Accomplishments: College of Liberal Arts
Austin Horng-En Wang (Political Science) published a co-authored article "Comparing Stress and Behavioral Coping Strategies during the Early Stages of the COVID‑19 Crisis among Domestic and Overseas Taiwanese" in the journal Scientific Reports. This article compares the level of stress and the coping strategies between domestic and…
Marta Soligo (International Gaming Institute and Sociology) delivered a keynote speech earlier this month at the webinar “Film Tourism: Destination Branding and Experience” organized by the Bali Dwipa University in collaboration with the Bali Tourism Board. Soligo’s presentation centered around film-induced tourism, focusing on tourism planning,…
Benjamin Burroughs, Benjamin J. Morse, Travis Carmona (all Journalism and Media Studies), and Travis Snow (Sociology) have published an article, "The Masks We Wear: Watchmen, Infrastructural Racism, and Anonymity" in the journal Television & New Media. As COVID-19 has led to the politicization of masks and the donning of masks, the…
Katherine Walker (English) published in Renaissance Quarterly 75.2 a review of Elizabeth Swann's Taste and Knowledge in Early Modern England.
Gloria Wong-Padoongpatt, Aldo Barrita, and Anthony King (all Psychology) recently published an article in the Asian American Journal of Psychology titled "Everyday Racism Increase for Asian Americans in the U.S. during the COVID-19 Pandemic." Their findings strongly indicate that Asians in the U.S. perceived a change in everyday racism…
Anthony King, Ting Tong, Donna Sim, Michelle Strong, Aldo Barrita, Danielle Le, and Gloria Wong-Padoongpatt (all Psychology) recently presented their research on the connection between adverse childhood experiences and addictive behavioral patterns in adulthood at the American Psychological Association's Division 50 Conference for the Practice of…
Kendra Gage (Interdisciplinary, Ethnic and Gender Studies), presented a paper titled "'The Black Strip': Black Las Vegas Nightlife in the 1950s and 1960s" at the annual conference of the Historians of the 20th Century United States in Edinburgh, Scotland. Gage discussed how African Americans created community institutions in mid-20th…
Iván Sandoval-Cervantes (Anthropology) participated in The World in Film program hosted by the Office of Resources for International and Area Studies (ORIAS) from University of California, Berkeley. Sandoval-Cervantes discussed the film Guie'dani's Navel (El ombligo de Guie'dani) in the context of Mexican Indigenous politics,…
John Curry (History) presented a working paper at the "Seeing Like a Sufi: Vision and Space in Sufism" workshop held at Ludwig-Maximilians Universitat in Munich, Germany. The paper addressed the topic of "Narratives of Miraculous Vision in the Eighteenth-Century Hagiographies of Unsi Hasan Efendi and Nasuhi Muhammad Efendi." The workshop brought…
Amy Reed-Sandoval's (Philosophy) research on abortion ethics was recently discussed in the French magazine Philosophie Magazine.
Austin Horng-En Wang (Political Science) published the article "PM Me the Truth? The Conditional Effectiveness of Fact-Checks Across Social Media Sites" in the journal Social Media + Society. This article conducts survey experiments and analyzes representative surveys to show that fact-checking is less effective on private platforms (like…
Zachary Billot (Political Science; Honors College, The Lincy Institute; Brookings Mountain West) recently had his Op-Ed, "CCSD and the Potential of Mental Health Services," published in the Nevada Current. Billot's piece discusses the rise of violence in Clark County School District (CCSD) schools and suggests that "rather than relying solely…