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Recent Collaborations: Faculty, Students, Alumni

Written by Karen L. Bystrom
February 27, 2024

Caitlin Carlson, PhD, Chair and Associate Professor, Communication and Media, co-authored the paper, "Constitutional or catastrophic: Using transparency laws to regulate hate speech on social media" with Political Science student Isiah Martin-Lopez and she presented it at at the Journal of Law and Public Policy's Fall Symposium on Free Expression, hosted by the University of Saint Thomas. 
Dr. Rashmi Chordiya and Adana Protonentis published “Healing from Intersectional White Supremacy Culture and Ableism: Disability Justice as an Antidote” in the Journal of Social Equity and Public Administration.

Research by Pete Collins, PhD, Associate Professor, Brooke Gialopsos, PhD, Assistant Professor, and Bailey Tanaka, MACJ Candidate, Criminal Justice, Criminology, and Forensics is cited in this South Seattle Emerald Story, “How Representative Are Jurors?”. Their report, “Statewide Juror Summons Demographic Survey Project: An Analysis of Selected County Data” was published in June 2023.

Elizabeth Dale, PhD, Director and Associate Professor, and Maureen Emerson Feit, PhD, Assistant Professor, Nonprofit Leadership, presented at the Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action (ARNOVA) in Orlando in November. Dr. Dale presented on “Integrating Critical Perspectives and Pedagogy into Nonprofit Management Courses” and as part of the Teaching Section colloquium, “New Perspectives on Teaching Nonprofit Governance.” Dr. Feit presented on “Reimagining Nonprofit Governance: A Dynamic Dialogue on Alternative Frameworks” as part of the Governance Section Colloquium, as well as her paper, “Wages of Whiteness: Race, Gender, Class and the Idealized Nonprofit Worker.”

Fade Eadeh, PhD, Assistant Professor, Psychology, received a grant from the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues to continue his research on the effects of neo-Nazi threat on political attitudes and beliefs. Josephine Whittock, my undergraduate RA over the summer, was a coauthor on the grant submission. The preliminary research we conducted, using the funding from the Dean's research fellowship, showed that participants reading about escalating threats from neo-Nazi groups (vs. a non-threatening article) were more likely to censor hate speech from these and other groups.

Jacqueline Helfgott, PhD, Professor, Criminal Justice and Director, Crime and Justice Research Center, presented, along with alums Brandon Bledsoe (now a doctoral student in the Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice at the University of Cincinnati) and Shannon Christensen (now a doctoral student in the Criminology & Criminal Justice Department at Southern Illinois University) at the 2023 American Society of Criminology conference in Philadelphia. CJ Assistant Professor Bridget Joyner-Carpanini, PhD, also presented.

Also in attendance at the conference were current SU MACJ student Rafail Markodimitrakis, and alums Loren Atherley, MACJ '10, Sr. Director of Performance Analytics & Research at Seattle Police Department; Beck Strah, MACJ ’10, Assistant Professor in the Criminology & Criminal Justice Department at Roger Williams University in Rhode Island; Andrea Giuffre, MACJ ’17, Assistant Professor of Criminology & Criminal Justice in the Criminology & Criminal Justice Department at CA State San Bernadino; Lauren Morgan, MACJ ’18, currently in her final year of the doctoral program at University of Missouri St Louis and a Research Assistant at the National Institute of Justice; and Susan Nembhard, MACJ ’18, doctoral student at John Jay College of Criminal Justice). Dr. Helfgott shared a conference wrap up on LinkedIn.

The papers presented:

  • "The Impact of Restorative Community-Police Dialogue Circles on Criminal Justice Student Ratings of Police Legitimacy"
  • "Community Perceptions of Fear of Crime and Police Legitimacy in Seattle: Implications for Community-Police Engagement"
  • "Callous-Unemotional Traits and Offending: Does the Presence of Anxiety Symptoms Influence the CU Traits-Crime Link?"

Dr. Helfgott and student research analysts are working on this year's dialogue sessions. Undergraduate students Elaria Zakhary, Zachary Dar and Quinn Priebe and graduate students Ana Carpenter and Eden Sedgwick co-facilitate the dialogues and complete the research and reports. The BTB Community-Police Dialogues offer community members opportunity to meet and learn about the new SPD recruits. The BTB Community-Police Dialogues are part of the Seattle Police Department's Micro-Community Policing Plans. The dialogues engage new recruits in SPD's "Before the Badge" Training program in conversation with community members. This is an opportunity for the community to be part of the SPD training process and for recruits to learn about the neighborhoods they will serve and build relationships with community members early in their training. Sign up to participate here.

Audrey Hudgins, EdD, Matteo Ricci Institute and affiliate faculty in International Studies, and co-panelist Cullin Egge, SU Class of 2023 presented “Derechos humanos y justicas social en las migraciones forzadas” at the Jornada Universitaria, Universidad Iberoamericana Puebla in November 2023. She also joined Amanda Heffernan, Assistant Professor, SU College of Nursing, and other co-panelists to present on their experiences accompanying asylum seekers in the webinar, “Asylum Accompaniment 101” hosted by Kino Border Initiative, November 2023.  She also worked with students Abi Berhane, Class of 2023 and Claire Wiener, Class of 2024, and alumnus Cullin Egge, Class of 2023, with Q&A support from Universidad Iberoamericana Puebla colleagues, Guillermo Yrizar and Elena Ayala, presenting their research findings to the Mayor and Mattawa City Council in a report on H-2A workers and the Mattawa Community. The report, “Report on H-2A Workers and the Mattawa Community,” was included in the city council packet, and reported on in the Columbia Basin Herald.

Kira Mauseth, PhD, Teaching Professor, Psychology, and her students, Kayi Morrison, Isabella Aguilar, Cameryn Borman, Nikki Robison and Shane Davis contributed to the following national presentations by Dr. Mauseth or members of her Western Regional Alliance for Pediatric Emergency Management team this quarter. Their research provided the foundation for these presentations and webinars.

  • Workshop: "Embedding Crisis Response & Threat Assessment Within Multi-tierd Systems of Support" - National PBIS Leadership Forum, Chicago, IL  10/26/23
  • Workshop: "Enhancing Multi-tiered Systems of Support to Create Effective Systems of Crisis Response & Recovery" - National PBIS Leadership Forum, Chicago, IL  10/27/23
  • WEBINAR: "Kids in Crisis – Mental Health & Emergency Departments" - Western Regional Alliance for Pediatric Emergency Management  (WRAP-EM). 11/8/23
  • Presentation: "Beyond Resilience for Those who Care for Children" - National Healthcare Coalition Preparedness Conference, Las Vegas NV 11/29/23

Dr. Mauseth also co-authored “Coping with COVID-19: Standing up a comprehensive behavioral health response to the pandemic." The article acknowledges the work of Seattle University students Joanna Corpuz, Isabel Gilbertson, Sydney Lindell, and An Than, who have since graduated, for their work on research and editing.

Jason Wirth, PhD, Professor and Department Chair, Philosophy and Associate Appointment, Film Studies, and Gabriella Gutiérrez y Muhs, PhD, Professor, Modern Languages and Women Gender, and Sexuality Studies, celebrated the release of Cascadia Zen at Elliott Bay Book Company on December 4. Dr. Wirth is a co-editor and Dr. Gutiérrez y Muhs is a contributor. The volume features poetry, essays, artwork, and interviews, bringing together nonfiction, poetry, and translations that explore expressions of Zen within the Cascadia bioregion.