Austin Horng-En Wang (Political Science) and Darrell Carter (Political Science PhD) co-authored the article, "The Past is Present: Underestimating Fear of Contemporary Reprisals in the Legacy of Political Violence," in Political Science. In this article, Wang and Carter reveal the issue of nonresponse in the study of political repression…

Austin Horng-En Wang (Political Science) co-authored the article, "Undercurrent in Taiwan: Nationalism and Calculation of the Cross-Strait Relations (2002–2022)," in Public Opinion Quarterly. In this article, Wang and others analyzed 14 waves of survey (n = 16494) from 2002 to 2022 trying to explain a big research question: Why did…

Adrianna Munson (Sociology) discussed the cultural impact of "failed" adulthood in a recorded interview for Sage Video.

Michael J. Alarid (History) published "Crime and Punishment in a Nineteenth Century Western Community" in The Routledge History of Crime in America (Routledge, 2025). Covering a broad chronology from the colonial era to the present, this volume reflects the diverse approaches, interests and findings of an international group of new and established…

On Feb. 7, Christopher D.E. Willoughby (African American Studies;Interdisciplinary, Gender, and Ethnic Studies) published an article titled, "Pioneer Professors of Kentucky Medical Education and the Spread of Racial Science, 1792–1861," in the Register of the Kentucky Historical Society. Willoughby's article is a part of a special issue…

Regine DeGuzman-Lucero, Nicole Short, Ph.D., and Jennifer Le (all Psychology) published a new article in the journal British Journal of Clinical Psychology titled, "The role of impulsivity in the association between rumination and cannabis-related problems among trauma-exposed cannabis users."

Lisa Johnson (Anthropology) has co-authored a chapter in a book published by Dumbarton Oaks, "Multi-Locality of an Ancient Maya City: Archaeology, Tourism, and Indigenous Landscapes at Palenque in Chiapas, Mexico," in the book, Landscapes in the Making, edited by Stephen Daniels and Dell Upton. 

On Feb. 5, Christopher Willoughby (African American Studies; Interdisciplinary, Gender, and Ethnic Studies) gave an invited lecture on his book, Masters of Health: Racial Science and Slavery in U.S. Medical Schools, in the History of Politics seminar at the Université Paris Cité. While in Paris, Willoughby and Elodie Edwards Grossi (…

On Feb. 5, Tyler D. Parry (African American and African Diaspora Studies Program; Interdisciplinary, Gender, and Ethnic Studies) appeared on KTNV, Channel 13 News to discuss his research on the 1969 Uprising against police brutality in West Las Vegas, explaining how this event still impacts the city in the present.

Paul W. Werth (History) has received a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities in support of a research inquiry entitled "Russia's Other Eastern Church: The Armenian Confession and the Romanov Empire," which explores the implication of Armenian Christianity in Tsarist Russia's imperial structures, geopolitical projects, and…

Tim Gauthier (Interdisciplinary, Gender, and Ethnic Studies) published an article, "In the Kingdom of the Sick: Abjection, Mutuality, and the Afflicted in Recent Pandemic Fiction," in a Special Issue of the University of Toronto Quarterly.

Shane Kraus (Psychology) and colleagues recently published several scholarly works.  The first article (Cross-cultural Validation of the Arizona Sexual Experience Scale (ASEX) in 42 Countries and 26 Languages) was published in Sexuality Research and Policy.  The second article (Cross-Cultural Validation of the Sexual Desire Inventory…