Accomplishments: College of Liberal Arts
Barb Brents (Sociology) served as a commissioner for the Oregon Sex Workers Human Rights Commission hearing on July 15. The hearing focused on the harms that Oregonians face under sex work criminalization and included testimony from sex workers, service providers, legislators and researchers.
Michelle Tusan (History) will give a public presentation at noon July 25 on the legacy of Lawrence of Arabia, sponsored by the National World War I Museum and Memorial.
Shane Kraus (Psychology) is giving an invited talk (Latest Developments for Compulsive Sexual Behavior Disorder for ICD-11) at the Coalition to End Sexual Exploitation 2021 Online Global Summit on July 22.
Marina Colacicchi (Garber) (World Languages and Cultures) gave an interview and read a poetry selection from the upcoming book No Man's Land on radio channel Echo Culture (Moscow, Russia). The program was hosted by Natella Boltyanskaya.
Alyssa Crittenden (Anthropology) has been selected as a co-recipient of the 2021 Conrad M. Arensberg award from the American Anthropological Association. This honor recognizes individuals who have furthered anthropology as a natural science.
Alyssa Crittenden’s research combines methods of evolutionary…
Aldo M. Barrita (Psychology) was awarded the Cultivating Healing, Advocacy, Nonviolence, Growth, and Equity Grant (CHANGE) of the American Psychological Association Division 56 (Trauma Psychology) that will fund his research project, Latinx experiences with racial and ethnic microaggressions: The construction and validity of a new…
Tyler D. Parry (Interdisciplinary, Gender, and Ethnic Studies) published an article in the Washington Post on July 14 that examines the current debates over critical race theory and Confederate monuments, showing how the suppression of Black history deliberately misrepresents how we understand the past and civil rights activists throughout the U.S…
Rochelle Hines and Dustin Hines (both Psychology) were awarded an NIH R15 grant through the National Institute for Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) for a project, Early Mechanisms Mediating the Organization of the Axon Initial Segment Impact the Formation of Axo-axonic Synapses.
The $431,046 grant will fund research to advance our…
Amy Reed-Sandoval (Philosophy) published "Philosophy for Children in a Pandemic: Rethinking the 'Community' of Inquiry" in Teaching Philosophy.
Michael Green, Andy Kirk, Willy Bauer, Michelle Turk (all History), Claytee White (Libraries), and Karen Harry (Anthropology) presented at the NEH Summer Institute, "Hoover Dam and the Shaping of the American West," which brought 25 K-12 teachers from around the country to Southern Nevada for a two-week program of content, pedagogy, and tours.
Austin Horng-En Wang (Political Science) was invited to talk in the roundtable titled "The future of Asia-Pacific Order after the US-EU and US-Russia summits" hosted by the Association for Asian Political Economy and Peace. His talk discusses the recent polls in many countries about people's perception of China and the competition between the…
Joe Ervin (Academic Success Center), Dave Beisecker, and Jasmin Özel (both Philosophy) recently published their paper in Philosophy of Education. Their paper focuses on the educational work of William Torrey-Harris and the St. Louis Hegelians, and John Dewey. Analyzing such Hegelian educational thought, their paper…