Shane Kraus (Psychology) and colleagues recently published a paper, "Sexual Assertiveness Across Cultures, Genders, and Sexual Orientations: Validation of the Short Sexual Assertiveness Questionnaire (SAQ-9)," in Assessment. 

Faculty member Nicole Short, graduate student Mattea Pezza, and research coordinator Rachel Weese (all Psychology), along with an external collaborator, Michele Bedard-Gilligan (University of Washington Department of Psychiatry), recently published a systematical review in Behaviour Research and Therapy entitled, "Anxiety sensitivity and…

Susan Byrne (World Languages and Cultures) has published an article titled, "A Restless Nature," in Humanities 14.4. The article looks at two Golden Age Spanish adaptations of Plotinian ideas on curiosity, and is part of a special issue of the journal Humanities dedicated to Curiosity and Modernity in Early Modern Spain. Byrne studies…

Amy Reed-Sandoval's (Philosophy) paper, "Socially, Not Legally, Undocumented," was published in The Latinx Philosophy Reader (Routledge, 2025), edited by Lori Gallegos, Manuel Vargas, and Francisco Gallegos.

Iván Sandoval-Cervantes (Anthropology) published an article titled, "Before and After: Dogs’ Biographies Along and Across the Mexico-US Border," in the Catalyst Journal: Feminism, Theory, Technoscience. In this article, he analyzes the struggles of animal protection organizations in Ciudad Juarez, emphasizing how certain practices and…

Margaret Harp (World Languages and Cultures) presented a paper, "Le Printemps d'Yver as response to Bandello's Novelle," at the annual meeting of the Renaissance Society of America in Boston. She also chaired a session at the same conference, Erasmus in the Renaissance World.

At the invitation of the Office of Strategic Relations of Mexico's Metropolitan Autonomous University Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, Roberto Lovato (English) gave a talk on March 18: Awakening the Radical Imagination: the Poet Warrior Tradition of the Americas.

Amy Reed-Sandoval (Philosophy) published "The Transversal Spirit of the Feminist Strike" in Los Angeles Review of Books.

Daniel Allen (Psychology) was awarded $672,779 from Nevada Department of Health and Human Services for the Nevada Rural Communities Mental Health Outreach Program (RHOP) and $186,909 for the RHOP Expansion program. RHOP provides telebehavioral health counseling services to adolescents living in Elko and Humboldt counties. RHOP Expansion provides…

Austin Horng-En Wang (Political Science) published a policy report, "The war in Ukraine is influencing how Taiwanese think about conflict," in Brookings. In this report, Wang summarizes recent academic publications on Taiwanese willingness to fight, and how the ongoing Ukraine crisis influences the public opinion in Taiwan. 

John M. Bowers (English) has won the Dr. Catherine Gullo Bellver Career Achievement Award for his accomplishments in teaching, research, and service. He will be presented with a plaque and a check at the College of Liberal Arts Honors Convocation on April 23 in the Tam Alumni Center.

Safiyya Bintali (English) presented her paper, “'The Cat Didn’t Move, but You Did': Distance and Closeness in Ray Bradbury’s 'The Cat’s Pajamas,'” at Troy University's international Conference on Domestic Cats in Literature.