Accomplishments: College of Liberal Arts

Carlos Dimas (History) co-organized and co-hosted the inaugural El Laboratorio: Seminar for the History of Latin American Science, Technology, Engineering, and Medicine that took place on April 11 and April 12 via Zoom. The seminar brought together 10 papers and scholars from the United States, Canada, England, Australia, and Brazil. The panel was…
On April 11, Christopher D. E. Willoughby (Interdisciplinary, Gender, and Ethnic Studies) spoke at the annual meeting of the Health Humanities Consortium. Willoughby was a part of a roundtable on Health Humanities for Humanists, where he discussed the need for humanists to define what constitutes applied health humanities.
John Curry (History) was the guest editor for the most recently-released issue of the World History Bulletin, volume 89:2 (Fall/Winter 2023). The special issue was dedicated to the topic of "Democratizing, Diversifying, and Decolonizing the World History Survey, and in addition to editing and finalizing the slate of six articles in the…
Todd Jennings and Shane Kraus (both Psychology) and colleagues recently published a paper (LGBQ-affirming clinical recommendations for compulsive sexual behavior disorder) in the Journal of Behavioral Addictions. 
Jeff Schauer (History) organized a panel on converging and competing knowledge systems and conservation in southern Africa at the meeting of the American Society for Environmental History in Denver. Schauer's own paper was titled "Tracking Puku: Traditional knowledge, skills, and the crafting of Zambian wildlife science." The paper used the…
Shane Kraus (Psychology) and colleagues recently published a paper, "Face as a multidimensional construct: Cross-cultural validation of the Loss of Face Scale in Taiwan and the United States," in Asian Journal of Social Psychology. 
Shane Kraus (Psychology) and colleagues recently published a paper, "Gambling in a U.S. Census Matched Sample: Examining Interactions between Means and Motives in Predicting Problematic Outcomes," in the Journal of Gambling Studies. 
Amy Reed-Sandoval (Philosophy) gave a keynote presentation for the 2024 University of Arizona Feminist Philosophy Graduate Conference. Her presentation was entitled "Feminism and the Open Borders Debate". 
Graduate student Alexis Rice, undergraduate student Marian Espina, graduate student Tra Bui, and professor Jennifer Rennels (all Psychology) presented, "The Influence of Learning Cues and Model Attractiveness on Children's Attention and Imitation," at the Cognitive Development Society Biennial Conference in Pasadena, California, in March.
Members of the Baby & Child Rebel Lab presented, "Face Recognition and Racial Biases: The Role of Social Experience," at the Cognitive Development Society Biennial Conference in Pasadena, California, in March. Members included Kirsty Kulhanek (graduate student), Kindy Insouvanh (graduate student), Marian Espina (undergraduate student),…
Graduate students Rodica Constantine and Kindy Insouvanh and professors Erin Hannon and Jennifer Rennels (all Psychology) presented, "Perceptual Learning in Infants Across Domains," at the Cognitive Development Society Biennial Conference in Pasadena, California.
Shane Kraus (Psychology) and colleagues recently published a paper, "Assessment and treatment of compulsive sexual behavior disorder: a sexual medicine perspective," in Sexual Medicine Reviews.