Austin Horng-En Wang (Political Science) published an article, "U.S.-China Competition for Artificial Intelligence Markets", with RAND Corporation. This article analyzes the global LLM traffic and show that (1) US-based LLM dominance, 93% of global traffic, (2) DeepSeek increased China-based LLM global share from 3% to 13% within one month,…

Iesha Jackson (Teacher Education), Catharine Lory (Special Education), Vanessa Nunez (Sociology), and Camisha Fagan (Sociology) coauthored an article titled, “(Em)bracing ourselves: Women of Color in the academy supporting each other through troubling times,” in Current Issues in Education. The article emphasizes the importance of cultivating…

John M. Bowers (English) has published his article, “The Myth of the Poor, Homeless Poet: Revising the Chaucer Biography,” in Chaucer Review 61 (January 2026): 1-21.

Margarita Jara Yupanqui (World Languages and Cultures) served as the lead editor of the Letras volume published by the Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos (Lima, Peru), titled "Amazonian Spanish: Studies on the Diversity of Contacts in the Amazon, Toward a Regional Contextualization and the Delimitation of Monolingual Dialects."  This…

Austin Horng-En Wang (Political Science) published an op-ed, "How Social Media Transparency Strengthens Geopolitical Stability in East Asia," in The Diplomat. This article reviews the recent transparency policy change on X and Threads, and analyzes how these changes successfully reduced the impact of cognitive warfare on Taiwan and Japan…

Katherine Walker (English) became a certified reviewer of English and Comparative Literature departments through the Association of the Departments of English (ADE).

Lisa Johnson (Anthropology) recently published a co-edited volume, "The Urban Questions: Interdisciplinary & Multiscalar Approaches to Investigating the Ancient Mesoamerican City," through the University of Utah Press, Available Dec. 19, 2025, ISBN: 978-1-64769-228-5. 

Tyler D. Parry (Interdisciplinary, Gender, and Ethnic Studies) served as the historical consultant for the "West Las Vegas Historical Timeline" that is displayed at the new West Las Vegas Library. It depicts and contextualizes key events in the history of Las Vegas' Black community and the Historic Westside.

Amy Reed-Sandoval (Philosophy) published a public philosophy article titled, "Antisemitism damages Mexico protests" in Salon.

Paul Vincent Ruma (Anthropology) was an invited speaker at the international symposium “Faire connaissance(s): Hip hop dances as fields of research and invention,” held December 4–6 at La Villette in Paris and organized by the Centre national de la danse (CN D), a national institution of the French Ministry of Culture. Ruma’s presentation, “From…

Joshua Chévere Cohen (Black Mountain Institute) recently presented at the Boiling Point literary conference sponsored by the UNLV Department of English and the EDSA. His presentation, titled "Keats's Malory: The 1816 Prince Arthur and the Birth of Romantic Medievalism," was part of the "Praxis of Myth(making)" panel. Other presenters included…

Executive director Colette LaBouff and associate director of programs Charlotte Wyatt (both Black Mountain Institute) recently presented an interactive workshop at the national conference of the Artist Communities Alliance ("Building Our Futures Together") in Santa Fe, New Mexico. The workshop, "Parachutes and Grassroots: Supporting Local Arts and…