research

Benney, Tabitha M., Devon Cantwell, Phillip Singer, Linda Derhak, Samuel Bey, and Zahra Saifee. 2021. "Understanding Perceptions of Health Risk and Behavioral Responses to Air Pollution in the State of Utah (USA)" Atmosphere 12, no. 11: 1373. https://doi.org/10.3390/atmos12111373

Abstract:

Poor air quality in Utah creates an array of economic, environmental, and health-related impacts that merit investigation and informed political responses. Air pollution is known to cause a variety of health problems, ranging from increased rates of asthma to cardiovascular and lung disease. Our research investigates the extent of Utahn’s understanding of the health risks associated with long-term and short-term impacts of air quality. To assess the degree to which Utahn’s perceive the health risks of air pollution, we performed an ordinal logistic regression analysis using responses to the Utah Air Quality Risk and Behavioral Action Survey, a representative panel survey administered between November 2018 and January 2020 (n = 1160), to determine how socioeconomic status impacts risk perception. Socioeconomic status is not a predictor of perceiving air’s short-term risks to health. Those with more conservative political orientation, as well as those with higher religiosity scores, were less likely than those with more liberal political orientation or those with lower religiosity scores to strongly agree that air pollution poses short-term health risks. We find that for short-term health risks from air pollution, Utahns in the middle-income category are more likely than those in the low-income category to strongly agree that air pollution poses long-term health risks. In addition, those with more conservative political orientation were less likely than those with more liberal political orientation to strongly agree that air pollution poses long-term health risks.

Tabitha Benney, Amandine Orsini, Devon Cantwell, and Laura Iozzelli, Chapter 3: Theories and Methods of Agency Research in ESG (2020), in Michele Betsill, Tabitha M. Benney and Andrea K. Gerlak (editors), Understanding Agency in Earth System Governance. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press.

Devon Cantwell-Chavez and Melissa Baker. 2024. Misbah Hyder and Michael Murphy (editors). Building and Maintaining Peer Learning Communities for Early Career Instructors. Palgrave Macmillan. Teaching Political Science and International Relations for Early Career Instructors.

Cantwell-Chavez, Devon, and Jourdan Davis. 2024. “Navigating Generative AI Tools in the Classroom Through a Lens of Equity and Accessibility.” Journal of Political Science Education, November, 1–13. doi:10.1080/15512169.2024.2426153.

Abstract:
The open release of ChatGPT in late 2022 sent the world of education into a frenzy. Popular media outlets both sang the praises of generative AI and also posed questions about what generative AI meant for the future of teaching and learning. In the year that has followed, we have seen a broad range of strategies for managing generative AI on campuses ranging from total bans to open embrace and encouragement. As such, many instructors feel lost and unguided in how to approach generative AI in their classrooms. In response to lack of clarity on direction or alternatives, an increasing number of administrators and instructors are considering bans on generative AI tools. In this article, we offer a set of considerations about the landscape of generative AI in classroom and work settings followed by a set of three models (high, medium, and low use) instructors can use in small, medium, and large classrooms to navigate AI in a higher education setting.

Devon Cantwell-Chavez, Asif Siddiqui, and Christina Fattore. September 2022. Discrimination and Sexual Assault- Resources and Options for Responding and Reporting, Kevin Lorentz II, Daniel Mallinson, Julia Hellwege, Davin Phoenix, J. Cherie Strachan (editors). Strategies for Navigating Graduate School and Beyond.

Devon Cantwell-Chavez, Siobhan Kirkland, Hannah Lebovits, Maricruz Osorio, Natalie Rojas, Rosalie Rubio, Sarah Shugars, Rachel Torres, and Rachel Winter. September 2022. No Rapunzel in This Ivory Tower: Finding Your Collective and Overcoming Academic Isolation, Kevin Lorentz II, Daniel Mallinson, Julia Hellwege, Davin Phoenix, J. Cherie Strachan (editors). Strategies for Navigating Graduate School and Beyond

Devon Cantwell-Chavez and Alisson Rowland. September 2022. Hidden Expenses in Graduate School: Navigating Financial Precarity and Elitism, Kevin Lorentz II, Daniel Mallinson, Julia Hellwege, Davin Phoenix, J. Cherie Strachan (editors). Strategies for Navigating Graduate School and Beyond.

Misbah Hyder, Dana El Kurd, Felicity Gray, Devon Cantwell-Chavez, and Alisson Rowland. September 2022. Things that Can Go “Wrong”: Finding Our Own Way in Graduate School, Kevin Lorentz II, Daniel Mallinson, Julia Hellwege, Davin Phoenix, J. Cherie Strachan (editors). Strategies for Navigating Graduate School and Beyond.

Julie Rust & Devon Cantwell (2018). No one fits in a box: Preservice teachers’ evolving perceptions of self and others. Contemporary Issues in Technology and Teacher Education, 18(2).