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Episode: 260. Emily Mendenhall | Unmasked: COVID, Community, and the Case of Okoboji
Description: Join us for BookThinkers LIVE 2025! Happening November 9, 2025!https://www.bookthinkers.com/book-thinkers-live-2025In today’s episode, we have the pleasure to interview Emily Mendenhall, author of Unmasked: COVID, Community, and the Case of Okoboji. Emily is a medical anthropologist, professor at Georgetown University, and award-winning author whose research explores the intersections of health, culture, and politics. Her work has taken her from the hospital wards of Chicago to the villages of South Africa—and ultimately back to her hometown of Okoboji, Iowa during the height of the pan...