Conference Presentation: Title: An Ethnography of Communicative Care Networks in Philadelphia.

Conference: Society for Applied Anthropology Annual Meeting 2021. Conference Date: March 2021

Email: tuf62657@temple.edu

• Description of research: Micah Savaglio is an English doctoral candidate at Temple University. His research interests include composition and rhetoric, disability studies, multimodality, and creative writing. His recent opinion piece published on the National Council of Teachers of English blog pulls from his doctoral research and addresses issues of access at Temple. This research was supported in part by Temple University’s Disability Resources and Services and First-year Writing Program.
• Papers/publications related to research: 
  - Micah Savaglio, “What COVID-19 Has Taught Us About Access to Equitable Education.” National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) Blog. February 10, 2021: ncte.org/blog/2021/02/covid-19-taught-us-access-equitable-education
  - Micah Savaglio, Addressing Mental Disability in the Postsecondary Classroom via Faculty Development Partnership. Written with Aaron Spector. Journal of Postsecondary Education and Disability 34 (Spring 2021): 91-99. 
• Awards or grants received: Graduate school 2021 summer grant award 
• Social media mentions about research: ncte.org/blog/2021/02/covid-19-taught-us-access-equitable-education

Faculty Advisor: Shannon Walters

Email: tuf75342@temple.edu

• Description of research: An examination of the 1862 escape of Robert Smalls, the reactions he inspired, and the manner in which he leveraged his own story in the larger political context of debates concerning emancipation and Union war aims.
• Conference presentations or highlights: Presented a paper entitled 'A Grateful Nation:' Robert Smalls and Narratives of Emancipation in 1862 at the 26th annual Barnes Conference.
• Awards or grants received: My paper at the Barnes Conference was awarded Best Paper, U.S. History.

Faculty Advisor: Gregory Urwin

Email: tun52705@temple.edu

• Description of research: Philosophy of religion 
• Papers/publications related to research: My paper Two-Kingdom Dualism: Metaphysical Grounding for Nonviolence is forthcoming in Religious Studies, the journal for philosophy of religion at Cambridge Press.

Email: tuj66899@temple.edu

• Description of research: The study investigates the question of why elections are so expensive in developing countries, such as India. The research project conducted unravels the mechanisms through which political fundraising happens during an election and the channels through which the funds are spent on both visible and less conspicuous forms of campaign activity. However, variations do exist in the mechanisms adopted by different parties and candidates.
• Papers/publications related to research: Ashwani Kumar, Souradeep Banerjee and Shashwat Dhar (2020), Pathways of money: insights from the 2017 Gujarat assembly election, India Review, 19:5, 448-470, DOI: 10.1080/14736489.2020.1855012
• Social media mentions about research: tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14736489.2020.1855012

Faculty Advisor: Adam Ziegfeld

Student profile

• Description of research: Individuals with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) often perform poorly on facial emotion recognition (FER) tasks. It’s unclear if this is due to difficulties in encoding or deployment of encoded facial emotion information from the brain to behavior. Using machine learning we classified facial emotions viewed by individuals with and without ASD from brain signals. Results indicate intact encoding in ASD, despite worse task performance, suggesting difficulties likely arise from deployment. 
• Papers/publications related to research: Clarkson, T. ¥, Mayor Torres, J.M. ¥, Hauschild, K.M., Luhmann, C.C., Lerner, M.D., Riccardi, G. (in press). Facial emotions are accurately encoded in the neural signal of those with autism: A deep learning approach (¥:joint first-authorship). Biological Psychiatry: Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging.
• Social media mentions about research: sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2451902221001075?via%3Dihub

Faculty Advisor: Johanna Jarcho

Email: tuk38887@temple.edu​

• Description of research: The negotiation of Hindu religious identity and worldview in the U.S.
• Conference presentations or highlights: 2021 American Philosophical Association Eastern Conference
• Papers/publications related to research: Chappell, Frank R. "Formulating an ‘Epic Religiosity’: The Mahābhārata and Contemporary Hindu Traditions." Intermountain West Journal of Religious Studies Vol. 11, No. 1, 2021 (forthcoming publication; date TBD fall 2021).

Faculty Advisor: Douglas Duckworth

Email: tuj04882@temple.edu

• Conference presentations or highlights: NEMLA 2021—Colombian Literature and SFL
• Papers/publications related to research: A Social-Phonological Approach to Colombian Spanish in Philadelphia, United States—Lingüística y Literatura journal (Aug. 2020)

Faculty Advisor: Monserrat Piera

Email: tuj77724@temple.edu

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