Unmasked: COVID, Community and the Case of Okoboji
Book disussion with Emily Mendenhall '04
Sponsored by the John Crosland, Jr. Center for Teaching and Learning 

Thursday, February 17, 2022
7 p.m. ET
Zoom Meeting

Join Emily Mendenhall '04, Professor at the School of Foreign Service in Georgetown, as she discusses her new book Unmasked: COVID, Community, and the Case of Okoboji.

The story is both personal and political. Author Emily Mendenhall ‘04, an anthropologist at Georgetown University, grew up in Okoboji, IA and her family still lives there. As the events of the pandemic unfolded, Mendenhall was in Okoboji, where she spoke formally with over 100 people and observed a community that rejected public health guidance, revealing deep-seated mistrust in outsiders and strong commitments to local thinking. Unmasked is a fascinating and heartbreaking account of where people put their trust, and how isolationist popular beliefs can be in America's small communities.

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