Julien C Mirivel

Biographic Data

ID98471
NAMEJulien C Mirivel
GIVEN NAMESJulien C
FAMILY NAMEMirivel
SIGNATUREMIRIVEL J C
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Arkansas at Little Rock
ORCID0000-0001-5514-9644
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS6
TOTAL CITATIONS16
WORKS AS AUTHOR6
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2005
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX2

  • Personal Transformation Among Ingo Beneficiaries

    Kirk A Leach, Julien C Mirivel et al.ARTICLEThe Journal of Development Studies2026

    Funders increasingly challenge INGOs in developing countries to provide evidence of their impact. While economic impact is often documented, the social impact on participants has received less attention. To understand INGOs’ social impact, we conducted a case study of Heifer International’s Values-Based Holistic Community Development program in Honduras. Based on interviews with 100 participants, our analysis shows that beneficiaries experience p…

  • Working for the Greater Good – A Qualitative Study in Uganda to Evaluate Civic and Community Engagement

    Kirk A Leach, Kirk Leach et al.ARTICLEJournal of Social Service Research2026References: 55

  • Communication Competency and Positive Communication Among Women in Bihar, India

    Open AccessJulien C Mirivel, Raymond P Fuller et al.ARTICLECommunication Studies2024

    Nonprofit humanitarian organizations work to alleviate poverty and are evaluated in part on their effectiveness in doing so. One such organization is Heifer International, a global humanitarian nonprofit whose mission is to “end hunger and poverty while caring for the Earth.” In this study, we assessed the impact of Heifer International’s Values-Based Holistic Community Development approach on beneficiaries’ interpersonal communication competency…

  • Civic and Community Engagement among Poor Rural Women in Bihar

    Open AccessKirk A Leach, Julien C Mirivel et al.ARTICLECanadian journal of nonprofit and…2024Cited by: 1

    Civic and community engagement is often crucial for the successful development of rural areas and a catalyst of personal transformation. This article examines changes in civic and community engagement among women in rural Bihar, India. Using an exploratory factor analysis of survey data from n = 815 respondents who participated in Heifer’s Values-Based Holistic Community Development [VBHCD] training, the study identifies three factors that consti…

  • Communicative Conduct in Commercial Medicine

    Open AccessJulien C MirivelARTICLEQualitative Health Research2010Cited by: 2References: 59

    In this study, I investigated naturally occurring medical interaction in commercial medicine. Drawing on 30+ hours of videotaped data and 9 months of fieldwork in a cosmetic surgery clinic, this analysis focuses on how plastic surgeons interact with patients who seek to alter their bodily appearance. The ethnographically informed discourse analysis reveals how plastic surgeons manage multiple and competing interactive demands. Specifically, I des…

  • Premeeting Talk

    Julien C Mirivel, Karen TracyARTICLEResearch on Language and Social…2005Cited by: 13References: 8

    In this article, we analyze the premeeting talk that occurred in 6 meetings of a nutrition company's weekly staff meetings. We begin by describing the business organization, the specific meeting, and the study's discourse and ethnographic materials. Then we introduce small talk, the theoretical frame that initially shaped our interest in premeeting talk, showing that premeeting talk is not merely a site for small talk. Premeeting talk includes wo…