Kristen Phipps (History) has received an Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellowship at the Huntington Library for the 2023-2024 academic year. 

Michael J Alarid (History) was named as a winner of this years College of Liberal Arts’ Diversity Award. This award is given in recognition for outstanding scholarly work. 

Alyssa Crittenden (Anthropology), vice provost for Graduate Education and dean of the Graduate College, presented at an international workshop on hunter-gatherer education at the University of Tromso in Norway. She was one of only two U.S. participants and joined colleagues from around the world, including Botswana, Cameroon, Namibia, Tanzania,…

Nirmala Lekhak (Nursing), Tirth Bhatta (Sociology), and Joel Snyder (Psychology) published an article, "The Primacy of Compassionate Love: Loneliness and Psychological Well-being in Later Life", in the Journal of Gerontological Nursing. The study provides evidence of the beneficial role of compassionate…

Jared Oestman (Political Science) published "Burden sharing in UN peacekeeping operations: Who deploys to violent locations?" in International Interactions. The article identifies which countries voluntarily deploy their service members to the most violent  locations within United Nations peacekeeping operations. The research…

Via an interdisciplinary collaboration between UNLV's International Gaming Institute, department of computer science, department of psychology, and William F. Harrah College of Hospitality, Kasra Ghaharian published "Payments transaction data from online casino players and online sports bettors" in Data in Brief with co-authors…

John Tuman (Political Science) presented an invited paper titled, "The Electric Vehicle Transition in North America: A U.S. Perspective," in the seminar: La IAM: Entre la trampa y del ingreso medio, el T-MEC, la electromovilidad, y el nearshoring: Cuál future? [The Mexican Auto Industry: Between the Middle Income Trap, the USMCA Agreement,…

Analiesa Delgado (History) received an honorable mention from the 2023 Ford Foundation Predoctoral Fellowship Program.

Jeff Schauer (History) attended the annual meeting of the Pacific Coast Conference on British Studies in Riverside, California. He presented a paper titled, “Friends for Zambia: Rhodesia, the making of a Zambia lobby, and the limits of solidarity, 1964-1974.” This paper examined efforts by the Zambian state and its allies to influence the…

Anthony King, Shane Kraus, and Gloria Wong-Padoongpatt (all Psychology) recently presented their research, "Examining the role of responsible gambling in associations between symptoms of trauma, gambling disorder, and gambling motivations: Results from a nationwide U.S. sample," at the 16th Annual Nevada State Conference on Problem Gambling. This…

Katherine Walker (English) published the article, "The Witch as Epistemic Spectacle," in Cahiers de Recherches Medievales et Humanistes — Journal of Medieval and Humanistic Studies. The article argues that Ben Jonson's witches are both possess embodied, occult knowledge and also teach audiences how to read the magical, the uncanny,…

Andrew Lugg (Political Science) published an article in the journal Global Policy titled, "Politicising pandemics: Evidence from U.S. media coverage of the World Health Organisation." The article uses text-as-data methods to analyze media coverage of the World Health Organization (WHO) in the New York Times and Washington Post…