{"id":1747,"date":"2025-04-29T18:53:01","date_gmt":"2025-04-29T18:53:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/arts\/?p=1747"},"modified":"2025-05-30T23:21:51","modified_gmt":"2025-05-30T23:21:51","slug":"april-2025-news-faculty-projects-and-publications","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/arts\/2025\/04\/29\/april-2025-news-faculty-projects-and-publications\/","title":{"rendered":"April 2025 News | Faculty Projects and Publications"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>April News at the College of Arts<\/h1>\n<p>Check out what our faculty at the College of Arts have been up this April 2025!<\/p>\n<p>From exciting projects to new publications, read more about their work and connect with us to learn more about the College of Arts.<\/p>\n<pre><strong>\ud83e\udd33 <\/strong>Follow us on<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/ufvarts\/\"><strong> Instagram<\/strong><\/a>\r\n\r\n<strong>\ud83d\udcbc <\/strong>Follow us on<a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/ufv-college-of-arts\/about\/\"><strong> LinkedIn<\/strong><\/a>\r\n\r\n<strong>\ud83d\udce5<\/strong> Subscribe to our <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/arts\/arts-e-newsletter\/\">Arts Newsletter<\/a><\/strong><\/pre>\n<h2><strong>College of Arts<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><strong data-start=\"241\" data-end=\"262\">On April 15, 2025<\/strong>, UFV\u2019s Associate Dean of Social Sciences, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=9I4zdV-7aas\"><strong data-start=\"305\" data-end=\"325\">Dr. Wade Deisman<\/strong>, was interviewed by CBC News<\/a> to discuss the federal parties&#8217; platforms on crime and public safety. This followed an announcement from Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre regarding his intent to use the notwithstanding clause to allow consecutive life sentences for individuals convicted of multiple murders. Opponents argue that this promise undermines Canada&#8217;s Charter of Rights and Freedoms.<\/p>\n<h2 data-start=\"799\" data-end=\"819\"><strong data-start=\"803\" data-end=\"817\">Psychology<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p class=\"\" data-start=\"820\" data-end=\"1105\"><strong data-start=\"820\" data-end=\"839\">Andrea Albonico<\/strong>, Assistant Professor, co-authored the article <a href=\"https:\/\/journals.sagepub.com\/doi\/abs\/10.1177\/03010066251322631\"><em data-start=\"886\" data-end=\"959\">Face and word superiority effects: Parallel effects of visual expertise<\/em><\/a> with <strong data-start=\"965\" data-end=\"989\">Marko (Chi-Wei) Tien<\/strong> and <strong data-start=\"994\" data-end=\"1016\">Jason J. S. Barton<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<h2 data-start=\"1112\" data-end=\"1129\"><strong data-start=\"1116\" data-end=\"1127\">English<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p class=\"\" data-start=\"1130\" data-end=\"1611\"><strong data-start=\"1130\" data-end=\"1147\">Adrea Johnson<\/strong>, Sessional Instructor, co-authored the book <em data-start=\"1192\" data-end=\"1287\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aup.nl\/en\/book\/9789048560417\/negotiating-feminism-and-faith-in-the-lives-and-works-of-late-medieval-and-early-modern-women#:~:text=Adrea%20Johnson,-Adrea%20Johnson%2C%20Ph&amp;text=D.%2C%20specializes%20in%20women's%20religious,Mason%20Neale%20appeared%20in%20Crux\">Negotiating Feminism and Faith in the Lives and Works of Late Medieval and Early Modern Wome<\/a>n<\/em> with <strong data-start=\"1293\" data-end=\"1315\">Holly Faith Nelson<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<h2 data-start=\"1618\" data-end=\"1658\"><strong data-start=\"1622\" data-end=\"1656\">Criminology &amp; Criminal Justice<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li data-start=\"1659\" data-end=\"2029\"><strong data-start=\"1659\" data-end=\"1676\">Dr. Jon Heidt<\/strong>, Associate Professor, served as guest editor for a special issue on cannabis policy. <strong data-start=\"1764\" data-end=\"1793\">Wheeldon, J., &amp; Heidt, J.<\/strong> (2025). <a href=\"https:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/toc\/1475682x\/2025\/95\/2\"><em data-start=\"1802\" data-end=\"1910\">Introduction to the special issue on cannabis legalization: Cannabis policy at the twilight of prohibition<\/em><\/a>. <em data-start=\"1912\" data-end=\"1938\">Sociological Inquiry, 95<\/em>(2), 231\u2013234.<\/li>\n<li data-start=\"1659\" data-end=\"2029\"><strong data-start=\"2031\" data-end=\"2050\">Dr. Irwin Cohen<\/strong>, Associate Professor, delivered the keynote address <em data-start=\"2103\" data-end=\"2181\">&#8220;Bridging the Gap: Academia, Policing, and the Pursuit of Safer Communities&#8221;<\/em> at the International Association of Law Enforcement Intelligence Analysts annual training event.<\/li>\n<li data-start=\"2280\" data-end=\"2604\"><strong data-start=\"2280\" data-end=\"2295\">Amneet Sran<\/strong>, a Criminal Justice student, presented her research on gender and police attitudes toward intimate partner violence at the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences Annual Meeting in Denver, Colorado. She was supported by <strong data-start=\"2513\" data-end=\"2537\">Dr. Amanda McCormick<\/strong>, Associate Professor, and <strong data-start=\"2564\" data-end=\"2582\">Dr. Kevin Burk<\/strong>, Assistant Professor.<\/li>\n<li data-start=\"2606\" data-end=\"2822\">At the same event, <strong data-start=\"2625\" data-end=\"2649\">Dr. Amanda McCormick<\/strong> and <strong data-start=\"2654\" data-end=\"2673\">Dr. Irwin Cohen<\/strong>, along with <strong data-start=\"2686\" data-end=\"2700\">B. Stickle<\/strong>, <strong data-start=\"2702\" data-end=\"2717\">B. Vahldiek<\/strong>, and <strong data-start=\"2723\" data-end=\"2737\">A. Stickle<\/strong>, presented a paper titled <em data-start=\"2764\" data-end=\"2821\">Police Perceptions of Risk in Intimate Partner Violence<\/em>, and Dr. Carlos Ponce, Associate Professor, presented <em data-start=\"2764\" data-end=\"2821\">The Silencing of Criminology: Online Attacks on Crime Researchers Under Autocratic Rule in El Salvador.<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>April News at the College of Arts Check out what our faculty at the College of Arts have been up this April 2025! From exciting projects to new publications, read more about their work and connect with us to learn more about the College of Arts. \ud83e\udd33 Follow us on Instagram \ud83d\udcbc Follow us on &#8230; <a title=\"April 2025 News | Faculty Projects and Publications\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/arts\/2025\/04\/29\/april-2025-news-faculty-projects-and-publications\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":275,"featured_media":1577,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"generate_page_header":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[236,188,1],"tags":[217,14],"class_list":["post-1747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-faculty-impact","category-teaching-and-research","category-uncategorized","tag-arts-faculty","tag-faculty"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/arts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1747","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/arts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/arts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/arts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/275"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/arts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1747"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/arts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1747\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1764,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/arts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1747\/revisions\/1764"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/arts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/arts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/arts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/arts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}