Newsmakers | College of Liberal Arts

Highlighting the professional and academic accomplishments of College of Liberal Arts students, faculty, and staff.

Newsmakers are a quick and easy way to acknowledge the professional and academic accomplishments of RIT students, faculty, and staff, such as publishing an article in a scholarly journal, presenting research at a conference, serving on a panel discussion, earning a scholarship, or winning an award. Newsmakers appear in News and Events as well as the "In the News" section on faculty/staff directory profile pages.

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November 2025

November 14, 2025

Jeffrey Wagner, professor in the Department of Economics, received the New York State Economics Association Distinguished Fellow award at its annual meeting on Nov. 8.
November 12, 2025

Evelyn Brister, professor and program director in the Department of Philosophy, will be speaking at the 2025 NetEthics Conference hosted by the University of Minnesota's Consortium on Law and Values at 3:45 p.m. EST, on Friday, Nov. 14. Brister will appear on a roundtable panel where scholars will share their expertise in creating ethical and responsible research networks. The conference is free and open to the public.
November 12, 2025

Richard Fadok, assistant professor in the Department of Anthropology, spoke at the 2025 Virtual Summit of the Bird Collision Prevention Alliance, an international coalition of government agencies, conservation groups, scientists, architects, industry leaders, and engaged community members committed to making the built environment safe for birds. His talk, “Teaching the Crisis: Reflections on a Feral Pedagogy,” reflected on the opportunities and challenges of addressing bird-window collisions in undergraduate courses across disciplines, including his spring 2026 Vertically Integrated Project, Smash the Crash.
November 7, 2025

Christine Keiner, chair of the Department of Science, Technology, and Society, published “The Nuclear Sea-Level Canal Engineering Feasibility Field Studies and Epistemic Risk in the Darién, 1965–1970” in a special issue of the Journal for the History of Knowledge, exploring the theme “Knowledge and Power: Projecting the Modern World.”
November 7, 2025

Richard Fadok, assistant professor of anthropology, was interviewed by University of Rochester’s student newspaper, Campus Times, about how humans shape our architectural environment.
November 7, 2025

Katrina Overby, assistant professor in the School of Communication, co-presented “The Postdoc and Beyond: Insights, Challenges and Opportunities” at the Southern Region Education Board Institute on Teaching and Mentoring. The talk offered attendees advice and showcased best practices for securing and navigating the unique opportunities and challenges of a postdoctoral fellowship.
November 7, 2025

Natalie Crowell and Olivia Croteau, fourth-year humanities, computing, and design students, presented the paper “AI-Driven Data Fusion for Humanitarian Visual Analytics: Integrating Multimodal Social Media Insights on Ukrainian Refugee Displacement” at the IEEE Global Humanitarian Technology Conference on Oct. 23 in Golden, Colo. Their work expands on Fulbright-supported research led by co-author Brian Tomaszewski, professor in the School of Interactive Games and Media, focusing on applying AI-enabled social media analytics to better understand Ukrainian refugee displacement in Poland.
November 7, 2025

As part of an ongoing collaboration with computer scientists at Virginia Tech, Shaun Foster, professor in the School of Design, and Evan Selinger, professor in the Department of Philosophy, contributed to a paper titled “Visceral Notice and Privacy Mechanisms for Eye Tracking in Augmented Reality.” The paper received an Honorable Mention for the Best Paper Award at the 2025 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers’ International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality. The paper was co-authored by Nissi Otoo, Kailon Blue, G. Nikki Rameriz, Selinger, Foster, and Brendan David-John.
November 5, 2025

As part of an ongoing collaboration with computer scientists at Virginia Tech, Shaun Foster, professor in the School of Design, and Evan Selinger, professor in the Department of Philosophy, contributed to a paper titled “Visceral Notice and Privacy Mechanisms for Eye Tracking in Augmented Reality.” The paper recently received an Honorable Mention for the Best Paper Award at the 2025 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers’ International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality. The paper was co-authored by Nissi Otoo, Kailon Blue, G. Nikki Rameriz, Selinger, Foster, and Brendan David-John.
November 5, 2025

Evelyn Brister, professor in the Department of Philosophy, delivered “Philosophical 'Fieldwork:’ Public Engagement through Research” at the Public Philosophy Network conference in Hamilton, Ontario. The talk examined the value of participatory research in the humanities and encouraged philosophers to develop skills in community-engaged methodologies.