Amy Reed-Sandoval (Philosophy) published "Dr. Curtis Boyd: A Lifetime at the Borders of Abortion's Legality" in Ms. Magazine.

Amy Reed-Sandoval (Philosophy) published "Las pastorelas escolares y la diversidad religiosa en México" in LA Times En Español.

Jessica Habashy, Stephen D. Benning, Brenna N. Renn (all Psychology), Elizabeth M. Lawrence (Sociology), and Shane W. Kraus (Psychology) and colleagues recently published a paper, "Psychometric properties of the eating disorder examination questionnaire: Factor analysis and measurement invariance by race/ethnicity and gender," in Eating…

Andrew Kauffman's (World Languages and Cultures) translation of Shen Congwen's 1932 short story titled, "The Doctor," is forthcoming in the autumn issue (no. 98) of the Chinese literary translation magazine Renditions.

Iván Sandoval-Cervantes (Anthropology) was interviewed for the New Books Network about his recently published book, Oaxaca in Motion: An Ethnography of Internal, Transnational, and Return Migration (University of Texas Press 2022). Based on nearly two years observing and interviewing migrants from the rural Oaxacan town of Santa Ana Zegache. Many…

Dave Beisecker (Philosophy) just published, "Taking Peirce's Graphs Seriously," in the International Journal of Philosophical Studies. The work is a critical review of Logic of the Future, a multi-volume compilation of Charles Sanders Peirce's writings on logical graphs and notation.

Alyssa Buolos (Liberal Arts) is the recipient of the Outstanding Peer Mentor Award for exhibiting exceptional mentor qualities while positively impacting mentees and fellow peer mentors for the Peer Mentoring program. The program is part of the First-Year Experience under the office of vice provost for undergraduate education.

Today the London Indie Short Festival announced  that the winner for the Best Documentary Short category went to the interdisciplinary project known as The UNLV Shoah Survivors Project. Congratulations to all of the film's collaborators!  About the film The UNLV College of Liberal Arts religious studies program and UNLV…

Distinguished professor Debra Martin and her Ph.D. candidate Claira Ralston (both Anthropology) co-wrote and recently published a book titled, Gender Violence in the American Southwest (AD 11-1300): Mothers, Sisters, Wives, Slaves (Routledge). This volume uses osteobiography and individual-level analyses of burials retrieved from the La Plata…

Ph.D. student Taylor Flaherty (Anthropology) published a recent article titled, "Dehydration-Induced alterations to sharp force trauma on Sus domesticus radii," in Science and Justice. Their study analyzed the shrinkage of kerf marks on bone following laboratory-induced dehydration. This research was completed for Taylor's MSc degree at the…

Austin Horng-En Wang and Nadia Eldemerdash (both Political Science) published an article, "National identity, willingness to fight, and collective action," in the Journal of Peace Research. This article challenges the theory of mobilization, arguing that the calculation of the collective action will be salient among citizens without a…

UNLV students enrolled in assistant professor Cheryl Abbate's (Philosophy) courses "Animals and Philosophy" (Honors) and "Animal Ethics" (PHIL 277) raised $1700 for the Poppy Foundation (a Las Vegas cat rescue) during the "Thrifting for Animals" event held December 5. The classes are especially grateful to the philosophy department for paying…