Stephen Bates (Journalism and Media Studies) published “Hemingway’s Vendetta” in The New Yorker. The article explores the one-sided literary rivalry between Ernest Hemingway and Barnaby Conrad, a young novelist and amateur bullfighter, in the 1950s.

Darin Mains (Medicine), project director of the Statistical Transparency of Policing (STOP) Project, presented “2024 Statistical Transparency of Policing (STOP) Report” at the 2026 Nevada Traffic Safety Summit in Reno, Nevada on October 14th. Co-authored with Deborah Kuhls, Kavita Batra, Setareh Zarei, and Grace Gonzalez Caballero (all Medicine);…

Julian Kilker (Journalism and Media Studies) presented a poster on “How can research in and through the arts challenge the norm-reproducing logic of generative AI systems?” at the October 2026 Ethics, Legal, and Social Aspects (ELSA) conference AI—Hype, Hope, and Humanity hosted by Rotterdam’s Erasmus University. The project used a scoping review…

Rebecca Rice (Communication Studies) published Managing Corporate Scandal: A Communication Approach (Routledge). The book explores the multiple communication challenges and opportunities companies encounter when faced with a scandal to create a holistic view of why scandals occur and how readers can join organizations as…

Jihyun Kang (Communication Studies) and co-authors Joris Van Ouytsel and Steve Corman published a paper titled “Communicating Evolving Vision in Early-Stage Startups: From Founder Intent to Employee Engagement” in the Journal of the International Council for Small Business. The article examines how founders of early-stage startups communicate…

Emma Frances Bloomfield (Communication Studies) published an article titled, "Tensions of In/fertility and Identity: A Rhetorical Autoethnography of Environmentalism, Motherhood, and Womanhood" in the Quarterly Journal of Speech. The article examines the author's personal experiences with infertility as a vehicle to reflect on rhetorical…

Arthur D. Soto-Vásquez (Journalism and Media Studies) recently published "Trump, Latin America, and the Caudillo Dilemma" in The New American Nightmare — Media, Populism and the Rise of Authoritarian Legacy. In the chapter, the author investigates the tendency to frame Donald Trump through Latin American caudillismo and evaluates the…

Congratulations to KUNV Operations Manager Jason Beatty (Journalism and Media Studies) on his induction into the Nevada Broadcasters Association Hall of Fame. Beatty was honored during the association’s 30th Annual Hall of Fame Gala on Saturday, Sept. 19, recognizing his 27 years of work in the broadcasting industry. Since 2021, Beatty has…

Benjamin Burroughs (Journalism and Media Studies) and Adam Rugg (Fairfield University) have co-edited the thirty-six original essay book How to Watch Sports (NYU Press). The 360-page book disrupts the comfortable narrative of passive entertainment, presenting chapters that challenge readers to critically engage with the global…

Donovan Conley (Communication Studies) and Justin Eckstein (PLU; former UNLV MA graduate) published a co-authored paper titled "Phronimos / Taster" in Rhetoric Society Quarterly. The essay theorizes "venatic taste," the hunter-like attentiveness to foraging, as a mode of rhetorical invention rooted in phronesis, or practical wisdom. The authors…

David R. Gruber and Donovan Conley (both Communication Studies) published a co-authored paper titled, "The architecture of anomaly: agential errancy in human-AI relations" in Critical Studies in Communication. The article examines errors arising amid human and AI interaction, theorizing them as “agential errors,” namely, as generative…

Jarod Giger (Social Work) recently published a book chapter titled, "It Took My Village: How the Pandemic Worsened Decades of Social Isolation and Increased Loneliness" in the volume Academic Chutes & Ladders: The Hidden Curriculum That Makes or Breaks Academic Careers (Bloomsbury Academic, 2026). The chapter addresses campus isolation,…