When news first broke of COVID-19’s presence in New York City, it centered on the city of New Rochelle and its Orthodox Jewish community as the source of the contagion. New York health officials…
Amanda Furiasse
Amanda Furiasse received her PhD in Religion and Graduate Certificate in Museum Studies from Florida State University and currently teaches at Hamline University. Her research unfolds at the intersection of religion, technology, and public health with a particular focus on understanding how Africana dance offers religious communities a historically inflected system of tools to heal from the neurocognitive and psychosocial impacts of violence and trauma.
