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Unafraid And Unapologetic, Still, Alyshia Gálvez

Publications and Research

Luis Saavedra, Melissa García Vélez, and Marlen Fernández were among the cofounders of the Lehman College DREAM Team, the first official group organized by and specifically for undocumented students at the City University of New York (CUNY). From their first semester on campus, until they graduated in 2014, Luis, Melissa, and Marlen worked tirelessly on campus, around the city, regionally, and at the federal level, demanding better services for undocumented students at the college and throughout the CUNY system, while also helping college and high school students mobilize on their own campuses. They engaged with national activist groups and debates, …

June 7, 2017 Faculty Senate Minutes, University Of South Carolina

Faculty Senate

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An Anthropological Study Of Security Operations Centers To Improve Operational Efficiency, Sathya Chandran Sundaramurthy

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

Security Operation Centers (SOCs) have become an integral component of business organizations all over the world. The concept of a SOC has existed for a few years now yet there is no systematic study documenting the occurrences of their operations. A lack of documented operational knowledge makes it a challenge for security researchers interested in improving operational efficiency through algorithms, tools, and processes.

SOC environments operate under a secrecy culture as a result of which researchers are not trusted by analysts and their managers. This lack of trust leads to only superficial information through methods such as interviews. Moreover, security …

Zika, Feminism, And The Failures Of Health Policy, Johanna Bond

Washington and Lee Law Review Online

The Zika epidemic caused serious concerns about fetal health throughout Latin America and some southern states in the United States. The prevailing governmental response throughout the region continues to emphasize two disease control factors: pregnancy delay and mosquito abatement. This essay argues that the current health policy approach of the World Health Organization, the Centers for Disease Control, and various national governments fails in three primary ways. First, the approach does not adequately consider the intersection of gender and poverty; thus, the current policy fails to respond to the needs of women living in poverty. Second, the health policy response …

Correspondence: Emails Related To An Dwc Information Brochure, Nicole Rafter, Chris Rasche, Kimberly J. Cook, American Society Of Criminology Division On Women And Crime

Division on Women and Crime Documents and Correspondence

Emailed related to planning the informational brochure. Includes mock up items and correspondence regarding brochure revisions.

Review Of Refugees Of Shangri-La By Doria Bramante And Markus Weinfurter, Andrew Nelson

HIMALAYA, the Journal of the Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies

No abstract provided.

Review Of Religion And Modernity In The Himalaya Edited By Megan Adamson Sijapati And Jessica Vantine Birkenholtz, James G. Lochtefeld

HIMALAYA, the Journal of the Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies

No abstract provided.

Review Of Signing And Belonging In Nepal By Erika Hoffmann-Dilloway, Theresia Hofer

HIMALAYA, the Journal of the Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies

No abstract provided.

Annual Conference On South Asia, Pasang Yangjee Sherpa

HIMALAYA, the Journal of the Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies

No abstract provided.

The Annual Kathmandu Conference On Nepal & The Himalaya, Swatahsiddha Sarkar, Babika Khawas

HIMALAYA, the Journal of the Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies

No abstract provided.

Fading Colors Of The Tibetan Prayer Flag, Emilia Roza Sulek

HIMALAYA, the Journal of the Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies

2014 was a Horse Year. Such a year, occurring every twelve years in Tibetan calendar, is considered the best time for a pilgrimage, particularly to sacred mountains. In the region of Golok, the most prominent of them is Amnye Machen (A myes rma chen). It takes about one week to perform circumambulation of Amnye Machen in the usual way: on foot. But in 2014, a new possibility opened: to perform the pilgrimage by car. This paper describes the experiences of a car pilgrimage around Amnye Machen which the author performed in 2014. It shows how different the new pilgrimage route …

Road Expansion And Urban Highways: Consequences Outweigh Benefits In Kathmandu, Prashanta Khanal, Anobha Gurung, Priyankar Bahadur Chand

HIMALAYA, the Journal of the Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies

Rapid urbanization has transformed Kathmandu Valley, Nepal, one of the fastest growing metropolitan regions in South Asia. This urbanization, in turn, is leading to considerable social, economic, and environmental stress. The region has seen unplanned growth despite continued planning exercises. In 2011, in response to the rapid urbanization then Prime Minster Baburam Bhattarai initiated road expansion throughout the city to reduce traffic congestion. By mid 2015, it was clear that the road expansion induced greater demand leading to further traffic congestion rather than alleviating the problem. Today, non-motorized (pedestrians and bicycle) road users are more unsafe on the roads than …

On The Road To Nowhere: Stalled Politics And Urban Infrastructure In Kathmandu, Dannah K. Dennis

HIMALAYA, the Journal of the Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies

During the period leading up to the passage of the 2015 constitution in Nepal, the roads of Kathmandu were often interpreted by the city’s residents as symbols of the stalled constitutional process and of the faltering and corrupt nature of national politics in general. By detailing specific moments in which the inadequacy of roads and the inadequacy of the state were directly juxtaposed in everyday conversations, this article calls for sustained attention to the interrelationship between urban infrastructure and national- and local-level politics.

‘Inauthentic’ Sukumbasi: The Politics Of Aesthetics And Urgency In Kathmandu, Sabin Ninglekhu

HIMALAYA, the Journal of the Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies

This article discusses how claims of the urban poor for the right to the city come up against governmental programs seeking to secure norms of private property, environmental sustainability, and elite aesthetics. Here, the city in question is Kathmandu, Nepal, and the urban poor are referred to as sukumbasi, squatters. Baviskar (2011) defines ‘elite politics’ as a mode of expressing anxieties of the self in relation to one’s physical surroundings. I interpret a liberal environmentalist project— the Bagmati Action Plan—in terms of such an elite politics, and explore the ways in which this river restoration program was taken up by …

Prestigious Houses Or Provisional Homes? The Ghar As A Symbol Of Kathmandu Valley Peri-Urbanism, Andrew Nelson

HIMALAYA, the Journal of the Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies

Compared to the uniform brick architecture and contiguous courtyard structure of houses in the urban core of Kathmandu Valley cities, the houses of the growing urban periphery appear fragmented, disorganized, and unplanned. While critics attribute this haphazard growth to a site-then-services (house first, then infrastructure) approach of rural migrants, in this paper I consider it a result of an alternative formulation of planning generated by three-plus decades of economic and governmental liberalization. The practices of new homeowners in the periphery must be understood within the greater context of peri-urbanism controlled by a complex negotiation of brokers, contractors, housing companies, and …

Of "Tourist" Places: The Cultural Politics Of Narrating Space In Thamel, Benjamin Linder

HIMALAYA, the Journal of the Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies

Thamel—a bustling neighborhood of restaurants, shops, bars, dance clubs, street vendors, and hotels in Kathmandu, Nepal—is overwhelmingly portrayed as a ‘tourist place’ by Nepalis and foreigners alike. Despite this widespread reputation, many user-groups assign divergent and contradictory meanings to the space, and these cannot be so easily reduced to the machinations of foreign tourism. This article critically considers this common trope that relegates Thamel to a ‘foreign’ status within Kathmandu’s cultural landscape. After reviewing the history of Thamel, the article details the various modes of reiteration through which the ‘tourist place’ characterization finds continued articulation. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork conducted …

Mobility And Nostalgia In Contemporary Kathmandu, Mark Liechty

HIMALAYA, the Journal of the Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies

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Labor And Race In Nepal’S Indigenous Nationalities Discourse: Beyond ‘Tribal’ Vs ‘Peasant’ Categories, Shae A. Frydenlund

HIMALAYA, the Journal of the Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies

In Nepal, Khaling indigenous nationalities discourse draws our attention to the way ‘tribal’ and ‘peasant’ categories blur in articulations of indigeneity, rather than working as separate strategies for gaining political rights. Through their oral histories, territorial claims, and most importantly their stories about labor, activists within the Khaling indigenous nationalities movement advocate for government recognition and fuller citizenship in the Nepali state. While labor is often left out of definitions of indigeneity, Khaling activists make claims to being indigenous people with their own territory specifically because of their position in the mountain labor hierarchy. This paper examines the emergence of …

Editorial, Sienna Craig, Mark Turin

HIMALAYA, the Journal of the Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies

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Memory For Stimulus Sequences: A Divide Between Humans And Other Animals?, Ghirlanda Stefano, Johan Lind, Magnus Enquist

Publications and Research

Humans stand out among animals for their unique capacities in domains such as language, culture and imitation, yet it has been difficult to identify cognitive elements that are specifically human. Most research has focused on how information is processed after it is acquired, e.g. in problem solving or ‘insight’ tasks, but we may also look for species differences in the initial acquisition and coding of information. Here, we show that non-human species have only a limited capacity to discriminate ordered sequences of stimuli. Collating data from 108 experiments on stimulus sequence discrimination (1540 data points from 14 bird and mammal …

When Dreams Die: Cancelled Programs, Associated Grief, And Implications For Managing Innovation, Shawn Collins

Polytechnic Institute Summit

Short Abstract:

Companies and engineers create dreams during new product development when they envision future worlds that use their, and when they mobilize resources to pursue those dreams. Dreams die when programs are cancelled; often without personal or institutional frameworks to address the resulting silent grief. Implications are discussed.

Full Abstract:

New product development is a context where engineering companies create dreams. They ask their engineers to envision future worlds where their products are used, and they mobilize resources to pursue those dreams. It is a context where engineers create dreams. Relationships are formed (inside and outside of work), families …

Behavioral Challenges In Engineering Teams: An Intersection Of Research And Practice, Shawn Collins

Polytechnic Institute Summit

Short Abstract:

Organizations rely heavily on cross-functional engineering teams throughout the product development lifecycle. Managers of these teams rely on heuristics that don’t rigorously address the factors contributing to costly rework cycles, or successful execution. This presentation summarizes specific “vexing issues,” current NSF research, and potential intersections of research and practice.

Full Abstract:

Organizations engaged in product development rely heavily on cross-functional teams to conduct activities throughout the product lifecycle. Despite this ubiquity, the “fundamental physics” of team behavior which can help or hinder project execution is poorly understood. As a consequence, management of teams relies on collections of heuristics …

Teaching Social Science At A Polytechnic: Applied Interdisciplinary Research And Community Engagement, Tina Lee

Polytechnic Institute Summit

Short Abstract:

UW-Stout’s Applied Social Science (APSS) Program focuses on applied research while students make community impacts through courses, co-ops, service learning, and internships (including work on faculty and client-based projects). This presentation will share lessons learned from guiding students through applied research and suggestions for designing social science curriculum.

Full Abstract:

This presentation shares lessons from integrating applied research into the Applied Social Science (APSS) Program at the University of Wisconsin-Stout. APSS is unique, combining anthropology, economics, geography, history, political science, sociology, and social work; and we train problem solvers through diverse learning experiences. The program aims at student …

Correspondence: 1990-1991 Task Force On Women In Prison, American Society Of Criminology. Division On Women And Crime, Joan Petersilia, Drew Humphries

Division on Women and Crime Documents and Correspondence

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Correspondence: 1996-1997 Asc Annual Meeting Activities, Includes 1996 Plenary Session Planning, American Society Of Criminology. Division On Women And Crime, Chris Rasche, Ray Paternoster

Division on Women and Crime Documents and Correspondence

No abstract provided.

Reciprocity And Vernacular Statecraft: Andean Cooperation In Post-Disaster Highland Ecuador, A. J. Faas

Faculty Publications, Anthropology

Cooperative labor parties known throughout the Andes as mingas, although outwardly appearing to be the same cultural institution, are practiced quite differently and with varying meanings in different socioeconomic contexts. This article discusses how minga cooperation came to exhibit contrasting, yet intimately related, patterns of practice and social relationships in both a displaced, disaster-affected village and a disaster-induced resettlement. It describes actors in these groups appealing to ostensibly common repertoires of shared meaning and culture, while organizing themselves in distinct ways in order to access and control scarce resources. In one village, minga participation is largely sustained through traditional …

Meghan Howey Digs Durham, Unh Communications And Public Affairs

UNH Today Archive

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A Humanistic Examination Of Posttraumatic Growth In United States Military Veterans, Aaron J. Smith

Individual, Family, and Community Education ETDs

Military Mental Health Stigma (MMHS) is attributed as a significant factor in the 20 suicides that occur each day by United States Military Veterans (USMVs) (Kemp & Bossarte, 2012). These negative attitudes or beliefs about mental health exist, in part, due to a dearth of research on additive gains in the aftermath of trauma, known as Posttraumatic Growth (PTG, see: Tedeschi & Calhoun, 2004). The model most often used to describe PTG by mental health counselors working with USMVs is both under-researched (Calhoun & Tedeschi, 2004), as well as, one that may be philosophically misaligned with the spirit of combating …

Identity Doesn't Form In A Vacuum: Deconstructing The Role Of Hegemony In The Identity Formation Of Religiously Diverse People, Randa Elbih

The Journal of Faith, Education, and Community

In a post-9/11 world, Muslims and Muslim-looking individuals are perceived as a homogenous group characterized as violent, oppressive, and barbaric. Conflating Islam with negative traits both corroborates and instigates the dominant hegemonic forces, which serve as the filter through which and the context within which identities are formed. In order to destabilize these hegemonic beliefs, this paper builds upon James Paul Gee’s (2001) identity theory, specifically what he terms “new capitalism.” This review finds Gee’s identity theory particularly salient in the current political moment in which Muslims and Muslim-looking individuals feel rejected and Othered in the United States. However, some …

Chinese National Identity And Media Framing, Yufeng Tian

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

This study explored the relationship between Chinese national identity and media framing and priming effect by combining the two paradigms, the literature of group identity and the discourses of media cognitive effect. Extending social identity theory (Tajfel, 1981), self-categorization theory (Turner, et al., 1987) and subjective group dynamics theory (Marques, Paez, & Abrams, 1998), the current study drew the distinction between descriptive (cognitive/perceptual) and prescriptive (affective/subjective) fit of the social norms that contributed to social identity. After deliberating the macro concept (the ascribed vs. acquired) of a national identity (Westle, 2014), as well as the social, political, economic and cultural …