On June 18, 2026, Tyler D. Parry (Interdisciplinary, Gender, and Ethnic Studies) received a "Certificate of Recognition" from the City of North Las Vegas for his "commitment to fostering greater awareness and understanding of African American history in the community." The certificate was signed by North Las Vegas Mayor Pamela Goynes-Brown, Mayor…

Andrew Lugg (Political Science) and co-authors Manfred Elsig, Kirthana Ganeson, and Marine Roux have published an article, "Trade Agreements and the design of democracy-related provisions (TRADEM): The creation of a new data set," in The Review of International Organizations. The article combines manual coding and machine learning to measure…

Simon Gottschalk (Emeritus, Sociology) presented the keynote address at the annual meetings of the Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction in Niagara Falls, Ontario. The title of his address was: "Mind, Self, and Algorithms: Symbolic Interaction with Bots."

Austin Horng-En Wang (Political Science) published an article, "Unconditional cash transfer and polarized support," in International Political Science Review. The article examines a unique "unconditional" COVID-19 relief voucher lottery in Taiwan in 2021, in which vouchers were randomly assigned based on the last two digits of citizens’…

Katherine Walker (English) was awarded an Honorable Mention Prize by the Marlowe Society of America for her article "Clowns and Demonic Learning in Doctor Faustus," which was published in English Literary History. 

Ph.D. student Ammrito Roy, a Ph.D. student (English) presented his paper, “Land, Story, and Community in Kanthapura: A Comparative Reading Through Critical Indigenous Theory,” at the 10th Annual Global Souths Conference. The paper applies Comparative Indigenous Theory to Raja Rao’s novel Kanthapura to examine how land, oral storytelling, communal…

Susan Lee Johnson (History) delivered the opening plenary address at the Mormon History Association annual conference held in Las Vegas June 4-7. The invited address was entitled, "Unoriginal Sins: Slavery, Captivity, and Kinship in Western Places." In addition, Johnson chaired and moderated a session at the conference entitled, "Intimate Subjects…

Tyler D. Parry (Interdisciplinary, Gender, and Ethnic Studies Department) was listed as a "Historical Consultant" for a PBS short documentary on the southern tradition of raccoon hunting. He provided historical context for the practice, including its intersections with race and class in southern history.

Amy Reed-Sandoval (Philosophy) gave a presentation on her book Intimate Borders: Feminist Migration Ethics at the Freie Universität Berlin (in Berlin, Germany).

Christopher D. E. Willoughby (African American & African Diaspora Studies/Interdisciplinary, Gender & Ethnic Studies) was featured on the Massachusetts Historical Society's podcast "Historians & their Histories." For this podcast, Willoughby discussed his journey as a historian and scholar in African American Studies, as well as his…

Margaret McMullin (Psychology), a former UNLV Ph.D. student, Nathan Higgins (Psychology), a UNLV former post-doctoral fellow, Rohit Kumar from Johns Hopkins University, Mounya Elhilali from Johns Hopkins University, and Joel Snyder (Psychology) have published 'Object and setting identification in natural auditory scenes' in a special issue of…

Jacob Cox and Austin Horng-En Wang (both Political Science) published an article, "Asymmetric blame-shifting in the era of globalization," in European Political Science. The article analyzes two survey experiments on whether the leader's blame-shifting strategy works in the eye of voters, and whether such blame-shifting may lower people's trust on…