Library & Information Science

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Book Chapter - Information – Power to the People: Students and Librarians Dialoguing about Power, Social Justice, and Information, Information Literacy and Social Justice: Radical Professional Praxis (2013)

This chapter provides a case study of teaching an Honors Freshman Seminar at Georgia State...

 

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Presentation - NVivo - Invigorating Your Teaching and Student Learning (2013)

Looking for ways to do in-depth analysis of your students’ writing assignments to inform your...

 

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Guest Lecture, San José State University - LIBR 228: Advanced Information Resources and Services, Lecture Title: “Social Sciences Librarianship." (2012)

Guest Lecture for San José State University - LIBR 228: Advanced Information Resources and Services,...

 

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Brochure - LGBTQIQ @ the GSU Library (2012)

Brochure created for the GSU Annual LGBTQIQA Welcome Reception for Students, Faculty and Staff, with...

 

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ACRL in Anaheim ACRL programs at the ALA Annual Conference – Learning styles: Fiction, nonfiction, or mystery?, College & Research Libraries News (2012)
 

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Poster Session - Give Them What They Want, Not What We Assume They Need: Developing a User-Centric Mobile Library Website, Poster presented at American Library Association (ALA) Annual Conference (2012)

Learn about the user studies Georgia State University Library conducted to guide the included features...

 

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Book Review - Multimedia Encyclopedia of Women in Today’s World, (M.Z. Stange, C.K. Oyster, & J. Sloan (Eds.), Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 2011) (2012)
 

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Syllabus - "Information - Power to the People" (Georgia State University, Honors Freshman Seminar) (2011)

“Knowledge is power. Information is liberating….” Kofi Annan

Guided by this notion and the sociological...

 

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Presentation - Getting Their Hands Dirty: Collaborating to Engage Undergraduates in Learning, KU Teaching Summit (University of Kansas) (2007)

Presentation on collaboration with Dr. Hannah Britton, Associate Professor of Political Science and Women’s Studies,...

 

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Presentation - Cultivating Future Scholars: A Cross-Campus Collaboration on an Original Research Project, ACM Introducing the New Generation of Students to Academic Inquiry: Cross-Campus Collaboration Conference (Cornell College) (2006)

Presentation on a collaboration with a sociology faculty member, a Writing Consultant, and the Quantitative...

 

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Focusing on Assignments: Engaging Students in Library Research (2005)

An online assignment guide that provides pedagogical taxonomies as well as sample assignments and assessments...

 

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A Citation Analysis of the Quantitative/Qualitative Methods Debate's Reflection in Sociology Research: Implications for Library Collection Development, Library Collections, Acquisitions, and Technical Services (2004)

This study examines how the social sciences’ debate between qualitative and quantitative methods is reflected...

 

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The Internet and the Velocity of Scholarly Journal Publishing (with Rob Kling Ph.D.), Rob Kling Center for Social Informatics (2002)
 

Sociology/Gender/Sexuality

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“MY GOD! IF ONLY I COULD GET OUT OF HERE!” The Construction of “White Slavery” as a Social Problem in Progressive-Era Chicago (2013)

This paper presentation draws from my dissertation research, in which I examined how Progressive-Era Chicago...

 

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Book Chapter - Information – Power to the People: Students and Librarians Dialoguing about Power, Social Justice, and Information, Information Literacy and Social Justice: Radical Professional Praxis (2013)

This chapter provides a case study of teaching an Honors Freshman Seminar at Georgia State...

 

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Presentation - NVivo - Invigorating Your Teaching and Student Learning (2013)

Looking for ways to do in-depth analysis of your students’ writing assignments to inform your...

 

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Brochure - LGBTQIQ @ the GSU Library (2012)

Brochure created for the GSU Annual LGBTQIQA Welcome Reception for Students, Faculty and Staff, with...

 

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Book Review - Multimedia Encyclopedia of Women in Today’s World, (M.Z. Stange, C.K. Oyster, & J. Sloan (Eds.), Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 2011) (2012)
 

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Syllabus - "Information - Power to the People" (Georgia State University, Honors Freshman Seminar) (2011)

“Knowledge is power. Information is liberating….” Kofi Annan

Guided by this notion and the sociological...

 

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Book Review - Supreme Court Decisions and Women’s Rights: Milestones to Equality (2nd ed., C. Cushman (Ed.), Washington, DC: CQ Press, 2011), Feminist Collections: A Quarterly of Women's Studies Resources (2011)
 

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Claims Making, Encyclopedia of Social Problems (2008)
 

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Presentation - Getting Their Hands Dirty: Collaborating to Engage Undergraduates in Learning, KU Teaching Summit (University of Kansas) (2007)

Presentation on collaboration with Dr. Hannah Britton, Associate Professor of Political Science and Women’s Studies,...

 

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Book Review - "Pigs and Raunch: 21st-Century Feminism?", Psychology of Women Quarterly (2007)
 

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Presentation - Cultivating Future Scholars: A Cross-Campus Collaboration on an Original Research Project, ACM Introducing the New Generation of Students to Academic Inquiry: Cross-Campus Collaboration Conference (Cornell College) (2006)

Presentation on a collaboration with a sociology faculty member, a Writing Consultant, and the Quantitative...

 

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Book Review - International Exposure: Perspectives on Modern European Pornography, 1800-2000 (L. Z. Sigel, New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2005), Contemporary Sociology (2006)
 

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Presentation - Prostitution and Human Rights: What are the Issues?, World of Differences: Languages, Cultures, and Human Rights Conference (Cornell College) (2005)

Session at a conference for high school students, in which we discussed the issues surrounding...

 

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Syllabus - "Selling Sex: Feminist Discourses on the Sex Work Industry" (Cornell College, Women's Studies Course) (2005)

We examined competing feminist discourses regarding women’s involvement/portrayal in the sex work industry. Grounded in...

 

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Book Review - "(En)Gendering Cooking", Feminist Collections: A Quarterly of Women's Studies Resources (2005)
 

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Book Review - Race, Ethnicity, and Sexuality: Intimate Intersections, Forbidden Frontiers (J. Nagel, New York: Oxford University Press, 2003), Contemporary Sociology (2005)
 

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Constructing the “Social Evil”: An Analysis of Anti-Prostitution Crusades in Progressive-Era Chicago, 1907-1915 (2004)

This study analyzes anti-prostitution crusades in Chicago during the Progressive Era, using a social constructionist...

 

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A Citation Analysis of the Quantitative/Qualitative Methods Debate's Reflection in Sociology Research: Implications for Library Collection Development, Library Collections, Acquisitions, and Technical Services (2004)

This study examines how the social sciences’ debate between qualitative and quantitative methods is reflected...

 

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Comparative Criminal Justice (with Mathieu Deflem Ph.D.), Handbook of Criminal Justice Administration (2001)
 

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(Re)Claiming the Discourse of Desire: An Analysis of Women’s Erotic Texts, Paper for a feminist theory/methods course (Purdue University, with Prof. Patrocinio Schweickart) (1998)

Upon critiquing MacKinnon and Dworkin’s (Dworkin 1981; MacKinnon 1986, 1987; MacKinnon and Dworkin 1997) stance...

 

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Staged Sexuality: A Dramaturgical Analysis of Erotic Dancing, Master's Project, Purdue University Department of Sociology (1998)

This research comprises an ethnographic study of female erotic dancers in a single erotic dance...

 

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The "Lesbian on Display:” An Analysis of Representations of “Lesbian” Identities and Sexualities in Contemporary American Film, Paper for an LGBTQ identities course (Purdue University, with Prof. Evelyn Blackwood) (1998)

This research consists of an analysis of “lesbian” identities and sexualities as represented in a...