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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November 2023

November 21, 2023

The Center for Engaged Storycraft will hold a workshop on “Engaging Art to Tell a Story” for high school women on Dec. 9 in collaboration with the Memorial Art Gallery. The workshop will be led by Laura Shackelford, professor, Department of English; Karen “Ren” VanMeenen, principal lecturer, Department of English; Emily Offermann, illustration student; and MacKenzie Vanacore ’22 (English), with support from local storyteller and multimedia producer Rashida Burch-Washington and Adam Koneman, a MAG museum educator.
November 3, 2023

Irshad Altheimer, director of the Center for Public Safety Initiatives, presented “Assessing Gaps in Services for Violence Victims and How We Can Fix Them” during a panel discussion in October at the URMC Public Health Grand Rounds.

October 2023

October 24, 2023

Nickesia Gordon, associate professor in the School of Communication, recently published “The unrealised potential of women’s political leadership in the Caribbean: A co-constitutive approach” in the journal Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power. The Hon. Percival James Patterson, former prime minister of Jamaica, called the article a “well informed and penetrative analysis for essential political dialogue and action.”
October 24, 2023

Irshad Altheimer, professor of criminal justice and director of the Center for Public Safety Initiatives, was the keynote speaker for the Ibero American Action League’s 2023 State of the LatinX Community Virtual Luncheon on Oct. 16. Altheimer presented on “Nuestro Barrio, Rochester’s Future: A focus on the current public safety issues facing the El Camino Neighborhood.”
October 17, 2023

Several members of RIT’s Center for Public Safety Initiatives and the Monroe Crime Analysis Center presented at the New York State Division of Criminal Justice Services’ Public Safety Symposium on Sept. 26 in Albany, N.Y. Jennifer McColl and Brandon Zicari, both crime analysts, presented “Car Theft Groups in Rochester”; Karlee Crist, a crime analyst, and Melissa Frasca, an investigator with the Rochester Police Department, presented “Partners in Crime: Building Relationships between Crime Analysts and Law Enforcement”; and Kylene McGrath, an analyst working on the Gun Involved Violence Elimination grant, and Lt. Kara Anglin, with the Rochester Police Department, presented “Intel Drives the Ops: The Role of a Crime Analyst in Pro-Active Policing.”
October 17, 2023

Rebecca DeRoo, professor and director of the visual culture program, presented “Illuminating Public and Domestic Labor: Mary Kelly’s 1970s Feminist Art Activism” at the Feminist Art History Conference, held in late September at American University in Washington, D.C.
October 17, 2023

Tamar Carroll, chair of the Department of History, and Christine Keiner, chair of the Department of Science, Technology, and Society, participated in the Fall 2023 Corridor Writing Retreat at the Minnowbrook Conference Center in Blue Mountain Lake, N.Y., as part of a select group of scholars who teach at universities within the Central New York Humanities Corridor.
October 17, 2023

Evan Selinger, professor in the Department of Philosophy, presented “How the Law Normalizes Surveillance” on Sept. 29 for the 35th Warren Steinkraus Lecture on Human Ideals, an ongoing series offered by SUNY Oswego.
October 10, 2023

Bruce A. Austin, professor in the School of Communication, presented “Marrying Commerce to Education at Gustav Stickley’s 1903 Exhibitions” at Historic Deerfield’s fall forum, The Arts and Crafts Movement in America’s Northeast, held Sept. 30 in Deerfield, Mass. The presentation was based on research conducted for the book A Symbiotic Partnership.
October 4, 2023

Silvia Benso, professor in the Department of Philosophy and director of the Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program, was elected to be the international member-at-large on the executive committee of the Canadian Society for Continental Philosophy for a three-year term. The CSCP is a professional organization dedicated to the pursuit and exchange of philosophical ideas inspired by Continental European traditions.