Accomplishments: College of Liberal Arts
John Tuman (Political Science) recently published an article titled, "Labor Upsurge in the North American Automobile Transition: Towards a New Industrial and Labor Relations Stage," in the Journal of Labor and Society. The article was coauthored with Alex Covarrubias (Colegio de Sonora, Mexico) and John Holmes (Queens University, Canada).
Madeline Clark (Counselor Education), Michelle Paul (51³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ PRACTICE), and Dan Allen (Psychology) were awarded $120,000 from the Nevada Department of Education for the Rural Health Outreach Program-McKinney Vento, which will help provide counseling services to unhoused children and adolescents in Elko and Humboldt counties.
Ph.D. graduate Kathryn Baustian and Barbara Roth (both Anthropology) published "Positions of Power: Situational Flexibility in Mimbres Society" in the January issue of American Antiquity.
Chenghui Zhang (Sociology) published an article titled, "Willingness to report hate crimes: How attitudes, police perceptions, and sexual orientation shape bystander response," in the Journal of Criminal Justice. This work was supported by a Summer Research Award (2023) from the College of Liberal Arts.
Austin Horng-En Wang (Political Science) and Darrell Carter (Political Science PhD) co-authored the article, "The Past is Present: Underestimating Fear of Contemporary Reprisals in the Legacy of Political Violence," in Political Science. In this article, Wang and Carter reveal the issue of nonresponse in the study of political repression…
Austin Horng-En Wang (Political Science) co-authored the article, "Undercurrent in Taiwan: Nationalism and Calculation of the Cross-Strait Relations (2002–2022)," in Public Opinion Quarterly. In this article, Wang and others analyzed 14 waves of survey (n = 16494) from 2002 to 2022 trying to explain a big research question: Why did…
Adrianna Munson (Sociology) discussed the cultural impact of "failed" adulthood in a recorded interview for Sage Video.
Michael J. Alarid (History) published "Crime and Punishment in a Nineteenth Century Western Community" in The Routledge History of Crime in America (Routledge, 2025).
Covering a broad chronology from the colonial era to the present, this volume reflects the diverse approaches, interests and findings of an international group of new and established…
On Feb. 7, Christopher D.E. Willoughby (African American Studies;Interdisciplinary, Gender, and Ethnic Studies) published an article titled, "Pioneer Professors of Kentucky Medical Education and the Spread of Racial Science, 1792–1861," in the Register of the Kentucky Historical Society. Willoughby's article is a part of a special issue…
Regine DeGuzman-Lucero, Nicole Short, Ph.D., and Jennifer Le (all Psychology) published a new article in the journal British Journal of Clinical Psychology titled, "The role of impulsivity in the association between rumination and cannabis-related problems among trauma-exposed cannabis users."
Lisa Johnson (Anthropology) has co-authored a chapter in a book published by Dumbarton Oaks, "Multi-Locality of an Ancient Maya City: Archaeology, Tourism, and Indigenous Landscapes at Palenque in Chiapas, Mexico," in the book, Landscapes in the Making, edited by Stephen Daniels and Dell Upton.
On Feb. 5, Christopher Willoughby (African American Studies; Interdisciplinary, Gender, and Ethnic Studies) gave an invited lecture on his book, Masters of Health: Racial Science and Slavery in U.S. Medical Schools, in the History of Politics seminar at the Université Paris Cité. While in Paris, Willoughby and Elodie Edwards Grossi (…