Active Research

• Environmental Justice: The Convergence of Family, Community, and Industrial History (Cherry, Smith)
• Tri-County Value-Based Care (Mayo, Wells, Cherry, DeVall, Bolton)
• Medical diagnoses mediate wellness across intersectional identities of women with childhood trauma (Hohn, Gruber, Tilley)
• The association of negative body image with suicidal ideation in sexual minority and gender nonconforming youth (Hohn, Tilley)
• Project Pronoun (Hohn, Tilley)
• 3M: Music, Media, and Mental Health Among African American UNCW Students (Hunter-Jones, Sayers China, Bolden)
• Assessing the Acceptability and Feasibility of a Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy Intervention for African American Women Living with HIV/AIDS (Hunter-Jones, looking for new brilliant students to join)
• COVID-19 Resilience Photovoice Project (Hunter-Jones, Roberto, Sellon, Bolden)
• Spirituality and Resilience (Roberto, Hunter-Jones, Sellon, Cherry)
• Life is Good: Optimizing wellness and resilience; a trauma informed playmakers program (Roberto, Hunter-Jones, Ormand, Johnson)
• Optimizing Wellness and Resilience: A Trauma and Resilience Informed Program (Roberto, Hunter-Jones, Ormand, Johnson)
• Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), treatment for substance use disorders (Roberto, Palumbo, Protokowicz)
• Queer Voices: A critical queer pedagogical study for LGBTQ+ inclusion (Sayers, Rotchford, Lambert, Robertson, Schumacher)
• Vital records project: Performance art as social justice research (Rotchford, Sayers, Kirby)

Interdisciplinary Minority Student Research Group