Below
are listed projects of some of the current Social/Personality
Psychology students:
Remix: Damage, Shame & Resistance: Fall 2007 Student E-Journal
Nhan Truong
My research interests include the role of culture, race, and sexuality
on Asian masculinities; acculturation and health issues; social
and cultural factors that place queer Asian men at risk for HIV/AIDS.
My second year research project involved how queer and heterosexual
Chinese-American men define/represent/portray their masculinities
through autobiographies and memoirs.
Carla
Marquez
My research interests include: Psychology and Law, Identity, Cognition
and Social Cognition, Basic and Applied Studies of Memory and
Judgment, Eyewitness Identification, and Cross-Cultural Psychology.
Currently, I am developing a second year project that examines
the way(s) formerly incarcerated persons feel excluded from mainstream
society.
Patricia
Ruiz-Navarro
I am beginning my 4th year in the S-P program. My interest in
Immigration and Identity has developed in many directions within
the Social Sciences. From a Socio-psychological perspective, I
am interested on Religious Identities among Immigrants. I am currently
looking at Mexican Immigrants in New York and how religious symbols
are used beyond religious celebrations and into social and political
events.
Jason
VanOra
I am interested in the ways that individuals both inside and outside
of the academy under memberships within gender and sexuality categories.
I am currently writing a second year project in an attempt to
complicate the essentialism/social constructionism dichotomy and
to understand the ways that these seemingly incongruous belief
systems are applied by individuals differentially depending on
the site (physical and cyber), as well as the context of a discussion.
I have also engaged in research concerning disclosure of one's
positive serostatus by HIV+ injection drug users.
Sara
McClelland
I am most curious about how adolescents learn to be sexual. Specifically,
I
want to understand how sex is being currently constructed-the
cultural
processes that teach children and teens about how to act and what
to do, in
and out of sexual situations. In addition, I am interested in
how
differently gendered bodies interact with questions of desire,
protection
and power within sexual dynamics.
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Second Doctoral Exam
Title
Eric
Schrimshaw
Relations between social and individual resources in psychological
adjustment to stress: A theoretical and empirical review
Photos of Second Year Research
Festival
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Titles of Some Dissertations
in Progress
Young people as Authors of Violence Prevention Programs
Identity and difference as a tool of multicultural education:
A social psychological analysis of college diversity practices
Political Movements: Pedagogy, Encounters, and Critical Consciousness
in African-Derived Black Dance
Teach On: An Investigation of Black Culture in the Classroom Environment
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Placing Recognition at the Center: A New Way of Looking at Academic
Expression
Collaborating in Care: Developing a Dialogical Approach to Empathy
within Nursing Education
Dissertation Titles of Recent Graduates
New York City's Needle Exchange Policy and the Intersection of
Science, Activism, and Politics; A case Study of Activist research
and social change
Representations of Social Responsibility: Complicating News Stories
of Maternal Neglect/Abuse
Polymorphous prejudice: Liberating the measurement of heterosexuals'
attitudes toward lesbians and gay men
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Some Student Publications
Corrine
Bertram, 2004 Grad
Lester, N., Bertram, C., Erickson, G., Lee, E., Tchako, A., Wiggins,
K.D., & Wilson, J. (2003). Writing across the curriculum:
A college portrait.
Urban Education, 38(1), 5-34.
Bertram, C.C. (2001). Enduring impermanence: A neighborhood
contra(counter)-versy (against verse). International Journal of
Critical Psychology, 4,
123-131.
Eric
Schrimshaw:
Schrimshaw, E. W., & Siegel, K. (2004). Perceived barriers
to social
support from family and friends among older adults living with
HIV/AIDS.
Journal of Health Psychology.
Schrimshaw, E. W. (2003). Relationship-specific unsupportive social
interactions and depressive symptoms among women living with HIV/AIDS:
Direct and moderating effects. Journal of Behavioral Medicine,
26 (4),
297-313.
Nhan
Truong
Russell, S. T., Driscoll, A. K., & Truong, N. (2002). Adolescent
same-sex romantic attractions and relationships: Implications
for substance use and abuse. American Journal of Public Health,
92, 198-202.
Russell, S. T., Seif, H., & Truong, N. (2001). School outcomes
of sexual minority youth in the United States: Evidence from a
national study. Journal of Adolescence, 24, 111-127.
