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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March 2022

  • 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 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.

  • March 1, 2022

    Katrina Overby, assistant professor in the School of Communication, was an invited panelist for the film series Representation in Media to discuss the film Harder They Fall. The event was hosted by the Our Voices Project, whose mission is sharing experiences of Black, Indigenous, and People of Color through visual storytelling.

  • March 1, 2022

    Rebecca Houston, associate professor in the Department of Psychology, recently presented on the “Electrophysiology of Human Aggression” as part of a workshop on the Neurobiology and Toxicology of Aggression at the 2022 American Academy of Forensic Sciences meeting in Seattle.

  • March 1, 2022

    Amit Batabyal, the Arthur J. Gosnell Professor of Economics, presented two papers about urban crime and competition for venture capital at the annual meeting of the Western Regional Science Association Feb. 19-20 in Scottsdale, Ariz.

February 2022

  • February 22, 2022

    Hinda Mandell, associate professor in the School of Communication, was an invited panelist for the Feb. 10 Zoom event, “The Douglass Women: Another Look at Anna Murray and Rosetta,” which was organized by 540 West Main.