Jennifer Byrnes (Anthropology) published a co-authored article, "A Child Left Behind: Malnutrition and Chronic Illness of a Child from the Erie County Poorhouse Cemetery," in International Journal of Osteoarchaeology with Jennifer Muller (University of Pittsburgh). This osteobiography describes a probable disease co-occurrence in a…

Sergio Guzman (World Languages and Cultures) recently presented at the Annual Conference of the American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese in San Juan, Puerto Rico. The session  How is My New OER Textbook Working Out? was based on SPAN 126, a course Guzman developed specially for UNLV. 

Timothy Erwin (English) recently published an essay, “Discours sur l’Œil: Roméo et Juliette et Marriage A-la-Mode de William Hogarth,” in the Actes des Congrès de la Société Française Shakespeare.  He argues that the 18th-century graphic artist follows Shakespeare’s romantic tragedy in his best-known series of engravings. On behalf of…

Jenna Heath (Liberal Arts), Sam Leif (Summer Term) and alumna Kass Moore recently published "The Power and Perseverance of Liberal Arts Internships During COVID-19" in the International Journal of Smart Education and Urban Study. This study aims to show the early mixed-methods survey results from shifting an internship program within a…

Dan Lee (Political Science) published a co-authored article, "Permeable Boundaries: The Interplay between Major Party Primaries and Non-major Party Candidacies," in Party Politics. A theoretical model of candidate entry shows how competitive primary elections can funnel candidates to instead pursue the non-major party route onto the general…

Tyler D. Parry (Interdisciplinary, Gender, and Ethnic Studies) recently appeared on KTNV Channel 13 Action News to weigh in on the controversy over Eighth Judicial District Judge Erika Ballou's comments on the police. Parry opposes the Las Vegas Police Protective Association's call for Ballou to resign over her remarks. He is part of the IGES…

Marina Garber-Colacicchi (World Languages and Cultures) published a book of poetry, Homelandless, (Publishing House of Oleg Fedorov, Kiev, Ukraine, June 2022). She also published a selection of poetry about war in Ukraine in The New World  magazine (Toronto, Canada). Additionally, she participated in the No War: Poets Against the War …

Graduate student Nikki Bennett (Anthropology), in collaboration with UNLV alumna Shelly Volsche (now professor at Boise State University), co-organized the annual International Society of Anthrozoology conference that was hosted by Boise State University on July 6-9. In addition to being the co-host, she presented her own PhD research, "…

Lisa M. Johnson (Anthropology), along with Rosemary A. Joyce, edited Materializing Ritual Practices, which is being released through the University of Colorado Press

Austin Horng-En Wang (Political Science) published a co-authored article "Comparing Stress and Behavioral Coping Strategies during the Early Stages of the COVID‑19 Crisis among Domestic and Overseas Taiwanese" in the journal Scientific Reports. This article compares the level of stress and the coping strategies between domestic and…

Marta Soligo (International Gaming Institute and Sociology) delivered a keynote speech earlier this month at the webinar “Film Tourism: Destination Branding and Experience” organized by the Bali Dwipa University in collaboration with the Bali Tourism Board. Soligo’s presentation centered around film-induced tourism, focusing on tourism planning,…

Benjamin Burroughs, Benjamin J. Morse, Travis Carmona (all Journalism and Media Studies), and Travis Snow (Sociology) have published an article, "The Masks We Wear: Watchmen, Infrastructural Racism, and Anonymity" in the journal Television & New Media. As COVID-19 has led to the politicization of masks and the donning of masks, the…