Dan Lee (Political Science) published a co-authored article, "Permeable Boundaries: The Interplay between Major Party Primaries and Non-major Party Candidacies," in Party Politics. A theoretical model of candidate entry shows how competitive primary elections can funnel candidates to instead pursue the non-major party route onto the general…

Tyler D. Parry (Interdisciplinary, Gender, and Ethnic Studies) recently appeared on KTNV Channel 13 Action News to weigh in on the controversy over Eighth Judicial District Judge Erika Ballou's comments on the police. Parry opposes the Las Vegas Police Protective Association's call for Ballou to resign over her remarks. He is part of the IGES…

Marina Garber-Colacicchi (World Languages and Cultures) published a book of poetry, Homelandless, (Publishing House of Oleg Fedorov, Kiev, Ukraine, June 2022). She also published a selection of poetry about war in Ukraine in The New World  magazine (Toronto, Canada). Additionally, she participated in the No War: Poets Against the War …

Graduate student Nikki Bennett (Anthropology), in collaboration with UNLV alumna Shelly Volsche (now professor at Boise State University), co-organized the annual International Society of Anthrozoology conference that was hosted by Boise State University on July 6-9. In addition to being the co-host, she presented her own PhD research, "…

Lisa M. Johnson (Anthropology), along with Rosemary A. Joyce, edited Materializing Ritual Practices, which is being released through the University of Colorado Press

Austin Horng-En Wang (Political Science) published a co-authored article "Comparing Stress and Behavioral Coping Strategies during the Early Stages of the COVID‑19 Crisis among Domestic and Overseas Taiwanese" in the journal Scientific Reports. This article compares the level of stress and the coping strategies between domestic and…

Marta Soligo (International Gaming Institute and Sociology) delivered a keynote speech earlier this month at the webinar “Film Tourism: Destination Branding and Experience” organized by the Bali Dwipa University in collaboration with the Bali Tourism Board. Soligo’s presentation centered around film-induced tourism, focusing on tourism planning,…

Benjamin Burroughs, Benjamin J. Morse, Travis Carmona (all Journalism and Media Studies), and Travis Snow (Sociology) have published an article, "The Masks We Wear: Watchmen, Infrastructural Racism, and Anonymity" in the journal Television & New Media. As COVID-19 has led to the politicization of masks and the donning of masks, the…

Katherine Walker (English) published in Renaissance Quarterly 75.2 a review of Elizabeth Swann's Taste and Knowledge in Early Modern England. 

Gloria Wong-Padoongpatt, Aldo Barrita, and Anthony King (all Psychology) recently published an article in the Asian American Journal of Psychology  titled "Everyday Racism Increase for Asian Americans in the U.S. during the COVID-19 Pandemic." Their findings strongly indicate that Asians in the U.S. perceived a change in everyday racism…

Anthony King, Ting Tong, Donna Sim, Michelle Strong, Aldo Barrita, Danielle Le, and Gloria Wong-Padoongpatt (all Psychology) recently presented their research on the connection between adverse childhood experiences and addictive behavioral patterns in adulthood at the American Psychological Association's Division 50 Conference for the Practice of…

Kendra Gage (Interdisciplinary, Ethnic and Gender Studies), presented a paper titled "'The Black Strip': Black Las Vegas Nightlife in the 1950s and 1960s" at the annual conference of the Historians of the 20th Century United States in Edinburgh, Scotland.  Gage discussed how African Americans created community institutions in mid-20th…