Sonia Brown

Journals

• Brown, S. M. (2018). Intimate Partner Violence: A Narrative Analysis of the Jamaican Women Experience. Social Work Doctoral Dissertations. 6.
• Brown, S., Blount, S., Dickinson, C. A., Better, A., Vitullo, M. W., Tyler, D., & Kisielewski, M. (2016). Teaching for Social Justice: Motivations of Community College Faculty in Sociology. Teaching Sociology, 44(4), 244–255.

Books 

• Brown, S. & D'Olivio, A. (2015). What You Need To Know: Introduction to Sociology. Solana Beach, CA: Cognella Publishing. ISBN13: 9781626611122

Lectures and Presentations

• Self-Centered Fear: This presentation elucidates how self-centered fear manifests itself during pedagogy engagement and leadership behavior.
• Sage on the Stage vs Guide on the Side: Effective Pedagogical Strategies to Increase Student Engagement: This lecture presents specific effective strategies that will guide students to make meaning of course materials. Objectives are: To demonstrate how to utilize questioning to elicit response, stimulate dialogue and engage students through inquiry and critical thinking. To explore the following questions, and more: What do I want my students to get from the lesson? What do I want my students to do because of the lesson? How do I elicit questions students might have about the lesson? How can I assess affective domain of learning (emotions, feelings, attitude)?
• The Elephant In The Room: Storytelling and Dialogue About Race and Racism: This workshop facilitated a safe and productive dialogue, where individual participants are guided to narrate their stories and experiences with race and racism.
• Why Might You Want To Go To Graduate School In Social Work: This presentation highpoint how social work is different from other professions, the broader career opportunities available, specialization, and the ability to pursue advance roles such as licensed social worker in local, national and international settings.
• Exploring the Practice of Christian Domestic Discipline Principles Within the Context of Intimate Partner Violence: This workshop provides an understanding and clarification of the Christian Domestic Discipline CDD) principles and practices, that utilize an interpretation of Biblical passages—often taken out of context—to rationalize and justify the practice of husband having authority over the wife, using techniques of neutralization to frame the practice, however, glaringly intimate partner violence (IPV), as well as the church's role in being culpable and complicit in their failure to address or condemn these behavior.

Conference Organized

• Fullbright Scholar Event: Women and Gender Issues In A Cultural Global Context: This conference bring together an interdisciplinary panel of experts who presented their research on various factors affecting women across global, such as the role of culture in shaping abortion, exploring unwanted pregnancy, and recent abortion experiences, exposing trans medicine as a capitalist conspiracy, and intersectional perspectives on women with disability.
• Intercultural Conference: Cultivating Global Citizenship. This conference brings together experts of various ethnic groups, from local, national and international diplomatic settings were invited to contribute to the glocal (global/local) standpoints in social work on the topic of cultivating global citizenship. Presentations and discussion provide an overview of the significance of a diversifying intercultural experience on our college campus. The priority is to challenge students, staff, and faculty to gain global competence, to expand awareness and proficiency, build a value system that focused on justice and human rights which is critical in an increasingly interconnected world, and promote understanding of cultural diversity. Topics related to advocacy efforts, heightened empathy, stronger relationships, and experiential learning, and to reexamine or realignment our values and priorities for a greater sense of purpose.
• Spirituality and LGBTQ Community: A conference, workshop, networking job fair for social workers and social work students with a theme of spirituality as a therapeutic tool and understanding the role of spirituality within the LGBTQ community. Opportunity to earned CEU’s and apply for paid internship scholarship.