Newsmakers

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Newsmakers

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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July 2021

  • July 22, 2021

    Thomas Warfield, RIT’s director of dance, was a vocalist at the July 10 Henrietta Pride event at Henrietta Town Hall.

  • July 9, 2021

    Tom Dooley, lecturer in the School of Communication, was nominated for three New York Emmy awards for work broadcast by WXXI: producer for NOW THIS: Nicholas H. Ruth, producer for Arts InFocus: Move To Include Special, and associate producer for Journeys Through The Finger Lakes. He currently has two New York Emmy awards.

  • July 9, 2021

    Joseph Fornieri, professor of political science and director of RIT’s Center for Statesmanship, Law, and Liberty, authored a pop quiz on the Pentagon Papers to commemorate the 50-year anniversary of their release, titled “Rediscovering America: A Quiz on the Pentagon Papers.” The quiz was published in more than 50 newspapers across the country, including the Las Vegas Sun, Arizona Daily Sun, and the Napa Valley Register. You can take the quiz yourself on the Inside Sources website.

June 2021

  • June 24, 2021

    Amit Batabyal, the Arthur J. Gosnell Professor of Economics, has been named a 2021 RSAI (Regional Science Association International) Fellow. The fellowship is an international honor awarded to distinguished scholars with a proven research record in the interdisciplinary field of regional science, which analyzes economic, political, and social change in sub-national geographic entities such as states and counties. Less than 5 percent of the RSAI membership holds this title at any one point in time.

  • June 22, 2021

    Jessica Hardin, assistant professor of anthropology, was awarded two grants. The Wenner Gren grant ($19,700) supports a collaborative and virtual methodology for conducting safe COVID-19 fieldwork about diabetes complications experiences in Samoa. Hardin is a Co-PI on the second grant from the Templeton Foundation ($233,000) titled “Encountering the Divine: Developing a Framework of Religious Intelligence” to support a comparative project based in the United States, Samoa, Thailand, and Ecuador.

  • June 15, 2021

    Kaitlin Stack Whitney, assistant professor in the Department of Science, Technology and Society, presented at the SUNY Rockefeller Institute of Government “Local Government Lab” symposium on June 9.

  • June 4, 2021

    Hinda Mandell, associate professor in the School of Communication, published “‘Monstrous’ Craft Activism: A City Yarn Installation that Wrought Controversy through Textile Togetherness and Community Engagement” in the journal Craft Research. The article focuses on a public-art event in Rochester’s Schiller Park.

  • June 2, 2021

    RIT’s Center for Engaged Storycraft received a program grant from the Cornelia T. Bailey Foundation New ERA Women Writers Program to launch a summer workshop for young women in 11th and 12th grades this July. “Gathering Stories: A Digital Storytelling Workshop for Young Women” features local Rochester instructors, guest storytellers, and RIT student facilitators, and will be free to 20 accepted participants from around the Rochester area.

  • June 2, 2021

    Laura Shackelford, professor of English and director of the Center for Engaged Storycraft, published Surreal Entanglements: Essays on Jeff VanderMeer’s Fiction in Routledge Press’s World Literature and Environment series. Co-edited with Louise Economides, this book explores the ecological, technological, aesthetic, epistemological, and political challenges of life in the Anthropocene era through the surreal, yet instructive lens of Jeff VanderMeer’s speculative fiction.