In the first session Ryan Hagen reflects on disaster management, how he came to study disaster risk management academically in the early 2000s. In addition to the COVID-19 pandemic, Hagen discusses the September 11 terrorist attacks and Hurricane Katrina. Hagen also describes the nature of a socially distanced life during the COVID-19 pandemic, including his interactions with people on Zoom calls a nd phone calls and interactions in-person with neighbors and strangers.
In this second session, Hagen describes his experience being a working parent in a household in Riverhead, New York with two kids aged four and six. He also reflects on the Black Lives Matter protests that occurred in spring and summer of 2020.
In his third session, Ryan reflects on this oral history project from both a professional and personal point of view. He talks about how the pandemic and this project have come to shape his intellectual trajectory for the coming years. The interview covers a meta-level discussion of crisis and repair with personal examples from the last two years
College teachers; COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020-; COVID-19 (Disease)--Social Aspects; Epidemics--Social Aspects; Social distancing (Public health); Emergency management; September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001; Black lives matter movement; Oral history; United States Race relations 21st century; Hagen, Ryan; Columbia University
Format
oral histories
Genre
Interviews
Date
2022
Physical Description
128 pages
Note (Biographical)
Ryan Hagen is a postdoctoral scholar at Columbia University. Born in Wauwatosa, Wisconsin, He lives in the East Rock neighborhood of New Haven, Connecticut. Hagen received his BA in English and American Literature from New York University and his PhD in sociology from Columbia University. He was a co-director of the New York City COVID-19 Narrative and Memory oral history project
Note
Interviewed by Carlin Zia on April 8 and September 1, 2020 and by Liza Zapol on September 9, 2022
Note (Provenance)
Ryan Hagen, Gift, transferred from Columbia Center for Oral History Research 2023