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Ready for Apocalypse: Survivalism and Stigma in Online Communities (open access)

Ready for Apocalypse: Survivalism and Stigma in Online Communities

Paper examines survivalists in online communities, the sigma associated with their culture, and their conceptions of common stereotypes.
Date: 2009
Creator: Roberts, Stephen
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Survival Strategies of Mexicanas (open access)

Survival Strategies of Mexicanas

Paper seeks to identify and describe the coping strategies of Mexicanas, Mexican woman living in the United States.
Date: 2007
Creator: Robles, Jannell
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library

Educational Trajectories of Latino/a Students

Presentation for the 2008 University Scholars Day at the University of North Texas discussing educational trajectories of Latino/a students.
Date: April 3, 2008
Creator: Robles, Jannell & Nuñez-Janes, Mariela
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library

Making Space for Inclusion: A Case Study About A Latina Anthropologist

Presentation for the 2009 University Scholars Day at the University of North Texas discussing research on making space for inclusion and a case study about a Latina anthropologist.
Date: April 2, 2009
Creator: Robles, Jannell & Nuñez-Janes, Mariela
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library

Stakeholder Groups

This NSF-funded workshop initiated a research trajectory that brings the fields of language archives and user-centered design (UCD) into dialogue, with the goal of improving users’ experiences with language archives and making them more accessible and useful to diverse user groups. The workshop documented perspectives of key stakeholder groups and generated initial conceptual frameworks to guide further research. This slide deck accompanied all presentations by workshop participants on the perspectives of stakeholder groups.
Date: February 20, 2016
Creator: Roy, Loriene; Baldwin, Daryl; Alexander, Edward; Leonard, Wesley Y.; Shepard, Michael; Berez-Kroeker, Andrea et al.
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Education, Feminism, and Spanish: The Definition of a Library Cuban (open access)

Education, Feminism, and Spanish: The Definition of a Library Cuban

Paper discusses Latina professors at the University of North Texas and aims to give insight into their lives by focusing on how race, gender, and language interact in their everyday lives.
Date: 2006
Creator: Sibley, Candace
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Problems of HIV/AIDS infected women in Manipur: agenda for policy change (open access)

Problems of HIV/AIDS infected women in Manipur: agenda for policy change

This article explores the problems of HIV/AIDS infected women in Manipur, India.
Date: January 18, 2017
Creator: Singh, M. Romesh
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Abriendo Puertas Hacia el Futuro: The Road Toward Becoming an Educator (open access)

Abriendo Puertas Hacia el Futuro: The Road Toward Becoming an Educator

This paper discusses The Oral History Project and research on becoming an educator.
Date: March 30, 2006
Creator: Solano, Ivonne J. & Nuñez-Janes, Mariela
Object Type: Paper
System: The UNT Digital Library

NAGPRA Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act: The Law and Ethics of the Kennewick Man Controversy

Presentation for the 2008 University Scholars Day at the University of North Texas discussing research on the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA) and the law and ethics of the Kennewick man controversy.
Date: April 3, 2008
Creator: Sowa, Graham & Nagaoka, Lisa
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library

DNA Profiling -- Forensics' Secret Weapon: A Work in Progress

Poster presentation for the 2009 University Scholars Day at at the University of North Texas discussing research on DNA profiling and forensics.
Date: April 2, 2009
Creator: Tippen, Samantha & Golden, Teresa
Object Type: Poster
System: The UNT Digital Library

Exploring Concerns of Social Justice in the Education of Minority Language Students within Rural Communities

Poster presentation for the 2011 University Scholars Day at the University of North Texas discussing concerns of social justice in the education of minority language students within rural communities.
Date: April 14, 2011
Creator: Turner, Jesse & Eve, Susan Brown
Object Type: Poster
System: The UNT Digital Library

Photograph of a CoRSAL presentation

Photograph of attendees listening to Christina Wasson lead a project discussion during the 2017 Symposium on Developing Infrastructure for Computational Resources on South Asian Languages. Wasson is standing behind a podium in the far left side of the image. The audience is seated in rows of chairs and around three rectangular tables which are all arranged in in a semi-circle facing the speaker; the tables are covered in green tablecloths with the UNT Department of Linguistics logo on them.
Date: November 17, 2017
Creator: University of North Texas. College of Information.
Object Type: Photograph
System: The UNT Digital Library

Photograph of a CoRSAL presentation

Photograph of Christina Wasson standing behind a podium (at left) while leading a project discussion during the 2017 Symposium on Developing Infrastructure for Computational Resources on South Asian Languages. Three rectangular tables covered in green UNT tablecloths are arranged in a semi-circle facing the front of the room; audience members are seated around the table and in additional rows of chairs behind them. The entrance to the UNT Press office is visible in the background through a glass wall at the side of the room.
Date: November 17, 2017
Creator: University of North Texas. College of Information.
Object Type: Photograph
System: The UNT Digital Library

Photograph of a CoRSAL presentation

Photograph of Christina Wasson standing behind a podium during her presentation "User-Centered Design" at the 2017 Symposium on Developing Infrastructure for Computational Resources on South Asian Languages. Behind her, there is a brick wall and a screen mounted on the left side of the image displaying the title slide of the presentation.
Date: November 17, 2017
Creator: University of North Texas. College of Information.
Object Type: Photograph
System: The UNT Digital Library

Photograph of a CoRSAL presentation

Photograph of Christina Wasson speaking to attendees from behind a podium. Members of the audience are visible, seated at rectangular tables arranged in a semi-circle facing the speaker and covered in green UNT tablecloths. This is during the presentation "User-Centered Design" at the 2017 Symposium on Developing Infrastructure for Computational Resources on South Asian Languages.
Date: November 17, 2017
Creator: University of North Texas. College of Information.
Object Type: Photograph
System: The UNT Digital Library
Cubans in Texas and My Anthropological Journey (open access)

Cubans in Texas and My Anthropological Journey

Paper discusses the experience of conducting anthropological research into the Cuban diaspora to Texas as a creative writing student.
Date: 2008
Creator: Vega, Jason
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Puerto Rican Feminist Discourse: Culture through Narratives (open access)

Puerto Rican Feminist Discourse: Culture through Narratives

Paper examines Puerto Rican national identity through the lens of stories by women and feminist discourse.
Date: 2008
Creator: Velazquez, Magaly
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Dallas Freedman’s Town: One Community’s Preservation Within a Gentrified Environment (open access)

Dallas Freedman’s Town: One Community’s Preservation Within a Gentrified Environment

Paper discusses the effects of gentrification on communities by focusing on Dallas Freedman’s Town/North Dallas—established by freed slaves in the 1860’s—and the Saint Paul United Methodist Church congregation.
Date: 2010
Creator: Velin, Gabriel
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library

Cultural Memory and Heirloom Seeds: The Foundation of Local Food Systems

This presentation is part of the faculty lecture series UNT Speaks Out on the Food We Eat. This presentation discusses heirloom seeds and covers information about the Foundation of Local Food Systems.
Date: October 24, 2011
Creator: Veteto, James R.
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Down deep in the holler: chasing seeds and stories in southern Appalachia (open access)

Down deep in the holler: chasing seeds and stories in southern Appalachia

This article is the third in a series "Recollections, Reflections, and Revelations: Ethnobiologists and their First Time in the Field" and is a personal reflection by the researcher on his experience and involvement in kinship and friendship networks while conducting agrobiodiversity research in southern Appalachia, USA.
Date: September 27, 2013
Creator: Veteto, James R.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Studying Distance Students: Methods, Findings, Actions (open access)

Studying Distance Students: Methods, Findings, Actions

This paper discusses the needs of distance learners.
Date: April 20, 2012
Creator: Wahl, Diane; Avery, Elizabeth Fuseler & Henry, Lisa
Object Type: Paper
System: The UNT Digital Library
Caution and Consensus in American Business Meetings (open access)

Caution and Consensus in American Business Meetings

This article focuses on the ways in which cautiousness is exercised to achieve consensus in American business meetings.
Date: 2000
Creator: Wasson, Christina
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Two Reflections on the Symbolic Position of Business Anthology (open access)

Two Reflections on the Symbolic Position of Business Anthology

This article provides comments and reflection on the symbolic position of business anthropology with mainstream anthropology.
Date: 2014
Creator: Wasson, Christina
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library

User-Centered Design

This NSF-funded workshop initiated a research trajectory that brings the fields of language archives and user-centered design (UCD) into dialogue, with the goal of improving users’ experiences with language archives and making them more accessible and useful to diverse user groups. The workshop documented perspectives of key stakeholder groups and generated initial conceptual frameworks to guide further research. This slide deck accompanied the presentation by Christina Wasson on user-centered design.
Date: February 20, 2016
Creator: Wasson, Christina
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library