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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August 2022

August 19, 2022

Silvia Benso, professor of philosophy and director of the women’s, gender, and sexuality studies program, published Rethinking Life: Italian Philosophy in Precarious Times (SUNY Press). The volume gathers 14 contributions written by Italian philosophers within the context of the precariousness and vulnerability revealed by the COVID-19 pandemic. Beyond the geographical, socio-political, and medical contexts in which the reflections originate, Rethinking Life proposes a different configuration of life and collective living centered on relational subjectivities, interconnectedness, interdependence, and solidarity.
August 19, 2022

Amit Batabyal, the Arthur J. Gosnell Professor of Economics, presented a paper about the strategic competition between vaccine producing firms and a paper about the impact of climate change on pollution in the Ganges river in Kanpur, India, during the virtual annual conference of the Pacific Regional Science Conference Organization (PRSCO), Aug. 1-2.
August 4, 2022

Cecilia O. Alm, professor in the Department of Psychology, was tutorial co-chair with Miguel Ballesteros from Amazon, and Yulia Tsvetkov from the University of Washington, for the 2022 Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics in Seattle.
August 4, 2022

Rebecca Houston, associate professor of psychology, was an invited speaker as part of the Pain Relief Innovations Lab Guest Speaker series at Stanford University School of Medicine on July 14. Houston’s talk was on “Event-related Potentials as Biomarkers in Substance Use Disorders and Treatment.”

July 2022

July 28, 2022

Tamar Carroll, chair of the Department of History, spoke on a panel titled “New York Women Then & Now” in Seneca Falls, N.Y., on July 20. The panel was held in commemoration of the 174th anniversary of the Seneca Falls Convention, the United States’ first women’s rights convention and the birthplace of the American women’s suffrage movement. A recording of the panel is available on the NYS Inspector General YouTube page.
July 28, 2022

Sean Grass, chair of the Department of English, was featured on the Life and Language podcast to discuss why the work of Charles Dickens is enduringly popular and relevant to modern life and culture. The podcast is available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and other streaming platforms.
July 21, 2022

Hinda Mandell, associate professor in the School of Communication, was an invited speaker for Convention Days on July 16 at the Women’s Rights National Historic Park in Seneca Falls, N.Y. The title of her event was “Crafting Dissent, Crocheting Activism: Interactive Talk and Craft Workshop.”
July 21, 2022

Stephanie Godleski, associate professor of psychology, organized the eighth Research Conference on Relational Aggression, hosted by the College of Liberal Arts and the Department of Psychology on July 15.
July 21, 2022

Juilee Decker, professor; Tamar Carroll, department chair; and Rebecca Edwards, professor, all in the Department of History, along with students and alumni from the museum studies program, attended the training program “Let’s Talk About Race,” led by Cheyney McKnight of Not Your Momma’s History, on June 16. This opportunity was made possible through the partnership between RIT and Genesee Country Village & Museum.
July 8, 2022

Silvia Benso and Brian Schroeder, professors in the Department of Philosophy, hosted the fifth annual international conference of the Society for Italian Philosophy (SIP) June 9-11. The conference, held virtually, opened with remarks from Vincenzo Scollo, the Italian Honorary Consul in Rochester, and was made possible in part through funding from James Myers, associate provost for international education and global studies. Featured keynote speakers were internationally renowned Italian philosophers Adriana Cavarero and Roberto Esposito.