Barbara Roth (Anthropology) and Kathryn Baustian, '10 MA and '15 PhD Anthropology, published "Situational Power in Cooperative Communities: Indicators from Bioarchaeology in the Mimbres Region of Southwest New Mexico" in American Anthropologist.  

James M. Hyman  (Psychology) presented recent work from his lab for the colloquium series at the University of Toronto department of psychology. "How Context, Memory, and Neurodegeneration Affect ACC-hippocampal Interactions" was his topic.    

Ivan Sandoval-Cervantes (Anthropology) presented his work on multispecies ethnography as part of a panel that brought together Mexican artists and academics. The panel, "Animal Politics: Sketches of a Non-Human Theater," included a short documentary as well as three presentations that discussed the relationship between non-human animals,…

Tirth Bhatta (Sociology) and Nirmala Lekhak (Nursing) collaborated with Eva Kahana of the sociology department at Case Western Reserve University and Boaz Kahana to publish a research article, "Loving Others: The Impact of Compassionate Love on Later Life Psychological Well-being," in The Journals of Gerontology: Series B. The article concerns the…

Arpine Mkrtchyan (World Languages and Cultures) took part in an online international colloquium, ‘’Israel est mondialement FLE,’’ in Israel last month. She presented a webinar,'' L’enseignement-apprentissage du FLE à distance: classé inversée." The conference was organized with the Association of French teachers (APFI/FIPF, the general inspection…

David Damore (Political Science), Robert Lang (The Lincy Institute and Brookings Mountain West), and Fatma Nasoz (Computer Science) provide an analysis of voting on Question 1 and its consequences for higher education reform in their recent commentary piece "The Geography of Higher Education Reform" appearing in the Nevada Current.

Cheryl Abbate (Philosophy) was recently a part of a (virtual) panel discussion on "Activism Amidst COVID-19," which focused on the impact of the COVID-19 on contemporary social movements. The event was hosted by the Centre for the Study of Social and Political Movements at University of Kent. 

Sheila Bock (Interdisciplinary, Gender, and Ethnic Studies) published the article “Fast Food at the White House: Performing Foodways, Class, and American Identity” in the journal Western Folklore. This article examines how, in the context of the fast food feast served to the 2019 college football playoff national champions at the White House,…

Susan Lee Johnson (History) has published a piece on recent controversies over monuments honoring the frontiersman Christopher "Kit" Carson. It appears in the online magazine We're History. Johnson is the Harry Reid Endowed Chair for the History of the Intermountain West.

Anjala Krishen (Marketing), Han-fen Hu (Management, Entrepreneurship, and Technology), Andrew Spivak (Sociology), and  Olesya Venger (Journalism) recently had their paper, "The Danger of Flavor: E-cigarettes, Social Media, and the Interplay of Generations," accepted by the Journal of Business Research. This interdisciplinary study…

Elizabeth Lawrence (Sociology) and colleagues published two articles, "A Gender Framework for Understanding Health Lifestyles" and "Developing Health Lifestyle Pathways and Social Inequalities Across Early Childhood."

Cassaundra Rodriguez (Sociology) and colleagues published an article, "Controlling Images of Immigrants in the Mainstream and Black Press: The Discursive Power of the 'Illegal Latino,'" in Latino Studies.