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From Enforcers to Guardians: Q&A with authors Hannah L. F. Cooper, ScD, and Mindy Thompson Fullilove, MD
Why did you write From Enforcers to Guardians: A Public Health Primer on Ending Police Violence? Excessive police violence has become an inescapable reality in the United States. Some of us have learned to scan the sidewalks and streets for officers from the...

Wildflowers of the Adirondacks
Stunning. That was my impression on my first visit to the Adirondacks in summer 2009. I had recently spent considerable time in other beautiful areas but nothing compared to the majesty of the Adirondacks. It was a new world to me. The image of sky, water, and...
Tackling the CRISPR Debate
Perspectives in Biology & Medicine has dedicated its entire Winter 2020 issue to exploring the complex and contentious issue of CRISPR gene editing. In light of the timely nature of the topic, three articles from the issue have been made freely available...

Preventing Child Trafficking: A Public Health Approach
I started researching trafficking and its attendant forms of child exploitation in the late 1990s. Back then, if I mentioned that I was working on “trafficking,” most people assumed I meant drug trafficking. A few even responded by telling me about their...

Entangled Lives: Labor, Livelihood, and Landscapes of Change in Rural Massachusetts
Among the most powerful artifacts I know of early American women’s work isn’t an artifact at all. It is the darkened wood around some eighteenth-century flooring, shown to me many years ago now by an architectural conservator at work in the Porter-Phelps...

Staten Island Stories
The only book about Staten Island I can remember reading as a child was Paul Zindel’s The Pigman which probably most Staten Islanders have been assigned to read at one point in middle school. I liked The Pigman, the working-class characteristics of Lorraine’s...

Birth and Death in an Ethical Upside Down
The plot of the hit show Stranger Things revolves around another dimension, the Upside Down, where people’s thoughts and behaviors are controlled by an organism known as the Mind Flayer. When the Mind Flayer crosses into our world, it upends the moral...

America’s First Ebola Outbreak and the Response Towards African Immigrants in Dallas
Alim, an immigrant from Liberia, was quick to realize why fewer passengers were using his services as an airport-shuttle driver at the Dallas Fort Worth airport. A few weeks earlier, Thomas Duncan, a native of Liberia, had died of Ebola at a hospital in Dallas...

Designer Bob Cronan on “Distilling Complexity Into Straightforward Visuals”
JHU Press recently invited me to comment on my collaboration with them over the past decade, creating maps, infographics and spot illustrations for books. So far, I’ve completed more than 20 projects for JHU Press, including the double page graphic pictured...

Did Ancient Women Read Books?
Author Sarit Kattan Gribetz joins us for a Q&A about “Women as Readers of the Nag Hammadi Codices" published in the Journal of Early Christian Studies. (Article can be found at https://muse.jhu.edu/article/709379.) How did you delve into this area of research...
