COVID-Related Research
From 2020-2024, I conducted interviews with experts who designed policy around COVID-19 and residents of three Chicago neighborhoods: Austin, Little Village and Albany Park.
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Articles
Decoteau, Claire Laurier. 2024. “The Entangled Emergencies of COVID-19.” Sociological Theory 42, 2 (June): 97-113. https://doi.org/10.1177/07352751241247567
Garrett, Cal Lee and Claire Laurier Decoteau. 2023. “Data Citizenship: Quantifying Structural Racism in COVID-19 and Beyond.” Big Data & Society 10(2): https://doi.org/10.1177/20539517231213821.
Decoteau, Claire Laurier and Cal Lee Garrett. 2022. “Disease Surveillance Infrastructure and the Economization of Public Health.” Sociology of Health & Illness. 44: 1251-1269.
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Talks
ESS Robin M. Williams Lecture, 2024. “Emergency: COVID-19 and the Uneven Valuation of Life.”
Coser Lecture, 2023. “Emergency: COVID-19 and the Uneven Valuation of Life.”
ASA Presidential Panel 2022, Understanding Vaccine Refusal. Paper: “Accumulated Distrust and the Racialization of Vaccine Policy and Hesitancy”
ASA Presidential Panel, 2022, A Sociology of Contagion, “COVID Emergencies: Acute Crises, Slow Emergency & the Uneven Valuation of Life”
ASA Invited Panelist 2021, Vaccinations in the Age of COVID, Culture & Contemporary Life Talk Series, Culture Section
Invited Speaker, Health Disparities and Structural Racism, Endemic/Epidemic, Medical Humanities & Social Medicine Series, 2020-2021, Johns Hopkins University
ASA Panel 2021, “Theorizing Crisis”; Paper: “COVID Emergencies: Acute Crises, Slow Emergencies and the Uneven Valuation of Life”
ASA Presidential Panel 2020, Sociological Perspective on COVID-19, “Techno-Politics and the Uneven Valuation of Life”
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Reports, Op-Eds & Press
Decoteau quoted in: “Black, Hispanic Parents Say Access, Cost Keep Kids From COVID Vax: Poll,” by Jake Thomas, Newsweek, 7/26/22.
Decoteau, Claire. 2022. COVID may no longer feel like a crisis. But the social emergency it created is far from over. Opinion, San Francisco Chronicle, 3/31/22.
Thometz, Kristen. 2022. UIC Report Details Failures of Public Policy Responses to COVID-19 in Chicago. WTTW/PBS, 3/4/22.
Decoteau, Claire and Cal Garrett. 2022. To protect vulnerable Chicagoans, rental assistance must recognize informal arrangements. Opinion, Chicago Tribune, 1/5/22
December 2021. Deadly Disparities in the Time of COVID-19: How Public Policy Fails Black and Latinx Chicagoans. IRRPP Report.
Decoteau, Claire. Why Are Poor Americans Resisting the Vaccine? Because COVID is the Least of Their Problems. Opinion. Newsweek. 11/5/2021
Recordings of Public Launch of IRRPP Report
Deadly Disparities in the Time of COVID-19: How Public Policy Failed Black & Latinx Chicagoans
IRRPP UCAN Report Launch
For Black History Month, 2022, IRRPP partnered with UCAN to host a public conversation about the relevance of the Deadly Disparities report for Black communities in Chicago. You can watch the report presentation and conversation here.