Accomplishments: College of Liberal Arts
November 28, 2023
Teddy Uldricks (History) presented his research on "Military and Political Uses of Rape and Sexual Assault in the Second World War: Japanese, German, and Soviet Examples," at a conference on Violence in War sponsored by the Society for the History of War, in Lisbon, Portugal, on Nov. 24, 2023.
November 27, 2023
Director of Communications Karyn S. Hollingsworth (Liberal Arts) won a 2023 Pinnacle Award from the Public Relations Society of America's Las Vegas Valley Chapter. She was recognized for her news story, "UNLV, Community Partners Receive $4 Million in Grants to Expand Mental Health Services."
November 27, 2023
Paul W. Werth (History), together with colleague Charlotte Henze (University of Basel), has secured grants from the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) and a special research fund at the University Basel for a workshop on Russia's borders, sovereignty, and territoriality, to be held in mountain retreat near the Swiss-Italian border in June…
November 22, 2023
Professor Ben Farrer (Political Science) published "Goals, Strategies, and Tactics: Continuity and Change in Extinction Rebellion in the United Kingdom" in the December 2023 edition of the journal Contention. This article argues that the environmental activism group Extinction Rebellion has a unique strategy that helped it disrupt UK politics.…
November 20, 2023
A journal, Governance, vol. 7, which highlights the excellent work done by UNLV undergraduates in the Department of Political Science, was recently published. The faculty supervisor is professor Nerses Kopalyan. Professor Martha Phelps assisted with this issue.
November 20, 2023
Nicholas Barron (Anthropology) published an article titled, "Lessons in Safe Logic: Anthropological and Liberal Imaginings of Termination," in the Journal of Anthropological Research. The article frames renewed calls for disciplinary decolonization within the entwined and shifting histories of US liberalism and federal Indian policy in the post-…
November 19, 2023
Cheryl Abbate (Philosophy) gave an invited talk on "The Philosophy of Animal Rights, Religion, & the Law" at Minnesota State University (MSU), Mankato as part of MSU's philosophy colloquium series.
November 17, 2023
Rachel Torres and Elizabeth Maltby (both Political Science) had a peer-reviewed article published in Journal of Public Policy.
Abstract:
"Previous scholarship has shown that experience with public policies can affect citizens’ willingness to participate in politics. However, few studies have examined whether the effect of experience with policy…
November 17, 2023
Amy Reed-Sandoval (Philosophy) participated in a panel discussion for the seminar on "Theories of Decoloniality and Mobility in Central America and the Caribbean" at Toronto Metropolitan University. The event was part of the Rights of Children and Youth Partnership: Fortalecimiento de la Colaboración en las Américas.
November 16, 2023
The Philosophy Department of the University of Bucharest (Romania) hosted a four-day workshop that consisted of a guided discussion of Russ Hurlburt’s (Psychology) book Describing Inner Experience? (MIT, 2007, with UC Riverside professor Eric Schwitzgebel). Hurlburt made a meet-the-author Q&A appearance via Zoom during the final hour of the…
November 16, 2023
Michael J. Alarid (History) delivered a public talk at University of Alabama titled, "A Deluge of Violence: What Surges in Homicide and Assault Reveal about the Impact of Regime Change on Everyday People in 19th Century New Mexico and Beyond."
The talk was made possible by the generosity of the Helen Delpar Endowment for Latin American Studies,…
November 15, 2023
Michelle Tusan (History) started her two-year term as president of the North American Conference on British Studies.