Today is a discussion of DEEP HISTORIES OF DISEASE IN THE COVID-19 ERA w/historian Rebecca Winer & physical therapy student Zoe Mendel.  This is a partnership call with the Lepage Center for History in the Public Interest at Villanova University.

Zoe Mendel is a senior at Villanova, participating in the health affiliations six-year Doctor of Physical Therapy program through Thomas Jefferson University. In addition to completing her Bachelor of Science in Biology in May of 2021, she is currently a first year Doctor of Physical Therapy Student and will graduate from Jefferson in 2023.  She is an active member of the Physical Therapy Society, an organization that raises money for physical therapy-based charities, and is an officer at Hands of Hope; a Pro Bono clinic located in South Philadelphia.
Rebecca Winer is an Associate Professor of History at Villanova University specializing in the Middle Ages. Her research focuses on women, gender, and Christian-Jewish-Muslim relations in medieval Roussillon (in southern France) and Catalonia (in Eastern Spain), and Slavery Studies. She is the author of Women, Wealth, and Community in Perpignan, c. 1250–1300: Christians, Jews, and Enslaved Muslims in a Medieval Mediterranean Town (Ashgate, 2006) as well as numerous essays on medieval mothers, childcare, Jewish women, domestic service, slavery, and notarial culture in the Middle Ages. She is coeditor with Federica Francesconi of Jewish Women's History from Antiquity to the Present (Wayne State University Press, forthcoming fall 2021).