Faculty Mentors: Louise Ammentorp & Lauren Madden Students: Jacqueline DeNarie & Tara-Lyn Farrell In the education department at The College of New Jersey, students are partnered for their practicum placements during their sophomore and junior years. Our MUSE study sought to determine the various approaches used by faculty to create partnerships and examine their level of… Continue Reading
Monthly Archives: June 2012
Applying Conversation Analysis to interviews with Japanese politicians about the Trans-Pacific Partnership
Faculty Mentor: Holly Didi-Ogren Student: Russell Wolf In our MUSE project we employed methods from Conversation Analysis (CA) in an analysis of verbal interactions in a 1.5-hour long panel discussion about Japan’s participation in the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP). The TPP has been extremely controversial in Japan, and we selected the NHK panel discussion partly because… Continue Reading
The Virtual Freedom Trail Project: Re-visioning Gender in African Liberation in Tanzania
Faculty Mentor: Marla Jaksch Students: Alyssa Fountain & Shannon Grooms Throughout the Summer of 2012, Women’s and Gender studies majors Alyssa Fountain and Shannon Grooms assisted Dr. Marla Jaksch on a transcontinental research project known as The Virtual Freedom Trail Project: Re-visioning Gender in African Liberation in Tanzania. The students used resources available to them… Continue Reading
The 2012 TCNJ Delegation to Nicaragua: Assessing International Service Learning
Faculty Mentor: Diane Bates Students: Brad Heisler & Nicole Thompson Throughout the summer Dr. Diane Bates lead Brad Heisler and Nicole Thompson during research of the Nicaraguan people, culture, history and the U.S’s involvement there. Nicaragua lies between the Pacific Ocean and the Caribbean Sea. With a population of 5,727,707 people it is the second… Continue Reading
Ethnic Self-Stereotyping and Stereotype Awareness
Faculty Mentor: Julie Hughes Student: Iris Chiu U.S. society becomes more ethnically diverse every year, making individual experiences of interracial anxiety increasingly common. This summer Dr. Hughes and her student collaborator, Iris Chiu, have researched interracial anxiety and its antecedents. These antecedents of anxiety include: internal and external motivations to respond without prejudice (IMS and… Continue Reading
Career Barriers and Supports for Individuals with Physical Disabilities Empirical
Faculty Mentor: Jason Dahling Student: Rachel Tenenbaum In this study, we examined the relationship between disability onset, disability severity, and participants’ levels of vocational confidence. In particular, we looked at their degree of confidence in completing activities that were Realistic (such as making repairs), Investigative (such as solving math problems), Artistic (such as writing a… Continue Reading
On the Use of Different Kinds of Political Message Frames to Appeal to Different Kinds of Voters
Faculty Mentor: Jarret Crawford Student: Sean Modri Our objective was to explore the content of people’s stereotypes of liberals and conservatives. Existing research on such political stereotype content lacked a theoretical focus. We therefore examined political stereotype content from the perspective of two recently developed theories of stereotype content: dehumanization theory (DT) and the stereotype… Continue Reading
Borderline Citizens: The US, Puerto Rico, and the Politics of Colonial Law and Migration, 1998-1948
Faculty Mentor: Robert McGreevey Student: Eulogio Kyle Romero During the summer of 2012, I worked under the direction of Dr. Robert McGreevey of the History department. Our MUSE project focused around revising Dr. McGreevey’s book manuscript entitled, Borderline Citizens: The United States, Puerto Rico, and the Politics of Colonial Law and Migration, 1898-1948. Dr. McGreevey’s… Continue Reading
The Pains of Permanent Imprisonment: findings from a Sample of Life Without parole Inmates
Faculty Mentor: Margaret Leigey Student: Michael Ryder Throughout this summer, Dr. Margaret E. Leigey and her student collaborator, Michael Ryder, a senior Criminology major, collaborated on an exploratory study examining the “pains of imprisonment” (Sykes, 1958) for life without parole inmates. Using qualitative and quantitative data, the purpose of the study was to determine if… Continue Reading
The Reception and Rejection of Roman Imperial Portrait Models in the Eastern Provinces, 234-270 CE
Faculty Mentor: Lee Ann Riccardi Student: Emily Conforto The focus of this MUSE project was to examine imperial portraiture on Roman provincial coins between the years of 235-270 CE. During this time, the empire faced political turmoil and had many rulers who led for short periods of time. New coins were minted each time a… Continue Reading