Accomplishments: College of Liberal Arts

Amy Reed-Sandoval (Philosophy) published "Travel for Abortion as a Form of Migration" in Essays in Philosophy.
Benjamin Burroughs, Ben Morse, Michael Carmona (all Journalism and Media Studies), and Travis Snow (Sociology) presented a panel, "Watching Watchmen: Race and Anonymity" at the Far West Popular Culture Conference hosted by UNLV earlier this month. 
Brenna Renn (Psychology) recently published the manuscript, "A Typical Week With Mild Cognitive Impairment" in The Gerontologist. This project used photoelicitation interviews to explore the subjective experience of a “typical week” living with mild cognitive impairment (MCI) to document (a) important activities, (b) barriers to usual…
Simon Gottschalk's (Sociology) interview on The Internet and the Infantilization of Western Society has just been published in the Portugese magazine SHIFTER. Gottschalk reflects on his writings in The Terminal Self: Everyday Life in Hypermodern Times (Routledge) and his Salon article The Infantilization of Western Culture…
Dave Beisecker (Philosophy) presented a paper on grief and self-knowledge at the central division meeting of the American Philosophical Association. The paper was part of an authors-meets-critics session on Grief: A Philosophical Guide by Michael Cholbi of the University of Edinburgh.
Cheryl Abbate (Philosophy) presented an invited talk titled "Why Ghosts Aren't So Spooky: The Ethics of Indirect 'Relationship' Dissolution" for the University of Colorado, Boulder's Center Talk series (hosted by the CU Philosophy Department).
Elizabeth Johnson (Anthropology) and Shelly Volsche, '13 BA Psychology, '15 MA Anthropology, and '17 PhD Anthropology, now of Boise State University, are authors of an article, "COVID-19: Companion Animals Help People Cope during Government-Imposed Social Isolation." The article was published in the journal Society and Animals…
Erika G. Abad (Interdisciplinary, Gender, and Ethnic Studies) was featured on "The Art People Podcast." Learn about her passion for teaching, writing, social justice, and art. She discusses the importance of murals as public art for the Latinx community, the complexities of representation in media, and so much more.
Tyler D. Parry (African American and Africa Diaspora Studies) was interviewed by Gabby Hart of Channel 3 News in Las Vegas to discuss the troubling history of medical experimentation upon Black people in the United States.
Nicholas Irwin (Economics) recently published an article entitled "Sunny days: Spatial spillovers in photovoltaic system adoptions" in Energy Policy. The article studies the diffusion of residential solar panels in an urban setting by exploring the influence of neighboring solar panel installations on one's own decision to…
Tyler D. Parry (Interdisciplinary, Gender, and Ethnic Studies) appeared on the Nevada Public Radio Program "KNPR's State of Nevada," Feb. 8 discussing the proposed name change to the Las Vegas international airport —from Pat McCarran to Harry Reid.
William Bauer (History and the American Indian Alliance) delivered the keynote address at the annual conference of the Newberry Consortium in American Indian and Indigenous Studies. He discussed his forthcoming book, We Are the Land: A Native History of California, which is a survey of California Indian history.