Newsmakers

April 22, 2021

Jessica Hardin, assistant professor of anthropology, co-authored a classroom-based ethnography titled Fat in Four Cultures: A Global Ethnography of Weight, published in the “Teaching Culture” series with the University of Toronto Press.

April 19, 2021

Kaitlin Stack Whitney, assistant professor in the science, technology and society department, was selected by the Social Sciences Research Council to take part in a national faculty workshop, “Teaching Disinformation Studies in Higher Education,” on March 19, hosted by the SSRC’s MediaWell initiative, the Harvard University Shorenstein Center, and the University of Washington Center for an Informed Public. Stack Whitney was also selected to participate in the academic workshop “Trust and Doubt in Public Sector Data Infrastructure” on March 25, hosted by Data And Society, an independent research organization.

April 19, 2021

Daniel Worden, associate professor in the School of Individualized Study and Department of English, was a panelist in the “Pandemic Comics and COVID-19” webinar hosted by the Modern Literature and Culture Research Centre & Gallery at Ryerson University in Toronto on March 25.

April 9, 2021

Claudia Bucciferro, assistant professor in the School of Communication, published “Representations of Gender and Race in Ryan Coogler’s Film Black Panther: Disrupting Hollywood Tropes” in the journal Critical Studies in Media Communication.

March 30, 2021

Joseph Fornieri, professor of political science and director of the Center of Statesmanship, Law and Liberty, published his seventh book, Free Speech: Core Court Cases. The book, which focuses on the First Amendment, is the fruit of 20 years of teaching Free Speech at RIT. Fornieri hopes to create a First Amendment culture on campus and at the secondary level.

March 18, 2021

Joseph Henning, associate professor of history, published Interpreting the Mikado’s Empire: The Writings of William Elliot Griffis (Lexington Books). It brings together for the first time the best work of Griffis, who was unequaled in his career as an American authority on 19th- and early 20th-century Japan.

March 18, 2021

Sarah Burns, associate professor of political science, has received an Institute for Humane Studies (IHS) Sabbatical Research Fellowship to complete her book manuscript on the value of developing economic institutions as a non-violent method of foreign intervention. Burns’ book will address American foreign policy attempts to impose democracy on countries with the goal of making those countries free and the world less violent. The project will offer objective reasons why these efforts are a product of the misguided decision to apply Democratic Peace Theory to American foreign policy.

February 23, 2021

Silvia Benso, professor of philosophy, published Open Borders: Encounters between Italian Philosophy and Continental Thought (SUNY Press). The co-edited volume, based on the idea that borders are not barriers but thresholds of communication, features the thought of late 20th-century Italian thinkers as they redefine traditional philosophical concepts in conversation with important philosophers in the Continental tradition.

February 8, 2021

Richard Newman, professor of history, served as a historical consultant and guest commentator for a PBS documentary on The Black Church, airing locally and nationally at 9 p.m. Feb. 16 and 17.

February 8, 2021

Jonathan Schroeder, William A. Kern Professor in the School of Communication, published an article, “Reinscribing Gender: Social Media, Algorithms, Bias,” in the Journal of Marketing Management.