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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December 2019

December 17, 2019

The College of Liberal Arts/National Technical Institute for the Deaf production of I and You, directed by Assistant Professor Andy Head, has been invited to give three performances at the Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival for Region 2 on Jan. 14-18 at the University of Maryland at College Park. The production is one of only eight to receive the invitation.
December 9, 2019

Evelyn Brister, associate professor of philosophy, co-authored a piece about “Taking Philosophy in the Field” in the 3 Quarks Daily blog on Dec. 9.

November 2019

November 22, 2019

Sean Grass, professor of English, was featured in a video made by The Dickens Society in which he talks about his recent book and published article about the commercialization of autobiographies in the mid-19th century.
November 18, 2019

Kaitlin Stack Whitney, assistant professor in the Department of Science, Technology and Society, has been chosen to be one of 15 people nationally to serve on the Community Engagement Technical Working Group for the National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON). NEON is the largest ecology project ever funded by the National Science Foundation.

October 2019

October 10, 2019

Sean Grass, professor of English, has published The Commodification of Identity in Victorian Narrative: Autobiography, Sensation, and the Literary Marketplace, with Cambridge University Press. It examines the period during which “identity” became a textual thing during the first half of the 19th century.

September 2019

September 16, 2019

John Edlund, associate professor of psychology, received a presidential citation from the Psi Chi board of directors for his work with the international honor society in psychology. His work leading the Research Advisor Committee has led to numerous resources being developed to benefit students.
September 10, 2019

Rebecca Scales, associate professor of history, received a National Endowment for the Humanities grant to serve as one of three co-directors for a two-week summer seminar (2020) for college and university faculty on the theme: “Radio and Decolonization: Bringing Sound into Twentieth-Century History.” The seminar will be held at the University of Denver.

November 2018

November 1, 2018

Caroline Snyder, emeritus professor and former chair of the Department of Science, Technology and Society, was honored with the 2018 Distinguished Service Award at the Sierra Club Award Ceremony in Denver, Colo., last fall. She shares the award with David Lewis, research director for the Focus for Health Foundation. They were both granted this award for their research on the long-term harm caused by biosolids as fertilizer for food and forage.