A new book by Beth Montemurro, distinguished professor of sociology at Penn State Abington, uncovers the tension between public, cultural narratives about hetero-masculinity and men’s private, sexual selves and their intimate experiences.
Interactive gaming, or online gambling, became legal in Pennsylvania in 2017. In the first assessment of how this policy change is impacting Pennsylvanians, a recently released report by Penn State researchers and the Department of Drug and Alcohol Programs found that approximately 1 in 10 Pennsylvanians engage in interactive gaming.
"Flat-World Fiction: Digital Humanity in Early Twenty-First-Century America," the latest book by Liliana Naydan, associate professor of English at Penn State Abington, was ranked as the No. 1 new release in 21st century literary criticism on Amazon.com.
Criminal justice data is under-utilized in research despite its high relevance and unique role in the opioid crisis, according to a recent study by Penn State researchers using crime incident data. The study found that opioid-related crime incident rates were positively associated with rates of opioid-related emergency department visits, hospitalizations and overdose mortality.
The WorkRise grant funds the 18-month study "Underemployment in the U.S.: Its Distribution and Effects on Workers," which will be led by Lonnie Golden, professor of economics at Penn State Abington.
A study led by a Penn State Abington professor recommends that luxury fashion brand managers segment their consumers by culture and develop different marketing strategies to remedy the loss of sales from counterfeit dominance.
Despite the COVID-19 pandemic, the Equity Pedagogy Network increased its reach to four campuses, nine collaborating centers and units and also hosts 130 faculty with about 100 members involved in one of their working groups. Casually referred to as "the Network," the group aims to improve societal outcomes for all students and faculty via improved teaching and learning on equity, bias and diversity.
Marissa Nicosia, assistant professor of Renaissance literature at Penn State Abington, has received a highly competitive National Endowment for the Humanities grant for her research and writing toward a book examining the intertextual links among domestic writing, food culture and early modern English poetry.
This document from a Mrs. Knight's recipe book, housed at the Folger Shakespeare Library is among the source material Marissa Nicosia, an assistant professor at Penn State Abington, draws from for her research.
According to the student researchers, colorism offers lighter-skinned individuals greater access to resources and opportunities as well as social advantages.
