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College of Liberal Arts News

The College of Liberal Arts offers students a well-rounded education in the humanities and social sciences. Students develop strong analytical and communication skills for a lifetime of learning and discovery that can be applied to a wide variety of careers.

Current Liberal Arts News

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Campus News |

A collection of top headlines featuring UNLV faculty and students.

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People |

The Robert Scott Hooper Photograph Collection at UNLV preserves decades of celebrity portraiture, commercial imagery, and the changing visual culture of Las Vegas. 

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Campus News |

New community partnerships expand offerings for hands-on activities and off-campus learning.

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Business and Community |

How a stubborn bird dropping on a campus building helped spark the winning students’ idea for a high-rise window-cleaning drone.

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People |

Joyce Woodhouse leaves Nevada better for children and families.

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Campus News |

UNLV’s commencement tradition highlights exceptional students who embody the highest level of academic excellence and community involvement.

Liberal Arts In The News

CasinoBeats

Las Vegas Strip casinos have suffered a fresh financial blow, with regulators reporting an 81% year-on-year drop in net income in 2025.

Prospect

Over the past few months, with the help of a US psychologist and his little black box, I have taken a journey into consciousness

Medical News Today

A case study published in Frontiers in Neuroscience is making big waves in the dementia research community.

CBS News

Nevada Attorney General Aaron Ford, a Democrat, and Republican Gov. Joe Lombardo won their parties' primaries in this year's Nevada gubernatorial race, CBS News projects, setting up the November ballot in one of the races Democrats are targeting.

The Baltimore Sun

New fossil discoveries are reshaping scientists' understanding of a pivotal chapter in human evolution, revealing that several human ancestor lineages lived side by side nearly 3 million years ago.

KSNV-TV: News 3

As polls closed across Nevada Tuesday evening, Clark County election officials began processing thousands of ballots delivered to the county’s election headquarters.

Liberal Arts Experts

An expert in political philosophy, and the intersection of politics and religion.
An expert in the literature of the United States.
An expert in forensic anthropology, bioarchaeology, human remains, and skeletal biology.
Javon Johnson is an expert in African American literature, black pop culture, black feminist theory, and black queer theory.  
An expert on archaeology of Arizona and Southern Nevada, Ancient Technology, Native Americans.
An expert on women and crime, social justice, intersectionality, re-entry, surveillance, violence, and victimization.

Recent Liberal Arts Accomplishments

Austin Horng-En Wang (Political Science) published an article, "Unconditional cash transfer and polarized support," in International Political Science Review. The article examines a unique "unconditional" COVID-19 relief voucher lottery in Taiwan in 2021, in which vouchers were randomly assigned based on the last two digits of citizens’…
Katherine Walker (English) was awarded an Honorable Mention Prize by the Marlowe Society of America for her article "Clowns and Demonic Learning in Doctor Faustus," which was published in English Literary History. 
Ph.D. student Ammrito Roy, a Ph.D. student (English) presented his paper, “Land, Story, and Community in Kanthapura: A Comparative Reading Through Critical Indigenous Theory,” at the 10th Annual Global Souths Conference. The paper applies Comparative Indigenous Theory to Raja Rao’s novel Kanthapura to examine how land, oral storytelling, communal…
Susan Lee Johnson (History) delivered the opening plenary address at the Mormon History Association annual conference held in Las Vegas June 4-7. The invited address was entitled, "Unoriginal Sins: Slavery, Captivity, and Kinship in Western Places." In addition, Johnson chaired and moderated a session at the conference entitled, "Intimate Subjects…
Tyler D. Parry (Interdisciplinary, Gender, and Ethnic Studies Department) was listed as a "Historical Consultant" for a PBS short documentary on the southern tradition of raccoon hunting. He provided historical context for the practice, including its intersections with race and class in southern history.
Amy Reed-Sandoval (Philosophy) gave a presentation on her book Intimate Borders: Feminist Migration Ethics at the Freie Universität Berlin (in Berlin, Germany).