For the Global Health Studies (GHS) minor, we are required to do an immersion experience to delve deeper into a topic we are interested in and give us hands on experience in the field of global health. For my immersion experience I volunteered at La Soupe, a private nonprofit in Cincinnati, Oh, which provides healthy […]
A02-T: The Gauci Brothers’ Holy Land Model
The research project that I am presenting is part of an independent study course in Anthropology designed by Dr. James Bielo, entitled Materiality and the Circulation of Culture. The project entailed a critical reading of scholarship in anthropology, material religion, and museum studies; an analysis of >100 newspaper stories (1924-62) detailing a traveling Holy Land […]
CSI-03: The Disneyfication of American Culture
The general area of this research is media studies and American studies, but I also was able to bring in aspects of anthropology as well, while studying culture through media. I decided to focus specifically on how Walt Disney and the Walt Disney Corporation have simultaneously influenced and become a symbol of American culture. This […]
A36: April Wallace and the Lost Village: An Approach to Community Engagement in Archaeology
Archaeology looks to the past to find meaning in modern identities; for this reason, its sites are often political and the public wants a stake in the research, resulting in increased efforts towards public outreach in archaeology. Yet there is a spectrum of politicism to sites and not all efforts at community outreach are as […]
CSI-05: Parental and Child Psychosocial Benefit From a Summer Camp Designed for Medically Fragile Youth
Summer camp provides a normative childhood experience for many healthy, neurotypical youth across the United States. To expand the number of youth given access to these experiences, summer camps have been created in recent decades catered towards medically fragile or non-neurotypical youth. Dragonfly Forest is one such summer camp that provides programming for kids with […]
B55: Gaslighting: Manipulating an Individual’s Ability to Recognize Abuse
After interning for four weeks at the EVE, a domestic violence shelter in Marietta, Ohio, this past J-term, I was exposed to group counseling sessions and the term gaslighting. After researching the epidemiology of gaslighting and domestic violence, three apparent gaps emerged for further research: How does the victim recognize the cycle of abuse?; How […]
C49: Alleviating Hunger Close to Home: An Innovative Solution to Food Insecurity in Butler County
This poster reviews prevalence, risk factors, and health consequences of food insecurity and proposes a solution to fill a gap in Oxford’s food insecurity services. This solution is inspired by proposals presented by students at the 2020 Social Innovation Weekend where students worked in teams to understand food insecurity and develop solutions. Food insecurity impacts […]
B60: Let’s Develop: Utilizing Photo Booths in Federally Qualified Health Centers to Enhance a Sense of Inclusion Among Vulnerable Populations
The health outcomes of people of color and those living in poverty are poorer than the health outcomes of white people and those with higher socioeconomic status. One way in which this problem manifests is in infant mortality rates. Black babies die at rates almost three times higher than white babies in Ohio’s Butler and […]
C35: The functionality of vocal communication in lowland woolly monkeys (Lagothrix lagotricha poeppigii) from the Tiputini Biodiversity Station, Ecuador
In group-living primates, vocal communication is critical for social interactions, maintaining contact with group members, avoiding confrontations with individuals in other groups, and evading predators. For this study, we investigated the vocalization patterns of wild woolly monkeys from the Tiputini Biodiversity Station in Amazonian Ecuador. We combined behavioral data previously collected in 2014 and 2015 […]
B45: Women as Community Health Workers in India: How Gendered Norms Present Both Benefits and Limitations
This research investigates the connection between community health workers (CHW) in India and the effect gender has on their role. It is important to understand the ways in which other global health systems function effectively while noting the aspects that may be inadequate. In India, community health workers play an essential role as advocates and […]
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