Associate professor Tirth Bhatta (Sociology) and his research collaborators outside of UNLV utilized data from the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study (CHARLS) to understand family socioeconomic context that contribute to the relationship between physical maltreatment in childhood and depressive symptoms in later life in China.…

Shane Kraus (Psychology) and members of the International Sex Survey Consortium published a recent paper, "Cross-Cultural Adult ADHD Assessment in 42 Countries Using the Adult ADHD Self-Report Scale Screener," in Journal of Attention Disorders. 

Elizabeth Lawrence (Sociology), Samantha John (Brain Health), and Tirth Bhatta (Sociology) published "Cognitive Functioning among U.S. Older Adults Differs by Gender and Urbanicity" in Syracuse University Lerner Center's Population Health Research Brief Series.

Professor John Curry (History) was invited to present as part of a roundtable organized for the American Historical Association (AHA) annual meeting in San Francisco, California, on Jan. 4 as part of his role as co-chair for Higher Education on the Advanced Placement World History Development Committee. The roundtable, titled "Recent Developments…

Christopher D. E. Willoughby (Interdisciplinary, Gender, & Ethnic Studies) presented a paper at the annual meeting of the American Historical Association in San Francisco, California, on January 4, 2024. With his co-author Elodie Edwards-Grossi (Paris Dauphine University), Willoughby discussed new research on the history and afterlives of…

Daniel Benyshek (Anthropology) joined the podcast AnthroBiology to discuss his work on placentophagy, the postpartum ingestion of the placenta.

Amy Reed-Sandoval (Philosophy) published "Marco Flores Deserves to Stay in the U.S.: A Feminist Argument Against Deportation" in Ms. Magazine.

Siddharth Srikanth (English) published an article titled, "National Sovereignty and the Postcolonial Bildungsroman," in the journal Genre.  

Austin Horng-En Wang (Political Science) co-authored the article "Exploring Attitudes Toward “Sugar Relationships” Across 87 Countries: A Global Perspective on Exchanges of Resources for Sex and Companionship" in Archives of Sexual Behavior. This article collects survey from 87 countries and 110,000 respondents to examine…

Aldo Barrita (Psychology), and colleagues recently published in the top journal American Psychologist a methodological paper titled "A decolonial and liberation lens to social justice research: Upholding promises for diverse, inclusive, and equitable psychological science," proposing a lens rooted in decolonial and liberatory principles…

John M. Bowers (English) has published his article, "Langland, Father of American Literatures," in Quidditas: Journal of the Rocky Mountain Medieval and Renaissance Association, 44 (2023): 90-116. 

Austin Horng-En Wang (Political Science) contributed the op-ed "Taiwan’s 2024 Presidential and Legislative Elections: Implications for the Region" to the Prospects & Perspectives. Wang discusses how a possible divided government as a result of the upcoming 2024 Taiwanese Presidential and Legislative Elections may influence the…