Volume 1 (2023)

Welcome to the Debut Edition of The Agora!

The Agora, the NMSU Journal of Undergraduate Research and Creative Activity, presents its debut edition, beginning what will become an annual publication powered by NMSU students.

Full Length Articles

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Femicides: Gender Violence in Mexico
Maria Mendoza

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Major League Baseball’s Antitrust Exemption
Bailey Perkins

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Social Attention and Autism Spectrum Disorder Phenotypes
Charlotte Martin

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Survival Is Insufficient: An Examination of Shakespeare, Pandemics, and Cultural Perseverance in Emily St. John Mandel’s Station Eleven
Katie Paulus

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The Doctrine of Double Effect
Tanya Solis

Review

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Burden of Love Review
Jessica Barrio and Matthew Curtin

Creative Pieces

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The Sin of War
Devon L. Harrison

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The Things We Do on a Moonlit Night
Jessica Barrio

Cover art for the first issue of The Agora journal, featuring an image of The Parthenon in a ghostly New Mexico desert filled with glowing cacti

Student Editors

Editor-in-Chief: Devynne Hadley
Editorial Board: Brooke Yehle; Jessica Barrio; Fisher EasleySmith; Sam Keeton; Daniel Aguilar; Tanya Solis; Priscilla Ramirez

Faculty Advisors

Tracey Miller-Tomlinson, Ph.D.

Susan Beck

Peer Reviewers

Bertha A. Bermúdez-Tapia, Ph.D.

Daniel James, J.D.

Dwight Kealy, J.D.

Larissa Lury, M.F.A.

Mark Walker, Ph.D.

Megan Downes, Ph.D.

Michael Hout, Ph.D.

Rose Conley, M.A.