Accomplishments: College of Liberal Arts
Tyler D. Parry (Interdisciplinary, Gender, and Ethnic Studies) and Historian Charlton W. Yingling from the University of Louisville recently published an article, "Canines: Enforcing Race and State" in the peer-reviewed journal Modern American History. The article was part of the journal's special forum: "Animals in Modern U.S. History."
Lynn Wolfe (Intensive English Program) published two poems: "happiness is fickle" and "Dear Woman" in The Sandy River Review literary magazine.
Isabelle Graham (Economics; Brookings Mountain West; The Lincy Institute) and Zachary Billot (Political Science ’24) will represent Nevada and California respectively at the 2025 Western Governors' Leadership Institute (WGLI) Annual Meeting. The WGLI is a prestigious program developed by the Western Governors' Association to…
Shane Kraus (Psychology) and colleagues recently published a paper, "Sexual Assertiveness Across Cultures, Genders, and Sexual Orientations: Validation of the Short Sexual Assertiveness Questionnaire (SAQ-9)," in Assessment.
Faculty member Nicole Short, graduate student Mattea Pezza, and research coordinator Rachel Weese (all Psychology), along with an external collaborator, Michele Bedard-Gilligan (University of Washington Department of Psychiatry), recently published a systematical review in Behaviour Research and Therapy entitled, "Anxiety sensitivity and…
Susan Byrne (World Languages and Cultures) has published an article titled, "A Restless Nature," in Humanities 14.4. The article looks at two Golden Age Spanish adaptations of Plotinian ideas on curiosity, and is part of a special issue of the journal Humanities dedicated to Curiosity and Modernity in Early Modern Spain. Byrne studies…
Amy Reed-Sandoval's (Philosophy) paper, "Socially, Not Legally, Undocumented," was published in The Latinx Philosophy Reader (Routledge, 2025), edited by Lori Gallegos, Manuel Vargas, and Francisco Gallegos.
Iván Sandoval-Cervantes (Anthropology) published an article titled, "Before and After: Dogs’ Biographies Along and Across the Mexico-US Border," in the Catalyst Journal: Feminism, Theory, Technoscience. In this article, he analyzes the struggles of animal protection organizations in Ciudad Juarez, emphasizing how certain practices and…
Margaret Harp (World Languages and Cultures) presented a paper, "Le Printemps d'Yver as response to Bandello's Novelle," at the annual meeting of the Renaissance Society of America in Boston. She also chaired a session at the same conference, Erasmus in the Renaissance World.
At the invitation of the Office of Strategic Relations of Mexico's Metropolitan Autonomous University Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, Roberto Lovato (English) gave a talk on March 18: Awakening the Radical Imagination: the Poet Warrior Tradition of the Americas.
Amy Reed-Sandoval (Philosophy) published "The Transversal Spirit of the Feminist Strike" in Los Angeles Review of Books.
Daniel Allen (Psychology) was awarded $672,779 from Nevada Department of Health and Human Services for the Nevada Rural Communities Mental Health Outreach Program (RHOP) and $186,909 for the RHOP Expansion program. RHOP provides telebehavioral health counseling services to adolescents living in Elko and Humboldt counties. RHOP Expansion provides…