Accomplishments: College of Liberal Arts
Tyler D. Parry (Interdisciplinary, Gender, and Ethnic Studies) recently appeared on the "Hot and Bothered" podcast to discuss the history of the marriage ritual "jumping the broom" and its relevance to Black American popular culture.
Shane Kraus (Psychology) and colleagues published a paper, "Childhood and Adolescent/Adult Sexual Abuse in Relation to Sexual Function and Distress: Findings from a Cross-Cultural Study of 42 Countries," in the Journal of Interpersonal Violence.
Shane Kraus (Psychology) and colleagues published a paper, "Sexual Assertiveness and Sexual鈥
Katherine Walker (English) delivered an invited community talk to the Peter White Library titled: "From Saint to Santa: The Curious History of Claus."
Arely Orozco (Hispanic Studies) presented her paper, 鈥淓ntre lo m铆stico y lo carnal: s铆mbolos religiosos en el erotismo de Aura,鈥 at the International Colloquium of Mexican and Hispanic American Literature, held in Hermosillo on Nov. 14, 2025.
Derek Boyd (Anthropology) published an open-access article in Early View in the International Journal of Paleopathology titled, "An Intersectional and Bayesian Investigation of Pleural Disease in Industrializing England (1700-1857CE)," (2026). In this article, Boyd combines intersectionality theory with Bayesian linear modeling to map the burden鈥
Michelle Tusan (History) was interviewed on Eating the Past for Utah Public Radio on Armenian foodways.
Gabriela Or茅 Men茅ndez (Anthropology) published an article in the Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory titled "Agricultural Infrastructure Detection Through Multispectral Satellite Remote Sensing and PeruSAT-1 Images in Huarochir铆, Peru" (2025). In this article, Or茅 Men茅ndez develops a systematic methodological approach called "sequential鈥
Austin Horng-En Wang, Darrell Carter, Naseem Benjelloun, Dhritiman Banerjee, and Sydney Cervantes (Political Science) published an article, "Polarized by moderates", in Social Science Research. This article is a collaboration between faculty and students. This article proposes a new measure in the level of political polarization,鈥
Nirmala Lekhak (Nursing) presented her research, "Mental Health Benefits of Maitri Sambodh Dhyaan (MSD) Meditation for Dementia Caregivers" at Religion, Spirituality, and Aging Interest Group Symposium at the Gerontological Society of America's Annual Scientific Meeting, Boston, on Nov. 14, 2025.
The presentation was co-authored by Tirth Bhatta (鈥
Michelle Tusan (History) delivered the Presidential address, sponsored by the Royal Historical Society, at the annual North American Conference on British Studies in Montreal. Her talk was entitled: 鈥榃hat Liberalism Requires: The Very Victorian Marriage of J.S. Mill and Harriet Taylor.鈥 She will now serve as Immediate Past President of NACBS.
Richard Chang (Psychology) presented a paper presentation, "Between Two Palms: Podcasting to empower emerging scholars," at the 2025 Biennial Diversity Challenge Graduate Student Conference, hosted by Boston College's Institute for the Study of Race and Culture on Nov. 15.
Paul Werth (History) has published a Russian translation of his book "1837: Russia's Quiet Revolution" (Oxford, 2021), with the publisher Novoe Literaturnoe Obozrenie in Moscow. The Russian version appears as "1837: Russia's Hidden Transformation," because the Putin regime does not like revolutions, even "quiet" ones (i.e., ones by stealth, under鈥