EP #94 - Social Sciences in the Pandemic - Alexa Dietrich

Today, I talk about the big questions of social science research with Alexa Dietrich of the SSRC!

 

Alexa S. Dietrich is program director for the SSRCouncil’s Transregional Collaboratory on the Indian Ocean, the Scholarly Borderlands initiative, and codirector of the Program on Religion and the Public Sphere. And assoc prof anthropology wagner college. She is trained in medical anthropology and epidemiology, earning both a PhD and MPH from Emory University. Her interests lie at the intersections of culture and health, technology and the natural environment, and the application of qualitative and quantitative research methods. She conducted community action research over seven years in the northern pharmaceutical corridor of Puerto Rico, published in the monograph The Drug Company Next Door: Pollution, Jobs, and Community Health in Puerto Rico (NYU Press, 2013), winner of the Julian Steward Award for the best book in environmental anthropology in 2015.