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GCI Working Paper Series - 2005
From
Hunger Strike to High School:
Youth Development, Social Justice and
School Formation
David Stovall
Assistant Professor of Policy Studies
College of Education
University of Illinois at Chicago
Great Cities Institute Faculty
Scholar, 2004-2005
April 2005
GCP-05-01
The paper discusses the centrality of young people in the development
of an engaged community education model. Couched in a larger discussion
of a communiy driven initiative, the paper is centered in the contributions
of young people to the process.
Telephomania: The Contested
Origins of the Urban Telephone Operating Company
in the United States
, 1879-1894
Richard John
Associate Professor, Department of History
College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
University of Illinois at Chicago and Great Cities Institute Faculty
Fellow 2004-2005
June 2005
GCP-05-02
This paper seeks to redirect our understanding of the formative era
of American telephony by exploring the relationship between innovation,
government-business relations, and business strategy in the pre-1894
period in the large urban exchange. The focus is on Chicago, which,
along with New York City, was in this period one of the two largest
telephone exchanges in the world.
So Called Girl-on-Girl Violence is Actually Adult-on-Girl Violence
Laurie Schaffner
Assistant Professor, Department of Criminal Justice
College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, University of Illinois at Chicago
Great Cities Institute Faculty Fellow 2003-2004
November 2005
GCP-05-03
This research briefly explores the idea of girl-on-girl violence and
argues that young women are indeed experiencing violence, but not necessarily
from each other, as much as from the effects of racism, sexism, misogyny,
homophobia, and poverty.
PTSD in Children and Adolescents
Tanya Anderson
Assistant Professor, Psychiatry
College of Medicine, University of Illinois at Chicago
Great Cities Institute Faculty Fellow 2003-2004
November 2005
GCP-05-04
This paper reviews the history of PTSD, common symptomatology among
children and adolescents diagnosed with PTSD, issues in diagnosing PTSD
in children and adolescents, and lastly, trauma’s impact on development.
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