John M. Bowers (English) published his epic gay novel, To the Boathouse, on Amazon KDP. Its multiple plotlines span a century from the eve of the First World War, through the sexual revolution and AIDS epidemic in New York, to the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center — and beyond.

Michael Ian Borer (Sociology) and Tyler Schafer, Ph.D. '17 Sociology, published their edited volume Researching City Life: An Urban Field Methods Text-Reader with SAGE publications. The book examines the city from a street level perspective and provides readers with tools to conduct research on urbanism — the everyday experiences of…

Among more than 100 chapters of Model United Nations in the United States, the UNLV Model United Nations ranked in the top 50. Undergraduate student Cecilia Winchell is the president of UNLV Model Nations.

Carlos S. Dimas (History) was a panelist at "Broadcasting the Local" at California State University Channel Islands. He spoke to faculty, staff, students, and community members on his upcoming audio documentary commemorating the anniversary of the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, which was funded through the National Endowment for the…

Carlos S. Dimas (History) was an invited speaker to California State University Channel Island's History Community Seminar. He presented on his book, Poisoned Eden: Cholera Epidemics, State-Building, and the Problems of Public Health in Tucumán, Argentina, 1865-1908 published in 2022 through University of Nebraska Press

Roberta Sabbath (English) edited Vegas Strong: Bearing Witness 1 October 2017 (University of Nevada Press).

Doctoral students Fabian Rebolledo and Mariah Mena (both History) were selected to receive Crossing Latinidades Mellon Humanities Fellowships for the 2023-24 academic year from the Crossing Latinidades Humanities Research Initiative at the University of Illinois at Chicago. They will receive $30,000 stipends each, help conduct research in…

Katherine Gaddis (Anthropology) was awarded an NSF Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant for her project titled, "An Examination of Aging and the Elderly in Bioarchaeological Contexts."

Carlos S. Dimas (History) was elected as president-elect of the Southeastern Council of Latin American Studies (SECOLAS) at the 2023 conference in Antigua, Guatemala. He will serve as president-elect 2023-2024 and then as president 2024-2025. SECOLAS is an association of individuals interested in Latin America established in 1953. Its objectives…

Vanessa Marie Booth (Political Science, The Lincy Institute, Brookings Mountain West) has been selected to receive the Thomas J. Watson Leadership Scholarship, which funds graduate study at Brown University. Admitted to the accelerated MPA program, Booth will be one of few students who receives the Watson Scholarship to not only fund her graduate…

Katherine Walker (English) published an article titled, "Horatio in Pieces, Or, How to Deal with Ghosts," in the journal Shakespeare. The article looks at Horatio's strategies for navigation the occult and supernatural in Shakespeare's Hamlet. 

Marina Garber-Colacicchi (World Languages and Cultures) recorded a selection of specially recorded texts based on the anthology The Doomsday Poetry: Chronicles (2022) for the Time of War International conference at Princeton University.