Accomplishments: College of Liberal Arts
Alyssa Crittenden (Anthropology) was interviewed for a recent episode of The Food Programme on the BBC about the significance of wild meat to many Indigenous and global food systems. The story, called "Why Eat Wild Meat?" explores legal and illegal global trade in wild meat after links have been made between the COVID-19 pandemic and wild…
Carlos S. Dimas (History) worked as an exam reader for the 2020 AP World History exam for high school students all over the country and abroad. He was part of a global team that successfully reviewed more than 300,000 AP high school student exams in the form of document-based essays.
Dan Lee (Political Science) published a co-authored article, "Coordination and Party Change in the United States" in American Politics Research. They use evolutionary game theory to explore the dynamics of party change. An empirical analysis of roll call voting on abortion and the environment since the 1970s illustrates those dynamics.
C.E. Abbate (Philosophy) published a chapter, "It's Not Just a Personal Preference: Racialized Discrimination in the Tinder Context," in College Ethics: A Reader on Moral Issues that Affect You (Oxford University Press).
Andrew Freeman (Psychology) with Lauren Kenworthy, Allison Ratto, Cara E. Pugliese, John F. Strang from Children's National Medical Center, Katerina Dudley from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Kelly Powell from the Yale Child Study Center, and Laura Anthony from Children's Hospital of Colorado published "Preliminary Psychometrics for…
Tyler D. Parry (Interdisciplinary, Gender, and Ethnic Studies) appeared on CrossTalk, a news program on RT (Russia Today), a global news agency that broadcasts to more than 100 countries. A professor of African American and Africa Diaspora Studies, he discussed the current political moment surrounding the toppling of monuments, their historic…
Ranita Ray (Sociology) received multiple scholarship awards. Her book, The Making of a Teenage Service Class: Poverty and Mobility in an American City (University of California Press, 2018), was awarded the 2020 Pacific Sociological Association Distinguished Scholarship Award, and it was also selected as a finalist for the 2020…
Christian Jensen, Michelle Kuenzi, and Dan Lee (all Political Science) published an article, "The Effects of Political Parties on Roll-Call Voting in Kenya's Parliament" in The Journal of Legislative Studies. They find that parties and coalitions induce structure to roll-call voting, although clientelism and ethnicity continue to influence the…
P. Jane Hafen (English) is the author of Help Indians Help Themselves: The Later Writing of Gertrude Simmons Bonnin (Zitkala-Sa), which has been featured as book of the Month on Native America Calling.
Amy Reed-Sandoval (Philosophy) and Iván Sandoval Cervantes (Anthropology) published an op-ed in Salon, "Who Doesn't Love a Taco? Taste the Nation and the Problem with Neoliberal Immigrant Rights Activism."
Tyler D. Parry (Interdisciplinary, Gender, and Ethnic Studies) has written an article, "What PTSD Tells us about the History of Slavery," was published in the Washington Post this week. It examines how enslaved people spoke about trauma, and how slavery's debilitating brutalities induced symptoms now known as PTSD. Simultaneously, it makes a…
John Curry (History) worked as an exam reader for the document-based section 2020 AP World History exam for high school students all over the country and abroad, which was conducted through almost entirely remote means for the first time. The work of the readers led to the successful review of over 300,000 AP high school student exams.