Accomplishments: College of Liberal Arts
Professor Robert Futrell (Sociology) gave a keynote talk at the opening session for the Mobilization Conference on Protest, Resistance, and Democratic Retreat in San Diego, California, on June 9, 2023. The talk, “The Constellation of Extremist White Supremacism: A Cognitive-Emotional Approach,” explained how white supremacist extremism endures,…
Anthony King, Danielle Le, Aldo Barrita, Richard Chang, Donna Sim, Ting Tong, and Gloria Wong-Padoongpatt (all Psychology) recently presented a research poster titled, "Do Gamers Play for Money? An Analysis of Gaming Motives, Relative Deprivation, and Upward Mobility," at the American Psychological Association's annual conference in Washington, D.…
Shane Kraus (Psychology) and colleagues recently published the following papers:
The first article (Compulsive sexual behavior disorder in 42 countries: Insights from the International Sex Survey and introduction of standardized assessment tools) was published in the Journal of Behavioral Addictions.
The second article (A Network…
Professor Julián Barroso-Merino (World Languages and Cultures Department) presented "Cognitive, metacognitive strategies and processing fluency in acquisition of Spanish vocabulary" during the American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese 2023 Conference in Salamanca, Spain, on June 26-29.
This case analysis demonstrates that…
Austin Horng-En Wang (Political Science) was invited to publish a book chapter, "Qualitative and Quantitative Changes of Taiwan Studies in the political science discipline (1987-2022)", in the book Political Science: The State of the Discipline: 20th Anniversary of IPSAS, edited by Wu et al and published by Academia Sinica, Taiwan. In the…
Austin Horng-En Wang (Political Science)'s life story as a political scientist at UNLV is covered by Global Views Monthly, the largest magazine in Taiwan. In the article, Wang explains his decision to switch his undergraduate major from electrical engineering to political science and shares tips on finding interesting research ideas…
On July 26, Christopher D.E. Willoughby (Interdisciplinary, Gender, and Ethnic Studies) presented on the history of racism and medical research in professor Elizabeth Chuang's Research Ethics Seminar at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. In addition to his presentation, Willoughby led a discussion of how this history informs contemporary…
Tyler D. Parry (African American and African Diaspora Studies Program; Interdisciplinary, Gender, and Ethnic Studies) was interviewed by Insider journalist Hannah Beckler about the use of attack dogs throughout American history, specifically their use against Black people throughout the era of slavery, Jim Crow, the Civil Rights movement, and…
Peter Kaufmann, Sara Rosenkranz (both Integrated Health Sciences), and Nicole Short (Psychology) proudly represented UNLV during the NIH’s Summer Institute on Randomized Behavioral Clinical Trials in Washington, D.C. The Summer Institute, created by Kaufmann in 2001 when he served as NIH’s acting director of the Office of Behavioral and Social…
Taylor Flaherty (Anthropology) worked on a team of biological anthropologists who recently published their article, “Shifting the Forensic Anthropological Paradigm to Incorporate the Transgender and Gender Diverse Community,” in Humans.
Julián Barroso-Merino and Sergio Guzmán (both World Languages and Cultures) presented preliminary results of their ongoing research into actions taken to combat declining enrollments by world languages departments in community colleges across the country. The presentation titled, "What are we doing about low enrollment?" was part of the Community…
Emma Frances Bloomfield (Communication Studies) and Sheila Bock (Interdisciplinary, Gender, and Ethnic Studies) co-authored the lead chapter in the edited volume, Wait Five Minutes: Weatherlore in the Twenty-First Century (University Press of Mississippi, 2023). Combining rhetorical analysis with folklore studies, their chapter, "…