On April 21, professor Roberto Lovato (English) delivered the keynote speech at Ithaca College's Distinguished Speaker in the Humanities Series. Past speakers include Salman Rushdie, Tony Kushner, Martha Nussbaum and Robert Pinsky.

Austin Horng-En Wang (Political Science) published a co-authored article, "Why does Taiwan Identity Decline?" in Journal of Asian and African Studies. This article exploits 53 waves of survey in Taiwan to examine four competing theories on the decline of Taiwan identity. Empirical evidence supports the hypothesis of issue…

Elizabeth Maltby (Political Science) and Olivia Cheche (recent UNLV graduate in Political Science) were awarded the 2023 Award for the Best Paper on Blacks and Politics from the Western Political Science Association for their paper, "Racial Threat, Black Lives Matter, and Shaping 2020 Politics: How Race Influenced Political Participation in the…

Amy Reed-Sandoval (Philosophy) spoke on a panel about immigration and asylum that was hosted by Stanford University's McCoy Family Center for Ethics and Society as part of its Intercollegiate Civil Disagreement Partnership, which aims to provide students with tools to engage in constructive disagreement. Other presenters included Michael Fisher,…

Dan Lee (Political Science) was appointed to the Advisory Committee on Participatory Democracy by Nevada Secretary of State Francisco V. Aguilar. The Advisory Committee is "charged with assisting the Secretary of State in identifying and proposing programs that support participatory democracy and solutions to any problem concerning the level of…

Noria Litaker (History) was awarded a Weiss-Brown Publication Subvention Award by the Newberry Library for her forthcoming book, Bedazzled Saints: Catacomb Relics in Early Modern Bavaria (University of Virginia Press, fall 2023). The award supports the publication of outstanding works of scholarship that concern European civilization before 1700…

Cassaundra Rodriguez (Sociology) published her first book Contested Americans: Mixed-Status Families in Anti-Immigrant Times with New York University Press.

Austin Horng-En Wang (Political Science) was invited by Duke University to deliver a public speech titled, "How The Ukraine Crisis Shapes Public Opinion In Taiwan & The World," on April 13, 2023. The talk analyzes how the ongoing Ukraine-Russia conflict updates the calculation and foreign policy preference in Taiwan, China, and the United…

Sheila Bock (Interdisciplinary, Gender, and Ethnic Studies) has been elected for a two-year term as president of the Western States Folklore Society. Starting in January 2023, she has also taken over as co-editor (with Elo-Hanna Seljamaa, University of Tartu) for the international journal Narrative Culture.

Carlos S. Dimas (History) was an invited speaker to the University of California, Irvine's (UCI) Global Forum to give a talk, "Political Debate and Medical Uncertainty in the Age of Pandemics and Epidemics" The event was sponsored by UCI's Global Studies Department, Center for Medical Humanities, and Center for Latin American and Caribbean…

Aldo Barrita, Kristin Hixson, Gloria Wong-Padoongpatt (all Psychology), Anjala Krishen (Business) and colleagues recently published a paper, "Centering the Margins: A Moderation Study Examining Cisgender Privilege Among LGBTQ+ BIPoC College Students Facing Intersectional Microaggressions," in Psychology of Sexual Orientation and Gender…

Jessica E. Teague (English) published an article, "A Story in Sound: The Unpublished Writings of Sidney Bechet," in the journal MELUS: Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States.  This article analyzes two previously unknown fictional pieces written by the jazz musician, Sidney Bechet, whose 1960 autobiography Treat It Gentle is…