COVID-19: Social Inequalities and Human Possibilities

J. Michael Ryan is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at Nazarbayev University, Kazakhstan. Dr. Ryan was previously a researcher for the TRANSRIGHTS Project at The University of Lisbon, Portugal and has taught courses at The American University in Cairo, Egypt, Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales (FLACSO), Ecuador and the University of Maryland, USA. Before returning to academia, Dr. Ryan worked as a research methodologist at the National Center for Health Statistics in Washington, D.C. He is the editor of multiple volumes including COVID-19: Global pandemic, societal responses, ideological solutions (Routledge 2021), COVID-19: Social consequences and cultural adaptations (Routledge 2021), Trans Lives in a Globalizing World: Rights, identities, and politics (Routledge 2020), and Core Concepts in Sociology (Wiley 2019). He is also the editor of Routledge's The COVID-19 Pandemic series. Serena Nanda is Professor Emeritus of Anthropology at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice at the City University of New York (USA). Her research interests include gender and sexuality, non-binary genders, law and culture, museum studies, kinship, social stratification, and the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic. Her books include Love and Marriage: Cultural Diversity in a Changing World (Waveland Press, 2019), Gender Diversity: Crosscultural Variations (Waveland Press, 2014) and Neither Man nor Woman: the Hijras of India (Wadsworth Publishing, 1998), which won the 1990 Ruth Benedict Prize. She is also co-author of multiple editions of two cultural anthropology textbooks, Cultural Anthropology (Sage, 2019) and Culture Counts: A Concise Introduction to Cultural Anthropology (Sage, 2021), and a contributor to COVID-19: Social Consequences and Cultural Adaptations (Routledge 2021).