Stop by the Psychology Department to meet the faculty outside of class. Tour of Lorton Hall, grab some snacks and take a photo in the photo booth!
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HCAR Works-in-Progress Seminar: Don James McLaughlin
About the Presenter:
Join us for a brief presentation and roundtable conversation with Professor McLaughlin on his new research project. McLaughlin is an associate professor of 19th-century American literature at the University of Tulsa. He holds a Ph.D. in English from the University of Pennsylvania and an M.A. in English from Villanova University. His forthcoming book, Reading Phobias: The Therapeutic Imagination in American Liberalism, traces the emergence of the -phobia suffix in early American and 19th-century print culture as a medical diagnosis, political metaphor, and aesthetic sensation. McLaughlin’s scholarship focuses on 18th & 19th century literary movements in the Americas, the medical humanities, LGBTQ2+ literature, queer health, disability narratives, and the history of emotions.
About the Project:
“‘Inward Irradiations’: r/Romantic Friendship from Amy Matilda Cassey’s Autograph Album to Bayard Taylor’s ‘Twin Love'”
In the nineteenth-century U.S., the concept of romantic friendship describes impassioned bonds shared by friends, often of the same gender, which encouraged an array of physical and emotional intimacies. Romantic friendships are understood to predate modern ideas of same-sex sexuality as a manifestation of orientation and object choice. Concurrently, romantic friendship has come to serve as a transhistorical paradigm, reminding that, across different eras, passionate friendship has long blurred the boundary between the erotic and platonic. A problem arises in these dual valences of contingent specificity and transcendent applicability. While romantic friendship circumvents anachronism in one sense, the term remains ambiguous in another. If, in fact, the zenith of romantic friendship may be said to arrive with the age of artistic Romanticism, it becomes imperative to better understand the meaning of the bond’s distinguishing modifier. When exploring the precise meaning of the relation, we must ask what kind of r/Romance it is, exactly, that forewent and forestalled the solidification of modern identity categories. Seeking clarity on these overlapping r/Romanticisms, this essay explores the convergence of romantic friendship and Romantic aesthetics across an array of nineteenth-century texts.
Register at Eventbrite link to receive a copy of the paper: http://tiny.cc/eg0s001
About Works-In-Progress Seminars
These seminars nurture a community of local and regional scholars by providing opportunities to share creative activity in an academically constructive environment. Each seminar will focus on pre-circulated drafts followed by a roundtable conversation among participants.
Work Matters: How Parents’ Jobs Shape Children’s Well-Being
This event will be held in Tyrrell Hall, with the reception upstairs and the lecture in the auditorium on the first floor.
5:30-6:00 PM – Light Reception
6:00-6:15 PM – Introductions
6:15-7:15 PM – Lecture
7:15-7:30 PM – Q&A
Judy Berry Lecture Series featuring Maureen Perry-Jenkins, Ph.D., Princeton University Press
How new parents in low-wage jobs juggle the demands of work and childcare and the straightforward ways that employers can help.
Low-wage workers make up the largest group of employed parents in the United States, yet scant attention has been given to their experiences as new mothers and fathers. Work Matters brings the unique stories of these diverse individuals to light. Drawing from years of research and more than fifteen hundred family interviews, Maureen Perry-Jenkins describes how new parents cope with the demands of infant care while holding down low-wage, full-time jobs and the long-term implications for child development. She examines why some parents and children thrive while others struggle, demonstrates how specific job conditions impact parental engagement and child well-being, and discusses common-sense and affordable ways that employers can provide support.
In the United States, federal parental leave policy is unfunded. As a result, many new parents, particularly hourly workers, return to their jobs just weeks after giving birth because they cannot afford not to. Not surprisingly, workplace policies that offer parents flexibility and leave time are crucial. But, Perry-Jenkins shows that the time parents spend at work also matters. Their day-to-day experiences on the job, such as relationships with supervisors and coworkers, job autonomy, and time pressures, have long-term consequences for parents’ mental health, the quality of their parenting, and, ultimately, the health of their children.
An overdue look at an important segment of the parenting population, Work Matters proposes ways to reimagine low-wage work to sustain new families and the development of future generations.
Maureen Perry-Jenkins is professor of psychology at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. www.instagram.com/mpj728
Sociology | Psychology
Professor Maureen Perry-Jenkins has garnered national and international recognition for her research focused on the challenges facing working-poor families as they cope with the stress of new parenthood and holding down full-time work. In her time at UMass, Dr. Perry-Jenkins has received over 2 million dollars in funding from the National Institute of Mental Health to conduct her longitudinal research that examines how work conditions and policies affect the well-being of new parents transitioning to parenthood. She has over 100 peer-reviewed publications and chapters and in 2015 completed a year as a Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford where she developed the book Work Matters that examines the impact of parents’ low-wage work on children (2022). Professor Perry-Jenkins was named a Fellow by the National Council on Family Relations in 2014. In 2018, she received the Ernest W. Burgess Award, Outstanding Contribution to Family Science from the National Council on Family Relations. From 2018-2021 she served as Co-President of the Council on Contemporary Families, and 2022 received the Alexis J. Walker Award for Lifetime Achievement in Feminist Family from the National Council on Family Relations. She is also a member of the Conference Planning Committee for the Work and Family Research Network, an international organization aimed at highlighting the cross-disciplinary research on work and family. She serves on the editorial board of the five top family journals, has served on NIH review panels, and is committed to mentoring the next generation of junior faculty scholars through thee Mellon program and as a NIH K-Award Mentor.
**This event is free and open to the public**
Campus Map: https://utulsa.edu/about/map/
Psychology Information Exchange (PIE)
The University of Tulsa I-O Psychology Department welcomes Bernard Sieber, Founder of Flooozone Collaboration Development. Mr. Sieber will talk with graduate students and faculty about change management and team interventions.
Securing Research Funding: Workshop #2
Join the research office for a series of come-and-go workshops on securing research funding, to help you achieve your research goals. Workshop #2 will offer an overview of major funding agencies; provide strategies for early-stage projects; and discuss how humanities scholars can find external support for their research.
Topics will include overviews of the National Science Foundation (NSF), National Institutes of Health (NIH), and so-called mission agencies (e.g., Department of Defense, Department of Energy). Humanities faculty will have a morning session to help them identify funding sources, followed by an opportunity for individual consultations about their specific research projects.
This workshop is open to faculty and staff eligible to submit research proposals as a Principal Investigator. Postdoctoral fellows and graduate students are not eligible to participate.
The first research workshop is scheduled for February 24.
Save the date for future workshops on April 16 and May 2.
More information and to RSVP: https://forms.office.com/r/fDtawJSsjY
Securing Research Funding: Workshop #3
Join the research office for a series of come-and-go workshops on securing research funding, to help you achieve your research goals. Workshop #3 will teach researchers how to address the NSF’s Broader Impacts requirement, pursue funding for education-related research, and offer opportunities for individual consultations about specific research projects.
This workshop is open to faculty and staff eligible to submit research proposals as a Principal Investigator. Postdoctoral fellows and graduate students are not eligible to participate.
Earlier workshops are scheduled for February 24 and March 10.
Save the date for a future workshop on May 2.
More information and to RSVP: https://forms.office.com/r/fydadr05CJ
Securing Research Funding: Workshop #4
Join the research office for a series of come-and-go workshops on securing research funding, to help you achieve your research goals. Workshop #4 will feature two morning sessions; their scope and focus will be determined based on participant feedback from workshops #1 through #3. The afternoon will provide opportunities for individual consultations about specific research projects.
This workshop is open to faculty and staff eligible to submit research proposals as a Principal Investigator. Postdoctoral fellows and graduate students are not eligible to participate.
Earlier workshops are scheduled for February 24, March 10, and April 16.
More information and to RSVP: https://forms.office.com/r/jb2i4j77jm
Securing Research Funding: Workshop #1
Join the research office for a series of come-and-go workshops on securing research funding, to help you achieve your research goals.
Workshop #1 will be a cradle-to-grave overview of research funding, including strategic planning and a primer on proposal writing. Topics will include establishing your agenda and identifying the right funding opportunities; how to plan a fundable project; planning your writing; grantsmanship best practices; and interpreting reviews.
This workshop is open to faculty and staff eligible to submit research proposals as a Principal Investigator. Postdoctoral fellows and graduate students are not eligible to participate.
Save the date for future workshops: March 10, April 16, and May 2
More information and to RSVP: https://forms.office.com/r/rszMsseG2y
HCAR Works-in-Progress Seminar: Don James McLaughlin
About the Presenter:
Join us for a brief presentation and roundtable conversation with Professor McLaughlin on his new research project. McLaughlin is an associate professor of 19th-century American literature at the University of Tulsa. He holds a Ph.D. in English from the University of Pennsylvania and an M.A. in English from Villanova University. His forthcoming book, Reading Phobias: The Therapeutic Imagination in American Liberalism, traces the emergence of the -phobia suffix in early American and 19th-century print culture as a medical diagnosis, political metaphor, and aesthetic sensation. McLaughlin’s scholarship focuses on 18th & 19th century literary movements in the Americas, the medical humanities, LGBTQ2+ literature, queer health, disability narratives, and the history of emotions.
About the Project:
“‘Inward Irradiations’: r/Romantic Friendship from Amy Matilda Cassey’s Autograph Album to Bayard Taylor’s ‘Twin Love'”
In the nineteenth-century U.S., the concept of romantic friendship describes impassioned bonds shared by friends, often of the same gender, which encouraged an array of physical and emotional intimacies. Romantic friendships are understood to predate modern ideas of same-sex sexuality as a manifestation of orientation and object choice. Concurrently, romantic friendship has come to serve as a transhistorical paradigm, reminding that, across different eras, passionate friendship has long blurred the boundary between the erotic and platonic. A problem arises in these dual valences of contingent specificity and transcendent applicability. While romantic friendship circumvents anachronism in one sense, the term remains ambiguous in another. If, in fact, the zenith of romantic friendship may be said to arrive with the age of artistic Romanticism, it becomes imperative to better understand the meaning of the bond’s distinguishing modifier. When exploring the precise meaning of the relation, we must ask what kind of r/Romance it is, exactly, that forewent and forestalled the solidification of modern identity categories. Seeking clarity on these overlapping r/Romanticisms, this essay explores the convergence of romantic friendship and Romantic aesthetics across an array of nineteenth-century texts.
Register at Eventbrite link to receive a copy of the paper: http://tiny.cc/eg0s001
About Works-In-Progress Seminars
These seminars nurture a community of local and regional scholars by providing opportunities to share creative activity in an academically constructive environment. Each seminar will focus on pre-circulated drafts followed by a roundtable conversation among participants.
Work Matters: How Parents’ Jobs Shape Children’s Well-Being
This event will be held in Tyrrell Hall, with the reception upstairs and the lecture in the auditorium on the first floor.
5:30-6:00 PM – Light Reception
6:00-6:15 PM – Introductions
6:15-7:15 PM – Lecture
7:15-7:30 PM – Q&A
Judy Berry Lecture Series featuring Maureen Perry-Jenkins, Ph.D., Princeton University Press
How new parents in low-wage jobs juggle the demands of work and childcare and the straightforward ways that employers can help.
Low-wage workers make up the largest group of employed parents in the United States, yet scant attention has been given to their experiences as new mothers and fathers. Work Matters brings the unique stories of these diverse individuals to light. Drawing from years of research and more than fifteen hundred family interviews, Maureen Perry-Jenkins describes how new parents cope with the demands of infant care while holding down low-wage, full-time jobs and the long-term implications for child development. She examines why some parents and children thrive while others struggle, demonstrates how specific job conditions impact parental engagement and child well-being, and discusses common-sense and affordable ways that employers can provide support.
In the United States, federal parental leave policy is unfunded. As a result, many new parents, particularly hourly workers, return to their jobs just weeks after giving birth because they cannot afford not to. Not surprisingly, workplace policies that offer parents flexibility and leave time are crucial. But, Perry-Jenkins shows that the time parents spend at work also matters. Their day-to-day experiences on the job, such as relationships with supervisors and coworkers, job autonomy, and time pressures, have long-term consequences for parents’ mental health, the quality of their parenting, and, ultimately, the health of their children.
An overdue look at an important segment of the parenting population, Work Matters proposes ways to reimagine low-wage work to sustain new families and the development of future generations.
Maureen Perry-Jenkins is professor of psychology at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. www.instagram.com/mpj728
Sociology | Psychology
Professor Maureen Perry-Jenkins has garnered national and international recognition for her research focused on the challenges facing working-poor families as they cope with the stress of new parenthood and holding down full-time work. In her time at UMass, Dr. Perry-Jenkins has received over 2 million dollars in funding from the National Institute of Mental Health to conduct her longitudinal research that examines how work conditions and policies affect the well-being of new parents transitioning to parenthood. She has over 100 peer-reviewed publications and chapters and in 2015 completed a year as a Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford where she developed the book Work Matters that examines the impact of parents’ low-wage work on children (2022). Professor Perry-Jenkins was named a Fellow by the National Council on Family Relations in 2014. In 2018, she received the Ernest W. Burgess Award, Outstanding Contribution to Family Science from the National Council on Family Relations. From 2018-2021 she served as Co-President of the Council on Contemporary Families, and 2022 received the Alexis J. Walker Award for Lifetime Achievement in Feminist Family from the National Council on Family Relations. She is also a member of the Conference Planning Committee for the Work and Family Research Network, an international organization aimed at highlighting the cross-disciplinary research on work and family. She serves on the editorial board of the five top family journals, has served on NIH review panels, and is committed to mentoring the next generation of junior faculty scholars through thee Mellon program and as a NIH K-Award Mentor.
**This event is free and open to the public**
Campus Map: https://utulsa.edu/about/map/
Psychology Information Exchange (PIE)
The University of Tulsa I-O Psychology Department welcomes Bernard Sieber, Founder of Flooozone Collaboration Development. Mr. Sieber will talk with graduate students and faculty about change management and team interventions.
Securing Research Funding: Workshop #2
Join the research office for a series of come-and-go workshops on securing research funding, to help you achieve your research goals. Workshop #2 will offer an overview of major funding agencies; provide strategies for early-stage projects; and discuss how humanities scholars can find external support for their research.
Topics will include overviews of the National Science Foundation (NSF), National Institutes of Health (NIH), and so-called mission agencies (e.g., Department of Defense, Department of Energy). Humanities faculty will have a morning session to help them identify funding sources, followed by an opportunity for individual consultations about their specific research projects.
This workshop is open to faculty and staff eligible to submit research proposals as a Principal Investigator. Postdoctoral fellows and graduate students are not eligible to participate.
The first research workshop is scheduled for February 24.
Save the date for future workshops on April 16 and May 2.
More information and to RSVP: https://forms.office.com/r/fDtawJSsjY
Securing Research Funding: Workshop #3
Join the research office for a series of come-and-go workshops on securing research funding, to help you achieve your research goals. Workshop #3 will teach researchers how to address the NSF’s Broader Impacts requirement, pursue funding for education-related research, and offer opportunities for individual consultations about specific research projects.
This workshop is open to faculty and staff eligible to submit research proposals as a Principal Investigator. Postdoctoral fellows and graduate students are not eligible to participate.
Earlier workshops are scheduled for February 24 and March 10.
Save the date for a future workshop on May 2.
More information and to RSVP: https://forms.office.com/r/fydadr05CJ
Securing Research Funding: Workshop #4
Join the research office for a series of come-and-go workshops on securing research funding, to help you achieve your research goals. Workshop #4 will feature two morning sessions; their scope and focus will be determined based on participant feedback from workshops #1 through #3. The afternoon will provide opportunities for individual consultations about specific research projects.
This workshop is open to faculty and staff eligible to submit research proposals as a Principal Investigator. Postdoctoral fellows and graduate students are not eligible to participate.
Earlier workshops are scheduled for February 24, March 10, and April 16.
More information and to RSVP: https://forms.office.com/r/jb2i4j77jm
Securing Research Funding: Workshop #1
Join the research office for a series of come-and-go workshops on securing research funding, to help you achieve your research goals.
Workshop #1 will be a cradle-to-grave overview of research funding, including strategic planning and a primer on proposal writing. Topics will include establishing your agenda and identifying the right funding opportunities; how to plan a fundable project; planning your writing; grantsmanship best practices; and interpreting reviews.
This workshop is open to faculty and staff eligible to submit research proposals as a Principal Investigator. Postdoctoral fellows and graduate students are not eligible to participate.
Save the date for future workshops: March 10, April 16, and May 2
More information and to RSVP: https://forms.office.com/r/rszMsseG2y