Pamela J. Turbeville graduated with distinction from the University of Arizona in 1972 as a double major in Family and Consumer Sciences and Education. Upon graduating, Ms. Turbeville pursued graduate degrees (MBA in Finance from the University of Denver, MS in Environmental Science from the University of Texas at Dallas) and executive education (Stanford Executive Program). She was selected to receive the 2000 College of Agriculture and Life Sciences (CALS) Alumni Achievement Award at the Homecoming event. Ms. Turbeville has strong family ties to the University of Arizona. Her father, John H. Turbeville, two aunts, and many other family members received UA degrees. In 2000, to support faculty research and teaching, Ms. Turbeville established The Pamela J. Turbeville Endowment in the Norton School of Human Ecology. Read More
Em Matsuno, School of Counseling and Counseling Psychology, Arizona State University
Time: Friday, January 26, 2024 from 1:00 PM - 2:15 PM
Title: Development and Effectiveness of the Parent Support Program, an Online Intervention for Parents and Caregivers of Trans and Gender Expansive Youth
Abstract: Transgender and gender expansive (TGE) youth are at alarmingly high risk for negative mental health outcomes, especially in the current political climate with the surge of anti-trans legislation targeting TGE youth. Research has repeatedly demonstrated that parental support is one of the strongest protective factors that can mitigate these mental health disparities among TGE youth (see Johns et al., 2018). Yet, there are currently minimal evidence-based interventions aimed at increasing parental support for parents and caregivers (PCs) of TGE youth. Dr. Matsuno will present on three studies to demonstrate the process and progression of intervention development and testing. The first study, involves the development and pilot testing of the Parent Support Program (PSP), an online intervention for parents and caregivers of trans and nonbinary youth. The second study is a Randomized Controlled Trial (RCT) of the PSP with PC’s across the U.S. The third study is a pilot hybrid effectiveness-implementation study which tests the effectiveness and implementation of the PCP with PC’s on the waitlist for services at Phoenix Children’s Hospital.
About the Speaker: Dr. Em Matsuno is an assistant professor in the School of Counseling and Counseling Psychology at Arizona State University. Dr. Matsuno leads the EMpowerment lab which aims to center and empower Two-spirit, trans, and nonbinary (2STNB) people as scholars, researchers, practitioners, activists, and healers within the field of psychology. Dr. Matsuno’s research focuses on supporting the mental health and wellbeing of 2STNB people through building resilience and reducing minority stress, with a specific focus on family interventions.
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Maurice Magana, Ph.D., Mexican American Studies, The University of Arizona
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Time: Friday, February 16, 2024 from 1:00 PM - 2:15 PM
Title: Multimodal Archives and Multi-sited Presence: Cultural Production, Intergenerational Activism, and Belonging in Diasporic Communities
Abstract: This talk considers the kinds of grassroots archives created by artists and activists who insist on being seen on their own terms. These artists and activists belong to diasporic, racialized communities (Central American, Mexican, Chicanx) in the US and Mexico (Los Angeles, CA and Oaxaca, Mexico). Anchored around the concept of multimodal archives, this paper puts cultural productions like murals, zines, and music (lyrics and videos) in conversation with digital and social media usage, more traditional archival material and ethnographic data to better understand how young people are theorizing radical politics, race, identity, and belonging. These theorizations refuse easy categorization and demand an embrace of the messiness and contradictions involved in collective struggle to create more just worlds where racialized, migrant communities are seen and treated as bring fully human. The archives constituted by such productions and practices link communities, events, and histories across temporal and spatial geographies and scales thus generating rich insights into how artists and activists create and strengthen community across national borders and various categories of difference. Included in this paper will be attention to how these archives link physical and digital sites, ephemerality and permanence to create what I call multi-sited presence.
About the Speaker: Maurice Rafael Magaña is a sociocultural anthropologist and Associate Professor of Mexican American studies at the University of Arizona. His research focuses on the cultural politics of youth organizing, transnational migration, urban space, and social movements in Mexico and the United States. Specifically, Dr. Magaña’s work examines how youth construct themselves as political actors in relation to multiple communities across time and space. His research aims to provide a transnational perspective on historic marginalization, racialization, youth political culture and the role of art in activism. Dr. Magaña's first book, titled Cartographies of Youth Resistance: Hip-Hop, Punk, and Urban Autonomy in Mexico was published by University of California Press in 2020 and received the Anthony Leeds Prize for outstanding book by the Critical Urban Anthropology Association. His work has also appeared in Ethnic & Racial Studies, American Anthropologist, Latin American and Latinx Visual Culture,American Studies, Journal of Latin American & Caribbean Anthropology, Social Justice, and Political & Legal Anthropology Review, among others.
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Frank Gonzalez, Ph.D., School of Government & Public Policy
Time: Friday, March 22, 2024 from 1:00 PM – 2:15 PM
Title: Does Physiological Threat Response Predict Political Conservatism? The Role of Race and Ethnicity
Abstract: Pioneering work on the psychological and biological roots of political orientation has suggested that political conservatism is driven in large part by enhanced negativity bias (i.e., stronger responses to negative over positive environmental stimuli). This work has been criticized on several theoretical fronts, and recent replication attempts have failed. To dig deeper into the contours of when (and among whom) negativity bias predicts conservatism, we investigate a surprisingly overlooked factor in existing literature: race and ethnicity. We propose that political issues represent threat or disgust in different ways depending on one’s race and ethnicity. We are recruiting 200 White, Latinx, African American, and Asian American individuals (in equal numbers) to examine how the relationship between negativity bias and political orientation varies by race/ethnicity across four domains: policing/criminal justice, immigration, economic redistribution, and religious social conservatism.
About the Speaker: Frank is an Assistant Professor in the School of Government and Public Policy at UA. He studies political psychology with a particular focus on the psychological mechanisms that lead to the propagation of inequality and intolerance in American politics. Frank uses a variety of methods such as large-scale surveys, laboratory experiments, implicit attitude measures, measures of nonconscious and biological processes like skin conductance and Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI), and more to investigate how humans process information related to inequality and politics. He has been published in academic journals in political science, psychology, and biology.
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