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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October 2020

October 13, 2020

Sean Grass, professor and interim chair in the Department of English, has been named president of the Dickens Society for a three-year term, which began Sept. 1.
October 1, 2020

Kristoffer Whitney, assistant professor in the Department of Science, Technology and Society, published an article titled “Valuing Shorebirds: Bureaucracy, Natural History, and Expertise in North American Conservation” in the Journal of the History of Biology.

September 2020

September 23, 2020

Rochester-based chamber music ensemble fivebyfive was awarded one of 16 grants distributed nationwide by the Chamber Music America Classical Commissioning Program. Ensemble members are Laura Lentz, applied flute faculty, (flute); Sungmin Shin, applied guitar faculty, (electric guitar); Marcy Bacon (clarinet); Eric J. Polenik (bass); and Haeyeun Jeun (piano).
September 3, 2020

Kristoffer Whitney, assistant professor in the Department of Science, Technology and Society, published a chapter on the early design history of NTID in the Bloomsbury Press anthology Making Disability Modern: Design Histories.

August 2020

August 25, 2020

Eun Sook Kwon, an assistant professor of advertising in the School of Communication, had an article, “Impact of Media Context on Advertising Memory: A Meta-Analysis of Advertising Effectiveness,” voted Best Academic Paper of 2019 by the Journal of Advertising Research’s editorial board.
August 25, 2020

Nickesia Gordon, associate professor in the School of Communication, received the top paper award from the African American Communication and Culture Division of the National Communication Association in the division for her paper, “Discourses of Consumption: Representation of the Black Female Body as Food in Hip-Hop and R&B Songs Over the Past Twenty Years.”
August 18, 2020

The Journal of Creative Writing Studies special issue, “Creative Making as Creative Writing,” was a finalist for the Electronic Literature Organization’s 2020 N. Katherine Hayles Award for Criticism of Electronic Literature. Launched in 2016 and published out of the RIT Publishing Studio, it is a peer-reviewed, open-access journal that examines the teaching, practice, theory, and history of creative writing. Its editor-in-chief is Trent Hergenrader, associate professor in the Department of English.
August 11, 2020

Stephanie Godleski, assistant professor of psychology, and Ammina Kothari, associate professor in the School of Communication, presented their research on adolescents’ and young adults’ use of social media for mental health support during the COVID-19 pandemic at the Social BRIDGES e-conference on society, psychology, and behavior during and post COVID-19 lockdown. The conference is organized by the Institute of Psychology at the Bundeswehr University Munich.
August 11, 2020

Ammina Kothari, associate professor of communication, has been selected by the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication as one of the Institute for Diverse Leadership fellows. The goal of this program is to provide a year-long administrative training for people of color and women.
August 11, 2020

Preethi Vaidyanathan ’10 MS (electrical engineering), ’18 Ph.D. (imaging science), a research scientist at EyeGaze Inc., published the article “Computational framework for fusing eye movements and spoken narratives for image annotation” in the Journal of Vision with co-authors Cissi Ovesdotter Alm, associate professor in the Department of English; Jeff Pelz, Endowed Professorship in the Chester F. Carlson Center for Imaging Science; and Emily Prud'hommeaux, assistant professor at Boston College.