Accomplishments: College of Liberal Arts
Susan Lee Johnson (History) was interviewed about the book Writing Kit Carson: Fallen Heroes in a Changing West by historian Jennifer Holland for the Journal of Women's History/New Books Network podcast.
Austin Horng-En Wang (Political Science) published "#MilkTeaAlliance No More?" on Asia Dispatches under The Wilson Center. This article analyzes 62000 #MilkTeaAlliance tweets posted during the protests in Thailand and Myanmar on July 18, and showed the change in both the number and composition of the hashtags. Data also reveals that most #…
Paul Werth (History) gave a presentation entitled "Conceptualizing Russia's Territorial History" at the Kennan Institute For the Advanced Study of Russia and Eurasia of the Wilson Center in Washington.
Stephen D. Benning (Psychology) has been elected director of clinical training.
William Bauer (History) appeared on KQED's "Grappling with the History of Native American Boarding Schools." Bauer discussed the history and consequences of the United States' off-reservation boarding school system for American Indian children.
Kenneth Miller (Political Science) and co-author Brandice Canes-Wrone of Princeton University were featured in the Washington Post Magazine article "America's Hidden Crisis of Power and Place." The article by David Fontana describes how the political elite in both parties are disproportionately connected to a few neighborhoods in a few…
Amy Reed-Sandoval (Philosophy) was interviewed for the Living Philosophy podcast about her research, teaching, and community outreach in philosophy for children.
Renato M. Liboro, Sherry Bell, Brandon Ranuschio, and Lianne Barnes (Psychology), along with other members of the CHAMPION Mental Health research lab of UNLV, recently published their article, "Barriers and Facilitators to Promoting Resilience to HIV/AIDS: A Qualitative Study on the Lived Experiences of HIV-Positive, Racial and…
Monica Hernández-Johnson (Educational Psychology and Higher Education); Valerie Taylor and Ravijot Singh (both Interdisciplinary, Gender, & Ethnic Studies); and Norma A. Marrun, Tara J. Plachowski, and Christine Clark (all Teaching and Learning) coauthored an article, “Like Where Are Those Teachers?”: A…
Shane W. Kraus (Psychology) and colleagues recently published five papers this summer. The first paper "Attachment insecurities and body image self-consciousness among women: The mediating role of pornography use" was published in Computers in Human Behavior. "Reliability, Validity, and Unidimensionality of the Korean Version of the…
Aldo M. Barrita (Psychology) received the 2021 Anastasi Graduate Student Research Award: Early Graduate Student for the APA's Division 52 (International Psychology). This award, named for Anne Anastasi, is for outstanding graduate student research, with priority given to research that focuses on psychometrics and differential psychology…
Michael Green (History) contributed the chapter, "A Mob Museum Matters" to Reckoning With History: Unfinished Stories of American Freedom, a collection in honor of Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Eric Foner by his graduate students. The book was published by Columbia University Press.