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College of Liberal Arts News

The College of Liberal Arts offers students a well-rounded education in the humanities and social sciences. Students develop strong analytical and communication skills for a lifetime of learning and discovery that can be applied to a wide variety of careers.

Current Liberal Arts News

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Arts and Culture |

‘Tis the season for UNLV folklore expert Katherine Walker to guide us through some of the holiday season’s holliest and jolliest customs.

UNLV XMAS
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This month’s frosty headlines and highlights from the students and faculty of UNLV.

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Campus News |

As plans for a permanent memorial garden take shape, community-driven projects offer a way for students and faculty to reckon with loss.

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Arts and Culture |

The author of 'The Body Papers' visits UNLV as part of the Kwentuhan at Chikahan: Las Vegas Filipino Book Club series.

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Campus News |

The awards honor Naoko Takemaru, Jerry Cha-Jan Chang, and Patricia Navarro Velez.

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The project reframes the experience of walking into the building while honoring the memories of the professors lost.

Liberal Arts In The News

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As we march toward another new year, we put more distance between ourselves and the origins of the traditions many of us hold dear. Fruitcake, gift giving, and hanging ornaments – they’re all a blend of cultural ideas crackling aside the hearty yule log on a holiday hearth.

Catholic Sports Radio

She competed in a long list of sports from elementary school to high school to university and adult life. Notably, she competed regionally in running and at the world level in dance. Regarding the latter, she is a World Championship-winning professional Irish dancer, and she now dances for coaching. Meanwhile, she ran her first 10K in 2017 and has remained very involved in running. She is the Graduate Lab Coordinator at the University of Nevada Las Vegas for The Optimum Performance Program in Sport (TOPPS), which blends traditional mental health services with sport culture and customized performance coaching.

City Cast Las Vegas

When someone says they’re from Las Vegas, where do they specifically mean? The majority of the Valley lives in one of the adjacent municipalities or unincorporated Clark County. So how did we get this weird patchwork of townships and jurisdictions, and how did it set up the city and the county for their many tensions today? We’re sharing our notes in this re-airing of a popular episode — co-host Dayvid Figler talks to UNLV history professor Michael Green about the last century of Las Vegas and Clark County history, and how a city-county showdown brought us to this utterly unique arrangement.

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When members of the 2025 Legislature take the oath of office in February, there will be a lot of new faces. A total of 15 lawmakers — representing 105 years of legislative experience — will not be returning to Carson City because they ran for other offices, chose not to seek re-election, were forced to quit by term limits or were defeated.

Las Vegas Review Journal

Cowboy boots epitomize America’s approach to style. From the flat rubber-soled option yanked on in the predawn hours of a long shift to the couture-adjacent styles headed to a televised red carpet, the origins of cowboy boots “are incredibly practical,” says Deirdre Clemente, the associate director of UNLV’s public history program.

The Bitchuation Room (with Francesca Fiorentini)

Writer Roberto Lovato joins Francesca to talk about the need to use the R word: revolutionary!

Liberal Arts Experts

Kirk is an expert who studies the intersections of cultural and environmental history in the modern U.S. with a special interest in the American West.
An expert in political philosophy, and the intersection of politics and religion.
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A psychologist and expert on the inner experience. 
An expert on first-generation students, educational psychology, the impact of technology on wellbeing.
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Recent Liberal Arts Accomplishments

Route 7, the Utah Tech literary arts journal, praised Jarret Keene's (English) dystopian adventure novel "Hammer of the Dogs" (University of Nevada Press). "Set in Las Vegas following a nuclear attack that has transformed Glitter Gulch into Nightmare Alley," writes the reviewer, "Jarret Keene’s first novel, 'Hammer of the Dogs,'…
Author and professor Roberto Lovato (English) was listed on the Classically A-List in 2024 put out by Nob Hill Gazette, "San Francisco’s publication-of-record for the City’s social, philanthropic and cultural life."
Chenghui Zhang (Sociology) published an article titled, "Constructing Hate Crimes: Does Respondent's Racial/Ethnic Identity Matter?," in the Journal of Interpersonal Violence. This article explores whether and how respondent's racial/ethnic identity affects hate crime perception, considering the races/ethnicities of the offender and the victim.…
Amy Reed-Sandoval (Philosophy) received a grant from the American Philosophical Association's Berry Fund for Public Philosophy to support Philosophy for Children outreach at the U.S.-Mexico border.
Timothy Erwin (English) recently officiated at the 39th annual dinner of the Samuel Johnson Society of the West at the Huntington Library in San Marino, California, where he introduced professor Greg Clingham, who spoke on the topic of "Johnson and the Dream of Sleep."
Roberto Lovato (English) was interviewed on the popular Bitchuation Room podcast, where he talked about, among other things, the unfolding crisis of political legitimacy, countering fascism, and finding personal and political hope and footing in extremely difficult, post-electoral times.