Ashlee Manwaring and Dr. Janelle Macintosh, College of Nursing I proposed an ORCA with Janelle Macintosh, RN, PhD, last fall, and was awarded the grant in February. Our original idea was to investigate how incarceration affects maternal identify of female inmates. This was closely related to Dr. Macintosh’s original dissertation proposal and completed dissertation. However, […]
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Native Speaker Judgments on the Accentedness and Personal Traits of American and Korean L2 Learners of German
Charles Richards and Dr. Hans-Wilhelm Kelling, Department of German and Slavic Languages Everyday listeners make personal judgments about the people with whom they are speaking based on the accent or voice quality of the speaker. Studies have shown that a person’s speech– independent of accent–can influence a listener to make judgments about the speaker’s intelligence, […]
Judeo-Spanish in Thessaloniki: A Survey of the Speakers of the Dialect Today
Randall Craig Meister and Dr. David Eddington, Department of Linguistics and English Language “Pero Salonik no kanta mas1,” said an elderly speaker of Judeo-‐Spanish in Thessaloniki, as she reflected with me during a discussion concerning her life as a Sephardic Jew after World War II. This expression embodies the historical and cultural awareness of the […]
Self-Shaping and National Identity in Transylvania
Nick Jones and Dr. Lance Larsen, Department of English My project involved researching and observing Romania’s Székely population and their efforts to maintain cultural autonomy despite their minority status in Romania. The Székely people are a Hungarian-speaking group of disputed origin that has lived in Transylvania for at least 1,000 years, and currently they comprise […]
Emerging Voices from the “Paper Cut” Country: Contemporary Salvadorian-American Poetry
Jonathan Garcia and Dr. Susan Howe, Department of English When we studied modern American poets in Dr. Howe’s Poetry 319 class, I wondered if there were also Salvadoran-American poets out there, as both my parents immigrated to the U.S. from El Salvador in the 1980s, fleeing a bloody civil war. At the same time I […]
Understanding the Nature of Anxiety in Autism
Sarah White and Dr. Mickle South, Department of Psychology Anxiety is extremely prevalent in autism, with estimates of the co-occurrence ranging up to 84%. Surprisingly, even though anxiety in autism is implicated in behavioral symptoms ranging from avoiding eye contact with others to always insisting on the same menu for lunch, the majority of research […]
Religious Preferences and Inventory Decisions: Evidence from Movie Rentals
Craig Palsson and Dr. Joseph Price, Department of Economics For a long time, there has been a significant gap between the standards of movie goers and the standards of Hollywood. Walsh and Gentile (2001) show that though parents usually agree with Hollywood when it says something is inappropriate for children, they often disagree with Hollywood […]
Closing the Gap: Defining the Determinants of School Dropout in Rural Mexico
Ashley Dymock and Dr. Tim Heaton, Department of Sociology My research examined the motives behind school dropouts occurring between primary and secondary schools in Guanajuato, Mexico. It involved both preliminary quantitative analysis as well as field research that was both qualitative and quantitative in nature. I am currently in the process of evaluating the data […]
Family and Principle: The Blood and Iron of the Empress Frederick
Aileen Christensen and Professor Paul Kerry, Department of History The Empress Frederick was a remarkably intelligent woman, who uniquely responded to her parents educational system and ideas, making her the bright hope for the future generation, particularly for the future of Prussia. Her lofty English ideals, however, led her into conflict and defeat at the hands […]
Phasic and Sustained Fear in Autism
Paul Chamberlain and Dr. Mikle South, Department of Psychology My project was designed to study how autistic children respond to uncertainty and if they respond differently than typically developing children. Psychologists have differentiated between two different types of fear- phasic fear and sustained fear. Phasic fear is fear to a specific threat. For example, if […]