Black Mountain Institute at UNLV champions writers and storytellers through programs, fellowships and community engagement. We make space for meaningful collaborations and conversations; we understand service as vital. We ask questions about access, the environment, and labor. We find our home in Las Vegas–a place of hospitality in the middle of a desert. Between the manufactured and natural, urban and wide expanse, built and rebuilt, bounty and scarcity, we live within narratives of destruction and preservation. From the brightest spot on the planet, Black Mountain Institute amplifies writing and artistic expression to connect us to each other in the Las Vegas Valley, the Southwest, and beyond.
Colette LaBouff, Executive Director
Office: RLL 121
Phone: 702-895-5548
Center for Democratic Culture serves as a clearing house for UNLV faculty and students conducting research on the historical experience of American democracy and its relevance to contemporary society at home and abroad. CDC promotes civic education and civility in public discourse through research, scholarly exchange, and community-based programs. It works closely with local organizations in staging forums on the problems of democracy, conducting seminars on the issues central to local community, developing innovative programs in civic education, and building ties to fledgling democracies.
Dmitri Shalin, Director
Office: CHB-B 237
Phone: 702-895-0259
Fax: 702-895-4800
The Migration, Demography, and Population Studies Center Initiative developed out of a collaborative discussion among the UNLV faculty regarding the importance of migration and demographic change to the evolving population dynamics and growth of the states in the Mountain West Region. At present, there is no interdisciplinary research center devoted to the broad study of migration, demography, and population change at the institutions of higher education in the Mountain West.
Tiffiany Howard, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Department of Political Science
Office WRI-A 210
Mail Code: 5029
Phone: 702-895-3354
Email: tiffiany.howard@unlv.edu
Family Behavior Therapy is a model research lab focused on improving the lives of families affected by substance abuse and its associated behavior problems (e.g., delinquency, child maltreatment) through education, applied research, and training. Collaborating with colleagues throughout UNLV, other universities, and various State and Federal governmental organizations, its staff is well equipped to develop, implement and evaluate evidence supported interventions, particularly Family Behavior Therapy for substance abuse and its associated problems.
Dr. Brad Donohue, Director
Psychology Department
Phone: 702-895-2468
Fax: 702-895-0195
Opened in 2004, the Forum for Latin American Studies promotes research and teaching on Latin America and the Caribbean. The recent activities of the Institute have included organizing research colloquia, supporting graduate research projects in History, Anthropology, and Political Science, and participating in grant funded projects.
Alicia Rico, Director
Phone: 702-895-4874
Fax: 702-895-1226
Sponsored by the Colleges of Liberal Arts and Education, The UNLV PRACTICE, or Partnership for Research, Assessment, Counseling, Therapy and Innovative Clinical Education, is a UNLV Community Mental Health Clinic.
The UNLV PRACTICE offers low cost, sliding scale, quality mental health services to the UNLV and greater Las Vegas communities. Advanced graduate students provide services under the intense supervision of UNLV faculty experts in clinical and school psychology and counseling. Faculty are licensed or credentialed in their respective fields. Our services include counseling, psychotherapy, and testing. Several specialty clinics also operate within The UNLV PRACTICE such as The Child School Refusal and Anxiety Disorders Clinic; The Problem Gambling Treatment Program; and The School and Clinical Psychological Assessment Clinic. To learn more about our hours and services, please visit our website.
Dr. Michelle G. Paul, The Workday Endowed Executive Director
Professor in Residence & Associate Director of Clinical Training - Psychology
Phone: 702-895-1532
Fax: 702-895-1530
Housed in UNLV’s College of Liberal Arts, The University Forum Lecture Series was founded in 1985, by then-Dean Thomas Wright. The basic idea was to bring intellectual and artistic talent from across the country to Las Vegas and the UNLV campus in order to share ideas and thereby enrich the lives of the citizens whose taxes support us. Since that time the series has never missed a semester in offering a dozen or more public lectures to the community. Indeed, today speakers no longer come just from across the country but from around the world, sharing ideas, adventures, performances and insights with our students as well as with our fellow Las Vegans.
College of Liberal Arts, Dean's Office
Office: CHB-B 519
Phone: 702-895-3401
Email: liberalarts@unlv.edu
The Wilson Advising Center supports all academic units within the College of Liberal Arts. They have full-time, professional advisers on staff that provides academic advising, on-campus referrals, degree progress worksheets, tentative class scheduling, career options, resume clinics, and information on graduate schools.
Cheryl Tillotson
Office: WRI-B 131
Phone: 702-895-1997
Fax: 702-895-1999
The Women's Research Institute of Nevada helps improve the lives of women in our state through research and education. The central mission of the institute is to support UNLV students and faculty as they hope to expand their knowledge on a variety of subjects related to women.
Dr. Caryll Dziedziak, Director
Office: WRI-B 312
Phone: 702-895-3309
Email: caryll.dziedziak@unlv.edu
The Writing Center is sponsored by both the College of Liberal Arts and the English department. Consultants, usually English graduate students and instructors, assist students, staff, and faculty with any stage of the writing process, from generating ideas to polishing final drafts. The Writing Center is not a proofreading service. The center teaches writers how to make positive changes in their writing skills and how to diagnose and correct their own writing problems.
Dr. Erin Zimmerman, Director
Office: CDC-3
Phone: 702-895-2600
Fax: 702-895-4480