Associate Professor in French, François-Nicolas Vozel (World Languages and Cultures), published an essay titled "A Woman Impersonally: Hélène Cixous, Gilles Deleuze, Clarice Lispector, and the Poetics of Immanence" in French Forum (University of Pennsylvania Press), 50.2 (2026), pp. 99-114.

Matthew Childs (World Languages and Cultures), Ph.D., received the Metzler-Mews Conference Travel Grant from the American Association of Teachers of German. This competitive award provides funding for scholars to present their work at national and international conferences. This grant will support Childs's attendance at the German Studies…

Researchers from the CANE (Cognitive Aging & Neuropsychological Equity) Lab, Stacey Moeller (Psychology) and Samantha John (Brain Health), along with collaborators Marta Meana (Psychology), Brenna Renn (Psychology), Elizabeth Lawrence (Sociology), and Nanako A. Hawley, published a study in Alzheimer's & Dementia: Diagnosis, Assessment…

Andrew Lugg and Jared Oestman (both Political Science) published their paper “Reciprocity in International Law: Evidence from Investor-State Dispute Settlement” in the World Trade Review, a leading journal in international trade and investment law. Lugg and Oestman use a survey experiment (n = 2,227) on US attitudes towards Investor-State Dispute…

Natalie Hsiao and William Ramsey (both Philosophy) published their paper, "A Different Type of Framing Effect." In this paper, Hsiao and Ramsey argue that the way in which philosophical thought experiments (like the trolley problem) are typically presented in the literature can influence peoples’ intuitive judgments about what the thought…

Shane W. Kraus (Psychology), associate professor and director of the Behavioral Addictions Lab at UNLV, recently published six peer-reviewed articles advancing research on behavioral addictions, mental health, and public health. The publications appeared in leading journals including Frontiers in Psychology, Frontiers in Public Health, the Journal…

John Curry (History) presented a paper titled "The Life of Ünsi Hasan Efendi (d. 1723): Failed Saint, or Indicator of Structural Change in the Eighteenth-Century Ottoman Empire?" in a panel on Empires and Ideologies at the American Historical Association's Pacific Coast Branch Annual Meeting held on the UNLV campus on July 30-31. He also chaired a…

Erica Hanna and Heather Thompson (both Liberal Arts) partnered with Intermountain Health and United Way of Southern Nevada to present an Early Childhood (Birth to Age 5) Emotional Well-Being Workshop for parents and preschool educators. The workshop focused on helping caregivers understand typical emotional development and age-appropriate…

Gregory Brown, John Curry, John Haberstroh, Jeff Schauer, A.B. Wilkinson, Dakota Ciolkosz, Fabian Rebolledo, Connor Young, Jessica Ayala Venegas, Natalie Dechaine, Nathan Pormentira, Emma Vermillion, EJ Decastro, Demetrius Khananisho Tolliver, Adrien (all History) presented at the Pacific Coast Branch of the American Historical Association…

Roberto Lovato (English) conducted a 3-day workshop, "Writing Crisis: Crafting the Literature of Turbulent Times," at the The Mendocino Coast Writers’ Conference during the week of July 27, 2026.

Dave Beisecker (Philosophy) presented a paper, “When Spirit Came to the Comstock: the correspondence of Horatio Jones, Nevada’s first Philosopher," at the Summer Institute in American Philosophy, hosted by Concordia College in Moorhead, Minnesota. 

Paul Werth (History) published an essay titled “Armenians, Empire, and the Politics of Conversion in 19th Century Russia,” in a volume, "Religious Conversion and Imperial Rule" (Frankfurt, 2026). That he did this rather than starting bar fights, slashing tires, and breaking windows in the neighborhood is convincing testament to the civilizing…