Media
Alison Gustafson, associate professor and director of graduate studies in the department of Dietetics and Human Nutrition, spoke about her work combatting diabetes and obesity in Kentucky on Behind the Blue.
- Behind the Blue, April 30, 2019. https://uknow.uky.edu/campus-news/behind-blue-uk-s-alison-gustafson-helps-kentuckians-eat-healthier-and-fight-obesity
Publications
Tiffany D. Barnes, associate professor of Politcial Science, published an Op-Ed in Ms. Magazine on the first woman to be selected as Treasury Secretary by the Biden Administration.
- Barnes, T. & O'Brien, D.Z. (2020). "Future Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen Faces COVID-Induced Economic Crisis." Ms. Magazine, November 24. https://msmagazine.com/2020/11/24/treasury-secretary-janet-yellen-covid…
Tiffany D. Barnes, associate professor of Political Science, participated in CESJ's Op-Ed Project and published two position papers:
- Cassese, Erin, Tiffany Barnes, and Mirya Holman. (2018). "How 'hostile sexism' came to shape our politics." The Washington Post, October 2. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/monkey-cage/wp/2018/10/02/who-suppo…;
- Cassese, Erin, Tiffany Barnes, and Heather Ondercin. (2018). "Four Key Facts about Women Voters." Ms. Magazine Blog, October 18. http://msmagazine.com/blog/2018/10/18/four-key-facts-women-voters/
Jenny Minier, Sturgil Professor in the Department of Economics, and Director of the Center for Business and Economic Research, had a version of her position paper on immigration published by the Lexington Herald Leader.
- Minier, Jenny. (2017). "We need Dreamers; immigrants add far more to U.S. economy than they take." Lexington Herald Leader, November 10. https://www.kentucky.com/opinion/op-ed/article184016176.html
Martina Vasil, assistant professor in the School of Music, published the paper, “The Perspectives of Two First-Generation College Students Pursuing Doctoral Degrees in Music Education.”
- Vasil, M., & McCall, J. M. (2017). The perspectives of two first-generation college students pursuing doctoral degrees in music education. National Association for Music Education, 1-15. doi: 10.1177/1057083717717464 http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1057083717717464
David Luke, associate director of the MLK Center, published the paper, “Critical Race Theory, Afro-Pessimism, and Racial Progress Narratives.”
- Ray, V.E., Randolph, A., Underhil, M., & Luke, D.. (2017). “Critical Race Theory, Afro-Pessimism, and Racial Progress Narratives.” Sociology of Race and Ethnicity, 3(2):147-158. http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/2332649217692557
Christia Brown, CESJ director, published a new book Discrimination in Childhood and Adolescence: A Developmental Intergroup Approach.
- Brown, C. S. (2017). Discrimination in Childhood and Adolescence: A Developmental Intergroup Approach. Psychology Press/Taylor & Francis.
Awards
Carmen Martinez Novo, associate professor in Anthropology, was awared a 2017-2018 American Council of Learned Societies Scholarship to complete a manuscript on “The Decline of Indigenous Rights in Latin America in the Context of Extractivism.”
Programs and Initiatives
Randolph Hollingsworth, assistant provost, is leading the effort to develop of the Kentucky Woman Suffrage Project (http://networks.h-net.org/KyWomanSuffrage).
