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Prof. Jane F. Thrailkill Awarded National Humanities Center Fellowship Congratulations to Prof. Jane Thrailkill on her recently awarded fellowship from the National Humanities Center! Prof. Thrailkill’s project is titled “The Agony of Empathy: A Health Humanities Intervention.” Read more about Prof. Thrailkill’s research below: “I’ve titled my project ‘The Agony of Empathy,’ which is meant to present a puzzle: isn’t empathy a good thing, and in fact something that — when it arises in the right context — has the capacity to relieve rather than to cause suffering? I’ve b...

MA Student Megan Swartzfager’s COVID-19 in U.S. Prisons ArcGIS Story Map Featured in Synapsis Prisons have been largely undiscussed hotspots of SARS-CoV-2 infection and death. Incarcerated people are 550% more likely to contract COVID-19 and 300% more likely to die from it than non-incarcerated people, according to an article by Brendan Saloner, Kalind Parish, Julie A. Ward, Grace DiLaura, and Sharon Dolovich published in the Journal of the American Medical Association in July 2020. And yet, the public discourse regarding the pandemic’s spread has largely excluded discussions of carceral ...