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2021 Carnegie Fellow to Study Long-Term Consequences of Epidemics
Kevin Thomas, professor of African and African diaspora studies at The University of Texas at Austin.
AUSTIN, Texas Before COVID-19, Ebola ripped through West Africa, then touched down in the United States in 2014. Now, one newly named Carnegie fellow hopes his ongoing research on U.S. and West African survivors of the Ebola epidemic will offer both insight and warning into what a future after COVID-19 might hold.
Each year, the Carnegie Corporation of New York awards fellows $200,000 for scholarly research and writing aimed at addressing some of the world’s most urgent challenges to democracy and international order. Kevin Thomas, professor of African and African diaspora studies at The University of Texas at Austin, was awarded for his research proposal to investigate the longer-term consequences of the 2014 Ebola epidemic in West Africa.