Diversity in Action: Past Sessions
Diversity in Action is a series of research-based seminars is designed to inform and engage scholars, students, and practitioners of diversity-related research at Mizzou. The seminars' format typically consists of a 40-minute presentation and a 20-minute question and answer session which offer presenters and participants an opportunity to exchange ideas. We hope this conversation will stimulate new research directions and identify practical applications.
For information about current semester sessions, please see Diversity in Action current series schedule.
Spring Semester 2012 Series
- Chinese Beauty Pageants: Can the Heteronormative Also Be Queer?
Mignonette M. Chiu, postdoctoral fellow
Department of Women's and Gender Studies
Wednesday, Feb. 8, 2012
Noon to 1 p.m., S206 Memorial Union - Evolution of Sex Differences in Brain and Cognition
David Geary, professor
Department of Psychological Sciences
Thursday, March 15, 2012
Noon to 1 p.m., S206 Memorial Union - The Hindu-Muslim Problem in Medieval Intellectual History
Michael Bednar, assistant professor
Department of History
Wednesday, April 11, 2012
Noon to 1 p.m., S206 Memorial Union - Two Diverse Applications of Electronic Performance Support Systems (EPSS) in Education: (1) Learning Skills Instruction and (2) Intercultural Sensitivity Training
Gail Fitzgerald, professor
Thitinun Boonseng, doctoral candidate
School of Information Science & Learning Technologies
Wednesday, May 2, 2012
Noon to 1 p.m., S206 Memorial Union
Fall Semester 2011 Series
- Discriminatory Housing Advertisements Online: The Lessons of Craigslist
Rigel C. Oliveri, associate professor
School of Law
Wednesday, Sept. 14, 2011
Noon to 1 p.m., S206 Memorial Union - Helping Poor Families and Disadvantaged Workers: Toward an Understanding of Available Options
Peter Mueser, professor
Dept. of Economics
Wednesday, Oct. 12, 2011
Noon to 1 p.m., S206 Memorial Union - The Role of Culture in Coping with Life's Challenges: An Act-in-Context
Puncky Heppner, professor
Dept. of Educational, School and Counseling Psychology
Wednesday, Nov. 9, 2011
Noon to 1 p.m., S206 Memorial Union - Multiculturalism in a U.S. University Classroom
Srirupa Prasad, assistant professor
Dept. of Sociology
Friday Dec. 2, 2011
Noon to 1 p.m., S206 Memorial Union
Spring Semester 2011 Series
- Women in Rural Communities: Access to Health Services
Kay Libbus, professor
Sinclair School of Nursing
Thursday, Feb. 10, 2011
Noon to 1 p.m., S206 Memorial Union - Voice Without Power: Women in Latin American Legislatures
Leslie Schwindt-Bayer, associate professor
Department of Political Science
Thursday, March 10, 2011
Noon to 1 p.m., S206 Memorial Union - Configuring Cervical Cancer in Venezuela: Comparative Considerations for Latinas in the U.S.
Rebecca Martinez, assistant professor
Department of Women's and Gender Studies
Thursday, April 14, 2011
Noon to 1 p.m., S206 Memorial Union - Work Experiences of Latino Immigrants in Missouri
Lisa Flores, associate professor
Department of Educational, School and Counseling Psychology
Wednesday, May 4, 2011
Noon to 1 p.m., S206 Memorial Union
Fall Semester 2010 Series
- Achieving Excellence and Equity for Latino Students: Viewing Classrooms through Their Eyes
Kathryn Chval, associate professor
Department of Learning, Teaching and Curriculum
Thursday, Sept. 16, 2010
Noon to 1 p.m. in S206 Memorial Union - The Sound of the Drum Will Revive Them and Make Them Happy: Embodied practice and spirituality among urbanized native communities
Dennis Kelley, assistant professor
Department of Religious Studies
Thursday, Oct. 14, 2010
Noon to 1 p.m., S206 Memorial Union - Colonization inside Europe: German Constructions of Colonial Race and Space across the Continental "Wild East"
Kristin Kopp, assistant professor
Department of German and Russian Studies
Thursday, Nov. 11, 2010
Noon to 1 p.m., S206 Memorial Union - Topic: Similarities and differences in adolescent smoking behavior across racial/ethnic groups
ManSoo Yu, assistant professor
School of Social Work
Thursday, Dec. 2, 2010
Noon to 1 p.m., S206 Memorial Union
Spring Semester 2010 Series
- What Happens When States Modernize the Application Procedure for Food Stamps?
Colleen Heflin, assistant professor
Harry S. Truman School of Public Affairs
Wednesday, Feb. 10, 2010
- Religion, Health and the Body in Japan
Edward Drott, assistant professor
Department of Religious Studies
Wednesday, March 10, 2010 - Can You Hear Me Now?: Silencing Communities of Color Through Felon Disenfranchisement Laws
David Mitchell, associate professor
School of Law
Wednesday, April 14, 2010 - The Experiential Learning Program in Mexico: Culture Family Values, Agriculture & Migration
Christiane Quinn, vice-president
Hispanic and Latin American Faculty Staff Association
Wednesday, May 5, 2010
Fall Semester 2009 Series
- Universal Values? Not According to the Facts!
Peter M. Gardner, professor emeritus
Department of Anthropology
Wednesday, Sept. 16, 2009
- Reassessing Madison’s Diversity Hypothesis: The Case of Same-Sex Marriage
Sean C. Nicholson-Crotty, associate professor
Department of Political Science
Wednesday, Oct. 21, 2009 - What Does Math Have To Do with a Community Divided? A Case Study
Robin Mabry Hubbard, doctoral candidate
Department of Rural Sociology
Wednesday, Nov. 11, 2009 - Reflections in the Water: Kiowa Stories, Geographies, and New Traditions in the Ever-Changing World
Mark H. Palmer, assistant professor
Department of Geography
Wednesday, Dec. 9, 2009
Spring Semester 2009 Series
- Crime, Conventional Wisdom, and the Court: The Judicial System's Response to Selected Offenses involving Enslaved Children
Wilma King, Arvarh E Strickland Distinguished professor and interim director
Department of History and Black Studies Program
Wednesday, Feb. 11, 2009
- Post-Apocalypse, Sci-Fi, and Black Film
Anand Prahlad, professor
Department of English
Wednesday, March 11, 2009
- Maternal Intrusiveness During Play with Toddlers and Young Children
Jean Ispa, professor and co-chair
Department of Human Development and Family Studies
Wednesday, April 8, 2009
- Indians Watching Indians on TV: Representing Native American Spectatorship on Film
Joanna Hearne, assistant professor
Department of English
Wednesday, May 13, 2009
Fall Semester 2008 Series
- White Nationalism
Larry Brown, assistant professor
Department of Geography
Tuesday, Sept. 9, 2008
- Gender Role Attitudes: What's Happened Over the Last Two Decades?
Joan Hermsen, associate professor
Department of Sociology
Wednesday, Oct. 8, 2008
- Cultural hybridity through Afro-Latin American Religions
Juanamaria Cordones-Cook, associate professor
Department of Romance Languages and Literature
Wednesday, Nov. 12, 2008
- West African Women Prophets
Robert Baum, associate professor
Department of Religious Studies
Dec. 10, 2008
Winter Semester 2008 Series
- Stephen C. Jeanetta
State Specialist, Community Development
Feb. 5, 2008 - Rita Cavigioli
State Specialist, Community Development
March 4, 2008 - Karen Sunday Cockrell and Katie Piacentini (doctoral student)
Associate Professor, Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis
April 2, 2008 - Marvin L. Overby
Professor, Department of Political Science
April 30, 2008
Fall Semester 2007 Series
- Peeter Tammeveski
Visiting Assistant Professor, Departments of Educational, School and Counseling Psychology and Women's and Gender Studies
Oct. 11, 2007 - David L. Brunsma
Associate Professor, Department of Sociology and Black Studies Program
Nov. 1, 2007 - Michael C. Lambert
Millsap Professor and Licensed Psychologist, Department of Human Development and Family Studies
Adjunct Professor, Department of Psychological Sciences
Dec. 6, 2007