Arpine Mkrtchyan (World Languages and Culturest) took part in the 6th International Conference on the Teaching of French as a Foreign Language (“Colloque FLE 2021”), which was held in San Juan, Puerto Rico last month. This conference, organized by teleconference (Zoom platform), is aimed at applied linguists and researchers in French as a…

Amy Reed-Sandoval (Philosophy) published "Revisiting Relational Pandemic Ethics in Light of the COVID-19 Abortion Bans in the United States" in the International Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics.

John Curry (History) made a keynote presentation of his work in progress for the Mediterranean Seminar's Spring Workshop, The Global Mediterranean, this month. His paper was "Working the Global Mediterranean: Mezemorta Hüseyin Paşa as Corsair, Captive, Dey, and Admiral in the Late Seventeenth Century." He was the third of three keynote…

Austin Horng-En Wang (Political Science) was selected to receive the 2021 Wilson China Fellowship from The Wilson Center, a Washington, D.C.-based think tank focusing on U.S.-China relationships. The $20,000 fellowship will be used to support his research project,  “Pro-Democracy or Anti-China? The Emergence and Transformation of #…

Susan Lee Johnson (History) has been interviewed for the podcast "Writing Westward" about the recently published book Writing Kit Carson: Fallen Heroes in a Changing West. The podcast is sponsored by the Charles Redd Center for Western Studies at Brigham Young University,

Dustin Hines (Psychology) received a research award sponsored by the Regional Alliance of INBRE Networks (RAIN). RAIN is funded by the National Institutes of Health to improve collaborative biomedical research efforts in western states. He will collaborate with Rochelle Hines (Psychology) and William Maio of New Mexico State University to develop…

Aldo M. Barrita, Gloria Wong-Padoongpatt, and Anthony King (all Psychology) presented a research symposium presentation, "Racial Microaggressions, Mental Health, and Substance Use: A Mediation Analysis," and a a poster presentation, "Latinx and Microaggressions: A Decade of Research," at the national Winter Roundtable Conference in…

Amy Reed-Sandoval (Philosophy) presented "Crossing Borders for Abortion as a Feminist Challenge to Border Theory" at the Exile, Belonging and Place symposium organized by the University of Louisville Commonwealth Center for Humanities & Society.

Austin Horng-En Wang (Political Science) published a co-authored article, "Sacrifice for the Mandate of Heaven? Regression Discontinuity of Death Penalty Execution in Taiwan," in the Social Science Journal. It exploits an unexpected death penalty execution during a national survey in Taiwan in 2012 and shows that the death penalty…

Erika Gisela Abad (Interdisciplinary, Gender, and Ethnic Studies) has been interviewed by KLAS-TV regarding the historical significance of the term Latinx in the context of its use and presence in last election season's cycle. 

Evelyn Gajowski (English) published the chapter, "'As if a Man were Author of Himself': Fantasies of Omnipotence and Autonomy," in the essay collection, Coriolanus: A Critical Reader. The chapter analyzes the resonances between Caius Martius Coriolanus and Donald Trump, interrogating the emergence of the Roman republic, on the one hand, and…

William Bauer (History and the American Indian Alliance) was invited by the department of history and Native American studies at the University of Oregon to discuss his forthcoming book, We Are the Land: A Native History of California. Bauer discussed the process of writing the book, the principal arguments, and challenges of writing a…