Year: 2017
Communities Acting for Kids Empowerment (CAKE) BY FARRAH JACQUEZ, JAMIE-LEE MORRIS, & MICHAEL TOPMILLER In September 2016, UC Psychology department faculty member Farrah Jacquez, New Prospect Baptist Church community organizer Jamie-Lee Morris, and American Academy of Family Physicians geographer Michael Topmiller were chosen as Interdisciplinary Research Leaders (IRL) by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. The IRL program […]
2017-2018 TCP Scholars We are pleased to have another great cohort of TCP Scholars. The Scholars are a funded group of researchers who are working on projects that directly benefit disadvantaged people in Cincinnati. We are fortunate to have funding support from the Wilder Foundation and the College of Arts and Sciences to support this year’s scholars. The 2017-2018 […]
Building Connections on Campus A couple weeks ago, we co-hosted an energizing workshop on community-partnered research for faculty across the university. The event grew out of a chat with the co-directors of the Center for Race, Gender and Social Justice at the College of Law. Janet Moore, Farrah Jacquez, and Edie Morris take questions from the […]
Partnering with the Black United Front on the Cincinnati Collaborative Agreement By Shaonta’ Allen, second year doctoral student in Sociology, graduate assistant, Yates Fellow, and Southern Regional Education Board Scholar Through The Cincinnati Project, I’ve had the opportunity to work with the Black United Front, a local organization committed to bettering community police relations in Cincinnati, on a […]
Working Together to Refresh the Collaborative Agreement By Brian Robert Calfano, Ph.D. Working with Iris Roley and Al Gerhardstein has been a meaningful learning experience for me, and I can certainly say that I have learned far more about Cincinnati from the viewpoint of these pivotal stakeholders than I would have initially imagined. I was […]
Community-Partnered Research Workshop Are you interested in learning from faculty who regularly conduct community-partnered research? Would you like to meet others at the University of Cincinnati who are interested in research that helps Cincinnati communities? We are pleased to be partnering with the Center for Race, Gender and Social Justice at the College of Law to host, […]
UC Researchers to Lead Cincinnati Gender Equality Study The city of Cincinnati tapped UC researchers Amy Lind and Anne Sisson Runyan to lead a citywide gender equality analysis following its recent passage of a city ordinance ratifying a landmark UN women’s rights convention. As part of its recognition of CEDAW, Cincinnati’s governing council provided funding […]
By Steve Carlton-Ford This past summer, I started to get involved with the AMOS supported project “Voices of Cincinnati.” That project is focused on identifying people whose voices are rarely heard and helping them identify their strengths and capabilities. Many of these folks simply don’t have steady jobs and steady incomes and need help getting […]
Reproductive Justice is more than just Birth Control and Abortion By Mary Siskaninetz ’19 Sociology 2099, a course on Reproductive Justice, has been the most life changing class in my college career so far. It made me realize that I do not just have to sit by the sidelines on issues about women’s rights and […]
Reflections on my time as TCP Program Coordinator By Elaina Johns-Wolfe About two years ago, I began my assignment as graduate assistant for the Kunz Center for Social Research, of which Dr. Jennifer Malat was director. The Cincinnati Project was only in its infancy at the time — more of an idea than a cohesive research center. Over […]
