Dr. Kimberly Hill, assistant professor of history, recently presented the Stanton Sharp Lecture for the Southern Methodist University Clements Department of History. Dr. Hill’s theme of “Teaching Through a Pandemic” drew from current events; from her ongoing research on Christian activism; and from her first book, A Higher Mission: The Careers of Alonzo and Althea Brown Edmiston in Central Africa (Univ. Press of Kentucky, 2020). She also argued for the historical significance of community-based responses to public health crises by comparing previous scholarship about African Americans’ experiences during the Great Flu Pandemic of 1918 with news articles about the relatively low COVID-19 infection rates at historically black colleges and universities.