Accomplishments: College of Liberal Arts
Professor Ben Farrer (Political Science) published "Goals, Strategies, and Tactics: Continuity and Change in Extinction Rebellion in the United Kingdom" in the December 2023 edition of the journal Contention. This article argues that the environmental activism group Extinction Rebellion has a unique strategy that helped it disrupt UK politics…
A journal, Governance, vol. 7, which highlights the excellent work done by UNLV undergraduates in the Department of Political Science, was recently published. The faculty supervisor is professor Nerses Kopalyan. Professor Martha Phelps assisted with this issue.
Nicholas Barron (Anthropology) published an article titled, "Lessons in Safe Logic: Anthropological and Liberal Imaginings of Termination," in the Journal of Anthropological Research. The article frames renewed calls for disciplinary decolonization within the entwined and shifting histories of US liberalism and federal Indian policy in the post-…
Cheryl Abbate (Philosophy) gave an invited talk on "The Philosophy of Animal Rights, Religion, & the Law" at Minnesota State University (MSU), Mankato as part of MSU's philosophy colloquium series.
Rachel Torres and Elizabeth Maltby (both Political Science) had a peer-reviewed article published in Journal of Public Policy.
Abstract:
"Previous scholarship has shown that experience with public policies can affect citizens’ willingness to participate in politics. However, few studies have examined whether the effect of experience with…
Amy Reed-Sandoval (Philosophy) participated in a panel discussion for the seminar on "Theories of Decoloniality and Mobility in Central America and the Caribbean" at Toronto Metropolitan University. The event was part of the Rights of Children and Youth Partnership: Fortalecimiento de la Colaboración en las Américas.
The Philosophy Department of the University of Bucharest (Romania) hosted a four-day workshop that consisted of a guided discussion of Russ Hurlburt’s (Psychology) book Describing Inner Experience? (MIT, 2007, with UC Riverside professor Eric Schwitzgebel). Hurlburt made a meet-the-author Q&A appearance via Zoom during the final hour of the…
Michael J. Alarid (History) delivered a public talk at University of Alabama titled, "A Deluge of Violence: What Surges in Homicide and Assault Reveal about the Impact of Regime Change on Everyday People in 19th Century New Mexico and Beyond."
The talk was made possible by the generosity of the Helen Delpar Endowment for Latin American Studies,…
Michelle Tusan (History) started her two-year term as president of the North American Conference on British Studies.
The Utah Tech University Humanities Center recently interviewed Jarret Keene (English) to discuss his new dystopian adventure novel Hammer of the Dogs, the genius of comics legend Jack Kirby, and the challenges of being a writer in the digital age. Listen to the podcast episode here. Hammer of the Dogs is available wherever books are sold.
Cheryl Abbate's (Philosophy) sixth Annual Tom Regan Memorial Lecture, titled “The Philosophy of Animal Rights: A Way of Life or Religion?" (co-hosted by The Brooks McCormick Jr. Animal Law & Policy Program at Harvard Law School & The Culture & Animals Foundation (CAF), is now published by CAF and available to watch here.
Iván Sandoval-Cervantes (Anthropology) published an article titled, "Gaining Voice through Injury: Voice and Corporeality in Animal Rights Activism in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico," in the academic journal Cultural Anthropology. The article explores the relationship between non-human animals and "voice" in animal rights/well-being activism in Ciudad…