UNLV professor Roberto Lovato (English) spoke at Yale University's Jackson School of Global Affairs. His talk, titled, "Violence, Terror and Human RIghts Abuse in El Salvador from La Matanza to the Present," also discussed the role of U.S. policy in shaping that violence.

On Sept. 26, professor Christopher Willoughby (Interdisciplinary, Gender, and Ethnic Studies) gave a lecture at Weill Cornell Medical School in New York City as a part of the Heberden Society’s annual History of Medicine Speaker Series. Based on his recent book, Willoughby spoke on the history of racial science and slavery in Manhattan’s medical…

Cheryl Abbate (Philosophy) published a co-edited book titled, New Omnivorism and Strict Veganism: Critical Perspectives (Routledge). This book puts defenders of new omnivorism and advocates of strict veganism into conversation with one another to further important debates in food ethics. The contributors debate whether it’s…

Nicholas Barron (Anthropology) presented a paper, "Lessons in Safe Logic: Reassessing Anthropological and Liberal Imaginings of Termination," for the Consortium of History of Science, Technology and Medicine's History of Anthropology Working Group on Sept. 6. The paper is part of a forthcoming journal article that documents the relationship…

Austin Horng-En Wang (Political Science) was invited by the East Asian Institute at the National University of Singapore to give a talk, titled "Taiwan’s 2024 Presidential Election: Explanation of Public Opinions and Implications," on September 13. In this talk, Wang analyzes the recent trend of emerging non-partisans in Taiwan since 2016,…

Shane Kraus (Psychology) and colleague published a paper, "The relative risks of different forms of sports betting in a U.S. sample: A brief report," in Comprehensive Psychiatry. 

Recent published research by Kenneth M. Miller and Tanner Bates (both Political Science), "PACs and January 6th: Campaign Finance and Objections to the Electoral College Vote Count" was covered in the Washington Post article "How Corporate Liberalism is Changing Both Parties." The article discussed Miller and Bates' research on the effect of…

Sherry Bell and Renato M. Liboro (Psychology) published their article, "Training To Be A Community Psychologist In The Age Of a Digital Revolution," in the Engaged Scholar Journal: Community-Engaged Research, Teaching, and Learning. This article reflects on pedagogy and curricula that have shaped the field of community psychology, and reviews the…

Shane Kraus (Psychology) and colleagues recently published a paper (Comorbid psychiatric diagnoses and gaming preferences in US armed forces veterans receiving inpatient treatment for gambling disorder) in Addictive Behaviors. 

Jarret Keene (English) had his dystopian-adventure novel Hammer of the Dogs (University of Nevada Press, 2023) reviewed in the September 2023 issue of Vegas Cannabis Magazine. The book is hailed as "a hero's journey that pulls you in like a tractor beam and moves like laser show. Each chapter describes a place both familiar and futuristic.…

Carlos Tkacz (English, PhD student) published an article in ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment. '“Not the End of the Trail:” Violence, MMIW, and Environment in Stephen Graham Jones’s The Only Good Indians" examines how Jones engages with the conventions of the horror genre and mobilizes Native slipstream…

William Donati (English) recently published a new edition of his book Ida Lupino: A Biography (University Press of Kentucky 2023). The new edition celebrates the 27th anniversary of the book's publication. There is a new cover, new photographs, and a preface. Donati knew Lupino and had the opportunity to interview the famous actress and…