Accomplishments: College of Liberal Arts
Today the London Indie Short Festival announced that the winner for the Best Documentary Short category went to the interdisciplinary project known as The UNLV Shoah Survivors Project. Congratulations to all of the film's collaborators!
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The UNLV College of Liberal Arts religious studies program and UNLV…
Distinguished professor Debra Martin and her Ph.D. candidate Claira Ralston (both Anthropology) co-wrote and recently published a book titled, Gender Violence in the American Southwest (AD 11-1300): Mothers, Sisters, Wives, Slaves (Routledge). This volume uses osteobiography and individual-level analyses of burials retrieved from the La Plata…
Ph.D. student Taylor Flaherty (Anthropology) published a recent article titled, "Dehydration-Induced alterations to sharp force trauma on Sus domesticus radii," in Science and Justice. Their study analyzed the shrinkage of kerf marks on bone following laboratory-induced dehydration. This research was completed for Taylor's MSc degree at the…
Austin Horng-En Wang and Nadia Eldemerdash (both Political Science) published an article, "National identity, willingness to fight, and collective action," in the Journal of Peace Research. This article challenges the theory of mobilization, arguing that the calculation of the collective action will be salient among citizens without a…
UNLV students enrolled in assistant professor Cheryl Abbate's (Philosophy) courses "Animals and Philosophy" (Honors) and "Animal Ethics" (PHIL 277) raised $1700 for the Poppy Foundation (a Las Vegas cat rescue) during the "Thrifting for Animals" event held December 5. The classes are especially grateful to the philosophy department for paying…
Katherine Walker (English) published a chapter titled, "The Instinct of the Cook," in the edited collection In the Kitchen: 1500-1800 (Amsterdam University Press).
John Curry (History) organized and presented in a roundtable aimed at publicizing and discussing the progress made on a translation project funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities at the Middle East Studies Association annual meeting in Denver, CO, on December 4. The project aims to publish an annotated translation of the …
C.E. Abbate's (Philosophy) work was highlighted in the University of Colorado's Colorado Arts and Sciences Magazine. The article, titled "Ethicist zeros in on ‘the hard problems of animal rights'," discusses Abbate's academic research on animal ethics and her service-learning courses.
Melikabella Shenouda's (Higher Education) proposal for the Best Teaching Practices Expo poster session, on the topic of "Revisiting Your Inner Child: Increasing FYS Students’ Engagement and Sense of Belonging" has been accepted.
The expo will be a two-part event put on by the UNLV Faculty Center, with a poster session in the Student Union on…
John Tuman (Political Science) and Hafthor Erlingsson, '19 Ph.D. Political Science, have published an article titled, "Autocratic Union Organization and Foreign Direct Investment in the Mexican Automotive Parts Sector, 2004-2018." The article appeared in the Journal of Labor and Society.
Paul W. Werth (History) will be the Gerhard Casper fellow at the American Academy in Berlin for the spring semester of 2023. While residing in the German capital, he will work on research about Russian and Eurasian borders, territory, and sovereignty.
Zachary Billot (Political Science) has been selected as one of 60 U.S. students to participate in the prestigious, state-department sponsored, U.S.-Africa Green Leaders Fellowship, an eight-month fellowship designed to train and connect emerging environmental leaders in the United States and Africa.