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Title: Bernita Bradley talks about her relationship with Detroit
Creator: Bradley, Bernita, 1970-
Date: 2018-09/2019-04
Collection: i.Detroit
Description: Bernita Bradley speaks about her relationship with Detroit for Marcus Lyon's i.Detroit project. Bernita talks about the value of children and how she herself was saved by her niece. She also shares her passion for giving back, and how that was inspired by her mother.

Title: Cornelius Wilson talks about his relationship with Detroit
Creator: Wilson, Cornelius
Date: 2018-09/2019-04
Collection: i.Detroit
Description: Cornelius Wilson speaks about his relationship with Detroit for Marcus Lyon's i.Detroit project. Wilson talks about his work for the AIDS community and how his mother supported both him and his work.

Title: Cheryl P. Johnson talks about her relationship with Detroit
Creator: Johnson, Cheryl P.
Date: 2018-09/2019-04
Collection: i.Detroit
Description: Cheryl P. Johnson speaks about her relationship with Detroit for Marcus Lyon's i.Detroit project. Johnson describes her role as a servant leader and reflects on the joy and purpose that work has brought her.

Title: Carlos Nielbock talks about his relationship with Detroit
Creator: Nielbock, Carlos
Date: 2018-09/2019-04
Collection: i.Detroit
Description: Carlos Nielbock speaks about his relationship with Detroit for Marcus Lyon's i.Detroit project. Nielbock talks about his arrival in Detroit, the sense of belonging he felt from the community, and his hope for the economy in the future.

Title: Interview of fiction writer Iheoma Nwachukwu
Creator: Nwachukwu, Iheoma
Date: 2020-01-31
Collection: Voices of the Black Imaginary
Description: Iheoma Nwachukwu, fiction writer and former professional chess player who teaches in the Creative Writing department at Florida State University, is interviewed by doctoral student Kimberly Williams at Zora's place in Eatonville, Florida. Nwachukwu talks about how he fuses his Igbo Nigerian culture into speculative fiction that expands the notion of the precolonial vampire and witch. Nwachukwu posits that Afrofuturism provides Black youth a voice and window that Blackness and utopia can...
Show moreIheoma Nwachukwu, fiction writer and former professional chess player who teaches in the Creative Writing department at Florida State University, is interviewed by doctoral student Kimberly Williams at Zora's place in Eatonville, Florida. Nwachukwu talks about how he fuses his Igbo Nigerian culture into speculative fiction that expands the notion of the precolonial vampire and witch. Nwachukwu posits that Afrofuturism provides Black youth a voice and window that Blackness and utopia can coexist like in the film The Black Panther. He also discusses the literary, cultural critique of Afrofuturism in the African literature cannon and the relevance of Afrofuturism in Nigerian life. He identifies the tenets of Afrofuturism through Hurston's ethnography in Haiti and her work on Black consciousness.
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Title: College graduate Andrea Allen reflects on her college and professional life
Creator: Allen, Andrea
Date: 1988-05-10
Collection: G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
Description: Andrea Allen explains her reasons for going to college and says that she saw a degree as a step to being financially secure and being able to provide for a family. She reflects on entering college as an older student, the shortcomings of higher education, her work ethic, and says that her priorities didn't match those of her unrealistic classmates. Allen talks about enjoying management positions since graduating and says that she has learned to accept the good and bad aspects of professional...
Show moreAndrea Allen explains her reasons for going to college and says that she saw a degree as a step to being financially secure and being able to provide for a family. She reflects on entering college as an older student, the shortcomings of higher education, her work ethic, and says that her priorities didn't match those of her unrealistic classmates. Allen talks about enjoying management positions since graduating and says that she has learned to accept the good and bad aspects of professional life. She says she still expects to find a husband, start a family and advance in her career, but now realizes that there will be trade-offs throughout her life.
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Title: Filmmaker Shinpei Takeda interviews Mizuho Stevens, a survivor of the atomic bombing of Nagasaki in 1945
Creator: Stevens, Mizuho, 1934-
Date: 2009-03-29
Collection: G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
Description: Mizuho Stevens describes loosing her sister, brother and father in the atomic bombing of Nagasaki. She also talks about getting married and later divorced and coming to San Francisco and working as a hairstylist after the war. Stevens says that she has had nightmares ever since the bombing and discusses the psychological effects of her experience.

Title: U.S. Vice President-Elect Al Gore speaks at a victory rally in Little Rock, AK, on the night of the presidential election, speaking of Bill Clinton's character
Creator: Gore, Al, 1948-
Date: 1992-11-03
Collection: G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
Description: Vice President-Elect Al Gore speaks at a victory rally in Little Rock, AK, on the night of the presidential election, speaking of Bill Clintons character.

Title: Filmmaker Shinpei Takeda interviews Kiyoko Oda, a survivor of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima in 1945
Creator: Oda, Kiyoko, 1917-
Date: 2009-03-29
Collection: G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
Description: Kiyoko Oda says that she has forgotten many of the details of the Hiroshima bombing, but vividly remembers her emotions from that time.

Title: U.S. President Barack Obama campaigns for Hillary Clinton at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor
Creator: Obama, Barack
Date: 2016-11-07
Collection: G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
Description: President Barack Obama campaigns for Hillary Clinton at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor as part of a final push to turn out voters for Clinton. Obama recounts the accomplishments of his administration and praises those who have supported him and moved the country forward. He says Donald Trump is "temperamentally unfit to be president" and runs down a list of Trump's business failures. Obama also says that Trump cares nothing for working people and says Clinton will push to invest in...
Show morePresident Barack Obama campaigns for Hillary Clinton at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor as part of a final push to turn out voters for Clinton. Obama recounts the accomplishments of his administration and praises those who have supported him and moved the country forward. He says Donald Trump is "temperamentally unfit to be president" and runs down a list of Trump's business failures. Obama also says that Trump cares nothing for working people and says Clinton will push to invest in industry and infrastructure which will create jobs. Obama is introduced Chelsea Clinton.
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Title: Interview of Virginia Emrich on her experience running Red Cross recreation clubs in Australia for U.S. troops during WWII. Part 2
Creator: Emrich, Virginia, 1913-2008
Date: 1983-06-11
Collection: Women's Overseas Service League Oral History Project
Description: In the second of two oral history interviews, Virginia Emrich describes her service in the American Red Cross during World War Two. Emrich says that she was sent to Australia in 1944 and then to Manila in June 1945 where she was quartered in a bombed-out building with indoor toilets and showers, but with little privacy. Emrich remembers regularly hearing gunfire and bombs as U.S. troops tried to dislodge the Japanese, setting up a recreation hall for the 11th Airborne Division and regularly...
Show moreIn the second of two oral history interviews, Virginia Emrich describes her service in the American Red Cross during World War Two. Emrich says that she was sent to Australia in 1944 and then to Manila in June 1945 where she was quartered in a bombed-out building with indoor toilets and showers, but with little privacy. Emrich remembers regularly hearing gunfire and bombs as U.S. troops tried to dislodge the Japanese, setting up a recreation hall for the 11th Airborne Division and regularly suffering earthquakes and tropical rains. She says that she was never hungry during her time in the Red Cross, but was often homesick, cold and tired and always sustained by the conviction that she was doing something worthwhile. Emerich says that she was sent to Japan in September 1945 to open recreation clubs for U.S. occupation forces and that although she enjoyed her time in Japan, she finally asked to be shipped home to care for her aging mother.
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Title: Mobile phone habits during face to face first encounters : an investigation of self-disclosure and nonverbal mimicry
Creator: Kadylak, Travis
Date: 2019
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations
Description: Mobile phones are widely adopted around the world. In contemporary society, mobile phone use is acutely integrated into core social and psychological aspects of everyday life, such as verbal and nonverbal interpersonal communication. Though mobile phones offer users many affordances for social connection that can facilitate interpersonal communication and affiliation formation, previous research on phubbing [phone-snubbing] suggests that mobile phone use during face to face (FtF) interactions...
Show moreMobile phones are widely adopted around the world. In contemporary society, mobile phone use is acutely integrated into core social and psychological aspects of everyday life, such as verbal and nonverbal interpersonal communication. Though mobile phones offer users many affordances for social connection that can facilitate interpersonal communication and affiliation formation, previous research on phubbing [phone-snubbing] suggests that mobile phone use during face to face (FtF) interactions can breach interpersonal expectations, be perceived as ostracizing, hinder judgements of intimacy and communication quality, lead to unfavorable interpersonal evaluations, cause conflict within relationships, and impede affiliation formation. I aimed to advance expectancy violation theory (EVT) by using the axioms of the theory to make predictions involving nonverbal behaviors (e.g., phubbing expectancy violations and mobile phone mimicry), interpersonal judgements, and self-disclosure. Much like self-disclosure, humans evolved to automatically engage in nonverbal mimicry, or synchronous behavioral matching (i.e., automatically or unintentionally touching one's face after their interaction partner engaged in the same behavior), as a means of building affiliation and promoting positive interpersonal judgements. Following this premise, I examined whether mobile phone checking mimicry, or behavioral matching between FtF interaction partners involving how they use their mobile phones, may promote positive interpersonal judgements (e.g., increased perceived liking, trust, and empathy) that subsequently may be associated with higher levels of self-disclosure. Phubbing effects research currently maintains that mobile phone use, during FtF interactions, tends to lead to adverse interpersonal outcomes among mobile phone users of all ages. However, I used a 2x1 between subject laboratory experiment with college students (N = 77) to assess whether phubbing, expectancy violations, and mobile phone checking mimicry influenced interpersonal judgements and self-disclosure within the context of a face-to-face get-to-know-you activity. The results suggest that mobile phone checking, perceptions of negative phubbing expectancy violations, and mobile phone checking mimicry, may have limited effects on self-disclosure and interpersonal judgements in a get-to-know-you activity. Specifically, phubbing was inversely associated with self-disclosure; however, mobile phone checking mimicry was positively associated with self-disclosure. Though the external validity of the findings may be limited due to the student sample, this study advances expectancy violation theory by demonstrating the potential prosocial and antisocial effects of mobile phone use during FtF interactions. Additional study limitations, theoretical and practical implications, and directions for future research are discussed.
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Title: Experiences of middle-aged lesbians in therapy : a focus on perceived satisfaction and precursors of resilience
Creator: Carpenter, Georgia
Date: 2017
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations
Description: There is a gap in research focused on satisfaction in therapy as reported by middle-aged lesbians. This study is relevant as middle-aged lesbians are at risk of experiencing further incidents of discrimination based on their sexual orientation compared to their heterosexual counterparts. Middle-aged lesbians are also likely to experience internalized heterosexism, deleterious mental health problems and barriers to mental health services influenced by heterosexism. Thus, it is imperative for...
Show moreThere is a gap in research focused on satisfaction in therapy as reported by middle-aged lesbians. This study is relevant as middle-aged lesbians are at risk of experiencing further incidents of discrimination based on their sexual orientation compared to their heterosexual counterparts. Middle-aged lesbians are also likely to experience internalized heterosexism, deleterious mental health problems and barriers to mental health services influenced by heterosexism. Thus, it is imperative for family therapists to understand the life experiences of middle-aged lesbians, as well as the factors that lead to their satisfaction in therapy. This qualitative study utilized a descriptive phenomenological methodology to understand the life experiences of a sample of middle-aged lesbians, with a particular emphasis on the components of the therapeutic process that led to their satisfaction in therapy. Data were collected from seven Caucasian lesbian women, ages 40 to 64-years-old. All participants had been in therapy with different therapists for at least three months at the time of recruitment. In-depth interviews explored past experiences of discrimination and heterosexism, their coming out process, the components of therapy that led to their satisfaction with the therapeutic process, and the impact therapy had on participants with regards to increasing their sense of resilience. Implications for clinical practice and research are discussed.
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Title: A storied-identity analysis approach to teacher candidates learning to teach in an urban setting
Creator: Ibourk, Amal
Date: 2015
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations
Description: While many studies have investigated the relationship between teachers’ identity work and their developing practices, few of these identity focused studies have honed in on teacher candidates’ learning to teach in an urban setting. Drawing upon narrative inquiry methodology and a “storied identity” analytic framework, I examined how the storied identities of science learning and becoming a science teacher shape teacher candidates’ developing practice. In particular, I examined the stories of...
Show moreWhile many studies have investigated the relationship between teachers’ identity work and their developing practices, few of these identity focused studies have honed in on teacher candidates’ learning to teach in an urban setting. Drawing upon narrative inquiry methodology and a “storied identity” analytic framework, I examined how the storied identities of science learning and becoming a science teacher shape teacher candidates’ developing practice. In particular, I examined the stories of three interns, Becky, David, and Ashley, and I tell about their own experiences as science learners, their transitions to science teachers, and the implications this has for the identity work they did as they navigated the challenges of learning to teach in high-needs schools. Initially, each of the interns highlighted a feeling of being an outsider, and having a difficult time becoming a fully valued member of their classroom community in their storied identities of becoming a science teacher in the beginning of their internship year. While the interns named specific challenges, such as limited lab materials and different math abilities, I present how they adapted their lesson plans to address these challenges while drawing from their storied identities of science learning. My study reveals that the storied identities of becoming a science teacher informed how they framed their initial experiences teaching in an urban context. In addition, my findings reveal that the more their storied identities of science learning and becoming a science teacher overlapped, the more they leveraged their storied identity of science learning in order to implement teaching strategies that helped them make sense of the challenges that surfaced in their classroom contexts. Both Becky and Ashley leveraged their storied identities of science learning more than David did in their lesson planning and learning to teach. David’s initial storied identity of becoming a science teacher revealed how he highlighted his struggle with navigating talkativeness in the class, but also his struggle being an authority figure in his classroom. At present, only Becky and Ashley pursued teaching in a high needs setting. A storied identity analysis provided as well an insight into their storied strategies, or the teaching strategies shaped by the stories the interns told about how they made sense of the challenges they faced in their teaching practice. There were five teaching strategies the interns named that were important in supporting their learning to teach were (1) building relationships with their students, (2) being resourceful and creative when faced with limited lab materials, (3) making science relevant to their students, (4) scaffolding their students in their learning, and (5) having a network of people as resources in helping them be better teachers and helping their students learn. Out of these five teaching strategies, I called those they named and highlighted as helping them teach in ways they valued and that connected back to their storied identity of science learning their storied strategies. Implications for further pushing storied identities as a tool for teacher educators to help pinpoint priorities that surface in teacher candidates’ practice are discussed. An insight into the priorities that teacher candidates highlight in their practice as well as the storied strategies they name and use to deal with challenges that surface in their practice has potential in better helping teacher candidates navigate their developing practice.
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Title: The blame game : testing a model of attributions of responsibility following work-family conflict events
Creator: Poposki, Elizabeth M.
Date: 2010
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations

Title: Maternal socioeconomic mobility : relations with preterm delivery and prenatal depression
Creator: Tian, Yan (Epidemiologist)
Date: 2017
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations
Description: Preterm delivery (PTD) and prenatal depression are major public health problems. Previous studies suggest that socioeconomic position (SEP) has been negatively associated with the risk of PTD and mental health problems. However, the association between maternal socioeconomic mobility (SM) and the risk of PTD or prenatal depression is rarely investigated. We hypothesized that women with low childhood SEP and low adulthood SEP will be at greatest risk of PTD or prenatal depression; upward SM...
Show morePreterm delivery (PTD) and prenatal depression are major public health problems. Previous studies suggest that socioeconomic position (SEP) has been negatively associated with the risk of PTD and mental health problems. However, the association between maternal socioeconomic mobility (SM) and the risk of PTD or prenatal depression is rarely investigated. We hypothesized that women with low childhood SEP and low adulthood SEP will be at greatest risk of PTD or prenatal depression; upward SM from childhood to adulthood will lower women’s risk of PTD or prenatal depression; and downward SM from childhood to adulthood will increase risk of PTD or prenatal depression. We aimed (1) to evaluate the relationship between maternal SM and risk of PTD; and (2) to assess the association between maternal SM and risk of prenatal depression in a Michigan, community-based cohort study that is racially and socioeconomically diverse. Because other studies reported that the relation of SEP (or SM) with risk of PTD or prenatal depression varied by maternal race/ethnicity, we also examine evidence for this effect modification.Data were collected from 3,019 pregnant women recruited from 5 Michigan communities at mid-trimester (16-27 weeks’ gestation) in the Pregnancy Outcomes and Community Health (POUCH) Study (1998-2004). Pregnant women provided their parents’ SEP indicators (education, occupation, receipt of public assistance) and their own and child’s father’s SEP indicators (education, occupation, Medicaid status, and household income) at enrollment. PTD was defined as deliveries less than 37 completed weeks’ gestation. Prenatal depressive symptoms were assessed by the Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale (CES-D) and CES-D≥16 was defined as high CES-D. Latent class analysis was conducted to identify latent groups of childhood SEP indicators, adulthood SEP indicators, and SM from childhood to adulthood, respectively. A model-based approach to latent class analysis with distal outcome assessed relations between latent class and PTD or prenatal depression, overall and within race/ethnicity groups. Three latent groups (low, middle, high) were identified for childhood SEP indicators and adulthood SEP indicators, respectively; while four latent groups (static low, upward, downward, and static high) best described SM. Women with upward SM had decreased odds of PTD (odds ratio (OR)=0.60, 95% confidence interval (CI): 0.42, 0.87), compared to those with static low SEP. Women with upward SM had decreased odds of high CES-D (OR=0.22, 95% CI: 0.17, 0.29), compared to those with static low SEP. Women in downward group had elevated odds of high CES-D (OR=4.13, 95% CI: 2.75, 6.22), compared to those in static high group. This SM advantage was true for white/other women for PTD and most pronounced in white/other women for high CES-D. Maternal experiences of upward SM or downward SM may be important considerations when assessing risk of PTD or prenatal depression. Our results support the argument that policies and programs aimed at improving women’s SEP could lower PTD or prenatal depression risk. Our study suggests that policies or programs to increase opportunities for upward mobility may play an important role in decreasing the risk of PTD or prenatal depression. Further research is needed to understand the specific elements accompanying SM that are protective for PTD or prenatal depression and the best strategies for increasing SM among all race/ethnic groups.
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Title: The image of African American women as presented by American mass media and popular culture : interpretations by urban African American adolescent females regarding their life chances, life choices, and self-esteem
Creator: Smith, Pamela Rose
Date: 2014
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations
Description: "The aim of this study was to investigate the image of African American women in popular culture and gain an understanding of how those images are interpreted by urban African American adolescent girls (N=40) between the ages of 13-19 years old." -- Abstract.

Title: Guarding documents by increasing risks and reducing criminal opportunities : applyng environmental crime theories to forgery crimes
Creator: Fenoff, Roy
Date: 2015
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations
Description: Signature forgery is a prominent crime problem that is rarely discussed by criminologists. Additionally, according to the National Research Council of the National Academies of Sciences (2009), it is an area of forensic science that is in need of more rigorous research. The present study has two parts. In the first part, the number and types of changes that typically result when a writer disguises his or her signature were investigated. In the second part, the effect that the level of...
Show moreSignature forgery is a prominent crime problem that is rarely discussed by criminologists. Additionally, according to the National Research Council of the National Academies of Sciences (2009), it is an area of forensic science that is in need of more rigorous research. The present study has two parts. In the first part, the number and types of changes that typically result when a writer disguises his or her signature were investigated. In the second part, the effect that the level of guardianship has on the interaction between the offender and the guardian in forgery and document fraud crimes was examined. Environmental crime theories suggest that the presence of a guardian reduces crime because it decreases the opportunity to offend (Felson & Clarke, 1998). However, in certain kinds of crimes, the presence of a guardian may not be enough to deter an offender from engaging in criminal behavior; the guardian must also be perceived by the offender as capable and skilled. In the case of forgery crimes and document fraud, it is unclear how offenders respond to and determine capable guardianship. By understanding how offenders interpret and adapt to different levels of guardianship, effective prevention strategies may be developed. A secondary data source was used for this study. The data were collected from a sample of college students at Michigan State University. Three primary statistical techniques were used for the data analysis portion of the project: (1) Chi-square test of independence, (2) Tukey-Kramer Pairwise Comparisons, and (3) Exploratory Factor Analysis (EFA). The results for the first part of the study showed that letter form, legibility, size, spelling, and spacing were the most frequently altered handwriting features, and the second part showed that the participants were influenced by the scenario (i.e., level of guardianship).
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