Accomplishments: College of Liberal Arts
Andrew Lugg (Political Science) recently published the article "Globaloney: Extended Party Networks and the Dissemination of Anti-Globalization Insults" in the journal Political Research Quarterly with co-author Zachary Scott. The article uses social media data examining the "globalist" insult to show how party-affiliated factions鈥
John Curry (History) was published in a Book Forum in the online journal Maydan, a publication of the Abu Sulayman Center for Global Islamic Studies at George Mason University. The forum discussed the recent publication of Hayrettin Y眉cesoy's "Disenchanting the Caliphate: The Secular Discipline of Power in Abbasid鈥
Rachel Schell (Philosophy), an undergraduate philosophy major and student ambassador for the Las Vegas Philosophy for Children Initiative, gave a virtual presentation on her research on "selectively silent philosophical engagement among preschoolers" at the Second National Congress on Educational Research hosted by the Sierra Hildalguense Normal鈥
Dave Beisecker (Philosophy) presented his paper, 鈥淭ruth and the Topology of Assertion鈥 and gave a workshop presentation on the foundations of the logical graphs developed by Charles Sanders Peirce at the biennial conference on Diagrams hosted by the University of M眉nster in Germany. The former has been published in Diagrammatic Representation and鈥
Aldo Barrita, Shane Kraus, Rachael Robnett, Gloria Wong-Padoongpatt (all Psychology) and Cassaundra Rodriguez (Sociology) recently published a paper titled, "The Illegal Threat": The Presumed Illigality Microaggressive Experience Scale in the journal of Translational Issues in Psychological Science. This research project aimed鈥
Barbara Roth (Anthropology) presented the plenary talk at the 22nd Annual Mogollon Archaeology Conference in Silver City, New Mexico on October 4. The talk, titled "Transformation, Resilience, and Connectivity" highlighted the contributions of several major projects to archaeologists' understanding of the Mogollon.
Katherine Walker (English) gave an invited talk at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's Medieval and Renaissance Colloquium titled "Ben Jonson's Supernatural Swindlers."
The summer 2024 issue of Western American Literature contains a review of the dystopian-adventure novel "Hammer of the Dogs" (University of Nevada Press, 2023) by Jarret Keene (English): "Operating squarely in the purview of The Hunger Games and Divergent novels, with a bit of Harry Potter, 'Hammer of the Dogs' brings anarchistic glee to the post-鈥
Jarret Keene (English) will give a reading at the Clark Country Library Theater on Oct. 17 as a Las Vegas Writes series editor, in collaboration with Nevada Humanities. The reading will be from the just-published "Desert Superbloom: Las Vegas Writers on Scarcity and Abundance" (Huntington Press), a collection of original essays鈥
Douglas Unger (English) published a novel, "Dream City." The novel is an unconventional portrait and fictional history of Las Vegas during the boom years before the economic crash brought on by the Great Recession. Through stories of its industry executives on the make, ideologies of marketing and consumerism in the "casino economy of America" are鈥
Dave Beisecker (Philosophy) recently participated in a workshop hosted by the University of Bergen in Norway and the journal, Hegel Bulletin, on the occasion of the release of a special issue dedicated to racism and colonialism in Hegel鈥檚 philosophy. Beisecker鈥檚 article, 鈥淎merican Hegelianism and its Impact on Indian Boarding School Policy,鈥 co-鈥
James Woodbridge (Philosophy) co-presented (with Bradley Armour-Garb) a talk titled "Sentential-Varable Deflationism and Adverbial Quantification" at the international conference, Truth: A Workshop on Truth, Definability and Quantification into Sentence Position, at the University of Vienna in Austria on September 28, 2024.