Virtual Author Visit with Sabina Sholts

How We Create Pandemics, From Our Bodies to Our Beliefs with Smithsonian Curator Sabrina Sholts

The COVID-19 pandemic won't be our last, because what makes us vulnerable to pandemics also makes us human. That is the uncomfortable message of The Human Disease: How We Create Pandemics, From Our Bodies to Our Beliefs, which travels through history and around the globe to examine how and why pandemics are a threat of our own making. Drawing on dozens of disciplines—from medicine, epidemiology, and microbiology to anthropology, sociology, ecology, and neuroscience—biological anthropologist Sabrina Sholts identifies the human traits and tendencies that double as pandemic liabilities, from the anatomy that defines us to the misperceptions that divide us.Weaving together a wealth of personal experiences, scientific findings, and historical stories, Sholts brings dramatic and much-needed clarity to one of the most profound challenges we face as a species. 

Sabrina Sholts is a biological anthropologist and Curator of Biological Anthropology at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History. She received her PhD in Anthropology at UC Santa Barbara and was a postdoctoral researcher both at UC Berkeley and at Stockholm University. She was the Lead Curator of the exhibition Outbreak: Epidemics in a Connected World at the Smithsonian.

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