics (SARS, MERS,
Ebola), and discusses ways in which contemporary realities (social media,
technology, disinformation campaigns, xenophobia, etc.) shape responses to
current pandemic.
Education (ed-tech and online teaching/learning, school closings, accessibility, etc.)
● Fischer, Karin. 2020. “With Coronavirus Keeping them in the US, International Students
Face Uncertainty. So Do their Colleges.” Chronicle of Higher Education, March 6.
● Shapiro, Eliza. 2020. “Coronavirus in NYC: Why Closing Public Schools is a ‘Last
Resort’”. New York Times, March 7.
○ “New York City has the largest public school system in the United States, a vast
district with about 750,000 children who are poor, including around 114,000 who
are homeless. For such students, school may be the only place they can get
three hot meals a day and medical care, and even wash their dirty laundry.”
● Watters, Audrey. Hack Education Weekly Newsletter (HEWN), No. 344.
○ “‘This may be our moment,’ ed-tech folks exclaim, giddily sharing lists of their
favorite digital learning tools (with little concern, it seems for questions of
accessibility, privacy, or security) and tips for quickly moving ‘to the cloud.’”

News/Media
● Briggs, Charles. 2003. “Why nation states and journalists can’t teach people to be
healthy: power and pragmatic miscalculation in public discourses on health.” Medical
Anthropology Quarterly 17(3): 287-321.
● Ewing, E. Thomas. “‘Kiss Via Kerchief’: Influenza Warnings In 1918.” Nursing Clio blog,
posted February 12 2020.

Information and Misinformation

● Caulfield, Mike. Sifting Through the Outbreak: Information hygiene for the Covid-19
infodemic.”
○ Website describing the SIFT strategy to critically evaluate sources of information
● “Misinformation related to the 2019-20 Coronavirus Pandemic” Wikipedia.
○ Many examples of misinformation and efforts to counter them around the world.
● Oremus, Will. “The Simplest Way to Spot Coronavirus Misinformation on Social Media.”
OneZero at Medium, March 4, 2020.
○ Online article describing Mike Caulfield’s SIFT strategy, with some recent
examples of misinformation about COVID-19.
● World Health Organization. “MythBusters”
○ A website created to counter false claims about the virus

Visualizations (Graphs, Charts, Illustrations, Maps)

● ADERSIM/York University: Coronavirus (COVID-19) Outbreak Timelapse [ARCGIS
world map with time track of reported infections]
● Graphic illustrations: Weiman Kow, Comics for Good
● Johns Hopkins University. Johns Hopkins COVID-19 Global Cases “Dashboard.”
● NY Times: “How much worse the coronavirus could get, in charts.” [Interactive chart
showing the potential effects of intervention strategies on peak infections and deaths]
● Our World In Data: Coronavirus Disease (COVID019) Research and Statistics. [using
data from the WHO, presented visually in graphs
 ● COVID-19 #coronavirus Data Pack, from Information is Beautiful
● Social Distance Game, from Noko Time Tracking
● Why Outbreaks Like the Coronavirus Spread Exponentially, and How to ‘Flatten the
Curve,’ from the Washington Post/Harry Stevens.

Films/Videos
● A Short History of Humans and Germs, NPR Goats and Soda
○ 3 short animated videos from NPR on the origins of disease, and how human
responses have changed throughout human history.
● How the World is Reacting to Coronavirus, New York Times News, March 13 2020.
○ An interesting visual collage that illustrates how people around the world react in
different ways to common challenges (isolation, death, fear, etc.)
● Rx for Survival: a global health challenge. 2005. PBS/Nova
○ Available as a 6-part series or single 2 hour special.
○ Companion website has many resources, including further reading and class
activities. Could provide good background to some of the underlying health
issues and infrastructures that countries were dealing with prior to the current
pandemic.
● Spillover: Zika, Ebola, and Beyond. 2016. PBS
○ From the film website, “Over the last half century, the number of spillover
diseases has increased rapidly. What's behind the rise in spillover viruses? What
can we do to stop them? And what have we learned from the ultimate
containment of Ebola?”
○ Companion website has a film guide and 3D virus models
● Unnatural Causes: is inequality making us sick? 2008. California Newsreel.
○ A film series that explores social inequities to lead to poor health outcomes.

○ Companion website has film clips, additional readings, and class activities.
● The Fight Against Viruses
○ A collection of TED talks related to viruses, pandemics, and vaccines

Podcasts
● Coronavirus: Fact vs. Fiction (series) Hosted by Sanjay Gupta, CNN Chief Medical
Correspondent.
● “Infectious Diseases Show Societies Who They Really Are.” (segment of episode) On
the Media podcast, “Our Bodies, Our Selves” episode, March 6 2020. (Audio and
transcript available online).
○ Features an interview with Frank M. Snowden is a professor emeritus of the
history of medicine at Yale and author of Epidemics and Society: From the Black
Death to the Present.
● “Medicine for the Economy.” (episode). Planet Money podcast, March 13 2020.
● “When Xenophobia Spreads Like A Virus.” (episode) Code Switch podcast, March 4
2020. (Audio and full transcript available).
 ● “A History of Quarantine, from the Black Death to Typhoid Mary”. (4 minutes) NPR, All
Things Considered; October 27, 2014. (Audio and transcript available)
● “The Most Horrible Seaside Vacation.” (episode segment, 16 minutes) WNYC RadioLab
podcast, November 14 2011. (Audio and full transcript available)
○ Discusses “Typhoid Mary” and the controversies around quarantine and healthy
carriers.

Additional Resources

General resources
● Society for Medical Anthropology Special Interest Group: ARHE: Anthropological
Responses to Health Emergencies

Other Covid-19 Syllabus projects

● Humanities Coronavirus Syllabus, edited by Sari Altschuler and Elizabeth Maddock
Dillon, Department of English, Northeastern University
● #coronavirussyllabus, open access (initiated by Alondra Nelson)
● A COVID-19 Syllabus, primary editor Kimberly Poitevin, Department of Interdisciplinary
Studies, Salem State University
● COVID-19 Reader Project, primary editor Yeonsil Kang, Department of History, Drexel
University; includes a particular focus on learning from past epidemics and links to some
great digital archives

Guest-lecture exchanges
● Anthropology guest-lecture exchange (organized by Bonnie Kaiser). Sign up on this
spreadsheet if you are able to guest-lecture remotely for a colleague who is ill,
quarantined, or care-giving.
● Global health guest-lecture exchange (organized by Bonnie Kaiser). Sign up on this
spreadsheet if you are able to guest-lecture remotely for a colleague who is ill,
quarantined, or care-giving.

Resources for teaching continuity/remote teaching

● SACC Online Course Conversion Resources
● Thread from Lance Gravlee with advice and resources:
https://twitter.com/lancegravlee/status/1237429150123622400
● Miller, Michelle. “Going online in a hurry: what to do and where to start”. Chronicle of
Higher Education.
● Russell, Whitney. “Teaching with digital technology: online classes.” Cultural
Anthropology: Teaching Tools.
● Hamraie, Aimi. “Accessible teaching in the time of COVID-19”
● Crowdsourcing teaching online with care
● Resources for remote delivery/online teaching on the fly
Contributors (add your name and affiliation here)
● Nina Brown
● Katie Nelson, Inver Hills Community College
● Angela Jenks, University of California Irvine
● Bernardo Moreno
● Yeonsil Kang
● Laura Tilghman, Plymouth State University
● Jonah Rubin, Knox College
● Dada Docot, Purdue University
● Liliana Olivares
● Lance Gravlee
● Fields Harrington
● DurgaPrasad Karnam
● Martine Lappe
● Pedro Gutierrez Guevara
● Andrea Kitta
● Burcu Baykurt
● James Edwin
● Alex Golub
● Pableo Cardenas Ramirez
● Christine Wenc
● Tara Cepon Robins, University of Colorado Colorado Springs