Nicole Elizabeth Barnes, Assistant Professor in the Departments of History and Gender, Sexuality and Feminist Studies at Duke University; Miriam Gross, Associate Professor in the Departments of History and of International and Area Studies at the University of Oklahoma; and Katherine Mason, medical anthropologist who conducts ethnographic fieldwork in China and the U.S. Her research addresses issues in medical anthropology, population health, bioethics, China studies, reproductive health, mental health and global health.

The Center for Chinese Studies presents a Faculty Roundtable, with Nicole Barnes, Assistant Professor of History at Duke University; Katherine Mason, Vartan Gregorian Assistant Professor of Anthropology & Director of Undergraduate Research and Community Engagement for Anthropology at Brown University; and Miriam Gross, Associate Professor of History and International & Area Studies, University of Oklahoma. This roundtable conversation focuses on considering the pandemic from a variety of perspectives: administrative preparedness, enhanced social controls, socioeconomic impacts, gender roles, community relations, grassroots organizing, state-society relations, human-animal relations, zoonotic transfer, vaccine development and delivery, etc. This lively and interactive conversation aims to engage questions and contributions from the audience.