Accomplishments: College of Liberal Arts
Simone Beasley (Hospitality Management), Kajuana Hollis (Psychology), and Kennady Wright (Hospitality Management) hosted a panel discussion to explore the impact of stereotypes on people within the African Diaspora. The panelists were Tatiyana Gilbert (Kinesiology), Aaliyah Galwey (Education), Deshawn Johnson (Sociology), Mary Whitehead (…
Alyssa Crittenden (Anthropology) recently did a podcast interview with Future Tech Podcast, titled "Eating through the Ages," chronicling some of her work on the evolution of the human diet. The interview can be streamed.
Carlos S. Dimas (History) has been awarded a Residential Fellowship at the Linda Hall Library in Kansas City, Missouri, the world’s foremost independent research library devoted to science, engineering, and technology While there, he will research his new project A Nation of Climates: Agriculture, Climatology, and Nation-Building in the Argentine…
Korey Tillman (Sociology) was awarded a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship. This prestigious and highly competitive national recognition comes with three years of research support. A graduate student, he is conducting his research under the advisement of professor Ranita Ray (Sociology).
Michael J. Alarid (History) presented, "Strongmen in the Northern Borderlands: Reconsidering Landholding New Mexicans in the Mexican State and American Territorial Periods, 1836-63" at the 66th annual meeting of the Southeastern Council of Latin American Studies in Oaxaca, Mexico, last month.
Austin Horng-En Wang (Political Science) co-authored the article "Self-Defense in Taiwan: New Findings from Surveys" in the Pacific Forum. In this article, the authors conducted and analyzed a series of survey experiments to explore the psychological mechanism behind Taiwanese people's willingness to fight against invasion under…
David Morris (English) published an op-ed on the history of suicide on CNN.com in the wake of two Parkland mass shooting-related suicides.
Michael J. Alarid (History) published a book review of Porous Borders: Multiracial Migrations and the Law in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands. The book is part of The David J. Weber Series in the New Borderlands History. Alarid's review appears in the spring 2019 edition of the Western Historical Quarterly.
Rebecca Gill (Women's Research Institute of Nevada and Political Science) delivered the luncheon address at the 2019 Grassroots Lobby Days event hosted by the Nevada Women's Lobby in Carson City. Her talk centered on the ways in which the #MeToo movement has changed the way our institutions conceptualize and address sexual harassment in the…
Camisha Fagan (English and Sociology) and Vanessa Núñez (Sociology) presented at the Pacific Sociological Association's annual conference in Oakland, California. Their presentation was titled "SLICES of Research: Service Learning as a Means to Engage Youth in Research." This project was conducted through the SLICES (Service Learning…
Ashley Schobert (Brookings Mountain West, Economics, and Political Science), a student of the Brookings public policy minor program, wrote an opinion editorial, "Single-payer Health Care is a Worthy Goal for the US — Eventually," which was published in the Las Vegas Sun. The piece offers a response to the March 7 campus event, "The Great…
Michelle Tusan (History) won the Pacific Coast Conference on British Studies' biannual article prize for "Genocide, Famine and Refugees on Film: Humanitarianism and the First World War," which was published in the academic journal Past and Present.