Tuesday, December 10, 2019 | 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm | CETLS, S510D
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Soniya Munshi (Social Sciences, Human Services, and Criminal Justice)
Michelle Ronda (Social Sciences, Human Services, and Criminal Justice)
Jill Strauss (Speech, Communications, and Theatre Arts)
Hao Tang (Computer Information Systems)
Facilitator
Linta Varghese (Center for Ethnic Studies)
Description
There is no question that New York City has a lot to offer, but how can it be used as a research site? Come hear from BMCC faculty across disciplines who conduct research in New York City and discuss the different facets of conducting research where we live and/or work.
Our faculty panel will get the discussion started with brief presentations about these research projects:
Site: Queens medical institutions
Researcher: Soniya Munshi
This project traces the genealogy of domestic violence as a matter of public health through archival research, ethnographic study of health/medical institutions and collective grassroots practices that advance a women of color abolitionist feminist vision of health, safety, and well-being. The study is based in my home borough of Queens, New York City, a borough where the majority of the population was born outside the U.S., mostly in Latin America and Asia.
Site: Battery Park City
Researcher: Michelle Ronda
From Spring 2017 to Fall 2018, Michelle Ronda and Robin Isserles generated a reliable estimate of the volume of park use to gain insight into what users think about those parks. With trained student researchers from BMCC, the project conducted systematic counts of people and randomized survey interviews in Battery Park City parks.
Site: J. Marion Sims Statue Pedestal
Researcher: Jill Strauss
In 2018, after ten years of controversy and activism, the statue of J. Marion Sims (called by some ‘the father of gynecology’ for his experiments on enslaved and immigrant women in the 19th century) was removed but the pedestal remained in situ. In the two years before the monument is replaced, BMCC students used augmented reality technology to create images on the Sims pedestal to ‘bring to life’ their interpretations that are not (yet) part of the prevailing history, for validation and empathy.
Site: NYC Transit Hubs
Researcher: Hao Tang
NYC has large transportation hubs such as Port Authority Bus Terminal, Penn Station, Grand Central Station, a number of airports, 472 MTA subway stations and the world’s largest fleet of buses serving over 666 million people per year. My recent research focuses on turning these transit hubs into the smart and accessible hubs (SAT-Hub), with minimal infrastructure change, to serve the almost 1 million New Yorkers and approximately 6.8 million yearly visitors to our city who have disabilities.
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