Fall 2022: The Pandemic Divide
Global Inequality Research Initiative: The Pandemic Divide will explore inequalities through study of the recent Cook Center publication The Pandemic Divide: How COVID Increased Inequality in America. Through a series of remote and in-person lectures, undergraduate and graduate students will engage with instructors and guest speakers in discussions surrounding the events of the pandemic and its disproportionate impact on people of color, specifically through the lens of education, wealth, health, employment, and housing. Students will complete a semester-long research project of their choosing as part of the course.
The 2022 fall semester GIRI course will focused on the disparate impacts of global pandemic. The forthcoming book The Pandemic Divide—written by faculty, researchers and collaborators of the Cook Center–examines the racial, gender and economic implications of COVID-19. The broad goals of the course are:
- Examine past (and ongoing) inequalities within the book’s area of focus and how they made certain populations especially vulnerable to this pandemic
- Identify and propose policy interventions to improve public health and social equality outcomes.
- Conduct novel research related to economic inequality and the COVID-19 pandemic using methods across the social sciences
Instructor: Adam Hollowell
Guest speakers include authors of chapters from The Pandemic Divide. Read their bios here.
2022 Project Titles:
| Lauren Prox | Assessing the Distribution of FEMA’s COVID-19 Funeral Financial Assistance |
| Rohan Bhambhani | Can Public Transit Improve Socioeconomic Outcomes in American Cities for Low-Income Communities? |
| Rachel Richards | Changing Infant Mortality and Abortion Rate Post-Roe |
| Rebecca Eneyni | Child, early, and forced marriage in hte case of Syrian women and girls in Turkey |
| Dylan Geller | Climate Policy and Access to Clean Water: A COVID-19 Perspective |
| Alex Glick | |
| Tucker Lovell | Education and Incarceration: Second Chance Pell |
| Quinn Davis | Fast Fashion: Climate Inequality |
| Sanjit Tatavarthy | |
| Kaila Balch | Food apartheid at the table: the impact of historical redlining on food security in Durham, North Carolina |
| Yuqi Zhou | Gaokao System and Education Inequality in China |
| Rachel Enggasser | Global Comparisons of Drug Use and Crime, Imprisonment, and Welfare |
| Charlotte Navin-Weinstein | How Did the SocioEconomic Impacts of COVID-19 Contribute to Inter Personal Violence (IPV) |
| Jules Feingold | How do racial inequalities shape the private college experience from admissions to graduation? An analysis of standardized test scores, GPA levels, and graduation rates. |
| Alexa Mark | |
| Colten Smith | How has the pandemic increased awareness and change for racial inequality within the criminal justice system in the United States? |
| Malini Narula | How Political Part Membership Has Affected Indigenous Language Populations in Brazil |
| Zuoyin Wang | How the Choice of Industry Affects Income Inequality: Evidence from China |
| Claire Oh | Inequality in Long-Term Care Facilities (LTCF) Usage Among Asian-Americans |
| Eli Weiner | Inequality in Sports: The Gender Pay Gap |
| Runling Wu | Mapping Media Bias to Local Observables |
| Julia Feldman | Possible Effects of Music Education on Income Mobility |
| Tomás Leonardo | |
| Drew Greene | Practice what you preach: Tertiary education as a public good in high-income western nations |
| Mingke Chen | Regional Marketization and Inequality of Regional Economic Development: Research in Chinese Provinces |
| Xinyi Wang | |
| Hannah Marsho | Spatial Analysis of Property Values and the Community Response to Hydraulic Fracking in Pennsylvania |
| Jiawei Qiu | Study of Entrepreneurship Among Female Farmers in Rural China |
| Wenqi Wei | |
| Vance Johnson | The Disproportionate Effect of Gun Violence on Neighborhoods of lower Socio-Economic Status in Chicago |
| Angelina Frances | The Disproportionate Effects of Climate Change on Conflict in the Middle East |
| Hannah Stone | |
| Evan Henley | The Effectiveness of a Microfinance Intervention in Detroit |
| Alexander Williams | The Energy Transition in America: A Demographic Breakdown |
| Abdedaim Battioui | The Impact of Covid-19 on Water Policy in the MENA Region: An Exploratory Study |
| Bobby Lee | |
| Kaitlyn Luo | The Impact of Female Policymakers on Abortion Rights Policymaking |
| Gavin Xu | The One Child Policy (OCP) and Urban-rural Inequality in China |
| Alexis Williamson | Title IX Compliance and Equity in Collegiate Athletics |
| Michael Bao | To What Extent Have California’s Decarbonization Policies Made Zero-Emission Vehicles More AFfordable for people across income gaps? |
| Daniel Tan | |
| Saad Ibrahim | United States vs. Pakistan: Understanding Differences in Disaster Relief Funding and Capabilities |
| Jason Schnall | |
| Morgan Robertson | Voter Suppression in Georgia?: COVID-19 and S.B. 202 |
| Hannah Schuffer | Wait, isn’t it 2022? Understanding the present experience of LGBT+ young adults in the U.S. |
| Shujun Yang | What is the Impact of China’s Three Child Policy on the Income of Chinese Women? |
| Gabrielle Battle | Will Communal Or State Actors Better Serve the Needs of Sex Trafficked Black Girls? |
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