Accomplishments: College of Liberal Arts

Shane Kraus (Psychology) and colleagues recently published a paper, "Face as a multidimensional construct: Cross-cultural validation of the Loss of Face Scale in Taiwan and the United States," in Asian Journal of Social Psychology. 
Shane Kraus (Psychology) and colleagues recently published a paper, "Gambling in a U.S. Census Matched Sample: Examining Interactions between Means and Motives in Predicting Problematic Outcomes," in the Journal of Gambling Studies. 
Amy Reed-Sandoval (Philosophy) gave a keynote presentation for the 2024 University of Arizona Feminist Philosophy Graduate Conference. Her presentation was entitled "Feminism and the Open Borders Debate". 
Graduate student Alexis Rice, undergraduate student Marian Espina, graduate student Tra Bui, and professor Jennifer Rennels (all Psychology) presented, "The Influence of Learning Cues and Model Attractiveness on Children's Attention and Imitation," at the Cognitive Development Society Biennial Conference in Pasadena, California, in March.
Members of the Baby & Child Rebel Lab presented, "Face Recognition and Racial Biases: The Role of Social Experience," at the Cognitive Development Society Biennial Conference in Pasadena, California, in March. Members included Kirsty Kulhanek (graduate student), Kindy Insouvanh (graduate student), Marian Espina (undergraduate student),…
Graduate students Rodica Constantine and Kindy Insouvanh and professors Erin Hannon and Jennifer Rennels (all Psychology) presented, "Perceptual Learning in Infants Across Domains," at the Cognitive Development Society Biennial Conference in Pasadena, California.
Shane Kraus (Psychology) and colleagues recently published a paper, "Assessment and treatment of compulsive sexual behavior disorder: a sexual medicine perspective," in Sexual Medicine Reviews. 
Robert Futrell (Sociology) and Emily Wagner (Sociology Ph.D. student) recently published the third edition of American Swastika: Inside the U.S. White Power Movement's Hidden Spaces of Hate. Co-authored with Pete Simi (Chapman University, UNLV Sociology Alumnus 2002), the book uses powerful case studies, interviews, and first-person accounts…
Andrew Lugg (Political Science) recently published an article titled, "Why is there no investor-state dispute settlement in RCEP? Bargaining and contestation in the investment regime," in the journal Business and Politics. Available here: Open Access. The article seeks to understand why investor state dispute settlement, which was…
Tyler D. Parry (African American and African Diaspora Studies; Interdisciplinary, Gender, and Ethnic Studies) was interviewed by journalist Corey Levitan for his article, "Lost Vegas: 1969 West Las Vegas Riots," published on the website casino.org. He provided largely unknown information about this uprising against police brutality on the Historic…
An article, "Cops or Coaches? The Statutory Role of Juvenile Probation Officers in a Transformative Age," co-authored by Justin Iverson (Law) and David Tanenhaus (Law/History) has been published in the Michigan State Law Review. 
Christopher D. E. Willoughby (Interdisciplinary, Gender & Ethnic Studies) wrote the article "Professors of racial medicine: imperialism and race in nineteenth-century United States medical schools", which was published on April 1 in the journal Medical History. Willoughby examines how pre-Civil War U.S. medical faculty used data collected…