Research Awards:
Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Scholar, Center for Educational Excellence, Scholarship/Research, Tarleton State University. April 1, 2021-January 31, 2022
President’s Fund for Excellence, Tarleton State University, 4 undergraduate student researchers, $25,000.
Research Not Awarded:
Egelston, A. E., Cavazos, R., Morrow, R. et al, REU Site: Peri-Urbanization: Environmental Studies, Society, and Food Insecurity. National Science Foundation. $317,323.00.
Manuscripts submitted or to be submitted beyond grants
“Gendered Violence and Police (Un)helpfulness: An examination of helpfulness in police interactions with victims of sexual and physical intimate partner violence” (with Meggan J. Lee and Kristin Ethier) Rejected from Journal of Criminal Justice; submitting to Criminology and Public Policy by September 1
“Black Mothers in Racially Segregated Neighborhoods Embodying Structural Violence: PTSD and Depressive Symptoms on the South Side of Chicago” (with Ruby Mendenhall’s research group) Under review at Society and Mental Health
“Illuminating Family Dysfunction: Disease Screening to Predict Intimate Partner Violence” (with Meggan J. Lee). Submit by December 1
The Cycle of Violence Reified by the Criminal Legal System: Survivors of Intimate Partner Violence in Correctional Facilities. (with Meggan J. Lee and Kristin Ethier) Submit by December 1
Increasing Student Engagement through Active Learning (with Emily McClemore) Submit by October 1
Peer Reviewed Publications
“Intimate Partner Violence and Human Immunodeficiency Status among Zimbabwean Women: An Examination of Partner’s Traits” (with Loren Henderson and Assata Zerai) African Journal of Reproductive Health 21(4) 45-54.
“Gender as Social Structure and its Potential Impact on Safe Water and Sanitation Technologies in East Africa: An Africana Feminist Analysis” (with Assata Zerai) in Safe Water, Sanitation and Early Childhood Malnutrition in East Africa: An Africana Feminist Analysis of the lives of Women and Children in Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda; 2018 Eds. Assata Zerai and Brenda N. Sanya. Rowman and Littlefield, Lexington Books.
“Environmental Contamination and Early Childhood Morbidity in Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda” (with Assata Zerai and Courtney Culbertson) in Safe Water, Sanitation and Early Childhood Malnutrition in East Africa: An Africana Feminist Analysis of the lives of Women and Children in Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda; 2018 Eds. Assata Zerai and Brenda N. Sanya Rowman and Littlefield, Lexington Books.
Conference Presentations
“Faculty Teaching Panel: Increasing Student Engagement through Active Learning” Educational Excellence Week Symposium, Tarleton State University, April 19th-23rd, 2021. With Emily McLemore.
“Uncovering Imperialism’s Role in Violence against Native Women.” 2019 Annual Meeting of the Midwest Sociological Society, Chicago, Illinois, April 17-20, 2019
“Gender as Social Structure and Its Potential Impact on Safe Water and Sanitation Technologies in East Africa: An African Feminist Analysis.” 2018 International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry, Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, May 16-19, 2018.
“An Exploration Using Structural Violence to Identify and Label State Sanctioned Violence.” 2018 International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry, Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, May 16- 19, 2018.
“Arrested Development: Changing Law Enforcement’s Response for Gendered Violence.” 2018 Annual Meeting of the Midwest Sociological Society, Minneapolis, Minnesota, March 22- 25 2018
“Leaning into Culture: Overcoming Settler Colonialism in Spite of Living on a Reservation.” National Women’s Studies Association, Baltimore, Maryland, November 16-19, 2017.
“The Cycle of Violence Reified by the Criminal Legal System: Survivors of Intimate Partner Violence in Correctional Facilities.” Society for the Study of Social Problems, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
August 2017. (with Kristen Ethier and Meggan Lee)
“Illuminating Family Dysfunction: Disease Screening to Predict Intimate Partner Violence.” (with Meggan Lee) 2017 Annual Meeting of the Midwest Sociological Society, Milwaukee, Wisconsin March 30-April 2, 2017. (Served as moderator)
“Collaborative Creation: A Joint Journal Tracing a Qualitative Inquiry into Violence against Native Women.” 2016 International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry, Urbana- Champaign, Illinois, May 18-21, 2016.
“Gender as Social Structure and its Impact on Safe Water and Sanitation in Tanzania.” Meeting of the Association of Black Sociologists. Chicago, Illinois. August 20-22, 2015.
“HIV Among Married Women in Zimbabwe: The Role of Spousal Violence and Husband Characteristics.” Meeting of the Association of Black Sociologists. Chicago, Illinois. August 20-22, 2015. (with Loren Henderson)
“Insider/Outsider Status: Creating an Ethical Research Agenda at a Native American Reservation.” 2015 International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry, Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, May 20-23, 2015. (Served as moderator)
“And Then There Was Nothing: An Unexpected (non-)Answer to a Prayer. (Performative Autoethnography). 2014 International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry, Champaign- Urbana, Illinois, May 21-24, 2014 (Served as moderator)
“Shouldn’t Homes Be Safe?: Intimate Partner Violence and Role of Family Networks.” 2014 Annual Meeting of the Midwest Sociological Society, Omaha, Nebraska, April 3-6, 2014. (Served as moderator)
“Rape Myth Acceptance among College Students.” 2013 Annual Meeting of the Midwest Sociological Society, Chicago, Illinois, March 25-28, 2013.
Invited Participant and Panel Member
“Water/Sanitation and the Health and Nutrition Nexus.” Safe Global Water Summit, Arusha, Tanzania, January 30-February 1, 2013
Poster Presentation
“Gender as Social Structure in East Africa and its Potential Impact on Safe Water and Sanitation Technologies.” (with Assata Zerai) First International Water Day, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois, April 11, 2014.
Formal Paper Session Panel Organizer
“Sociology of Crime, Deviance, and Violence.” 2014 Annual Meeting of the Midwest Sociological Society, Omaha, Nebraska April 3-6, 2014. (with Negin Sattari)
Fellowships
2016 Summer Bastian Fellowship (Departmental, University of Illinois)
2016-2017 National Institute of Justice Research Assistant Program – Finalist – Not Awarded
2018 Spring Arnold O. Beckman Research Assistantship (University)