Accomplishments: College of Liberal Arts
Jennifer L. Rennels and Stephanie A. Verba (both Psychology) recently published, "Gender Typicality of Faces Affects Children's Categorization and Judgments of Women More than of Men" in Sex Roles. Their research shows U.S. children aged 5 to 9 years manifest a better sense of what typifies female than male faces, which subsequently affects…
William Bauer (History and American Indian Alliance) presented a paper, "Not Dammed Indians: The Dos Rios Dam and the Politics of Indian Removal in the 1960s," at the annual meeting of the American Historical Association, in Chicago in January.
Erika G. Abad (Interdisciplinary, Gender and Ethnic Studies) was invited to write a brief on being an Aca-Fan at ClexaCon for Media Res.
Anthony Jordan (’18 Ph.D. Political Science) and John P. Tuman (Political Science) published an article titled "Explaining Expulsions of U.S. Diplomatic Personnel from Latin America, 1991-2016," in Latin America Policy, volume 9, no. 2, 2018.
Merrill Landers (Physical Therapy), James Navalta (Kinesiology and Nutrition Sciences), and Jefferson Kinney (Psychology) co-authored “A High-Intensity Exercise Boot Camp for Persons With Parkinson Disease: A Phase II, Pragmatic, Randomized Clinical Trial of Feasibility, Safety, Signal of Efficacy, and Disease Mechanisms.” The investigators of…
Ranita Ray and Korey Tillman (both Sociology) recently published an article, "Envisioning a Feminist Urban Ethnography: Structure, Culture, and New Directions in Poverty Studies" in the journal Sociology Compass. Tillman is a graduate student.
David Forman (Philosophy) published an essay, "Leibniz on Human Finitude, Progress, and Eternal Recurrence," in Oxford Studies in Early Modern Philosophy from Oxford University Press.
David Damore (Political Science) and Robert Lang (Public Policy) hosted a colloquium on behalf ofThe Lincy Institute at UNLV, "Higher Education Reform: A Time for Action." The event featured research on Nevada higher education governance and system administration reform, with presentations from professors , executive…
Austin Horng-En Wang (Political Science) recently coauthored "Would Taiwan Fight China Without U.S. Support?" on The National Interest. The article presented the results of representative survey experiments to estimate how numerous factors influence Taiwanese people's willingness to fight.
Cassaundra Rodriguez (Sociology) published an article “Latino/a Citizen Children of Undocumented Parents Negotiating Illegality” in Journal of Marriage & Family.
Tiffiany Howard (Political Science), Mary-Ann Winkelmes (Office of the Vice Provost for Faculty Affairs), and Marya Shegog (Environmental and Occupational Health) are the authors of "Transparency Teaching in the Virtual Classroom: Assessing the Opportunities and Challenges of Integrating Transparency Teaching Methods with Online Learning" which…
Nicole Espinosa (Interdisciplinary, Gender, and Ethnic Studies) presented her McNair poster, " #ClexaEdit: Deconstruction of the Tragic Bi/Lesbian Trope," at the National Women's Studies Conference "Just Imagine, Imagining Justice" in November. The undergraduate student's work with Erika Abad (Interdisciplinary, Gender, and Ethnic Studies) set the…