Accomplishments: College of Liberal Arts
Margarita Jara (World Languages and Cultures), Roberto Zairquiey (PUCP), Pilar Valenzuela (Chapman University), and Anna Maria Escobar (UIUC), co-edited the book Spanish Diversity in the Amazon. Dialect and Language Contact Perspectives. The manuscript was published by Brill. This book, the first of its kind, is dedicated to different Spanish…
Kara Christensen (Psychology) published a new article, "Elevated insomnia symptom severity in university students: The role of sexual orientation and internalizing symptoms," in Journal of American College Health with colleagues Ilana Seager Van Dyk from Massey University (NZ) and Ellen Klaver from University of Alberta (CAN),
Yen-Ling Chen, Repairer Etuk, and Shane Kraus (all Psychology) and colleagues published two papers over the winter break.
The first paper, "Differences within: Hypersexuality, Sensation Seeking and Pornography Viewing Behaviors in a Sample of Heterosexual, Gay, Bisexual, and Uncertain Men," was published in Sexual Health &…
Austin Horng-En Wang (Political Science) published a co-authored article, "High-Level Visit and National Security Policy: Evidence from a Quasi-Experiment in Taiwan," in International Interactions. This article exploits a rare opportunity when three U.S. senators visited Taiwan while a representative telephone survey was collecting data…
Director of Student Community Engagement Jenna Heath (Liberal Arts) published an article titled, "Peer Mentor Program Initiative Pilot Year Discoveries: Two Approaches for Engaging Students through Peer Mentoring," in the journal Ê×Ò³| Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³» Campus, housed within American College Personnel Association (ACPA).
Amy Reed-Sandoval (Philosophy) published "Dr. Curtis Boyd: A Lifetime at the Borders of Abortion's Legality" in Ms. Magazine.
Amy Reed-Sandoval (Philosophy) published "Las pastorelas escolares y la diversidad religiosa en México" in LA Times En Español.
Jessica Habashy, Stephen D. Benning, Brenna N. Renn (all Psychology), Elizabeth M. Lawrence (Sociology), and Shane W. Kraus (Psychology) and colleagues recently published a paper, "Psychometric properties of the eating disorder examination questionnaire: Factor analysis and measurement invariance by race/ethnicity and gender," in Eating…
Andrew Kauffman's (World Languages and Cultures) translation of Shen Congwen's 1932 short story titled, "The Doctor," is forthcoming in the autumn issue (no. 98) of the Chinese literary translation magazine Renditions.
Iván Sandoval-Cervantes (Anthropology) was interviewed for the New Books Network about his recently published book, Oaxaca in Motion: An Ethnography of Internal, Transnational, and Return Migration (University of Texas Press 2022). Based on nearly two years observing and interviewing migrants from the rural Oaxacan town of Santa Ana Zegache. Many…
Dave Beisecker (Philosophy) just published, "Taking Peirce's Graphs Seriously," in the International Journal of Philosophical Studies. The work is a critical review of Logic of the Future, a multi-volume compilation of Charles Sanders Peirce's writings on logical graphs and notation.
Alyssa Buolos (Liberal Arts) is the recipient of the Outstanding Peer Mentor Award for exhibiting exceptional mentor qualities while positively impacting mentees and fellow peer mentors for the Peer Mentoring program. The program is part of the First-Year Experience under the office of vice provost for undergraduate education.