Accomplishments: College of Liberal Arts
On April 21, Roberto Lovato (English) delivered a seminar on Memoria Historica: The Politics and Poetics of Memory in Creative Nonfiction to students in Columbia University's School of the Arts Writing Program.
Katherine Walker (English) was the keynote speaker at the Texas Woman's University's Creative Arts and Research Symposium. She argued for the importance of slow methodologies and transforming research spaces.
Austin Horng-En Wang (Political Science) publish a co-authored article, "Diversifying channels or diversifying information? Panel data analysis of polarization in the contentious pension reform" in Information, Communication, & Society. Through the case of a highly polarized pension reform in Taiwan, this article found out鈥
Austin Horng-En Wang (Political Science) publish an article, "Political Opportunity Structure Conditions the Legacy of Political Violence" in Journal of Conflict Resolution. In this article, Wang offers a new theory to reconcil previous findings on the legacies of political violence. Through the analysis of election results and a鈥
Professor emerita P. Jane Hafen (English) presented 鈥溾橧t Ain鈥檛 Real Estate鈥: Tribal Sovereignty in Pulitzer-Prize Author, Louise Erdrich, and Utah Senator Arthur Watkins鈥 in Utah Tech University Library鈥檚 41st annual Juanita Brooks Lecture Series.
Javon Johnson (Interdisciplinary, Gender, and Ethnic Studies), associate professor of African American Studies and renowned poet, began coaching a slam poetry team in Las Vegas in January 2025 and, in March 2025, the team won its first major poetry slam tournament in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
On April 14, Roberto Lovato (English) was interviewed by Emma Vigeland and the popular Majority Report podcast and radio show about the historic meeting between President Trump and Salvadoran president Nayib Bukele.
Roberto Lovato (English) wrote an article for The Nation magazine about "The Deadly Seriousness Behind Trump and Bukele鈥檚 'Joke'," which analyzes what Trump and the U.S. are learning from Bukele and what people in this country can learn from the long history of anti-fascist struggle in El Salvador.
Assistant professor Roberto Lovato (English) was awarded the Marion Weber Healing Arts Fellowship, which supports writers working in the healing arts fields. His fellowship will be used to support his time at the Mesa Refuge writer's retreat in November 2025.
Tyler D. Parry (Interdisciplinary, Gender, and Ethnic Studies) and Historian Charlton W. Yingling from the University of Louisville recently published an article, "Canines: Enforcing Race and State" in the peer-reviewed journal Modern American History. The article was part of the journal's special forum: "Animals in Modern U.S. History."
Lynn Wolfe (Intensive English Program) published two poems: "happiness is fickle" and "Dear Woman" in The Sandy River Review literary magazine.
Isabelle Graham (Economics; Brookings Mountain West; The Lincy Institute) and Zachary Billot (Political Science 鈥24) will represent Nevada and California respectively at the 2025 Western Governors' Leadership Institute (WGLI) Annual Meeting. The WGLI is a prestigious program developed by the Western Governors' Association to鈥