GENDER, HEALTH,
& THE SOUTH
2015 Symposium
April 16 & 17, 2015
Wake Forest University
Winston-Salem, NC
SYMPOSIUM SCHEDULE
THURSDAY APRIL 16
8:00
Registration
8:45
Morning Keynote by Melissa Harris-Perry
Pugh Auditorium
9:45
Social Foundations of Health
Pugh Auditorium
11:15
HIV, Sexuality, and Health Care
Pugh Auditorium
12:30Lunch
1:45
Health Impact of Gendered Initiatives, Narratives, and Labor Conditions
Pugh Auditorium
2:45
Pregnancy and Reproductive Justice
Pugh Auditorium
4:15
Community-Based Health Initiatives
Pugh Auditorium
7:00
Evening Keynote by Jonathan Metzl
Annenberg Forum, Carswell Hall
FRIDAY APRIL 17
9:30
Equitable Health Care: In Practice
Benson University Center 410
MORNING KEYNOTE
MELISSA HARRIS-PERRY
"Race and Reproductive
Justice in the South"
EVENING KEYNOTE
JONATHAN METZL
"Mental Illness, Mass Shootings, and
the Politics of American Firearms"
THURSDAY
DETAILED SYMPOSIUM SCHEDULE
8:45
MORNING KEYNOTE BY MELISSA HARRIS-PERRY
"RACE AND REPRODUCTIVE JUSTICE IN THE SOUTH"
Pugh Auditorium, Benson University Center
Melissa Harris-Perry is the Presidential Endowed Chair in Politics and
International Affairs at Wake Forest University. There she is the Executive
Director of the Pro Humanitate Institute and founding director of the Anna
Julia Cooper Center on Gender, Race, and Politics in the South. She is the
host of "Melissa Harris-Perry", which broadcasts live on MSNBC on
Saturdays and Sundays from 10AM to Noon. She is the author of the
award-winning Barbershops, Bibles, and BET: Everyday Talk and Black
Political Thought, and Sister Citizen: Shame, Stereotypes, and Black
Women in America. Harris-Perry received her B.A. degree in English from
Wake Forest University in 1994 and her Ph.D. degree in political science
from Duke University in 1999. She also studied theology at Union
Theological Seminary in New York. Harris-Perry previously served on the
faculty of the University of Chicago, Princeton University, and Tulane
University.
9:4511:00
SOCIAL FOUNDATIONS OF HEALTH
Pugh Auditorium, Benson University Center
"Measuring stress among Hispanic immigrant families in Nashville" Amy Non,
Vanderbilt University
"Care, Coercion and Military Suicide" Ken MacLeish, Vanderbilt University
"Gender Inequality and Emotional Well-Being in the U.S.: A Snapshot of Decades of
Sociological Research" Robin Simon, Wake Forest University
"Gender, Weight, and Place: The Importance of Combining Feminist and Public Health
Approaches to Weight" Kristina Gupta, Wake Forest University
11:1512:30
HIV, SEXUALITY, AND HEALTH CARE
Pugh Auditorium, Benson University Center
"Promoting sexual health among Latino gay and bisexual men, other MSM, and
transgender persons" Scott Rhodes, Wake Forest University School of Medicine
"Masculine ideology, norms, and HIV prevention among young Black men" Naomi M.
Hall-Byers, Winston-Salem State University
"The impact of a Medicaid expansion on health care access among HIV-positive men
and women in the southern United States" Sarah Rudasill, Wake Forest University
THURSDAY
12:30 LUNCH
Food will be provided outside Pugh Auditorium
1:45 - HEALTH IMPACT OF GENDERED INITIATIVES, NARRATIVES, AND LABOR CONDITIONS
2:30 Pugh Auditorium, Benson University Center
"The Gendered Notions of America's Deadliest Disease: A Call to Action for Southern
Women's Health" Callie Cleckner, Wake Forest University
"Knowledge and Power in Curriculum: Unpacking the Heroes and Heroines of Black History
Month" Nia Evans, Wake Forest University
"Latina Migrant Farmworkers and Policy Implications about their Spheres of Sexual Abuse"
Anna Grace Tribble, Wake Forest University
2:45 - PREGNANCY AND REPRODUCTIVE JUSTICE
3:45 Pugh Auditorium, Benson University Center
"When the Educated Decide: Eugenics and The History of Forced North Carolina
Sterilizations" Charmaine S. Fuller Cooper
"The House That Willie Parker Built: A History of Reproductive Rights & Politics in America"
Benjamin Mills, Wake Forest University
"Taming troubled teens: The social production of mental morbidity amongst young mothers
in Pelotas, Brazil" Dominique Behague, Vanderbilt University
4:00 - COMMUNITY-BASED HEALTH INITIATIVES
5:00 Pugh Auditorium, Benson University Center
"Health Promotion in American Indian Women: The Native Proverbs 31 Health Project"
Ronny Bell, Wake Forest University School of Medicine
"I’m not Your Superwoman: The Role of Mental Health on the Physical Well-Being of African
American Women" Shawn A. Ricks, Winston-Salem State University
"Achieving Health Equity through Community-Based Participatory Research: A Portrait of
Project GRACE" Giselle Corbie-Smith and Shirley McFarlin, University of North Carolina
School of Medicine and McFarlin Community Development Corp
THURSDAY
7:00
EVENING KEYNOTE BY JONATHAN METZL
"MENTAL ILLNESS, MASS SHOOTINGS, AND THE POLITICS OF AMERICAN FIREARMS"
Annenberg Forum, Carswell Hall
Jonathan Metzl is the Frederick B. Rentschler II Professor of Sociology and Psychiatry,
and the Director of the Center for Medicine, Health, and Society at Vanderbilt University
in Nashville, Tennessee. He received his MD from the University of Missouri, MA in
humanities/poetics and Psychiatric internship/residency from Stanford University, and PhD
in American Culture from University of Michigan. A 2008 Guggenheim fellow, Professor
Metzl has written extensively for medical, psychiatric, and popular publications. His books
include The Protest Psychosis, Prozac on the Couch and Against Health: How Health Became
the New Morality.
FRIDAY
9:30- EQUITABLE HEALTH CARE: IN PRACTICE
12:00 Benson University Center 410
"What I wish my doctor knew about my life: Using photovoice to explore barriers to health
equity with immigrant Latino adolescents" Eugenia Eng, University of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill
"Is there a good reason Black men don’t go to the doctor?" Derek M. Griffith, Vanderbilt
University
"FaithHealth from Memphis to East Winston" Gary Gunderson, Wake Forest Baptist Medical
Center
"Discovering cultural narratives; delivering equitable care" Tamara Y. Jeffries, Bennett
College
"Experience and assessment of cultural and structural competence education in premedical
students" JuLeigh Petty, Vanderbilt University
Moderator: Melissa Harris-Perry, Wake Forest University
SPONSORS
This symposium is the first event in a multi-year partnership between the Anna Julia
Cooper Center at Wake Forest University and the Center for Medicine, Health and
Society at Vanderbilt University.
The Anna Julia Cooper Center
on Gender, Race, and Politics in the South
The Anna Julia Cooper Center is an interdisciplinary center based at Wake Forest
University that fosters scholarly research, supports student engagement, and connects
with community organizations dedicated to issues of gender, race, and politics in the
United States and global south. The Center is named for the foundational black feminist
intellectual, activist, and educator of the early 20th century, Anna Julia Cooper, whose
pioneering scholarship and activism laid the foundation for black American feminism and
insisted on the importance of Southern voices in American politics. The Center engages
the intersection and interaction of multiple identities as the core of its investigation of
politically meaningful questions.
The Center for Medicine, Health and Society
The Center for Medicine, Health and Society is an innovative multidisciplinary center that
studies the social and societal dimensions of health and illness. Our scholarship, teaching,
and wide-ranging collaborative projects explore medicine and science in a wide array of
cultural contexts, while at the same time fostering productive dialogue across disciplinary
boundaries. The Center is based at Vanderbilt University.
This symposium is supported by the Pro Humanitate Institute
at Wake Forest University.
Special thanks to the Center for Bioethics,
Health & Society at Wake Forest University.