E. Thomas Ewing is a professor of history at Virginia Tech, with research and teaching interests in the history epidemics, medical history, and data in social context. His research on the history of epidemics, including Russian flu (1889) and Spanish flu (1918), has been published in Influenza and Other Respiratory Viruses, Current Research in Digital History, Computer IEEE and Medical History.
Ariel Ludwig recently received her doctoral degree in Virginia Tech’s Science and Technology in Society (STS) department. Prior to this, she completed her Masters of Public Health at Yale University. Her research primarily focuses on the intersection of the criminal justice system and public health. Her work has been published in the American Journal of Public Health, qualitative methods journals (forthcoming), and a number of substance use focused journals (additional articles forthcoming).
Jessica Brabble is a second-year history graduate student at Virginia Tech, with research interests in disability history, the history of popular culture, and entertainment history. She is currently researching the use of bodies as spectacle at the North Carolina State Fair at the turn of the 20th century. Her work has been published in the Journal of the North Carolina Association of Historians (forthcoming), Nursing Clio, and the Disability History Association’s blog.