Posted on Wednesday, October 19, 2016
Dr. Rochelle Parks-Yancy, Jesse H. Jones School of Business professor, discussed her experience as a 2010 Fulbright Scholar at the Fulbright Association Houston’s New Academic Year Reception held September 29 at the University Museum. Parks-Yancy discussed her research and teaching experience at American University of Armenia, located in Yerevan. Fulbright Scholars from the Houston area attended the event
An article by Dr. Anita Kalunta-Crumpton,Administration of Justice professor –“Attitudes and Solutions Toward Intimate Partner Violence,” was published in Criminology and Criminal Justice, the official journal of the British Society of Criminology. The article was written in response to the incidents of intimate partner murders of immigrant Nigerian women in the USA in recent years.
Dr. Sherridan Schwartz, Political Science professor, was quoted in an article recently published in The Undefeated.com. Schwartz provided commentary on Millennials want something different from HBCUs – and they’re getting it, that detailed increases in freshman enrollment this fall at some historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) around the nation. Click here to read the article.
Dr. Humphrey A. Regis, School of Communication professor, has authored a chapter in the book, Envisioning the Greater Caribbean. Dr. Regis argues that the idea of “creolization” as defined and interpreted in the region, normalizes the devaluation, dehumanization and even demonization of the African part of the Caribbean heritage, and this normalization takes a tremendous toll on the psychological health of the people of the region. His theory appears in the book’s chapter. CARMWAC, MASSAHIANISM and Caribbean Creolism.
Dr. Regis challenged and complemented current or prominent perspectives on the relationship between mass communication and cultural domination in the book, How American Reggae Redefined Jamaican and Caribbean Reggae: A Theoretical Study of the Relationship Between Mass Communication and Cultural Domination. He argued that the “reggae revolution” in Jamaica and the Caribbean in the 1970s represented both the continuation of colonial domination and another manifestation of the neo-colonial domination of the island and the region by Europe and North America.
Attorney Holland D. Jones delivered a lecture on "The Pitfalls and Contributions of Longitudinal Statewide Studies of Racial Disparities in Traffic Law Enforcement” September 15 at Arizona State University. Holland is currently completing his doctoral studies in Administration of Justice.
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