Katherine Walker (English) published her book, Instinct, Knowledge and Occult Science on the Early Modern English Stage with Edinburgh University Press.

John Haberstroh (History) was interviewed for the weekly teaching newsletter of The Chronicle of Higher Education on alternative grading practices in humanities courses. Using specifications grading, Haberstroh communicates high expectations and increases transparency for students. This grading system also allows students the opportunity…

Shane Kraus (Psychology) recently appeared on The Gambling Files podcast episode, “Addiction 39: The Psychology of Gambling and Sex Addiction with Dr Shane Kraus.” Kraus discussed behavioral addictions, including gambling and compulsive sexual behavior, with a particular focus on psychological mechanisms, risk factors, military populations,…

Brenna Renn (Psychology) and colleagues at the University of Washington (MPIs: Oleg Zaslavsky and Annie Chen) were recently awarded an R01 from the National Institute on Aging for their project entitled, "VOCALE: A Digital Intervention to Improve Quality of Life and Reduce Frailty Among Older Adults in CCRCs--A Randomized Controlled Trial." …

Andrew Lugg and Jared Oestman (both Political Science) published their paper "Costs or Benefits? Competing Frames and Public Support for Multilateral Peace Operations" in International Studies Perspectives, a peer-reviewed quarterly journal of the International Studies Association. Using a preregistered survey experiment, their study shows that U.…

Susan Byrne (World Languages & Cultures) has published a chapter titled "Cervantine Allusions" in Cervantine Futures: Reading Cervantes after the Critical Turn, a volume edited by Nicholas R. Jones and Paul Michael Johnson, and issued by Vanderbilt University Press. Byrne studies how Spanish creative author Miguel de…

Amy Reed-Sandoval (Philosophy) published "What Trump gets wrong About 'birth tourism': Mexican mothers on the border tell a different story about the attack on birthright citizenship" in The Boston Globe (Ideas Section).

Austin Horng-En Wang (Political Science) published an op-ed, "Volume Manipulation has become a Bigger Problem of Influence Operations than Fake News", in The Real Clear Defense. Volume manipulation means a country uses mass and social media to influence the issue salience of the targeted country and its population, which undermines its…

Roberto Lovato (English) moderated a discussion about journalist and author Gabriel San Roman's Days of Dissent: Revolts, Strikes, and Rebel Histories, a groundbreaking book that excavates the buried history of the radical labor and other social movements left out of traditional, top-down history. The book's unique approach to history marks each…

Maja Jeranko (Anthropology) contributed a chapter to Decolonial Engagements in Anthropology, an edited volume that grew out of a 2023 workshop in Ascona organized by the InterFace Commission. Her chapter, "Feminist Decolonial Research as Collaborative Pedagogy: Lessons from Post-Disaster Coastal Ecuador," examines the challenges and opportunities…

Sheila Bock (Interdisciplinary, Gender, and Ethnic Studies) co-guest edited a special Issue of the peer-reviewed and open-access Journal of Folklore and Education titled “Teaching with Monsters: From Whimsy to Shadow.” This issue seeks to create space for the broad spectrum of ways we as humans interact with monsters. While most often associated…

Ashby Boland, Lauren Reyes, and Nicole Short (all Psychology), along with colleagues from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine and SAFE Austin, have published a manuscript titled “Temporal associations between nightmares and PTSD symptoms in the acute post-sexual assault period: An ecological momentary assessment…