Research Colloquium 2019

1:15 PM – 1:30 PM

Denise Brennan, Georgetown University
Kristi Graves, Medical Center
Naomi Mezey, Law Center

1:30 PM – 2:30 PM

Moderated by Fida Adely, Associate Professor, School of Foreign Service.

Redefining the “Morehouse Man”

• Jill C. Morrison, Visiting Professor, Director, Women’s Law and Public Policy Fellowship, and Director, Leadership & Advocacy for Women in Africa Program, Law Center

Title IX: What Would it Look Like If We Did it Right? A student-led, inquiry-based, aspirational and trans-disciplinarily course on realizing gender equity in higher education

• Sara Collina, Adjunct Professor, Women & Gender Studies Program, Georgetown College
• Kayla Edwards-Friedland, Georgetown School of Foreign Service 2022
• Maggie Cullina, Georgetown College 2021

We Don’t Dream: Black Female Emerging Scholars in Post-Apartheid South Africa

• Sabrina Wesley-Nero, Associate Teaching Professor & Director of Program in Education, Inquiry and Justice, Georgetown College

2:30 PM – 3:30 PM

Moderated by Christopher King, Associate Professor & Chair of the Department of Health Systems Administration, School of Nursing & Health Studies.

Socio-Emotional Processing: Gender Differences in Social Adversity and Violence Exposure

• Mary Fesalboa, Research Assistant
• Masha Stoianova, Research Assistant
• Under the supervision of Professor John Vanmeter and Ph.D. Candidate Shady El Damaty, Interdisciplinary Program in Neuroscience (IPN), Center for Functional and Molecular Imaging, School of Medicine and G⁺JI Summer Research Grant Awards 2019 Recipient

Stop and Listen to Their Voices; The Impact of Recent Changes to the Immigration Regime on Women

• Sara Schotland, Adjunct Professor, Disability Studies, and Law & Literature, Georgetown College & Law Center

Menstruation, Reproductive Health and Homelessness: Attitudes and Experiences from Residents at one Midwestern Shelter

• Ashi Arora, Medical Student, School of Medicine

3:45 PM – 4:45 PM

Moderated by Melyssa Haffaf, Program Director, Gender⁺ Justice Initiative.

Recovering, Remembering, Recognizing, Persistence: An Oral History of the First African-American Women to Attend and Graduate from the Georgetown University School of Nursing

• Brian Floyd, Assistant Dean of Academic Affairs and Adjunct Professor, School of Nursing and Health Studies

African American Females Pursue Leadership Roles Despite Continuous Challenges Demonstrating Noteworthy Resilience

• Soyini Richards, Adjunct Professor, School of Continuing Studies

Queer the Clock: Black youth transgressing time and producing alternative futurities

• Rahsaan Mahadeo, Postdoctoral Fellow in Sociology, Georgetown University

Do Women Mayors Enhance Patent Innovation?

• Neel Sukhatme, Associate Professor of Law, Law Center

5:00 PM – 5:15 PM

Moderated by Naomi Mezey, Law Professor, Law Center and Kristi Graves, Associate Professor of Oncology, School of Medicine.

5:15 PM – 6:30 PM