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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May 2021

May 6, 2021

Evan Selinger, a professor in the Department of Philosophy, launched a series of articles on Medium’s OneZero platform, titled Open Dialogue. The series highlights the intersection of technology and liberal arts through conversations with journalists, academics, industry professionals, and other experts. In one conversation with RIT alumnus Muhammad Aurangzeb Ahmad, they discuss AI’s potential to improve healthcare and the value of integrating the humanities into research and development.
May 6, 2021

Kaitlin Stack Whitney, assistant professor in the Department of Science, Technology, and Society, presented on “The Future of Science is Accessible - or, what citizen science can learn from feminist disability studies” as part of the American Philosophical Society’s “Promises and Pitfalls of Citizen Science” symposium, held April 5-9.
May 5, 2021

Rebecca Edwards, professor of history, was awarded the Society for American Baseball Research Award for her new book, Deaf Players in Major League Baseball: A History, 1833 to the Present. The national award honors those whose outstanding research projects completed during the preceding calendar year have significantly expanded our knowledge or understanding of baseball.
May 5, 2021

Corinna Schlombs, associate professor of history, contributed to a book from MIT Press, Your Computer is on Fire. Schlombs’ essay investigates the history of the perks-for-unionization strategy in the tech industry. She was also recognized in a column for The Guardian, naming her as one of the most formidable female critics of the tech industry.

April 2021

April 26, 2021

Jonathan Schroeder, William A. Kern Professor of Communications, presented “Album Covers as Midcentury Media” via Zoom at the American Society for Aesthetics – Eastern Division Meeting on April 15.
April 22, 2021

Jessica Hardin, assistant professor of anthropology, co-authored a classroom-based ethnography titled Fat in Four Cultures: A Global Ethnography of Weight, published in the “Teaching Culture” series with the University of Toronto Press.
April 19, 2021

Kaitlin Stack Whitney, assistant professor in the science, technology and society department, was selected by the Social Sciences Research Council to take part in a national faculty workshop, “Teaching Disinformation Studies in Higher Education,” on March 19, hosted by the SSRC’s MediaWell initiative, the Harvard University Shorenstein Center, and the University of Washington Center for an Informed Public. Stack Whitney was also selected to participate in the academic workshop “Trust and Doubt in Public Sector Data Infrastructure” on March 25, hosted by Data And Society, an independent research organization.
April 19, 2021

Daniel Worden, associate professor in the School of Individualized Study and Department of English, was a panelist in the “Pandemic Comics and COVID-19” webinar hosted by the Modern Literature and Culture Research Centre & Gallery at Ryerson University in Toronto on March 25.
April 9, 2021

Claudia Bucciferro, assistant professor in the School of Communication, published “Representations of Gender and Race in Ryan Coogler’s Film Black Panther: Disrupting Hollywood Tropes” in the journal Critical Studies in Media Communication.

March 2021

March 30, 2021

Joseph Fornieri, professor of political science and director of the Center of Statesmanship, Law and Liberty, published his seventh book, Free Speech: Core Court Cases. The book, which focuses on the First Amendment, is the fruit of 20 years of teaching Free Speech at RIT. Fornieri hopes to create a First Amendment culture on campus and at the secondary level.