EP #171 - 11.17.2020 - The COVID-19 Oral History, Memory, and Narrative Archive

Today we have sociologist Ryan Hagen, co-director of the NYC Covid-19 Oral History, Narrative and Memory Archive.

Ryan Hagen is a postdoctoral research fellow in the department of sociology at Columbia University who studies risk and social change. His research explores how people imagine future dangers and try to avoid them, and how this process of risk perception and management shapes the social world in the present. He is currently at work on a book based on an ethnography of emergency managers and continuity planners in New York City, and is currently the co-director of the New York Covid-19 Oral History, Memory, and Narrative archive, a longitudinal study of the lived experience of the pandemic in New York City, which launched in April of 2020 and is currently conducting its second wave of interviews.