Tyler D. Parry (Interdisciplinary, Gender, and Ethic Studies) published, Jumping the Broom: The Surprising Multicultural Origins of a Black Wedding Ritual this month with the University of North Carolina Press. It is the first book-length treatment of the popular wedding ritual often associated with enslaved people in the United States. Parry…

Kenneth Miller (Political Science) and David Cohen (Bliss Institute of Applied Politics, University of Akron) spoke to the Economic Club of Las Vegas and participated in the forum "What to Expect on Election Night," where they discussed the electoral landscape, scenarios most likely to unfold, and the systems media outlets use to "…

Erick López (Sociology and School of Public Health) presented at the American Public Health Association Annual Meeting on the topic "The Association Between Sociocultural Measures of Acculturation and Vigorous Leisure Time Physical Activity in Latinxs."    

Tyler D. Parry (Interdisciplinary, Gender, and Ethnic Studies) appeared on the program Nevada Week, which airs on Vegas PBS. He was interviewed about the school-to-prison pipeline in the Clark County School District and the nation. He also discussed curriculum in public schools and the lack of representation for students of color within the…

Cheryl Abbate (Philosophy), presented an invited (virtual) talk, "It Could've Been Beef: Meat Eating, Moral Responsibility, and COVID-19" for Utah State University's philosophy department. The talk was sponsored by the USU Philosophy Club. 

Austin Horng-En Wang (Political Science) published the co-authored article "Mobilizing Sophisticated Donors: What Candidate Facebook Posts Do Attract Intra- and Inter-District Donations?" in Issues & Studies. The article exploits a dataset combining a Taiwanese mayor candidate's Facebook posts and all individual donations during the…

Timothy Erwin (English) chaired the opening panel of The Intermedial Eighteenth Century: Textual and Visual Arts, 1660-1832, a virtual conference hosted by Northumbria University in the United Kingdom.  Tim was recently named to the Advisory Board for the Centre for the Study of Text and Print Culture at Shanghai University in China…

Pasha Rafat (Art) will curate a group exhibition at the galleries at Summerlin Library titled "Two or 3 Things I Know About Abstraction." The exhibition will bring together other artists working with abstract sculpture. The exhibit will run from Jan. 12-March 23.

Ashley Hairston Doughty and Lance Smith (Art) are included in an online exhibition, "Skin in the Game," at Palos Verdes Art Center in California, curated by Brent Holmes. The exhibition includes artists from various backgrounds who are committed to the cause of racial justice. The exhibition also features UNLV almni Karla Lagunas,…

Shane Kraus (Psychology) along with Researchers at Northeastern University (Arielle A. J. Scoglio Alisa Lincoln, and Beth E. Molnar) and recently published a paper "Chipped or Whole? Listening to Survivors’ Experiences With Disclosure Following Sexual Violence" in the Journal of Interpersonal Violence. This study used data from nine focus…

Brenna Renn (Psychology), along with colleagues at the Univeristy of Washington School of Medicine, recently published the discussion piece Making Psychotherapy Available in the United States: Implementation Challenges and Solutions in Psychiatric Services (published by the American Psychiatric Association). Although more than…

Aldo Barrita, Gloria Wong-Padoongpatt, Marvin Fuentes, and Lianelys Cabrera-Martinez (all Psychology) presented a poster summarizing a systematic review of the literature on microaggressions impacting Latinx communities at the 2020 conference for the National Latinx Psychological Association.