Amy Reed-Sandoval (Philosophy) was a keynote speaker for the 40th Annual International Social Philosophy Conference hosted in Portland, Oregon, by the North American Society for Social Philosophy (NASSP). Her presentation was titled, "Feminism and the Open Borders Debate."

Kara Christensen Pacella (Psychology) and colleagues at University of Kansas (led by Kelsie Forbush, Ph.D.) published a new paper in JMIR Formative Research detailing the development of their new mobile health program to treat eating disorders among university students, "The Building Healthy Eating and Self-Esteem Together for University…

Gary Totten (English) has published the article, "Edith Wharton's Island Ecologies and The Cruise of the Vanadis," in the journal Edith Wharton Review. Totten examines what readers learn about the U.S. writer Edith Wharton’s view of island ecosystems in her 1888 diary of her Aegean cruise, The Cruise of the Vanadis, when we approach…

John Curry (History) has just been appointed for a two-year term as the Higher Education co-chair for the Advanced Placement World History Exam Development Committee, where he will head up the committee that vets and prepares the questions for the AP World History: Modern Exam for over 360,000 high school students throughout the U.S. and…

Christian Jensen, Nadia Eldemerdash (both Political Science), and assistant teaching professor Steven Landis (Political Science, University of Notre Dame) have recently published new research in the Journal of Contemporary Central and Eastern Europe that examines the relationship between vulnerability to climate change, political institutions and…

Kenneth Miller and Tanner Bates (both Political Science) published "PACs and January 6th: Campaign Finance and Objections to the Electoral College Vote Count" in Research & Politics, where they show that more business-friendly House Republicans are more supportive of democratic norms compared to members who receive more of their…

Lisa Johnson (Anthropology) presented the results of her latest fieldwork at the 12th congreso internacional de Mayistas, Mexico City, titled, "Arqueologia Domestica y la Practicas de la Vida Cotidiana en un Barrio de Palenque."

John M. Bowers (English) has published his latest novel LEGION OF THE DAGGERSTONE on Amazon KDP. The novel has as its hero a 21st-century J. R. R. Tolkien. Like the author of The Lord of the Rings, J. R. Tolliver is an English professor specializing in ancient languages – only at UVA instead of Oxford. Like Tolkien, he was an officer…

In the recent American Psychological Association (APA) Division 27 Community Psychology - Society for Community Research and Action (SCRA) 2023 Biennial Conference, "Where Do We Go From Here? Dreaming New Community Futures," which was held June 20-24, 2023, in Atlanta, Georgia, Renato M. Liboro, Sherry Bell, and Brandon Ranuschio (all Psychology)…

Tim Gauthier (Interdisciplinary, Gender, and Ethnic Studies) contributed a chapter, "Circumventing the Condemnation Imperative: The Figure of the Female Suicide Bomber in Akin and El Akkad," to The Figure of the Terrorist in Literature and Visual Culture (Edinburgh University Press).

Jaimi Garlington (Hospitality), Cass Shum (Hospitality), Gloria Wong-Padoongpatt (Psychology), and Laura Book (Hospitality) recently published their paper, “'What it do?' The effects of racial code-switching on industry turnover intention," in the International Journal of Contemporary Hospitality Management. The paper questions the practice…

Kara Christensen Pacella (Psychology) and colleagues at University of Kentucky (led by Matthew Southward, Ph.D.) and the Ohio State University recently published in Journal of Affective Disorders, "Protective factors in borderline personality disorder: A multi-study analysis of conscientiousness, distress tolerance, and self-compassion."