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Ethnic Minorities And Family Health History: An Autoethnography Of Guyanese Americans And Kidney Disease, Dhaneesha R. Bahadur

Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects

Exploring family health histories (FHHs) has emerged in recent years as an inexpensive genomic tool in public health. Families and clinicians can also use them to uncover family histories and experiences, which could inform better lifestyle choices to prevent or delay the onset of diseases. Exploring family health histories focuses on an individual’s genetic makeup and considers differences in lifestyle and environment. Despite national campaigns, it is an underutilized tool that could lead to engagement in effective strategies and better health outcomes. One important and serious condition that families should be more aware of is chronic kidney disease (CKD). One …

Dancing In The Heart Of The Empire, Talisa Feliciano

Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects

Dancing in the Heart of the Empire is an urban ethnography of public transit space in New York City. The work is based on five years of research on the trains of the Metropolitan Transit Authority’s (MTA) subway system. This work primarily focuses on Black and brown youth dancers who perform on the subways. Combining participant observation, archival research, digital social media research, and interviews, the dissertation identifies dancing as a form of resistance to the racialized structure of the train space and New York City. Public transportation is the heartbeat of the city. It is a contested site of …

Culturally And Socially Responsive Teacher Professional Learning At The American Museum Of Natural History, Jessica Correa

Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects

This capstone project consists of a series of professional learning sessions to support teachers in their implementation of Culturally Responsive-Sustaining Education (CR-SE) using the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) as a resource and case study. Through the lens of Historically Responsive Literacy, the series also seeks to reestablish social science as a critical element of natural history for teachers. This series can help teachers see the museum as not only a place to explore life and physical science, but also a place to explore identity, social/emotional development, cultural studies and American History. The project includes resources and directions for …

Geospatial Analytics Extension For Knime, Lingbo Liu, Xiaokang Fu, Tobias Kötter, Kevin Sturm, Carsten Haubold, Weihe Wendy Guan, Shuming Bao, Fahui Wang

Faculty Publications

The Geospatial Analytics Extension for KNIME (GAEK) is an innovative tool designed to integrate visual programming with geospatial analytics, streamlining GIS education and research in social sciences. GAEK simplifies access for users with an intuitive, visual interface for complex spatial analysis tasks and contributes to the organization of the GIS Knowledge Tree through its geospatial analytics nodes. This paper discusses GAEK's architecture, functionalities, and its transformative impact on GIS applications. While GAEK significantly enhances user experience and research reproducibility, future updates aim to expand its functionality and optimize its bundled environment.

Acculturative Stress Of Asian International Students Before And During The Covid-19 Pandemic

Journal of Comparative & International Higher Education

No abstract provided.

Higher Education, Human Development, And Growing Inequality In Pre-And Post Pandemic Haiti

Journal of Comparative & International Higher Education

Special Issue

Exploring Lived Experiences Of Gunshot Wound Survivors: A Key To Ethnographically Informed Public Health Interventions For Curbing Firearm Violence, Paul Webb, Jack Jimenez, Andre Elder, Alfredo Ortega Cotte, Apoorva Ravichandran, Emily Holbrook, Roberta Baer, Jason Wilson

College of Medicine & TGH Faculty Publications

Intro: The high rates of gun violence in the United States are a recognized public health concern with increased attention since the 1990′s. The predominant studies used in gun violence research have been epidemiological approaches and quantitative analyses. This study, instead, examines lived experiences of gunshot wound survivors to better understand their situations. This study also compared the different census categories and their types of gunshot wound injuries. Ethnographic informed analyses may inform public health interventions to decrease firearm injuries. Methods: Data was collected through a series of semi-structured interviews at the emergency department of an urban, Level-1, academic trauma …

Anty 351h.50: Archaeology Of North America, John Douglas

University of Montana Course Syllabi, 2021-2025

No abstract provided.

Ling 570.01: Seminar - Prosodic Phology, Mizuki Miyashita

University of Montana Course Syllabi, 2021-2025

No abstract provided.

Puros Técnicos And Luchadores Rudos: Debating The New Cultural History Among Latin Americanists, Carl Friesenhahn

Armstrong Undergraduate Journal of History

This essay dives into the debate and surrounding context of a special issue of the Hispanic American Historical Review. It was on the new cultural history—its usefulness, its methods, and its relation to truth. I argue that the new cultural historians eventually vanquished their critics and internalized their methods and epistemology within historians of Latin America at large. Stemming from earlier texts, the special issue of the HAHR is the most revealing collection of texts on the philosophical foundations of the new cultural history. It showcases scholarly activity from supporters and detractors of the novel movement with considerable focus on …

Digital Rhetoric Of The Invisible: Bisexual Literacy Practices On Tiktok, 2020–2021, Olivia Wood

Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects

This dissertation uses auto- and digital-ethnographic methods to analyze the literacy practices of bisexual TikTok users primarily during the first year of the Covid-19 pandemic in the United States, during which time TikTok exploded in popularity among U.S. social media users, especially among young adults. It is also an exercise in neuroqueer composing, diverging at times from the norms of academic writing and the dissertation genre to perform and intentionally draw attention to neuroqueer styles of thinking and communication. I argue that bisexual invisibility and contemporary bi+ rhetorical activity must be understood within the context of LGBTQ+ political history, particularly …

Diversity On The Altiplano: Geochemical Perspectives On 3,000 Years Of Potting Practices In The Lake Titicaca Basin, Elizabeth Klarich, Abigail Levine, Andrew P. Roddick, Jennifer Zovar, Cyrus Banikazemi, Laure Dussubieux, Colette Gabler

Anthropology: Faculty Publications

Potters in the Lake Titicaca basin produced a wide variety of ceramic styles over the last 3000 years. Archaeologists have drawn on this variety across space and time to track processes such as the development of multi-community polities during the Late Formative (200 BC-AD 600), the origins and expansion of Tiwanaku (AD 600–1000), the creation and maintenance of political boundaries during the Late Intermediate period (AD 1000–1400), and the strategies of Inca conquest and consolidation (AD 1400–1534). We report on LA-ICP-MS research into Titicaca ceramics and clays conducted at the Field Museum’s Elemental Analysis Facility (EAF), and present the first …

Reimagining The Criminal Legal System To Create A More Equitable Society, The Benjamin L. Hooks Institute For Social Change

The Hooks Institute Policy Papers

The policy papers in this edition help us begin to answer Ruth Wilson Gilmore’s pertinent question: “Instead of asking whether anyone should be locked up or go free, why don’t we think about why we solve problems by repeating the kind of behavior that brought us the problem in the first place?” The series is arranged intentionally to engage with the criminal legal system from beginning to end—from its roots, to its policies and ideologies, to its lasting effects. Each paper focuses on one critical issue in the criminal legal system in the United States, and then presents a set …

Beyond ‘Heightism’ And ‘Height Premium’: An Anthropology And Sociology Of Human Stature, Gideon Lasco

Development Studies Faculty Publications

This review article examines the meanings and materialities of human stature, from serving as a marker of human difference to shaping the socio-spatial experiences of individuals. I introduce existing perspectives on height from various disciplines, including biomedical discourses on the factors (e.g. nutrition, genetics) that determine height, economic discourses on how the average heights of populations have changed over time, sociobiological and psychological discourses that assume a pre-cultural, evolutionary “height premium”, and popular discourses on heightism and height discrimination. Drawing from a diverse range of scholarship since Saul Feldman called for a “sociology of stature” in the 1970s, I then …

Educational Policies Committee Agenda February 1, 2024, Utah State University

Educational Policies Committee

• Subcommittee Reports
• Curriculum Subcommittee (Chad Simon)
• Academic Standards Subcommittee Report (Renee Galliher)
• General Education Subcommittee Report (Matt Sanders)

Curriculum Subcommittee Minutes February 1, 2024, Utah State University

Educational Policies Committee

• Program Proposals
• Semester Course Approval Reviews

• College of Agriculture and Applied Sciences
• Caine College of the Arts
• Jon M. Huntsman School of Business
• Emma Eccles Jones College of Education and Human Services
• College of Engineering
• College of Humanities and Social Sciences
• S.J. & Jessie E. Quinney College of Natural Resources
• College of Science
• College of Veterinary Medicine
• Other
• Other Business

Educational Policies Committee Minutes February 1, 2024, Utah State University

Educational Policies Committee

• Subcommittee Reports
• Curriculum Subcommittee (Mateja Savoie-Roskos)
• Academic Standards Subcommittee Report (Renee Galliher)
• General Education Subcommittee Report (Matt Sanders)
• Other Business

A King In Our Midst, Katie Umans

UNH Today Archive

No abstract provided.

Anty 101h.02: Anthropology And The Human Experience, David Garrett Kerr

University of Montana Course Syllabi, 2021-2025

No abstract provided.

Anty 104.50: Ancient Migrations, Randall R. Skelton

University of Montana Course Syllabi, 2021-2025

No abstract provided.

Anty 101h.Xh1: Anthropology And The Human Exerience - Bitteroot, Jamie L. Ogden

University of Montana Course Syllabi, 2021-2025

No abstract provided.

Anty 352x.01: Archaeology Of Montana, Douglas Macdonald

University of Montana Course Syllabi, 2021-2025

No abstract provided.

Anty 430.01; Social Anthropology, G. G. Weix

University of Montana Course Syllabi, 2021-2025

No abstract provided.

Anty 602.01: Cultural Heritage Policy & Practice, Douglas Macdonald

University of Montana Course Syllabi, 2021-2025

No abstract provided.

Anty 431.01: Ethnographic Field Methods, G. G. Weix

University of Montana Course Syllabi, 2021-2025

No abstract provided.

Ling 574.50: Historical Linguistics, Irene N. Appelbaum

University of Montana Course Syllabi, 2021-2025

No abstract provided.

Biob 272.00: Genetics And Evolution, Douglas J. Emlen

University of Montana Course Syllabi, 2021-2025

No abstract provided.

Spns 202.80: Intermediate Spanish Ii - Honors, Micaela O. Downey

University of Montana Course Syllabi, 2021-2025

No abstract provided.

Bmkt 337.01: Consumer Behavior, Jesse King

University of Montana Course Syllabi, 2021-2025

No abstract provided.

Anty 601.02: Research Design & Proposal Preparation, Anna M. Prentiss

University of Montana Course Syllabi, 2021-2025

No abstract provided.