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Ozge Sensoy Bahar is a PhD candidate in the School of Social Work at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She received her Master's degree in social work from Columbia University. Her research interests include international social work, internal displacement, migration and women, and inner-city communities. Currently, she is completing her dissertation that explores how low-income, Kurdish migrant/displaced mothers reconstructed their lives in an inner-city neighborhood of Istanbul, after migrating from the southeast of Turkey. For her dissertation research, she used ethnographic field methods to explore various aspects of Kurdish women's lives in the city, including adaptation, childrearing, poverty, gender roles, and resiliency.

Dr. Yvette G. Flores works as a research psychologist, university professor, and licensed psychologist. She has done postdoctoral work in health psychology, in particular, substance-abuse treatment outcome research and intimate partner violence. Her current research examines intimate partner violence among Mexicans on both sides of the border. Her publications reflect her life's work of bridging clinical psychology and Chicano/Latino studies, as she foregrounds gender, ethnicity, and sexualities in her clinical, teaching, and research practices.

Tanya Hart holds a PhD from Yale University and a joint appointment in American Studies and Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at the University of Kansas. Her areas of interest are U.S. women's history, African American studies, the histories of public health and medicine in United States, and migration studies, all with an overarching emphasis on identity formation. She is currently completing a book-length manuscript titled "Health in the City: Race, Poverty and the Negotiation of Women's Health in New York City, 1915—1930." The monograph compares infant and maternal health care programs created for impoverished African American, British West Indian, and southern Italian women in the early twentieth century. [End Page 102]

Idethia Shevon Harvey is an assistant professor in the Department of Human Development and Family at the University of Connecticut. Dr. Harvey's research portfolio focuses on ethnic minority populations using participatory models of qualitative research. She has a particular focus on the broad issue of social exclusion and lay understanding of health and illness (including traditional medicines), chronic-disease management, and the cultural congruence of health behavior practices. Dr. Harvey contrasts sociocultural factors (for example, interactions between individuals with other individuals, groups, or communities) with structural factors (for example, interactions of individuals with their environment) as it pertains to physical activity.

Corliss D. Heath is a doctoral student at the University of South Florida in Tampa, specializing in biocultural medical anthropology.

Lashaune Johnson is a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Health Science at the University of Missouri. Her current research interests include health disparities, use of visual sociology techniques (such as Photovoice) to promote patient empowerment and patient-provider communication, comorbidities among cancer survivors, and weight-loss surgery.

Dr. Robin L. Jarrett is a professor of Family Studies in the Department of Human and Community Development and a faculty member in the Department of African American Studies at the University of Illinois-Urbana-Champaign. She received her PhD from the University of Chicago, Department of Sociology. Dr. Jarrett's research interests include positive child and adolescent development, family resilience, and inner-city communities. Dr. Jarrett uses ethnographic field methods (participant observation, intensive interviewing, photo-documentation, GIS) to examine coping strategies among inner-city families with children and adolescents. Her research has identified the characteristics of resilient families and details specific parenting practices that support positive child-youth development, despite residence in high-risk, low-resource neighborhoods. Dr. Jarrett is currently conducting research on health and nutrition among low-income, African American families with preschoolers in Chicago and developing a holistic and culturally relevant parenting curriculum to promote healthy lifestyles. Additionally, she is conducting research on school readiness among low-income, African American children, with a particular focus on how preschools, elementary schools, and families can collaborate to promote children's educational development. [End Page 103]

Dr. Ezella McPherson earned a Bachelor's degree from the University of Michigan. She received her Masters of Education and Doctorate of Philosophy in Educational Policy Studies from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Her research interests...

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