Accomplishments: College of Liberal Arts
Arely Orozco (Hispanic Studies) presented her paper, “Entre lo místico y lo carnal: símbolos religiosos en el erotismo de Aura,” at the International Colloquium of Mexican and Hispanic American Literature, held in Hermosillo on Nov. 14, 2025.
Derek Boyd (Anthropology) published an open-access article in Early View in the International Journal of Paleopathology titled, "An Intersectional and Bayesian Investigation of Pleural Disease in Industrializing England (1700-1857CE)," (2026). In this article, Boyd combines intersectionality theory with Bayesian linear modeling to map the burden…
Michelle Tusan (History) was interviewed on Eating the Past for Utah Public Radio on Armenian foodways.
Gabriela Oré Menéndez (Anthropology) published an article in the Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory titled "Agricultural Infrastructure Detection Through Multispectral Satellite Remote Sensing and PeruSAT-1 Images in Huarochirí, Peru" (2025). In this article, Oré Menéndez develops a systematic methodological approach called "sequential…
Austin Horng-En Wang, Darrell Carter, Naseem Benjelloun, Dhritiman Banerjee, and Sydney Cervantes (Political Science) published an article, "Polarized by moderates", in Social Science Research. This article is a collaboration between faculty and students. This article proposes a new measure in the level of political polarization,…
Nirmala Lekhak (Nursing) presented her research, "Mental Health Benefits of Maitri Sambodh Dhyaan (MSD) Meditation for Dementia Caregivers" at Religion, Spirituality, and Aging Interest Group Symposium at the Gerontological Society of America's Annual Scientific Meeting, Boston, on Nov. 14, 2025.
The presentation was co-authored by Tirth Bhatta (…
Michelle Tusan (History) delivered the Presidential address, sponsored by the Royal Historical Society, at the annual North American Conference on British Studies in Montreal. Her talk was entitled: ‘What Liberalism Requires: The Very Victorian Marriage of J.S. Mill and Harriet Taylor.’ She will now serve as Immediate Past President of NACBS.
Richard Chang (Psychology) presented a paper presentation, "Between Two Palms: Podcasting to empower emerging scholars," at the 2025 Biennial Diversity Challenge Graduate Student Conference, hosted by Boston College's Institute for the Study of Race and Culture on Nov. 15.
Paul Werth (History) has published a Russian translation of his book "1837: Russia's Quiet Revolution" (Oxford, 2021), with the publisher Novoe Literaturnoe Obozrenie in Moscow. The Russian version appears as "1837: Russia's Hidden Transformation," because the Putin regime does not like revolutions, even "quiet" ones (i.e., ones by stealth, under…
Michael Green (History) presented a lecture, "The Tropicana: From Tiffany to Island to Gone," at the Clark County Museum on Nov. 13.
Jesse Fitts (Philosophy) has published the paper, "Access Denied: An Argument Against King’s Propositional Access Principle," in the journal Thought: A Journal of Philosophy.
Arpine Mkrtchyan (World Languages and Cultures) has been selected and invited to present her article at the 51st Annual Nineteenth-Century French Studies Colloquium, organized by University of Nevada, Reno, from October 30 to November 1, 2025.
Mkrtchyan has presented her article titled “Altérité et perception poétique chez Victor Hugo: Analyse en…