Accomplishments: College of Liberal Arts
John Curry (History) traveled to the University of Munster in Germany to present as part of the Translation and Multilingualism in Mongol and Post-Mongol Eurasia workshop. He presented a paper titled, "Speaking Chinese, Translating Persian: Strategies of the Autograph Manuscript of Alī Akbar Khaṭāyī’s Book of China," as part of a panel…
Christopher D. E. Willoughby (African American Studies; Interdisciplinary, Gender & Ethnic Studies) published the article "John Collins Warren—Journal Founder, Institution Builder, and Racial Theorist" in the June 12 issues of the New England Journal of Medicine. Written in collaboration with scholars from Harvard Medical…
Matthew Schurr and Brenna Renn (Psychology) published "Relation Between Executive Function Test Performance and Treatment Outcomes During Brief Psychotherapies for Later-Life Depression" in the American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry: Open Science, Education, and Practice. Schurr, an alumni of the Clinical Psychology Ph.D. program and Renn's…
Tim Gauthier (Interdisciplinary, Gender, and Ethnic Studies) presented a paper, "Recent American Fiction and the Affective Heritage of 9/11," at the 26th Annual International Conference of the English Department at the University of Bucharest.
Tyler D. Parry (Interdisciplinary, Gender, and Ethnic Studies) appeared on KNPR's State of Nevada on May 22 to discuss the five year anniversary of George Floyd's death and the degree to which it has impacted policing in southern Nevada and throughout the country.
Margaret Harp (World Languages & Cultures) presented a paper, "Statuary as Atonement: Funereal Expression in Le Printemps d'Yver” at the 57th annual meeting of the Rocky Mountain Medieval and Renaissance Association.
Paul Werth (History) has received a grant from the National Association for Armenian Studies and Research for work in the Georgian State Historical Archive (Tbilisi) and the library of the Oriental Pontifical Institute (Rome) on the history of the Armenian Apostolic Church in the 19th-century Russian Empire.
Karyn S. Hollingsworth (Liberal Arts) was quoted in The Chronicle of Higher Education special report Raising Your College’s Profile in a section on communicating about DEI. She shared ways university communicators can continue to support diversity, equity, and inclusion work while complying with anti-DEI laws. Suggestions…
Kara Christensen Pacella and graduate students Hoor Ul Ain and Rosha Feizilighvan (all Psychology) presented their work at the International Conference for Eating Disorders in San Antonio, TX. Ain and Feizilighvan presented their posters, "Fasting Motivations in Muslim Women" and "ED-Motivated Sleep Behaviors are Associated with Higher ED-Related…
Graduate student Shannon Sagert and faculty mentor Kara Christensen Pacella (both Psychology) published a new study examining the association between imposter syndrome symptoms and eating disorder pathology in the Journal of American College Health. Sagert found that as imposter syndrome symptoms increased among college students, risk of…
Kara Christensen Pacella (Psychology) and colleagues from University of Illinois Chicago and University of Kansas recently published "Ecological momentary assessment of between- and within-person sleep quality as a predictor of disordered eating behaviors among young women with disordered eating" in Appetite. This project stemmed from an honors…
Amy Reed-Sandoval (Philosophy) and Peter Higgins (Philosophy, Eastern Michigan University) published "Gender and Migration" in Handbook of Migration Ethics, edited by Andreas Niederberger, Uchenna Okeja, and Johanna Gordemann.