Accomplishments: College of Liberal Arts
Susan Lee Johnson (History) delivered the opening plenary address at the Mormon History Association annual conference held in Las Vegas June 4-7. The invited address was entitled, "Unoriginal Sins: Slavery, Captivity, and Kinship in Western Places." In addition, Johnson chaired and moderated a session at the conference entitled, "Intimate Subjects…
Tyler D. Parry (Interdisciplinary, Gender, and Ethnic Studies Department) was listed as a "Historical Consultant" for a PBS short documentary on the southern tradition of raccoon hunting. He provided historical context for the practice, including its intersections with race and class in southern history.
Amy Reed-Sandoval (Philosophy) gave a presentation on her book Intimate Borders: Feminist Migration Ethics at the Freie Universität Berlin (in Berlin, Germany).
Christopher D. E. Willoughby (African American & African Diaspora Studies/Interdisciplinary, Gender & Ethnic Studies) was featured on the Massachusetts Historical Society's podcast "Historians & their Histories." For this podcast, Willoughby discussed his journey as a historian and scholar in African American Studies, as well as his…
Margaret McMullin (Psychology), a former ÐÔÊӽ紫ý Ph.D. student, Nathan Higgins (Psychology), a ÐÔÊӽ紫ý former post-doctoral fellow, Rohit Kumar from Johns Hopkins University, Mounya Elhilali from Johns Hopkins University, and Joel Snyder (Psychology) have published 'Object and setting identification in natural auditory scenes' in a special issue of…
Jacob Cox and Austin Horng-En Wang (both Political Science) published an article, "Asymmetric blame-shifting in the era of globalization," in European Political Science. The article analyzes two survey experiments on whether the leader's blame-shifting strategy works in the eye of voters, and whether such blame-shifting may lower people's trust on…
Amy Reed-Sandoval (Philosophy) and Luvell Anderson (Department of Philosophy, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) co-presented their paper "African American Migration Ethics" at the 2026 Latin American Studies Association congress in Paris, France.
Christopher Edwards (College of Liberal Arts Advising Center) recently presented on the importance of equity, representation, and inclusion within academic advising at the 2026 NACADA Region 8/9 Conference in San Diego, California. The session, titled "We're Here Too," examined... the lived experiences of Men of Color — particularly Black queer…
Aude Picard (Life Sciences) and Cheyenne Brokaw (Law) and master's student Patrice Boyd (English) recently published a research article in the journal Geobiology, titled: "Membrane Vesicle Formation Removes Iron Sulfide Mineral Crusts From the Cell Surface of Growing Sulfate-Reducing Bacteria." In this project, funded by NSF EPSCoR, the team…
Austin Horng-En Wang (Political Science) and others published an article, "The People's Liberation Army's Perspectives on Artificial Intelligence Highlighting Integration as Key to "Intelligentization" Goals", with RAND Corporation. This article analyzes how China's PLA introduced and integrate AI into its equipment and operation through an…
Fatima Suarez's (Sociology) book, Latino Fathers: What Shapes and Sustains Their Parenting, received honorable mention for the 2026 Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship Book Award from the American Sociological Association Race, Gender, and Class Section.
Amy Reed-Sandoval (Philosophy) published an op-ed titled "The US Immigration Workforce is Overwhelmingly Latino. The Reasons Why Are Rooted in History" in The Hill.