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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January 2023

January 13, 2023

Juilee Decker, professor of history and museum studies program director, and Roger Easton Jr., professor in the Chester F. Carlson Center for Imaging Science, traveled to Princeton with third-year museum studies students Etta Arnold, James Falotico, Izzy Moyer, and Kyra Schultz to demo an RIT-developed, multispectral imaging system over the week of Dec. 12-16. Their visit was part of an international conference on “Palimpsest Studies and the Library of Saint Catherine’s Monastery in Egypt” for which Easton gave a talk on “Processing Methods to Recover Text from Multispectral Imagery.”
January 13, 2023

Michael Laver, professor of history, will be a visiting researcher in the Humanities Center at the University of Rochester in the spring semester of 2023. Laver plans to conduct research on his own scholarly work as well as research into the role of the humanities in a rapidly evolving higher education landscape.

December 2022

December 12, 2022

Michael Green, visiting assistant professor in the Department of Criminal Justice, was one of five speakers in a local community discussion on bail reform. “Bail Reform: What’s Right, What’s Wrong, What’s Next,” was held at the First Church of God in Rochester on Dec. 13.
December 9, 2022

Jeffrey Burnette, assistant professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, presented his paper “Patterns of Uncertainty, Inaccuracy, and Statistical Erasure: Where Does the American Community Survey-Education Tabulation (ACS-ED) Fail the Next Generation of Native American Scholars Most?” at the Center for Indian Country Development Research Summit. This work examines the reliability and accuracy of the ACS-ED when disaggregated by race at the school district level.
December 2, 2022

Jessica Hardin, assistant professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, has been awarded a $299,000 (AUD) Discovery Grant from the Australian Research Council as a co-investigator with colleagues from LaTrobe University. The project is titled “Pacific Healthcare: Transforming research, policy, and practice.” Focusing on crises of trust related to type 2 diabetes and COVID-19 interventions in the Pacific, this collaborative project aims to examine the social and cultural dynamics of medical (mis)trust in Vanuatu, Fiji, and Samoa.

November 2022

November 30, 2022

Nickesia Gordon, associate professor in the School of Communication; Jonathan Schroeder, the William A. Kern Professor of Communications; and Janet Borgerson, from DePaul University, recently had their research article “Folk and Fantasy: Colonial Imaginations of Caribbean Culture in Mid-Century Calypso Album Cover Art” published in the Howard Journal of Communications.
November 18, 2022

Nickesia Gordon, associate professor in the School of Communication, will receive the Marsha Houston Award at the National Communication Association’s (NCA) 108th Annual Convention in New Orleans, held from Nov. 17-20. The NCA honors the best in scholarly communication each year, presenting awards for outstanding scholarship, teaching, and professional service.
November 14, 2022

Amit Batabyal, the Arthur J. Gosnell Professor of Economics and the interim head of the Department of Sustainability, has been appointed an associate editor of the International Review of Environmental and Resource Economics.

October 2022

October 28, 2022

Andrew Herbert, professor of psychology; Archana Pandurangan, a psychology graduate student; and Cory Merkel, assistant professor of computer engineering, presented a poster on “Eye-tracking while learning Greebles” at the Optica Fall Vision Meeting. They reported progress on a project comparing how humans and convolutional neural networks learn new objects (funded in part by RIT’s ESL Global Cybersecurity Institute).
October 28, 2022

Arianna Giguere, an imaging science Ph.D. student, presented a poster on “Multimodal modeling of driving behavior in the presence of distraction” at the 2022 NSF Research Traineeship Annual Meeting at Virginia Tech. Cecilia Alm, professor of psychology and director of RIT’s AWARE-AI NSF Research Traineeship program, served as a panelist and also presented a poster about RIT’s AWARE-AI NRT program.