Jeff Schauer (History) published "Empires and Environment: Africa's Colonial Wildlife Conservation Origins," an essay accompanying a Gale collection of primary sources, Environmental History: Colonial Policy and Global Development, 1896-1993. 

Joshua Chévere Cohen (Black Mountain Institute) was selected by the English Department as their 2025 College of Liberal Arts Distinguished Department Alumni. The 2025 Distinguished Department Alumni Cohort was recognized at the College of Liberal Arts Honors Convocation and presented with "COLA Keys to Success."

Steve Pace (Criminal Justice), Stephen Benning (Psychology), Logan Kennedy (Criminal Justice), and Jade Laughlin published an article, "Predictors of Successful Resolutions and Avoidance of Harms in Crisis Negotiations: An Analysis of the FBI’s HOBAS Database from 1982 to 2023." Crisis negotiation incidents can be emotionally charged events and…

Roberto Lovato (English) was interviewed by CBS News for the story titled, "Experts cast doubt on Trump's claim that Abrego Garcia's finger tattoos prove MS-13 membership."

Ph.D. candidate Analiesa (Annie) Delgado (History) won the Huggins-Quarles Award from the Organization of American Historians. The Huggins-Quarles Award supports graduate students to travel to archives for the completion of the Ph.D. dissertation. Delgado will use the award to conduct research at the National Archives for her dissertation about…

On April 21, Roberto Lovato (English) delivered a seminar on Memoria Historica: The Politics and Poetics of Memory in Creative Nonfiction to students in Columbia University's School of the Arts Writing Program.  

Katherine Walker (English) was the keynote speaker at the Texas Woman's University's Creative Arts and Research Symposium. She argued for the importance of slow methodologies and transforming research spaces. 

Austin Horng-En Wang (Political Science) publish a co-authored article, "Diversifying channels or diversifying information? Panel data analysis of polarization in the contentious pension reform" in Information, Communication, & Society. Through the case of a highly polarized pension reform in Taiwan, this article found out…

Austin Horng-En Wang (Political Science) publish an article, "Political Opportunity Structure Conditions the Legacy of Political Violence" in Journal of Conflict Resolution. In this article, Wang offers a new theory to reconcil previous findings on the legacies of political violence. Through the analysis of election results and a…

Professor emerita P. Jane Hafen (English) presented “’It Ain’t Real Estate’: Tribal Sovereignty in Pulitzer-Prize Author, Louise Erdrich, and Utah Senator Arthur Watkins” in Utah Tech University Library’s 41st annual Juanita Brooks Lecture Series.

Javon Johnson (Interdisciplinary, Gender, and Ethnic Studies), associate professor of African American Studies and renowned poet, began coaching a slam poetry team in Las Vegas in January 2025 and, in March 2025, the team won its first major poetry slam tournament in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

On April 14, Roberto Lovato (English) was interviewed by Emma Vigeland and the popular Majority Report podcast and radio show about the historic meeting between President Trump and Salvadoran president Nayib Bukele.