Amy Reed-Sandoval (Philosophy) delivered virtual comments on Jesus Auriel Raya's "Necropolitics in Practice: Leveraging the Fear of Deportation," at the Pacific Division meeting of the American Philosophical Association. 

Michelle Tusan's (History) book, "The Last Treaty: Lausanne and the End of the First World War in the Middle East" won the 2023/2024 PCCBS Best Book Prize.

Kara Christensen Pacella and graduate student Lidia Wossen (both Psychology) with colleague Kelsey Hagan from Virginia Commonwealth University recently published, "Low Overlap and High Heterogeneity Across Common Measures of Eating Disorder Pathology: A Content Analysis" in Assessment. In their paper, they find that common eating disorder measures…

Michael Green (History) has been appointed to a three-year term on the Nevada Awards and Honor Selection Board. This group will choose the annual recipients of a new, legislatively-mandated honor, the Nevada Medal of Distinction.

Barbara Roth and Ph.D. candidate Danielle Romero (both Anthropology) published "Children in Mimbres Pithouse Society" in Kiva: The Journal of Southwestern Anthropology and History 90:1-21. 

Assistant professor Renato Liboro (Psychology) is this year's recipient of the Top Tier Award. Liboro actively contributes to several core area of UNLV’s Top Tier 2.0 initiatives, including Research, Scholarship, and Creative Activity; Community Partnerships; Student Achievement; Social Justice, Equity, and Inclusion; UNLV Academic…

Andrew Lugg (Political Science) published the article "Re-contacting intergovernmental organizations: Membership change and the creation of linked intergovernmental organizations" in the journal Review of International Organizations.

Carlos Tkacz (English) published "Is Frank Miller’s The Dark Knight Returns Fascist? Resolving the Paradoxes of Heroic Violence​" in the Popular Culture Review, in which he argues that The Dark Knight Returns traces the polarizing paradoxes seen between the political left and right in the United States—the right at once advocating for…

Bailey Way and Shane Kraus (Psychology) and Nicholas Borgogna (Texas Tech University) recently published a paper, "Multicultural Considerations for the Psychometrics of the Brief Pornography Screen," in Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking.  In addition, Kraus and colleagues also recently published a paper, "Problematic…

On March 11, Christopher D. E. Willoughby (Interdisciplinary, Gender, and Ethnic Studies) gave an invited lecture for the Science Studies Colloquium at the University of California, San Diego. In this presentation, Willoughby discussed his book, Masters of Health: Racial Science and Slavery in U.S. Medical Schools.

Dave Beisecker (Philosophy) presented a paper, "The Ballistics of Inquiry in a Post-Truth Age," at the annual meeting of the Philosophy of Education Society in Salt Lake City. The paper was recognized as a finalist for the Joint PES & Educational Theory Outstanding Paper Award, and will soon be published in the society's journal, Philosophy of…

On March 7, Tyler D. Parry (African American and African Diaspora Studies; Interdisciplinary, Gender, and Ethnic Studies) gave a lecture at the Clark County Public Library. Parry examined the history of the "Great Migration" to the Las Vegas Valley, in which thousands of African Americans moved to Southern Nevada for economic opportunity and to…