Speculum Spotlight: Burial Archaeology and the First Pandemic (Kay, Wilson, Singer, & O'Mara)
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- Apr 1
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In this episode, Reed O'Mara chats with co-authors Janet E. Kay, Jordan Wilson, and Rachel Singer about academic approaches to archaeological and genomic evidence from grave sites and their article "Burial Archaeology and the First Plague Pandemic" (Speculum 100.2), co-written with István Koncz, Merle Eisenberg, Lee Mordechai, and Timothy P. Newfield.
Janet E. Kay is a lecturer in the Department of Art and Archaeology and the Department of Classics at Princeton University.
Jordan Wilson is a postdoctoral researcher at the Earth Commons at Georgetown University.
Rachel Singer is a doctoral candidate in the Department of History at Georgetown University.
Katherine L. Jansen is a historian at the Catholic University of America. She currently serves as the Editor of Speculum: A Journal of Medieval Studies.
Reed O'Mara is a PhD candidate and Mellon Foundation Fellow in the joint art history program between Case Western Reserve University and the Cleveland Museum of Art. She is the 2025–27 Samuel H. Kress Institutional Fellow at the Zentralinstitute für Kunstgeschichte in Munich.
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