Analiesa Delgado (History), a Ph.D. student, recently presented her article: "There is No O'odham Word for Wall," on a panel titled: "Surveillance, Violence, and Removal in the Latinx West," at this year's Western Historical Association Conference in San Antonio, Texas.

Analiesa Delgado (History), Ph.D. student, was awarded the Western History Association Louise Pubols Public History Prize for her recent work in public history at the Western History Association Conference in San Antonio, Texas.

Analiesa Delgado (History), Ph.D. student, was awarded the Western History Association Graduate Student Scholarship to help fund her attendance at the Western History Association conference recently in San Antonio, Texas.

Gary Totten (English) presented an invited paper, "The Naturalist Visual Aesthetic of Contemporary Television Crime Series," at a symposium, "American Literary Naturalism and the Visual/Digital," in Cork, Ireland, October 14-15, 2022. Totten discussed how television crime series such as True Detective, Ozark, and Bloodline,…

Assistant professor Iván Sandoval-Cervantes (Anthropology) published his book, Oaxaca in Motion: An Ethnography of Internal, Transnational, and Return Migration (University of Texas Press). This book is the result of almost two years of ethnographic fieldwork in Mexico (Oaxaca and Mexico City) and in the United States (California, Oregon, and…

Austin Horng-En Wang (Political Science) published a co-authored article, "Media literacy and partisan convergence across social network sites" in the Social Science Journal. This article argues that people with different partisanship tend to rely on different social media; this tendency, therefore, influences the spread of…

Kenneth Miller (Political Science), and co-editors John Green and David Cohen have published State of the Parties 2022: The Changing Role of Contemporary American Political Parties with Rowman & Littlefield. The book brings together leading scholars of parties, elections, and interest groups to explore the current state of American party…

John Tuman (Political Science) presented an invited talk titled "Latinos in Nevada" to the Reno Chapter of the American Association of University Women (AAUW). His talk discussed topics and findings from his co-authored book Latinos in Nevada: A Political, Economic, and Social Profile (with professors Tiffiany Howard, David Damore, and Nerses…

Anthony King, Ting Tong, Danielle Le, Donna Sim, Aldo Barrita, Richard Chang, and Gloria Wong-Padoongpatt (all Psychology) presented a research poster at the 23rd Annual International Center for Responsible Gambling Conference on gambling and addiction. The title of their poster was, "Cumulative Childhood Adversity Predicts Disordered Gambling and…

Francois-Nicolas Vozel (World Languages and Cultures) published an article titled, "No Trace Anywhere of Life, Perhaps: Autology and Hauntology in Imagination Dead Imagine," in the Journal of Beckett Studies (Edinburgh U.P.). The article analyzes how many of Samuel Beckett's texts rely on painterly aesthetics and techniques of avant-garde…

Nicole Short (Psychology) recently published a study in Addictive Behaviors that examines prospective associations between insomnia symptoms and later prescription opioid and benzodiazepine use with colleagues Anna Austin and Becky Naumann from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The study found bidirectional associations between…

Arpine Mkrtchyan’s (World Languages and Cultures) abstract proposal titled, ‘’Les particularités des signes poétiques dans les textes littéraires,’’ was accepted by and presented at the 15th World Congress of Semiotics, an event organized by University of Macedonia, Thessaloniki, Greece in August 2022.