Norma A. Marrun (Teaching and Learning) and Constancio R. Arnaldo Jr. (Interdisciplinary, Gender, and Ethnic Studies) recently published a book chapter titled, "Taking Up Space: Reflections from a Latina and a Filipino American Faculty Teaching for Racial Justice," in the edited book, First-Generation Faculty of Color: Reflections on…

Tyler D. Parry (Interdisciplinary, Gender, and Ethnic Studies) recently appeared on KTNV Channel 13 Action News to weigh in on the controversy over Eighth Judicial District Judge Erika Ballou's comments on the police. Parry opposes the Las Vegas Police Protective Association's call for Ballou to resign over her remarks. He is part of the IGES…

Patricia A. Heisser Metoyer (English, Psychology, Interdisciplinary Studies) was awarded a Los Angeles Review Board ( LARB ) Publishing Workshop Fellowship from June 27 to July 30. The Los Angeles Review of Books will host the fifth annual LARB Publishing Workshop, guiding a new cohort of students through the world of publishing with…

Tyler D. Parry (Interdisciplinary, Gender, and Ethnic Studies) served as a guest editor and organizer of an online forum, Black Las Vegas, published by the award-winning blog Black Perspectives. The forum will run through May 6 and feature five essays on different aspects of Black history in Las Vegas from various scholars based in Southern Nevada…

Tyler D. Parry (Interdisciplinary, Gender, and Ethnic Studies) served as the chair of the Planning Committee for the seventh annual conference of the African American Intellectual History Society, which took place virtually earlier this month and was hosted and supported by UNLV. The annual conference brings together the most innovative…

Tyler D. Parry (Interdisciplinary, Gender, and Ethnic Studies) was interviewed by journalist Bridgette Bartlett Royall who was spotlighting the custom of "jumping the broom" for a feature in The New York Times. She interviewed him about the custom's origins and used the information to provide historical context for the piece, which was published…

Patricia A. Heisser Metoyer (Psychology, Interdisciplinary, English), before International Women’s Day on March 8, was selected as a formal delegate to the United Nations Women CSW66 on March 31. UN Women, NGO participants, including the UNA-USA delegation, will identify global strategies to address gender gaps primarily due to discriminatory…

Sheila Bock (Interdisciplinary, Gender, and Ethnic Studies) published a book chapter “Waking Up Sleeping Metaphors of Diabetes” in the edited volume (Un)doing Diabetes: Representation, Disability, Culture.

Tyler D. Parry (Interdisciplinary, Gender, and Ethnic Studies) published the op-ed,  "What We’ve Gotten Wrong about the History of Reconstruction" in the Washington Post on Jan. 23. Co-written with Robert Greene II of Claflin University, the op-ed describes the remarkable life of Henry E. Hayne, a South Carolina politician in the…

  Patricia A. Heisser Metoyer ( Psychology and Interdisciplinary Studies) recently was selected by the University of California, Irvine Alumni Association to be interviewed for an alumni data confirmation and oral history initiative. She was the first Black/African American woman to receive a Ph.D., magna cum laude, in psychology from UCI.…

Tyler D. Parry (Interdisciplinary, Gender, and Ethnic Studies) along with Robert Greene II of Claflin University, co-edited the volume, Invisible No More: The African American Experience at the University of South Carolina, published last month by the University of South Carolina Press. This singular volume explores the lives and experiences of…

Sheila Bock (Interdisciplinary, Gender, and Ethnic Studies) was an invited panelist in two roundtable discussions as part of “Cultural Health: A Forum on Folk Medical Systems," a symposium held in conjunction with the American Folklore Society's 2021 annual meeting. The goal of this virtual symposium was to bring folklorists, doctors,…