SLO # 2: Artifacts

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• LIS 600 | CITI Training Report

  • ​Completing the modules equipped me with the knowledge of how to conduct safe research pertaining to human subjects. The process of attaining the certification was long and arduous, but I finished the modules with a comforting, abstract notion of safety and how to protect individuals I may be researching.

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• LIS 690 | Bibliotherapy Independent Study and IRB Materials

  • Throughout the project, I grew as a researcher through reaching out to advocacy organizations and conducting surveys (even personal interviews) with survivors of sexual trauma in order to inquire as to what literary resources have proven beneficial to their recoveries. The research involved going through UNCG’s IRB process and collecting titles that have aided individuals in their transition from victim to survivor. The survivor's own words and stories deepened my understanding of why/how certain works of literature have bibliotherapeutic value.

    • Recruitment Methods

    • Survey Results

    • Recruitment Flyer

    • Adult Consent Form

    • Sample Survey

    • Semester Reflection

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• LIS 688 | Archives Visit: Being a Political Advocate in Archives

  • A current paradigm shift in the archives world is that archives are being increasingly political sites and archivists can engage in making the repository a political space. By promoting collections that prompt political scholarship, archivists are being political activists. At the Sallie Bingham Center at Duke’s Rubenstein Library, the archivists spoke with me about how they are politicizing the space and promoting political/feminist research.

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• WGS 651 | Pro-Ana and the Starving Queer Body

  • My seminar paper explored the involvement of queer individuals belonging to the pro-ana community, excavating the ways in which queer individuals construct their own identity and body politics and rhetorical autonomy in these problematic spaces. My research led me to understand the importance of self-care in research and the need for personal biases to be set aside for nuanced understandings in the research process.

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• WGS 651 | Semester Reflections

  • The readings, assignments, and projects from this course required me to think critically about the concept of objectivity and the means by which feminist frameworks can be integrated into research practices. I grew in my ability to evaluate resources for research and improved my comprehension of theories that are seminal to feminist studies.