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The Sanford School
Monthly News Blast
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Dear Colleagues,
I hope your 2018-2019 academic year is off to a great start. I would like to extend a heartfelt welcome to all who have joined The Sanford School of Social and Family Dynamics as faculty, staff, postdoctoral scholars, or students. Please reach out to our newest members and get to know each of them and their work. See below under Faculty Spotlight the brief biographies that introduce two of our new faculty members: Professor and Associate Director of Sociology Nilda Flores-Gonzalez, and Assistant Professor Connor Sheehan.
The Sanford School is involved in hosting several engaging speakers this month, as noted to the right under Upcoming Events. Today the Global Sport Institute launched a speaker series with a presentation by Elijah Anderson of Yale University. Save the dates for upcoming colloquia by Victor Rios, Professor of Sociology at University of California-Santa Barbara (September 19); Suniya Luthar, Professor of Psychology at ASU (September 21); and Rebeca Mireles-Rios, Assistant Professor in Education at the University of California-Santa Barbara (September 27).
Each month we would like to feature in our Sanford School News Blast a spotlight story of an SSFD faculty member and/or student, so please feel free to suggest individuals we might include. Also, forward to Shelley Linford (address below) your news of publications, conference presentations, grants, and awards, as well as notices of opportunities, talks, and other special events.
Sincerely,
Marilyn Thompson
Associate Director
T. Denny Sanford School of Social and Family Dynamics
Please e-mail Shelley (shelley.linford@asu.edu) your good news and information regarding upcoming events.
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Awards and Accomplishments
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Dalal Safa received the Emeritus Faculty Fellowship Award ($2000), Emeritus College, Arizona State University.
Sanford School Professor Marilyn Thompson is Co-I on a new NIH grant, entitled Monolingual and Bilingual Reading Comprehension in Middle and High School Students. Collaborators include Shelley Gray and Laida Restrepo in ASU’s Speech and Hearing program, as well as colleagues from University of Kansas Medical Center and Lancaster University in the UK. The goal of the five-year project is to model longitudinal development of reading and oral language skills in both monolingual English speakers and Spanish-English dual-language learners, extending research that began when children were in pre-K and culminating in 10th grade. The study also examines cognitive, psychological, and ecological factors in development of reading skills. Findings will further understanding of how to identify children at risk for poor reading comprehension, and how to improve reading comprehension assessments, curricula, and interventions for older students.
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Sanford School senior named a Millennium Fellow
This April, the United Nations Academic Impact and Millennium Campus Network launched the Millennium Fellowship. The selective fellowship is a semester-long leadership development program that convenes, challenges and celebrates student leadership for U.N. goals. Over three months, students applied from 285 campuses across 57 nations. Only 11 percent of the campuses were selected to host fellows in the global pilot this fall, and Arizona State University was among them. Representing ASU’s T. Denny Sanford School of Social and Family Dynamics is sociology senior and Diversity and Inclusion Science Initiative (DISI) fellow Kira Olsen-Medina. Not only a first-generation college student, Olsen-Medina is also a first-generation American (her mother is an immigrant from Mexico). In addition to her course work here at ASU, she is currently working as a research assistant in two funded research projects — the Equity in Engineering Project, funded by the National Science Foundation, and the Teacher Experiences Across Subjects Project, funded by the Institute for Education Sciences, among many other on-campus initiatives.
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ASU alumna credits Sanford School for preparing her for success
Amy Pennar, a former Arizona State University doctoral student in family and human development at the T. Denny Sanford School of Social and Family Dynamics, was just awarded a prestigious small grant for early career scholars by the Society for Research in Child Development.
Currently a postdoctoral fellow at the Wayne State University School of Medicine, Pennar’s grant will assess the long-term viral functioning of youth living with HIV who participated in an intervention to improve adherence to antiretroviral medication to determine if intervention effects were maintained one year after the end of the intervention. Moreover, the grant will compare the acceptability and feasibility of utilizing dried blood spots relative to whole blood to measure HIV viral load.
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Sanford School faculty were invited to participate in meeting of the American Sociological Association
Sanford School Professor Nilda Flores-Gonzalez, Associate Professor Rebecca White, and Professor Emerita Jennie Kronenfeld were among 15 ASU scholars who shared their research at the 113th annual American Sociological Association meeting in Philadelphia. The theme of this year’s meeting was “Feeling Race: An Invitation to Explore Racialized Emotions.”
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ASU lecturer cited in article about effects on children detained at the US-Mexico border
While the policies for separating children from their parents or guardians at the U.S.-Mexico border have recently changed, there are still many concerns about the short- and long-term effects suffered by thousands of detained children.
Robert Weigand, principal lecturer at Arizona State University’s T. Denny Sanford School of Social and Family Dynamics, and the director of the Child Development Laboratory, weighs in on the topic in a recent article by The State Press’ Jessica Myers.
In an email, Weigand said that one of the most threatening and frightening things one can do to a young child is forcibly separate them from their parent. See more from Weigand in the full article.
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Sanford School alumna works toward collaboration with Kenyan universities
In late May, Flora Farago, a PhD alumna from the Sanford School program in family and human development and Assistant Professor at Stephen F. Austin State University in Texas, joined Professor Nina Berman of the School of International Letters and Cultures, Professor Beth Blue Swadener of the School of Social Transformation, and Lecturer Paul Quinn, director of the American Sign Language program in the College of Health Solutions, in meetings with representatives of Kenyan universities to explore various areas of collaboration. They sought to create a framework for easier facilitation of faculty exchanges, student exchanges, joint research collaborations, and study abroad programs, among other activities.
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Sanford School researcher offers expertise on school safety
School safety has become an urgent topic among researchers, as more than 20 schools around the country have seen firearm incidents in 2018. Sarah Lindstrom Johnson, Assistant Professor in the T. Denny Sanford School of Social and Family Dynamics and a former high school teacher in Baltimore, studies school environments and how they affect student learning. Lindstrom Johnson, who has a background in adolescent development and a doctorate in public health, has discussed school safety concerns with ASU Now in two recent articles.
Researcher finds that more counselors, programming improves behavioral health
ASU experts across a variety of fields talk about the many challenges we face when it comes to mass shootings, protecting the 2nd Amendment and public safety
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ASU Sanford School professor co-authors brief regarding parent-child separations
With more than 2,000 children currently separated from their parents as a result of recent border policies, the U.S. is in the midst of a humanitarian crisis. And the scientific evidence is clear that separation between children and parents is harmful to the development of children, families and communities. Rebecca White, Associate Professor in the Sanford School, recently co-authored a brief by the Society for Research in Child Development (SRCD) Latino Caucus highlighting the evidence on harmful effects of parent-child separation and impact of border family separations on U.S. citizens.
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ASU Sanford School student receives Outstanding Graduate Award
Larissa Gaias recently received her PhD from Arizona State University's T. Denny Sanford School of Social and Family Dynamics. In addition to this milestone, Gaias' several other outstanding accomplishments led to her being featured in front of thousands of graduates at this year’s College of Liberal Arts and Sciences graduation ceremony.
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The Sanford School, along with Career Services, are hosting a series of beneficial workshops for students next month! Please share with your students so they can save the date and plan to attend!
These workshops will be held in Armstrong Hall, Room 147. Students should RSVP through Handshake events.
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Ready to begin your studies in Marriage and Family Therapy? We invite you to consider the unique advantages the Master’s in Advanced Study in Marriage and Family Therapy (MAS-MFT) Program has to offer! Please join us at one of two upcoming informational sessions to learn more about the program. No RSVP needed – hope to see you at one of these:
- Thursday, October 11, 12-1:00 p.m., Social Sciences, Room 209
- Tuesday, November 6, 12-1:00 p.m., Social Sciences, Room 209
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Nilda Flores-Gonzalez
Associate Director of Sociology
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My research focuses on the question of belonging and how individuals make social and emotional connections to a larger community. I am particularly interested in the intersection of race, ethnicity, class, gender, and migration on Latinx identity. As an engaged scholar, I look forward to working with Latinx and Native communities to improve the quality of life for children, youth and families. Being a native of Puerto Rico who endured way too many Chicago winters, I am enjoying Arizona’s sunshine and heat!
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Connor Sheehan
Assistant Professor
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I am a Sociologist interested in how social inequality manifests in health inequality. I am both fascinated and horrified that social inequality is so severe that it “gets under the skin” to lead some to live shorter less health lives than others. I am also a trained Demographer who almost exclusively uses large nationally representative datasets to conduct my research. My work largely focuses on older adults and their aging. I also love teaching quantitative methods and trying to get students to nerd out with me about statistics.
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Research publications and presentations
The Sanford School faculty and students are highlighted in bold
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Atkin, A.L., Yoo, H.C., & Yeh, C.J. (2018). What types of racial messages protect Asian American adolescents from discrimination? A latent interaction model. Journal of Counseling Psychology. Advance online publication.
Eggum-Wilkens, N. D., Zhang, L., & An, D. (2018). An exploratory study of Eastern Ugandan adolescents’ descriptions of social withdrawal. Journal of Adolescence, 67, 153-157. doi:10.1016/j.adolescence.2018.06.011
Gaias, L., Lindstrom Johnson, S., White, R.M.B., Pettigrew, J., & Dumka, L. (2108). Understanding school-neighborhood mesosystemic effects on adolescent development. Adolescent Research Review. 3(3):301-319.
Knight, G. P., Safa, M. D., & White, R. M. B. (accepted). Advancing the assessment of cultural orientation: a developmental and contextual framework of multiple psychological dimensions and social identities. Development and Psychopathology.
Safa, M. D., White, R. M. B., Mahrer, N. E., Knight, G. P., Gonzales, N. A., & Pasco M.C. (accepted). U.S. Mexican-origin adolescents’ bicultural competence and mental health in context. Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology.
White, R. M. B., Zeiders, K. H., & Safa, M. D. (accepted). Neighborhood structural characteristics and Mexican-origin adolescents’ development. Development and Psychopathology.
Xiao, S. X., Spinrad, T. L., & Carter, D. B. (in press). Inductive discipline and preschoolers' prosocial behavior: The role of parental emotion regulation strategies. Journal of Genetic Psychology.
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International Society of Psychoneuroendocrinology.
September, 2018 | Irvine, CA
Rollins, B. R., Bryce, C. I., Granger, D. A., & Francis, L. A., (2018, September). Low awakening cortisol is associated with severe obesity, cumulative risk, and protective factors in childhood. Poster accepted for presentation at the International Society of Psychoneuroendocrinology, Irvine, California.
Sullivan, M.C., Bryce, C. I., & Granger, D. A. (2018, September). Salivary cortisol and alpha-amylase reactivity and regulation in preterm infants at 23 years. Poster accepted for presentation at the International Society of Psychoneuroendocrinology, Irvine, California.
Conference on the Use of Secondary and Open Source Data in Developmental Science.
October, 2018 | Phoenix, AZ
Xu, X., Xiao, S. X., & Jager, J. (2018, October). Father, Mother and Adolescents’ Agreementon Parental Rejection under Different Cultural Values. Research accepted at the 2018 DEVSEC: Conference on the Use of Secondary and Open Source Data in Developmental Science, Phoenix, AZ.
Promoting Character Development Among Diverse Children and Adolescents: The Roles of Families, Schools, and Out-Of-School-Time Youth Development Programs.
October, 2018 | Philadelphia, PA.
Alexander, B., Xiao, S. X., & Fabes, R. A. (2018, October). Prosocial segregation in young children’s play: A longitudinal study. Research accepted at for the Early Career Special Poster Session at the 2018 CHARACTERDEV: Promoting Character Development Among Diverse Children and Adolescents: The Roles of Families, Schools, and Out-Of-School-Time Youth Development Programs, Philadelphia, PA.
Xiao, S. X., Alexander, B., & Fabes, R. A. (2018, October). The role of mixed-sex play in Head Start children’s prosocial development. Research accepted at for the Early Career Special Poster Session at the 2018 CHARACTERDEV: Promoting Character Development Among Diverse Children and Adolescents: The Roles of Families, Schools, and Out-Of-School-Time Youth Development Programs, Philadelphia, PA.
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Atkin, A.L., & Tran, A.G.T.T. (2018, July). Moderators of the racial-discrimination-psychological adjustment link for Asian Americans. In Atkin, A.L. (Chair) Racial-ethnic identity, discrimination, and psychological adjustment: Examining unique resilience factors. Symposium accepted at the biennial meeting of the American Psychological Association: Division 45 Conference, Austin, TX.
Atkin, A.L. (Chair), Gabriel, A., McCullough, K., Del Prado, A. (2018, August). Conducting and understanding research with multiracial populations. Interactive session accepted at the Asian American Psychological Association Convention, San Francisco, CA.
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Global Sport Institute's Speaker Series
