Accomplishments: College of Liberal Arts
Aldo Barrita (Psychology) is the recipient of the 2022 Dr. Richard A Rodriguez Student Travel Award sponsored by the American Psychological Association (APA) Division 44 Society for the Psychology of Sexual Orientation and Gender Diversity. This award seeks to support engagement with LGBTQ+ people of color issues in psychology by defraying…
Paul W. Werth (History), along with Kazakh colleagues Gulmira Sultangalieva and Ulzhan Tuleshova in Almaty (Kazakhstan), has published "Nomadic Nobles: Pastoralism and Privilege in the Empire's Kazakh Steppe" in the journal Slavic Review. The article explores the curious phenomenon of Kazakh nomads who acquired the status of nobles in the…
Carlos S. Dimas (History) had a chapter, "Health as a Right in Brazil and Argentina," published in the edited volume, Healthcare in Latin America: History, Society, and Culture published by the University of Florida Press
Jeff Schauer (History) participated in the annual meeting of the European Society for Environmental History in Bristol (UK). His paper, "The Contingent Origins of Militarized Conservation in Eastern and Southern Africa," historicised the rise of militarized wildlife politics in the 20th century, connecting them to particular forms of…
Jennifer Byrnes (Anthropology) published a co-authored article, "A Child Left Behind: Malnutrition and Chronic Illness of a Child from the Erie County Poorhouse Cemetery," in International Journal of Osteoarchaeology with Jennifer Muller (University of Pittsburgh). This osteobiography describes a probable disease co-occurrence in a…
Sergio Guzman (World Languages and Cultures) recently presented at the Annual Conference of the American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese in San Juan, Puerto Rico. The session How is My New OER Textbook Working Out? was based on SPAN 126, a course Guzman developed specially for UNLV.
Timothy Erwin (English) recently published an essay, “Discours sur l’Œil: Roméo et Juliette et Marriage A-la-Mode de William Hogarth,” in the Actes des Congrès de la Société Française Shakespeare. He argues that the 18th-century graphic artist follows Shakespeare’s romantic tragedy in his best-known series of engravings. On behalf of…
Jenna Heath (Liberal Arts), Sam Leif (Summer Term) and alumna Kass Moore recently published "The Power and Perseverance of Liberal Arts Internships During COVID-19" in the International Journal of Smart Education and Urban Study. This study aims to show the early mixed-methods survey results from shifting an internship program within a…
Dan Lee (Political Science) published a co-authored article, "Permeable Boundaries: The Interplay between Major Party Primaries and Non-major Party Candidacies," in Party Politics. A theoretical model of candidate entry shows how competitive primary elections can funnel candidates to instead pursue the non-major party route onto the general…
Tyler D. Parry (Interdisciplinary, Gender, and Ethnic Studies) recently appeared on KTNV Channel 13 Action News to weigh in on the controversy over Eighth Judicial District Judge Erika Ballou's comments on the police. Parry opposes the Las Vegas Police Protective Association's call for Ballou to resign over her remarks. He is part of the IGES…
Marina Garber-Colacicchi (World Languages and Cultures) published a book of poetry, Homelandless, (Publishing House of Oleg Fedorov, Kiev, Ukraine, June 2022).
She also published a selection of poetry about war in Ukraine in The New World magazine (Toronto, Canada).
Additionally, she participated in the No War: Poets Against the War …
Graduate student Nikki Bennett (Anthropology), in collaboration with UNLV alumna Shelly Volsche (now professor at Boise State University), co-organized the annual International Society of Anthrozoology conference that was hosted by Boise State University on July 6-9. In addition to being the co-host, she presented her own PhD research, "…