Janée Moses describes the process of completing a dissertation in a virtual format at the University of Michigan. Moses reports feeling sick before the stay-at-home orders toward the end of February and decided to quarantine as a precaution. Moses describes losing her sense of smell, a not widely known symptom of COVID-19 at the time and speaks about the COVID-19 antibody tests. She also unpacks f aith and the history of African American and Black communities' relationships to religion and spirituality, especially in the context of the United States. Moses describes her own spirituality having grown up in a Black church in Brooklyn
College students; COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020-; COVID-19 (Disease)--Health aspects; COVID-19 (Disease)--Social Aspects; Epidemics--Social Aspects; Spiritual formation; African Americans--Religion; Spirituality--United States; Moses, Janée, 1990-; University of Michigan
Format
oral histories
Genre
Interviews
Date
2020
Physical Description
48 pages
Note (Biographical)
Janée Moses grew up in Brooklyn. At the time of the interview, she was finishing her dissertation at the University of Michigan and about to start a post-doc at the University of Virginia
Note
Interviewed by Mary Marshall Clark on May 1, 2020
Note (Provenance)
Janée Moses, Gift, transferred from Columbia Center for Oral History Research 2023