{"id":23367,"date":"2016-10-21T06:00:10","date_gmt":"2016-10-21T11:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/?p=23367"},"modified":"2016-10-21T05:28:53","modified_gmt":"2016-10-21T10:28:53","slug":"mid-south-sociological-association-invites-austin-peays-ogbonna-mcgruder-to-discuss-her-book-at-annual-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/2016\/10\/21\/mid-south-sociological-association-invites-austin-peays-ogbonna-mcgruder-to-discuss-her-book-at-annual-conference\/","title":{"rendered":"Mid-South Sociological Association invites Austin Peay\u2019s Ogbonna-McGruder to discuss her book at annual conference"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"AustinClarksville, TN<\/strong> – Earlier this month, Dr. Chinyere Ogbonna-McGruder, Austin Peay State University professor of public management and criminal justice, accepted an invitation to North Charleston, South Carolina, to discuss her 2009 book, \u201cVoices from the Inside: Case Studies from a Tennessee Women\u2019s Prison,\u201d at the Mid-South Sociological Association\u2019s 42nd Annual Conference.<\/p>\n

\"APSU's<\/a>

APSU’s Chinyere Ogbonna-McGruder<\/p><\/div>\n

The organization\u2019s president also invited Ogbonna-McGruder to chair a special panel during the conference on criminal justice and race.<\/p>\n

The APSU professor\u2019s book, completed with the help of a faculty research grant, \u201creveals the personal accounts of over 60 women that are incarcerated for drug crimes, in the Tennessee prison for women.\u201d These intimate portraits provide added context to a subject often examined only through impersonal statistics.<\/p>\n

Ogbonna-McGruder also is the author of the 2007 book, \u201cTennCare and Disproportionate Share Hospitals in Tennessee,\u201d and the 2013 book, \u201cA Different Perspective on the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.\u201d The University Press of America published all three books.<\/p>\n

Ogbonna-McGruder previously worked for the World Health Organization in Africa and as a bioterrorism epidemiologist for the Tennessee Department of Health. Last year, she presented a research paper, \u201cEbola 2014 Outbreak, Discourse and Policy,\u201d at the Critical Issues roundtable at Oxford University, England. She also served as a member of the round table.<\/p>\n

Her three books are currently available at www.amazon.com<\/a><\/p>\n

For more information, contact Ogbonna-McGruder at ogbonnac@apsu.edu<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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