Research Team News

SPRING 2022 TEAM NEWS:

Undergraduate RA and BUILD EXITO Scholar Toni Brooks will be starting her master's degree studies at the University of Oregon this fall, in the Bioinformatics and Genomics program. We're really proud of Toni!

FALL 2021 TEAM NEWS:

Congratulations to doctoral student Adrian Manriquez who has been selected to participate in the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's Health Policy Research Scholar Program. Health Policy Research Scholars is a leadership development program for full-time doctoral students who are entering their second year of study and are from populations underrepresented in specific doctoral disciplines and/or historically marginalized backgrounds.

FALL 2020 TEAM NEWS:

Watch Eric Mankowski speak on our research on gun violence as part of PSU's Voices on Gender and Social Change panel. His presentation, "Accidental" Shootings? Masculinity and Toddlers Who Use Guns draws on our research team's content analysis of newspaper accounts of unintentional shootings. Anna Grape, Toni Brooks, Nick Glover, Clare Hansen, Tiffany Pham, Makenna Rivers, Cindy Truong, and Hana Watari did the emotionally challenging work of locating, reading and coding hundreds of articles.

FALL 2018 TEAM NEWS:

Read a brief article by Eric Mankowski and Wizdom Powell offering an intersectional analysis of mass shootings and their connection to intimate partner violence, here:

We’re getting it all wrong when we talk about mass shooters and toxic masculinity

Mankowski, E.S., & Powell, W. (2018, September 18). We’re getting it all wrong when we talk about mass shooters and toxic masculinity. Retrieved from https://www.verygoodlight.com/2018/09/18/mass-shooters-masculinty

Nick Glover, NIH BUILD EXITO scholar, presented his 3rd year research project on Thursday, September 20th, 2018 to the PSU community. His research project, entitled “Men and Masculinities: An Examination of Sexist Beliefs”, examined the impact of attending a course on the psychology of men and masculinities on students’ gender role norm perceptions, gender ideologies, and gender role conflicts and stresses. He found that female students in the most recent cohort lowered their endorsement of traditional male gender role norms. Other outcomes did not change in the course.

Pista Szabo has joined the Gendered Violence Intervention Research Team on September 1, 2018. Pista is a scholar in the NIH BUILD EXITO program at PSU. He is currently working on a project to determine how well a local, volunteer-run, all-ages music festival is meeting its goals of providing access to and engaging a diverse music community.

Members of the research team have co-authored a chapter in the upcoming Handbook of Men’s Health Disparities (Routledge). The chapter critically addresses the meaning of health disparities and examines the concept in application to the health of European-American boys and men.

Mankowski, E.S., & Glover, N. (forthcoming). Health and health disparities in European-American boys and men. In D.M. Griffith, M.A. Bruce, R.J. Thorpe (Eds.), Handbook of men’s health disparities. New York: Routledge.

SPRING 2018 TEAM NEWS:

Graduate student Emma O’Connor co-authored with Eric Mankowski a brief historical review of applied social psychology for the upcoming Encyclopedia of Sociology.

Mankowski, E.S., & O’Connor, E.C. (forthcoming). Applied social psychology. In G. Ritzer and C. Rojeck (Eds.), Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology (2nd edition).

Eric Mankowski recently co-authored with Edward Gondolf and Larry Bennett an article evaluating the research on acceptance commitment therapy applied to intimate partner violence interventions. You can read the article here:

Lessons in Program Evaluation: The ACTV Batterer Program Study and Its Claims

Gondolf, E. W., Bennett, L., & Mankowski, E. (in press). Lessons in program evaluation: The ACTV batterer program study and its claims. Violence Against Women. https://doi.org/10.1177/1077801217741994