History in the Time of Pandemics: Essays and Bibliographies
An Open Peer Review Project of the IsisCB
The special issue has now been published in the journal Isis, and you can find the entire open access issue [at this link]. The IsisCB Pandemics Special Issue consists of over 20 commissioned essays and bibliographies listed below. Clicking on the [Submission & Review Files] link to each essay will take you to the status page for that essay where you can read each version of the essay and bibliography alongside the peer reviews and editors' reports. Clicking on the [Published Version] link will take you to the final published article and bibliography. You can read more about the project, the unique open review process, and the publication here. As of this writing, we are still commisioning essays that will be published online in later supplements of Isis. (Note: Some essays below appear in multiple sections.)
- 1. A French language historiography of epidemics and pandemics [Submission & Review Files]
- Guillaume Linte (University of Lausanne)
- Paul-Arthur Tortosa (University of Strasbourg)
- Toily Anicet Zran (Alassane Ouattara University)
- 2. Locating Epidemics in African Historiography [Submission & Review Files]
- Susan Iseyen (Princeton University)
- Kieth Wailoo (Princeton University)
New Essays Under Review in 2024
- 1. A Short Bibliography of the History of Epidemiology [Submission & Review Files] [Published Version]
- Lukas Engelmann (University of Edinburgh)
- 2. Emerging Infectious Diseases and Disease Emergence: Critical, Ontological and Epistemological Approaches [Submission & Review Files] [Published Version]
- Matheus Alves Duarte da Silva (University of St. Andrews)
- Jules Alexander Skotnes-Brown (University of St. Andrews)
- 3. Vaccination and Pandemics [Submission & Review Files] [Published Version]
- Dora Vargha (University of Exeter)
- Imogen Wilkins (Humboldt Universität zu Berlin)
- 4. Coinfection, Comorbidity, and Syndemics: On the Edges of Epidemic Historiography [Submission & Review Files] [Published Version]
- Lukas Engelmann (University of Edinburgh)
- 1. Making Microbes: Theorising the Invisible in Historical Scholarship [Submission & Review Files] [Published Version]
- James Stark (University of Leeds)
- 2. Zoonosis: The Age of Pandemics [Submission & Review Files] [Published Version]
- Barbara C. Canavan (Independent scholar)
- 3. Influenza: Bibliographic Review [Submission & Review Files] [Published Version]
- Mark Honigsbaum (City University, London)
- 4. Documenting a Global Disease Response: Global AIDS Historiography and Its Significance for COVID-19 [Submission & Review Files] [Published Version]
- Reiko Kanazawa (Nagoya University)
- 1. Epidemic Inequities: Social and Racial Inequality in the History of Pandemics [Submission & Review Files] [Published Version]
- Michael F. McGovern (Princeton University)
- Keith A. Wailoo (Princeton University))
- 2. The Limits of Linearity: Recasting Histories of Epidemics in the Global South [Submission & Review Files] [Published Version]
- Valentina Parisi (Columbia University)
- Kavita Sivaramakrishnan (Columbia University)
- 3. Documenting a Global Disease Response: Global AIDS Historiography and Its Significance for COVID-19 [Submission & Review Files] [Published Version]
- Reiko Kanazawa (Nagoya University)
Part A. Essays and bibliographies with a topical focus
1. Understanding pandemics and epidemics
2. Understanding disease and disease types
3. Exploring social and political issues
- 1. Pandemics in the Ancient Mediterranean World [Submission & Review Files] [Published Version]
- Rebecca Flemming (University of Exeter)
- 2. Plague in the Mediterranean/Islamicate World: A Bibliographic Review [Submission & Review Files] [Published Version]
- Nükhet Varlık (Rutgers University)
- 3. Global Health in a Semi-Globalized World: History of Infectious Diseases in the Medieval Period [Submission & Review Files] [Published Version in De Medio Aevo]
- Monica H. Green (Independent Scholar, Phoenix, Arizona)
- 4. The Great Dying: The Epidemiological and Medical Implications of Old and New World Encounters in the Pre- and Post-Contact Eras [Submission & Review Files]
- Monica H. Green (Independent Scholar, Phoenix, Arizona)
- 1. Epidemic Histories in East Asia [Submission & Review Files] [Published Version]
- Robert Peckham (University of Hong Kong)
- Mei Li (Canada)
- 2. History of Pandemics in Southeast Asia: A Return of National Anxieties? [Submission & Review Files] [Published Version]
- Vivek Neelakantan (Independent Historian of Medicine, Southeast Asia, India)
- 3. COVID-19 Response in South Asia: Case Studies from India, Sri Lanka, and Pakistan [Submission & Review Files] [Published Version]
- Arnab Chakraborty (Shanghai University)
- 4. The Limits of Linearity: Recasting Histories of Epidemics in the Global South [Submission & Review Files] [Published Version]
- Valentina Parisi (Columbia University)
- Kavita Sivaramakrishnan (Columbia University)
- 5. The European Perspective on Pandemics: A Bibliographic Survey [Submission & Review Files] [Published Version]
- Leander Diener (Universität Zürich)
- Flurin Condrau (Universität Zürich)
- 6. Global Health in a Semi-Globalized World: History of Infectious Diseases in the Medieval Period [Submission & Review Files] [Published Version in De Medio Aevo]
- Monica H. Green (Independent Scholar, Phoenix, Arizona)
- 7. The Great Dying: The Epidemiological and Medical Implications of Old and New World Encounters in the Pre- and Post-Contact Eras [Submission & Review Files]
- Monica H. Green (Independent Scholar, Phoenix, Arizona)
- 8. History of Pandemics in Latin America [Submission & Review Files] [Published Version]
- José Ragas (Instituto de Historia – Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile)
- 1. History of Epidemics: A Bibliographical Essay on Secondary Sources in Italian and on Italy [Submission & Review Files] [Published Version]
- Maria Conforti (Sapienza Università di Roma)
- 2. History of Pandemics: A bibliographical Essay on Secondary Sources in German [Submission & Review Files] [Published Version]
- Heiner Fangerau (Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf)
- Ulrich Koppitz (Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf)
- Alfons Labisch (Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf)
- 3. Mapping the French Landscape of Secondary Literature about Epidemics and Epidemiology [Submission & Review Files]
- Gladys Kostyrka (University of Edinburgh)
- 4. History of Pandemics in Latin America [Submission & Review Files] [Published Version]
- José Ragas (Instituto de Historia – Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile)
- 5. Epidemic Histories in East Asia [Submission & Review Files] [Published Version]
- Robert Peckham (University of Hong Kong)
- Mei Li (Canada)
Part B. Essays and bibliographies with a chronological, geographical, or linguistic focus
4. Contextualizing pandemics: premodern histories
5. Contextualizing pandemics: geographically based histories
6. Contextualizing pandemic historiography: scholarship in different languages
Author Index
- Canavan, Barbara C. - Zoonosis (A.2.2)
- Chakraborty, Arnab - South Asia (B.5.3)
- Condrau, Flurin - European Perspective (B.5.5)
- Conforti, Maria - Italian language (B.6.1)
- Diener, Leander - European Perspective (B.5.5)
- Engelmann, Lukas - Coinfection (A.1.4); Epidemiology (A.1.1)
- Fangerau, Heiner - German language (B.6.2)
- Flemming, Rebecca - Ancient Mediterranean (B.4.1)
- Green, Monica H. - Medieval (B.4.3, B.5.6); New World (B.4.4, B.5.7)
- Honigsbaum, Mark - Influenza (A.2.3)
- Kanazawa, Reiko - AIDS (A.2.4, A.3.3)
- Koppitz, Ulrich - German language (B.6.2)
- Kostyrka, Gladys - French langauge (B.6.3)
- Labisch, Alfons - German language (B.6.2)
- Li, Mei - East Asia (B.5.1, B.6.5)
- McGovern, Michael F. - Inequalities (A.3.1)
- Neelakantan, Vivek - Southeast Asia (B.5.2)
- Parisi, Valentina - Global South (A.3.2, B.5.4)
- Peckham, Robert - East Asia (B.5.1, B.6.5)
- Ragas, José - Latin America (B.5.8, B.6.4)
- Silva, Matheus Alves Duarte da - Emerging Infections (A.1.2)
- Sivaramakrishnan, Kavita - Global South (A.3.2, B.5.4)
- Skotnes-Brown, Jules Alexander - Emerging Infections (A.1.2)
- Stark, James - Microbes (A.2.1)
- Vargha, Dora - Vaccination (A.1.3)
- Varlık, Nükhet - Islamicate World (B.4.2)
- Wailoo, Keith A. - Inequalities (A.3.1)
- Wilkins, Imogen - Vaccination (A.1.3)