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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February 2023

February 27, 2023

Kristoffer Whitney, associate professor in the Department of Science, Technology, and Society, has received grant funding from the National Institutes of Health to complete a book on his biomedical horseshoe crab research. Whitney has previously received grants from the National Science Foundation and Leverhulme Trust to fund this research.
February 16, 2023

Katrina Overby, assistant professor in the School of Communication, will deliver the opening talk for Le Moyne College's celebration of Women's History Month on March 2 in Syracuse, N.Y. Overby will present “On Black Women and Representation: Looking and Talking Back through Digital Discourses and Media Images.”
February 2, 2023

Amit Batabyal, the Arthur J. Gosnell Professor of Economics, had the paper “Using Taxes to Attract the Creative Class in the Presence of a Region-Specific Rent” accepted for publication in the Review of Regional Studies and a second paper titled “On Mask Wearing in Environments With and Without a Mask Mandate” accepted for publication in Economics Bulletin.
February 2, 2023

Jeffrey Burnette, assistant professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, co-authored a memo, “How Much Did Native American Life Expectancy Drop During COVID-19?” published in ECONOFACT, a non-partisan publication designed to bring key facts and incisive analysis to the national debate on economic and social policies.

January 2023

January 23, 2023

Claudia Bucciferro, assistant professor in the School of Communication, published the article “The teenage Latina genius on television: Netflix’s Ashley Garcia” in the journal Women's Studies in Communication. The article is co-written with Diana Leon-Boys, assistant professor at the University of South Florida.
January 23, 2023

Tamar Carroll, associate professor and chair of the Department of History, published a chapter, “Reproductive Justice and Visual Activism,” in The Routledge Companion to Art and Activism in the Twenty-First Century, edited by Lesley Shilpley and Mey-Yen Moriuchi.
January 23, 2023

Hinda Mandell, professor in the School of Communication, gave an invited artist talk via Zoom with the College Book Art Association on Dec. 10, 2022. “From Parking Lot to the Pretty Page: Transforming Activism IRL” was based on her artist book The Yarn Must Live: A Polemic on a Pandemic and Public Art, published by Visual Studies Workshop through an artist residency. The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts acquired the book in June 2021.
January 20, 2023

Jeffrey D. Burnette, assistant professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, co-authored “An Exploratory Analysis of Elementary and Secondary Education Funding Levels for American Indians and Alaska Natives from 1980 to 2017,” published in the Journal of Education Finance.
January 20, 2023

John E. Edlund, professor of psychology, was selected as a fellow in the Association for Psychological Science.
January 13, 2023

Sorim Chung, assistant professor of marketing, is the first author of “Digital Claustrophobia: Affective Responses to Digital Design Decisions,” published in the peer-reviewed journal Computers in Human Behavior Reports. The research is the first to introduce the concept of “digital claustrophobia” in the context of e-commerce. The findings from three experimental studies show that elevated claustrophobic tendencies amplify emotional discomfort and negatively moderate spatial constraint effects on website evaluations and anticipated product satisfaction.