FACULTY PROFILE: ROBERT KAHN
Masking Issues
By AMY CARLSON GUSTAFSON
COVID-19 HAS RESULTED IN A RANGE OF ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL IMPACTS, FROM RISING UNEMPLOYMENT RATES TO HEALTH DISPARITY AMONG RACIAL AND ETHNIC POPULATIONS. AMID THE FALLOUT, THE PANDEMIC HAS ALSO HIGHLIGHTED THE DIVISIVENESS OVER FACE COVERING GUIDELINES AND MANDATES. For more than a decade, Professor Robert Kahn has studied attitudes toward face coverings, and since the arrival of COVID-19 he’s been interviewed by news outlets across the country regarding masks. An expert in comparative hate speech regulation, Kahn has also led courses on Islam and civil liberties, privacy law and hate speech. We asked Kahn about several issues raised over face coverings.
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