Jennifer M. Randall
I
have graduated!
Go to my second page...
I
am currently a graduate
student
in the Anthropology
Department at
the State
University of New York at
Buffalo.
I am in
my
6th year of graduate school. I am ABD (All But Dissertation),
just received a grant from NSF
and still not
sane. Thus far I have finished a master's project on
changing
attitudes and behaviors to
Schistosomiasis within areas of rural China affected by the
construction of the Three
Gorges Dam . I am presently working with Jiangxi University
of Finance and Economics (JUFE) Nanchang, Jiangxi
Province, PRC on the
completion of my dissertation, entitled: Culture
change, psychosocial stress and immune function among Chinese
university women.
Research Interests:
human biology; physical
and mental effects of modernization and development; medical
anthropology; attitudes, knowledge and health acquisition behavior in
changing political, economic and social landscapes; measurement of
stress and social support; youth; teaching methods in anthropology; comparative
primate anatomy; Peoples'
Republic of China
Curriculum Vitae: pdf
, html
Article Database:
In
preparation for my advanced exams, I compiled
a database of
approximately 600 articles pertinent to my dissertation and other human
biology research topics. Please email me at randall3 at buffalo
dot edu for information pertaining anything you find there. (Full DB Download)
NSF Dissertation Grants
For those students presentaly
preparing a Dissertation Improvement
Grant through
Fastlane at
the National
Science Foundation I have compiled a document
which, although specifically formulated for students at Buffalo,
could be useful advice for others as well. poster
Useful Links
Click
on the picture below to
read the story of how I came to work in the People's Repubic of
China.
Li
River, Yangshuo, People's Republic of China, February 2000
This
website
was
made possible by
the help of my close friends: Alex and Devin and my boyfriend: Andi.
Pictures of events of the
last
few weeks can be viewed at BASE.
Be sure to check out the blogs as well!!!
Staying Informed:
NPR
The
Nation
Truthout
Mother
Jones
Utne
Reader
World
Press Review
BBC
Common
Dreams
George
Orwell's Politics
and
Language Essay
The Onion
Mike
Niman
KNOWING
the Enemy: Be
sure to listen to what the "other" side is saying!! I am
especially a fan of listening to conservative talk radio while driving
long distances; it keeps the blood pressure high and the mind
awake!!!
Rush
Limbaugh
G.
Gordon Liddy
Dr.
Laura Schlessinger
Ann
Coulter
Eating
Disorders:
My
mother has been struggling
with anorexia for over twenty years
now. Within the past few months she has found herself at war with
this monster and she is winning, battle by battle. As a family
member, particularly as a daughter, it is difficult to watch, hard to
understand and extremely frustrating to draw emotional
boundaries. At the age of 27 my maternal instincts have kicked in
at full force, only it is with the person who should be parenting
me. She is a truly remakable woman with a disease that has
started to destroy her spirit and leave nothing but a shell of the
person she once was. For anyone out there personally struggling
with or watching someone with an eating disorder, please seek help or
email me at randeezi at hotmail dot com. I don't have answers or
advice but I do have experiences to share.
One
place to seek online help
is at Something
Fishy .
If
you are in the Pittsburgh area PENED
offers counseling and
support groups for anyone affected by an eating disorder. For
beginning a discussion about the issues confronting women in the US, I
recommend Lauren Greenfield's photographic essay book entitled Girl
Culture.
Things
that make me go HMMMMMMMM???? Do I live in a cartoon????
This
was an "editorial" published in the Pittsburgh Tribune Review
October 17, 2003
Soccer,
sport of terrorists
There
might just be hope for this country yet. The
recent demise of the women’s professional
soccer league gives hope that two of the worst things ever to hit this
country, soccer and women’s sports, may be on the decline.
Both are plagued by no interest and no attendance at every level of
“competition” causing the professional league to drown in a sea of red
ink. Amateur leagues must now follow suit
and be put out of their misery. Soccer’s slow strangulation of
real sports like football needed to be stopped, and it hasn’t come a
minute too soon. High school football programs around the country have
nearly succumbed to the foreign-sports terrorism known as soccer.
On a recent Friday night (a high school football night) in the suburbs
of Pittsburgh,
I witnessed parents allowing their children to play this anti-American
sport instead of exposing them to the ritual that is high school
football in Western Pennsylvania. Many
high school football programs are barely able to exist because young
people today want to take the easy road and play the no-skill, no-work
game of soccer instead of being dedicated to lifting weights and
working hard in the off-season to gain the rewards of football.
Young minds and bodies are being wasted by continuing the slide into
the soccer abyss. Just look at the recent
and past US failings in the World Cup as evidence that soccer is time
and effort wasted. All real Americans need to seize this
opportunity to squash this game and save real sports while there is
still time.
Fred
J. Harlan
New
Castle
And
yet
another:
News of the Weird:
Pittsburgh City
Paper
November 19, 2003
In
October, West Point, Ky.,
hosted 12,000 visitors for the weekend
Knob Creek Gun Range Machine Gun Shoot, billed as the nation's largest,
with a separate competition for flame-throwers. Especially covered is
"The Line", where 60 people (waiting list is 10 years long to be
admitted) get to fire their machine guns into a field of cars and
boats, and during which a shooter might run through $10,000 in
ammunition. Among the champions: Samantha Sawyer, 16, the top women's
submachine-gunner for the last four years. One man interviewed by the
Louisville Courier-Journal
said he met his wife at a previous Shoot, knowing that "if she could
accept flame-throwing as a hobby, she could accept anything." Said
another: "This is one of those times when you know this (the U.S.) is
the greatest place on Earth."
Reading List
"Everyone
is entitled to a social and international
order in which the
rights and freedoms set forth in this Declaration can be fully
realized."
Universal
Declaration of Human Rights, Article 28.-1.
