Today is a COVIDCalls historians’ roundtable with Sandra Eder, Cindy Ermus, and Tiago Saraiva.
Sandra Eder is an assistant professor in the history department at the University of California, Berkeley, where she teaches U.S. gender history and the history of medicine. Her research focuses on gender, sexuality, and race in medicine and science, clinical practices and patient records, and the science of happiness. She has a book forthcoming on the emergence of the sex/gender binary in mid-twentieth-century American medicine. She is co-editor (with Elena Conis and Aimee Medeiros) of “Pink and Blue: Gender, Culture, and the Health of Children” which deploys gender—often in concert with class and race—as the central critical lens for understanding the function of pediatrics as a cultural and social project in modern U.S. history (Rutgers University Press in May 2021).
Dr. Cindy Ermus (@CindyErmus) is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Texas at San Antonio. She teaches courses on the history of disease and disasters, early modern Europe, and the Age of Revolutions. She has published on catastrophe and crisis management in eighteenth-century Europe and the Atlantic, and she is the editor of a volume titled Environmental Disaster in the Gulf South: Two Centuries of Catastrophe, Risk and Resilience (LSU Press 2018). Her current book project is a transnational study of the Plague of Provence of 1720 (“Great Plague of Marseille”), one of the last outbreaks of plague in Western Europe. She is also co-founder, executive editor, and contributor for the digital academic publication, Age of Revolutions (www.ageofrevolutions.com; on Twitter @AgeofRevs). 
Tiago Saraiva is Associate Professor of History at Drexel University, coeditor with Amy Slaton of the journal History and Technology, and author of Fascist Pigs: Technoscientific Organisms and the History of Fascism (2016). He has been a Research fellow at the Institute of Social Sciences of the University of Lisbon as well as visiting professor at UCLA and UC Berkeley. He is currently studying the significance of cloning Californian oranges for the history of racial capitalism in the United States, South Africa, Algeria, Palestine, and Brazil, and completing Moving Crops and the Scales of History, a collective manuscript with multiple co-authors.