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Current Issue: Volume 12, Issue 1 (2025)
Front Matter
Articles
Neural Correlates of Infant Attention During Initial Exposure to Own- and Other-Race Faces
Ashley N. Barrows, Lauren Slivka, Kenna Clayton, Kelly Roth, and Greg Reynolds
Uncovering Maria Edgeworth’s Strategic Political Influence Through Her Unpublished Letters
Autumn G. Hall
Mechanisms of Familial and UV-induced Melanoma
Jeri D. Hughes

Vol. 12 Editorial Board
- Editor-in-Chief
- Tyler Myers ()
- Managing Editor
- Natalie Smith ()
- Research Editor
- Presley Nichols ()
- Marketing Editor
- Ella Miller ()
- Logistics Editor
- Ameyla Fox ()
Vol. 12 Reviewer Board
- Natalie Aldrich
- Alice Grace Beavers
- Ali Bhimani
- Emma Bowman
- Ruth Brent
- Candace Brown
- Kacie Brown
- Elana Bruns
- Christa Glanzer
- Ryan Herzog
- Joey Hopper
- Henry Humble
- Brandon LeStrange
- Macy Kosinski
- Myrsine Kostoulas
- Michael Kyriakoudes
- Hannah Lam
- Kelen Lu
- Maya Momot
- Kendyl Moore-Taliaferro
- Lily Neville
- Emma Newman
- Carmen Palileo
- Christian Rees
- Julia Ronnis
- Anja Shull
- Harrison Wade
- Noah Yates
Faculty & Staff
Advisors & Reviewers
- Dr. Matthew Baker
- Assistant Professor of History (University of Albany)
- Dr. Harriet Bowden
- Associate Professor of Spanish (University of Tennessee)
- Dr. Michelle Christian
- Associate Professor of Sociology (University of Tennessee)
- Dr. Ziona Kocher
- Lecturer of English (University of Tennessee)
- Dr. Andrew Monteith
- Assistant Professor of Microbiology (University of Tennessee)
- Dr. Sean Morey
- Associate Professor of English (University of Tennessee)
Office of Undergraduate Research and Fellowships
- Director
- Dr. Meredith Malburne-Wade ()
- Assistant Director
- Dr. Janna Caspersen ()