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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January 2023

January 23, 2023

Tamar Carroll, associate professor and chair of the Department of History, published a chapter, “Reproductive Justice and Visual Activism,” in The Routledge Companion to Art and Activism in the Twenty-First Century, edited by Lesley Shilpley and Mey-Yen Moriuchi.
January 23, 2023

Hinda Mandell, professor in the School of Communication, gave an invited artist talk via Zoom with the College Book Art Association on Dec. 10, 2022. “From Parking Lot to the Pretty Page: Transforming Activism IRL” was based on her artist book The Yarn Must Live: A Polemic on a Pandemic and Public Art, published by Visual Studies Workshop through an artist residency. The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts acquired the book in June 2021.
January 20, 2023

Jeffrey D. Burnette, assistant professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, co-authored “An Exploratory Analysis of Elementary and Secondary Education Funding Levels for American Indians and Alaska Natives from 1980 to 2017,” published in the Journal of Education Finance.
January 20, 2023

John E. Edlund, professor of psychology, was selected as a fellow in the Association for Psychological Science.
January 13, 2023

Sorim Chung, assistant professor of marketing, is the first author of “Digital Claustrophobia: Affective Responses to Digital Design Decisions,” published in the peer-reviewed journal Computers in Human Behavior Reports. The research is the first to introduce the concept of “digital claustrophobia” in the context of e-commerce. The findings from three experimental studies show that elevated claustrophobic tendencies amplify emotional discomfort and negatively moderate spatial constraint effects on website evaluations and anticipated product satisfaction.
January 13, 2023

Juilee Decker, professor of history and museum studies program director, and Roger Easton Jr., professor in the Chester F. Carlson Center for Imaging Science, traveled to Princeton with third-year museum studies students Etta Arnold, James Falotico, Izzy Moyer, and Kyra Schultz to demo an RIT-developed, multispectral imaging system over the week of Dec. 12-16. Their visit was part of an international conference on “Palimpsest Studies and the Library of Saint Catherine’s Monastery in Egypt” for which Easton gave a talk on “Processing Methods to Recover Text from Multispectral Imagery.”
January 13, 2023

Michael Laver, professor of history, will be a visiting researcher in the Humanities Center at the University of Rochester in the spring semester of 2023. Laver plans to conduct research on his own scholarly work as well as research into the role of the humanities in a rapidly evolving higher education landscape.

December 2022

December 12, 2022

Michael Green, visiting assistant professor in the Department of Criminal Justice, was one of five speakers in a local community discussion on bail reform. “Bail Reform: What’s Right, What’s Wrong, What’s Next,” was held at the First Church of God in Rochester on Dec. 13.
December 9, 2022

Jeffrey Burnette, assistant professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, presented his paper “Patterns of Uncertainty, Inaccuracy, and Statistical Erasure: Where Does the American Community Survey-Education Tabulation (ACS-ED) Fail the Next Generation of Native American Scholars Most?” at the Center for Indian Country Development Research Summit. This work examines the reliability and accuracy of the ACS-ED when disaggregated by race at the school district level.
December 2, 2022

Jessica Hardin, assistant professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, has been awarded a $299,000 (AUD) Discovery Grant from the Australian Research Council as a co-investigator with colleagues from LaTrobe University. The project is titled “Pacific Healthcare: Transforming research, policy, and practice.” Focusing on crises of trust related to type 2 diabetes and COVID-19 interventions in the Pacific, this collaborative project aims to examine the social and cultural dynamics of medical (mis)trust in Vanuatu, Fiji, and Samoa.