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1FALL 2002
Volume 12 Number 1
Fall 2002
Entering Graduate Students!
Welcome,
2600 attend the Graduate Student
Welcome Reception....
story on page nine

2 GRADUATE QUARTERLY
DEAR GRADUATE STUDENT:
The Fall Quarter brings a renewed energy to the campus as we welcome
new students to the UCLA community and welcome the return of continu-
ing students. This fall, we are re-focusing our energy on efforts that foster
continuous improvement in the quality of graduate education.
Within the Graduate Division, we have put our orientation materials for
new graduate students online for the first time. We hope that their accessi-
bility on our website (www.gdnet.ucla.edu/orientation.html) will encourage
you to refer to these materials throughout your first year. We also want your
feedback on the usefulness of all the information provided in the orienta-
tion guide so that we may make improvements for next year’s entering class.
In addition, the Graduate Division would like to introduce two new
Associate Deans, John Richardson and William Worger, and welcome the return of Associate Dean Shirley Hune.
The Associate Deans, as well as administrative staff, stand ready to assist you in resolving any problems you encoun-
ter during your academic career.
Around campus, the Graduate Division is actively encouraging improvements in graduate education and student
welfare. We have used the recent University of California Regent’s Commission report on Graduate Student Growth and
Student Support to focus additional attention on these issues at UCLA. We have also developed a new initiative to support
departmental efforts to improve the quality of graduate programs. In this issue, we cover the efforts of the Arthur Ashe
Student Health and Wellness Center to address health and well being that are particular to graduate students.
We envision UCLA to be a community where students can exchange ideas both within and outside their own
departments. This issue features one example of such interdisciplinary work, the UCLA Center for Culture, Brain,
and Development. In addition, this issue profiles graduate students whose research goes across disciplinary bound-
aries. We also highlight the Entering Graduate Students Welcome Reception, where over 2000 new students had the
opportunity to interact with students in different departments. We believe that by exploring differences can we find
our commonalities and further advance our knowledge. As Jaroslav Pelikan states in The Idea of the University, a
Reexamination, “The difference between bad scholarship and good scholarship is the result of what a student learns in
graduate school, but the difference between good scholarship and great scholarship is, as often as not, the general
preparation of the scholar in fields other than the field of specialization.” Graduate students should make the time
to stretch themselves to learn not only the depths of their disciplines, but also the breadth of other disciplines that
support and strengthen their work. Please let us know what more we can do to facilitate and encourage interdiscipli-
nary scholarship and research.
Once again, welcome back to UCLA.
Sincerely,
Claudia Mitchell-Kernan
Vice Chancellor, Graduate Studies
ESSAGE FROM THE dEAN
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3FALL 2002
FEATURE ARTICLES
4 The Center for Culture, Brain, and Development-
Adding brain science to the mix of psychology,
anthropology, and linguistics
10 The Arthur Ashe Center... promoting wellness
13 Meet the Graduate Division’s Associate Deans
NEWS
9 2002 Graduate Student Welcome Reception
16 2002 Doctoral Commencement Hooding Ceremony
GRADUATE STUDENT PROFILES
18 Ignacio Ferrey - Public Health & Latin American Studies
20 Kristen Schilt - Sociology
22 J.C. Walsh - African Studies & Public Health
GRADUATE FELLOWSHIP RECIPIENTS
24 Congratulations to the 2002-2003 Winners
GRADUATE STUDENT ACCOMPLISHMENTS
28 Papers, publications, presentations, performances
Table of Contents
On the Cover: Incoming graduate students
enjoy the 2002 Graduate Student Welcome
Reception. See story on page nine.
Copyright 2002
Regents of the University of California
Dean’s Office
Claudia Mitchell-Kernan -
Vice Chancellor, Graduate Studies
Dean, Graduate Division
Jim Turner - Assistant Vice Chancellor
Shirley Hune - Associate Dean,
Graduate Programs
John V. Richardson, Jr. - Associate Dean
William H. Worger - Associate Dean
Glen Winans - Assistant Dean,
Administration
Academic Support and Information Services
Jim Turner - Interim Director
Graduate Admissions/Student and
Academic Affairs
Daniel J. Bennett - Director
Graduate Student Support
Lynn Gold - Director
Institutional Research and
Information Services
Pamela L. Taylor - Director
Information Technology
Carol King - Director
Graduate Quarterly
Mary Watkins - Editor
Jacqueline Tasch - Writer, Features
and Profiles
Please send correspondence to:
1252 Murphy Hall
Box 951419
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1419
mwatkins@gdnet.ucla.edu
The Graduate Quarterly is published Fall, Winter, and
Spring quarters by the UCLA Graduate Division We
welcome suggestions and comments, which may be
printed selectively in future issues. Current and archived
copies of this publication are available to view or to
download in PDF format on the Graduate Division web site.
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W
hy is it natural for human
beings to create, use, and
acquire culture in the course
of their development? What is it about the
human brain that makes this so?
This two-part question is at the core
of the Foundation for Psychocultural
Research-UCLA Center for Culture,
Brain, and Development, a new interdisci-
plinary program at UCLA. With a faculty
of more than 30 professors and headed
by co-investigators drawn from six
disciplines —the Center has dual and
complementary goals. It hopes to prepare
graduate students and postdoctoral
fellows for professional careers that
embrace these disciplines while fostering
research at the intersection of its three
title themes.
“Our vision is to produce a new
generation of researchers and educators
who have the tools to carry out a broad
spectrum of interdisciplinary research—
from illuminating the neural basis for
cultural learning, to enhancing human
development in a multicultural world,” says
Center Director and Professor of Psychol-
ogy Patricia Greenfield. Her research is
typical of the Center’s work: ongoing
studies that compare chimpanzee and
human language development, examine the
effect of economic change on cultural
learning and cognitive development, assess
electronic media as a cultural influence, and
develop cross-cultural training for Latino
immigrant parents.
The inclusion of biology, specifically
neuroscience, sets the work of this Center
apart. The Center’s expanded universe is
encouraged by advances in neuroimaging
that make a whole new range of research
possible. Co-Investigator and Professor
of Anthropology Alan Fiske, for example,
has devoted his career to understanding
“how a baby could grow up to be a
competent, motivated participant in any
particular culture”—in other words, how
culture contributes to development and
Feature Story

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Patricia Greenfield, Developmental Psychology,
Department of Psychology
Alan Fiske, Psychological Anthropology,
Department of Anthropology
Mirella Dapretto, Brain Mapping, Department
of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences
vice versa. Now Fiske is collaborating
with Center neuroscientist Marco
Iacoboni and CBD predoctoral trainee
Istvan Molnar-Szakacs to add brain
science to his research tools. When he
asks how people understand a social
interaction—say, a conversation about
dinner plans—he can add to his data of
MRI images of what the brain is doing
when it observes such exchanges. In
recent studies, research participants watch
videos of social interchanges while an
MRI watches their brain. “Looking at how
the brain does the things it does may help
us understand the mechanisms behind
cultural learning,” Professor Fiske says.
This research program provides a
good example of what it means to study
the development of cultural understand-
ing on both the neural and behavioral
levels. In the future, Center researchers
(with the aid of a Center grant from the
National Science Foundation) will explore
how brain development makes social
understanding possible. Other CBD
participants will collaborate, including
Professor Greenfield, co-investigator and
Assistant Professor Mirella Dapretto, and
developmental psychology graduate
student Jennifer Pfeifer, who is leading a
behavioral study of how children come to
understand social interactions as they
grow up, a study that will provide a basis
for the later research.
HOW TO
PARTICIPATE
Interested in attending the CBD Forum?
Contact the Center’s administrator, Janet
Tomiyama, to be placed on the Center’s e-
mail list (tomiyama@psych.ucla.edu) or
consult the Center website at cbd.ucla.edu for
a list of Forum topics. The Forum is held in
the Anthropology Reading Room, 352 Haines
Hall, approximately five times a quarter.
The interdisciplinary integrative seminar on
Culture, Brain, and Development is open to all
students and will next be given in January
2003 by Professors Alan Fiske (Anthropology),
Marco Iacoboni (Brainmapping), and Marian
Sigman (Psychology), in conjunction with the
Forum. For information on the integrative
seminar, please contact Professor Alan Fiske at
afiske@ucla.edu.
The first two Culture, Brain, and Development
(CBD) lectures will take place at the Faculty
Center this fall. Professor Robert LeVine of
Harvard University will speak on November 5,
and Dr. Steven Suomi of the National
Institutes of Health will speak on December
12. All are welcome; please RSVP to
tomiyama@psych.ucla.edu.
To learn about the predoctoral or postdoctoral
training program: contact Professor Patricia
Greenfield at greenfield@psych.ucla.edu.
For information on the predoctoral and
postdoctoral fellowships, please contact
Professor Fiske at afiske@ucla.edu. ●
CBD Coinvestigators
In another program that involves the
brain as well as behavior, Professor
Dapretto, a developmental neuroscientist,
and participating faculty member Marian
Sigman are collaborating to examine the
neural basis for the development of
autism. In addition, Professor Daniel
Siegel’s integrative studies have shown
that traumatic stress may disrupt the
hippocampus in ways that may impair
memory encoding. And when we say
people need to “get themselves together”
after a trauma, we might be speaking
directly about the left and right hemi-
spheres of the brain, where fibers
connecting to two halves might be
damaged by early trauma.
Note that both graduate students,
Istvan Molnar-Szakacs and Jennifer
Pfeifer, are collaborating with faculty
across departments and disciplines. The
idea that participating graduate students
and postdoctoral fellows will work outside
their own disciplines is at the heart of the
Center’s training programs. Indeed,
graduate students and postdocs alike must
have research mentors in more than one
department. Graduate students are
required to take a basic course in each of
the three title areas, as well as a methodol-
ogy course outside their own department.
“We think it’s really important to integrate
methodologies across disciplines,” says
Professor Greenfield. “Sometimes to
Daniel Siegel, Psychiatry, Department of
Psychiatry and Biobehavorioral Sciences
John Schumann, Applied Linguistics,
Interdepartmental Program in Applied
Linguistics
Kris Gutierrez, Urban Education, Graduate
School of Education and Information Studies
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answer questions in your own discipline,
you need to use the methodology of a
different discipline.” Students are also
required to do a teaching assistantship in
another participating department, often
in the winter. The forum and seminar are
open to students and faculty who are not
formally affiliated with the Center’s
training program, and campus interest
has been high. As many as 60 or 70
people have frequently attended.
Graduate students who participate in
the Center’s training will still get a Ph.D.
from their academic department: “Single
disciplines may be outmoded,” Professor
Greenfield says, “but they’re pragmati-
cally necessary because that’s where
academic jobs are.” However, students
will also receive some sort of certification
attesting to their completion of the
interdisciplinary program.
For a number of years, Professor
Greenfield and many of the Center’s
participating faculty had been working on
a proposal for an interdisciplinary
training program at the crossroads of
human behavior and development,
neuroscience, and culture. Then, in June
2001, she and some of her colleagues
were invited to a retreat, organized by
Robert Lemelson, that focused on the
same area.
The session “was an attempt to find a
convergence across a lot of academic
disciplines,” explains Professor Siegel,
who also attended. “The hope was that
the retreat would both fertilize ideas for
further interdisciplinary collaboration and
suggest ways to improve practical
applications and policies flowing from
such research.” The Center’s formation,
enhanced by the retreat, was “fueled by
the organizational passions of Patricia
Greenfield,” Professor Siegel adds.
Dr. Lemelson, who contributes his
services as a Lecturer to the Psychology
and Anthropology Departments and
whose Ph.D. was
awarded by UCLA’s
Department of
Anthropology, found
culture, brain, and
development appealing
for his new Foundation
for Psycho-Cultural
Research (FPR). The
FPR Board agreed and
plans to provide
$200,000 per year for
five years to found and
support the Center. Center Director and Professor of Psychology Patricia Greenfield
Professor Marco Iacoboni and his daughter
Caterina look at videos of social interaction as
part of a research experiment exploring how
children come to understand social relations.
Most of the funding goes to provide
fellowships and other research support for
predoctoral and postdoctoral trainees.
UCLA’s Graduate Division has contrib-
uted dedicated dissertation fellowships.
After receiving the FPR grant in
January, the co-investigators and partici-
pating faculty went to work building a
program. Because of the range and depth
of scholarship in every area, “UCLA is an
absolutely fantastic place to integrate
these fields,” Professor Greenfield says.
“Our group is unique.”

7FALL 2002
Ted Hutman
Developmental Psychology
Ted Hutman was just beginning his
doctoral research in developmental psychol-
ogy, examining the way people communicate
in families, when he “sort of stumbled on” the
Center for Culture, Brain, and Development.
Looking for a class with Professor Patricia
Greenfield, he signed up for the seminar that
is the Center’s key curricular element. As he
was already using tools from anthropology,
the Center’s confluence of research seems to
him more of an expansion of his academic
goals than a change in direction.
Right now, Ted is studying mother-child
conversations to “explore the possibility that
anxiety is socialized—that children learn how
to be anxious.” Working with mother-child
pairs in which neither, one, or both have been
diagnosed with anxiety disorder, Ted is using
the tools of psychology, anthropology, and
applied linguistics. In Fall 2001, he took a
neuroanatomy class in hopes of subsequently
applying fMRI studies to his work.
Ted came to UCLA for graduate studies
after a career as orchestra manager for the Los
Angeles Philharmonic. “I always said I
deserved an honorary degree in psychology,”
he says, because he was always listening to
people’s stories. Still listening, he’s going to
earn the degree himself.
Jennifer Pfeifer
Developmental Psychology
Jennifer Pfeifer likes to keep “an eye out
for interdisciplinary work.” At Stanford
University, she majored in psychology and
international relations and worked at the
neuroimaging laboratory. At UCLA’s Center
for Culture, Brain, and Development, she’s
conducting behavioral research about how
children come to understand social relations,
preparing for fMRI studies about what
happens in their brains when children see
videos of social interaction.
The Center’s course requirements and
integrative seminar are adding the variable of
culture to her repertoire of developmental
psychology and neuroscience, providing
“something I would otherwise not get
exposed to,” she says. The seminar’s forum is
so popular with students and other members
of the UCLA community that she “sometimes
had to sit on the floor in the back of the room”
because all the seats were filled.
“It’s important to validate developmental
theories using culture- and brain-based
perspectives,” Jennifer says. Without under-
standing how culture can influence develop-
ment, for example, “you could devote your
whole life to research that is ultimately limited
in applicability—that’s true of only some
subset of the population.”
Istvan Molnar-Szakacs
Neuroscience Interdepartmental Program
Istvan Molnar-Szakacs says the seminar
required for graduate students in the Center
for Culture, Brain, and Development program
is “a wonderful eye-opener” for someone with
a neuroscience-based background like his. “It’s
been a tremendous help in trying to integrate
theories and points of view from other fields
such as psychology, social science, and
linguistics.” The Center also provided much-
needed financial support.
While Istvan’s adviser is Marco Iacoboni of
the Brain Mapping Center, he’s also working
with anthropologist Alan Fiske on a project
using MRIs to gather data for social develop-
ment research. “Using neuroimaging to test a
theory developed by an anthropologist—that’s
not conventional for a neuroscientist,” he says.
Istvan hopes to build a career in education
that might include science writing for a
mainstream audience. “I’m interested in
making science accessible to the public,” he
says. “There’s not enough awareness of the
interesting work that goes on, with support
from public funds.”
Meet the CBD Graduate Students
7FALL 2002

For her doctoral research at Harvard
University’s interdisciplinary Department of
Human Development, Eileen Anderson-Fye did
a five-year longitudinal study of development
among adolescent girls in Belize, where
“domestic violence has historically been part of
the cultural fabric,” she says. Among her
findings was a puzzle: Girls who had clearly
suffered physical and sexual abuse according
to Western standards sometimes showed few
symptoms of trauma until they began to
recognize the abuse as morally wrong or
unacceptable. After this cognitive reinterpreta-
tion of events, which was often stimulated by
contact with American culture, “I watched
some kids go into full blown post-traumatic
stress disorder (PTSD) reactions,” Dr. Ander-
son-Fye says.
Does the brain alteration associated with
childhood trauma “lie dormant all that time,”
she wondered, or “do the girls
undergo a traumatic reaction
when they change how they
think about what happened?”
This was just one of the
questions her research posed
“that I couldn’t answer until I
learned something more about
neuroscience,” Dr. Anderson-
Fye says. As a result, receiving a
postdoctoral fellowship for
studies at UCLA’s Center for
Culture, Brain, and Develop-
ment was “a dream come true.”
Dr. Anderson-Fye will work with
Professor of Psychiatry M. Belinda Tucker
on a research project involving Belizean
immigrants in Los Angeles, which has the
largest Belizean population outside that
Central American country. “I was euphoric
to hear there was work on Belize going on
here,” Dr. Anderson-Fye says. Professor Tucker
and Professor of Anthropology Keith Kernan
were “doing similar work for the same five years
as my study and with a similar population.” ●
Maya Gratier
During fieldwork in India, France, and the
United States for her doctoral dissertation at
the Sorbonne University, Maya Gratier found
that mothers and babies communicate in
remarkably similar ways across cultures.
Recording interactions and analyzing the
timing and melody of the talk rather than the
meaning of the words, Dr. Gratier found only
“small, subtle differences” between women of
different cultures. These differences mirrored
variations in adult conversation, for example,
in the length of the pause between speakers.
“By two months old, infants are already
learning the rules of conversation,” she says.
Dr. Gratier also compared the interactions
of immigrant and nonimmigrant women, for
example, Indian women living in India and in
the Bay Area of California. Mothers who had
“a hard time bridging the gaps between two
cultures” also experienced difficulties in
communication, struggling to juggle “two
ways of being with their babies,” she says.
When she learned about the new Center
for Culture, Brain, and Development last
March, Dr. Gratier “was amazed that it was
such a perfect match with my interests.” She
was pleased to find an interdisciplinary context
for research, with “an emphasis on social
interaction and culture as a process.” She’ll
also have an opportunity to learn “the
neuroscientific side of things, which I always
found fascinating.” With Professor Marco
Iacoboni, Dr. Gratier will look at the
neuroscientific basis for empathy and
intentionality among people with autism.
She’ll also work with Professor Patricia
Greenfield and Professor Marjorie Goodwin
on a study of cross-cultural training for Latino
immigrant parents. ●
Meet the CBD postdoctoral fellows
Eileen Anderson-Fye

9FALL 2002
2002 Graduate Student
Welcome Reception
T
he Graduate Division’s reputa
tion isn’t marked by its ability to
throw excellent parties… but
maybe it should be. Students were lining
up a full hour ahead of time to attend this
year’s Graduate Student Welcome Recep-
tion. By 6:00 PM, the entire Faculty Center
was abuzz with 2600 graduate students,
faculty, guests, and departmental staff.
This annual event not only welcomes
hundreds of new students to graduate
studies, but for many, marks the beginning
of their time at UCLA and in Southern
California. Students were entertained by
the jazz stylings of the Keschia Potter
Quintet while they sampled treats from
the various food stations and chatted with
their fellow graduate students. For many,
this was the first opportunity to meet
students not in their program. Vice
Chancellor of Graduate Studies and Dean
of the Graduate Division Claudia
Mitchell-Kernan introduced the incoming
students to various campus administrators
who were in attendance. She also
remarked on the remarkable diversity of
the entering graduate students and the
opportunities this diversity offers: “Your
interactions with other students will offer
some of the most memorable and
meaningful lessons that you take from
UCLA. Seek out students of other
backgrounds and disci-
plines, and learn how to
conceptualize issues from
different perspectives, how
to interact and exchange
ideas productively.”
Dean Mitchell-Kernan
also encouraged the new
students to keep a balance
between their academic
studies and their involve-
ment in the “real world”.
She told the students,
The Keschia Potter Quintet entertains the crowd.
Dean Mitchell-Kernan
“…you need not abandon all connections
with reality to enter here. There has
always been a tension between engage-
ment and sanctuary as features of the
academic milieu. Some view graduate
study as a time to withdraw from the grit
and grime of workaday concerns into the
noble purity of intellectual pursuits.
Others believe that the treasury of
knowledge we safeguard at universities—
the treasury to which we each add our
gem of wisdom—must become intimately
engaged with the daily-ness of life if we
are to have any relevance. I would urge
you, especially in troubled times like ours,
to find a balance between involvement
and retreat. While we make ourselves a
quiet space and time to pursue our goals,
we must nevertheless remain attuned to
the enormously significant events
unfolding in the world around us.”
Guests line up at the carving station.
PhotographybyToddCheney,ASUCLAPhotography

A
ccording to a recent
comprehensive survey of
UCLA graduate students,1
campus healthcare is the fifth most frequently
used campus service, after the bookstore,
parking, dining, and athletic facilities. In
addition, healthcare is second only to the
bookstore (34%) in the percentage of
excellent ratings it received (27.2%).
The Arthur Ashe Student Health and
Wellness Center is the most public face of
UCLA’s student healthcare program. Last
year, students made about 80,000 visits to the
center, mostly seeking information, although
a full range of medical services is available.
Graduate students accounted for about 40%
of these visits, while they make up about
30% of UCLA’s student population.
What’s the most common problem
UCLA graduate students bring to the
Arthur Ashe Student Health and Wellness
Center? For those who need a hint, it
begins and ends with S. STRESS.
“I’ve found over the years that the
graduate students at UCLA are very, very,
very hard-working . . . they are able to
juggle so many responsibilities, but they
do reach a breaking point at times,” says
Director of Primary Care Dr. Jo Ann
Dawson, MD, MPH. “We’d like to work
with them before they get to that breaking
point so we can identify where the stress
is coming from and what sorts of health-
promoting interventions we can suggest.”
People tend to pair stress with just, as
in “I have a headache, but it’s just stress, or
“I can’t sleep, but it’s just stress.” Dr.
Dawson does not agree that stress is a
minor problem not worth fussing over.
“The stressed person is less able to cope
with challenges,” she says. “Unrelieved,
stress can move into clinical anxiety or
clinical depression”—and not surprisingly,
mental health issues are also high on the
list of problems graduate students bring
to the nurse practitioners and physicians
at the Ashe Center.

11FALL 2002
ACE-ING THE TEST
The UCLA Arthur Ashe Health and Wellness
Center passed an examination of its own last
year. The Accreditation Association for Ambula-
tory Health Care, a private nonprofit organization,
gave the Ashe Center its maximum accreditation:
three years.
Founded in 1979, the AAAHC has established
more than 400 standards in 17 areas of interest.
The Ashe Center was in substantial compliance
with 98% of these standards and in partial
compliance with the remaining 2%.
“We want to be the best,” says Al Setton,
Executive Director of the Ashe Center and deputy
assistant vice chancellor of student development
and health. “Seeking accreditation is a good way
to do that because it forces you to look at
national standards and live up to them. We’re
very pleased with the outcome.” ●
How does the Ashe Center respond?
First, it provides information and
treatments that can alleviate stress. The
MindBody Programs include a free, drop-
in MindBody Clinic Wednesday
afternoons where students learn
techniques such as guided imagery and
meditation to ease stress. Student
Psychological Services offers counseling.
Second, the Ashe Center makes getting
medical advice and treatment easy,
convenient, and, well, stress-free. Satellite
offices operate certain hours at the
Wooden Center and Dodd and Kinsey
Halls. Because it is near the law school,
Dodd gets a large number of law
students, particularly in the weeks leading
up to July law boards.
However, medical advice can be as
close as the nearest telephone or Internet
access point. The staff is ready to handle
phone inquiries during office hours, and
the E-nurse service reviews e-mail
questions and responds within 24 hours.
Graduate students who are doing fieldwork
overseas, in places where doctors and
nurses may be hard to reach, often use this
feature to check back home for
immunization and health information. The
Ashe Center also helps students prepare
for fieldwork with immunizations and
other travel-oriented health information.
Recognizing that graduate students
may live more or less exclusively within
the circle of their department, the Ashe
Center operates a speakers’ bureau of
nurse practitioners. “We can come to
them and talk about our services,” says
Nursing Director Susan Quillan, NP.
1
Last February and March, the Graduate Division’s Institutional Research and Information Services department e-
mailed the Higher Education Data Sharing Consortium (HEDS) Graduate Student Survey (GSS) to UCLA graduate
students, excluding only those in Dentistry, Law, and Medicine. The HEDS survey solicited graduate students’
opinions on their overall program, their research and teaching experiences, university resources, funding, quality of
life outside the classroom, and other topics related to graduate school. The survey data was forwarded to HEDS for
analysis. Of the 8,393 students enrolled in Winter Quarter, 1,512 graduate students responded and returned the
survey instrument for a response rate of 18 percent. Demographic comparisons demonstrate that the respondents
were representative of UCLA’s graduate student population.
In terms of more complex health
problems, graduate students are more
likely than their undergraduate colleagues
to have recurring or chronic ailments or a
cluster of ailments. A full range of
services is available including laboratory
tests, radiology, physical therapy, and
consultations with specialists.
Students with chronic problems are
urged to select a regular primary care
clinician at the Ashe Center, either a nurse
practitioner or a physician. Having a
regular contact means not having to
repeat a history during each recurrence.
“The Ashe Center becomes less a building
where bureaucratic things happen,” Dr.
Dawson says, “and more of a place where
students feel they have a medical home.
“We’re here to support graduate
students in their pursuit of an advanced
degree. . . We want to promote their
healthy sojourn through UCLA.”
Staff members at the Arthur Ashe Center
11FALL 2002

WHEN DRINKING
BECOMES HARMFUL
Pam Viele’s job as the Ashe Center’s
Director of Research led her back to graduate
studies in education and information science,
seeking “more rigorous research methods” she
could bring to her work. For her dissertation,
she used survey data collected by the Ashe
Center to examine when drinking alcohol
becomes a harmful behavior.
Her findings suggest that this occurs when
drinking goes beyond being a social facilitator
and becomes a way to deal with unpleasant
emotions. The results of the study are being
used to develop programs that “will help
students handle stress in a healthier way,” she
says, noting the link between research and
policy. “We like to connect those dots.” ●
MAKING CONTACT
Here are a few of the ways you can contact UCLA’s
healthcare staff:
● Visit the Arthur Ashe Center for Health and
Wellness, which is next to the Wooden Center
and across Westwood Plaza from Ackerman
Union; drop-in or by appointment.
● Log on to the website:
www.studenthealth.ucla.edu.
● Use E-nurse to get help by e-mail—register
under online services at the website.
● Phone 310-825-4073 for information about the
center and health issues.
● Invite a nurse practitioner to a departmental
meeting.
Library Borrowing
Limit
Effective January 6, 2003, the
UCLA Library will institute a
borrowing limit of 200 items per
library card. The limit, which was
recommended by the Committee
on Library of the UCLA Academic
Senate, is designed to provide the
widest possible access to library
materials for all users. Graduate
students are urged to review their
accounts and return items as needed. In
another change, all graduate students
whose library accounts contain an e-mail
address will now receive notification of
recalled items, items available for pick up,
and overdue items by e-mail instead of
U.S. mail.
Orion 2 Survey
The Library has completed a campus-
wide survey providing input on how to
improve the Orion 2 system. The results
of the survey are available online at
www.library.ucla.edu/otng/
survey_report.html. The results of the
survey will be used to help the Library
select a new system. For regular updates
on the Library’s search for the replace-
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EDUCATING
GRADUATE STUDENTS
Educating graduate students—not just
keeping them well—is part of the Ashe
Center’s mission. For example, each quarter,
one second-year student in the School of
Nursing’s nurse practitioner program “gets
clinical experience and mentoring” at the Ashe
Center, Nursing Director Susan Quillan says.
“From the feedback that I get, it’s a highly
valued rotation.” Several students have been
hired later as full-time employees.
In the spring, a dozen or more first-year
graduate nursing students provide routine
physicals at the Ashe Center, and others work
at the center during the summer. Students
from the Medical School, the Graduate School
of Management, the School of Public Health,
and other programs have also gained useful
experience at the Ashe Center. ●
Arthur Ashe Center
Library
News

13FALL 2002
Shirley Hune is Professor of Urban
Planning and Asian American Studies in
the School of Public Policy and Social
Research. Her research includes studies
involving Asian Americans, race and
gender issues, women and minorities in
higher education, nonaligned countries,
and international migration. She has a BA
in Modern History from the University of
Toronto and a Ph.D. in American
Civilization from The George Washington
University. Before coming to UCLA in
1992, she taught at the City University of
New York, with visiting appointments at
the University of Wisconsin-Madison,
University of Puerto Rico, Haverford
College, Yale University, and the
University of Maryland, College Park.
support, ensuring adequate
mentoring can make a contribu-
tion to student retention.
The Graduate Division hopes
to provide “suggestions about
what other departments, other
faculty, are doing,” she says. “A lot
of professors don’t have informa-
tion in this area, and they’re also
not aware of how much
mentoring affects time to degree.”
By establishing criteria that ensure
graduate students and faculty
advisers “stay in close contact, we
can reduce the stress and strain of
achieving academic goals.”
One important end result of promot-
ing graduate student diversity is ensuring a
more diverse professional cadre in every
field, including the academic world. Dean
Hune recalls that no women or
underrepresented minorities were among
the faculty during her undergraduate
education at the University of Toronto,
and the mentoring she received was
sometimes poor.
Since 1992, her half-time responsibili-
ties as Associate Dean have included
responsibility for the four ethnic studies
centers and program review. “I look
forward to the opportunity to expand my
administrative expertise in different
areas,” she says. “I hope to bring my own
interests and experience to serving the
larger academic goals of the university.”
A
ssociate Dean Shirley Hune is
adding diversity and outreach
issues to her portfolio of
Graduate Division assignments as she
assumes a full-time deanship this fall. By
adding new perspectives to the academic
community, “diversity enriches the quality
of the educational experience for faculty,
for graduate student peers, and for the
undergraduate students they mentor,” Dr.
Hune says. “It’s not just about bodies. As
you increase the diversity of student
backgrounds, you also increase the
diversity of ideas and experiences, and
this encourages everyone to rethink how
we know and what we know.”
Recruiting to ensure diversity must
extend “beyond shaking hands and
handing out brochures” to having “some
long and deep conversations about
opportunities that are available to
underrepresented students and first-
generation college graduates—there’s a
whole range of possible careers that
graduate education makes possible,”
she says.
It’s also important to “keep the
students we recruit and make sure they
move through their graduate programs at
a rate and in a state that’s consistent with
the program’s goals,” Dean Hune says.
“Some students seem to stumble along
the way, always with the danger of falling
away entirely.” Besides providing financial
Shirley Hune
Meet the Graduate Division’s
Associate Deans
13FALL 2002

P
rofessor of Informa-
tion Studies John V.
Richardson, Jr., traces
his interest in the quality of
graduate education back to
his own dissertation
research on graduate studies
in librarianship at the
University of Chicago,
published as Spirit of Inquiry in
1982. As a new Associate Dean
of the Graduate Division, he
will be guided by the criterion of
how he can improve the quality of
graduate education at UCLA.
Among his duties, Dr. Richardson will
guide the work of the Graduate Division’s
Institutional Research and Information
Services division, which gathers and
analyzes data about graduate students in
order to assess the quality of graduate
education. He plans to review and
perhaps augment some of the perfor-
mance measures the Graduate Division
uses to assess that quality. “Data about
where students live would permit a
measure of commuting time and thus
student convenience,” he says. “It might
also be useful to know what financial
burdens in terms of education loans our
students are carrying,” he adds. Also,
Dean Richardson wants to examine
alumni membership among graduate
students as a possible measure of loyalty
to the University.
Dr. Richardson is also interested in the
countries of origin for UCLA graduate
students: “Information about geographi-
cal diversity might point to areas of
recruiting opportunity,” he says. Since
June 1996, he’s served as faculty sponsor
of the UCLA-St. Petersburg State
University of Culture’s international
exchange program for Russian students to
increase diversity.
Dr. Richardson’s familiarity with
international students and his wide travels in
Europe, Asia, Africa, and Central America
will support his work with postdoctoral
fellows, many of whom come from
overseas. He will also supervise the program
review process in some departments.
Dr. Richardson has completed
managerial assignments in his own
department and he served on UCLA’s
Graduate Council, which he chaired in
1996. He was also a member of the UC
Coordinating Committee on Graduate
Affairs, which reviews graduate programs
at all campuses. “I discovered we’re part of
a larger system,” he says. “I also learned
how strong our programs are at UCLA.”
Two things contribute to that strength, he
says: “Our faculty and our students.”
Besides his new work as Associate
Dean and his continuing duties in the
Department of Information Sciences,
Dean Richardson will serve until 2005
as editor of the Library Quarterly, the
oldest scholarly journal in the field,
which some people might see as three
full-time jobs. The new dean is un-
ruffled. “I like to be busy,” he says, “and
I like to make a difference.”
John V. Richardson, Jr., is Professor of
Information Studies, with research in two
areas: reference work, especially
knowledge-based applications and virtual
libraries, and the history of education for
librarianship. He has a BA in sociology
from Ohio State University, a master’s
degree in library science from Vanderbilt
University, and a Ph.D. from the School of
Library and Information Science and
Indiana University. He came to UCLA in
1978, and his career includes visiting
positions at St. Petersburg State University
in Russia, the OCLC Online Computer
Library Center, and the University of
Michigan.
John V. Richardson, Jr.
Meet the GRADUATE DIVISION’S Associate Deans

15FALL 2002
William H. Worger is Professor of History,
specializing in the social and economic history of
southern Africa. His current research examines
differences in what colonialism meant to Africans
and Europeans in the late 19th and early 20th
centuries. He has an undergraduate degree from
the University of Auckland in his native New
Zealand and a doctorate from Yale University.
Before he came to UCLA in 1989, he worked at
the University of Michigan, Stanford University,
and Dalhousie University.
P
rofessor of History William H.
Worger takes up his new position
as Associate Dean of the Gradu-
ate Division with goals he draws from
four years on the Graduate Council, the
last year as chair of that faculty body. “As
a historian,” he says, “I got a great
education in how the whole university
operates and what can and can’t be done.
That whole experience underpins my
views on things.”
On the Graduate Council, Dr. Worger
participated in reviews of graduate
programs in many departments and in
talks about ways to promote graduate
education. “When we discuss policies at
the Graduate Council, it’s driven by the
information we’ve gotten from the field,”
he says. “The attraction of being the
associate dean is to implement those
policies.” Two areas of particular interest
to Dr. Worger are more financial support
for graduate students and on-campus
housing for first-year students.
The Graduate Council often talks
about how to supplement students’ own
funds in ways that “enable everyone who’s
talented enough to come to graduate
school . . . to devote their full time to
graduate studies,” he says. More money is
the answer rather than new ways to divide
the existing pie. To accomplish this, he
believes that graduate education needs to
be highlighted in fund-raising campaigns
at the university and
departmental level.
Support for graduate
students is only one
important element in
attracting the best
students to UCLA, Dr.
Worger says. Many
universities offer housing
as part of a support
William H. Worger
package for incoming students, whereas
first-year students at UCLA must often
add finding a home in the urban maze of
Southern California to the challenges of
starting graduate studies. “UCLA is
indeed building housing for first-year
students,” he says, “but it’s not going as
fast as we had hoped, and it would be nice
if there were more of it.”
Accomplishing this goal would
improve students’ education, not just their
lifestyle, Dean Worger contends. Often
called a “commuter school” because
graduate students live at substantial
distances from campus in far-flung
communities, UCLA isn’t providing the
common areas where graduate students
can meet and talk together, he says.
“One of the most powerful memories
from my life as a graduate student is
learning from other graduate students,”
Dean Worger says. “I think that learning
from peers is one of the best parts of
education. If you can create a community
of people, you’ve made a good start.”
15FALL 2002

O
n the evening of June 14,
this year’s 593 recipients
of the doctoral degree were
honored at the Doctoral Commencement
Hooding Ceremony in Royce Hall. Each
year UCLA’s new doctorates are wel-
comed into the academy at this ceremony.
Graduates, faculty and members of
the official party came together to enjoy
light refreshments on the terrace off the
West Lobby of Royce, while families and
friends took seats in the auditorium. A
majestic trumpet fanfare by the UCLA
Wind Ensemble Brass signaled the
beginning of the formal procession of
faculty and graduates. Chancellor Albert
Carnesale gave the call to order and
welcomed all attendees. Claudia Mitchell-
Kernan, Vice Chancellor Graduate
Studies and Dean of the Graduate
Division, greeted all
doctoral candidates
and guests and
introduced Dr.
Louis Ignarro, who
delivered the
keynote address. In
addition to his
appointment as
Distinguished
Professor of
Pharmacology in the Department of
Molecular and Medical Pharmacology, Dr.
Ignarro is a world-renowned scholar and
winner of the 1998 Nobel Prize in
Medicine for his discovery that nitric
oxide was identical to a signaling molecule
in the cardiovascular system. This
research has led to treatments for
everything from cardiovascular disease
and cancer to impotence.
Dr. Ignarro spoke of his 17 years of
teaching and research at UCLA, during
which he has seen “the medical school,
the college, and the other schools grow
and develop into some of the finest in our
country. In less than five years, Chancel-
lor Carnesale has placed UCLA on a fast
track to the top of the
pyramid of academic
institutions.” He spoke
of his joy in both
teaching and doing
research, and of the
inspiration from his
parents, first-genera-
tion immigrants from
Italy, who encouraged
his pursuit of higher
education. In particular Dr. Ignarro noted
that today is “the most exciting time in the
history of biomedical science. As the
miracles of life are unraveled, leading to
the development of novel therapeutic
strategies, you will participate in the
prevention, treatment and cure of all
genetically based diseases.” Dr. Ignarro
concluded his remarks with advice to the
graduates to “work hard, but …be
responsible and honest. Your work
should be guided by common sense and
the principles of humanism. Sometimes
ooding
The use of distinctive
hoods to convey
professional membership
extends back to medieval
times, when they were
worn not just by
university faculty but also
by master craftsmen.
Written by Daniel J. Bennett
Photography by Scott Quintard,
ASUCLA Photography
Chancellor Albert Carnesale, Graduate Division Dean
Claudia Mitchell-Kernan and Dr. Louis Ignarro.

17FALL 2002
seemingly endless perseverance is
required….but you must never give up.”
Before the presentation of the
diplomas and hooding, Vice Chancellor
Mitchell-Kernan spoke of the ritual of the
conferring of the academic hood: “The
use of distinctive hoods to convey
professional membership extends back to
medieval times, when they were worn not
just by university faculty, but also by
master craftsmen.” She further noted that
because the brilliant and varied colors of
academic hoods represent the many and
various universities where doctoral
degrees are gained, “for the rest of your
professional lives, you will wear this hood
as an emblem of the legacy you take from
UCLA.” She spoke briefly of the need to
carefully examine the realities of the
world and America’s role in it in light of
the events of September 11, noting that
just as our relationship with the Russian
people and their government has changed
significantly in recent years, “it is not hard
Leading the academic
procession are
Chancellor Albert
Carnesale followed by
Graduate Division Dean
Claudia Mitchell-Kernan
and Dr. Louis Ignarro,
who delivered the
evening’s keynote
address.
“Work hard, but…be
responsible and honest.
Your work should be guided
by common sense and the
principles of humanism.
Sometimes seemingly endless
perseverance is required….
but you must never give up.”
- DR. LOUIS IGNARRO
to envision a world where today’s conflicts
are transformed just as dramatically.” She
emphasized that the graduates’ knowledge
and research can have a major impact on
these changes: “You have lived in an
environment that thrives on openness to
people and ideas from all over the world,
and you know it can work.”

S
everal key experiences have
brought Ignacio Ferrey to
UCLA seeking master’s degrees in
Public Health and Latin American
Studies. The first turning point came
when he was a freshman engineering
student at San Jose State University
(SJSU). Due to his strong math back-
ground, a faculty adviser asked Ignacio to
participate in an outreach program to get
underrepresented high school students
interested in pursuing careers in math,
engineering, and science.
Resourceful himself, Ignacio found he
was also good at “helping others find the
resources they need to succeed.” Doing so
was more satisfying than the technical
projects he was assigned in engineering. “I
thought, if I go into the engineering field,
that’s just one engineer, but if I motivate
young students and help them to achieve
their goals, that’s ten engineers rather than
one.” Through this experience, Ignacio
committed himself to working with young
people to provide an avenue for them to
maximize their talents.
In no time at all, Ignacio was a
sociology major involved in a series of
community outreach programs: counsel-
ing high school students in East San Jose
and then university students, conducting
Planned Parenthood workshops for youth,
and leading focus groups on community
issues. At first, his goal was to pursue a
Ph.D. in education, but through personal
and work experiences, he soon learned
that “many of the barriers to educational
success involved health issues,” Ignacio
says. This brought him to another turning
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“I thought, if I go
into the
engineering field,
that’s just one
engineer, but if I
motivate young
students and
help them to
achieve their
goals, that’s ten
engineers rather
than one.”

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point: “If health is affecting the educa-
tional attainment of students in low
income communities,” he reasoned, “then
I want to address these issues.”
After graduating from SJSU, Ignacio
applied to the School of Public Health at
UCLA, finding “a warm welcome among
professors and students.” During the
application process, he visited UCLA and
became convinced that
this was the ideal place
to pursue his research
and career goals. “I was
impressed by the
professors’ responsive-
ness, encouragement,
and willingness to
invest time in a prospective student,”
Ignacio says.
Among the professors he met was
Bonnie Taub, who had earned a joint
master’s degree through UCLA’s program
in Latin American Studies and Public
Health and then a Ph.D.. Professor Taub
discussed her work in Los Angeles,
Mexico, and elsewhere in South America.
“What really got my attention,” Ignacio
says, “was how she conducted research
internationally while relating it to immi-
grant conditions in Southern California.”
Learning through Dr. Taub about a
possible joint degree as an academic
route to international work came at a
time when Ignacio was feeling motivated
to help improve conditions in Central
America. He had just returned from
visiting family members in Nicaragua,
where he witnessed firsthand the poverty
and poor health conditions that Nicara-
guans endure. Ignacio’s immediate family
came to California from Nicaragua in the
1950s because they needed medical care
they were unable to get at home. Now,
Ignacio decided, he would like to learn
how to empower communities both at
home and abroad.
About the same time, Ignacio received
a competitive
health policy
fellowship from
the Latino Issues
Forum in San
Francisco. The
fellowship
experiences gave
him new insights into the policy-making
process and showed him how he might
effectively use research to advocate for
voiceless communities. “Sitting in
meetings in Sacramento, Fresno, and San
Francisco, I saw that there are only a few
people at the table making important
decisions,” he says. “I want to be one of
those people.”
Ignacio spent the 2001-2002 academic
year in Latin American Studies at UCLA.
Most of his work involved community
health and anthropology, “dealing with
the culture to understand health issues
and policies,” he says. As he begins his
studies in public health this fall, he will
continue writing the area studies papers
required to achieve the master’s degree in
Latin American Studies.
One looks at HIV/AIDS prevention
and intervention programs in Managua,
Nicaragua, and how they interact with
cultural and sexual practices and beliefs.
Nicaragua was the last country in Central
America to report an HIV/AIDS case,
but the number of cases grew tremen-
dously throughout the 1990s, as people
who had fled the devastating civil war
began to return home. During his time at
UCLA, Ignacio says, “my knowledge of
international issues has increased expo-
nentially.”
His adviser, Adjunct Assistant
Professor Mike Prelip, agrees. “Ignacio is
extremely perceptive about the world,”
Dr. Prelip says. “He’s much further along
than he should be for a person his age.”
While most public health students say
they want to return to work in their
communities, Ignacio has a better idea of
what it means to do so, his adviser says.
When Ignacio arrived at UCLA, he
saw himself “running a local community-
based health program focused on
adolescents.” Now, he hopes to work at
the national and international level,
combining policy advocacy with work at
the community level. “You need a
combination of both to create effective
policy,” he says. “I don’t think you can just
be in your office writing policy without
understanding what’s going on at the
community level, especially while making
decisions that ultimately impact someone’s
health conditions.”
“If health is affecting the
educational attainment of
students in low income
communities,” he reasoned,
“then I want to address
these issues.”

Student Profiles
A
punk rock singer and `zinepub
lisher as a teenager, Kristen
Schilt turned her first-hand
experience as a Riot Grrrl into an
academic agenda during her undergradu-
ate and master’s degree studies at the
University of Texas (UT). Much of that
work has been published since she arrived
at UCLA for doctoral studies in the
Sociology Department’s gender program,
but her research has taken a new turn. Her
dissertation will look at how men and
women who are transitioning to the other
gender cope with related workplace issues.
Doing an internship at the Gay and
Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation
(GLAAD) to learn ethnographic method-
ology, Kristen found that a transsexual on
the staff was mentioned frequently during
her interviews. Some talked about
problems changing pronouns from he/his
to she/her, while others found they could
“no longer think of that person as a
woman.” More and more people are
transitioning from gender to gender openly
these days, Kristen says: “It really chal-
lenges how people understand gender.”
Using contacts with various transsexual
organizations in Los Angeles, Kristen hopes
to explore the experiences of both trans-
sexuals and their colleagues in different
kinds of workplaces, including gender-
segregated environments. “I like this project
because I think it has a lot of policy
implications,” says Kristen, who hopes her
findings might help transsexuals make the
transition more comfortably and effectively.
Ruth Milkman, Kristen’s adviser, says
her project is “a pathbreaking one, exploring
a line of inquiry that no one else has yet
excavated systematically. Her dissertation
will not only illuminate the dynamics of
transsexuals’ ‘crossing’ in the workplace, but
also deepen our theoretical understanding
of gender relations more broadly.”
As she begins her dissertation research,
Kristen has completed the qualifying exams
in both ethnography and gender, a task that
“at the time seemed insurmountable.” The
exams consisted of three 15-page essays that
had to be written in five days. The topics
were drawn from a core list of required
readings in addition to books in her selected
subareas of adolescence and female
friendships. Kristen proposed some essay
topics and got them back—revised—from
faculty: the missing feminist revolution in
sociology, the pros and cons of single-sex
schools, and the distinguishing qualities of
women’s friendships.
The latter subject drew on research
for her senior honors thesis, comparing
relationships among Riot Grrrls with the
romantic friendships of women in
Victorian England. Riot Grrrls was the
SociologySociologySociologySociologySociology
Kristen Schilt
While the Riot Grrrls sent
highly personal and political
homemade ‘zines to each
other, the Victorian women
shared their diaries.

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name the media gave to a very loose
organization of young women and girls
which developed out of
the punk music scene into
a nationwide ‘zine and
music movement with a
feminist philosophy.
The most obvious
similarity between the two
kinds of women’s
relationships, separated
by a century of sweeping
social and cultural
changes, was their base in
correspondence, Kristen says. While the
Riot Grrrls sent highly personal and
political homemade ‘zines to each other,
the Victorian women shared their diaries.
In both instances, Kristen found that
women experienced “very close relation-
ships where they offered each other a lot
of support” with friends they rarely or
never met face to face. Also, “both groups
felt isolated in their daily lives,” Kristen
says, the Victorian
women often taken
far from their
childhood homes
for arranged
marriages, the Riot
Grrrls, some just 12
or 13, often
“contained in their
homes without a lot
of options.”
A year after
graduating from UT, Kristen was “more a
punk rocker than a graduate student”
when a professor and mentor, Christine
Williams, encouraged her to resume her
studies. Professor Williams not only
“believed in me,” Kristen says, she also
was intrigued by the academic possibilities
of the Riot Grrrls. For her master’s thesis,
Kristen tracked down and interviewed 7
of the 12 women who formed the original
core of the Riot Grrrls about the 10 years
after the movement began. Some of the
women were still making feminist music,
films, or ‘zines; girls who had been in high
school when they became Riot Grrrls had
studied feminist politics and women’s
studies. All told, there was “a high level of
involvement in political action,” Kristen says.
With master’s degree in hand, Kristen
decided it was time to leave Austin. One
motivation was to find out what being a
graduate student was really like. At UT, she
“was kind of the baby” when she began
her graduate studies. She already knew her
fellow graduate students—they had been
teaching assistants in her undergraduate
classes—and she arrived with a mentor in
place. Kristen wanted “to see what it was
like to start from scratch,” and graduate
students at UCLA has good things to say
about the program here.
Kristen hasn’t been disappointed. The
ethnography program is very strong, and
the student working group on gender
brings to campus professors whose work
she admires. “They give a lecture, we have
dinner with them, they meet with graduate
students—it’s an amazing experience,” she
says. While absorbed in coursework, she’s
reviewed and revised papers from her UT
days, which are only now being published.
“I’ve become a much better editor,” she
says. “I’ve learned how to be critical of
my own work.”
Although she still sings occasionally
with an Austin-based band, Kristen hopes
to find an academic job that will combine
her love of teaching with ongoing
research. And real-world impact, she adds:
“I don’t want my research to just be in a
book that sits on a shelf.”
Some talked about
problems changing
pronouns from he/
his to she/her, while
others found they
could “no longer
think of that person
as a woman.”
“Smart Like Eve”, a
vintage Riot Grrrl
‘zine, and
“Undeclared”, a ‘zine
made by UCLA
undergraduate
students Kristen
instructed as a T.A.

Student Profiles
African Studies & Public HealthAfrican Studies & Public HealthAfrican Studies & Public HealthAfrican Studies & Public HealthAfrican Studies & Public Health
J
.C. (for Jennifer Christine) Walsh
spent the summer of 2002 in
Kampala, Uganda, assisting with two
projects: One to develop the pilot
phase of an HIV prevention program
specifically for street kids, the other to
create a referral list of services for victims
of domestic and sexual violence in
Kampala. Her work will provide the
internship credits she needs for her
master’s degree in public health.
This work was preceded by her first
field research experience in the summer
of 2001, when she did a month-long
study with Liberian refugee women in
Danane, Ivory Coast. Through interviews
with over 100 refugee women, most of
whom walked across Liberia to reach
safety, she identified patterns of institu-
tionalized violence used by rebel soldiers
against government supporters, including
sexual slavery, rape, and torture. This
research may provide the core of her
master’s degree in African Studies.
J.C. plans to complete the dual degree
by the end of the Fall Quarter so that she
can continue with a career in international
health that will almost certainly return her
to Africa again. Her goal? “To work on
projects that combine health and human
rights, and that address the very real issue
of violence against women in Africa.”
J.C. admits that she feels very lucky to
have discovered one of the keys to staying
motivated in this challenging work,
J.C. Walsh
Her goal? “To work on projects that combine health
and human rights, and that address the very real issue
of violence against women in Africa.”

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“When you are able to help someone who
is really in need, it’s so rewarding that it
outweighs the difficulties you face in
trying to do so,” she says. “If I can find a
way to support myself and still be true to
that, to help other
people, it will be the
best of all possible
worlds.”
J.C. worries that
she might sound like
the “stereotypical,
young, idealistic,
save-the-world kind
of person,” when in
fact she’s “just
following my heart.”
Nevertheless, a little
girl from Torrance who wanted to be
President of the United States has spent
much of her grown-up life as the only
oberuni, tubabu, muzungu, etc… (white
person) in various African settings, with
world-saving high on her agenda. Indeed,
she took a year-long leave of absence
from her studies in 2000 to serve as a
Rotary Ambassadorial Scholar in Ghana,
where she studied public health at the
University of Ghana and assisted with
various Rotary health projects in Accra.
Her interest in Africa began when her
high school French teacher came back
from a trip to Mauritania with photos to
share. J.C. recalls being fascinated that
there was a place where people wore
flowing indigo robes, spoke French,
Arabic, and other traditional languages at
the same time, followed multiple religions,
and combined modern culture with
traditional beliefs. She remembers
wondering why she had never learned
more about this place called Africa.
Her social orientation began in
college. Studying international relations at
George Washington University, J.C.
realized right away that she wasn’t
interested in international business or
trade. “I wanted to know why there were
millions of people suffering from very
basic health
problems around
the world and few
people seemed to
know about it.” The
ethical dilemmas
inherent in develop-
ment didn’t exist for
J.C. in the area of
health. “Everyone
has the right to
good health, no
matter who you are
or where you live.”
Her interests melded after college
during her first job assisting with a
USAID breast-feeding promotion project
and also helping to produce a radio soap
opera for HIV prevention in West Africa.
She then left Washington, D.C. to gain
international field experience with the
Peace Corps in Mali through work as a
health educator with a branch of Interna-
tional Planned Parenthood.
Once back home in Southern
California to get her bearings and look
ahead, J.C. decided to pursue a double
master’s degree in African Studies and
Public Health, focusing on international
health. The two programs are closely
related. Much of her work in African
Studies involves health issues, and Africa
is always the focus she chooses for
projects in the community health sciences
curriculum. A good example is her
group’s efforts to detail a program on
peer-education for HIV prevention in
Zimbabwe, for their International
Program Planning and Evaluation course.
Based on the advice of a former
colleague, J.C. made it an early priority at
UCLA to take a class taught by Dr. Joanne
Leslie, Adjunct Professor of Public
Health, who has spent 20 years working
on nutrition projects in Africa. Besides
their interests in Africa and health, the
two women share an ability to work
comfortably among Africans, which
Professor Leslie calls “a gift that we’re
lucky to have rather than a skill we’ve
developed.”
She adds that J.C. is unusual in the
passion she brings to her work. When J.C.
observes the effects of poverty, whether
at an Inglewood church (where she works
on a nutrition project with Professor
Leslie) or in Kampala’s slums, “she feels
the injustice of it and she feels the pain of
it in a way that is not just intellectual and
academic but very human,” Professor
Leslie says. “I’ve known her long enough
to say it’s not a passing phase.”
J.C.’s long-term goal is to develop
programs and policies that will improve
women’s health in Africa, perhaps for the
United Nations or through her own
nongovernmental organization. “She’s still
got a sense that she’s going to be able to
change the situation dramatically in the
course of her own working years,” her
mentor says. “That’s great—I would never
try to talk her out of it.”
J.C. recalls being
fascinated that there was a
place where people wore
flowing indigo robes, spoke
French, Arabic, and other
traditional languages at the
same time, followed
multiple religions, and
combined modern culture
with traditional beliefs.

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Leong, Lindy Film, TV, & Digital Media
Linzer, Drew A Political Science
Long, David T English
Maralani, Vida J Sociology
Marr, Matthew D Sociology
Masland, James G English
Medvedev, Natasha Art History
Meng, Victoria H Film, TV, & Digital Media
Merchant, Tanya H Ethnomusicology
Miller, Dana M Public Health
Milman, Noriko S Sociology
Mineo, Claudia History
Molina, Ludwin E Psychology
Monroe, Raquel L World Arts & Cultures
Morgan, Anya C Anthropology
Murachanian, Jean Art History
Naito, Jonathan T English
Nao, Kimberly G Education
Needs, Christopher M Archaeology
Nonaka, Angela M Anthropology
Noss, Kathleen, J Ethnomusicology
Pike, Maurice D Classics
Pollard, Mark, W History
Portnoi, Laura M Education
Powell, Manushag N English
Richardson, Ira A Philosophy
Riley, Kevin, W Sociology
Rubin, Lawrence P Political Science
Ryan, Nora K Slavic Lang & Lit
Scheinberg, Erica J Musicology
Scott, Emily E Art History
Shtromberg, Elena Art History
Smith, Lahra Political Science
Smurda, Julie D Psychology
Staten, JoAnn L Folklore and Mythology
Stern, Joshua C Education
Stillman, Jamy A Education
Teeple, John H Geography
Tynes, Brendesha M Education
Van Batenburg Clay Social Welfare
Vitalich, Kristin L Slavic Lang & Lit
von Lippke, Ilonka S Organismic Bio, Ecol &
Evol
Williams, Erin M Comp Lit
Wingard, Leslie E English
Winther, Jennifer A Sociology
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Woodworth, Griffin M Musicology
Will Rogers Memorial
Bingham Mira, Consuelo Social Welfare
Hayward, Katharine A Comm Health Sci
Lew, Hui Xin Ann-Marie Psychology
UCLA Faculty Women’s Club
Aelony, Shana R A Urban Planning
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Wolfenstein, Gabriel K History

ANTHROPOLOGY
Pamela Crespin: [1] “Labor, quality and the digital
revolution.” Paper presented at the Globalization:
Governance and Inequality Conference sponsored by
UCLA International Business Education and
Research, Ventura, California, May 2002. [2] “The
Digital Revolution & the Canadian Broadcasting
Corporation. A case study of the dynamic
relationships among technological innovation, labor
restructuring and quality.” Panel: Restructuring
Cultural, Economic and Technological Ties. Paper
presented at the Institute of Canadian Studies,
University of Ottawa, Canada, September 2002. [3]
“Labor, Quality & the Digital Revolution.” Panel:
Other Sides of Globalization. Paper presented at the
CIBER Conference on Globalization: Governance
and Inequality, the Center for International Business
Education and Research (CIBER) in The Anderson
School at UCLA, Ventura, California, June 2002. [4]
“Labor, Quality & The Digital Revolution. An
ethnographic study of the dynamic interrelationships
among technological innovation, workplace
restructuring and product quality.” Paper presented
at the 2002 AAA Annual Meeting: “(Un)Imaginable
Futures: Anthropology Faces the Next 100 Years”,
New Orleans, Louisiana, November 2002.
Ayana Haviv: [1] “Next Year In Kathmandu: Israeli
Backpackers and the Formation of a New Israeli
Identity.” Chapter to be published in Israeli
Backpackers and Their Society: A View From Afar. [2]
“Women and Human Rights in the Israeli-Palestinian
Peace Process.” Paper presented on a panel entitled
“The Role of Women in the Middle East” at the
Southwest Women’s Studies Association Conference,
“Feminist Solidarities: Local to Global”, California
Polytechnic University at Pomona, April 2002.
J. Cameron Monroe: [1] “Negotiating African
American Ethnicity in the 17th-Century Chesapeake:
Colono tobacco pipes and the ethnic uses of style.”
Published in British Archaeology Reports: The Archaeology
of the Clay Tobacco Pipe XVI, 2002. [2] “The
Archaeology Of Pre-Colonial Dahomey: Political
Legitimacy And The Development Of A West-
African Kingdom.” Paper presented at the Biannual
Society For Africanist Archaeologist Meetings,
Tuscon, Arizona, April 2002.
Diana M. Pash: “Contesting Identities in
Interaction: Teasing as Moral Work Among Gay Male
Adolescents.” Paper presented at the 8th Annual
Conference on Language, Interaction and Culture
(CLIC), UCLA, May 2002.
APPLIED LINGUISTICS AND TESL
Stefan Frazier: [1] “Gesture and Grammar:
Pointing as an ‘Activator’ of Person Reference in
Talk-in-Interaction.” Presented at the First
International Conference on Gesture, Austin, Texas,
June 2002. [2] “Embodiment and Vision in
Conversation.” Presented at the Twelfth Annual
Meeting of the Society for Text and Discourse,
Chicago, Illinois, June 2002. [3] “Hypothetical/
Counterfactual Would-Clauses Without Adjacent If-
Clauses.” Presented at the Fourth North American
Symposium on Corpus Linguistics, Indianapolis,
Indiana, November 2002.
Pamela Hobbs: [1] “The Medium is the Message:
Politeness Strategies in Men’s and Women’s Voice
Mail Messages.” To be published in Journal of
Pragmatics, in press. [2] “‘Is that what we’re here
about?’: A Lawyer’s Use of Impression Management
in a Closing Argument at Trial.” To be published in
Discourse & Society, in press.
Rosamina Lowi: “Discourse Features in the Code-
Switching Occurring in Conversations among
Spanish/English Bilinguals.” Paper presented at the
Ninth Annual Meeting of the International
Association for World Englishes (IAWE), University
of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, October 2002.
Leslie C. Moore: “Language mixing at home and
school in a multilingual community.” Published in
Proceedings of the Georgetown University Round Table 2000,
p 135-140, 2002.
Juliana Wijaya: [1] “Locating Characters in
Narrative Space: A Case Study of Talk and
Embodiment in Indonesian Story-Telling.”
Presented at Gesture: The Living Medium: First
Congress of the International Society for Gesture
Studies, The University of Texas at Austin, June 2002.
[2] “Multiple Codes and Multiple Identities in a
Multicultural Society.” Presented at “Rebuilding
Indonesia, a Nation of ‘Unity in Diversity’: Towards a
Multicultural Society.” 3rd International Symposium of
the Journal Antropologi of Indonesia, Udayana
University, Denpasar, Bali, July 2002. [3] “A Corpus-
Based Study of ‘Be Made Of’ and ‘Be Made From’.”
Presented at the American Association for Applied
Corpus Linguistics: The 4th North American
Symposium on Corpus Linguistics and Language
Teaching, Indianapolis, Indiana, November 2002. [4]
“Typographical Input Enhancement for Learning
Indonesian Transitivity.” Published in Papers from the
Tenth Annual Meeting of the Southeast Asian Linguistics
Society 2000, p 431-445, Program for Southeast Asian
Studies, Arizona State University, 2002.
ARCHAEOLOGY
Bekir Gurdil: “Systematic Surface Collection From
Nevruzlu: A Late Halaf Site in the Kahramanmaras
Valley”. Published in the journal Anatolica, Vol 28, p
137-158, 2002.
Minna Haapanen: “The Royal Consort Fu Hao of
the Shang, circa 1200 B.C.E.” Published in The Human
Tradition in Premodern China.
ARCHITECTURE
Pablo La Roche: [1] (Co-author) “Effects of
Thermal Parameters in the Performance of an
Intelligent Controller for Ventilation.” Presented at
the Annual Conference of the American Solar
Energy Society: ASES 2002, Sunrise on the Reliable
Energy Economy, Reno, Nevada, June 2002. Paper
awarded two prizes by the Society of Building
Science Educators: 1) Best co-authored paper and 2)
honorable mention as best student presentation. [2]
“Passive Cooling Systems for Sustainable Architec-
Graduate Student Accomplishments
ture in Warm Developing Countries.” Invited as a
guest speaker in the XXI World Congress of
Architecture of the International Union of
Architects in Berlin, Germany, July 2002. [3] “The
Case Study House Program in Los Angeles: A Case
for Sustainability.” Presented at PLEA 2002 Design
with the Environment, Toulouse, France, July 2002.
[4] (Co-author) “The Effect of Heat Gain on the
Performance of a Radiant Cooling System.”
Presented at PLEA 2002 Design with the Environ-
ment, Toulouse, France, July 2002. [5] “Modeling a
Radiant Cooling Test Cell with Different Ua Values.”
Presented at PLEA 2002 Design with the Environ-
ment, Toulouse, France, July 2002.
ART HISTORY
Pearlie Rose S. Baluyut: [1] “A Judge’s Observa-
tion.” Published in Pananaw: Philippine Journal of
Visual Arts, Vol 4, 2002, p 75-78. [2] “What’s yabang
got to do with it? Imelda Marcos’ role in furthering
Philippine art.” Published in Art Manila, June 2002,
8-9. [3] “A Filipino Painter in Paris.” Invited lecture
at Eagle Rock Community Cultural Center, Los
Angeles, California, July 2002.
ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCES
Chih-Wen Hung: [1] (Co-author) “Factors
Contributing To The Onset Of The Australian
Summer Monsoon.” Paper presented at the 25th
Conference on Hurricanes and Tropical Meteorology,
San Diego, California, April 2002. [2] (Co-author)
“Symmetry And Asymmetry Of The Asian And
Australian Summer Monsoons.” Paper presented at the
25th Conference on Hurricanes and Tropical
Meteorology, San Diego, California, April 2002.
BIOMEDICAL PHYSICS
Yu-Pei Liao: [1] “Antigen presentation by dendritic
cells is affected after irradiation.” Presented at the
93rd Annual Meeting of the American Association
of Cancer Research, San Francisco, California, April
2002. [2] “Radiation affects antigen presentation by
dendritic cells.” Presented at the 49th Annual
Meeting of the Radiation Research Society, Reno,
Nevada, April 2002.
BIOSTATISTICS
Jose Matud: (Co-author) “The MaGiK Method of T
Cell Receptor Repertoire Analysis.” Published in
Clinical and Diagnostic Laboratory Immunology, July 2002.
CELLULAR AND MOLECULAR PATHOLOGY
Joseph Hernandez: (Co-author) “Ah, sweet mystery
of death! Galectins and control of cell fate.”
Published in Glycobiology, October 2002,
1;12(10):127R-36R.
CHEMICAL ENGINEERING
Dolores Cruz: [1] (First author) “Micro-Thermal
Conductivity Detector for Chemical Sensing.”
Presented at the AVS National Meeting, Denver,
Colorado, November 2002. [2] (First author)

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