Lukes Interviewed on COVID-19 & It’s Impact on the U.S.
Igor Lukes, Professor of International Relations and History at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University, was interviewed by Radio Prague about the coronavirus and how it has effected different aspects of life in the United States.
In the interview, which was published on May 29, 2020, Lukes discusses how COVID-19 has had an enormous impact on the U.S. presidential election, colleges and universities, international relations, and American society as a whole.
An excerpt:
‘This country will never be the same as it was at the beginning of the year,’ says Igor Lukes, a professor at The Pardee School of Boston University, in an interview with iROZHLAS.cz, describing the effects of the pandemic on the United States. It will ‘atomize’ American society even further and will also impact the coming presidential election.
The full interview can be found here.
Igor Lukes is university professor of international relations and history at the Pardee School, a past winner of the 1997 Metcalf Award for Excellence in Teaching and the 2020 winner of the Gitner Prize for Faculty Excellence at the Pardee School. he writes primarily about Central Europe. His work has won the support of various other institutions, including Fulbright, Fulbright-Hays, the Woodrow Wilson Center, IREX, and the National Endowment for the Humanities. Read more about him here.