Accomplishments: College of Liberal Arts
John M. Bowers (English) delivered two invited lectures at the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville this month: "Tolkien as a Chaucerian: The Reeve's Tale" and "Tolkien's Lectures on The Pardoner's Tale." The lectures were sponsored by the university's Honors College with support from the Walton Trust.
Daniel Benyshek (Anthropology) and Sharon Young (Anthropology and Undergraduate Research) and colleagues published the first clinical trial exploring the effects of human maternal placentophagy, the practice of eating one's placenta after giving birth. The study, which was published online in the journal Women and Birth Nov. 23, was covered…
David Morris (English) is the author of the book The Evil Hours: A Biography of Post-traumatic Stress Disorder, which this month was recognized by The New York Times as "What to read in the face of trauma." According to the Times, "Morris, a former Marine who suffered from PTSD on his return from Iraq, traces the historical understanding of…
Ranita Ray (Sociology) just published her book The Making of a Teenage Service Class: Poverty and Mobility in an American City with the University of California Press.
Michael Ian Borer (Sociology) gave a talk and workshop for the Las Vegas-Clark County Library Distract at its Windmill Lane location as part of its “Adulting 101” series. He presented research on popular culture and social interaction and their connections to urban “lifestyle enclaves,” scenes, and friendship networks.
Andrew Thomas Reyes and Katrina Isla (both Nursing), Christopher Kearney (Psychology), and Ross Bryant (Military and Veteran Services Center) co-authored “Student Veterans’ Construction and Enactment of Resilience: A Constructivist Grounded Theory Study,” which explored how student veterans prepare themselves to handle the challenges of academic…
Lizette Arellano, Shaun Mangelson, and Manuel Rodríguez-Pérez (all World Languages and Cultures) attended the third annual Interdisciplinary Conference in the Humanities held at Sacramento State University in October. They presented as a panel a series of essays on the Spanish post-war novel Nada written by Carmen Laforet. The panel covered a…
The UNLV Debate Team (Communication Studies) of Matthew Gomez (Political Science) and Jeffrey Horn (Economics) won the Las Vegas Classic Debate Tournament, held at UNLV in October.
Gomez and Horn finished the preliminary debates with a perfect 7-0 record, defeating teams from Gonzaga, Arizona State University,…
Levent Atici (Anthropology), along with colleagues Suzanne Pilaar Birch of the University of Georgia and Burçin Erdoğu of the University of Thrace in Turkey, has published a research article in PLOS ONE. In the article they investigate Neolithic and Chalcolithic (8500-7000 years Before Current Era) animal management systems at Uğurlu Höyük on the…
John Hay (English) authored a scholarly article titled "The American Mad Max: The Road Warrior versus the Postman," which appeared in the academic journal Science Fiction Film and Television in October.
Beginning with the incredible success of The Road Warrior, the Mad Max franchise became a foundational U.S. post-apocalyptic…
Joanne Goodwin (History) has been elected to the position of secretary for the National Collaborative for Women's History Sites. The organization's mission is to promote the preservation and interpretation of sites and locales that bear witness to women's participation in American life. Most recently the organization won National…
Deborah Arteaga (World Languages and Cultures) presented a paper, "Creating an Intermediate Medical Spanish Program at an Urban University," at the 75th meeting of the South Central Modern Language Association, in Tulsa, Oklahoma.