Episode 15 – Diseases and Native Americans from Colonial Hawaii to Covid-19 with Seth Archer
Seth Archer (Utah State) discusses the various diseases that devastated Native Americans focusing on their impact in Hawaii.
Infectious Historians
Thanks for stopping by our website! We encourage you to listen to our podcast episodes, where we’ve included further information and readings on the topic. Feel free to check our blog, with posts written by ourselves as well as our guests to the podcast. You can find more information on infamous historical pandemics in the Further Reading tab. We’d love to hear more from you – feedback on previous episodes, suggestions for future episodes, or questions about specific historical pandemics. Let’s stay in touch!
Robert Alpert (Fordham and Hunter College) discusses how pandemics are depicted in film, and what might we learn about the past from these films.
Recent Episodes
Episode 14 – The Influenza Pandemic of 1918 with Ida Milne
Chris De Wet joins Merle and Lee to discuss his work on using discourse analysis to better understand late antique disease through the eyes of the people who experienced them.
Episode 13 – Medieval Public Health with Guy Geltner and Janna Coomans
Guy Geltner and Janna Coomans join Merle and Lee to talk about what public health was like in medieval cities and why their work has important political implications for today.
Episode 12 – Fact, Fiction, or Both? A Discourse Approach to Historical Disease with Chris de Wet
Chris De Wet joins Merle and Lee to discuss his work on using discourse analysis to better understand late antique disease through the eyes of the people who experienced them.
Episode 11 – Tuberculosis in the Ancient World
Julia Simons talks to Merle and Lee about the evidence for tuberculosis and its effects around the Ancient World.
Episode 10 – The Third Pandemic
Christos Lynteris, a leading expert on the Third Plague Pandemic, discusses the Third Pandemic and its impacts during the 20th century.
Episode 9 – Public Health in the mid-20th Century
Thomas Zimmer speaks with Merle and Lee about the emergence and development of global public health from World War Two to the present.
Episode 8 – Studying Historical Epidemics
Merle and Lee discuss the late antique Justinianic Plague (c. 541-750), their current topic of research.
Recent Posts
COVID-19 mortality
The media visibility of COVID-19 mortality Lee Mordechai / April 13, 2020 The current pandemic, like other disasters, reveals much about the workings of different societies. Mortality – the most…
Responses to a Pandemic: Past and Present
Responses to a Pandemic: Past and Present Abigail Agresta / April 9, 2020 “…Some people were of the opinion that a sober and abstemious mode of living considerably reduced the…
Quarantine in the 19th Century Mediterranean and Self-Isolation Today
Quarantine in the 19th Century Mediterranean and Self-Isolation Today Alex Chase-Levenson / April 3, 2020 Quarantines, in response to epidemic disease, were first set up in the wake of…
Gardening, Baking, and Cooking
Gardening, Baking, and Cooking Merle Eisenberg / March 30, 2020 I wanted to start off on a lighter note for this first blog post as a way to introduce you…