Today I welcome Ryan Hagen, co-director of the New York City COVID-19 Oral History, Memory, and Narrative Archive project at Columbia University
Dr. Ryan Hagen is a Lecturer in the department of Sociology at Columbia University. He studies risk and the social construction of knowledge, focusing on how people and institutions anticipate future dangers. He is a co-director of the New York City COVID-19 Oral History, Memory, and Narrative Archive project at Columbia University, which since April of 2020 has conducted hundreds of interviews with New Yorkers, tracing their evolving experiences of the pandemic.