Joanne Goodwin (History and Women's Research Institute of Nevada) has been elected to the board of directors for the National Collaborative for Women's History Sites. The organization founded in 2001 supports and promotes the preservation and interpretation of sites and locales that bear witness to women's participation in American life. Goodwin's…

John Hay (English) has been awarded a 2016 American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) Fellowship. The ACLS annually selects its Fellows from across the humanities and social sciences. Fellows may be scholars at any stage of their careers. The last UNLV professor to receive an ACLS Fellowship was Joanne Goodwin (History) in 1995.

Michael Green (History) is the author of the book, Nevada: A History of the Silver State (University of Nevada Press), which recently was selected by Choice magazine as one of the outstanding academic titles of 2015.

Greg Brown (History) has been chosen as the new general editor of  'Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment.' He will continue to broaden the temporal and geographic scope of the series to embrace global Enlightenment culture (including burgeoning areas of research, such as southern and eastern Europe, the Hispanic world, and…

Joanne Goodwin (Women's Research Institute and History) gave a presentation on the development of — and her role as — co-producer in the television series MAKERS: Women in Nevada History at the National Women's Studies Association annual conference in Milwaukee in November. Also on the panel were representatives from the University of…

Marcia Gallo (History) is the author of "No One Helped": Kitty Genovese, New York City, and the Myth of Urban Apathy, which was published in April. In this, her second book, Gallo examines one of America's most infamous true-crime stories: the 1964 rape and murder of Catherine "Kitty" Genovese in a middle-class neighborhood of Queens, New York.…

Katie Cannata (Journalism and Media Studies), Lee Hanover (History), Bella Victoria Smith (Interdisciplinary Studies), and Manuela Bowles (English) recently received the Lance and Elena Calvert Undergraduate Research Award. Given by UNLV's University Libraries, the award recognizes original research and sophisticated critical thinking skills…

Jordan Watkins (Graduate College) is the recipient of the Outstanding Dissertation Award. He is pursuing a doctoral degree in history. His dissertation is titled "Slavery, Sacred Texts, and the Antebellum Confrontation with History."

Miriam Melton-Villanueva (History) has been awarded the Ford Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship. She is completing her book manuscript, The Aztecs at Independence: Culture Keeping in Central Mexico 1799-1832, on the campus of UCLA this academic year and will return to UNLV in the fall.

Joanne Goodwin (History and Women's Research Institute of Nevada) is the author of Changing the Game: Women at Work in Las Vegas, 1940-1990, which was released by the University of Nevada Press on Sept. 8. The book captures the shifting boundaries of women's employment in the postwar decades with narratives drawn from the Las Vegas Women Oral…

Kendra Gage (History) will receive a scholarship from the Southwest Region of the National Society of The Colonial Dames of America (NSCDA) this month during a ceremony at the history department. Gage, a doctoral student studying American history, has written "The Mothers of the Civil Rights Movement in California's Delta, 1940-1988." It…

Sue Fawn Chung (History) has been invited to speak at the Sun Yatsen University Conference on Chinese Workers in Guangzhou (Canton), China, in September; to the Stanford University Conference on Chinese Railroad Workers in October; and to the Chinese Historical Society of Southern California, Los Angeles, in November.