Postdocs

Post-doctoral Research Associate

Community & Cultural Psychology

Research Interests:

• Housing and homelessness

• Community integration for people experiencing homelessness

• Media impacts on community attitudes and stigma

• Community-based participatory research methods

• Arts-based interventions

• Graduate student wellbeing

Ongoing Projects:

• Housing First on O‘ahu research and evaluation

• Housing First Photovoice studies

• Arts Hui Hawai‘i

• Campus homelessness

• Hale Mauliola Emergency Shelter research and evalution

• Partners-in-Care Research Partnership: Pathways into and out of Homelessness and Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander disparities

Email: annars@hawaii.edu

Website: www.annapruitt.com

Post-doctoral Research Associate

Community & Cultural Psychology

Research Interests:

• Creating optimal physical & social environments for health & healing

• Relationships between participation, power and health

• Utilization of arts-based programs in reconciliation & trauma recovery

• Program evaluation

• Innovative qualitative methods, such as performance ethnography and Photovoice

• Community-based participatory action research

Ongoing Projects:

• Furthering theoretical development around patient empowerment and occupational justice

• Evaluation of mental health Clubhouses on O‘ahu

• Evaluation and research on new programs in child welfare on Hawai‘i Island and O‘ahu

• Phenomenological and auto-ethnographic exploration of butoh as a form of collective healing

Email: joyagner@hawaii.edu