Media Highlights
“Masking Even Some of the Time This Winter Could Help Prevent Respiratory Infections.” Scientific American, December 21, 2023.
“Growing your family and career with Emily Mendenhall.” Easy Style with Sami. May 2023.
“STIA Professor Emily Mendenhall Wins Guggenheim for Anthropological Work on COVID-19.” SFS Communications, April 6, 2023.
“Mental Health.” Phenomena Podcast, February 22, 2023.
“Digging Deeper to Understand Pandemic Conflicts.” SFS Magazine, July 2022.
“Second Boosters, Masks in the Next Wave and Smart Risk Decisions: COVID Quickly, Episode 27,” COVID Quickly, Scientific American, April 1, 2022.
“Unmasked — the story of The Lakes of northwest Iowa during the pandemic summer of 2020 by a medical anthropologist.” The E’Ville Good, March 29, 2022 (article)
“Understanding the Choice Not to Mask: A new book details how culture, public health, and a pandemic wave collided.” Psychology Today. March 16. 2022 (article)
“P. 99, Unmasked,” Campaign for the American Reader, March 15, 2022 (article)
“Women in Research.” Elsevier Connect, February 14, 2022 (Interview)
“STIA Professor Emily Mendenhall’s New Book “Unmasks” COVID-19 Denialism in her Hometown.” School of Foreign Service News, December 8, 2021 (article)
“Best Masks, Explaining Mask Anger, Biden’s New Plan.” COVID Quickly, Scientific American. September 2021 (Podcast)
“COVID-19 Syndemic? Why anthropologists say calling it a pandemic isn’t enough.” KCBS All News. August 27, 2021. (news)
“American should prepare for a double pandemic.” The Atlantic. July 15, 2021 (news)
“Framing: How Dickinson County denizens comprehended and handled the pandemic.” Iowa Science Interface. May 31, 2021 (review)
“The Complex Reasons Why Some Refuse to Wear a Mask. Psychology Today. February 17, 2021. (review)
“COVID-19 Bigger Picture.” KAAL-TV Iowa News, August 2020. (interview)
“COVID-19 Pandemic 7: Both pandemic and syndemic—how clusters of preexisting comorbid conditions have driven up fatalities.” Movement is Life: Catalyst for Change. (podcast)
“A STIA Professor Rethinking Global Health.” School of Foreign Service News. June 24, 2019 (article)
“Health on the Move: Understanding people—and disease—in transit.” Georgetown Medicine. Fall/winter 2018 (article)
“Syndemics and Population Health: A Q&A with Anthropologist Emily Mendenhall.” Interdisciplinary Association for Population Health Science. 2017 (Interview)