Accomplishments: College of Liberal Arts
Dave Beisecker (Philosophy) recently published an article, "The Consequences of Denial: Peirce's Bilateral Semantics," in Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society. This work also was recently featured in a workshop devoted to semantic bilateralism in logic at an international workshop at the University of Amsterdam sponsored by the European…
Shane Kraus (Psychology) and Rory Reid of UCLA are conducting clinical workshops in Reno and Las Vegas this week. Titled “Helping Clients with Compulsive Sexual Behavior Disorder," the workshops are supported by the Center for the Application of Substance Abuse Technologies, UNR.
Amy Reed-Sandoval (Philosophy) has received a $50,000 Whiting Public Engagement Fellowship for her project Philosophy for Children in the Borderlands: A Field School.
Robert Lang (Brookings Mountain West and The Lincy Institute), William Brown (Brookings), and David Damore (Political Science) recently had an op-ed that was featured in the Las Vegas Sun. Their article, "Winners and Losers from the Nevada Caucuses," examines the outcomes of the 2020 Nevada caucus and how "Nevada shaped this year’s…
Jenna Heath (Liberal Arts) has been awarded an Administrative Faculty Professional Development Grant by the office of faculty affairs. This competitive grant is given to administrative faculty to focus on professional development efforts as part of the Top Tier initiative. She will use the funds received to assist with attending the…
Elizabeth Lawrence (Sociology) and colleagues published an article "The Persistent Southern Disadvantage in US Early Life Mortality, 1965-2014" in Demographic Research.
Amy Reed-Sandoval (Philosophy) published an article, "Settler State Borders and the Question of Indigenous Immigrant Identity," in the Journal of Applied Philosophy.
Robert Lang (Brookings Mountain West & The Lincy Institute), William Brown (Brookings), and David Damore (Political Science) recently had a piece published in FixGov, a Brookings Institution blog. Their piece "Electing a President: The Significance of Nevada," discusses that "while the outcomes of the Nevada caucuses may only yield a handful…
Rebecca Gill (Political Science) and her colleagues Jennie Sweet-Cushman (Chatham University) and Sondra Cosgrove (CSN) have been awarded the 2019 Carrie Chapman Catt special award for research on women in politics in honor of the centennial of the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. The award recognizes their work on “Nevada…
Harriet Barlow (The Intersection), Orlando White (Campus Life), and Kevin Wright (Student Diversity & Social Justice) facilitated a panel discussion and presentation on how toxic masculinity and hypermasculinity is manifested on campus and in the workplace, and how to alleviate those problematic behaviors. The panelists who shared their…
Lauren Galloway (Sociology) has a new publication, ‘A Conspiracy of the Nation’: Case Study of Stokely Carmichael’s and H. Rap Brown’s Arguments in Support of Black Power," which appears in The Journal of Black Studies. She is on track to receive her PhD in May.
C.E. Abbate (Philosophy) published a paper, "Animal Rights and the Duty to Harm: When to be a Harm Causing Deontologist" in the Journal for Ethics and Moral Philosophy.