Lisa Johnson (Anthropology) recently presented "Keeping up with the Joneses: Neighbors and Neighborhoods in Classic Period Lowland Maya Cities" at an international conference, "Compreder el Urbanismo Antiguo: Forma Urbana, Planeacion de Sitio y Vida Cotidiana en La Ciudad Maya Del Periodo Clasico (250-900 CE)," hosted by the University of Rome,…

Austin Horng-En Wang (Political Science) was invited by Hoover Institution at Stanford University to have a talk titled, "How The Ukraine Crisis Shapes Taiwan’s Public Opinion — And Beyond." Wang presented his research on Taiwan politics and its potential impact to the U.S.-China-Taiwan relationships. Through a series of survey, survey…

Andrew Kauffman (World Languages and Cultures) presented a paper on his current research on literary depictions of sacrifice at the Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association (RMMLA) convention in Albuquerque, New Mexico on October 15.

Susan Lee Johnson (History) was joined by UNLV faculty colleagues Michael Alarid, William Bauer, Raquel Casas, Kendra Gage, Michael Green, Andy Kirk, Mark Padoongpatt, Tyler Parry, and Grace Wong-Padoongpatt — and by a host of UNLV grad students — at the Western History Association conference in San Antonio last week. Generous support for the…

Amy Reed-Sandoval (Philosophy) presented "Las Fronteras y Las Infancias: Una Mirada Ética" ("Borders and Childhoods: An Ethical Perspective"), as part of the "Infancias desplazadas" ("Displaced Childhoods") roundtable at the Festival Cultura UNAM in Mexico City.

Analiesa Delgado (History), a Ph.D. student, recently presented her article: "There is No O'odham Word for Wall," on a panel titled: "Surveillance, Violence, and Removal in the Latinx West," at this year's Western Historical Association Conference in San Antonio, Texas.

Analiesa Delgado (History), Ph.D. student, was awarded the Western History Association Louise Pubols Public History Prize for her recent work in public history at the Western History Association Conference in San Antonio, Texas.

Analiesa Delgado (History), Ph.D. student, was awarded the Western History Association Graduate Student Scholarship to help fund her attendance at the Western History Association conference recently in San Antonio, Texas.

Gary Totten (English) presented an invited paper, "The Naturalist Visual Aesthetic of Contemporary Television Crime Series," at a symposium, "American Literary Naturalism and the Visual/Digital," in Cork, Ireland, October 14-15, 2022. Totten discussed how television crime series such as True Detective, Ozark, and Bloodline,…

Assistant professor Iván Sandoval-Cervantes (Anthropology) published his book, Oaxaca in Motion: An Ethnography of Internal, Transnational, and Return Migration (University of Texas Press). This book is the result of almost two years of ethnographic fieldwork in Mexico (Oaxaca and Mexico City) and in the United States (California, Oregon, and…

Austin Horng-En Wang (Political Science) published a co-authored article, "Media literacy and partisan convergence across social network sites" in the Social Science Journal. This article argues that people with different partisanship tend to rely on different social media; this tendency, therefore, influences the spread of…

Kenneth Miller (Political Science), and co-editors John Green and David Cohen have published State of the Parties 2022: The Changing Role of Contemporary American Political Parties with Rowman & Littlefield. The book brings together leading scholars of parties, elections, and interest groups to explore the current state of American party…