Wendy Chen (English) was invited to speak on a panel at the Christopher Art Gallery at Prairie State College. She spoke on interdisciplinary collaboration within the arts and her experience collaborating with visual artist Michele Stutts. Her work with Stutts is currently on view as part of an exhibit titled, "Tapestry of Voices: The Poetic…

Margarita Jara (World Languages and Cultures) presented “Exploring Present Perfect Grammaticalization in Peruvian Amazonian Spanish” at the Linguistic Association of the Southwest annual meeting at the University of Colorado Denver. This study analyzes verb forms in sociolinguistic interviews and explores language variation in an Amazonian Spanish…

Amy Reed-Sandoval (Philosophy) was a speaker for the College of Arts and Sciences Dean's Speaker Series at California Lutheran University. She gave a talk on feminist philosophy and the ethics of borders. 

Assistant professor Wendy Chen (English) published three translations of the poetry of Song-dynasty woman writer Li Qingzhao in the final issue of Freeman's. The issue received a starred review in Kirkus Reviews, with her translations garnering particular praise.  

Sheila Bock (Liberal Arts) published her book, Claiming Space: Performing the Personal through Decorated Mortarboards (University Press of Colorado). Claiming Space examines the growing tradition of decorating mortarboards at college graduations, offering a performance-centered approach to these material sites of display. Taking mortarboard…

Cheryl Abbate (Philosophy) delivered the Sixth Annual Tom Regan Memorial Lecture at Harvard Law School. In her talk, "The Philosophy of Animal Rights: A Way of Life or Religion?," she argued that the Philosophy of Animal Rights counts as a religion for all legal purposes (e.g., First Amendment and Title VII purposes) because it satisfies the most…

In the Desert Companion article, "Doctors Disbelieve, Patients (and Care) Suffer," by Stephanie Forté, Christopher D. E. Willoughby (Interdisciplinary, Gender, and Ethnic Studies) was quoted on the history of racial bias in medical education. In the article, Willoughby discusses the deep history of how gender bias in medicine became…

Roberto Lovato (English) published a chapter on German author Thomas Mann's exile in Los Angeles and its relevance for exiles today. The book, Das Thomas Mann House – Politischer Denkort am Pazifik (Thomas Mann House – A Place for Political Thought on the Pacific), is published by the renowned German publisher Wallstein Village and includes…

Brandon Ranuschio, Sherry Bell, Lianne Barnes, Renato M. Liboro (all Psychology), and Jason D. Flatt (Social and Behavioral Health) recently published their article, "A Focus on Aging, HIV/AIDS, and Neurocognitive Challenges: Examining Southern Nevada HIV Sector Providers’ Awareness and Prospective Roles," in the International Journal of…

Professor Robert Futrell (Sociology) was interviewed and quoted in the Vox article, "2023 was the year the US finally destroyed all of its chemical weapons." Futrell has published several articles on citizens movements that successfully reshaped deliberative processes and technological decisions made by the U.S. Army in its bid to destroy the…

Noria Litaker (History) published Bedazzled Saints: Catacomb Relics in Early Modern Bavaria in the University of Virginia Press's Studies in Early Modern Germany series. The book chronicles the transfer, distribution, and display of nearly four hundred "holy bodies" of ancient Christian martyrs, some of the church’s most prestigious relics, sent…

On Sept. 27, Susan Lee Johnson (History) shared a Denver stage with librarian and genealogist Charlene Garcia Simms to discuss the life of nuevomexicana Josefa Jaramillo as part of History Colorado's "Bold Women. Change History." lecture series.