History’s Eisenberg receives NEH grant for collaborative research on the First Plague Pandemic
Oklahoma State University Department of History assistant professor Dr. Merle Eisenberg recently received a National Endowment for the Humanities Collaboration grant for nearly $250,000 to conduct research on the First Plague Pandemic. The College of Arts and Sciences faculty member will be working alongside Hebrew University of Jerusalem senior lecturer Dr. Lee Mordechai to produce a book on the historical pandemic — which took place between about 541-750 CE — that’s tentatively titled, “Pandemic and History: Disease, Myth, and the End of Antiquity.”
