Evelyn Gajowski (English) published the chapter, "'As if a Man were Author of Himself': Fantasies of Omnipotence and Autonomy," in the essay collection, Coriolanus: A Critical Reader. The chapter analyzes the resonances between Caius Martius Coriolanus and Donald Trump, interrogating the emergence of the Roman republic, on the one hand, and…

Bryan Blankfield (Honors College) published the essay "Tracking A Digital Dog(ma)" in Digital Doxa, a peer-reviewed academic blog. The piece offers insight into how presidential candidates rhetorically use (and misuse) their dogs to mobilize digital publics during political campaigns.

Dr. Majid Mekany (Medicine) published his paper, “Patient Sleep Quality in Acute Inpatient Rehabilitation,” in PM&R journal. He is a coauthor on this original research project that aimed to assess patient sleep quality in the acute inpatient rehabilitation setting. The authors provided a validated sleep questionnaire to 73 patients admitted to…

Timothy J. Grigsby (Environmental and Occupational Health) published an article on the "Comparison of Substance Use Estimates by Age, Gender, and Race/Ethnicity between Two Representative Samples of the US Adult Population" in the Population Research & Policy Review. This paper presents differences in past year estimates of alcohol,…

William Bauer (History and the American Indian Alliance) was invited by the department of history and Native American studies at the University of Oregon to discuss his forthcoming book, We Are the Land: A Native History of California. Bauer discussed the process of writing the book, the principal arguments, and challenges of writing a…

Amy Reed-Sandoval (Philosophy) published "Travel for Abortion as a Form of Migration" in Essays in Philosophy.

Romeo Jackson (Student Diversity & Social Justice) has been selected to serve on the planning team for the 2022 ACPA Next Generation Institute.

Benjamin Burroughs, Ben Morse, Michael Carmona (all Journalism and Media Studies), and Travis Snow (Sociology) presented a panel, "Watching Watchmen: Race and Anonymity" at the Far West Popular Culture Conference hosted by UNLV earlier this month. 

Brenna Renn (Psychology) recently published the manuscript, "A Typical Week With Mild Cognitive Impairment" in The Gerontologist. This project used photoelicitation interviews to explore the subjective experience of a “typical week” living with mild cognitive impairment (MCI) to document (a) important activities, (b) barriers to usual…