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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June 2021

  • June 2, 2021

    RIT’s Center for Engaged Storycraft received a program grant from the Cornelia T. Bailey Foundation New ERA Women Writers Program to launch a summer workshop for young women in 11th and 12th grades this July. “Gathering Stories: A Digital Storytelling Workshop for Young Women” features local Rochester instructors, guest storytellers, and RIT student facilitators, and will be free to 20 accepted participants from around the Rochester area.

  • June 2, 2021

    Laura Shackelford, professor of English and director of the Center for Engaged Storycraft, published Surreal Entanglements: Essays on Jeff VanderMeer’s Fiction in Routledge Press’s World Literature and Environment series. Co-edited with Louise Economides, this book explores the ecological, technological, aesthetic, epistemological, and political challenges of life in the Anthropocene era through the surreal, yet instructive lens of Jeff VanderMeer’s speculative fiction.

May 2021

  • May 26, 2021

    Rebecca DeRoo, associate professor in the School of Communication, co-edited the May 2021 thematic issue of the journal Camera Obscura. Titled “Future Varda,” the issue analyzes the feminist filmmaker's living legacy. DeRoo presented related research at the Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference in March.

  • May 14, 2021

    Silvia Benso, professor of philosophy and director of the women’s, gender, and sexuality studies program, was the co-organizer (with Professor Donatella Stocchi-Perucchio, University of Rochester) of a three-day international symposium April 16-18 on Dante’s Political Thought at the Crossroad of Arts and Sciences. The event, supported by a grant from the Central New York Humanities Corridor, featured panelists from Argentina, Canada, Germany, Italy, Peru, and the United States.

  • May 11, 2021

    Christine Kray, professor of anthropology, presented a paper on “War, Transmuted; Or, Lords of the Land and Landlords: Maya Leaders and Mahogany Companies at the Edge of Yucatán’s Social War, 1847-1872,” at the “Ethnohistory and Afrohistory at the Ends/Center of the World: Belize and Its Neighbors” symposium at Pennsylvania State University on April 2.

  • May 6, 2021

    Evan Selinger, a professor in the Department of Philosophy, launched a series of articles on Medium’s OneZero platform, titled Open Dialogue. The series highlights the intersection of technology and liberal arts through conversations with journalists, academics, industry professionals, and other experts. In one conversation with RIT alumnus Muhammad Aurangzeb Ahmad, they discuss AI’s potential to improve healthcare and the value of integrating the humanities into research and development.

  • May 5, 2021

    Rebecca Edwards, professor of history, was awarded the Society for American Baseball Research Award for her new book, Deaf Players in Major League Baseball: A History, 1833 to the Present. The national award honors those whose outstanding research projects completed during the preceding calendar year have significantly expanded our knowledge or understanding of baseball.

  • May 5, 2021

    Corinna Schlombs, associate professor of history, contributed to a book from MIT Press, Your Computer is on Fire. Schlombs’ essay investigates the history of the perks-for-unionization strategy in the tech industry. She was also recognized in a column for The Guardian, naming her as one of the most formidable female critics of the tech industry.