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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October 2022

  • October 25, 2022

    Jessica Hardin, assistant professor of anthropology, was awarded the Rudolf Virchow Award for her paper “Life Before Vegetables: Nutrition, Cash, and Subjunctive Health in Samoa,” which was published in Cultural Anthropology. The award goes to articles that demonstrate “critical anthropology focus with rich ethnographic data, and best reflect, extend, and/or advance critical perspectives in medical anthropological questions in the general area of global public health.”

  • October 24, 2022

    Hinda Mandell, professor in the School of Communication, was an invited workshop leader as part of the Rochester Harriet Tubman Bicentennial. She led a “Peace Patch” event on Oct. 8 at the Rochester Museum and Science Center, with Geraldine Howard, the great-great-great-grandniece of Harriet Tubman, in attendance.

  • October 21, 2022

    Rebecca DeRoo, associate professor in the School of Communication, received an American Philosophical Society Grant for researching the art and activism of Mary Kelly at the Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles.

  • October 17, 2022

    Nickesia Gordon, associate professor in the School of Communication, was awarded this year’s Marsha Houston Award for teaching, research, and service by the National Communication Association. Gordon will be recognized during NCA’s 108th Annual Convention on Nov. 19 in New Orleans. As her letter of congratulations notes, Gordon joins “a venerable group of scholars and educators who have been honored for achieving excellence in research, teaching, and service.”

  • October 14, 2022

    Jonathan Schroeder, the William A. Kern Professor of Communications, published “Stock Investing in the Digital Age,” in the book The Routledge Companion to Digital Consumption, Second Edition. The chapter provides an overview of the transformation of the market for individual investments over the past 25 years, drawing upon interviews, media discourse, and social theory.

September 2022

  • September 30, 2022

    Conerly Casey, associate professor of anthropology, is an in-residence fellow with the Friedrich-Alexander University, Center for Advanced Studies, in Erlangen, Germany, through Aug. 15, 2023.

  • September 20, 2022

    Lisa Hermsen, professor of English, and Rebekah Walker, digital humanities and social sciences librarian, presented two conference papers in September in England: the Digital Humanities Congress at Sheffield and the Text and Encoding Initiative Consortium at Newcastle. Both presentations focused on Hermsen and Walker’s preparation of a digital edition of a rare 19th century manuscript from the printers and bookbinders firm William Townsend and Sons. The Cary Collection at RIT Library holds a five-volume collection from this firm in its Middleton Collection on the history of bookbinding. Hermsen and Walker are working with a team of RIT students on a text encoded digital edition of the volume that will be machine readable and openly accessible to scholars.

  • September 16, 2022

    Corinna Schlombs, associate professor in history, received a National Science Foundation Scholars Award for her research project on data entry, labor identity, and inequality. She examines computer automation with an eye toward providing historical lessons for contemporary developments in artificial intelligence and robotics technologies, which are expected to uproot the balance between human and machine labor. She also currently serves as a Virtual Fellow at the Linda Hall Library in Kansas City, Mo., for the same project.

  • September 16, 2022

    Diane Forbes, associate professor of Spanish in the Department of Modern Languages and Cultures, is the author of two new books on the poetry of 20th century Mexican writer Manuel Maples Arce: The Seeds of Time: Poetry of Manuel Maples Arce 1919-1980 (Stockcero, June 2022), her English translation of Maples Arce’s complete poetry (bilingual edition), and Maneuvering Time and Place: the Poetry of Manuel Maples Arce (Stockcero, June 2022), her analysis of that complete poetry. Forbes is an expert on Maples Arce’s poetry, one of only a few scholars writing on this topic in the United States.