Emily Mendenhall

Emily Mendenhall is a medical anthropologist, Guggenheim Fellow, and Professor and Director of the Science, Technology and International Affairs Program at the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service. She is the author of Unmasked: COVID, Community, and the Case of Okoboji and Invisible Illness: A History, from Hysteria to Long Covid.

Our first-ever Special Issue | May 2026

Every quarter, we publish a Special Issue of articles that speak to each other. Our first volume came out in May 2026.

Emily Mendenhall
The Current Culture of Medicine Is Failing People With Long COVID

Instead of switchboards, long COVID clinics can be incubators to reimagine medicine itself.

Alba Azola
and
Emily Mendenhall
What Nursing Can Do to Make the Sickest Wealthy Country Healthy Again

Nursing has been viewed as the handmaiden of the patriarchy. But that’s the wrong way to see it.

Julie A Zuniga
,
Isabella Turilli
and
Emily Mendenhall

Emily Mendenhall

Our first-ever Special Issue | May 2026

The Current Culture of Medicine Is Failing People With Long COVID

What Nursing Can Do to Make the Sickest Wealthy Country Healthy Again