Accomplishments: College of Liberal Arts
William Bauer, Michael Green, Greg Hise, Andy Kirk, and Michelle Turk (all History); Karen Harry (Anthropology); and Su Kim Chung and Claytee White (both Libraries) recently spoke as part of "Hoover Dam and the Shaping of the American West," a National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute for College and University Faculty. Julian Kilker…
Simon Gottschalk (Sociology) was interviewed by BYU Radio about "Slowing Down in our Accelerated, Technological Life" and his newly released book The Terminal Self.
Elizabeth Lawrence (Sociology) and colleagues published an article "Marital Happiness, Marital Status, Health, and Longevity" in Journal of Happiness Studies.
Rebecca Gill (Women's Research Institute of Nevada and Political Science) and a team of political scientists from around the country, Nadia Brown (Purdue), Jennifer Merolla (University of California, Riverside), Melissa Michelson (Menlo College), Elizabeth Sharrow (University of Massachusetts Amherst), Patricia Stapleton (Worcester Polytechnic…
Georgiann Davis (Sociology) wrote a new piece for The Conversation titled "Sex and Gender Diversity is Growing across the US."
Simon Gottschalk (Sociology) was interviewed by KTNV in a segment titled 51³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ Professor Says Checking Work Email at Home Could Impact Health.
He also was interviewed by KUNV radio in a segment titled Our Metropolis: The Side Effects of Technology
James Hyman (Psychology) gave an invited research talk, Decoding Predictions about the Future in Anterior Cingulate Cortex Ensembles," at the International Behavioral Neuroscience annual convention in Boca Raton, Florida, in June.
Kendra Gage (Interdisciplinary, Gender, and Ethnic Studies) delivered a paper, "Rising as They Fall: Women of the NAACP," at the 1968 in the Americas: Impact, Legacies and Memory, which was held at the University College London Institute of the Americas. The presentation examined African-American women who led the NAACP during a transitional…
William Bauer (History) delivered a paper, "Not Dammed Indians: The Dos Rios Dam and the Politics of Indian Removal in 1968" at 1968 in the Americas: Impact, Legacies and Memory, which was held at the University College London Institute of the Americas. The presentation examined how the Round Valley Indian tribal council defeated a state and…
Jarret Keene (English) wrote a short comics story, "Six Weeks," for the graphic-novel anthology Where We Live: A Benefit for the Survivors in Las Vegas, published this month by Image Comics. Based on an interview with an eyewitness, "Six Weeks" chronicles a young woman's efforts to rebuild her life in the tragedy's immediate aftermath. The books…
Kate Shapiro (English) and Joe Milan Jr. (English and Black Mountain Institute), along with alumni Olufunke Ogundimu, '18 MFA Creative Writing, and Ernie Wang, '16 MFA Creative Writing, recently have won prestigious national and international awards for their fiction.
Shapiro, a master's student in the English department's creative…
David Morris (English) is the author of The Evil Hours, a book that recently was quoted in The New York Times Magazine in an article on PTSD among drone operators.