During the 2016 summer, Gary Pullman, a part-time instructor in the Department of English, published seven online Listverse articles. An eighth has been accepted for publication and should appear soon. Top 10 Fascinating Insect Impostors 10 Intriguing Dollhouses That Aren't for Play 10 Deliberate Errors and Historical Misrepresentations 10…

Georgiann Davis (Sociology) co-authored an essay that appears in Everyday Feminism magazine on the controversy surrounding intersex Olympic athletes. The essay engages misconceptions about intersex traits and discrimination against athletes competing in this summer's games. 

Barb Brents (Sociology) recently published “Neoliberalism’s Market Morality and Heteroflexibility: Protectionist and Free Market Discourses in Debates for Legal Prostitution” in the journal Sexuality Research and Social Policy. She demonstrates how prostitution supporters and opponents both draw from neoliberal discourses to construct and deploy…

William Bauer (History) published a book, California Through Native Eyes: Reclaiming History (University of Washington Press). Using oral histories of Concow, Pomo, and Paiute workers, taken as part of a New Deal federal works project, Bauer reveals how Native peoples have experienced and interpreted the history of the land we now call…

Michelle Paul and Noelle Lefforge (both Psychology) have led postdoctoral fellows and doctoral students working at The PRACTICE in creating a pediatric panic and anxiety treatment program. The program uses evidence-based cognitive and behavioral interventions to treat children and adolescents with anxiety-related disorders. Launched in January,…

Michael Green, Eugene Moehring, Greg Hise, Andy Kirk, William Bauer, (all History), Claytee White, Su Kim Chung, (both Libraries) and Karen Harry (Anthropology), recently participated n a National Endowment for the Humanities Landmarks of American History and Culture workshop in which 72 teachers from across the country studied "Hoover Dam and the…

Jennifer Keene and Takashi Yamashita (Sociology) recently completed the Nevada Volunteerism Research Initiative 2015 Survey Report. Nevada’s volunteer participation rate (20.7%) is one of the lowest and currently ranked 49th in the nation. The initiated team was — led by professor Jennifer Keene and assisted by professor Takashi…

Susan Byrne (World Languages and Cultures), was elected a "vocal" (spokesperson) to the Board of Directors of the Asociación Internacional de Hispanistas (International Association of Hispanists) for the triennial period 2016-19.

P. Jane Hafen (English) and Brenden Rensink of the Charles Redd Center for Western Studies at Brigham Young University recently directed a seminar on American Indians and Mormons. The participants reconsidered history and narrative with an emphasis on indigenous experience.

Liam Frink (Research and Economic Development) is the author of A Tale of Three Villages (University of Arizona Press, 2016), an investigation of culture change among the Yup'ik Eskimo people of the southwestern Alaskan coast from just prior to the time of Russian and Euro-North American contact to the mid-twentieth century. Frink focuses on…

Georgiann Davis (Sociology) has been selected by the American Sociological Association (ASA) Medical Sociology Section as the 2016 recipient of the Donald Light Award for the Applied or Public Practice of Medical Sociology. Her selection is based, in part, on her recent book Contesting Intersex: The Dubious Diagnosis.     This is the…

Maurice Finocchiaro (Philosophy) has been notified by the home office of Oxford University Press that it has accepted his proposal for a “trade book” on the Galileo affair. Trade books are aimed at the general public, as distinct from textbooks and academic and technical books aimed at specialized audiences. The book plans to adapt for a general…