Accomplishments: College of Liberal Arts
Rebecca Gill (Political Science and the Women's Research Institute of Nevada) and her colleagues (PI Nuno Garoupa from Texas A&M and Co-PI Lydia Tiede from the University of Houston) have been awarded grant funding in the amount of $86,000 from the Law and Social Sciences Program of the National Science Foundation. 鈥
Michael Ian Borer (Sociology) was quoted in the Kingman Daily Miner article "Millennials appear to be missing from the religious landscape." Borer has published on related issues about religion and popular culture in articles as well as in his books including Faithful to Fenway: Believing in Boston, Baseball, and America's Most鈥
Laurel Raftery, Andrew Andres, Ai-Sun "Kelly" Tseng, and Boo Shan Tseng (all Life Sciences), and Hong Sun (Chemistry & Biochemistry), have been awarded a National Science Foundation Major Research Instrumentation grant to purchase a multiphoton fluorescence imaging system titled "MRI: Acquisition of a High Speed Multiphoton Laser-Scanning鈥
Jennifer J. Reed (Sociology) was quoted in an AlterNet piece titled "Here Come the Ecosexuals." She is a Ph.D. candidate and is writing her dissertation research on the ecosexual movement as a case study of intersectional activism.
Maurice A. Finocchiaro (Philosophy) has accepted an invitation to contribute a chapter for a festschrift honoring a historian named Sergio Pagano, who is a priest and the director of the 鈥淰atican Secret Archive.鈥 This is a repository of official documents that have religious, political, or administrative significance. Originally, the archive was鈥
Marta Soligo (Sociology) published an article, "Film Imaginaries for Tourism 鈥 An Innovative Promotional and Sustainable Approach," in the
United Nations World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) volume Innovation in Tourism 鈥 Bridging Theory and Practice.
Robert Futrell (Sociology) recently was interviewed by US News and World Report and Kaiser Health News about the Charlottesville, Virginia, events and the rise of white supremacy. He is the co-author of American Swastika: Inside the White Power Movement's Hidden Spaces of Hate.
Nerses Kopalyan and Tiffiany Howard (both Political Science) co-authored the book Sex, Power, and Politics (Palgrave 2016). Additionally, Kopalyan is the author of World Political Systems After Polarity (Routledge 2017).
Georgiann Davis (Sociology) received the 2017 American Sociological Association Sex and Gender Section's Distinguished Book Award for her 2015 New York University Press book Contesting Intersex The Dubious Diagnosis. She also received the section's 2017 Feminist Scholar Activist Award.
Jennifer Rennels and Andrea Kayl (both Psychology), along with Swedish collaborators Joshua Juvrud, Martin Asperholm, Gustaf Gredeb盲ck, and Agneta Herlitz, published an article in Developmental Psychology on how differences in caregiving experience (female caregiver only or distributed caregiving between a female and male) are鈥
Marcia M. Gallo (History) has been named Martin Duberman Visiting Scholar for 2017鈥18 by the New York Public Library. The visiting scholar program fosters excellence in LGBT studies by providing funds for scholars to do research in the library鈥檚 preeminent LGBT historical collections. The fellowship is open to both academic faculty and independent鈥
Ranita Ray (Sociology) published her paper "Identity of Distance: How Economically Marginalized Black and Latina Women Navigate Risk Discourse and Employ Feminist Ideals" in one of the premier sociology journals, Social Problems. She is the author of the forthcoming University of California Press book The Making of a Teenage Service Class: Poverty鈥