Heather M Wurtz
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 909464 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Heather M Wurtz |
| NOMBRES | Heather M |
| APELLIDO | Wurtz |
| FIRMA | WURTZ H M |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Connecticut |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9364-9882 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 23 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 34 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 23 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2016 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
It’s not where we are, it’s who we’re near
Cyberspatial agency
In this article, we show how the COVID-19 pandemic facilitated experimentation with gender expression via a process that we call cyberspatial agency . During the pandemic in the United States, millions of people were simultaneously physically isolated from one another while also experiencing an unprecedented level of digital hyper-connectedness. In avoiding the public gaze while also having the ability to carefully curate the online communities w…
Assembling vaccine perspectives
Responding to structural inequities
Examining coping strategies and resilience among immigrant communities reflects a commitment to working with immigrant communities to understand their needs while also identifying and building upon their strengths. In the United States, the physical, emotional, and economic impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic intersected with existing structural inequities to produce distinct challenges and stressors related to the pandemic, immigration, caregiving …
“ We've Reimagined the Way We Serve ”
Introduction: Community-based organizations (CBOs) played a critical role in meeting the needs of immigrants during COVID-19. Immigrant women experienced a disproportionate burden of the social, economic, and health impacts of the pandemic as a result of intersecting vulnerabilities and constrained access to resources and services. Although extant literature has shed light on some of the key responses by CBOs during COVID-19, less is known about …
“ The panic stays in your mind…concentrating more on the worries than the relationship ”
Our analysis demonstrates ways that structural inequity, particularly driven by exclusionary immigration laws, influence intimate partner relationships through the legal status of immigrant women. Understanding how structural oppression shapes immigrant partnerships is essential for the field of family demography and for family-serving professionals in referring clients to resources and services, as well as helping women explore sources of resili…
Perspectives from the pandemic epicenter
Understanding how immigrant women's SRH shifted in response to the structural and policy constraints of the COVID-19 pandemic can reveal how historically marginalized communities will be impacted by an increasingly restrictive reproductive health and immigration policy landscape
Engaging Immigrant Women in Online Journaling as a Mode of Research and Psychosocial Support
Online journaling is a methodological tool that has also been shown to have therapeutic benefits for some populations. However, the potential value - and limitations - of online journaling within immigrant communities remain underexplored. We present a proof-of-concept analysis exploring the efficacy and feasibility of engaging immigrant women in an online journaling project. We report on a study that used online journaling as an approach to expl…
Structural gendered racism as conceptualized by immigrant women in the United States
I want the world back
Psychology has tended to conceptualize loneliness as a lack of intimate and social relationships. This analysis draws on the journal entries of 100 participants in the Pandemic Journaling Project (PJP; a research study and online journaling platform that invited participants to chronicle their experiences during the COVID-19 pandemic) to illustrate a more foundational sense of loneliness as a lack of bodily attunement, interaction, and intersecti…
Introduction
Thriving Despite the Odds
Entrevista con las creadoras del Proyecto Diarios de la Pandemia
El Proyecto Diarios de la Pandemia (PJP) es una plataforma de diarios virtuales e investigación que registra experiencias de las personas durante covid-19. En esta entrevista, las cofundadoras de PJP, las doctoras Willen y Mason, hablan sobre el papel de los derechos humanos en la concepción, diseño, e implementación de PJP. Describen cómo PJP contribuye a un esfuerzo general para hacer avanzar la justicia social por medio de la preservación de l…
How social policies shape the health and well-being of sexual- and gender-minority youth
Racism and health care
The COVID-19 pandemic has disproportionately affected minoritized racial groups, especially Latinx immigrants, evidenced by the high rates of COVID-19 infections, hospitalizations, and deaths among this population. With increasing xenophobia and anti-immigrant sentiment in parallel to the pandemic, it is critical to understand the perspectives of Latinx populations. This study explores Latinx immigrant women's perceptions of racism and xenophobia…
Introduction
In this article, we introduce the SSM-MH Special Issue “Journaling and Mental Health during COVID-19: Insights from the Pandemic Journaling Project,” which presents findings from the Pandemic Journaling Project (PJP). PJP is an online journaling platform and mixed-methods research study created in May 2020 to provide ordinary people around the world an opportunity to chronicle the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic in their lives—for themselves and …
“Life will go on with the beauty of the roses”
This article is based on our analysis of a subset of data from the Pandemic Journaling Project-Phase 1 (PJP-1). The PJP, a collective, on-line journaling platform, was co-founded by anthropologists Dr. Sarah S. Willen and Dr. Katherine A. Mason in 2020. It has provided individuals with dedicated anonymous and confidential space to document and share their lived experiences of the Covid-19 pandemic over time (May 2020–May 2022). We employ a case s…
Journaling as a rights-based intervention during pandemic times
The Pandemic Journaling Project (PJP) is a combined virtual journaling platform and research study that chronicles the experiences of ordinary people during the COVID-19 pandemic. In this interview, PJP cofounders, Sarah S. Willen and Katherine A. Mason, speak with PJP Postdoctoral Fellow Heather Wurtz about the role of human rights in how PJP was conceived, designed, and implemented. They describe how PJP contributes to a broader effort to advan…
Mobility Imaginaries of Humanitarian Intervention
Thousands of Central American women have been displaced from their countries of origin by violence. While the violence committed against them is often portrayed as isolated acts of aggression, women's suffering is also produced and perpetuated by humanitarian interventions that immobilize women in dangerous transit zones. Interventions are then justified by institutional logics that juxtapose women's vulnerability against the threat of their own …
How Black and Latino young men who have sex with men in the United States experience and engage with eligibility criteria and recruitment practices
Research recruitment, eligibility, and who chooses to participate shape the resulting data and knowledge, which together inform interventions, treatment, and programming. Patterns of research participation are particularly salient at this moment given emerging biomedical prevention paradigms. This paper explores the perspectives of Black and Latino young men who have sex with men (BL-YMSM) regarding research recruitment and eligibility criteria, …
Local Faith Actors and the Global Compact on Refugees
Power dynamics of global decision-making have meant that local faith actors have not been frequently heard in the context of refugee response. The development of new global refugee and humanitarian frameworks gives hope that there will be greater inclusion of Southern-led, faith-based responses. A closer look, however, demonstrates discrepancies between the frameworks used in global policy processes and the realities of local faith actors in prov…
A movement in motion
In this article, I examine the psychosocial and phenomenological implications for the lived experiences of collective mobility among Central American asylum seekers and irregular migrants bound for the United States. I argue that attentiveness to migrants' embodied practices and encounters with the material world engender novel insight into the generative and productive potential of collective journeying. I focus on migrant caravans through Mexic…
The Complexity of Multiple Contraceptive Method Use and the Anxiety That Informs It
Despite clinical guidelines and national data describing the use of one contraceptive method as the best and most common way to prevent unintended pregnancy, limited evidence indicates a more complex picture of actual contraceptive practice. Face-to-face in-depth interviews were conducted in November of 2013 with a sample of women from two cities in the United States (n = 52). The interviews explored the ways participants used contraception to pr…
Structural gendered racism as conceptualized by immigrant women in the United States
How social policies shape the health and well-being of sexual- and gender-minority youth
A movement in motion
In this article, I examine the psychosocial and phenomenological implications for the lived experiences of collective mobility among Central American asylum seekers and irregular migrants bound for the United States. I argue that attentiveness to migrants' embodied practices and encounters with the material world engender novel insight into the generative and productive potential of collective journeying. I focus on migrant caravans through Mexic…
I want the world back
Psychology has tended to conceptualize loneliness as a lack of intimate and social relationships. This analysis draws on the journal entries of 100 participants in the Pandemic Journaling Project (PJP; a research study and online journaling platform that invited participants to chronicle their experiences during the COVID-19 pandemic) to illustrate a more foundational sense of loneliness as a lack of bodily attunement, interaction, and intersecti…
Journaling as a rights-based intervention during pandemic times
The Pandemic Journaling Project (PJP) is a combined virtual journaling platform and research study that chronicles the experiences of ordinary people during the COVID-19 pandemic. In this interview, PJP cofounders, Sarah S. Willen and Katherine A. Mason, speak with PJP Postdoctoral Fellow Heather Wurtz about the role of human rights in how PJP was conceived, designed, and implemented. They describe how PJP contributes to a broader effort to advan…
Mobility Imaginaries of Humanitarian Intervention
Thousands of Central American women have been displaced from their countries of origin by violence. While the violence committed against them is often portrayed as isolated acts of aggression, women's suffering is also produced and perpetuated by humanitarian interventions that immobilize women in dangerous transit zones. Interventions are then justified by institutional logics that juxtapose women's vulnerability against the threat of their own …
Cyberspatial agency
In this article, we show how the COVID-19 pandemic facilitated experimentation with gender expression via a process that we call cyberspatial agency . During the pandemic in the United States, millions of people were simultaneously physically isolated from one another while also experiencing an unprecedented level of digital hyper-connectedness. In avoiding the public gaze while also having the ability to carefully curate the online communities w…
Perspectives from the pandemic epicenter
Understanding how immigrant women's SRH shifted in response to the structural and policy constraints of the COVID-19 pandemic can reveal how historically marginalized communities will be impacted by an increasingly restrictive reproductive health and immigration policy landscape
Thriving Despite the Odds
The Complexity of Multiple Contraceptive Method Use and the Anxiety That Informs It
Despite clinical guidelines and national data describing the use of one contraceptive method as the best and most common way to prevent unintended pregnancy, limited evidence indicates a more complex picture of actual contraceptive practice. Face-to-face in-depth interviews were conducted in November of 2013 with a sample of women from two cities in the United States (n = 52). The interviews explored the ways participants used contraception to pr…
Local Faith Actors and the Global Compact on Refugees
Power dynamics of global decision-making have meant that local faith actors have not been frequently heard in the context of refugee response. The development of new global refugee and humanitarian frameworks gives hope that there will be greater inclusion of Southern-led, faith-based responses. A closer look, however, demonstrates discrepancies between the frameworks used in global policy processes and the realities of local faith actors in prov…
A movement in motion
In this article, I examine the psychosocial and phenomenological implications for the lived experiences of collective mobility among Central American asylum seekers and irregular migrants bound for the United States. I argue that attentiveness to migrants' embodied practices and encounters with the material world engender novel insight into the generative and productive potential of collective journeying. I focus on migrant caravans through Mexic…
How Black and Latino young men who have sex with men in the United States experience and engage with eligibility criteria and recruitment practices
Research recruitment, eligibility, and who chooses to participate shape the resulting data and knowledge, which together inform interventions, treatment, and programming. Patterns of research participation are particularly salient at this moment given emerging biomedical prevention paradigms. This paper explores the perspectives of Black and Latino young men who have sex with men (BL-YMSM) regarding research recruitment and eligibility criteria, …
Racism and health care
The COVID-19 pandemic has disproportionately affected minoritized racial groups, especially Latinx immigrants, evidenced by the high rates of COVID-19 infections, hospitalizations, and deaths among this population. With increasing xenophobia and anti-immigrant sentiment in parallel to the pandemic, it is critical to understand the perspectives of Latinx populations. This study explores Latinx immigrant women's perceptions of racism and xenophobia…
Introduction
In this article, we introduce the SSM-MH Special Issue “Journaling and Mental Health during COVID-19: Insights from the Pandemic Journaling Project,” which presents findings from the Pandemic Journaling Project (PJP). PJP is an online journaling platform and mixed-methods research study created in May 2020 to provide ordinary people around the world an opportunity to chronicle the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic in their lives—for themselves and …
“Life will go on with the beauty of the roses”
This article is based on our analysis of a subset of data from the Pandemic Journaling Project-Phase 1 (PJP-1). The PJP, a collective, on-line journaling platform, was co-founded by anthropologists Dr. Sarah S. Willen and Dr. Katherine A. Mason in 2020. It has provided individuals with dedicated anonymous and confidential space to document and share their lived experiences of the Covid-19 pandemic over time (May 2020–May 2022). We employ a case s…
Journaling as a rights-based intervention during pandemic times
The Pandemic Journaling Project (PJP) is a combined virtual journaling platform and research study that chronicles the experiences of ordinary people during the COVID-19 pandemic. In this interview, PJP cofounders, Sarah S. Willen and Katherine A. Mason, speak with PJP Postdoctoral Fellow Heather Wurtz about the role of human rights in how PJP was conceived, designed, and implemented. They describe how PJP contributes to a broader effort to advan…
Mobility Imaginaries of Humanitarian Intervention
Thousands of Central American women have been displaced from their countries of origin by violence. While the violence committed against them is often portrayed as isolated acts of aggression, women's suffering is also produced and perpetuated by humanitarian interventions that immobilize women in dangerous transit zones. Interventions are then justified by institutional logics that juxtapose women's vulnerability against the threat of their own …
Entrevista con las creadoras del Proyecto Diarios de la Pandemia
El Proyecto Diarios de la Pandemia (PJP) es una plataforma de diarios virtuales e investigación que registra experiencias de las personas durante covid-19. En esta entrevista, las cofundadoras de PJP, las doctoras Willen y Mason, hablan sobre el papel de los derechos humanos en la concepción, diseño, e implementación de PJP. Describen cómo PJP contribuye a un esfuerzo general para hacer avanzar la justicia social por medio de la preservación de l…
How social policies shape the health and well-being of sexual- and gender-minority youth
Assembling vaccine perspectives
Responding to structural inequities
Examining coping strategies and resilience among immigrant communities reflects a commitment to working with immigrant communities to understand their needs while also identifying and building upon their strengths. In the United States, the physical, emotional, and economic impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic intersected with existing structural inequities to produce distinct challenges and stressors related to the pandemic, immigration, caregiving …
“ We've Reimagined the Way We Serve ”
Introduction: Community-based organizations (CBOs) played a critical role in meeting the needs of immigrants during COVID-19. Immigrant women experienced a disproportionate burden of the social, economic, and health impacts of the pandemic as a result of intersecting vulnerabilities and constrained access to resources and services. Although extant literature has shed light on some of the key responses by CBOs during COVID-19, less is known about …
“ The panic stays in your mind…concentrating more on the worries than the relationship ”
Our analysis demonstrates ways that structural inequity, particularly driven by exclusionary immigration laws, influence intimate partner relationships through the legal status of immigrant women. Understanding how structural oppression shapes immigrant partnerships is essential for the field of family demography and for family-serving professionals in referring clients to resources and services, as well as helping women explore sources of resili…
Perspectives from the pandemic epicenter
Understanding how immigrant women's SRH shifted in response to the structural and policy constraints of the COVID-19 pandemic can reveal how historically marginalized communities will be impacted by an increasingly restrictive reproductive health and immigration policy landscape
Engaging Immigrant Women in Online Journaling as a Mode of Research and Psychosocial Support
Online journaling is a methodological tool that has also been shown to have therapeutic benefits for some populations. However, the potential value - and limitations - of online journaling within immigrant communities remain underexplored. We present a proof-of-concept analysis exploring the efficacy and feasibility of engaging immigrant women in an online journaling project. We report on a study that used online journaling as an approach to expl…
Structural gendered racism as conceptualized by immigrant women in the United States
I want the world back
Psychology has tended to conceptualize loneliness as a lack of intimate and social relationships. This analysis draws on the journal entries of 100 participants in the Pandemic Journaling Project (PJP; a research study and online journaling platform that invited participants to chronicle their experiences during the COVID-19 pandemic) to illustrate a more foundational sense of loneliness as a lack of bodily attunement, interaction, and intersecti…
Introduction
Thriving Despite the Odds
It’s not where we are, it’s who we’re near
Cyberspatial agency
In this article, we show how the COVID-19 pandemic facilitated experimentation with gender expression via a process that we call cyberspatial agency . During the pandemic in the United States, millions of people were simultaneously physically isolated from one another while also experiencing an unprecedented level of digital hyper-connectedness. In avoiding the public gaze while also having the ability to carefully curate the online communities w…
Psychology (16 obras) · Medicine (15 obras) · Political science (15 obras) · Sociology (13 obras) · Migration, Health and Trauma (10 obras) · Social Psychology (9 obras) · Gender Studies (7 obras) · Immigration (7 obras) · Journaling file system (7 obras) · Law (7 obras)