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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March 2021

March 18, 2021

Sarah Burns, associate professor of political science, has received an Institute for Humane Studies (IHS) Sabbatical Research Fellowship to complete her book manuscript on the value of developing economic institutions as a non-violent method of foreign intervention. Burns’ book will address American foreign policy attempts to impose democracy on countries with the goal of making those countries free and the world less violent. The project will offer objective reasons why these efforts are a product of the misguided decision to apply Democratic Peace Theory to American foreign policy.

February 2021

February 23, 2021

Silvia Benso, professor of philosophy, published Open Borders: Encounters between Italian Philosophy and Continental Thought (SUNY Press). The co-edited volume, based on the idea that borders are not barriers but thresholds of communication, features the thought of late 20th-century Italian thinkers as they redefine traditional philosophical concepts in conversation with important philosophers in the Continental tradition.
February 8, 2021

Richard Newman, professor of history, served as a historical consultant and guest commentator for a PBS documentary on The Black Church, airing locally and nationally at 9 p.m. Feb. 16 and 17.
February 8, 2021

Jonathan Schroeder, William A. Kern Professor in the School of Communication, published an article, “Reinscribing Gender: Social Media, Algorithms, Bias,” in the Journal of Marketing Management.

January 2021

January 27, 2021

Christopher Schreck, department chair of criminal justice in the College of Liberal Arts, received the Bruce Smith Sr. Award from the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences. It is ACJS’s foremost accolade for scholarly excellence.
January 19, 2021

Cissi Ovesdotter Alm, associate professor in the Department of English, and Reynold Bailey, professor in the Department of Computer Science, published the article “Transitioning from Teaching to Mentoring: Supporting Students to Adopt Mentee Roles” in the Journal for STEM Education Research.

December 2020

December 9, 2020

Kaitlin Stack Whitney and Kristoffer Whitney, both assistant professors in the Department of Science, Technology and Society, co-authored an article titled “Inaccessible media during the COVID-19 crisis intersects with the language deprivation crisis for young deaf children in the US” for a special issue on “The Clarity of Crisis” for the Journal of Children and Media.
December 1, 2020

Rebecca DeRoo, associate professor in the School of Communication, presented “Multimedia Urban Politics in Agnes Varda’s Daguerreotypes” in November at the University of Edinburgh, UK. In September, she discussed the film for Edinburgh’s Cinetopia Documentary Film Festival.
December 1, 2020

Kristoffer Whitney, assistant professor in the Department of Science, Technology and Society, has published an article, with Sabrina McCormick of George Washington University, titled “Comparing West Nile Virus and COVID-19” in the journal Sociology of Health & Illness, as part of a collection of free access COVID-19 related content.

November 2020

November 17, 2020

Michael Brown, assistant professor of history, had his book Hope and Scorn: Eggheads, Experts and Elites in American Politics published by the University of Chicago Press.