Accomplishments: College of Liberal Arts
Sheila Bock (Interdisciplinary, Gender, and Ethnic Studies) has been elected for a two-year term as president of the Western States Folklore Society. Starting in January 2023, she has also taken over as co-editor (with Elo-Hanna Seljamaa, University of Tartu) for the international journal Narrative Culture.
Carlos S. Dimas (History) was an invited speaker to the University of California, Irvine's (UCI) Global Forum to give a talk, "Political Debate and Medical Uncertainty in the Age of Pandemics and Epidemics"
The event was sponsored by UCI's Global Studies Department, Center for Medical Humanities, and Center for Latin American and Caribbean…
Aldo Barrita, Kristin Hixson, Gloria Wong-Padoongpatt (all Psychology), Anjala Krishen (Business) and colleagues recently published a paper, "Centering the Margins: A Moderation Study Examining Cisgender Privilege Among LGBTQ+ BIPoC College Students Facing Intersectional Microaggressions," in Psychology of Sexual Orientation and Gender…
Jessica E. Teague (English) published an article, "A Story in Sound: The Unpublished Writings of Sidney Bechet," in the journal MELUS: Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States.
This article analyzes two previously unknown fictional pieces written by the jazz musician, Sidney Bechet, whose 1960 autobiography Treat It Gentle is…
John M. Bowers (English) published his epic gay novel, To the Boathouse, on Amazon KDP. Its multiple plotlines span a century from the eve of the First World War, through the sexual revolution and AIDS epidemic in New York, to the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center — and beyond.
Michael Ian Borer (Sociology) and Tyler Schafer, Ph.D. '17 Sociology, published their edited volume Researching City Life: An Urban Field Methods Text-Reader with SAGE publications. The book examines the city from a street level perspective and provides readers with tools to conduct research on urbanism — the everyday experiences of…
Among more than 100 chapters of Model United Nations in the United States, the UNLV Model United Nations ranked in the top 50. Undergraduate student Cecilia Winchell is the president of UNLV Model Nations.
Carlos S. Dimas (History) was a panelist at "Broadcasting the Local" at California State University Channel Islands.
He spoke to faculty, staff, students, and community members on his upcoming audio documentary commemorating the anniversary of the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, which was funded through the National Endowment for the…
Carlos S. Dimas (History) was an invited speaker to California State University Channel Island's History Community Seminar.
He presented on his book, Poisoned Eden: Cholera Epidemics, State-Building, and the Problems of Public Health in Tucumán, Argentina, 1865-1908 published in 2022 through University of Nebraska Press
Roberta Sabbath (English) edited Vegas Strong: Bearing Witness 1 October 2017 (University of Nevada Press).
Doctoral students Fabian Rebolledo and Mariah Mena (both History) were selected to receive Crossing Latinidades Mellon Humanities Fellowships for the 2023-24 academic year from the Crossing Latinidades Humanities Research Initiative at the University of Illinois at Chicago. They will receive $30,000 stipends each, help conduct research in…
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."