How does human rights research impact our communities? How does scholarship on human rights violations or issues of social justice have any meaning in our day to day lives? And what is being discussed\, studied\, and thought about in universities today? Join the P rince George&rsquo\;s County Office of Human Rights\, the Prince George&rs quo\;s County Memorial Library System\, and the University of Maryland for the new series "Social Justice in Community\," as we bring human rights s cholars into conversation about how their work illuminates human rights st ruggles around us today and what we can do about those struggles. Featurin g different scholars from the University of Maryland across a variety of d isciplines\, from African American Studies to Sociology to Criminology and Criminal Justice to Economics to Government and Politics to Anthropology to Hearing and Speech Sciences and more\, this series brings exciting new voices to the Prince George&rsquo\;s County community and offers us all fr esh ways to engage.
\nOn February 15\, 2024\, Katelyn Foltz presents \, "Football &\; Concussions: Spouses &\; Caretaking After the Last Snap." Katelyn Foltz (she/her) earned her Bachelor of Arts in Sociology an d Global Studies: Securities and Justice from the University of Virginia i n 2018. She earned her first Master of Arts in Sociology at George Mason U niversity in 2020. Her thesis\, &ldquo\;The United States&rsquo\; History of Unsportsmanlike Conduct &\; the Portrayal of Colin Kaepernick: How t he Culture Surrounding Football Reinforces the White Supremacist Patriarch y &\; Nationalism\,&rdquo\; used content analysis\, ethnography\, and i nterviews to demonstrate how the culture surrounding football reinforces i deas of white paternalism and hegemonic masculinity. She earned her second Master of Arts in Sociology from the University of Maryland - College Par k in 2022. Currently\, she is pursuing her Ph.D. in Sociology at the Unive rsity of Maryland &ndash\; College Park. She is currently working on two r esearch projects. The first project explores the media coverage of WNBA an d MNBA athletes&rsquo\; involvement in Black Lives Matter protests in the Summer of 2020. The second project explores gender-based violence in the s ports world through the lens of intersectionality. \;
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