Sheila Bock (Interdisciplinary, Gender, and Ethnic Studies) and Miriam Melton-Villanueva (History) published an article, “Collaboration, Women’s Work, and the Unfinished Story of a Sonoran Tale Collection,” in the Journal of American Folklore. This article considers a body of research materials from an unfinished dissertation project, specifically…

Susan Byrne (World Languages and Cultures) has published an article titled “La Armonía Neoplatónica en ‘A Francisco de Salinas’ de Fray Luis de León.” The article, a study of Neoplatonic imagery incorporated into the poem, has been published by the Universidade da Coruña, in a volume of collected essays in honor of City University…

Jennifer L. Rennels and Andrea J. Kayl (both Psychology) and their Sweden collaborators, Joshua Juvrud, Gustaf Gredeback, and Agneta Herlitz, recently published, "Attention During Visual Preference Tasks: Relation to Caregiving and Face Recognition" in Infancy. The research examined how having a female primary caregiver only versus…

Micajah Daniels (Public Health) is the first recipient of the Audre Lorde Student Leadership Award, which was given out at the first Inaugural Black Carpet, the main event for Black History Month. This event was hosted by student diversity and social justice to celebrate Black Excellence, Black Love, and Black Joy. Audre Lorde was a black writer,…

Susan Byrne (World Languages and Cultures) has published a chapter titled "Constitutions" in A Cultural History of Law in the Early Modern Age, edited by Peter Goodrich of Cardozo School of Law, New York. The book is volume three of a six-volume set on law and culture, published by Bloomsbury Press this month. Byrne's chapter includes…

Nicole D. Jenkins (Sociology) published "Contested Identities: African Diaspora and Identity Making in a Hair Braiding Salon." in the Journal of Contemporary Ethnography. She is a doctoral student.

Erika G. Abad (Interdisciplinary, Gender, and Ethnic Studies) earlier this month presented a paper, "Same Country, Different World: Making the Case for the “Intranational” Sexile," at the international Sites Queer Conference, which was hosted by the University of Puerto Rico - Rio Piedras School of Architecture.

Elizabeth Lawrence (Sociology) wrote a blog post about the "Educational Differences in Health" session she organized for the annual meeting for Interdisciplinary Association for Population Health Science.

Matthew S. Dentice (English) has been awarded the 2019 Medieval Association of the Pacific (MAP) Founders' Prize for his paper, “Monarch of the Past and of the Future: Joachim of Fiore, the Last Emperor, and the Myth of King Arthur’s Return.” The prize recognizes an outstanding scholarly paper fashioned from a presentation given at the previous…

Karen G. Harry (Anthropology) and Barbara J. Roth (Faculty Affairs) have an edited book, Interaction and Connectivity in the Greater Southwest, published through the University Press of Colorado.

Alan Simmons (Anthropology) has been awarded a grant from the Institute for Aegean Prehistory. This award will allow him and colleagues to conduct test excavations at probable early (ca. 12,000 years ago) sites in Cyprus.

Emma Frances Bloomfield (Communication Studies) and Denise Tillery (English) published an article about how climate change deniers make use of social media to circulate climate misinformation. The article is titled, "The Circulation of Climate Change Denial Online: Rhetorical and Networking Strategies on Facebook" and was published in the journal…