No research presentations in the summer. The Fall 2021 will be available soon.

Spring 2020-2021 Presentations

February 16, 2021

Dr. Mario Grijalva, Heritage College of Osteopathic Medicine

The Healthy Living Initiative: Twelve Years and Going Strong

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March 2, 2021

Dr. Thomas Smucker, Geography and Dr. Martin Oulu, Agricultural Economics, University of Nairobi

Foundations for Convergence: Sub-national Collaboration at the Nexus of Climate-Change Adaptation, Disaster-Risk Reduction, and Land Restoration under Multi-level Governance in Kenya

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March 16, 2021

Dr. Mariana Dantas, History

Researching the Black Experience in Colonial Latin America: Enslaved Women and Understandings of Freedom

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March 30, 2021

Dr. Garrett Field, School of Interdisciplinary Arts and School of Music

Prose, Prosody, Praise Song: Three Translations of Prophetic Biography in the Maldive Islands

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Tuesday, April 6

Student Research Presentations I

Katie Gardner, Communication and Development Studies

Dear Appalachia: Stories of Resilience and Resistance

Valeria Garrido, Latin American Studies

Perceptions of Traditional Medicine in Ecuador

George Ofori-Atta, African Studies

Media and Democracy: A Comparative Critical Discourse Analysis of Peacefmonline.com and Ghanaweb.com Coverage of The Final Ruling on Ghana’s 2012 Presidential Election Petition

Faith Otchere, Communication and Development Studies

Media Representation of the Experiences of Trafficked Women in Ghana: An Exploratory Study

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Tuesday, April 13

Dr. Christopher Thompson, Linguistics

Bōsai ([Tsunami] Disaster Prevention) Tourism in Tarō, Japan: Ten Years After the Disaster in March 2011

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Tuesday, April 20

Student Research Presentations II

Ama Boatemaa Appiah Kubi, African Studies

Beyond Gender and Sex: Negotiating the Spaces of Policy Interventions and Leadership Commitment During a Pandemic in Ghana

Ruth Appiah Kubi, International Development Studies

African Immigrant Women's Experiences of Maternity Healthcare Services in Columbus, Ohio

James Fisher, History

“It is not enough to proclaim it, we must put it into practice”: Feminist Discourse and Decolonization in Senegalese Artistic Production

Amal Shimir, International Development Studies

Demobilization, Disarmament and Reintegration (DDR) in Iraq, What Is Missing?