This article presents an overview of a workshop held by UCLA's Center for the Study of Women to assist graduate students in their job search. It gives a short review, lists some of the best tips, and provides some opinions ...
In this article, Yarris provides a necessarily brief overview of grandmother’s experiences of “mothering again” for another generation of (grand)children in Nicaraguan families of migrant mothers. Despite the fact that ...
McWhirter, Ellen Hawley; Yarris, Kristin Elizabeth; Rojas-Araúz, Bryan Ovidio(2021-09-01)
We describe a Dreamer Ally training provided to staff and faculty on a university campus and present results of a pilot evaluation of this training. The Dreamer Ally training was designed to (a) increase university faculty ...
Yarris, Kristin Elizabeth; Dent, Nicolette Jeannette(Taylor and Francis, 2016-04-13)
This article examines the sociocultural determinants of Nicaraguan women’s use of Depo-Provera as a means of contraception. The prevalence of Depo-Provera in Nicaragua is high and increasing compared to other Central ...
Generations can also be considered in relation to social regeneration, revealing how childbearing and childrearing organize family relations of care and membership in and across generations (child/parent/grandparent) within ...
In this paper, we compare observations from engaged ethnography and participant observation with Latinx immigrants in Colorado and Oregon during the COVID-19 pandemic. In particular, we focus on lived experiences of ...
This article compares local volunteer mobilizations offering welcome to forced migrants in the USA (Oregon) and UK (Yorkshire). We contribute to literature on volunteer-based humanitarianism by attending to the importance ...
This terminal project examines the ideological representation of historic preservation found within American narrative films, and how such cinematic narratives compare with the current privatist paradigm of American ...
In order to house the thousands of workers migrating to Portland, Oregon to fill jobs in war-related industries during World War II, Portland’s government relaxed building code standards to allow temporary housing through ...
As practitioners who work closely with international students, the researchers sought to understand the information literacy (IL) preparation that students coming from Mexico may have experienced prior to studying at US ...
This text focuses on the relationship between my thesis exhibition and a manifesto I have written, both of which are titled "the future is flaccid." The manifesto proposes “flaccidity” as a radical embodiment and tool to ...
A processfolio can be defined as a collection of items that demonstrate steps taken to achieve a final product (Newalker, 2015), both encapsulating the final product and the process of its creation (McKay et al., 2015). A ...
I believe all teachers should possess a lifelong desire to learn. I have demonstrated this desire through the pursuit of a Master’s degree. Students come into the classroom with certain needs, interests, and ability levels. ...
There has been significant research on bassoon music within certain cultures. There has also been significant research on contemporary bassoon techniques. The information we have on both subjects is not entirely uncommon; ...
In this document, I will discuss a broad spectrum of topics ranging from biographical information on the composer, analyses and performance guides for the works being discussed, and the presence of traditional Mexican, ...
Drawing is a balancing act of reality and fiction. Line and form are markers, representative of space and experience, a record of things tangible and ephemeral. There is the capacity for a linear trajectory but it can be ...
My practice finds roots that extend towards the transient, the mundane, and the chthonic. I am informed by my training in traditional forms of drawing, painting, and sculpture. This foundation lays the framework for images ...