Student Publications
Doctoral student Alankaar Sharma has had his history paper on the Negro Project of American Social Hygiene Association accepted for publication in Journal of African American Studies.
An article by doctoral student Eunsu Ju, co-authored with Tae-Young Um, titled An Explanatory Study on the Conditions of Saving Activity and the Determinants of Savings among Low Income Urban Families in Korea: A Discussion for the Initiation of Asset Building Policies, was published in Research on Seoul & Other Cities, 9(2) in June 2008.
Doctoral student Alankaar Sharma's article Focusing on the Sexual in Child Sexual Abuse appeared in the 2007 Issue 4 of In Plainspeak, the quarterly magazine of the South and Southeast Asia Resource Centre on Sexuality. The article discusses the terms “child” and “abuse” within the larger term “child sexual abuse” that has begun receiving much-deserved attention in India. The word “sexual” in the term continues to remain blurry and ignored in Indian culture. The article also discussed that developing an understanding of the sexual dimension of child sexual abuse is integral to a comprehensive response to such violence.
Doctoral student Valandra recently published an article in Affilia: The Journal of Women and Social Work. The article, published in the May 2007 issue (Vol. 22, No. 2) is entitled Reclaiming their lives and breaking free: An Afrocentric approach to recovery from prostitution.
PhD student Valandra
She writes in her abstract that "little research has examined the specific healing needs of prostituted African American women. In this qualitative research study, eight African American women who were receiving culturally specific services at an Afrocentric agency participated in a focus group and in-depth semistructured interviews.. The analysis revealed seven categories of experience: (1) a legacy of violence and underreporting, (2) family and self-preservation, (3) kinship support and spirituality, (4) hitting rock bottom, (5) barriers to recovery, (6) helpful and harmful services, and (7) a prism of oppression. Implications for social workers, policy makers,advocates, and further research are discussed."