African American Studies

Longmire-Avital, associate professor of psychology, has published an article on the sexual health communication styles of emerging adult heterosexually-active black women.

Associate Professor of Psychology Buffie Longmire-Avital participated in the 62nd Annual Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality in Denver, Colorado.

Irons and Johnson, faculty members in the Department of History and Geography, participated in the conference held Nov. 7-10 in Louisville, Kentucky.

Badgett will speak about her platform, No Is Not Enough (N.I.N.E), which seeks to address sexual assault on campus.

His research is based on two data sets: one about the resettlement experiences of refugees in North Carolina and another about the solidarity networks that support the entrepreneurship of Ethiopians and Eritreans in Washington D.C.

High Point University professor Amanda Mbuvi will present on issues of race, religion, nationality, family, and identity

Amy Johnson, associate professor of history and the executive director of the Elon Core Curriculum co-authors article in the Haitain History Journal

The article by the assistant professor of religious studies examines an Arabic text written by a Sufi Muslim scholar named Sīdi Muḥammad al-Kuntī, who lived in the Sahara Desert in the 19th century. The article argues that this scholar based his family's claim to social authority on their control over powerful practices that they called "the sciences of the unseen." 

 

The Center for Race, Ethnicity, and Diversity Education,  Moseley 221, 5:30 to 6:45 p.m.

The assistant professor of religious studies will use the support from the National Endowment for the Humanities fellowship to support her work on a book manuscript.