Cristian Capotescu - Incite at Columbia University
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Cristian Capotescu
(Postdoctoral Scholar)
- Contact cfc2149@columbia.edu
Cristian Capotescu co-leads various research projects and public-facing initiatives as a Postdoctoral Scholar at Incite's Trust Collaboratory.
His scholarship reaches across the humanities and qualitative social sciences and focuses, in an eclectic fashion, on disasters, economic life, refugees and migration, humanitarianism and ethics, as well as social welfare and authoritarianism in the twentieth century. Cristian's current book project on "private humanitarians" in the socialist period connects multiple conceptual threads such as post-disaster solidarities, Cold War mobilities, and aid-giving under authoritarian rule through historical as well as multi-sited historical-ethnographic analysis.
More recently, his work has also explored the social effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. From 2020 to 2021, he served as Postdoctoral Scholar of the Mellon Sawyer Seminar Humanitarianisms: Migration and Care through the Global South as the principal investigator of a population health equity grant funded by the University of Washington's intercollegiate Population Health Initiative. This interdisciplinary research project studied the efficacy and challenges of distance learning for low-income students of color during COVID-19. Cristian received his PhD in History from the University of Michigan in 2020. His writing has appeared in academic venues and a variety of public outlets such as The Conversation, The Washington Post, and Psychology Today.
Projects
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go to Closing the Gap Between Trustworthy and Trusted AI
Closing the Gap Between Trustworthy and Trusted AIJumpstarting conversations about trust in AI and its impact on trust in institutions. Funded by Columbia University -
go to Covid-19 and Trust in Science
Covid-19 and Trust in ScienceDocumenting the experiences of Post-Covid Syndrome patients in the United States, Brazil, and China. Funded by Meta
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go to TrustWorkers
TrustWorkersPartnering with community healthcare workers to explore how trust is obtained, repaired, and built. Funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
Related Works
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Cristian Capotescu, Elizabeth Cohn, Gil Eyal, Judelysse Gomez, Jack LaViolette, Danielle Lee Tomson, "The TrustWorkers Project:Challenges and Methods of Building Trust into Public Scholarship", Public Philosophy Journal, May 9, 2023
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Cristian Capotescu, Oscar Sanchez-Sibony, Melissa Teixeira, "Austerity without Neoliberals. Reappraising the Sinuous History of a Powerful State Technology", Capitalism: A Journal of History and Economics, December 1, 2022
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Cristian Capotescu, Tashi Chodon, James Chu, Elizabeth Cohn, Gil Eyal, Rishi Goyal, Olusimbo Ige, Jack LaViolette, Sarah Mallik, Lula Mae Phillips, Paulette Spencer, Danielle Lee Tomson, "Community health workers' critical role in trust building between the medical system and communities of color", American Journal of Managed Care, October 28, 2022
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Cristian Capotescu, Tashi Chodon, James Chu, Elizabeth Cohn, Gil Eyal, Rishi Goyal, Olusimbo Ige, Jack LaViolette, Sarah Mallik, Lula Mae Phillips, Paulette Spencer, Danielle Lee Tomson, "Community Health Workers can Play a Critical Role in Fostering Trust between the Medical System and Minority Communities", American Journal for Managed Care, October 6, 2022
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Larry Au, Cristian Capotescu, Gil Eyal, Gabrielle Finestone, "Long covid and medical gaslighting: Dismissal, delayed diagnosis, and deferred treatment", SSM - Qualitative Research in Health, September 7, 2022