Today is a discussion of partnership w/the Lepage Center for History in the Public Interest of Villanova University, Merle Eisenberg of the The Infectious Historians Podcast.
Merle Eisenberg is a postdoctoral fellow at the National Socio-Environmental Synthesis Center (SESYNC) at the University of Maryland and received a PhD in history from Princeton University. He has published articles in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the American Historical Review, and Past & Present among other venues. He co-founded and is co-editor of the Middle Ages for Educators that is designed for teachers, students, and members of the public who want to learn about Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages. He received a grant from the LePage Center for his weekly podcast, Infectious Historians that discusses historical pandemics and diseases while also discussing some pressing questions today.