EP #133 - 9.23.2020 - Teaching in COVID-19: Disaster Pedagogy in Real Time

Today it is the second of my teaching COVID-19 sessions, today with Sarah Raskin and Nicole Welk-Joerger.

Nicole Welk-Joerger is an interdisciplinary historian, trained in the history of science, technology, and medicine as well as anthropology. Her research focuses on human-animal relationships, particularly those that influence health and welfare as they are broadly construed and constantly redefined by agricultural and medical industries. She is currently a Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow at North Carolina State University, teaching courses in U.S. history, agricultural history, and the history of science.   

Sarah Raskin is a medical anthropologist and Assistant Professor in the L. Douglas Wilder School of Government and Public Affairs, Virginia Commonwealth University. She draws on her knowledge as a former public health practitioner at local and federal levels to teach urban health, public health emergency preparedness, and health policy across undergraduate and graduate levels. A self described "oral health equity evangelist" and passionate Appalachianist, Sarah collaborates with a multi-disciplinary team that investigates dental disparities and identifies policy and practice-based solutions to drive oral health equity, in close relationship with community partners across the state. She's also a mom and aunt to elementary school-aged kids who are, probably like yours, getting through lessons one Zoom at a time.