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Smallholder farmers' engagement with climate smart agriculture in Africa: role of local knowledge and upscaling
(Taylor & Francis, 2022-04-21)Climate-smart agriculture (CSA) is an important discourse among national governments in Africa and international policy circles to increase food productivity, build smallholder farmers' resilience to climate change, and ... -
Recognizing Post-Castration Pain in Piglets: A Survey of Swine Industry Stakeholders and the General Public
(Frontiers, 2022-07-22)We need validated, practical methods for pain assessment in piglets. Pain assessment can help researchers, veterinarians and industry professionals identify the need for analgesia or other pain management approaches when ... -
A Five Star Flop: The Collision of Music Industry Machinations, Genre Maintenance, and Black Britishness in 1980s Pop
(OpenEdition, 2022-06)In a 1987 interview with BBC Radio 1 DJ, Mike Read, members of the British pop group Five Star collectively stated that their hopes and wishes for 1988 were “to crack America” – that is, to achieve comparable success in ... -
Understanding the Overlap of Online Offending and Victimization: Using Cluster Analysis to Examine Group Differences
(Routledge, 2022-06)Criminal offending and victimization often overlap in both the virtual and offline worlds. However, scholars are still unsure how the offending-victimization relationship plays out between the online and offline worlds. ... -
Development and Feasibility of an Online Brief Emotion Regulation Training (BERT) Program for Emerging Adults
(Frontiers, 2022-06-10)Mental wellness is a critical component of healthy development in emerging adulthood and serves to protect against stress and promote resilience against psychopathology. Emotion regulation is a key mechanism for effective ... -
Mad Squirrel Keeping it Rural: Reflecting on Twenty Years of Hip-hop Environmental Awareness and Advocacy
(2022-04-28)In this autobiographical piece, I reflect on my twenty-year history as an emcee working at the intersection of hip hop and environmental awareness. Since summer 2000, I have recorded and performed environmentally situated ... -
Old Southern Codes in New Legal Bottles? Sexual Harassment, Race, and Masculinity
(Springer Nature, 2022-03-05)Historically, old southern codes were used to regulate the interactions between black males and white females. We draw parallels between these codes and current sexual harassment laws to examine the perceptions of sexual ... -
Best Practices: Mentoring from a Distance
(2020)If your mentor-mentee relationship is thriving, congratulations, and keep up the good work! If you’re feeling, however, like you and your mentee aren’t connecting as well as you were in the beginning, or that your rapport ... -
The Perpetual Scapegoat: Anti-Semitism in the Ideology and Activities of Hate Groups in the United States Pre- & Post- Trump’s Election
(Institute for the Study of Global Anti-Semitism and Policy, 2021)This chapter explores the antisemitic undertone in the ideology and activities of white supremacist hate groups in the United States before, during and after the 2016 United States presidential election. After examining ... -
Hate Knows No Boundaries: Online Hate in Six Nations
(Taylor & Francis, 2020-01-31)This paper examines cross-national commonalities and differences in online hate speech content, exposure, and emotional reaction. Using online surveys from 18 to 25-year-old respondents in six countries, we find a majority ... -
Crack-Powder Cocaine Disparity and Commodity Fetishism
(2021-11-01)This is a case study of discriminatory drug policy in the US from a political economy perspective. Convictions and sentencing for drugs offenses are far higher for African Americans than white Americans even though white ... -
Ben Fletcher : The Life and Times of a Black Wobbly, Revised and Expanded 2nd Edition [Book review]
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Factors Associated with Online Hate Acceptance: A Cross-National Six-Country Study among Young Adults
(MDPI, 2022-01-04)The Internet, specifically social media, is among the most common settings where young people encounter hate speech. Understanding their attitudes toward the phenomenon is crucial for combatting it because acceptance of ... -
The Auto/biographical Narrative and Ethical Issues: Reflections on Three Projects
(2021-04-21)This talk was part of a series organized by the program for Scholarly Integrity and Research Compliance (SIRC) at Virginia Tech -
Radical feminist empathy: reflections on our life-stories, our right to an education, to staying the course
(2021-03-03)This talk was my contribution to a TEDxVT two hour event featuring speakers across diversity on the topic of empathy, education, and perseverance -
"Thank you for today" (poetry)
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Cybercrime: Victimization, Perpetration, and Techniques
(Springer, 2021-11-10)The creation of the World Wide Web revolutionized communication. At the turn of the 21st century, roughly 413 million people used the internet (Roser, Ritchie and Ortiz-Ospina 2015). A mere 21 years later, nearly 4.7 billion ... -
Viewing anti-immigrant hate online: An application of routine activity and Social Structure-Social Learning Theory
(Pergamon-Elsevier, 2021-11-01)The increasingly prominent role of the Internet in the lives of Americans has resulted in more people coming into contact with various types of online content, including online hate material. One of the most common forms ...
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