{"id":24229,"date":"2018-03-28T14:23:39","date_gmt":"2018-03-28T18:23:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/college.unc.edu\/?p=24229"},"modified":"2024-07-02T16:54:31","modified_gmt":"2024-07-02T16:54:31","slug":"aaad-conference-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/collegearchive.unc.edu\/?p=24229","title":{"rendered":"Students explore topics from health care to anti-apartheid activism at AAAD\u2019s fifth annual Undergraduate Research Conference"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Professor
Professor Troy Blackburn, associate dean for undergraduate research, opens the annual AAAD Undergraduate Research Conference.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cUndergraduate students who conduct research receive notable gains \u2014 writing, speaking and leadership skills, intellectual curiosity, and the improved ability to acquire and analyze information.\u201d<\/p>\n

That\u2019s how Troy Blackburn, associate dean for undergraduate research in the College of Arts & Sciences, opened the fifth annual Undergraduate Research Conference of the department of African, African American and diaspora studies on March 24.<\/p>\n

The depth and breadth of student presentations at the conference reflected Blackburn\u2019s remarks. Undergraduates shared their research and insights through individual presentations on four themed panels: \u201cHealth, History and Representation,\u201d \u201cCivil Rights, Black Power and Politics,\u201d \u201cPerforming Research\u201d and \u201cIn and Out of Africa.\u201d AAAD faculty members moderated the panels.<\/p>\n

This year\u2019s Dunbar-Stone Lecture that opens the annual conference was delivered by Sen. Valerie Foushee, who majored in political science and Afro-American studies at UNC-Chapel Hill. She talked about being inspired as a student by beloved faculty member Sonja Haynes Stone. \u201cWith elegance and eloquence, [Dr. Stone] stirred up a desire not just to explore history and cultures but to begin to see myself in a different context \u2026 with a heightened awareness of injustice and inequality, I wanted to join with others to fight inequities.\u201d<\/p>\n

Kenneth Janken, AAAD professor and director of undergraduate studies, said that Foushee’s keynote address was a \u201ctestament to the value of a Carolina education and, in particular, the value of an education based in African and African American studies.\u201d Janken has been a part of the annual conference since its beginning.<\/p>\n

\"Professor
Professor Perry Hall moderating one of the research panels with (left to right), Marissa Jamison Dorsey, Julia Shankin, Destinie Pittman and Jose Villard.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The inequities Foushee addressed include health disparities, which was the focus of Destinie Pittman’s research. Pittman, a senior double majoring in public policy and AAAD, presented on \u201cHealth Care Denied and Revived: 1896\u20131970.\u201d She examined the forces underlying medical discrimination and the barriers to sustaining health care. \u201dHealth is both a civil and a human right,\u201d she said. \u201cMy research centers health care in the civil discourse in the South, particularly in the Mississippi Delta.\u201d<\/p>\n

Conference attendee Korene Gbozah, a sophomore majoring in biology, said the health care panel helped inform how she wants to practice and show respect to\u00a0 patients in her future career as a physician. \u201cIt really struck me when Destinie talked about a black man who had money to pay for his treatment but the doctor didn\u2019t want to provide services to him,\u201d she said. \u201cThe disrespect that black people had to go through, even when they were sick, stuck with me.\u201d<\/p>\n

Bailey Nelson explored the motivations of civil rights lawyers, particularly from the Southern Justice Institute (SJI), during the 1960s and 1970s, in her presentation. With little information about SJI online, Nelson utilized UNC\u2019s Southern Historical Collection in Wilson Library.<\/p>\n

Claude Clegg, Lyle V. Jones Distinguished Professor in AAAD and the department of history noted that it is critical that students learn to use a range of primary sources when conducting research<\/p>\n

\u201cIt’s vitally important for young people to consult an array of evidence and sources to come up with their own conclusions, be able to make arguments about those conclusions and encounter other people’s arguments[through the lens] of their own research,\u201d Clegg said. \u201cAnd you need to be in the public square, at a conference like this, to do that.\u201d<\/p>\n

By Michele Lynn<\/em><\/p>\n

Students, their research topics and AAAD faculty moderators are listed below:<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"From
From left to right, Bailey Nelson and Maxine Richmond with moderator Professor Kenneth Janken.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cHealth, History and Representation\u201d (moderator: Perry Hall)<\/strong><\/p>\n

    \n
  • Jose Villard, \u201cThe Black Hospital Movement\u201d<\/li>\n
  • Destinie Pittman, \u201cHealth Care Denied and Revised: 1896-1970\u201d<\/li>\n
  • Julia Shankin, \u201cConveying Racist Ideologies in German Colonial Goods\u201d<\/li>\n
  • Marissa Jamison Dorsey, \u201cGermanin: The Nazis\u2019 Use of Africa as a Background for Propaganda\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

    \u201cCivil Rights, Black Power and Politics\u201d (moderator: Kenneth Janken)<\/strong><\/p>\n

      \n
    • Maxine Richmond, \u201cFloyd B. McKissick, Leadership and the Evolution of Black Politics\u201d<\/li>\n
    • Bailey Nelson, \u201cMore than Your Average Lawyer: Beyond the Call of Duty\u201d<\/li>\n
    • Amukelani Muyanga, \u201cEntrepreneurship and Economic Freedom in South Africa: Interrogating the Neoliberal Basis of the Structure-Agency Tension\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
      \"\"
      From left to right, Chloe Brown, Briana Humes, Maria Gomez and Professor Maya Berry on one of the research panels.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

      \u201cPerforming Research\u201d (moderator: \u00a0Maya Berry)<\/strong><\/p>\n

        \n
      • Maria Gomez Flores, \u201cInclusivity in Latin Dance: Can I Dance with You?\u201d<\/li>\n
      • Briana Humes, \u201cReflecting Inequality and Inequity through Performance\u201d<\/li>\n
      • Chloe A. Brown, \u201cBallad of the Black Girl\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

        \u201cIn and Out of Africa\u201d (moderator: David Pier)<\/strong><\/p>\n

          \n
        • Emily Venturi, \u201cMigration Management and Development Policy Issue-Linkage in EU-Senegal Relations\u201d<\/li>\n
        • Anna McQuillin, \u201cSituating Children within Human Rights Discourse: Intercountry Adoption in Africa\u201d<\/li>\n
        • Angum Check, \u201cThe Power of Solidarity: Anti-Apartheid Activism on U.S. Campuses and UNC-Chapel Hill\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

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