COVID-19 pandemic chronicles of Elinor Renfield, 2020
Abstract
Written chronicles were a component of the New York City COVID-19 Narrative and Memory project in which participants were invited to contribute real-time logs of their experiences during the COVID-19 pandemic. What to include was left up to the participants. The request to them was to contribute anything that they considered worth sharing about their experience during the pandemic. Participants wer e sent an automated email every ten days reminding them to contribute their written chronicles. Entries were submitted to Columbia University's INCITE via the Internet
Elinor Renfield is an educator whose background is in theater. She grew up in Manhattan, studied in Boston and London, and then completed her Master's at City University of New York. Renfield taught at Princeton University for nearly nineteen years an d self-identifies as a middle-class, Jewish, New York "theater animal"
Note (Provenance)
Elinor Renfield, Gift, transferred from Columbia Center for Oral History Research 2023