Derek A Chapman
Biographic Data
| ID | 312152 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Derek A Chapman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Derek A |
| FAMILY NAME | Chapman |
| SIGNATURE | CHAPMAN D A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Virginia Commonwealth University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7463-3570 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 28 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 75 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 28 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Folklore’s Ghosts: Haitian Folkloric Dance and the Hauntings of an Entangled History
This article renders a history of Haitian folkloric dance that accounts for its “ghostly matters,” meaning the haunted legacies still hovering around transmissions and performances of folkloric dance. Focusing on the dance’s mid-twentieth century formation, this analysis weaves together scholarship with the author’s own archival, ethnographic, and oral historical research. The construction and codification of “Haitian folkloric dance” emerges thr…
Exploring the link between the risk of violent injury in adolescents and historic redlining practices
Violent injuries tend to cluster together geospatially. The discriminatory housing practice of redlining undertaken by the United States federal government in the 1930s has been repeatedly linked with various contemporary community‐level disparities. However, no known work has explored the association between historical redlining and the risk of violent injuries among adolescents. To this end, we utilized surveillance data of adolescent patients …
Brigade d’Intervention Théâtrale-Haïti: Staging Counterpublics in Neoliberal Haiti
This article discusses street theater actions by Brigade d’Intervention Théâtrale-Haïti (BITH), a Haitian performance collective whose work staged in 2018—preceding and in alignment with mass mobilizations that swept the nation that year—registered and interrogated the deep impacts on lived experience wrought by a process of intensified neoliberalization in post-2010 Haiti. BITH’s street performances (and subsequent online circulation) made visib…
Excess Death Rates by State During the Covid-19 Pandemic: United States, 2020‒2023
Objectives. To estimate state-level excess death rates during 2020 to 2023 and examine differences by region and partisan orientation. Methods. We modeled death and population counts from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to estimate excess death rates for the United States, 9 census divisions, and 50 states. We compared excess death rates for states with different partisan orientations, measured by the party of the seated governor a…
The Power and Play of Language in Queer Haiti: Thinking with Erin Durban's The Sexual Politics of Empire
Introduction: The Rights to Live Creatively
This special issue marks a decade of collaborations across multiple configurations. It grows from years of work among scholars, activists, and artists around issues of sovereignty, queerness, and artistic expression in Haiti and its diasporas. Foregrounding the intellectual and cultural labors of our interlocutor-comrades, we take very seriously the import of Kreyòl vernaculars, Haitian concepts, and Vodou epistemologies. In tandem with commitmen…
Un/Commoning Pedagogies: Forging Collectivity Through Difference in the Embodied Classroom and Beyond
Un/Commoning Pedagogies Collective are seven dancer-scholars who centre embodied anti-racist praxis in our teaching across the fields of anthropology, sociology, African American and Africana studies, gender, sexuality and women’s studies, dance, and performance studies. Since 2019, the Un/Commoning Pedagogies Collective has engaged in consistent, process-based collaboration around teaching, scholarship, movement practice, and collegiality. We ha…
Practice-Based Pedagogies for Counter-Memorial Performance: Teaching to Address and Shift “Plantation Energy”
This article discusses History, Memory, Performance, Place: Activating Davidson’s Submerged Histories, a practice-based course I developed and taught in spring 2020 and spring 2021 at Davidson College, a small liberal arts college twenty miles north of Charlotte, NC, established in 1837 by white slave owners. Drawing together dance, performance studies, and Black studies methodologies, the class centred the body through both practice-based resear…
Identification of Promotive and Protective Factors for Young Adults Living in Concentrated Disadvantage
Violence is a major public health concern that particularly impacts Black young adults living in under-resourced, urban communities. There is limited research on promotive and protective factors that mitigate the impact of violence exposure on aggressive behavior. This study aims to address this gap by exploring positive factors across the ecological model in a sample of 141 predominantly Black young adults ages 18 to 22 years living in low-incom…
Afro-Feminist Performance Routes: Documenting Embodied Dialogue and AfroFem Articulations
This conversation emerges from the Afro-Feminist Performance Routes's biennial gatherings at Duke University that have taken place since 2016. Hinging on the work of Lēnablou (Guadeloupe), Rujeko Dumbutshena (Zimbabwe, United States), Sephora Germain (Haiti), Yanique Hume (Jamaica, Cuba, Barbados), Jessi Knight (United States), Halifu Osumare (United States), Luciane Ramos-Silva (Brazil), and Jade Power Sotomayor (Puerto Rico, United States), the…
The Lasting Contribution of Dr. Saba Masho on Youth Violence Prevention
Social and Structural Determinants of Health and Youth Violence: Shifting the Paradigm of Youth Violence Prevention
Moving Otherwise: Dance, Violence, and Memory in Buenos Aires by Victoria Fortuna
Reviewed by: Moving Otherwise: Dance, Violence, and Memory in Buenos Aires by Victoria Fortuna Dasha A. Chapman MOVING OTHERWISE: DANCE, VIOLENCE, AND MEMORY IN BUENOS AIRES. By Victoria Fortuna. New York: Oxford University Press, 2019; pp. 276. How might critical dance studies help us understand the embodied dimensions of political violence and economic precarity, as well as the myriad corporeal strategies people use to navigate, process, and in…
Educational Disparities in Adult Mortality Across U.S. States: How Do They Differ, and Have They Changed Since the Mid-1980s
Adult mortality varies greatly by educational attainment. Explanations have focused on actions and choices made by individuals, neglecting contextual factors such as economic and policy environments. This study takes an important step toward explaining educational disparities in U.S. adult mortality and their growth since the mid-1980s by examining them across U.S. states. We analyzed data on adults aged 45–89 in the 1985–2011 National Health Int…
Embodying Dantò, Performing Freda, Dancing Lasirenn: Yonel Charles's Choreographic Elaborations of Ezili
The cohort of Ezili spirits function as diverse feminine principles through which we can understand the dance and activist work of Yonel Charles, a self-identified masisi (gay male) performer and LGBTQ centerpost in Jacmel, Haiti. Through an analysis of Charles's solo performance and collective care of LGBTQ Haitians in Jacmel, I argue that he mobilizes Ezili's complex feminine and feminist principles as vital knowledge. Ezili Freda, Ezili Dantò,…
Modeling Pediatric Body Mass Index and Neighborhood Environment at Different Spatial Scales
In public health research, it has been well established that geographic location plays an important role in influencing health outcomes. In recent years, there has been an increased emphasis on the impact of neighborhood or contextual factors as potential risk factors for childhood obesity. Some neighborhood factors relevant to childhood obesity include access to food sources, access to recreational facilities, neighborhood safety, and socioecono…
Nou Mache Ansanm(We Walk Together): Queer Haitian Performance and Affiliation
This special issue emerges from a symposium at Duke University in fall 2015, "Nou Mache Ansanm (We Walk Together): Performance, Gender, and Sexuality in Haiti," which brought scholars, artists, and
Forging Lakou in the Grand Rue: A Polyphonic Reflection on a Collaborative Performance in Port-au-Prince
“Forging Lakou in the Grand Rue: A Polyphonic Reflection on a Collaborative Performance in Port-au-Prince” is a multivocal text that accompanies and extends a collaborative project the authors developed in December 2015 at the 4th Ghetto Biennale in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. An assemblage of description, reflection, performance writing, and theory, this co-authored piece writes alongside the authors’ dancing in ways that mobilize a Kreyòl Vodou rasa…
The Diasporic Re-membering Space of Jean Appolon's Afro-Haitian Dance Classes
Sexual Discordance and Sexual Partnering Among Heterosexual Women
Developing a Maternally Linked Birth Dataset to Study the Generational Recurrence of Low Birthweight in Virginia
Contraceptive Insurance Mandates and Consistent Contraceptive Use Among Privately Insured Women
INTRODUCTION: Half of the states in the United States mandate that health insurers cover contraceptives. Health care reform includes recommendations to extend these mandates nationally through the essential benefits package. This study evaluates the association of state-level insurance mandates and consistent contraceptive use among privately insured women aged 15-44. STUDY DESIGN: The National Survey of Family Growth (2006-2008) included 2276 pr…
Addressing perinatal disparities using community‐based participatory research: Data into action
Striking racial disparities in infant mortality exist in the United States, with rates of infant death among African Americans nearly twice the national average. Community‐based participatory research approaches have been successful in fostering collaborative relationships between communities and researchers that are focused on developing effective and sustainable interventions and programs that target the needs of the community. The current arti…
Intimate Partner Violence and Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Among High-Risk Women: Does Pregnancy Matter
Interviews from 655 women participating in the Chicago Women's Health Risk Study (CWHRS) were used to assess prevalence and factors associated with intimate partner violence (IPV) and posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Black women had the highest rate of IPV overall and among pregnant women, and had decreased odds of PTSD compared to Black nonpregnant women. Hispanic pregnant women, however, had decreased odds of IPV and PTSD compared to Hispa…
The Impact of Paternity and Marital Status on Low Birth Weight and Preterm Births
In the United States the number of births to unmarried mothers is at a record high. Although being unmarried is a significant risk factor for low birth weight and preterm births, paternal presence may have a protective effect. In addition to marital status, paternity may be a proxy measure for paternal support. Virginia birth registry data were analyzed to investigate the effect of marital and paternity status on low birth weight and preterm birt…
Educational Disparities in Adult Mortality Across U.S. States: How Do They Differ, and Have They Changed Since the Mid-1980s
Adult mortality varies greatly by educational attainment. Explanations have focused on actions and choices made by individuals, neglecting contextual factors such as economic and policy environments. This study takes an important step toward explaining educational disparities in U.S. adult mortality and their growth since the mid-1980s by examining them across U.S. states. We analyzed data on adults aged 45–89 in the 1985–2011 National Health Int…
Social and Structural Determinants of Health and Youth Violence: Shifting the Paradigm of Youth Violence Prevention
Intimate Partner Violence and Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Among High-Risk Women: Does Pregnancy Matter
Interviews from 655 women participating in the Chicago Women's Health Risk Study (CWHRS) were used to assess prevalence and factors associated with intimate partner violence (IPV) and posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Black women had the highest rate of IPV overall and among pregnant women, and had decreased odds of PTSD compared to Black nonpregnant women. Hispanic pregnant women, however, had decreased odds of IPV and PTSD compared to Hispa…
Nou Mache Ansanm(We Walk Together): Queer Haitian Performance and Affiliation
This special issue emerges from a symposium at Duke University in fall 2015, "Nou Mache Ansanm (We Walk Together): Performance, Gender, and Sexuality in Haiti," which brought scholars, artists, and
Sexual Discordance and Sexual Partnering Among Heterosexual Women
The Impact of Paternity and Marital Status on Low Birth Weight and Preterm Births
In the United States the number of births to unmarried mothers is at a record high. Although being unmarried is a significant risk factor for low birth weight and preterm births, paternal presence may have a protective effect. In addition to marital status, paternity may be a proxy measure for paternal support. Virginia birth registry data were analyzed to investigate the effect of marital and paternity status on low birth weight and preterm birt…
Excess Death Rates by State During the Covid-19 Pandemic: United States, 2020‒2023
Objectives. To estimate state-level excess death rates during 2020 to 2023 and examine differences by region and partisan orientation. Methods. We modeled death and population counts from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to estimate excess death rates for the United States, 9 census divisions, and 50 states. We compared excess death rates for states with different partisan orientations, measured by the party of the seated governor a…
The Diasporic Re-membering Space of Jean Appolon's Afro-Haitian Dance Classes
Addressing perinatal disparities using community‐based participatory research: Data into action
Striking racial disparities in infant mortality exist in the United States, with rates of infant death among African Americans nearly twice the national average. Community‐based participatory research approaches have been successful in fostering collaborative relationships between communities and researchers that are focused on developing effective and sustainable interventions and programs that target the needs of the community. The current arti…
The Identification of Early Risk Factors for Severe Emotional Disturbances and Emotional Handicaps: An Epidemiological Approach
Epidemiological methodology is used to examine the relationship between early childhood risk factors and future identification as having a Severe Emotional Disturbance or as having an Emotional Handicap (SED/EH) at age 13. Data were obtained from 1979/1980 Florida birth records that were electronically linked with 1992/1993 Florida school records. An epidemiological perspective was chosen due to its ability to model both individual and community‐…
A Review of Some Individual- and Community-Level Effect Size Indices for the Study of Risk Factors for Child and Adolescent Development
This article discusses the computation and application of various epidemiological measures of effect in educational and developmental research. Specifically, epidemiology provides a potentially important perspective for studies identifying risk factors for healthy child development. For example, it allows for the examination of both individual-level risk (the impact of risk factors on individuals experiencing them) and community-level risk (the i…
The Impact of Maternal Intergenerational Risk Factors on Adverse Developmental Outcomes
Intimate Partner Violence and Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Among High-Risk Women: Does Pregnancy Matter
Interviews from 655 women participating in the Chicago Women's Health Risk Study (CWHRS) were used to assess prevalence and factors associated with intimate partner violence (IPV) and posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Black women had the highest rate of IPV overall and among pregnant women, and had decreased odds of PTSD compared to Black nonpregnant women. Hispanic pregnant women, however, had decreased odds of IPV and PTSD compared to Hispa…
The Impact of Paternity and Marital Status on Low Birth Weight and Preterm Births
In the United States the number of births to unmarried mothers is at a record high. Although being unmarried is a significant risk factor for low birth weight and preterm births, paternal presence may have a protective effect. In addition to marital status, paternity may be a proxy measure for paternal support. Virginia birth registry data were analyzed to investigate the effect of marital and paternity status on low birth weight and preterm birt…
Addressing perinatal disparities using community‐based participatory research: Data into action
Striking racial disparities in infant mortality exist in the United States, with rates of infant death among African Americans nearly twice the national average. Community‐based participatory research approaches have been successful in fostering collaborative relationships between communities and researchers that are focused on developing effective and sustainable interventions and programs that target the needs of the community. The current arti…
Contraceptive Insurance Mandates and Consistent Contraceptive Use Among Privately Insured Women
INTRODUCTION: Half of the states in the United States mandate that health insurers cover contraceptives. Health care reform includes recommendations to extend these mandates nationally through the essential benefits package. This study evaluates the association of state-level insurance mandates and consistent contraceptive use among privately insured women aged 15-44. STUDY DESIGN: The National Survey of Family Growth (2006-2008) included 2276 pr…
Developing a Maternally Linked Birth Dataset to Study the Generational Recurrence of Low Birthweight in Virginia
Sexual Discordance and Sexual Partnering Among Heterosexual Women
The Diasporic Re-membering Space of Jean Appolon's Afro-Haitian Dance Classes
Nou Mache Ansanm(We Walk Together): Queer Haitian Performance and Affiliation
This special issue emerges from a symposium at Duke University in fall 2015, "Nou Mache Ansanm (We Walk Together): Performance, Gender, and Sexuality in Haiti," which brought scholars, artists, and
Forging Lakou in the Grand Rue: A Polyphonic Reflection on a Collaborative Performance in Port-au-Prince
“Forging Lakou in the Grand Rue: A Polyphonic Reflection on a Collaborative Performance in Port-au-Prince” is a multivocal text that accompanies and extends a collaborative project the authors developed in December 2015 at the 4th Ghetto Biennale in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. An assemblage of description, reflection, performance writing, and theory, this co-authored piece writes alongside the authors’ dancing in ways that mobilize a Kreyòl Vodou rasa…
Modeling Pediatric Body Mass Index and Neighborhood Environment at Different Spatial Scales
In public health research, it has been well established that geographic location plays an important role in influencing health outcomes. In recent years, there has been an increased emphasis on the impact of neighborhood or contextual factors as potential risk factors for childhood obesity. Some neighborhood factors relevant to childhood obesity include access to food sources, access to recreational facilities, neighborhood safety, and socioecono…
Educational Disparities in Adult Mortality Across U.S. States: How Do They Differ, and Have They Changed Since the Mid-1980s
Adult mortality varies greatly by educational attainment. Explanations have focused on actions and choices made by individuals, neglecting contextual factors such as economic and policy environments. This study takes an important step toward explaining educational disparities in U.S. adult mortality and their growth since the mid-1980s by examining them across U.S. states. We analyzed data on adults aged 45–89 in the 1985–2011 National Health Int…
Embodying Dantò, Performing Freda, Dancing Lasirenn: Yonel Charles's Choreographic Elaborations of Ezili
The cohort of Ezili spirits function as diverse feminine principles through which we can understand the dance and activist work of Yonel Charles, a self-identified masisi (gay male) performer and LGBTQ centerpost in Jacmel, Haiti. Through an analysis of Charles's solo performance and collective care of LGBTQ Haitians in Jacmel, I argue that he mobilizes Ezili's complex feminine and feminist principles as vital knowledge. Ezili Freda, Ezili Dantò,…
Moving Otherwise: Dance, Violence, and Memory in Buenos Aires by Victoria Fortuna
Reviewed by: Moving Otherwise: Dance, Violence, and Memory in Buenos Aires by Victoria Fortuna Dasha A. Chapman MOVING OTHERWISE: DANCE, VIOLENCE, AND MEMORY IN BUENOS AIRES. By Victoria Fortuna. New York: Oxford University Press, 2019; pp. 276. How might critical dance studies help us understand the embodied dimensions of political violence and economic precarity, as well as the myriad corporeal strategies people use to navigate, process, and in…
Afro-Feminist Performance Routes: Documenting Embodied Dialogue and AfroFem Articulations
This conversation emerges from the Afro-Feminist Performance Routes's biennial gatherings at Duke University that have taken place since 2016. Hinging on the work of Lēnablou (Guadeloupe), Rujeko Dumbutshena (Zimbabwe, United States), Sephora Germain (Haiti), Yanique Hume (Jamaica, Cuba, Barbados), Jessi Knight (United States), Halifu Osumare (United States), Luciane Ramos-Silva (Brazil), and Jade Power Sotomayor (Puerto Rico, United States), the…
The Lasting Contribution of Dr. Saba Masho on Youth Violence Prevention
Social and Structural Determinants of Health and Youth Violence: Shifting the Paradigm of Youth Violence Prevention
Un/Commoning Pedagogies: Forging Collectivity Through Difference in the Embodied Classroom and Beyond
Un/Commoning Pedagogies Collective are seven dancer-scholars who centre embodied anti-racist praxis in our teaching across the fields of anthropology, sociology, African American and Africana studies, gender, sexuality and women’s studies, dance, and performance studies. Since 2019, the Un/Commoning Pedagogies Collective has engaged in consistent, process-based collaboration around teaching, scholarship, movement practice, and collegiality. We ha…
Practice-Based Pedagogies for Counter-Memorial Performance: Teaching to Address and Shift “Plantation Energy”
This article discusses History, Memory, Performance, Place: Activating Davidson’s Submerged Histories, a practice-based course I developed and taught in spring 2020 and spring 2021 at Davidson College, a small liberal arts college twenty miles north of Charlotte, NC, established in 1837 by white slave owners. Drawing together dance, performance studies, and Black studies methodologies, the class centred the body through both practice-based resear…
Identification of Promotive and Protective Factors for Young Adults Living in Concentrated Disadvantage
Violence is a major public health concern that particularly impacts Black young adults living in under-resourced, urban communities. There is limited research on promotive and protective factors that mitigate the impact of violence exposure on aggressive behavior. This study aims to address this gap by exploring positive factors across the ecological model in a sample of 141 predominantly Black young adults ages 18 to 22 years living in low-incom…
Brigade d’Intervention Théâtrale-Haïti: Staging Counterpublics in Neoliberal Haiti
This article discusses street theater actions by Brigade d’Intervention Théâtrale-Haïti (BITH), a Haitian performance collective whose work staged in 2018—preceding and in alignment with mass mobilizations that swept the nation that year—registered and interrogated the deep impacts on lived experience wrought by a process of intensified neoliberalization in post-2010 Haiti. BITH’s street performances (and subsequent online circulation) made visib…
Excess Death Rates by State During the Covid-19 Pandemic: United States, 2020‒2023
Objectives. To estimate state-level excess death rates during 2020 to 2023 and examine differences by region and partisan orientation. Methods. We modeled death and population counts from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to estimate excess death rates for the United States, 9 census divisions, and 50 states. We compared excess death rates for states with different partisan orientations, measured by the party of the seated governor a…
The Power and Play of Language in Queer Haiti: Thinking with Erin Durban's The Sexual Politics of Empire
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