Call for Applications, Columbia University: Writing the History of Covid-19: Lessons for the Next Pandemic
While the Covid-19 crisis is still unfolding, it has already revealed much about the history of our time and left lessons that will be important to study before the next pandemic. But even before it began, archivists and scholars were struggling to develop new methods to record and analyze history in an age of abundant but perishable data. Resource constraints and fights over access have only intensified because of pressures on archival budgets and the partisan politics that surround any attempt at retrospective analysis.