Newsmakers

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Newsmakers

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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July 2022

  • July 21, 2022

    Hinda Mandell, associate professor in the School of Communication, was an invited speaker for Convention Days on July 16 at the Women’s Rights National Historic Park in Seneca Falls, N.Y. The title of her event was “Crafting Dissent, Crocheting Activism: Interactive Talk and Craft Workshop.”

  • July 8, 2022

    Silvia Benso and Brian Schroeder, professors in the Department of Philosophy, hosted the fifth annual international conference of the Society for Italian Philosophy (SIP) June 9-11. The conference, held virtually, opened with remarks from Vincenzo Scollo, the Italian Honorary Consul in Rochester, and was made possible in part through funding from James Myers, associate provost for international education and global studies. Featured keynote speakers were internationally renowned Italian philosophers Adriana Cavarero and Roberto Esposito.

  • July 7, 2022

    Richard Newman, professor in the Department of History, was featured on the Oxford University Press’s Very Short Introductions Podcast discussing abolitionism, a global human rights movement during the 18th and 19th centuries aimed at ending slavery in the Atlantic world.

June 2022

  • June 16, 2022

    Joseph Henning, associate professor in the Department of History, received Honorable Mention for the Arthur S. Link-Warren F. Kuehl Prize for Documentary Editing awarded by the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations for his 2021 book Interpreting the Mikado’s Empire. The prize recognizes outstanding collections of primary source materials in the fields of international or diplomatic history, especially those distinguished by the inclusion of commentary designed to interpret the documents and set them within their historical context.

  • June 9, 2022

    Katrina M. Overby, assistant professor in the School of Communication, and Francesca A. Williamson, Indiana University School of Medicine, co-authored “Breaking bread with storyworlding methodology: Black feminist/womanist commentary on unearthing communal lifeworlds,” published in the International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education. Using a friendship as method approach, the authors engage in reflexive dialogue about storyworlding methodology and consider the transformative possibilities of this methodology and the new lines of inquiry it can create within the critical qualitative inquiry community.

  • June 9, 2022

    The RIT/NTID Performing Arts production of Angels in America: Millennium Approaches, directed by Andy Head, assistant professor in the Department of Performing Arts, received a Kennedy Center Citizen Artist Award at the 2022 KCACTF National Award Ceremony on May 21. The award “recognizes programs in higher education using theatrical production to promote long-term societal impact through an artistic lens, to encourage empathetic exploration of the complex cultural and physical world, and to advocate for justice on campus and throughout the world.” The production was also recognized with special achievement awards in production and performance ensemble unity, projection design, sound design, and lighting design.

May 2022