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 2024

November 4, 2024

Juilee Decker, professor in the Department of History, and Roger Easton Jr., professor in the College of Science, co-chaired the “Imaging Science for Cultural Heritage” session at the Great Scientific Exchange on Oct. 24 in Raleigh, N.C. They presented on democratizing access to collections through multispectral imaging and were joined by co-author David Messinger, professor in the College of Science.
November 4, 2024

Shay Ryan Olmstead, lecturer in the Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies program, presented “Deconstructing ‘The [Cis] State’: New Potentials for Queer and Trans Legal Histories” at the American Society for Legal History 2024 Annual Meeting on Oct. 25. Their panel, “Mobilizing Law for LGBTQ+ Justice in the 1960s and 1970s,” featured discussions with legal scholars and practitioners on new directions in queer legal history.
November 4, 2024

Jonathan Schroeder, William A. Kern Professor of Communications, delivered his talk “On Midcentury Vinyl and Cultural History” at the History Center of Lake Forest/Lake Bluff on Oct. 24 in Lake Forest, Ill. The event, in conjunction with the exhibit “Modern in the Midcentury,” was supported by a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services.

October 2024

October 30, 2024

Kaitlin Stack Whitney, assistant professor in the Department of Science, Technology, and Society, published an article on human and nonhuman fecal microbiota transplants in Catalyst: Feminism, Theory, Technoscience. The article is part of a special issue on “Frictions of Futurity in Transplant Medicine" and features illustrations by RIT alumni Liliana Ramos ’24 and Mary Nyugen ’23.
October 30, 2024

Nickesia Gordon, associate professor in the School of Communication, was awarded the Patricia Sotirin Women & Language Award for her article, “Woman’s Tongue: The Poetics, Politics, and Production of Feminist Rhetorical Practices in Reggae Music," by the Organization for the Study of Communication, Language & Gender. Named for the former editor of the journal Women & Language, the award recognizes the most highly regarded article in the journal for the year, as voted on by the editorial board. The organization stated that Gordon’s article is a “theoretically significant piece for feminist scholarship.”
October 28, 2024

Elizabeth Carr ’19 (museum studies, digital humanities and social sciences) will present “A Great Sense of Pride: Reflections on the Monroe County Birth Control League,” at 2 p.m. Nov. 2, at the Rochester Public Library, Kate Gleason Auditorium, 115 South Ave. Carr’s research is featured in the fall issue of Rochester History Vol. 82, No. 1, published by RIT Press. Her talk will be livestreamed.
October 21, 2024

Katrina Overby, assistant professor in the School of Communication, published “Back to Our Roots: Reclaiming Black Community Care in a Digital World” in Hope+Wellth. The magazine focuses on holistic health and wellness, and uplifting and empowering BIPOC women.
October 10, 2024

Jessica Hardin, associate professor in the Department of Anthropology, and five liberal arts students, Anna Carter, Lee Smith, Pema Lama, Anna Pasquantonio, and Makenna Hakim, published their research in Anthropology & Education Quarterly. The article, titled "Perpetuating Ableism in Engineering Education: The Role of User Abstraction and Expertise Hierarchies in the Design Process," is based on ethnographic research supported by the College of Liberal Arts and AdvanceRIT.

September 2024

September 19, 2024

Joseph Henning, associate professor of history, and alumnus Leo Makalsky co-authored “To Adopt the Principles of Freedom: Christianity, Women’s Education, and Progress in U.S. Press Coverage of the Iwakura Mission,” a paper on U.S. press coverage of the 1872 Iwakura Mission, published in the Journal of American-East Asian Relations.
September 6, 2024

Jonathan Schroeder, the William A. Kern Professor of Communications, co-led a public design tour of Rochester’s George Eastman Museum exhibit, "Crashing into the 60s: Film Posters from the Collection," on Aug. 29.