Accomplishments: College of Liberal Arts
Katherine Gaddis (Anthropology) was awarded an NSF Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant for her project titled, "An Examination of Aging and the Elderly in Bioarchaeological Contexts."
Carlos S. Dimas (History) was elected as president-elect of the Southeastern Council of Latin American Studies (SECOLAS) at the 2023 conference in Antigua, Guatemala. He will serve as president-elect 2023-2024 and then as president 2024-2025.
SECOLAS is an association of individuals interested in Latin America established in 1953. Its objectives…
Vanessa Marie Booth (Political Science, The Lincy Institute, Brookings Mountain West) has been selected to receive the Thomas J. Watson Leadership Scholarship, which funds graduate study at Brown University. Admitted to the accelerated MPA program, Booth will be one of few students who receives the Watson Scholarship to not only fund her graduate…
Katherine Walker (English) published an article titled, "Horatio in Pieces, Or, How to Deal with Ghosts," in the journal Shakespeare. The article looks at Horatio's strategies for navigation the occult and supernatural in Shakespeare's Hamlet.
Marina Garber-Colacicchi (World Languages and Cultures) recorded a selection of specially recorded texts based on the anthology The Doomsday Poetry: Chronicles (2022) for the Time of War International conference at Princeton University.
Kristen Phipps (History) has received an Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellowship at the Huntington Library for the 2023-2024 academic year.
Michael J Alarid (History) was named as a winner of this years College of Liberal Arts’ Diversity Award. This award is given in recognition for outstanding scholarly work.
Alyssa Crittenden (Anthropology), vice provost for Graduate Education and dean of the Graduate College, presented at an international workshop on hunter-gatherer education at the University of Tromso in Norway. She was one of only two U.S. participants and joined colleagues from around the world, including Botswana, Cameroon, Namibia, Tanzania,…
Nirmala Lekhak (Nursing), Tirth Bhatta (Sociology), and Joel Snyder (Psychology) published an article, "The Primacy of Compassionate Love: Loneliness and Psychological Well-being in Later Life", in the Journal of Gerontological Nursing. The study provides evidence of the beneficial role of compassionate…
Jared Oestman (Political Science) published "Burden sharing in UN peacekeeping operations: Who deploys to violent locations?" in International Interactions. The article identifies which countries voluntarily deploy their service members to the most violent locations within United Nations peacekeeping operations. The research…
Via an interdisciplinary collaboration between UNLV's International Gaming Institute, department of computer science, department of psychology, and William F. Harrah College of Hospitality, Kasra Ghaharian published "Payments transaction data from online casino players and online sports bettors" in Data in Brief with co-authors…
John Tuman (Political Science) presented an invited paper titled, "The Electric Vehicle Transition in North America: A U.S. Perspective," in the seminar: La IAM: Entre la trampa y del ingreso medio, el T-MEC, la electromovilidad, y el nearshoring: Cuál future? [The Mexican Auto Industry: Between the Middle Income Trap, the USMCA Agreement,…