Ph.D. student Kimberly Cobos (Clinical Psychology) along with collaborators, published a study in Frontiers titled, "Social support and cognition in a racially and ethnically diverse cohort: the role of neighborhood disadvantage." The study examined how different types of social support relate to cognitive functioning among racially and…

Annaliese Grant (Sociology) first-authored an article in the Journal of Marriage and Family titled, "Parent–Child Closeness and Child Behavior: The Strengths of Lower-Socioeconomic Status Family Life."

Derek Boyd (Anthropology) published a co-authored article in the Journal of Archaeological Science titled, “A Bayesian Analysis of Childhood Tobacco Consumption in Early-Modern Netherlands.” 

Praise Osawaru (English) spoke as a guest panelist on the Homelands (Discourses on Parenthood, Indigeneity and Belonging) panel at the 2026 Las Vegas Book Festival. The panel, which happened in the "Poetry Pavilion" tent, explored the question of what it means to write about home and the people in our lives who manifest and create belonging.…

Arpine Mkrtchyan (World Languages and Cultures) has been selected for the Fulbright Specialist Roster for the 2026–2029 term. The Fulbright Specialist Program, sponsored by the United States Department of State, is an international academic exchange initiative that connects qualified specialists with institutions in more than 150 countries. The…

Austin Horng-En Wang (Political Science) was invited to have a talk, titled "How the Artificial Intelligence influences teaching, research, and job market in social science," by National Taiwan University. In this talk, Wang shared how universities adopted different AI policies, recent researches of AI adoption on academic performance, and how…

Professor John Curry (History) has successfully released his new translated book titled The Book of China: A Persian Merchant's Description of the Ming State for the Ottoman Court, by Columbia University Press. Curry worked with his co-editors Kaveh Hemmat and Hyunhee Park to produce an annotated version of the text of `Ali Akbar Khatayi, a…

Shane Kraus (Psychology), director of the Behavioral Addictions Lab, recently co-authored three peer-reviewed publications examining substance use, responsible gambling, and compulsive sexual behavior disorder (CSBD). The first study, published in PLOS One, examined associations between sexual abuse, impulsivity, and substance use among 64,472…

Paul Vincent Ruma (Anthropology) returned to Harvard University as an invited speaker on October 15, 2026, for Floor Lords at 45: Breaking as a Living Knowledge System. Ruma co-led a lecture and discussion with internationally recognized Breaking practitioner and DJ Lino “Lean Rock” Delgado, examining Breaking as a cultural knowledge system…

Maryam Ahranjani (Law), David Tanenhaus (Law/History), and A.B. Wilkinson (History) were panelists on "America 250: Panel Discussion and Historical Reflection," moderated by Michael Green (History).

Michelle Tusan's (History) essay, "Violence and Genocide" appeared in The Interwar World, a volume recently awarded the American Historical Association's Waldo G. Leland Prize. 

Joshua Chévere Cohen (English) presented “Shelley and the Poetics of Crisis and Resistance” at the 2026 Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association (RMMLA) convention in Ogden, Utah.