Main Research Themes
• African American economic history in the era of the
Great Migration: Determinants of migration, extent of /
variation in racial inequality (over space, industry,
time), work and health
• Immigration to Utah in the late 20th / early 21st
century: Socioeconomic mobility, segregation,
neighborhood and health, legal – undocumented
differences
• The late 19th / early 20th century fertility transition:
Family and individual-level evidence on socioeconomic
differences in timing and form of transition, role of
family / network influences on fertility
Exciting Findings / Future Directions
• Influence of geographic context and social networks in
labor market outcomes and demographic behavior
– Racial segregation, change in the effects of living in
segregated neighborhoods
– Distinct neighborhood influences on health for legal and
undocumented immigrants
– Social networks as sources of resources, or of ideas,
influencing economic and demographic processes
• New, historical GIS information and increasingly dense
historical census data might facilitate these kinds of
investigations
Tom Maloney
Department of Economics
OSH 343
581-7481 /
maloney@economics.utah.edu
Past research / Current research
• Studies of variation and change in Utah English
• Past research
• Vowels in words such as FEEL-FILL, SALE-SELL, SCHOOL-SKULL
• Vowels in words such as SANG vs. SAND, SING vs. SINNED
• These changes indicate a major restructuring of the vowels
• All dialects of English are undergoing restructuring of their vowel systems
• Elliptical phrases as in I don’t know if Martha saw it, she might have done.
• This syntactic structure probably came to Utah with late 19th c. Mormon converts
from England
• Current research
• The pronunciation of {ng} in words such as young, sing, being
• The Wick R. Miller Collection Shoshoni Language Project
• Language documentation:
• Transferred all materials to digital, transcription/translation of 400+ narratives,
compilation of 30,000 word electronic “dictionary”, etc.
• Language revitalization:
• Talking Dictionary, children’s books, language teaching curricula & lesson plans,
language teacher training, etc.
• Shoshone/Goshute Youth Language Apprenticeship Program (SYLAP)
Exciting Findings /
Directions for Future Research
• The pronunciation of {ng} in words such as young, sing, being
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Collaborative project with Aziz Alzoubi & Derron Borders, graduate students
History of {ng}
Major change in the pronunciation began about 30 years ago and is spreading
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9/17 speakers with the new pronunciation are younger than 40 yrs of age (b. 1963-1984)
In present sample, oldest speaker with the new pronunciation: female from Sandy, b.
1939
Phonetic mechanism for the change is fortition– a strengthening of the sound to
ensure saliency
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Contributing factors: Creaky articulation, Strong release
• Shoshoni Language Project
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SYLAP students produced the first Shoshoni video game this summer
Produced 8 bilingual children’s books; 5 more are in the pipeline
City Weekly’s Best of Utah 2013 (Media & Politics)
National Indian Education Association’s 2013 William Demmert Cultural Freedom
Award
Name, Department, Contact Information
Marianna Di Paolo
Associate Professor
Department of Anthropology
Stewart Bldg 101B
dipaolo@anthro.utah.edu
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Director
Shoshoni Language Project
95 Ft. Douglas Blvd, Bldg. 603
801-585-7611
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Other affiliations:
• Research Associate, National Museum of Natural History
(Smithsonian)
• Adjunct Associate Professor, Department of Linguistics
migration and cultural evolution
1. what strategies to individuals
employ when migrating?
2. how do migrants adapt to new
environments?
Dynamic
models of
cultural
evolution
Microevolutionary
studies
Field
experiments
TONGA
Macro-evolutionary
observations
Field surveys
Field
observation
studies
piecemeal cultural change
among
Tongan immigrants
current inquiries:
demographic factors that affect immigrant
adoption of socioeconomic vs. ethnic marker
cultural domains
Adrian V. Bell
Dept. of Anthropology
adrian.bell@anthro.utah.edu
http://adrianbell.wordpress.com
NATIONAL CENTER
FOR VETERANS STUDIES
Military / veteran suicide
1. Clinical trials (Fort Carson, CO)
– Preliminary results from RCT of 12-session BCBT vs. TAU
indicated 50% reduction in suicide attempts among Soldiers
– Follow-up RCT of single-session crisis intervention to reduce
suicide attempts currently enrolling Soldiers
2. Pilot studies (Maxwell AFB, Nellis AFB)
– Investigations of shame, guilt, moral injury
3. Future directions to improve detection of suicide risk
– Language analysis of social media (e.g., Facebook) posts
– Primary care and population-based screening tools
– Implicit association test
Craig Bryan, PsyD, ABPP
craig.bryan@utah.edu
OSH 154C
NATIONAL CENTER
FOR VETERANS STUDIES
Military / veteran mental health
1. Operational & life stressors among AF SOF (multi-site)
– Rates of psychiatric conditions and contributors/protective factors
2. Academic success among student veterans
– Mental health status of military personnel and veterans in college
and factors that contribute to academic success/struggles
3. Future directions:
– Refinement of moral injury construct, pilot intervention studies
– Longitudinal studies identifying interactions of preexisting
vulnerabilities with recent life stressors and behavioral problems
– Testing/development of behavioral indicators that are less
vulnerable to self-report bias
Craig Bryan, PsyD, ABPP
craig.bryan@utah.edu
OSH 154C
NATIONAL CENTER
FOR VETERANS STUDIES
National Center for Veterans Studies
Craig J. Bryan, PsyD, ABPP
Associate Director, National Center for Veterans Studies
Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology
Orson Spencer Hall 154C
craig.bryan@utah.edu
Past Research / Current Research
PAST: Interpretive Research Design: Concepts
and Processes (co-authored with Dvora Yanow,
2012, Routledge)
• Interpretive social science puts the meaning
making of those studied at the center of the
research endeavor.
• Interpretive Research Design recovers the
language of design from the variables-based
approaches that have dominated design
discussions and textbooks in many disciplines. It
shows why design language based on variables
and the standards of reliability, replicability and
validity stymie interpretive projects.
CURRENT: Institutional Review Board Policy.
Institutional Review Board Policy
POLICY WINDOW for social scientists: 2011 Advanced Notice for Proposal Rulemaking
(ANPRM) could mean significant deregulation for minimal risk research.
• MISMATCH: between the bio-medical ethics and the a priori design
perspective contained in Federal Policy and the actual ethical concerns
of field researchers as well as their iterative, emergent approach to
design.
• Unlike the CANADIAN AND UK POLICIES, there is no recognition in
US policy of the “critical” role that social scientists play in democratic
systems, e.g., a “do no harm” framework is inconsistent with holding
public officials and other power holders accountable.
• EXEMPTION in the federal statue for candidates and public officials is
rarely advertized on IRB websites and it is not an actual exemption
because researchers studying the state must still submit their research
plans to a body overseen by the federal government (S-S & Y, 2009,
MPSA)
• A “PECULIAR” REGULATORY PROCESS: no formal appeals
process; atomistic feedback to social science researchers (as opposed
to a case law approach that enables collective learning).
Peregrine Schwartz-Shea
Political Science
OSH 256e
psshea@poli-sci.utah.edu
US-trained faculty teaching effectively to develop
leadership, management, public policy in other
countries.
How should faculty who are trained in the U.S. adapt –
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Course content to reflect differences in institutional
structures, systems, traditions, and laws; and
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Teaching methods/approaches, including awareness of
and adaption to differences in culture, concepts, and
language.
in order to be effective when working with students from
other countries?
Past Research--Current Research
• Sociology—Aging, Family, Race/ethnicity, Policy
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Quality of Life QOL
Minority aging—Middle Eastern Immigrants
Informal social support
Formal -adult day, senior ctr, AL, SNF, hospice
Person Environment—Territoriality
Elder mistreatment—Infantilization
Family violence—dyads, IPHS
Sonia Salari, Ph.D.
Exciting Findings/ Future Directions
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Intimate Partner Homicide Suicide Study
Collaboration Carrie Sillito, Ph.D.
IPHS 730 national events, 1600 deaths
Male perpetrators, firearms, 3 age categories
Primary motive varies by age category
– Suicide
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--Homicide
Suicide pact rare, mercy killing rare
IP violence--Romanticized for elderly--ageism
Community impact
VAWA Policy PO –Firearm ban not enforced
Grant potential public health, firearms & suicide
Contact Info
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Sonia Salari, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Department Family & Consumer Studies
Mailing: AEB 228
Office: AEB 252
Phone: 801-867-6652
sonia.salari@utah.edu
• Adjunct Gerontology Center; Sociology
• Member Center on Aging, Middle East Center
Past Research/Current Research
• Determinants of consumer expenditures:
– Racial/ethnic differences, international comparisons,
health care expenditures, food expenditures, status
consumption
• Risk aversion and household financial behavior
– Credit use, borrowing/saving and expenditures
• Contextual neighborhood effects on physical
activity, obesity, and other health outcomes
– Built environment, food environment, food price,
income inequality, physical activity patterns.
Exciting Findings/Direction for Future
Research
• Exciting findings:
– Bouts study – Every minute of physical activity counts when it
comes to body weight.
– Neighborhood income inequality is beneficial for individual risk
of obesity.
– Food environment data validation study in Salt Lake county
shows a substantial amount of data error.
• Future research:
– Does every minute count for other health outcomes?
– Are there self-selection issues in the relationship between
neighborhood income inequality and individual risk of obesity?
– Does food environment really matter for obesity? A more
comprehensive look.
Contact Information
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Jessie Fan
Department of Family and Consumer Studies
fan@fcs.utah.edu
1-4170
iSTAR Project – developing tech talent for
youth on the autism spectrum
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CBPR (Community-based Participatory Action Research)
◦ Family members and teachers as advisors and co-researcher
◦ Offered 5 summer camps serving over 40 youth – ages 8-23
◦ School based program serving 18 students over 2 years
◦ After-school program as follow-up
◦ Replications sites: Orlando, FL;
The Dalles, OR; Boulder, CO
• Findings
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Self-Confidence – leadership skills
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Enhanced Peer Status
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Social – family engagement
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Development of vocational skills
Current research
Focus on psychosocial outcomes:
personal, social, vocational
Potential research funding
Corporate partners: Google, Trimble, Universal
Creative
 Department of Defense grant – Idea Development
Award- Autism Research (October, 2013)
 NIH R34 – Interventions for youth on the autism
spectrum (Feb. 2014)
 Lassonde Entrepreneurial Center:
Governor’s Economic
Development Committee
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A
RESEARCH
PROGRAM
USING
3D
TECHNOLOGY
TO
FACILITATE
SOCIAL,
CREATIVE, AND JOB SKILLS FOR YOUTH ON
THE
AUTISM
SPECTRUM
CHERYL WRIGHT, FAMILY AND CONSUMER STUDIES
cheryl.wright@fcs.utah.edu
Past/Current Research
O Criminal Sentencing
O Scholarship of
Teaching
O Latina/o Attitudes
towards Immigration
Reform
O Construyendo
Latinidad
Exciting Findings
O “Gringo Justice” outside of
the southwest
O Chicano Studies as critical
cultural framework for
social praxis
O Varied attitudes towards
immigration reform by
different social statuses
O Centuries old fluidity of
Latinidad
Ed A. Muñoz, Ph.D
Director Ethnic Studies
Assoc Prof Sociology
ASA Latina/o Sociology Section Chair
BuC 38 (Bldg 074)
University of Utah
Ethnic Studies Program Rm 50
1635 Campus Center Dr.
Salt Lake City, UT 84112
801-581-5886 (Office)
801-581-5206 (Message)
801-581-8437 (Fax)
ed.munoz@utah.edu
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Past Research
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Mainly intimate partner
abuse (IPA) and
stalking in the context
of IPA (some work on
sexual assault)
 Interviewed battered
women
 Interviewed prosecutors
who work IPA cases
 Worked with Salt Lake
Police Department’s
domestic disturbance
police reports
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Current Research
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Working with the Family
Justice Center on Salt Lake
City’s Third District Court
Intensive Probation
Monitoring Pilot Program
 Court records, victim
interviews
A project using court records
to explore the relationship
between distance of victim and
offender and protective order
violations
Current papers on:
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Protective orders, IPA, and stalking
Drugs/alcohol, IPA, and stalking
Social support and stalking in the
context of IPA
EXCITING FINDINGS
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Stalking in the Context of IPA
Early work describes this issue
Predicts stalking in these
relationships
 Differences between
relationships with both stalking
and IPA and those with just IPA
 Examined the impact of CJ
intervention in IPA on future
stalking
DIRECTIONS FOR THE
FUTURE
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Gender differences in IPA
offending
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Consistently found qualitative
differences between male and
female offenders
A book on police response
to IPA—history, changes,
current response
 SLPD data
 Interviews with police
officers
 Interviews with victims of
IPA
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Stalking
Dr. Heather C. Melton
Associate Professor
Department of Sociology
University of Utah
801-581-3108
Heather.melton@soc.utah.edu