Torisha Khonach and Anna Kurz, (both Sociology) recently published an article titled "Challenges of #bodypositivity: social media and hashtag activism" in the journal Fat Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Body Weight and Society. Utilizing 200 posts from Instagram and 200 videos from TikTok, they examine the ways social media…

Kara Christensen Pacella (Psychology) has been appointed associate editor of the Journal of Clinical Psychology.

Amy Reed-Sandoval (Philosophy) served as a philosophical consultant for an episode of Alma's Way titled, "Alma's Payday," which aired recently on PBS Kids. 

Christopher D. E. Willoughby (Interdisciplinary, Gender & Ethnic Studies) and Elodie Edwards-Grossi (Associate Professor, American Studies and Sociology, Université Paris Dauphine) published their Research and Analysis article, "Slavery and Its Afterlives in US Psychiatry," in a special issue of the American Journal of Public Health on…

Melikabella Shenouda (Liberal Arts) published a creative writing piece titled, "flo(u)r: the in-between of autoimmunity and autonomy," in the inaugural issue of Coloring Psychoanalysis. "Coloring Psychoanalysis is an online community periodical that centers Black, Indigenous, and people of color (BIPOC) voices in psychoanalysis. We explicitly…

Amy Reed-Sandoval (Philosophy) delivered virtual comments on Jesus Auriel Raya's "Necropolitics in Practice: Leveraging the Fear of Deportation," at the Pacific Division meeting of the American Philosophical Association. 

Michelle Tusan's (History) book, "The Last Treaty: Lausanne and the End of the First World War in the Middle East" won the 2023/2024 PCCBS Best Book Prize.

Kara Christensen Pacella and graduate student Lidia Wossen (both Psychology) with colleague Kelsey Hagan from Virginia Commonwealth University recently published, "Low Overlap and High Heterogeneity Across Common Measures of Eating Disorder Pathology: A Content Analysis" in Assessment. In their paper, they find that common eating disorder measures…

Michael Green (History) has been appointed to a three-year term on the Nevada Awards and Honor Selection Board. This group will choose the annual recipients of a new, legislatively-mandated honor, the Nevada Medal of Distinction.

Barbara Roth and Ph.D. candidate Danielle Romero (both Anthropology) published "Children in Mimbres Pithouse Society" in Kiva: The Journal of Southwestern Anthropology and History 90:1-21. 

Assistant professor Renato Liboro (Psychology) is this year's recipient of the Top Tier Award. Liboro actively contributes to several core area of UNLV’s Top Tier 2.0 initiatives, including Research, Scholarship, and Creative Activity; Community Partnerships; Student Achievement; Social Justice, Equity, and Inclusion; UNLV Academic…

Andrew Lugg (Political Science) published the article "Re-contacting intergovernmental organizations: Membership change and the creation of linked intergovernmental organizations" in the journal Review of International Organizations.