Emily getting vaccinated for COVID-19 in 2021 (image of a white woman with a black mask receiving a needle into her left arm)
Dr. Emily Mendenhall is a medical anthropologist and Professor at the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University. She has published widely at the boundaries of anthropology, psychology, medicine, and public health. Her newest book is called, Unmasked: COVID, Community, and the Case of Okoboji. Professor Jonathan Metzl commented, “Unmasked is a breathtakingly brilliant portrait of the ways that communities define boundaries in the face of a pandemic in which threats come from afar and from within.” Dr. Seema Yasmin called it, “An essential read for understanding these increasingly disunited states.” Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Art Cullen described it this way: "Emily Mendenhall uses the eye of a medical anthropologist and the ear of an insider to explore the reaction of her conservative hometown in Northwest Iowa to the COVID-19 outbreak.”
