Nine Billion Names of Fear is a podcast exploring fear and how it informs our daily lives and experiences. From the academic realm to the personal, from the individual and collective experience, from compartmentalization to candid conversation, each new episode will mine for a new understanding of this basic human emotion. Host Katie Muggli examined fear throughout graduate school, culminating in her M.A. thesis. Now almost a decade after graduation she’s reexamining it in the face of COVID-19.