The daily realities of racism and structural oppression in the lives of urban Black teens create an ill-fated, normative experience that can forever influence their adolescent development. Other chronic stresses, such as multi-generational poverty, peer victimization, and gentri…
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College women are at significantly greater risk of sexual assault compared with women in general. Survivors of sexual assault are at risk of developing posttraumatic stress disorder(PTSD) and problems with sexual intimacy. PTSD is characterized by five symptom clusters, two of w…
Survivors of gun violence have significant sequelae including mental health disorders that often go undiagnosed and untreated. Survivors of gun violence are at high risk for both re-injury with a firearm as well as interaction with the criminal justice system. These poor outcome…
This dissertation evaluates the experience of Latina migrant mothers living in New Haven, Connecticut amid the COVID-19 pandemic. I ask: How do Latin American migrant women accommodate traumatic histories and motherhood amid a global public health and economic crisis? This ethno…
Research shows that trauma and traumatic experiences are not uncommon among college students (Archambeau et al., 2010; Watson & Haynes, 2007). The impact of trauma is represented among many college students who arrive at college already having suffered traumatic events in th…
According to Dale et al. (2108), Black women have lived with bearing the burden of facing both structural inequities (e.g., poverty, racism, access to health care) and psychosocial factors (e.g., violence and abuse) which have resulted in suffering various forms of trauma. Some …
Background: Historical and contemporary trauma among Native Americans is linked to disparate health outcomes across the lifespan including the very recent coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19) outbreak. Early and prolonged exposure to positive family-child engagement activities and the na…
The media has played a critical role in reproducing anti-Black violence in the United States, which has often harmed African American communities. Historically, the white press has depicted graphic imagery and descriptions of Black people being brutalized, with little ethical re…
Community violence is a type of trauma commonly experienced in inner cities. Qualitative methods and hermeneutic phenomenology were used to identify connections of low use of professional mental health services by African American men in inner-city settings to chronic exposure t…
Follow the Damage, not the People This is the genealogy of trauma, child of ancestors Joaquin was the father of Eusebio. Eusebio the father of Marcela, whose husband was Max Ferraro. Max was the father of Matias, whose husband was Eusebio Fetizanan, who was a soldier in World Wa…
This historic case study explores individual dancing bodies in Israel, Brazil, and West Germany throughout years of reframing nationality and nation. The socio-political group contains members who share a common agenda and values. They define themselves by creating their own gro…
I mine relationships. I think about my own interpersonal relationships: to my parents, siblings, friends, mentors, lovers, colleagues, teachers, students, neighbors, strangers on the street. More significantly, I am interested in relationships that are less easily categorized, o…
This dissertation research is the primary sociological study of Iranian Baha’í refugees in the United States and lies at the intersection of trauma, immigration, religion, and gender. Using data from fifty in-depth qualitative interviews with first generation Iranian Baha’ís in …
Ezekiel 20 retells Israel’s exodus narrative tradition (exodus from Egypt and entry into the land of Canaan) as a means of disorienting traditional understandings of identity in order to prepare the prophet’s audience for a new identity. To explore this chapter more fully and to…
This qualitative study explored the verbal and art making responses of Greek-Cypriot survivors who experienced the war event in Cyprus during 1974 and forced migration to the United States. Four Greek-Cypriot refugees were asked to recall traumatic memories during the war by cre…
Background: Combat-related posttraumatic stress symptoms (PTSS), with or without a diagnosis of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) can negatively impact soldiers and their families. PTSS has been linked to increased domestic violence, divorce and soldier suicides, yet few stud…
Due to war-related conflict and monsoon flooding, the number of internally displaced persons residing within, and refugees or asylum seekers originating from, Pakistan has reached over two million. Such displacement trends necessitate increased understanding of culturally-specif…
This dissertation examines Arab Iraqi refugee women's experiences of the "war on terror" from a gendered historical perspective within the contemporary structural violence of state policies and practices in the Canadian context. Drawing on critical anti-racist and anti-colonial …
Background. Traumatic brain injury (TBI) has evolved into the signature injury for service members returning from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Current standards for diagnosis, treatment, and rehabilitation of service members with mild TBI (mTBI) are often incomplete, leadin…