Epistêmê: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Academic Research

Wanda R. Ortíz Hernádez 

English Co-Editor: Undergraduate-focused Papers

She is a fourth year undergraduate student at the University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez Campus, with a double major in Psychology and English Literature. She began her studies in August 2009 and expects to graduate on May 2014. She aspires to reach a Master’s and a PhD in both areas of her major or in a combined study.

Currently, she is co-editor of The School Psychologist, the official newsletter for the Division of the School Psychologist (Div. 16) ran by Dr. Amanda Clinton; she is part of the research team at the Centro Interdisciplinario de Estudios del Litoral (CIEL), a division of Sea Grant managed by Dr. Manuel Valdes Pizzini which focuses on interdisciplinary research and study of the coastal areas; furthermore, she recently became an editorial intern for the scholarly journal a/b: Auto/Biography Studies, which publishes critical, archival, and theoretical examinations of life writing: memoir, autobiography, biography, letters, diaries, blogs, etc. This journal is run by two editors, Dr. Ricia Chansky (UPRM) and Dr. Emily Hipchen (UWG).

She is co-author to one of the chapters in Dr. Clinton’s book Intergrated Assessment of the Bilingual Child (coming out on September), and was one of the editors for the book as well. She worked alongside Dr. Valdes in his exploratory research, “La producción mediática del miedo a la criminalidad: lo empírico, lo imaginado, y lo construido”; this research, scheduled to be presented in the XX Symposium of Undergraduate Investigations on April 2013, constituted the definition, study, and understanding of how the written media constructs criminality in Puerto Rico. In addition, she has been published in the student-focused collaborative literature and arts journal, [Id]entidad.

Wanda’s research interests are focused on social studies, particularly the fields of anthropology, sociology, and psychology. She is interested in studying social phenomena (crime rates, economy, society, change of environment, amongst others) that shape or alter the human mind and behavior. 

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