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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April 2022

April 5, 2022

Katrina M. Overby, assistant professor in the School of Communication, presented “Medals, Movement, and Social Media: The Plight of Black Female Athletes and Patriotism” at the annual Society for Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS) virtual conference for the Contemporary Issues in Sports Media panel on March 31.
April 5, 2022

Elizabeth Reeves O'Connor, principal lecturer in the School of Communication and director of the Expressive Communication Center, and ECC consultants Jillian Walton, Emily McIndoe, Shannon McPhee, and Mikayala MacIntyre attended the National Communication Center Conference on March 25 and 26. McIndoe, a communication graduate student, was awarded the Outstanding Graduate Tutor of the Year. The award is presented to a graduate student who has demonstrated excellence as a communication tutor/consultant.

March 2022

March 31, 2022

Kristoffer Whitney, associate professor of science, technology, and society, published an article in the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Environmental Science titled “History of Wildlife Tracking Technologies.”
March 31, 2022

“Whose Streets? Our Streets!: New York City, 1980-2000,” an exhibition of social protest photography curated by Tamar Carroll, associate professor of history; Josh Meltzer, associate professor of photography; and Meg Handler ’90 (professional photographic illustration), is on view March 31-April 22 at Boston University’s Howard Thurman Center for Common Ground. In addition, a preview of the exhibition is on display March 31-April 2 at the Annual Meeting of The Organization of American Historians in Boston. Carroll, Meltzer, and Joshua Rashaad McFadden, assistant professor of photography, will present their work in a panel on “Social Protest Photography and Racial Justice.”
March 29, 2022

Cecilia O. Alm, associate professor of computational linguistics and language science, and Reynold Bailey, professor of computer science, with Franca Delmastro and Michele Girolami of the National Research Council of Italy, organized the third Workshop on Human-Centered Computational Sensing at the international IEEE PerCom 2022 conference, held virtually March 21-25.
March 29, 2022

Whitney Sperrazza, assistant professor of English and digital humanities, has been awarded a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship for her in-progress book project. Sperrazza’s research focuses on the intersections of literature and science in 16th- and 17th-century England. The NEH Fellowship funds a full year of research leave to complete her book.
March 18, 2022

Cecilia O. Alm, associate professor of computational linguistics and language science, presented the paper “Remote early research experiences for undergraduate students in computing,” authored with Reynold Bailey, professor of computer science, and Hannah Miller, Ph.D. student in computing and information sciences, at the SIGCSE Technical Symposium 2022 in Providence, R.I.
March 18, 2022

Amit Batabyal, the Arthur J. Gosnell Professor in Economics, participated in a webinar on the feasibility of a universal basic income for Rochester that was organized by the Interfaith Impact of New York State on March 13.
March 15, 2022

Jonathan Schroeder, the William A. Kern Professor of Communications, presented “Designed for Dancing: How Midcentury Records Taught America to Dance” at Modernism Week in Palm Springs, Calif., on Feb. 22. Modernism Week’s signature February event is an annual celebration of midcentury modern design, architecture, art, fashion, and culture.
March 4, 2022

Hinda Mandell, associate professor in the School of Communication, presented “Critical Crafting In and Beyond Humanities Classrooms: 19th-Century Material Culture and 21st-Century Open Pedagogy” during the “Crafting Communities” symposia, held Feb. 25 via Zoom and jointly organized by the University of Manitoba, University of Alberta, and University of Victoria.