As the COVID-19 pandemic continues, anthropological insights are valuable research and teaching resources for health promotion, disease prevention, and the strengthening of health systems. AAA is collecting some of these resources here to support open and fact-based conversations about the pandemic and community responses. We will continue to closely monitor local, national, and international developments while collaborating with the local public health authorities. Toward that end, this page will be updated regularly. If you have information you would like to share, please email Jeff Martin using this form.
Webinars
- COVID-19 and the Construction of Othering – A live Facebook Discussion
- Pandemic Change-up – Invisible Social Structure Revealed
- COVID-19: Ongoing Global Responses and Social Impact
- More than Models; the media and the economy at a time of COVID-19
- COVID-19: Responses from Around the Globe
- COVID-19: Responsive Teaching and Learning in Anthropology - A Two-Part Webinar Series
- COVID-19: Fear, Stigma, and Steps Forward
- Lenore Manderson: Medical Anthropology in the 21st Century
Readings
- The Syndemics and Structural Violence of the COVID Pandemic: Anthropological Insights on a Crisis - Open Anthropological Research Journal
- Anthropological foundations of public health; the case of COVID 19 - Preventive Medicine Reports
- "The Future After Covid-19: Implications of a Global Pandemic" - Crossroads: The University of Michigan Undergraduate Journal of Anthropology
- "Estimating the COVID-Related Deaths Attributable to President Trump’s Early Pronouncements About Masks" By Robert A. Hahn
- The Pandemic Journaling Project allows you to create your own archive to save and pass on from generation to generation. You can record your voice, take pictures, or write down your thoughts to save them for you and for the future.
- Pandemic Diaries - American Ethnological Society
- Responding to an Unfolding Pandemic: Asian Medicines and Covid-19
- HRAF and the transition to remote education - Online anthropology amid #CovidCampus
- Doing Fieldwork in a Pandemic - A crowdsourced document that provides a space for people to share their methods for doing fieldwork in a pandemic - specifically, ideas for avoiding in-person interactions by using mediated forms that will achieve similar ends.
- Consciously Quarantined: A COVID-19 response from the Social Sciences Blog - UCL Medical Anthropology
- A COVID-19 Primer - Mark Nichter PhD, MPH
- Wiley Online Library - COVID-19: Novel Coronavirus Content (Free Access)
- Psychological First Aid (PFA) and Skills for Psychological Recovery (SPR)
- Using “Outbreak Science” To Strengthen the Use of Models During Epidemics
- COVID-19's Psychosocial Impacts
- Rutgers University Press - Free ebooks about diseases and epidemics
- American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) - Coronavirus: Research, Commentary, and News
- Social Science Space - The Social And Behavioral Response To Coronavirus
- Coronavirus (COVID-19) Research - Free Medical, Social, and Behavioral Science Articles from SAGE Publishing
- 'COVID-19: Pathway to Pandemic?' Panel
Teaching Resources
- Anthropology Mini Lectures: A Collective Resource for Online Teaching in the Time of COVID19. Visit this page on Anthrodendum to learn how to sign-up and contribute.
- #CoronaVirusSyllabus - A crowdsourced multi-disciplinary resource for those interested in teaching or learning about COVID-19 from the perspective of human & social sciences.
- Oxford University Press Free Resources for Students and Instructors Affected by COVID-19
- 10 Tips for Teaching Online
- Online Teaching & Learning Resources - National Communication Association
- Online Instruction Resources - American Mathematical Society
- Going Online in a Hurry - The Chronicle of Higher Education
- How to Make Your Online Pivot Less Brutal - The Chronicle of Higher Education
- 'I Will Survive' Teaching Online - Inside Higher Ed
- Online Learning Exchange - The American Geophysical Union
Anthropologists in the News
- The BMJ Opinion - Iatrogenesis and harm COVID-19—when medical care ignores social forces
- The Hill - The missing link of Biden's COVID strategy: social scientists
- Medium Coronavirus Blog - The Nation’s Reported Covid-19 ‘Cases’ Are a Mix of Bad Math and Bad Reporting
- Financial Times - The class of Covid-19: can US college students really go back?
- the SOURCE - WashU Expert: Five lessons from HIV to guide COVID-19 approach
- The Conversation - India’s goddesses of contagion provide protection in the pandemic – just don’t make them angry
- Salon.com - Farmworkers are dying, COVID-19 cases are spiking, and the food system is in peril
- Navajo Times - Virus divides ‘haves’ from ‘have-nots’
- Dhaka Tribune - Who deserves the opportunity to stay home and be safe, and who doesn’t?
- The Conversation - Learning from disasters: Nepal copes with coronavirus pandemic 5 years after earthquake
- American Journal of Public Health - Raids on Immigrant Communities During the Pandemic Threaten the Country’s Public Health
- Al Jazeera - Coronavirus, Herd Immunity and the Eugenics of the Market
- The Hindu - Staying at home on planet earth
- WIRED - Big Data Could Undermine the Covid-19 Response
- Nature Human Behaviour - Pandemics show us what government is for
- The Guardian - US food workers are in danger. That threatens all of us
- CBS News - Is the Handshake Dead?
- NJ.com - This is no time for ‘America First.’ China’s coronavirus tests are good enough for the U.S.
- The Star - ‘Tiny acts of solidarity’ are bridging our social distance. Can they last?
- La Presse - Ces rituels enfantés par la pandémie
- The Guardian - Ice agents are still performing raids – and using precious N95 masks to do so
- Orlando Sentinel - Lessons for college seniors, gone too soon
- The Washington Post - Social Distancing is Hard Because it's Contrary to Human Nature
- The Washington Post - Coronavirus will radically alter the U.S.
- Time - Xenophobia 'Is A Pre-Existing Condition.' How Harmful Stereotypes and Racism are Spreading Around the Coronavirus
- The Hill - A scarcity of life-saving resources during COVID-19 pandemic
- Scientific American - COVID-19’s Psychosocial Impacts
- Why Social Science? - Because Money Makes The World Go ’Round
- CounterPunch - COVID-19, the Exponential Function and Human the Survival
- Grant Jun Otsuki, Anthropology of Science, Technology, and Japan - S*it’s getting real: A cultural analysis of toilet paper
- Think Global Health - Why Social Policies Make Coronavirus Worse
- Salon - In a defunded health system, doctors and nurses suffer near-impossible conditions
- SAPIENS - Why Social Distancing Feels So Strange
Additional Resources
- AAA Guidelines For Mitigating The Uneven Effects Of The Covid-19 Pandemic On Faculty
- Medical Anthropology in the Time of COVID-19
- Teaching COVID-19: A Collaborative Anthropology Syllabus Project
- Fieldsights:COVID-19
- Pandemic Perspectives: Responding to COVID-19
- Consortium of Social Science Associations
- Coronavirus Multispecies Reading Group
- Social Science in Humanitarian Action aims to establish networks of social scientists with regional and subject expertise to rapidly provide insight, analysis and advice, tailored to demand and in accessible forms, to better design and implement the social and communication dimensions of emergency responses.
- The Epidemic Response Anthropology Platform (ERAP) showcases evidence from anthropologists and other social scientists around the world to provide insight, analysis and advice, to inform epidemic response efforts.
- A special report on scientific information on COVID-19 and related coronaviruses (published in ACS Central Science)
- COVID-19: Resources for Social and Behavior Change
- Somatosphere: COVID-19 Forum - A collaborative website covering the intersections of medical anthropology, science and technology studies, cultural psychiatry, psychology, and bioethics.
- Medium Coronavirus Blog - A real-time resource for COVID-19 news, advice, and commentary
- #WitnessingCorona Blog Series: A joint project by Blog Medical Anthropology / Medizinethnologie, Curare: Journal of Medical Anthropology, Global South Studies Center Cologne, and boasblogs.
- National Science Foundation