Anthropology Masters' student Emily Harvey has recently accepted a position as a Research Associate in the Schroeder Institute for Tobacco Research and Policy Studies at Truth Initiative. She works with Dr. Jennifer Pearson on large NIH funded research projects that center around e-cigarettes. This includes an R21 study examining the smoking patterns of smokers interested in trying e-cigarettes, and a multi-sited K01 award examining e-cigarette abuse liability and appeal. As a research associate she manages data collection, and helps with data analysis. She also conducts interviews with participants, collects bio samples, implements surveys, oversees research funds, and works on study related manuscripts. While the majority of the researchers she works with have backgrounds in Public Health and Psychology, the more involved in tobacco research she becomes, the more she says she is able to utilize her background in Anthropology and Women and Gender Studies to inform the approaches she takes in analyzing qualitative data, seeing the implications of the research, and identifying the possible outcomes.
Harvey received her BA in Anthropology from Mason in Spring 2015, with minors in African and African American Studies and Women and Gender Studies. As an Accelerated Masters' student she began taking graduate anthropology classes as an undergraduate in 2014-15. She is currently finishing up her MA thesis, which has the working title, "Social Movements, College Experiences, and Institutions: The Impact of Black Lives Matter on Black College Students". She is also completing the Women and Gender Studies Graduate Certificate program. Harvey is expected to graduate from the MA program in Anthropology in Fall 2016.
August 03, 2016
