Paul Vincent Ruma (Anthropology) presented at the 2026 European Hip Hop Studies Network Conference, “Things Done Changed,” held March 18-21, 2026, at the Groninger Museum in the Netherlands. His presentation, “There’s No Book: Master Practitioner Publishing as Breaking’s Knowledge Infrastructure,” examined the gap between embodied cultural…

Jennifer Byrnes (Anthropology) co-authored "Buckle Rib Fractures Are More Than a Pleural Surface Phenomenon: A Case Report and Literature Review" in Forensic Anthropology. Drawing on a literature review and a forensic case example, the authors explore how buckle rib fractures are defined and offer recommendations to practitioners for more accurate…

Bailey Way and Shane Kraus (both Psychology), along with their colleagues, have recently completed a comprehensive landscape scan titled The Landscape of Pornography Use by Men in the United States. This work is now published online as part of an ongoing, grant-funded project supported by the American Institute for Boys and Men. Both the executive…

Shane Kraus (Psychology) and colleagues published five recent scholarly papers.  The first paper,  "A critical appraisal of how to employ – or not to employ – the Sexual Risk Survey in international populations," was published in the Journal of Sexual Medicine.  The second paper, "The Compulsive Sexual Behavior Disorder Scale (…

Barb Brents (Sociology), alumni Chris Wakefield and Alessandra Lanti, and an international team of researchers recently co-authored "How crime-based legal regimes shape sexual harm: Sex work, consent and vulnerability," published in the British Journal of Criminology. The research examines how legal regimes in the UK, US, and New Zealand shape the…

Amy Reed-Sandoval (Philosophy) presented "Conversion to Judaism: A Model of Ethnoracial Identity Change" at the virtual workshop Race at the Margins: Context, Contingency, and Identity.

Tyler D. Parry (Interdisciplinary, Gender, and Ethnic Studies) appeared on the Black Studies Podcast to discuss his perspectives on the field. In this conversation, he described his intellectual journey toward pursuing research about Black life in the United States and abroad, his current work analyzing the Black experience in Las Vegas, and…

Amy Reed-Sandoval (Philosophy) presented comments on the book Matthew Lipman and the Educational Role of Philosophy, co-edited by Megan Laverty and Maughn Gregory, at the 2026 Annual Meeting of the Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy, held this year at UNLV.      

Amy Reed-Sandoval (Philosophy) gave the 2026 Ann Gary and Sharon Bishop Endowed Lecture in Feminist Philosophy at California State University, Los Angeles. Her lecture was entitled "Borders as Intimacy Violation: Toward a Feminist Theory of Borders".

Lisa Johnson (Anthropology) recently co-presented at the 20th annual Tulane Maya Symposium on "Maya Cities," a talk titled "Households, Neighborhoods, and the Dynamics of Urbanism at Lakamha'."

Annaliese Grant (Sociology) and her coauthor recently published a paper, "Watching scripted fiction: Repertoires of co-viewing, time, and attention to scripted series and movies in Australia," in Poetics. 

Tiange Xu (International Gaming Institute), Mehmet Erdem (Hospitality), Brett Abarbanel (International Gaming Institute; Hospitality), and Shane Kraus (Psychology) recently published a paper, "A Methodological Scoping Review for Video Analysis in Hospitality Research," in the Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Insights. This study reviewed 37…