Charleston SC, July 27, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Three College of Charleston faculty members have received Fulbright awards for the 2022–23 academic year: Brian Bossak, Narayanan Kuthirummal and mutindi ndunda are all spending the year learning and lecturing at universities around the globe through the international educational exchange program, and they’re hoping to share a world of knowledge with CofC students when they return.
Brian Bossak, associate professor of public health
The Fulbright Scholar Award will allow Bossak, an associate professor of public health, to teach two graduate-level public health courses – one focusing on the human health implications of climate change, and the other exploring the interaction of health and emerging technologies – at the University of Bologna in Italy, where he will also conduct research on the development and use of quarantine and isolation in historical pandemics in the locations in which they occurred.
Bossak says the University of Bologna is the perfect place for his research, since it has centuries of information on the Black Death that plagued Europe from 1347 to 1351.
“The Black Death was a pivotal experience in human history,” explains Bossak, who has authored and co-authored manuscripts exploring this historical pandemic. “Interestingly, non-pharmaceutical interventions utilized during the most recent COVID-19 pandemic, such as quarantine and isolation, are derived from their development in…
