Five Intersex Stories of Sex, Gender, and Religious Faith September 4, 2019 NEWBURYPORT, MA – Intersex and Faith’s documentary film Stories of Intersex and Faith will be screened at the Newburyport Documentary Film Festival on Saturday, September 14th, at 12:00…
Our three summer researchers are hard at work on various projects. Learn more about the research they’re working on, the impacts it could have, and what our researchers like to do outside of CMAC! Kate Stockly is a PhD student…
Anyone Can Get Involved in Anti-Trafficking Efforts with the Latest High-Tech Tools May 17, 2019 BOSTON, MA – The Center for Mind and Culture (CMAC) released “Counter-Trafficking Top 40: Tools Against Child Trafficking,” a white paper that serves as a…
Research Assistant Marqueze Kennedy May 2019 Introduction: Child trafficking has been a problem for centuries. The technological advancements of the internet era, however, have brought with them an alarming growth of trafficking. Traffickers now use technologies such as social media,…
We’re excited to bring Nicole Smith on board as our Administration and Communications Coordinator at CMAC. Find out a little more about her! How did you come to work at CMAC and what were you doing before here? I’m new…
After a winter break hiatus, CMACers are back to the grindstone. We had our first research meeting of 2019 on Wednesday, February 20, and heard from guest presenter and BU Psychology Masters student Khushboo Patel about her work with CMAC…
We’re excited to bring Kippy Rudy, our Chief Development Officer, on board as our third full-time staffer at CMAC! With years of nonprofit fundraising experience, Kippy is exactly the kind of person we need here at CMAC. Find out a…
Does religion play a causal role in promoting anxiety between groups? In a recent paper published in the Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation, CMAC researchers collaborated with the Virginia Modeling, Analysis, and Simulation Center (VMASC) to study anxiety…
PhD. Candidate John Balch American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting, Denver, CO November 17-20, 2018 The American Academy of Religion brings thousands of professors and students, authors and publishers, religious leaders and interested laypersons to its Annual Meeting each year.…
November’s research meeting at CMAC was a “small but mighty” gathering! Allana, our undergraduate intern from BU, took the spotlight today to show her progress on developing a model for the factors contributing to suicide in rural areas, as part…