Lunch & Learn: Constructing Outbreaks in Tennessee: How Disease Shaped the Volunteer State
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Tennessee State Museum 1000 Rosa L. Parks Blvd., Nashville, Tennessee 37208

MTSU photo by J. Intintoli
2021-06-22D Katie Foss Tenn Press Guide
Health communications expert Katie Foss, pictured here with her book “Constructing the Outbreak: Epidemics in Media and Collective Memory,” is an MTSU professor of media studies in the School of Journalism and Strategic Media in the College of Media and Entertainment. She will lead a discussion on Tennessee’s history of epidemics and how the media documented outbreaks that shaped the state’s history in the Oct. 13 Lunch and Learn event at the Tennessee State Museum in Nashville.
Join Middle Tennessee State University Professor of Media Studies Dr. Katie Foss, author of Constructing the Outbreak: Epidemics in Media and Collective Memory, for a lunchtime discussion on the history of epidemics and media, with a focus on Tennessee. Outbreaks of disease profoundly shaped Tennessee's history. In this Lunch and Learn, Dr. Foss highlights local newspaper articles, ads, and other media artifacts that preserved people's experiences in past public health emergencies.