by Lina Stepick, Lola Loustaunau, Larissa Petrucci, and Ellen Scott 

Despite the continuing threat of COVID-19, and after token efforts such as “hazard pay” to recognize the threat to frontline workers, life in grocery and other retail stores has returned to a new normal of work during a pandemic. Work continues to be dangerous for “essential workers.” 

by Judith Raiskin, Associate Professor, Department of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies 

by Claire Herbert, PhD, and Amanda Ricketts, MA, Department of Sociology

by Corinne Bayerl, Senior Career Instructor, Clark Honors College

by Stephen Rodgers, Professor and Edmund A. Cykler Chair in Music, School of Music and Dance

By Jina Kim, Associate Professor, East Asian Languages & Literatures 

by Lesley Jo Weaver, Associate Professor, Department of Global Studies, and Mackenzie VanLaar, PhD, Department of Anthropology

by Alisa Freedman, Professor, Department of East Asian Languages & Literatures

by Xiaobo Su, Professor, Department of Geography

by Lana Lopesi, Assistant Professor, Department of Indigenous, Race, and Ethnic Studies