Colloquium Series
The Colloquium Series is an interdisciplinary working group of faculty throughout UTEP that meet to present and discuss their current research projects. The goal of the series is to connect faculty and students across disciplines to highlight research, engage in research dialogue, and to promote interdisciplinary research and collaborations. At each colloquium, an individual presents a current research project, which is then followed by a discussion among audience members. The colloquium series is open to the UTEP community and public in a brown-bag setting (bring your lunch). Unless otherwise noted, colloquia occur every Wednesday from Noon-1:00 in the Health Sciences Building, Room 219.
If you are interested in presenting a paper at a colloquium, please contact Dr. Boyer (ejboyer@utep.edu), Dr. Ivanova in Psychology (imivanova@utep.edu), or Dr. Reid in Political Science (raredi@utep.edu).
Spring 2019 Schedule
January 30: Dispelling the Myth of Market Incentives: What Really Drives Nonprofit Client Engagement? (Eric Boyer, Assistant Professor, Public Administration)
February 6: Stand by Me: Indigenous Rights at the Inter-American Court of Human Rights. (Rebecca Reid, Assistant Professor, Political Science)
February 13: (Charlotte Vines, Assistant Professor, Biological Sciences)
February 20: What Science Can Teach Us About Enhanced Interrogation. (Misty Duke, Lecturer, National Security Studies Institute)
February 27: (Viviane Foyou, Assistant Professor, Public Administration)
March 6: (Mari Noopila, Visiting Assistant Professor, Leadership Studies)
March 13: Language production and comprehension in adult second language learners (Carla Contemori, Assistant Professor, Languages and Linguistics)
March 20: NO MEETING (SPRING BREAK)
March 27: Presidential Immunity and Defamation. (Bill Weaver, Professor, Political Science)
April 3: Mechanisms of Bilingual Language Processing. (Iva Ivanova, Assistant Professor, Psychology)
April 10: Programmatic Transfers, Clientelistic Transfers, and Political Participation in Developing Democracies. (Greg Schober, Visiting Professor, Political Science)
April 17: Energy transport infrastructures. (Bilge O’Hearn, Assistant Professor, Anthropology)
April 24: Using non-parametric models to measure efficiency: Measuring city spending efficiency in large U.S. cities. (Ljubinka Andonoska, Assistant Professor, Public Administration)
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Fall 2018
September 26: Revisiting Recent Findings on Gated Communities and Racial Homogeneity: A Longitudinal Study (Daniel Scheller, Associate Professor, Public Administration)
October 3: Examining Public Opinion of Private Investment in Infrastructure (Eric Boyer, Assistant Professor, Public Administration)
October 10: Targeted Government Transfers and Access to Basic Utilities in Developing Countries . (Greg Schober, Visiting Professor, Political Science)
October 17: May It Please the Twitterverse: The Use of Twitter by State High Court Judges (Todd Curry, Assistant Professor, Political Science)
October 24: Pre- and post-election local budgets: The case of Macedonia (Ljubinka Andonoska, Assistant Professor, Public Administration)
October 31: Trust, Influence, Self-Esteem, and the Brexit Vote (Gaspare Genna, Professor, Department of Political Science)
November 7: Reusing the language of one’s interlocutor in conversation: A cognitive perspective (Iva Ivanova, Assistant Professor, Psychology)
November 14: State Compliance, Selection Effects, and IACHR Strategic Behavior (Rebecca Reid, Assistant Professor, Political Science).
Spring 2018 (co-organized with Daniel Scheller)
Feb. 1: Examining Female and Male Approaches to Leadership among Executives in International NGOs. (Eric Boyer, Assistant Professor, Public Administration Program).
Feb. 8: New Mayors, New Violence: Political Transitions and Homicides in Ciudad Juárez During Mexico's Drug War. (Daniel Scheller, Assistant Professor, Public Administration Program).
Feb. 15: Deported to Death: How drug violence is reshaping migration on the U.S. Mexico Border. (Jeremy Slack, Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology & Anthropology).
Feb. 22: Inflating Compliance? Strategic Behavior on the IACHR and Selection Effects. (Rebecca Reid, Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science).
Mar. 1: Sovereignty, Justice and Survival: Indigenous Law in U.S. State Supreme Courts (Todd Curry & Rebecca Reid, Assistant Professors, Department of Political Science).
Mar. 8: Why Authoritarian Regimes Enjoy Greater Citizen Evaluations than Democratic Ones: An Anchoring Vignette Approach. (Joseph Zhou, Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science).
Mar. 22: On Post-Apocalyptic Beliefs and Doomsday Preppers and What They Might Mean for Society. (Adam Fetterman, Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology).
Mar. 29: Maternal Health and Emotional Distress in the Context of Immigration Enforcement. (Carina Heckert, Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology & Anthropology).
Apr. 5: Accommodating for Dissent: The Effect of Outside Voices on Majority Court Opinions. (Todd Curry, Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science).
Apr. 12: Trade Clusters Impacts on Transportation Costs. (Tom Fullerton, Professor, Department of Economics & Finance).
Apr. 19: U.S. Primary Election Voters' Support for North American Cooperation with Mexico. (Gaspare Genna, Professor, Department of Political Science & P.J. Vierra, Lecturer, Department of English).
Apr. 26: Social Assistance Programs and Psychological Engagement with Politics. (Greg Schober, Visiting Professor, Department of Political Science).