Previous WRI Research Colloquia
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Textiles of Syria
Cynthia Finlayson, PhD
Anthropology
The Impact of High School Sports
on Female Outcomes
Joseph Price, PhD
Economics

David L. Paulsen, PhD
Philosophy
The Voices of Women Giving Birth
Throughout the World
Lynn Callister, RN, PhD, FAAN
College of Nursing

Steven L. Riep, PhD
Asian and Near Eastern Studies
Development and Validation of Domestic Violence Myths Scale
Niwako Yamawaki, PhD
Psychology

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

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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Valerie Hudson, PhD
Political Science
Emerging Entrepreneur
Kristie Seawright, PhD
Business Management
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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