Faculty member Roberto Lovato (English) was among the San Francisco authors selected to be a Library Laureate. He and other authors were celebrated at a gala sponsored by the San Francisco Public Library.

Elizabeth Lawrence (Sociology), Samantha John (Brain Health), and Tirth Bhatta (Sociology) published an article, "Urbanicity and Cognitive Functioning in Later Life," in the journal Alzheimer's & Dementia: Diagnosis, Assessment & Disease Monitoring.

Jeff Schauer (History) was interviewed for a story on Reality Blurred about an upcoming reality television show, Renovation Wild, that involves tourism, conservation, and colonial legacies in Zambia. 

Kara Christensen (Psychology) and colleagues at the University of Kansas (Kelsie Forbush: PI), VA Boston, VA Eastern Kansas, and Purdue University were recently awarded a $4.23 million Department of Defense Expansion Grant for their project, "Assessment of Eating Disorder and Comorbidity Risk and Resilience in a Nationally Representative Sample of…

Sujata Chattopadhyay (English) recently saw her essay, “Creating Saints: Hagiographical Elements in Tennyson’s In Memoriam A. H. H.,” appear in The Tennyson Research Bulletin from Oxford University Press.  

Amy Reed-Sandoval (Philosophy) presented "Overturning Birthright Citizenship in a Post-Roe v. Wade United States: A Specter of Dehumanization" at the symposium "The Ethics of Birthright Citizenship: Latinx Perspectives," which was hosted by the department of philosophy and College of Liberal Arts at Penn State University.

On April 21, professor Roberto Lovato (English) delivered the keynote speech at Ithaca College's Distinguished Speaker in the Humanities Series. Past speakers include Salman Rushdie, Tony Kushner, Martha Nussbaum and Robert Pinsky.

Austin Horng-En Wang (Political Science) published a co-authored article, "Why does Taiwan Identity Decline?" in Journal of Asian and African Studies. This article exploits 53 waves of survey in Taiwan to examine four competing theories on the decline of Taiwan identity. Empirical evidence supports the hypothesis of issue…

Elizabeth Maltby (Political Science) and Olivia Cheche (recent UNLV graduate in Political Science) were awarded the 2023 Award for the Best Paper on Blacks and Politics from the Western Political Science Association for their paper, "Racial Threat, Black Lives Matter, and Shaping 2020 Politics: How Race Influenced Political Participation in the…

Amy Reed-Sandoval (Philosophy) spoke on a panel about immigration and asylum that was hosted by Stanford University's McCoy Family Center for Ethics and Society as part of its Intercollegiate Civil Disagreement Partnership, which aims to provide students with tools to engage in constructive disagreement. Other presenters included Michael Fisher,…

Dan Lee (Political Science) was appointed to the Advisory Committee on Participatory Democracy by Nevada Secretary of State Francisco V. Aguilar. The Advisory Committee is "charged with assisting the Secretary of State in identifying and proposing programs that support participatory democracy and solutions to any problem concerning the level of…

Noria Litaker (History) was awarded a Weiss-Brown Publication Subvention Award by the Newberry Library for her forthcoming book, Bedazzled Saints: Catacomb Relics in Early Modern Bavaria (University of Virginia Press, fall 2023). The award supports the publication of outstanding works of scholarship that concern European civilization before 1700…