Patricia A. Heisser Metoyer (English, Psychology, Interdisciplinary Studies) was awarded a Los Angeles Review Board ( LARB ) Publishing Workshop Fellowship from June 27 to July 30. The Los Angeles Review of Books will host the fifth annual LARB Publishing Workshop, guiding a new cohort of students through the world of publishing with…

Susan Lee Johnson (History) was co-organizer, with Karl Jacoby of Columbia University, of a conference honoring William Cronon of the University of Wisconsin-Madison on the occasion of his retirement. Cronon was Frederick Jackson Turner and Vilas Research Professor of History, Geography, and Environmental Studies. The conference, Common…

Katherine Walker (English) published the article "'Palpable to Thinking': Othello and Gross Conceits" in English Literary Renaissance. The article looks at the mathematical and magical understandings of the term "gross" during the Renaissance to argue that Shakespeare's play juggles with these concepts in its consideration of the…

Tyler D. Parry (Interdisciplinary, Gender, and Ethnic Studies) served as a guest editor and organizer of an online forum, Black Las Vegas, published by the award-winning blog Black Perspectives. The forum will run through May 6 and feature five essays on different aspects of Black history in Las Vegas from various scholars based in Southern Nevada…

Amy Reed-Sandoval (Philosophy) gave a virtual, interactive presentation, "Teaching Philosophy to Migrant and Border-Town Children," as part of the Unbordering Migration in the Americas series at the University of Rochester. 

Austin Horng-En Wang (Political Science) was invited to host a virtual roundtable, "The Study of Taiwan Politics Overseas: The New Frontier," which was sponsored by the Center for Taiwan Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. This roundtable invited six scholars to discuss their experience and expectation in the studies of Taiwan politics.…

Abraham Lugo (Political Science) represented the United States and Make the Road Nevada, a local nonprofit that empowers working class immigrant communities, at the United Nations Economic and Social Council Youth Forum. Engaging in dialogue with other member states during the 2022 UN High-level Political Forum on sustainable development,…

Taylor Flaherty and Diana Simpson (both Anthropology) won the British Association for Forensic Anthropology and Missing People UK ‘Told in 90 Seconds’ Charity Research Competition with the talk "(Mis)Identifying a Transgender Woman Using FORDISC in 90 Seconds." Flaherty made the presentation. The research team included Jenny Byrnes (Anthropology)…

Carlos S. Dimas (History) gave a virtual talk at the University of Idaho on the history of coffee production and the influence of climate change in El Salvador. The talk is part of an article he is researching and writing on the history of nutrition, hunger, and agriculture in El Salvador during the Cold War.

  Nirmala Lekhak (Nursing), Tirth Bhatta (Sociology), and Sfurti Rathi (Public Health) have published an article, "Coping with Uncertainty: Use of Contemplative Practices amid the COVID-19 Pandemic in the United States" in the Holistic Nursing Practice Journal.  They used their nationwide Web based survey to examine the change in…

Heather Frigiola (Anthropology), a doctoral student who studies with professor Ivan Sandoval-Cervantes, has published a paper, "Canine Ministries: Co-Instrumentality of Human and Dog in a Christian Ontology," in the AAA journal Anthropology and Humanism. She is a Ph.D. student.

Michael Green (History) received the Superior Achievement Award from the Illinois State Historical Society for his book, Lincoln and Native Americans, published by Southern Illinois University Press.