Alan Simmons (Anthropology) is co-author of an article just published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The piece "No Evidence for Widespread Island Extinction after Pleistocene Hominin Arrival," takes a global perspective on the impact that humans had on endemic island faunas. He is a Distinguished Professor emeritus.  

Nathalie Martinez (Anthropology, World Languages and Cultures, Honors College) presented her paper "'Our language do not die, they are killed': Indigenismo and its Effects on Indigenous Language Revitalization" at the Richard Macksey National Undergraduate Humanities Research Symposium at Johns Hopkins Krieger School of Arts & Sciences.…

Nathalie Martinez (Anthropology, World Languages and Cultures, Honors College) is the recipient of the Vista Group Outstanding Senior Award. Carrying a $1,000 scholarship, this is a distinguished award given to a UNLV College of Liberal Arts senior displaying exceptional achievement, leadership, and service. A member of the Honors College,…

Alan Simmons (Anthropology) presently is in Cyprus on a Fulbright award. While this has had to be modified due to COVID-19, he initially will spend two months at the Cyprus American Archaeological Research Institute working on a monograph of his long-term National Science Foundation- (and other-) funded project at the Neolithic (ca. 9,000 years…

Iván Sandoval-Cervantes (Anthropology) presented a paper based on his project on animal rights/welfare activism in Ciudad Juárez, México, as part of a human rights panel, in the Society for Latin American Studies Virtual Conference. In this presentation, he explored how animal rights/welfare activists engage in discourses of human rights in their…

Kari Goold, Peter Gray (both Anthropology) and Reynafe Aniga (Psychology) recently published an article "Sports under Quarantine: A Case Study of Major League Baseball in 2020" in the journal Social Sciences. Goold and Aniga are McNair Scholars.

Iván Sandoval-Cervantes (Anthropology) published the article "The Politics of Saving Dogs in Mexico" in the "General Anthropology Division Bulletin." This article summarizes his most recent research project that focuses on the animal welfare/rights activists working in Ciudad Juárez, México. 

Barbara J. Roth (Anthropology), along with coauthor and E. Charles Adams of the University of Arizona, had their book Agent of Change, the Deposition and Meaning of Ash in the Past published by Berghann Books, 2021.  Roth is lead editor and published two chapters in the volume.  It explores how prehistoric groups in North…

Elizabeth Johnson (Anthropology) and Shelly Volsche, '13 BA Psychology, '15 MA Anthropology, and '17 PhD Anthropology, now of Boise State University, are authors of an article, "COVID-19: Companion Animals Help People Cope during Government-Imposed Social Isolation." The article was published in the journal Society and Animals…

Barbara Roth and Danielle Romero (both Anthropology), along with Katelyn DiBenedetto, '15 MA, '18 PhD Anthropology, recently published "Hunting Blinds, the Bow and Arrow, and Land Use Strategies in the Mojave Desert: New Insights from Afton Canyon" in the Journal of California and Great Basin Anthropology. This article is based on archeological…

Debra L. Martin (Anthropology) is the author of "Violence and Masculinity in Small-Scale Societies." Archeological and ethnographic accounts of violence in small-scale societies represent a baseline for thinking about the ways that violence and masculinity originated and evolved, becoming entwined social processes. Male violence (lethal and…

Alyssa Crittenden (Anthropology), as part of a large group of international scholars, recently was published in the journal Nature Human Behavior. The article, "Gendered Movement Ecology and Landscape Use in Hadza Hunter-Gatherers," examines the spatial behavior of a highly mobile community of foragers in Tanzania using GPS and movement data.…