Timothy Erwin (English) published "Book Illustration and The Deserted Village"  as part of a group of essays celebrating the 250th anniversary of the poem in Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture.

Stephen Benning and Edward Smith (both Psychology) published an article about how to register scientific studies in Personality Disorders: Theory, Research, and Treatment. They argue that doing so increases the transparency of the research process and makes the outcomes of studies more trustworthy by reducing the dependence of data analytic…

On Feb. 27, Tyler D. Parry (African American and African Diaspora Studies; Interdisciplinary, Gender, and Ethnic Studies) appeared on the radio program "Press Play with Madeleine Brand," on KCRW, the NPR station in Los Angeles. He discussed the long history of canine terror used against marginalized people, and provided comment on a new California…

On Feb. 24, 2023, Tyler D. Parry (African American and African Diaspora Studies; Interdisciplinary, Gender, and Ethnic Studies) appeared on Channel 8 News discussing the Civil Rights Movement in Las Vegas, highlighting the accomplishments of James B. McMillan who led the protests during the 1950s and '60s.

Stephen Benning (Psychology) was elected treasurer of the Society for the Scientific Study of Psychopathy (SSSP). SSSP is the international society devoted to research on the personality disorder of psychopathy, which represents a tremendous financial and interpersonal cost to the world at large. He remains the society's historian and was its…

On Feb. 23, 2023, Tyler D. Parry (African American and African Diaspora Studies; Interdisciplinary, Gender, and Ethnic Studies) appeared on Nevada Public Radio to discuss the history of the Historic Westside and current plans to invest in rebuilding and revitalizing the area.

Doctoral student Liam Johnson (Anthropology) was awarded a Pollitzer Student Travel Grant for up to $500 by the American Association of Biological Anthropologists.

Shane Kraus (Psychology) and Texas Tech colleagues recently published a paper, "Further Understanding the Correlations Between Sexting and Mental Health: Considerations for Sex and Sexual Identity," in Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking. 

Timothy Erwin (English) presented a paper on the late fiction of Jane Austen, “New Contexts for Persuasion,” at the annual meeting of the Western Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies in Los Angeles on February 18. Joining him on the program were UNLV doctoral candidates Miranda Hannasch, whose paper was titled, “‘Sad Oroonoko Pleads for Each…

Professor Levent Atici (Undergraduate Research, Anthropology) is the lead editor of a new book titled, Food Provisioning in Complex Societies: Zooarchaeological Perspectives, published through the University Press of Colorado. Atici also has co-authored a chapter in the book.  Through creative combinations of ethnohistoric evidence,…

Susan Lee Johnson's (History) Western History Association presidential address, first delivered at the organization's annual conference last October, will be published in the spring 2023 issue of the Western Historical Quarterly. Advance access online is now available. 

Amy Reed-Sandoval (Philosophy) received a small grant from the Marc Sanders Foundation to support research and writing in public philosophy.