"I believe in women,
         especially thinking women."
-Emmeline B. Wells

Previous WRI Research Colloquia

2009 Colloquia

Women, Status, and the Ethnographic
Textiles of Syria

Cynthia Finlayson, PhD
Anthropology

The Impact of High School Sports
on Female Outcomes

Joseph Price, PhD
Economics

The Divine Feminine
David L. Paulsen, PhD
Philosophy

The Voices of Women Giving Birth
Throughout the World

Lynn Callister, RN, PhD, FAAN
College of Nursing

Religion and Women's Emancipation in the Short Fiction of Xu Dishan
Steven L. Riep, PhD
Asian and Near Eastern Studies

Development and Validation of Domestic Violence Myths Scale
Niwako Yamawaki, PhD
Psychology

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2008 Colloquia

Mormon Sisters at the 1893
World's Congress of Representative Women

Reid Neilson, PhD
Church History and Doctrine

Emma Smith: Elect Lady?
Church History and Doctrine
Susan Easton Black, EdD

The Security of Women, the Security of States: Assessing the Linkage
Valerie Hudson, PhD
Political Science

Online Sexual Behavior in Highly Religious Couples: Personal and Relational Distress Related to Disclosure or Discovery in Wives Who Sought Marital Therapy
Jessica Cromar
Women's Research Institute Student Grant Recipient

Vernon Lee and the Past: Art as a Psychological Catalyst for the Supernatural in Lee’s Short Stories
Rachel Redfern
Women’s Research Institute Student Grant Recipient

Negotiating Gender with Anna Comnena: Modern Woman in a Medieval World?
Glen M. Cooper, PhD
History

Molecular Mechanisms of Selective Estrogen Receptor Modulation in Women’s Health and Endocrine-related Diseases
Chin-Yo Lin, PhD
Microbiology and Molecular Biology

Minerva Teichert: Pageants in Paint
Marian Wardle, MA
Museum of Art

The Effects of Witnessing Domestic
Violence on Children’s Attributions of Emotions

Rachel Kramer, Bonnie Ballif-Spanvill, PhD, and Claudia J. Clayton, PhD
Women’s Research Institute

The Effects of Ambivalent Sexism on College Student’s Teacher Evaluation
Niwako Yamawaki, PhD
Psychology

Daily Life in Rural Mali
Yodit Solomon, MS
Women’s Research Institute

Fatima Hatun née Beatrice Michiel: An Early Modern Renegade Woman
Eric Dursteler, PhD
History

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2007 Colloquia

Love Songs
Pamela Musil
Dance

Women in the Bible: An In-Depth
Study of the Hebrew Bible’s Treatment
of Women

Carolyn Strege Plocher
Women’s Research Institute Student Grant Recipient

Tour of Splendor and Spectacle at the MOA
Debra Sowell, PhD
Humanities, Classics, and Comprehensive Literature

The Globe, the Web, and the Dollar: The Problem of Sexually Explicit Information on the Internet
Cheryl Preston, JD
Law

The WomanStats Database
Valerie Hudson, PhD
Political Science

Sophie Critical Edition Series:
Elisa von der Recke

Michelle James, PhD
Germanic and Slavic Languages

Maladaptive Consumption Behaviors:
A Comparison of Latter-day Saints and Non-Latter-day Saints College Females

Monika Sandberg, PhD Candidate
Clinical Psychology

Effects of a New Mastery Math Program
on Northern Cheyenne College Student Students and Performances: A Case Study

Carol Ward, PhD
Sociology

Factors That Influence Health
Practices Among Hispanic Women

Ana Birkhead, PhD
School of Nursing

Gender Differences in Stress, Coping,
and Life Experiences: Siblings of Children with Diabetes, Down Syndrome, and Autism

Barbara Mandleco, PhD
School of Nursing

Setting the Stage: Minerva Teichert Pageants in Paine Exhibition and Catalogue
Marian Wardle, PhD
Museum of Art

Preserving Women’s History
John Murphy, MA, MLIS
Connie Lamb, MA
Harold B. Lee Library

 

 

 

 

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2006 Colloquia

Teen Angst and the Ancestors:
Teenage Girls, Their Mothers, and the Battle for the Dead in Contemporary Singapore

Ruth Toulson, PhD
Anthropology

The Tale of the Ugly Suitor
Jeffrey Shumway, PhD
History

Portraitistes à la plume:
Women Art Critics in Revolutionary
and Napoleonic France

Heather Belnap Jensen, PhD
Visual Arts

How to Get Funding for Your Research
Projects?: Sophie: A Digital Library of Works by German-Speaking Women

Michelle Stott James, PhD
Germanic and Slavic Languages

Eating Disorders:
Researching the Road to Recovery

Diane Spangler, PhD
Clinical Psychology

The Mix of European and Islamic Ideologies in the 19th Century Damascene Bride
Julianne Parker, BA
Art History

WomanStats Project
Valerie Hudson, PhD
Political Science

Emerging Entrepreneur
Kristie Seawright, PhD
Business Management

 

 

 

 

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2005 Colloquia

Gender and Boundaries in the Early
Modern Mediterranean

Eric Dursteler, PhD
History

Relational Aggression in Children
David Nelson, PhD
Marriage, Family, and Human Development

The Great ‘Escape’ from Biology
Shauna Anderson, PhD
Biology

A Qualitative Study of the Supports
WomenFind Most Beneficial When Dealing with a Spouse’s Sexuality Addictive and Compulsive Behaviors

Jill Manning, PhD
Marriage and Family Therapy

Sophie:
A Digital Library of Works by Early German-
Speaking Women, 1740-1927

Michelle Stott James, PhD
Germanic and Slavic Languages

Women in the Middle East
Hala Madanat, PhD
Health Science

Gender and Law: The Incorporation of Gender Into Austrian Political and Legal  Systems
Sarah E. Kemeny
Women’s Research Institute Student Grant Recipient

The Interdependency of Religion, Family,
and Gender  Azem Ottoman Palace

Catherine Meyers
Julianne Parker
Women’s Research Institute Student Grant Recipients

Men, Women, and the Culture of Gender
William Olsen, PhD
Anthropology

The Relationship Between the Irish Queen and the English Queen, Elizabeth Tudor
Brandie Siegfried, PhD
English

Does Group Psychotherapy Help Women?
Sally Barlow, PhD
Psychology

Women, Music, and Society
Ellen Powley, PhD
Women’s Research Institute

 

 

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2004 Colloquia

The Impact of Women in the U.S. Congress:
A Look at Legislative Productivity, Priorities, and Passage

Kimberlee Holland, PhD
Sociology

Women in Eternity, Women of Zion
Valerie Hudson, PhD
Political Science

Gender and Boundaries in the Early
Modern Mediterranean

Eric Dursteler, PhD
History

Infertility and the
Novels of Sophie Cottin

Michael Call, PhD
Humanities, Classics, and Comparative Literature

Women in Mali
Yodit Solomon, MA
Women's Research Institute

Perceived Gender Interaction in Dating
Allison Liechty

WS 492: Research Seminar

Toys and Careers
Laura Wise
WS 492: Research Seminar

Unwed Mothers and Welfare Reform
Melissa Heid
WS 492: Research Seminar

Loneliness and Belongingness among BYU Students
Briahna Bushman
WS 492: Research Seminar

Nettie Lee Benson: Historian and Librarian
Mark Grover, PhD
Harold B. Lee Library

Winning Suffrage for Women
Marie Cornwall, PhD
Sociology

The Women Art Studies of Robert Henri
Marian Wardle, PhD
Museum of Art

 

 

 

 

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2003 Colloquia

The Feasibility of Intra-family
Adoptions in the Marshall Islands

Jini Roby, JD
Social Work

Women in China’s Period of Disunion
J. Michael Farmer, PhD
History

BYU’s Women’s Manuscript Collections
Connie Lamb, MA
Harold B. Lee Library

Women’s Ideology of the Protestant
Movement in an Indigenous Mayan Village

Adrianna Smith
Ancient Scripture

Children Witnessing Spouse Abuse
Bonnie Ballif-Spanvill, PhD
Women's Research Institute

A Chorus for Peace:
A Global Anthology of Poetry by Women

Bonnie Ballif-Spanvill, PhD
Women's Research Institute

Marriage Enhancement Through
Child-Bearing Classes
Alan Hawkins, PhD

Marriage, Family, and Human Development

Children and Family Work
Kathleen Bahr, PhD
Marriage, Family, and Human Development

Cultural Shaping of LDS
Women Past and Present

Jacqueline Thursby, PhD
English

Women Art Critics in Napoleonic France
Heather Belnap Jensen, PhD
Visual Arts

The Lives of Temporary
Hispanic Women Workers

Lynn England, PhD
Sociology

 

 

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Prior to 2003 Colloquia

Gender & Citizenship in Argentine Law
Kif Augustine-Adams, JD
Law

Gender Bias in Treatment of Depression
Judy Norman, PhD
Social Work

Discourses of Women at War
Martha Peacock, PhD
Art History

Oral Histories of Utah Midwives
Lynn Callister, RN, PhD, FAAN
Nursing

Rural Women in the 19th Century
Susan Rugh, PhD
History

Mormon Women of Color
Jessie Embry, MA
Charles Redd Center

Women’s Surname Systems
George Ryskamp, PhD
History

Women in the Scriptures
Camille Fronk Olson, PhD
Ancient Scripture

Women Writers in the Spanish Empire
Valerie Hegstrom, PhD
Spanish Literature

Recover in Native American Women
Carol Ward, PhD
Sociology

Gender Differences in Coping Responses
Elaine Marshall, PhD
Nursing

Shakespeare & Family Life
Bruce Young, PhD
English

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Other Lectures

Why Mom Went to Work
Marie Cornwall, PhD
Sociology