Alan Potter
Biographic Data
| ID | 83779 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alan Potter |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alan |
| FAMILY NAME | Potter |
| SIGNATURE | POTTER A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Georgia Southern University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8144-9699 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 32 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 60 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 32 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1975 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Possible solutions to problems faced by Indian students in Western countries
Over the years, there has been a discernible trend of Indian students choosing to pursue higher education abroad. Several factors can be attributed to this shift in preference (Shah et al. 2022). First off, more people are becoming conscious of and appreciative of the outstanding level of education provided by universities across the globe, including those in the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, and others (Perez-Encinas and …
A call for the international adoption of the Casework Effectiveness Scale (CES-10)
Social casework is one of the primary methods of social work aimed at helping individuals. Despite its central role in social work, over the years, there have been studies that have questioned its effectiveness. In order to fill this existing gap, the Casework Effectiveness Scale has been developed. The present work highlights the need for the international adoption of this scale through translations and validation studies across various cultures…
Meaning, purpose, and religiosity in the lives of recovering alcoholics in India and its implications for social work practice
A Scale to Measure the Effectiveness of Casework (CES-10)
Purpose: One of the challenges in social casework is the measurement of its effectiveness, and the challenge mainly arises due to the lack of a standardized tool. The present research is aimed at filling that gap through the development of a scientific scale to measure the effectiveness of casework practice. Method: Data were collected from 202 former casework clients across 22 organizations in India. The collected data were then used to carry ou…
Creating Memories in Community
This special issue expands the field of community geography by foregrounding its vital intersection with memory work. Rooted in participatory partnerships, the six contributions explore how marginalized communities engage in place-based memory to reclaim, narrate, and spatialize their histories. Through projects ranging from Black history trails in Georgia and Virginia to Indigenous counter-mapping in Canada and survivor-led commemorations in Ire…
The Tybee Island, Georgia Black History Trail: A Community Approach to Black Geographies
Tybee Island, Georgia, was a colonial borderland between Spanish and British America before evolving into a middle-class, seaside resort in the 1800s. It continued as a popular vacation spot in the twentieth century. However, research has highlighted the island’s troubling history of racial segregation, particularly surrounding events like the Orange Crush Beach Party. Previous studies also underscored the Historical Society ignoring the island’s…
Harmonization of four biomarkers across nine nationally representative studies of older persons
INTRODUCTION: A growing number of international population surveys have included measurement of biomarkers, but differ in the type of specimens collected, sample processing procedures, shipment protocols, and laboratory assay platforms. The purpose of this study is to harmonize biomarker data from nine nationally representative studies of people 50 years of age and over by adjusting for assay platforms and type of specimens for total cholesterol …
Placing African American museums in the American tourism landscape
According to the Association of African American Museums (AAAM), there are more than 200 African American history and cultural museums—or other sites with substantial African American collections such as libraries and archives—across the U.S. Many of these museums had their start shortly after the height of the Civil Rights Movement, with a surge in establishments in the 1970s. Black museums serve to decenter White stories of America and refocus …
A more perfect union? The place of Black lives in presidential plantation sites
While Mount Vernon, Monticello, Montpelier, and Highland work to recover the lives of people enslaved by Washington, Jefferson, Madison, and Monroe, their institutional missions emphasize the importance of these four men within American history. The resulting impediments to honoring Black lives within these spaces can be best understood using the analytical framework of reputational politics and by recognizing the roles visitors have in reproduci…
A Pledge of Allegiance to the South”
Research examining representations of the institution of slavery at historic house museums in the United States has overwhelmingly privileged southern plantation museums. Increasingly, however, there is a call to resist the urge to center discussions of enslavement only in the South and to expand our understandings of how slavery permeated all aspects of US society. Utilizing interviews, narrative mapping, and visitor surveys, this study seeks to…
Dried blood spot collection, sample quality, and fieldwork conditions: Structural validations for conversion into standard values
OBJECTIVES: SHARE, a pan-European panel study in 27 European countries and Israel, has collected dried blood spot (DBS) samples from approximately 27 000 respondents in 13 countries. We aim to obtain factors to convert analyte values between DBS and venous blood samples (VBS) taking account of adverse fieldwork conditions such as small spot size, high temperature and humidity, short drying time and long shipment times. METHODS: We obtained VBS an…
Beneath the Surface: A Transnational History of Skin Lighteners by Lynn M. Thomas
Reviewed by: Beneath the Surface: A Transnational History of Skin Lighteners by Lynn M. Thomas Amy E. Potter Thomas, Lynn M. Beneath the Surface: A Transnational History of Skin Lighteners. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2020. Skin lightening products are projected to surpass $31 billion in global sales by 2024, with customers scattered around the world, mostly in the Global South. In Beneath the Surface: A Transnational History of Skin Light…
“Give them more and more for their dollar”
In the United States, visitors to heritage sites have been steadily declining, and in the wake of this phenomenon, these sites have often turned to edutainment as a way to diversify methods to earn diminishing revenue in an increasingly competitive heritage tourism market. The term edutainment is a portmanteau (education/entertainment) signifying the tendency of controlling stakeholders of cultural institutions to infuse elements of entertainment…
Dried blood spots: Effects of less than optimal collection, shipping time, heat, and humidity
OBJECTIVES: This study investigates how factors related to collection, storage, transport time, and environmental conditions affect the quality and accuracy of analyses of dried blood spot (DBS) samples. METHODS: Data come from the 2016 Health and Retirement Study (HRS) DBS laboratory reports and the HRS merged with the National Climatic Data Center (NCDC) Global Historical Climate Network Daily (NCDC GHCN-Daily) and the NCDC Local Climatological…
Scaling and ‘systems thinking’ in education: Reflections from UK aid professionals
A small research team has recently been scouring the global education landscape for examples of education projects that are working at scale to improve learning outcomes (Dubeck et al. 2019). They
The Local Role of Southern Tourism Plantations in Defining a Larger Southern Regional Identity as Reflected in Tourists' Surveys
To what extent does local variation exist in the expressed interests of planta- tion museum tourists? While the study of plantation museums is of growing importance in the tourism literature, these existing studies have tended to focus on a single site or a single region. This study examines data collected at several southern plantations across multiple smaller areas in the U.S. Southeast. Specifically, we are curious about tourists’ interests in…
The Politics of Industrial Displacement: Evidence from Special Economic Zones
How do politicians locate industrial projects, such as special economic zones and industrial townships, that have highly localized costs (population displacement) and benefits (jobs and infrastructure)? I argue that risk-averse politicians minimize the costs of displacement for industrial projects by locating the projects in areas where they have little existing support. In order to maximize the benefits of the projects, politicians also locate t…
“You’re out of your place”: Black Mobility on Tybee Island, Georgia from Civil Rights to Orange Crush
“Wade in the waterWade in the water, children,Wade in the waterGod’s a-going to trouble the water.”African-American Spiritual Tybee Island, Georgia has a problematic racial history. During the Jim Crow era, the popular beach town was segregated and off-limits to Savannah’s majority African American population. More recently, Tybee officials have actively worked to end Orange Crush, an annual spring beach bash attended mostly by students from Hist…
Following the story: Narrative mapping as a mobile method for tracking and interrogating spatial narratives
Museums and heritage tourism sites are highly curated places of memory work whose function is the assembling and ordering of space and narrative to contour visitors’ experiences of the past. Variations in such experiences within and between sites, however, necessitates a method that: (1) captures how guides, visitors, and exhibits interact within spaces when representing and performing history and (2) allows researchers to document those variatio…
What Drives Opposition to Economic Reforms? The Role of Ex Ante Uncertainty
The theoretical literature on support for pro-market economic reforms identifies uncertainty about the future consequences of reform as an important determinant of opposition to pro-market policies. However, this literature does not rigorously test the role of uncertainty on support for pro-market reforms. This paper addresses this gap by testing the role of uncertainty using a new geocoded dataset of state-owned enterprises in India and a differ…
Can Plantation Museums Do Full Justice to the Story of the Enslaved? A Discussion of Problems, Possibilities, and the Place of Memory
This article, structured as a prompt-and-response work, is authored by members of a research team investigating how slavery is absent and present at tourism plantation museums in the U.S. South. The prompt for the discussion grew out of E. Arnold Modlin’s concern that, even at museums where narratives and landscapes center on enslaved people, the presence of the master and enslaver within the same space ensures that once-enslaved people are alway…
HPLC-based Measurement of Glycated Hemoglobin using Dried Blood Spots Collected under Adverse Field Conditions
Glycated hemoglobin (HbA1c) measured using high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) assays with venous blood and dried blood spots (DBS) are compared for 143 paired samples collected in Aceh, Indonesia. Relative to gold-standard venous-blood values, DBS-based values reported by the HPLC are systematically upward biased for HbA1c<8% and the fraction diabetic (HbA1c ≥ 6.5%) is overstated almost five-fold. Inspection of chromatograms from DBS a…
Locating the government: Capital cities and civil conflict
The location of the national capital is frequently contentious in domestic politics. Almost 30% of countries house their capitals outside of their largest city and 11 countries have relocated their capitals since 1960. This paper argues that locating the capital outside of the largest urban center may reduce civil conflict by limiting the ability of any single faction to dominate the government. When the government is less afraid of large urban p…
Validation and modification of dried blood spot‐based glycosylated hemoglobin assay for the longitudinal aging study in I ndia
OBJECTIVES: This study aims to validate a modified dried blood spot (DBS)-based glycosylated hemoglobin (HbA1c) assay protocol, after a pretest in India showed poor correlation between the original DBS-based protocol and venous results. METHODS: The original protocol was tested on different chemistry analyzers and then simplified at the University of Washington (UW). A second pretest was conducted in India to validate the modified assay protocol,…
She goes into character as the lady of the house: Tour guides, performance, and the Southern plantation
Research has shown how little tour guides in the American South talk about slavery and the enslaved during plantation home tours. However, most of this literature fails to interview the guides directly and consider their perspectives. This research builds upon this work but ultimately diverges by taking a different methodological approach, interviewing 28 docents working at four Louisiana plantation homes on River Road (Oak Alley, Laura, Houmas H…
She goes into character as the lady of the house: Tour guides, performance, and the Southern plantation
Research has shown how little tour guides in the American South talk about slavery and the enslaved during plantation home tours. However, most of this literature fails to interview the guides directly and consider their perspectives. This research builds upon this work but ultimately diverges by taking a different methodological approach, interviewing 28 docents working at four Louisiana plantation homes on River Road (Oak Alley, Laura, Houmas H…
Voodoo, Zombies, and Mermaids: U.S. Newspaper Coverage of Haiti
Newspaper articles in the United States paint a picture of Haiti as a failed state, the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere. These articles place the blame of the country's problems entirely on Haiti itself, with little regard for the outside forces that also contributed to the country's present‐day state. This study is a critical geopolitical analysis of Haitian representation in U.S. newspapers. I empirically examine a year's worth of art…
Renegotiating Barbuda's commons: Recent changes in Barbudan open-range cattle herding
Barbuda remains little developed and sparsely populated relative to its neighbors in the Leeward Lesser Antilles, a rather extraordinary and relatively unknown Caribbean place. Much of its distinctiveness derives from the communal land-tenure system, itself rooted in three centuries of open-range cattle herding. Yet, as revealed through interviews, newspaper archives, and landscape observations, open-range cattle herding has declined over the pas…
Following the story: Narrative mapping as a mobile method for tracking and interrogating spatial narratives
Museums and heritage tourism sites are highly curated places of memory work whose function is the assembling and ordering of space and narrative to contour visitors’ experiences of the past. Variations in such experiences within and between sites, however, necessitates a method that: (1) captures how guides, visitors, and exhibits interact within spaces when representing and performing history and (2) allows researchers to document those variatio…
Can Plantation Museums Do Full Justice to the Story of the Enslaved? A Discussion of Problems, Possibilities, and the Place of Memory
This article, structured as a prompt-and-response work, is authored by members of a research team investigating how slavery is absent and present at tourism plantation museums in the U.S. South. The prompt for the discussion grew out of E. Arnold Modlin’s concern that, even at museums where narratives and landscapes center on enslaved people, the presence of the master and enslaver within the same space ensures that once-enslaved people are alway…
A more perfect union? The place of Black lives in presidential plantation sites
While Mount Vernon, Monticello, Montpelier, and Highland work to recover the lives of people enslaved by Washington, Jefferson, Madison, and Monroe, their institutional missions emphasize the importance of these four men within American history. The resulting impediments to honoring Black lives within these spaces can be best understood using the analytical framework of reputational politics and by recognizing the roles visitors have in reproduci…
Water resources and the historic wells of Barbuda: Tradition, heritage and hope for a sustainable future
The island of Barbuda has a relatively unique history, land tenure and geography. Unlike its Caribbean counterparts, the island is not suited to large-scale agriculture due to its arid climate and relatively thin soils. Instead, the enslaved and eventually free people of Barbuda developed a complex herding ecology centered on common land ownership. As a result, carefully designed historic wells are strategically located around the island. With th…
Transnational spaces and communal land tenure in a Caribbean place: Barbuda is for Barbudans
In the last decade, transnational migration research has gained considerable ground in geography. There is still more to be done, however, in order to understand the complex relationship between migrants and the lands they leave behind. The island of Barbuda in the Lesser Antilles is the ideal place to study the larger issues of transnational migration on a smaller scale, particularly research that focuses on both migration and land tenure. Barbu…
Placing African American museums in the American tourism landscape
According to the Association of African American Museums (AAAM), there are more than 200 African American history and cultural museums—or other sites with substantial African American collections such as libraries and archives—across the U.S. Many of these museums had their start shortly after the height of the Civil Rights Movement, with a surge in establishments in the 1970s. Black museums serve to decenter White stories of America and refocus …
HPLC-based Measurement of Glycated Hemoglobin using Dried Blood Spots Collected under Adverse Field Conditions
Glycated hemoglobin (HbA1c) measured using high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) assays with venous blood and dried blood spots (DBS) are compared for 143 paired samples collected in Aceh, Indonesia. Relative to gold-standard venous-blood values, DBS-based values reported by the HPLC are systematically upward biased for HbA1c<8% and the fraction diabetic (HbA1c ≥ 6.5%) is overstated almost five-fold. Inspection of chromatograms from DBS a…
Scaling and ‘systems thinking’ in education: Reflections from UK aid professionals
A small research team has recently been scouring the global education landscape for examples of education projects that are working at scale to improve learning outcomes (Dubeck et al. 2019). They
The Politics of Industrial Displacement: Evidence from Special Economic Zones
How do politicians locate industrial projects, such as special economic zones and industrial townships, that have highly localized costs (population displacement) and benefits (jobs and infrastructure)? I argue that risk-averse politicians minimize the costs of displacement for industrial projects by locating the projects in areas where they have little existing support. In order to maximize the benefits of the projects, politicians also locate t…
What Drives Opposition to Economic Reforms? The Role of Ex Ante Uncertainty
The theoretical literature on support for pro-market economic reforms identifies uncertainty about the future consequences of reform as an important determinant of opposition to pro-market policies. However, this literature does not rigorously test the role of uncertainty on support for pro-market reforms. This paper addresses this gap by testing the role of uncertainty using a new geocoded dataset of state-owned enterprises in India and a differ…
Locating the government: Capital cities and civil conflict
The location of the national capital is frequently contentious in domestic politics. Almost 30% of countries house their capitals outside of their largest city and 11 countries have relocated their capitals since 1960. This paper argues that locating the capital outside of the largest urban center may reduce civil conflict by limiting the ability of any single faction to dominate the government. When the government is less afraid of large urban p…
Readmission discount factors in program evaluation: An output value analysis of an adult psychiatry program
The application of output value analysis, a type of benefit/cost analysis, to a psychiatric patient population is reported. A method for discounting the value of the program if a patient was readmitted within a year after discharge was introduced. The application of this discount factor reduces the value produced by the program and thereby reduces both productivity and effectiveness indices. When applied to groups known to differ in readmission r…
Predicting resource utilization in a comprehensive center: An evaluation of three alternative methods
Three alternative methods for obtaining anticipated resource utilization information for comprehensive mental health centers are proposed. The methods differ on two dimensions, sample selection and statistical technique. Using an admission cohort rather than a discharge cohort and eliminating patients who terminated treatment against medical advice permitted a refined prediction. Although no significant differences were found between the chi-squa…
Voodoo, Zombies, and Mermaids: U.S. Newspaper Coverage of Haiti
Newspaper articles in the United States paint a picture of Haiti as a failed state, the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere. These articles place the blame of the country's problems entirely on Haiti itself, with little regard for the outside forces that also contributed to the country's present‐day state. This study is a critical geopolitical analysis of Haitian representation in U.S. newspapers. I empirically examine a year's worth of art…
Renegotiating Barbuda's commons: Recent changes in Barbudan open-range cattle herding
Barbuda remains little developed and sparsely populated relative to its neighbors in the Leeward Lesser Antilles, a rather extraordinary and relatively unknown Caribbean place. Much of its distinctiveness derives from the communal land-tenure system, itself rooted in three centuries of open-range cattle herding. Yet, as revealed through interviews, newspaper archives, and landscape observations, open-range cattle herding has declined over the pas…
Transnational spaces and communal land tenure in a Caribbean place: Barbuda is for Barbudans
In the last decade, transnational migration research has gained considerable ground in geography. There is still more to be done, however, in order to understand the complex relationship between migrants and the lands they leave behind. The island of Barbuda in the Lesser Antilles is the ideal place to study the larger issues of transnational migration on a smaller scale, particularly research that focuses on both migration and land tenure. Barbu…
Barbuda: A Caribbean Island In Transition
Water resources and the historic wells of Barbuda: Tradition, heritage and hope for a sustainable future
The island of Barbuda has a relatively unique history, land tenure and geography. Unlike its Caribbean counterparts, the island is not suited to large-scale agriculture due to its arid climate and relatively thin soils. Instead, the enslaved and eventually free people of Barbuda developed a complex herding ecology centered on common land ownership. As a result, carefully designed historic wells are strategically located around the island. With th…
Validation and modification of dried blood spot‐based glycosylated hemoglobin assay for the longitudinal aging study in I ndia
OBJECTIVES: This study aims to validate a modified dried blood spot (DBS)-based glycosylated hemoglobin (HbA1c) assay protocol, after a pretest in India showed poor correlation between the original DBS-based protocol and venous results. METHODS: The original protocol was tested on different chemistry analyzers and then simplified at the University of Washington (UW). A second pretest was conducted in India to validate the modified assay protocol,…
She goes into character as the lady of the house: Tour guides, performance, and the Southern plantation
Research has shown how little tour guides in the American South talk about slavery and the enslaved during plantation home tours. However, most of this literature fails to interview the guides directly and consider their perspectives. This research builds upon this work but ultimately diverges by taking a different methodological approach, interviewing 28 docents working at four Louisiana plantation homes on River Road (Oak Alley, Laura, Houmas H…
Locating the government: Capital cities and civil conflict
The location of the national capital is frequently contentious in domestic politics. Almost 30% of countries house their capitals outside of their largest city and 11 countries have relocated their capitals since 1960. This paper argues that locating the capital outside of the largest urban center may reduce civil conflict by limiting the ability of any single faction to dominate the government. When the government is less afraid of large urban p…
“You’re out of your place”: Black Mobility on Tybee Island, Georgia from Civil Rights to Orange Crush
“Wade in the waterWade in the water, children,Wade in the waterGod’s a-going to trouble the water.”African-American Spiritual Tybee Island, Georgia has a problematic racial history. During the Jim Crow era, the popular beach town was segregated and off-limits to Savannah’s majority African American population. More recently, Tybee officials have actively worked to end Orange Crush, an annual spring beach bash attended mostly by students from Hist…
Following the story: Narrative mapping as a mobile method for tracking and interrogating spatial narratives
Museums and heritage tourism sites are highly curated places of memory work whose function is the assembling and ordering of space and narrative to contour visitors’ experiences of the past. Variations in such experiences within and between sites, however, necessitates a method that: (1) captures how guides, visitors, and exhibits interact within spaces when representing and performing history and (2) allows researchers to document those variatio…
What Drives Opposition to Economic Reforms? The Role of Ex Ante Uncertainty
The theoretical literature on support for pro-market economic reforms identifies uncertainty about the future consequences of reform as an important determinant of opposition to pro-market policies. However, this literature does not rigorously test the role of uncertainty on support for pro-market reforms. This paper addresses this gap by testing the role of uncertainty using a new geocoded dataset of state-owned enterprises in India and a differ…
Can Plantation Museums Do Full Justice to the Story of the Enslaved? A Discussion of Problems, Possibilities, and the Place of Memory
This article, structured as a prompt-and-response work, is authored by members of a research team investigating how slavery is absent and present at tourism plantation museums in the U.S. South. The prompt for the discussion grew out of E. Arnold Modlin’s concern that, even at museums where narratives and landscapes center on enslaved people, the presence of the master and enslaver within the same space ensures that once-enslaved people are alway…
HPLC-based Measurement of Glycated Hemoglobin using Dried Blood Spots Collected under Adverse Field Conditions
Glycated hemoglobin (HbA1c) measured using high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) assays with venous blood and dried blood spots (DBS) are compared for 143 paired samples collected in Aceh, Indonesia. Relative to gold-standard venous-blood values, DBS-based values reported by the HPLC are systematically upward biased for HbA1c<8% and the fraction diabetic (HbA1c ≥ 6.5%) is overstated almost five-fold. Inspection of chromatograms from DBS a…
The Politics of Industrial Displacement: Evidence from Special Economic Zones
How do politicians locate industrial projects, such as special economic zones and industrial townships, that have highly localized costs (population displacement) and benefits (jobs and infrastructure)? I argue that risk-averse politicians minimize the costs of displacement for industrial projects by locating the projects in areas where they have little existing support. In order to maximize the benefits of the projects, politicians also locate t…
“Give them more and more for their dollar”
In the United States, visitors to heritage sites have been steadily declining, and in the wake of this phenomenon, these sites have often turned to edutainment as a way to diversify methods to earn diminishing revenue in an increasingly competitive heritage tourism market. The term edutainment is a portmanteau (education/entertainment) signifying the tendency of controlling stakeholders of cultural institutions to infuse elements of entertainment…
Dried blood spots: Effects of less than optimal collection, shipping time, heat, and humidity
OBJECTIVES: This study investigates how factors related to collection, storage, transport time, and environmental conditions affect the quality and accuracy of analyses of dried blood spot (DBS) samples. METHODS: Data come from the 2016 Health and Retirement Study (HRS) DBS laboratory reports and the HRS merged with the National Climatic Data Center (NCDC) Global Historical Climate Network Daily (NCDC GHCN-Daily) and the NCDC Local Climatological…
Scaling and ‘systems thinking’ in education: Reflections from UK aid professionals
A small research team has recently been scouring the global education landscape for examples of education projects that are working at scale to improve learning outcomes (Dubeck et al. 2019). They
The Local Role of Southern Tourism Plantations in Defining a Larger Southern Regional Identity as Reflected in Tourists' Surveys
To what extent does local variation exist in the expressed interests of planta- tion museum tourists? While the study of plantation museums is of growing importance in the tourism literature, these existing studies have tended to focus on a single site or a single region. This study examines data collected at several southern plantations across multiple smaller areas in the U.S. Southeast. Specifically, we are curious about tourists’ interests in…
Dried blood spot collection, sample quality, and fieldwork conditions: Structural validations for conversion into standard values
OBJECTIVES: SHARE, a pan-European panel study in 27 European countries and Israel, has collected dried blood spot (DBS) samples from approximately 27 000 respondents in 13 countries. We aim to obtain factors to convert analyte values between DBS and venous blood samples (VBS) taking account of adverse fieldwork conditions such as small spot size, high temperature and humidity, short drying time and long shipment times. METHODS: We obtained VBS an…
Beneath the Surface: A Transnational History of Skin Lighteners by Lynn M. Thomas
Reviewed by: Beneath the Surface: A Transnational History of Skin Lighteners by Lynn M. Thomas Amy E. Potter Thomas, Lynn M. Beneath the Surface: A Transnational History of Skin Lighteners. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2020. Skin lightening products are projected to surpass $31 billion in global sales by 2024, with customers scattered around the world, mostly in the Global South. In Beneath the Surface: A Transnational History of Skin Light…
A more perfect union? The place of Black lives in presidential plantation sites
While Mount Vernon, Monticello, Montpelier, and Highland work to recover the lives of people enslaved by Washington, Jefferson, Madison, and Monroe, their institutional missions emphasize the importance of these four men within American history. The resulting impediments to honoring Black lives within these spaces can be best understood using the analytical framework of reputational politics and by recognizing the roles visitors have in reproduci…
A Pledge of Allegiance to the South”
Research examining representations of the institution of slavery at historic house museums in the United States has overwhelmingly privileged southern plantation museums. Increasingly, however, there is a call to resist the urge to center discussions of enslavement only in the South and to expand our understandings of how slavery permeated all aspects of US society. Utilizing interviews, narrative mapping, and visitor surveys, this study seeks to…
Harmonization of four biomarkers across nine nationally representative studies of older persons
INTRODUCTION: A growing number of international population surveys have included measurement of biomarkers, but differ in the type of specimens collected, sample processing procedures, shipment protocols, and laboratory assay platforms. The purpose of this study is to harmonize biomarker data from nine nationally representative studies of people 50 years of age and over by adjusting for assay platforms and type of specimens for total cholesterol …
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