Accomplishments: College of Liberal Arts

P. Jane Hafen (English) appeared in a PBS webinar, "Unladylike2020: Elevating the Hidden History of American Women: Indigenous Changemakers."  
Amy Reed-Sandoval (Philosophy) was interviewed by The New Yorker about her recent research situated at the intersection of reproductive bioethics and immigration justice, which is discussed in the article "The Link Between the Capitol Riot and Anti-Abortion Extremism," by Jessica Winter.
Paul W. Werth (History) has received a fellowship for historical research in Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia from the American Research Institute of the South Caucasus. 
Anjala Krishen (Marketing and International Business), Axenya Kachen (Public Health), Rebecca Gill (Political Science), Paula Peter, and Maria Petrescu recently had their A- level psychology and marketing interdisciplinary paper, "#MeToo, #MeThree, #MeFour: Twitter as Community Building across Academic and Corporate Institutions" published. Kachen…
Tyler D. Parry (Interdisciplinary, Gender, and Ethnic Studies) in coordination with the Nevada Coalition Against the Death Penalty published a piece, "Nevada Should Abolish the Death Penalty," in The Nevada Independent. He was then interviewed by Pat Lynch of Women's Radio Network on the Speak Up! segment "Abolishing the Death Penalty," where…
Constancio R. Arnaldo Jr. (Interdisciplinary, Gender, & Ethnic Studies) published an article, "'We're Just as Good and Even Better than You": Asian American Female Flag Footballers and the Racial Politics of Competition." in the Journal of Asian American Studies. 
Joe Ervin (Academic Success Center), Dave Beisecker and Jasmin Özel (both Philosophy) presented their paper, "The St. Louis Hegelians and the Institutionalization of Democratic Education," at the annual meeting of the Philosophy of Education Society. The paper urges a reappraisal of the reception of Hegelian philosophy in 19th-century America…
Christopher Kearney (Psychology) published a book, "Getting Your Child Back to School: A Parent's Guide to Solving School Attendance Problems," a revised and updated version by Oxford University Press (2021).  The book is designed for caregivers and outlines various kinds of school attendance problems and how families can address the many…
Amy Reed-Sandoval (Philosophy) gave a presentation on her book, Socially Undocumented: Identity and Immigration Justice, to the Western Michigan University department of philosophy. The talk was organized by the WMU chapter of Minorities and Philosophy. She also presented her paper “Filosofía infantil en tiempos de pandemia: Reconsiderando,…
Arpine Mkrtchyan (World Languages and Culturest) took part in the 6th International Conference on the Teaching of French as a Foreign Language (“Colloque FLE 2021”), which was held in San Juan, Puerto Rico last month. This conference, organized by teleconference (Zoom platform), is aimed at applied linguists and researchers in French as a…
Amy Reed-Sandoval (Philosophy) published "Revisiting Relational Pandemic Ethics in Light of the COVID-19 Abortion Bans in the United States" in the International Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics.
John Curry (History) made a keynote presentation of his work in progress for the Mediterranean Seminar's Spring Workshop, The Global Mediterranean, this month. His paper was "Working the Global Mediterranean: Mezemorta Hüseyin Paşa as Corsair, Captive, Dey, and Admiral in the Late Seventeenth Century." He was the third of three keynote…