Accomplishments: College of Liberal Arts

Robert Lang, William E. Brown, Jr., (both Brookings Mountain West and The Lincy Institute) and David Damore (Political Science) authored a recent guest commentary published by the Nevada Current titled "Guest Op-Ed: Remediating the Chancellor."
Numerous UNLV Students won awards at the Media Innovation Hackathon sponsored by the Beasley Media Group in collaboration with UNLV at the Consumer Electronics Show earlier this month. Student teams aimed to generate potential commercial products. Winners include: First Place: Converting Radio Waves to Energy. Matias Allieti (Mechanical…
David Fott (Political Science) wrote a chapter, "John Dewey's Alternative Liberalism," that has been accepted for publication in the second edition of History of American Political Thought, edited by Bryan-Paul Frost and Jeffrey Sikkenga (Lexington Books).
David F. Damore and Michelle Keunzi (both Political Science) are the authors of a paper, "Executive Turnovers in sub-Saharan Africa," that has been accepted for publication in International Area Studies Review. The paper applies competing risks duration analysis to data collected from 47 sub-Saharan African countries between 1960 and 2008, to…
Jennifer L. Rennels and Stephanie A. Verba (both Psychology) recently published, "Gender Typicality of Faces Affects Children's Categorization and Judgments of Women More than of Men" in Sex Roles. Their research shows U.S. children aged 5 to 9 years manifest a better sense of what typifies female than male faces, which subsequently affects…
William Bauer (History and American Indian Alliance) presented a paper, "Not Dammed Indians: The Dos Rios Dam and the Politics of Indian Removal in the 1960s," at the annual meeting of the American Historical Association, in Chicago in January.
Erika G. Abad (Interdisciplinary, Gender and Ethnic Studies) was invited to write a brief on being an Aca-Fan at ClexaCon for Media Res.
Anthony Jordan (’18 Ph.D. Political Science) and John P. Tuman (Political Science) published an article titled "Explaining Expulsions of U.S. Diplomatic Personnel from Latin America, 1991-2016," in Latin America Policy, volume 9, no. 2, 2018.
Merrill Landers (Physical Therapy), James Navalta (Kinesiology and Nutrition Sciences), and Jefferson Kinney (Psychology) co-authored “A High-Intensity Exercise Boot Camp for Persons With Parkinson Disease: A Phase II, Pragmatic, Randomized Clinical Trial of Feasibility, Safety, Signal of Efficacy, and Disease Mechanisms.” The investigators of…
Ranita Ray and Korey Tillman (both Sociology) recently published an article, "Envisioning a Feminist Urban Ethnography: Structure, Culture, and New Directions in Poverty Studies" in the journal Sociology Compass. Tillman is a graduate student.
David Forman (Philosophy) published an essay, "Leibniz on Human Finitude, Progress, and Eternal Recurrence," in Oxford Studies in Early Modern Philosophy from Oxford University Press.
David Damore (Political Science) and Robert Lang (Public Policy) hosted a colloquium on behalf ofThe Lincy Institute at UNLV, "Higher Education Reform: A Time for Action." The event featured research on Nevada higher education governance and system administration reform, with presentations from professors , executive…