J. Michael Ryan, Ph.D., is an assistant professor of sociology at Nazarbayev University, Kazakhstan. He has previously held academic positions in Portugal, Egypt, Ecuador, and the United States of America. 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 Trans Lives in a Globalizing World: Rights, Identities, and Politics (Routledge 2020), Core Concepts in Sociology (Wiley 2019), and Gender in the Middle East and North Africa:Contemporary Issues and Challenges (Lynne-Rienner 2020).

Timeline of COVID-19 1. Introduction: COVID-19: Global pandemic, societal responses, ideological solutions 2. The SARS Cov-2 Virus and the COVID-19 Pandemic PART I: ETHICS AND IDEOLOGIES 3. McDonaldization in the Age of COVID-19 4. Theocidies of the COVID-19 Catastrophe 5. Necroethics in the Time of COVID-19 and Black Lives Matter 6. Ecology, Democracy, and COVID-19: Rereading and Radicalizing Karl Polanyi 7. Heterotopia in Melanesia: Reactions to COVID-19 in Papua New Guinea 8. The Blessings of COVID-19 for Neoliberalism, Nationalism, and Neoconservative Ideologies 9. The Rise of the COVID-19 Pandemic and the Decline of Global Citizenship PART II: EXACERBATING INEQUALITIES 10. Inequalities and COVID-19 11. Spotlighting Hidden Inequities: Post-secondary education in a pandemic 12. Business as Usual: Poverty, education, and economic life amidst the pandemic 13. Inflection Points: The intersection of COVID-19, climate change, and systemic racism PART III: CHANGING SOCIAL UNDERSTANDINGS IN RESPOSE TO CRISIS 14. Blowing Bubbles: COVID-19, New Zealand's bubble metaphor, and the limits of households as sites of responsibility and care 15. Making the Invisible Visible: Viral cloud moments in the SARS COV-2 pandemic 16. Treating Loneliness in the Aftermath of a Pandemic: Threat or Opportunity? 17. Managing Trauma Exposure and Developing Resilience in the Midst of COVID-19 18. The Costs of Care: A content analysis of female nurses' media visibility and voices in the United States, China, and India during the COVID-19 pandemic 19. COVID-19, the Pand(m)emic: Social media explorations from the Arab World