 | Martha Lincoln Associate Professor - San Francisco State University |
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03.07.2025-29.08.2025
The Politics of Ventilation in the “Post”-Pandemic US
As of September 2023, I am currently on a year-long sabbatical from teaching at San Francisco State University. This dedicated time will allow me to initiate field research on the proposed study, which is a new project for me, and to begin a review of the relevant literature. My request for ethical approval on this study was also recently submitted to the IRB at SF State and is pending, with a decision forthcoming in the next several weeks. I expect to be able to begin data collection before the end of December 2023. Without teaching or service responsibilities in Spring 2024, I should be able to accomplish a significant amount of interviewing and to fully explore the research literatures.
Hence, at the time of the proposed stay at the Fondation Brocher, I expect to have completed my data collection and the preliminary analysis of my interview and other data. With this source material in hand, I will be able to dedicate the duration of the stay to the write-up of my findings. By the conclusion of a stay at Fondation Brocher in 2025, this project will be written up in the form of conference presentations, at least one peer-reviewed article, and opinion essays summarizing key findings for scientific and lay audiences. If granted a two-month stay, I also hope to develop a book proposal and an outline of the book, and to begin drafting the book as well. I will then proceed to complete the book over the following year.
Since 2008, I’ve conducted field research in Vietnam, with projects supported by the Social Science Research Council and IIE Fulbright. I’ve published research on Hanoi’s informal sector, stratification and deregulation in health care provision, the ghosts of war, alcohol use and drinking cultures, the redefinition of poverty under late socialism, and urban cholera outbreaks. My book, Epidemic Politics in Contemporary Vietnam: Public Health and the State, was published in 2021 by Bloomsbury Academic. With Nhu Truong (UW Madison) and Peter Zinoman (UC Berkeley), I’m one of the editors-in-chief of the Journal of Vietnamese Studies.
My more recent research has addressed the practice of medical crowdfunding by cancer patients in the United States, with publications available and forthcoming in Medical Anthropology Quarterly and the Journal of Philanthropy. I have also published work on the cultural dimensions of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States, with essays appearing in Open Anthropological Research and in the edited volumes "Evaluating a Pandemic" (World Scientific, 2023) and "Crisis, Inequity, and Legacy: Narrative Analyses of the COVID-19 Pandemic" (Oxford UP, forthcoming).
I am an enthusiastic practitioner of public scholarship and a current co-lead of the Bay Area chapter of the Scholars Strategy Network. My comments on the cultural and political drivers of the COVID-19 pandemic appeared in articles in national and international media including the BBC, The New York Times, and The Atlantic. My opinion essays on the COVID-19 pandemic have appeared in venues including Nature, The Hill, Le Grand Continent, USA Today, CNN, and The Nation. More recently, I have also commented for media and published opinion essays on the use of generative artificial intelligence technologies in higher education.
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