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Research Interests<\/h3>\n

\"University Dr. Carla received her doctoral training at the University of Michigan<\/a> (U-M). Her research interests include women’s and adolescent girls’ health, sexuality, and relationships; girlhood in America; hip hop and youth culture; violence against women and girls, youth violence prevention; and digital studies. Her work explores intersections of gender, sexuality, race, ethnicity, class, and age with mass media, youth culture and social media.<\/p>\n

Dr. Carla has examined these topics through a number of scholarly and community-based sexuality education activities, including her pioneering dissertation research study, which investigated sexuality, hip hop, and self-definition in social networking profiles (“home pages”) constructed by 216 Black adolescent girls residing in Southern states in the United States with the highest rates of HIV\/AIDS. She conducted her dissertation study in consultation with an expert panel of adolescent girls residing in the Atlanta metropolitan area.<\/p>\n

Her research highlighted the significance of social media and hip hop culture in shaping the sexual development of black adolescent girls coming of age in the HIV\/AIDS era and was one of the first empirical studies to uncover the nuances of cyberbullying, online harassment, and sexualization among adolescent girls. As the first published study of black adolescent girls\u2019 social networking profiles, this research won honorable mention in the ProQuest Distinguished Dissertation Awards<\/a> competition in recognition of exceptional and unusually interesting scholarly work produced by doctoral students (selected from 660 eligible dissertations published at the University of Michigan in 2004).<\/p>\n

Fellowships and Grants<\/h3>\n

\"CDCDr. Carla completed a two-year post-doctoral research fellowship appointment at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Division of HIV Prevention, where she investigated HIV prevention in communities of color and further explored the ways in which adolescent girls use media and hip hop culture to negotiate their sexuality, construct identity, and navigate adolescence. Her research has been funded by a number of institutions, fellowships, and grants, including:
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