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Submissions from 2015
Vocation Stories of Cistercian Monks, William L. Smith
Early Side-Notched Traditions in the Ocmulgee River Drainage, Kara Bridgman Sweeney
Mi Datos, Su Datos? Opportunities and Challenges Posed by Data Sharing, M. Jared Wood
Submissions from 2014
Remembering Tony Paredes, Heidi M. Altman
Teaching Aging Policy Using Same Sex Partnerships and Marriages, Adrienne L. Cohen
Taboo Topics in Geriatric Care, Adrienne L. Cohen and Pamela Pitman Brown
Transformative Learning in Online and Face-To-Face Death and Dying Classes, Adrienne L. Cohen and Pamela Pitman Brown
Integrating the Student Perspective into the Research Process: Students as Co-Researcher, Adrienne L. Cohen and Justin Morales
Healthography of Sickle Cell Disease (SCD) Transition: Exploring Community-Level Indicators of SCD Transition Success from Rural, Georgia SCD Patients' Perspectives, Raymona H. Lawrence, Bettye A. Apenteng, and April M. Schueths
Conversations with Professors, Nancy L. Malcom
Advice from Still New Professors to Brand New Professors, Nathan S. Palmer
A New Teacher's Guide to Student Learning, Having Fun, and Surviving your First Class, Nathan S. Palmer
Austerity, The New Normal in Academia?: How Sociologists Are Adjusting to the Changing Political and Economic Landscapes Affecting Higher Education, Nathan S. Palmer
Don't Sacrifice Today's Opportunity For Yesterday's Dream, Nathan S. Palmer
How to Create an Online Platform for Your Research, Nathan S. Palmer
Issues in Education, Nathan S. Palmer
Social Media Training Pre-Conference Workshop, Nathan S. Palmer
Teaching 2.0 - Open Education Resources and Social Media in the Classroom, Nathan S. Palmer
Teaching Large Lecture Classes: Strategies for Student Engagement, Nathan S. Palmer
Teaching Large Lecture Classes: Strategies for Student Engagement, Nathan S. Palmer
Truth Has No Color, Nathan S. Palmer
Using Social Media as a Professional Development Tool, Nathan S. Palmer
When You Play in Dirt, You Get Dirty: Why Everyone Needs to Work Against Racism, Nathan S. Palmer
Why it is Smart to Think of Yourself as Dumb and Dumb to Think of Yourself as Smart, Nathan S. Palmer
Assessing Community Formation on Online Educational Resource Networks, Nathan S. Palmer and April M. Schueths
Gendered Deportation Regimes: The Experiences of Exiled and Fractured Mixed-Status Couples, April Schueths
‘It's almost like white supremacy’: Interracial mixed-status couples facing racist nativism, April M. Schueths
Just Like a Nightmare: Coping among Mixed-Status Couples, April M. Schueths
Impractical Lives: The Prayer Lives of Cistercian Monks in the American Southeast, William L. Smith
Multiple Scales of Interaction and Tradition in the Early Side-Notched Horizon, Kara Bridgman Sweeney
Subregional Side-Notched Traditions in the Coastal Plain, Kara Bridgman Sweeney
The Typology of Early Side-Notched Bifaces and Unifaces, Kara Bridgman Sweeney
The Bennett Grove School: Bulloch County’s Last One Room African American Schoolhouse, Inger Wood
The Final Fitzner Survey, M. Jared Wood
Submissions from 2013
Translating Culture: Anthropology, Language and Culture in Indian Country, Heidi M. Altman
Service-Learning and the Attainment of Course Objectives: A Study in Two Disciplines, Nancy M. Arrington and Adrienne L. Cohen
The New York Times Framing of the Troubled Asset Relief Program: Challenges to or Reaffirmation of Neoliberal Hegemony, Ted Brimeyer and Chris Gillmann
Teaching Sexuality and Aging, Adrienne L. Cohen
Application and Use of Cyclododecane, Part II: En Bloc Removal of Osteological Remains, Alice E. Fazlollah, M. Jared Wood, and Brigitte M. Wray-Miller
Data Collection and Analysis With IRB-approved Data Sets, Katy Gregg and April Schueths
Preliminary Investigations at the Dixon Site: A Possible Clovis Occupation, Dwight Kirkland and M. Jared Wood
Conversations with Professors, Nancy L. Malcom
Opening Lines: Discussing Race and Racism at GSU, Nathan S. Palmer and Breyan Haizlip
From Ahwi to Anikahwi: Deer in Cherokee Subsistence and Social Structure, Tanya Peres and Heidi M. Altman
Confluence or Divergence? The Intersection of Same Sex Marriage and Immigration Discourse, April M. Schueths and Eric Silva
Continuity and Change in a Southern Beachy Amish-Mennonite Congregation, William L. Smith
The Fitzner North Survey, M. Jared Wood
From Power to Soft Power and Smart Power, Pidi Zhang
Submissions from 2012
Why is Language at the Center?, Heidi M. Altman
Daksi: The Ethnozooarchaeology of the Eastern Box Turtle Terrepene Carolina, Heidi M. Altman and Tanya Peres
The New York Times Coverage of the Bush Tax Cuts Extension, Ted Brimeyer and L. Kozee
Teaching Death and Dying Online, Adrienne L. Cohen
Combating the Challenges of Online and Face-To-Face Environments in Teaching Undergraduate Students About Death and Dying, Adrienne L. Cohen and Pamela Pitman Brown
Dem Dry Bones: Cyclododecane as a Tool in Osteological Analysis, Alice E. Fazlollah and M. Jared Wood
Digitizing Visual Field Data: Ethical, Practical and Theoretical Implications, Barbara A. Hendry
The Creation of STUNT Cheer: A Story of Title IX, Cheerleading and the Gender Politics of Sport, Nancy L. Malcom
Title IX, Cheerleading, and the Gender Politics of Sport, Nancy L. Malcom
Against the Grain: Creating a Social Science Major in a Difficult Political and Economic Environment, Ned Rinalducci
“It’s Almost like White Supremacy”: Mixed-Status Couples Resisting Racist Nativism, April Schueths
Academic Entitlement Among College Students: Antecedents and Outcomes, William L. Smith and Ted Brimeyer
Submissions from 2011
Language at the Center, Heidi M. Altman
Language Revitalization and Native Leaders, Heidi M. Altman
Native Language-Based Paradigms for Indigenous Midwifery, Heidi M. Altman
Media Coverage and Framing of the Employee Free Choice Act, Ted Brimeyer
Social Supports as Predisposing Factors in Rural and Non-Rural Nursing Home Admissions, Adrienne L. Cohen and Jennifer Roebuck Bulanda
Discrepant Teaching Events: Addressing Students' Misconceptions, Judith Longfield and Nathan S. Palmer
Learning to Grieve: Children’s Picture Books as a Socialization Agent, Nancy L. Malcom
Leveraging The Internet to Teach with Humanity and Engage Students, Nathan S. Palmer
Diversity Dialogue: Race and Sex, Ned Rinalducci
Media Frames: 2011 Riots in England, Ned Rinalducci
Openness in Adoption and Child Well-being: Do Outcomes Differ by Openness?, April Schueths and Tiffany Sheffield
The Images of China, Japan, and the United States: An. Examination of Soft Power Dynamics in Asia, Pidi Zhang
Submissions from 2010
Native Peoples in the Southeast, Heidi M. Altman
Applying Language-Based Models for Health and Wellbeing, Heidi M. Altman
Board Training for the Land Trust for the Little Tennessee, Heidi M. Altman
Willard Walker and the Legacy of the Carnegie Cross Cultural Project, Heidi M. Altman
Social Class Sentiments: Changing Views of the Government and Corporations After an Economic Collapse, Ted Brimeyer
Globalization and Localization: “Old” and “New” Irish Rituals in Savannah, Barbara A. Hendry and William L. Smith
Conversations with Professors, Nancy L. Malcom
Expectations of Child Agency: Examples from Children’s Books on Grief and Bereavement, Nancy L. Malcom
Writing From Experience: How Authors of Picture Books Make Claims About Expertise, Helping Children, and Contributing to the Social Good, Nancy L. Malcom and Carrie L. Smith
Racial Stereotypes in the Media, Ned Rinalducci
Teaching Religion Abroad: Experiences with Trinidadian Faiths: Hinduism, Islam, Christianity and Orisha, Ned Rinalducci
Passionate Pedagogy and Emotional Labor: Students’ Responses to Learning Diversity from Diverse Instructors, April Schueths, Tanya Gladney, Katherine Bass, Devan Crawford, and Helen Moore
A Spiritual Getaway: The Motivations, Experiences, and Benefi ts of a Silent Retreat, William L. Smith and Pidi Zhang
Submissions from 2009
Cherokee Placenames and Relationships to the Environment, Heidi M. Altman
Cherokee Place Names and Naming Places, Heidi M. Altman and Thomas N. Belt
Economic and Political Change: Impacts on College Student Social Class Sentiments, Ted Brimeyer
Success of Low Income Students in Higher Education: Preparations, Pathways, and Choices, Ted Brimeyer
Conversations with Professors, Nancy L. Malcom
Conversations with Professors, Nancy L. Malcom
Conversations with Professors, Nancy L. Malcom
Heaven and the Afterlife in Children’s Storybooks, Nancy L. Malcom
Images of Heaven and the Spiritual Afterlife: An Examination of Children’s Storybooks, Nancy L. Malcom
Learning About Loss: A Content Analysis Examination of Children’s Books on Death and Dying., Nancy L. Malcom
Latinos, the Academic Ethic, and the Transition to College, Nathan W. Pino and William L. Smith
An Analysis of Crime Stoppers Organization: Solving Crimes Through Anonymous Citizen Assistance, Ned Rinalducci
Black Student Transition to College: An Example from the Deep South, William L. Smith and Pidi Zhang
Submissions from 2008
Community Language Projects: Growing the Grassroots of Language Revitalization, Heidi M. Altman
