Originally published on August 31, 2020 (Bonus Episode)
Introduction
This is a bonus episode of Historically Thinking, dealing with higher education in the time of COVID.
The pandemic has changed much else, and it would seem—as the autumn semester of 2020 begins, more or less—that American higher education is going to be very different on the other side of the pandemic. Maybe.
I talk with two people of very different perspectives and ways of thinking. Holly Taylor is a bioethicist at the National Institutes of Health. Carla Yanni is an architectural historian at Rutgers University, whose latest book is on the history of American dormitories. Together they offer an interesting take on what is going on now on campuses across the nation—and what isn’t going on.
About the Guests
Holly Taylor is a bioethicist at the National Institutes of Health. Her research focuses on public health ethics, health policy, and the ethics of clinical and social research.
Carla Yanni is Professor of Architectural History at Rutgers University. Her most recent book is Living on Campus: An Architectural History of the American Dormitory (University of Minnesota Press, 2019). She studies the intersections of architecture, culture, and the history of higher education.
For Further Investigation
Carla Yanni, Living on Campus: An Architectural History of the American Dormitory (University of Minnesota Press, 2019)
Historical Thinking’s “Higher Ed: A Guide for the Perplexed” series
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