Jennifer Richards
Biographic Data
| ID | 3622550 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jennifer Richards |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jennifer |
| FAMILY NAME | Richards |
| SIGNATURE | RICHARDS J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Johns Hopkins University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1122-3237 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 40 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 37 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
“Getting pregnant at a young age doesn’t mean your life’s going to end”: A qualitative inquiry with older AI/AN youth participants of an evidence-based teen pregnancy prevention program
AI/AN youth experience inequities in sexual health outcomes, including higher rates of sexually transmitted infections (STIs) and teen pregnancies, that are compounded by barriers to healthcare access and a lack of culturally competent services. Navajo Nation youth follow the same trends of overall AI/AN youth with high rates of STIs, teen pregnancies, and behaviors that predict such outcomes, such as early sexual initiation and early substance u…
Clinical characterization of acute Covid-19 and Post-Covid-19 Conditions 3 months following infection: A cohort study among Indigenous adults and children in the Southwestern United States
Long-term effects of COVID-19 on multiple organ systems have been reported. Indigenous persons experienced disproportionate morbidity and mortality from COVID-19; however, Post-COVID-19 Conditions (PCC) have not been well described in this population. We conducted a longitudinal cohort study among Indigenous persons living in the Navajo Nation or White Mountain Apache Tribal lands in the Southwest United States who tested positive for SARS-CoV-2 …
Incidence Rates of Covid-19-Associated Hospitalization and Risk Factors for Severe Disease Among American Indian and Alaska Native Persons in the Southwest USA and Alaska
Multidimensional Noticing for Teaching Science‐as‐Practice
Taking the “practice turn” in K‐12 science classrooms requires students to engage in processes of knowledge building, constructing explanatory accounts of natural phenomena. To support students in these sensemaking opportunities, a significant departure is needed from how science is typically taught in many classrooms. Teachers will need to be more intentional in attending to students' initial intuitions, pursuing their thinking, and figuring out…
Practical measures of science teacher learning: Conceptualizing organizational functions and affordances
In this paper, we build on a growing body of research on practical measurement for educational improvement, contributing a conceptualization of the organizational functions of measurement in processes of persistence and change. Our work is grounded in theoretical understandings of micro‐institutional change that foreground processes of reproduction and disruption of organizational categories, priorities, assumptions, and practices. Drawing togeth…
Developing the Feast for the Future Program through a Community Visioning Process
A community-based participatory action research (CBPAR) process was critical to developing a culturally appropriate program that built on community strengths
Exploring Resources for Responsiveness to Student Thinking in Practice
Supporting teachers' attention and responsiveness to the substance of student thinking is increasingly emphasized across disciplines. Yet studies demonstrate how such responsiveness, in practice, is highly contextualized and often fleeting. This study conceptualizes and examines what functioned as "resources for responsiveness" within and across nine sustained cases of responsiveness in three science teachers' inquiry-oriented classrooms. Analyse…
Azhe'é Bidziil (Strong Fathers): Study Protocol for the Pilot Evaluation of an American Indian Fatherhood Program to Improve the Health and Wellbeing of Diné (Navajo) Fathers
INTRODUCTION: Considering the critical role that American Indian and Alaska Native (Native) men play in family and child health, there is an urgent need to collaborate with Native communities in developing interventions and policies to improve Native men's health status. This study aims to address a significant gap in research by designing and implementing a culturally grounded health promotion program to increase economic stability, promote posi…
Centering the Strengths of American Indian Culture, Families and Communities to Overcome Type 2 Diabetes
Type 2 diabetes (T2D) is a critical Indigenous health inequity rooted in experiences of colonization and marginalization including disproportionate exposure to stressors, disruption of traditional family and food systems, and attacks on cultural practices that have led to more sedentary lifestyles. Thus, an important step in redressing inequities is building awareness of and interventions attuned to unique Indigenous contexts influencing T2D and …
Diné (Navajo) Female Perspectives on Mother–Daughter Cultural Assets Around the Transition to Womanhood: A Qualitative Study
INTRODUCTION: American Indian (AI) people have protective factors embedded in cultural teachings that buffer against high-risk behaviors. This study applies a qualitative, grounded theory approach to identify cultural assets for a Diné (Navajo) mother-daughter intervention aimed at preventing substance abuse and teen pregnancy. METHOD: Focus groups and in-depth interviews were conducted with 28 AI females' ages 8 years and older from the Navajo N…
Between Two Worlds: Impacts of Covid-19 on the AI/AN Health Research Workforce
The COVID-19 pandemic has had devastating global and national impacts including major loss of life, economic downturns, and ongoing impairments to mental and physical health. Conducting health research has remained a priority and has helped mitigate some of the COVID-19 devastation; however, challenges to research have arisen due to COVID-19 prevention strategies and changing community priorities for research. The purpose of this article is to fo…
Feasibility and Acceptability of Virtual Implementation of a Sexual Reproductive Health Teen Pregnancy Prevention Program for Native Youth
American Indian/Alaska Native (Native) youth face high rates of substance use, teen pregnancy and sexually transmitted infections. In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, Respecting the Circle of Life (RCL), a sexual reproductive health and teen pregnancy prevention program for Native youth and their trusted adult, was adapted and delivered in a virtual format with Native youth in a rural, reservation-based Native community. This manuscript describ…
Learning from recording video of your own classroom
Advances in technology have made it increasingly easy for teachers to film and share video recordings from their own classrooms, and much research exists highlights the rich learning that can occur when teachers watch and discuss video. Here, Miriam Gamoran Sherin, Jennifer Richards, and Mari Altshuler examine the opportunities for learning that teachers experience when recording and viewing video of their own classrooms. They specifically descri…
Complexities and opportunities in teachers' generation of videos from their own classrooms
Video cameras have become smaller and increasingly embedded in our social lives. This study investigates the implications of these changes for teachers' work with video in professional development. Specifically, we focus on complexities and opportunities associated with teachers generating videos from their own classrooms, in the context of a short online course where teachers tried several mathematical activities that invited student reasoning a…
Development of a Culturally Anchored Qualitative Approach to Conduct and Analyze Focus Group Narratives Collected in Diné (Navajo) Communities to Understand the Impacts of the Gold King Mine Spill of …
The Gold King Mine Spill (Spill) occurred in August 2015 upstream from Silverton, Colorado and released three million gallons of contaminated water into the Animas River, a tributary to the San Juan River that flows across the Navajo Nation. Using principles of community-engaged research, the Gold King Mine Spill Diné Exposure Project co-developed a culturally anchored approach to conduct focus groups and analyze narratives collected in three Din…
Rigorous evaluation of a substance use and teen pregnancy prevention program for American Indian girls and their female caregivers: A study protocol for a randomized controlled trial
NCT04863729 ; April 27, 2021
Empowering Native Adolescents: Responsibility for Their Health Behaviors
Objectives: In this study, we assess the impact of a home-based diabetes prevention program, Together on Diabetes (TOD), on adolescent responsibility-taking for tasks related to diabetes risk. Methods: Participants were Native American youth ages 10-19 with or at risk of type 2 diabetes who participated in a 12-session, 6-month diabetes prevention program with an adult caretaker. Assessments completed at baseline, 6-month, and 12-month follow-up …
Feasibility, Acceptability, and Preliminary Impact of Asdzáán Be'eená: An Intergenerational, Strength-Based, and Culturally Grounded Program to Improve the Health of Navajo Families
Native American youth endure a complex interplay of factors that portend greater risk-taking behaviors and contribute to marked health disparities experienced in adolescence. The Asdzáán Be'eená ("Female Pathways" in Navajo) program was developed as a primary prevention program to prevent substance use and teen pregnancy among Navajo girls. The Asdzáán Be'eená program consists of 11 lessons delivered to dyads of girls ages 8 to 11 years and their…
The association of parental monitoring and parental communication with sexual and substance use risk behaviors among Native American Youth
A Qualitative Evaluation of a Community Based, Culturally Relevant Intervention to Promote Healthy Food Access in American Indian Communities
In response to a need for healthy, affordable food, Johns Hopkins Center for American Indian Health and three rural indigenous communities launched the "Feast for the Future," (FFF) to promote access to healthy foods and the transfer of traditional food-based knowledge from farmers/elders to youth. To assess program impact, 43 in-depth interviews were conducted with participating farmers, elders, and Community Advisory Board members. Interviews w…
Voices and Books in the English Renaissance: A New History of Reading
Two ideas lie at the heart of this study and its claim that we need a new history of reading: that voices in books can affect us deeply; that printed books can be brought to life with the voice. Voices and Books offers a new history of reading focused on the oral and voice-aware silent reader, rather than the historical reader we have privileged in the last few decades, who is invariably male, silent, and alone. It recovers the vocality of educat…
Shakespeare's Late Plays
On Pain of Death: The ‘Grotesque Sovereignty’ of the US Death Penalty
On 16 January 2014, Ohio prisoner Dennis McGuire was put to death with an untested mixture of lethal injection drugs. According to witnesses, McGuire gasped, snorted and appeared to struggle for air for ten minutes before dying. The entire execution lasted up to twenty-six minutes – the longest since Ohio resumed executions in 1999. McGuire’s family is suing the state and the drug manufacturer Hospira for what they claim was ‘unnecessary and extr…
Elizabeth Singer [Rowe]: Printed Writings 1641–1700: Series II, Part Two, Volume 7
The Edinburgh Companion to the Critical Medical Humanities
Exploring Resources for Responsiveness to Student Thinking in Practice
Supporting teachers' attention and responsiveness to the substance of student thinking is increasingly emphasized across disciplines. Yet studies demonstrate how such responsiveness, in practice, is highly contextualized and often fleeting. This study conceptualizes and examines what functioned as "resources for responsiveness" within and across nine sustained cases of responsiveness in three science teachers' inquiry-oriented classrooms. Analyse…
Assumed Simplicity and the Critique of Nobility: Or, How Castiglione Read Cicero
In book 1 of Castiglione's II libro del cortegiano Lodovico da Canossa's sprezzatura — embodied in his pretended inability to teach us how to be perfect courtiers — is usually seen as consonant with the treatise's aristocratic bias, especially among its Anglophone readers. In this essay, I argue that study of Cicero's use of dissimulatio — or “assumed simplicity“— in De oratore helps us to understand the importance of indirection as a critical to…
Practical measures of science teacher learning: Conceptualizing organizational functions and affordances
In this paper, we build on a growing body of research on practical measurement for educational improvement, contributing a conceptualization of the organizational functions of measurement in processes of persistence and change. Our work is grounded in theoretical understandings of micro‐institutional change that foreground processes of reproduction and disruption of organizational categories, priorities, assumptions, and practices. Drawing togeth…
Shakespeare's Late Plays: New Readings
This new collection reflects a resurgence of interest in Shakespeare's plays performed between 1608 and 1613: Pericles, Cymbeline, The Winter's Tale, The Tempest, All is True (Henry VIII), The Two Noble Kinsmen, and Cardenio. It offers a broad range of new, historicist approaches, touching upon key topics in current Shakespearean studies, such as kinship relations, manliness, magic, medico-politics, nationalism, rhetoric, schism, sexuality and st…
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Assumed Simplicity and the Critique of Nobility: Or, How Castiglione Read Cicero
In book 1 of Castiglione's II libro del cortegiano Lodovico da Canossa's sprezzatura — embodied in his pretended inability to teach us how to be perfect courtiers — is usually seen as consonant with the treatise's aristocratic bias, especially among its Anglophone readers. In this essay, I argue that study of Cicero's use of dissimulatio — or “assumed simplicity“— in De oratore helps us to understand the importance of indirection as a critical to…
Early Modern Civil Discourses
This collection explores the concept of civility in the early modern period. It addresses a range of writings in English and Scots - among them, conduct manuals, colonial tracts, diaries, letters, dia
Rhetoric and Courtliness in Early Modern Literature
Rhetoric and Courtliness in Early Modern Literature explores the early modern interest in conversation as a newly identified art. Conversation was widely accepted to have been inspired by the republican philosopher Cicero. Recognizing his influence on courtesy literature - the main source for 'civil conversation' - Jennifer Richards uncovers alternative ways of thinking about humanism as a project of linguistic and social reform. She argues that …
Fantasies of Troy: Classical Tales and the Social Imaginary in Medieval and Early Modern Europe
Alan C. Shepard and Stephen D. Powell, eds. Fantasies of Troy: Classical Tales and the Social Imaginary in Medieval and Early Modern Europe. Essays and Studies 5 Toronto: Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies, 2004. xii + 306 pp. index. $37. ISBN: 0-7727-2025-8. - Volume 58 Issue 4
Rhetoric, Women and Politics in Early Modern England
Vulgar Eloquence: On the Renaissance Invention of English Literature
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Designing and Applying Project Fidelity Assessment for a Teacher Implemented Middle School Instructional Improvement Pilot Intervention
This article argues that intervention pilot test evaluations have focused insufficient attention on the measurement of project fidelity and the subsequent use of fidelity results for (a) interpreting variations in project outcomes and (b) understanding the rationale for teachers’ deviations from implementation protocols. The authors report on the establishment and application of an evaluation methodology for measuring and analyzing implementation…
Introduction: The Textuality and Materiality of Reading in Early Modern England
ArticleType: research-article / Full publication date: September 2010 / Copyright © 2010 University of California Press
Useful Books: Reading Vernacular Regimens in Sixteenth-Century England
Recent scholarship has tended to emphasize the practical dimensions of book-use. Yet early modern books were also meant to be pondered over as well as "used." Some of the clearest advice on the benefits of ruminative reading comes from an unexpected source, prefaces to the print commonplace books compiled by physicians, and such advice helps us to rethink how seemingly practical books, like vernacular regimens, were read. Focusing on the regimens…
Community-based participatory research to improve preconception health among Northern Plains American Indian adolescent women
BACKGROUND: Sacred Beginnings is a community-based participatory research project that examines the effectiveness of a culturally appropriate preconception health educational intervention developed by tribal community members and elders. The primary goal is to increase knowledge of preconception health and its benefits among adolescent females and tribal communities. Preconception health is an area of considerable concern among American Indians (…
A King Translated: The Writings of King James VI & I and Their Interpretation in the Low Countries, 1593–1603
Astrid Stilma. A King Translated: The Writings of King James VI & I and Their Interpretation in the Low Countries, 1593–1603. St. Andrews Studies in Reformation History. Farnham: Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2012. xi + 324 pp. $134.95. ISBN: 978-0-7546-6188-7. - Volume 67 Issue 1
Reading and Hearing The Womans Booke in Early Modern England
This essay takes seriously Thomas Raynalde’s advice in The Womans Booke that women might read this work aloud. The evidence I use to sketch the scene of reading includes Raynalde’s advice to readers in his long prologue, and also the kind of reading practice that his own writing represents. But I also go outside the text, considering what we know about the experience of listening to a book, and emphasizing the link between this practice and rheto…
Equipment for Thinking: Or Why Kenneth Burke is Still Worth Reading
The Edinburgh Companion to the Critical Medical Humanities
Elizabeth Singer [Rowe]: Printed Writings 1641–1700: Series II, Part Two, Volume 7
On Pain of Death: The ‘Grotesque Sovereignty’ of the US Death Penalty
On 16 January 2014, Ohio prisoner Dennis McGuire was put to death with an untested mixture of lethal injection drugs. According to witnesses, McGuire gasped, snorted and appeared to struggle for air for ten minutes before dying. The entire execution lasted up to twenty-six minutes – the longest since Ohio resumed executions in 1999. McGuire’s family is suing the state and the drug manufacturer Hospira for what they claim was ‘unnecessary and extr…
Voices and Books in the English Renaissance: A New History of Reading
Two ideas lie at the heart of this study and its claim that we need a new history of reading: that voices in books can affect us deeply; that printed books can be brought to life with the voice. Voices and Books offers a new history of reading focused on the oral and voice-aware silent reader, rather than the historical reader we have privileged in the last few decades, who is invariably male, silent, and alone. It recovers the vocality of educat…
Shakespeare's Late Plays
A Qualitative Evaluation of a Community Based, Culturally Relevant Intervention to Promote Healthy Food Access in American Indian Communities
In response to a need for healthy, affordable food, Johns Hopkins Center for American Indian Health and three rural indigenous communities launched the "Feast for the Future," (FFF) to promote access to healthy foods and the transfer of traditional food-based knowledge from farmers/elders to youth. To assess program impact, 43 in-depth interviews were conducted with participating farmers, elders, and Community Advisory Board members. Interviews w…
Learning from recording video of your own classroom
Advances in technology have made it increasingly easy for teachers to film and share video recordings from their own classrooms, and much research exists highlights the rich learning that can occur when teachers watch and discuss video. Here, Miriam Gamoran Sherin, Jennifer Richards, and Mari Altshuler examine the opportunities for learning that teachers experience when recording and viewing video of their own classrooms. They specifically descri…
Complexities and opportunities in teachers' generation of videos from their own classrooms
Video cameras have become smaller and increasingly embedded in our social lives. This study investigates the implications of these changes for teachers' work with video in professional development. Specifically, we focus on complexities and opportunities associated with teachers generating videos from their own classrooms, in the context of a short online course where teachers tried several mathematical activities that invited student reasoning a…
Development of a Culturally Anchored Qualitative Approach to Conduct and Analyze Focus Group Narratives Collected in Diné (Navajo) Communities to Understand the Impacts of the Gold King Mine Spill of …
The Gold King Mine Spill (Spill) occurred in August 2015 upstream from Silverton, Colorado and released three million gallons of contaminated water into the Animas River, a tributary to the San Juan River that flows across the Navajo Nation. Using principles of community-engaged research, the Gold King Mine Spill Diné Exposure Project co-developed a culturally anchored approach to conduct focus groups and analyze narratives collected in three Din…
Rigorous evaluation of a substance use and teen pregnancy prevention program for American Indian girls and their female caregivers: A study protocol for a randomized controlled trial
NCT04863729 ; April 27, 2021
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