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.

Alyssa Crittenden and Spencer Holmes (both Anthropology,) in collaboration with UNITE Passion Project,  contributed a film sharing their work with the Olanakwe Community Fund, a community-based aid organization promoting educational and economic sovereignty of the Hadzabe community of Tanzania. The short film, which discusses…

A. B. Wilkinson (History) published Blurring the Lines of Race and Freedom: Mulattoes and Mixed Bloods in English Colonial America with the University of North Carolina Press. This book investigates how people of mixed African, European, and Native American heritage (referred to as “mulattoes,” “mustees,” and “mixed bloods”) were integral to the…

Amy Reed-Sandoval (Philosophy) was the invited guest on an episode of Nevada Independent en Español's "Cafecito con Luz y Michelle" program, for which she was interviewed about pre-college philosophy and a free, online, Spanish-language pre-college philosophy course she recently launched with financial support from a Whiting…

Jeff Schauer (History) gave a presentation at the annual meeting of the African Studies Association — in virtual form this year. His paper, "Developing the National Herds: The Making of National-Era Wildlife Policy in Zambia, 1964-1974," explored how attempts to imagine a radical repurposing of ecology, debates, and negotiations around overlapping…

Kenneth Miller (Political Science) presented at the Press Club of Cleveland event "Political Professors and Journalists Reflect on the 2020 Election" where he discussed what the election results tell us about public sentiment and the implications for governing and policy in the next Congress.

Giorgio Canarella and Stephen M. Miller (Economics) published their paper "Does U.K.’s Real GDP Have a Unit Root? Evidence from a Multi-Century Perspective" in Applied Economics with co-authors Rangan Gupta, University of Pretoria, and Tolga Omay, Atilim University. A recent nonlinear unit-root test as well as other linear and nonlinear tests…

Ally Beckwith (Political Science, Honors College) recently had a fact sheet on child food insecurity in Nevada counties published through the Data Hub. Her fact sheet focuses on food insecurity experienced by children, and the food budget shortfall in Nevada.

Deborah Arteaga (World Languages and Cultures) recently presented a paper, "S or no s?  A lesson plan for integrating dialectal phonology in the beginning Medical Spanish classroom," at the Medical Spanish Summit.  

Alona D. Angosta (Nursing), Andrew Thomas Reyes (Nursing), Chad Cross (Public Health), Komal Sood (Medicine) and Trevor Pollom (Anthropology) recently published an article, Cardiovascular Disease Knowledge, Risk Factors, and Resilience Level among U.S. Veterans with and without Post-traumatic Stress Disorder, in The …