Accomplishments: College of Liberal Arts
On Feb. 5, Tyler D. Parry (African American and African Diaspora Studies Program; Interdisciplinary, Gender, and Ethnic Studies) appeared on KTNV, Channel 13 News to discuss his research on the 1969 Uprising against police brutality in West Las Vegas, explaining how this event still impacts the city in the present.
Paul W. Werth (History) has received a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities in support of a research inquiry entitled "Russia's Other Eastern Church: The Armenian Confession and the Romanov Empire," which explores the implication of Armenian Christianity in Tsarist Russia's imperial structures, geopolitical projects, and…
Tim Gauthier (Interdisciplinary, Gender, and Ethnic Studies) published an article, "In the Kingdom of the Sick: Abjection, Mutuality, and the Afflicted in Recent Pandemic Fiction," in a Special Issue of the University of Toronto Quarterly.
Shane Kraus (Psychology) and colleagues recently published several scholarly works.
The first article (Cross-cultural Validation of the Arizona Sexual Experience Scale (ASEX) in 42 Countries and 26 Languages) was published in Sexuality Research and Policy.
The second article (Cross-Cultural Validation of the Sexual Desire Inventory…
Annaliese Grant (Sociology) recently published a book chapter titled, "Caring Through It: Mothers' and Daughters' Perspectives on Disability and Interdependence in Financially Struggling White Families," in the book, Disability and the Family: Challenges, Resources, and Resilience. Co-authored with a former undergraduate student, the chapter…
Grace J. Goodwin (Clinical Psychology) coauthored an article, "Neuropsychiatric symptoms predict rate of change in executive function in Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias," where she and fellow Cognitive Aging and Neuropsychological Equity (CANE) lab members Katie T. Singsank (Clinical Psychology), Denise Ruiz de Mendoza Lafont-…
Roberto Lovato (English) recently published a feature length article in Alta Journal, "The Scarlet Macaw: Out of Place and at Home in the Desert," which explores how and why the walking, talking flying rainbow of a tropical bird was — and still is — embraced by indigenous peoples living more than 1000 miles from its native habitat.
Tirth Bhatta (Sociology) authored a study that uses autoethnographic data obtained from the authors to examine cultural (cultural perception of care, sense of familism, care reciprocity, and gendering of care), social (use of technology), and economic factors (role of remittance) and their interactional effects on the health outcomes of older…
Margaret Harp's (World Languages and Cultures) modern English translation of Jacques Yver's Le Printemps d'Yver, Jacques Yver's Winter's Springtime, has been published by Amsterdam University Press.
Roberto Lovato (English) wrote in the Nation Magazine about a cache of recently- released CIA documents confirming that the agency surveilled, infiltrated, and disrupted the lives and organizations of Latinos during the civil on era and beyond.
Michelle Tusan (History) published, "A Fictional Special Relationship," for a series on Britain and the U.S. presidency.
Brenna Renn (Psychology) was appointed as associate editor to Aging & Mental Health, an international peer-reviewed journal focused on the biological, psychological and social effects of aging on mental health.