Accomplishments: College of Liberal Arts
Jeff Schauer (History) attended the annual meeting of the Pacific Coast Conference on British Studies in Riverside, California. He presented a paper titled, “Friends for Zambia: Rhodesia, the making of a Zambia lobby, and the limits of solidarity, 1964-1974.” This paper examined efforts by the Zambian state and its allies to influence the…
Anthony King, Shane Kraus, and Gloria Wong-Padoongpatt (all Psychology) recently presented their research, "Examining the role of responsible gambling in associations between symptoms of trauma, gambling disorder, and gambling motivations: Results from a nationwide U.S. sample," at the 16th Annual Nevada State Conference on Problem Gambling. This…
Katherine Walker (English) published the article, "The Witch as Epistemic Spectacle," in Cahiers de Recherches Medievales et Humanistes — Journal of Medieval and Humanistic Studies. The article argues that Ben Jonson's witches are both possess embodied, occult knowledge and also teach audiences how to read the magical, the uncanny,…
Andrew Lugg (Political Science) published an article in the journal Global Policy titled, "Politicising pandemics: Evidence from U.S. media coverage of the World Health Organisation." The article uses text-as-data methods to analyze media coverage of the World Health Organization (WHO) in the New York Times and Washington Post…
Amy Reed-Sandoval (Philosophy) published "When We Die, We Become Muertos: Children's Philosophical Perspectives on Death in Tianguistengo, Hidalgo," in the Journal of Mexican Philosophy.
Amy Reed-Sandoval (Philosophy) participated in a symposium session titled, "Decolonizing Philosophy for Children," at the 2023 Annual Meeting of the Philosophy of Education Society.
Yen-Ling Chen and Shane Kraus (both Psychology) recently published two papers.
The first paper, "A Machine-Learning Approach to Assess Factors Associated With Hospitalization of Children and Youths in Psychiatric Crisis," was published in Psychiatric Services.
The second paper, "Assessing compulsive sexual behavior disorder: The…
Timothy Erwin (English) presented an illustrated paper, “The Discourse of the Eye: Romeo and Juliet and Hogarth’s Marriage A-la-Mode,” at the 53rd annual meeting of the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies in St. Louis, MO. He also chaired the panel “New Light on Samuel Johnson," hosting Prof. Brandon Schneeberger, a…
Susan Byrne (World Languages and Cultures) presented a paper titled, "Spain's Laws (and Literature) on Gypsies," at the annual conference of the Renaissance Society of America, held this year in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
Amy Reed-Sandoval (Philosophy) presented "Can Borders Be Feminist?" at the Centre de Recherche en Éthique (Center for Research on Ethics) in Montreal, Canada.
Over the weekend of March 11-12, Susan Lee Johnson (History) gave lectures about the book Writing Kit Carson: Fallen Heroes in a Changing West for the Tesoro Cultural Center's Historic Lectures Series. The Tesoro Cultural Center is a non-profit affiliated with The Fort Restaurant near Denver, and lecturers speak both at The Fort and at…
Nicole Short (Psychology) was awarded a five-year Career Development award by the National Institute on Drug Abuse (1K23DA054299-01A1; total to be awarded $787,634). This award will allow her to test the initial efficacy of and mechanisms underlying a new digital therapeutic she developed to prevent the development of posttraumatic stress disorder…