On April 11, Christopher D. E. Willoughby (Interdisciplinary, Gender, and Ethnic Studies) spoke at the annual meeting of the Health Humanities Consortium. Willoughby was a part of a roundtable on Health Humanities for Humanists, where he discussed the need for humanists to define what constitutes applied health humanities.

Tyler D. Parry (African American and African Diaspora Studies; Interdisciplinary, Gender, and Ethnic Studies) was interviewed by journalist Corey Levitan for his article, "Lost Vegas: 1969 West Las Vegas Riots," published on the website casino.org. He provided largely unknown information about this uprising against police brutality on the Historic…

Christopher D. E. Willoughby (Interdisciplinary, Gender & Ethnic Studies) wrote the article "Professors of racial medicine: imperialism and race in nineteenth-century United States medical schools", which was published on April 1 in the journal Medical History. Willoughby examines how pre-Civil War U.S. medical faculty used data collected…

Christopher D. E. Willoughby (Interdisciplinary, Gender & Ethnic Studies) and Elodie Edwards-Grossi (Associate Professor, American Studies and Sociology, Université Paris Dauphine) published their Research and Analysis article, "Slavery and Its Afterlives in US Psychiatry," in a special issue of the American Journal of Public Health on…

On March 11, Christopher D. E. Willoughby (Interdisciplinary, Gender, and Ethnic Studies) gave an invited lecture for the Science Studies Colloquium at the University of California, San Diego. In this presentation, Willoughby discussed his book, Masters of Health: Racial Science and Slavery in U.S. Medical Schools.

On March 7, Tyler D. Parry (African American and African Diaspora Studies; Interdisciplinary, Gender, and Ethnic Studies) gave a lecture at the Clark County Public Library. Parry examined the history of the "Great Migration" to the Las Vegas Valley, in which thousands of African Americans moved to Southern Nevada for economic opportunity and to…

Tyler D. Parry (African American and African Diaspora Studies; Interdisciplinary, Gender, and Ethnic Studies) was interviewed on KNPR's State of Nevada to discuss a new documentary titled, "Across the Tracks: A Las Vegas Westside Story," that explores the history of Las Vegas' Westside and the African American experience in southern Nevada. Parry…

On January 11th, Christopher D. E. Willoughby (Interdisciplinary, Gender, and Ethnic Studies) presented on a panel on "Medical Reparations" at the University of California, Davis' African American Studies Winter Symposium on the theme of "Reimagining Repair." Willoughby's paper was titled "Learning from Human Remains: Medical Schools and the…

Christopher D. E. Willoughby (Interdisciplinary, Gender, & Ethnic Studies) presented a paper at the annual meeting of the American Historical Association in San Francisco, California, on January 4, 2024. With his co-author Elodie Edwards-Grossi (Paris Dauphine University), Willoughby discussed new research on the history and afterlives of…

Christopher D.E. Willoughby (Interdisciplinary, Gender, and Ethnic Studies) and his recent book "Masters of Health: Racial Science and Slavery in U.S. Medical School" were quoted in a December 3rd article in the Washington Post, entitled "How U.S. institutions took an African teen’s life, then lost his remains." The article traces life and death…

Sheila Bock (Interdisciplinary, Gender, and Ethnic Studies) gave a presentation entitled "Other People's Storied Objects" at the American Folklore Society Annual Meeting in Portland, OR. This presentation was part of a panel honoring the work and legacy of Amy Shuman. Bock also sat on a panel titled "Meet the Editors: Demystifying the Journal…

Patricia Heisser Metoyer (Psychology; Interdisciplinary Studies) will be inducted into the University of California "Golden Anteater Society" on March 1, 2024. She graduated with a Ph.D. in psychology from the University of California Irvine over 50+ years ago and specialized in neuroscience and disease of the brain. She also was awarded an…