Accomplishments: College of Liberal Arts
With community partners from Toronto, Canada, Renato "Rainier" M. Liboro (Psychology) recently published the article, "Kinky Sex and Deliberate Partner Negotiations: Case Studies of Canadian Transgender Men Who Have Sex with Men, Their HIV Risks, Safer Sex Practices, and Prevention Needs," in the International Journal of Environmental Research and…
Cheryl Abbate (Philosophy) published an invited guest post titled, "A Philosopher’s Take on Effective (Non-Egoic) Activism," on the American Philosophical Association's (APA's) public philosophy blog. This post discusses the importance of using moral education during social justice activism, especially animal rights activism.
Denise Tillery (English) and Emma Bloomfield (Communication Studies) were recognized for their article, "Hyperrationality and Rhetorical Constellations in Digital Climate Change Denial: A Multi-Methodological Analysis of the Discourse of Watts Up With That," published in the journal Technical Communication Quarterly. Their article was awarded the…
Chenghui Zhang (Sociology) and colleagues published an article, "The Importance of Recurring Campus Surveys of Interpersonal Violence: An Analysis of Period and Cohort Effects," in the Journal of School Violence.
Marina Garber-Colacicchi (World Languages and Cultures) participated in a poetry readings series hosted by The Boston Readings project and presented her latest book, The Landlessness (Bezothechestvo) published in Kiev, Ukraine, in June 2022.
Tirth Bhatta (Sociology), assistant professor, published an article titled, "Intersecting Early-Life Selection Mechanisms: Socio-Historical Changes in Racially Stratified Effects of Education on Functional Limitations in the United States," in the Journal of Aging and Health.
Scholarship on sociohistorical changes in intersecting early-…
Shane Kraus, Kaelyn Griffin, Todd Jennings, and Repairer Etuk (Psychology) and Brett Abarbanel (IGI) and Patrick [Tiange] Xu (Hospitality) recently published four publications.
The first article, "Sports betting around the world: A systematic review," was published in the Journal of Behavioral Addictions supported by a pre-…
Christopher Perkins (English) translated Mexican poet Andrés Cisneros' Llegada del Malnacido / Undesirable Arrival, published by artepoética press. Francesca Gargallo Celentani provides this description of the book: “The poet who takes center stage in the verses of Undesirable Arrival does not sing a rarefied aesthetic, but instead…
Zachary Billot (Political Science) was appointed to the Juvenile Justice Services Advisory Committee by the Clark County Commission. This committee is responsible for overseeing unique policy solution creation and presentation for unique problems that affect the population of justice impacted youth throughout the state. The term lasts for three…
Visiting assistant professor Roberto Lovato (English) is among the writers featured in a Los Angeles Times' article about the publication of South Central Noir, a detective fiction anthology set in South-Central Los Angeles.
Article excerpt:
"There is no stronger proof in the collection of that lasting truth (of the inevitability of change) than…
Liam Frink (Anthropology) has been selected to serve as a National Science Foundation IPA program director in the Geosciences Directorate, Office of Polar Programs.
The NSF Office of Polar Programs promotes creative and innovative scientific research, engineering, and education in and about the polar regions, catalyzing fundamental…
Austin Horng-En Wang (Political Science) published a co-authored article, "Public support for the use of force in non-Western and non-major powers: The case of a China–Taiwan war," in the International Political Science Review. This article argues that the calculation in the willingness to fight and war tolerance are different for people…