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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September 2023

September 6, 2023

Joseph M. Henning, associate professor in the Department of History, published an article on “Defending the Samurai: Alice Mabel Bacon and Meiji Japan at War” in the U.S.-Japan Women’s Journal. In July, he gave a public lecture about this project at the Institute for Research on Women and Gender at Tokyo Woman’s Christian University.
September 5, 2023

David S. Martins, associate professor of rhetoric in the Department of English, along with Xiaoye You (Penn State) and Brooke R. Schrieber (Baruch College, CUNY) had their co-edited collection of essays, Writing on the Wall: Writing Education and Resistance to Isolationism, published by Utah State University Press. For the collection, “writing on the wall” serves as a creative metaphor for the direct action writing education can provide and invokes border spaces as sites of identity expression, belonging, and resistance.

August 2023

August 29, 2023

Rebecca Scales, associate professor of history, is a co-PI with Andrea Stanton of the University of Denver and Alejandra Bronfman of SUNY Albany on a $50,000 National Endowment for the Humanities collaborative research grant titled “Radio & Decolonization Around the Globe, 1920-Present.” The grant will fund a conference next summer at the University of Denver featuring 30 international scholars interested in radio’s contributions to decolonizing processes around the globe.
August 29, 2023

Rebecca A.R. Edwards, professor of history, gave a public lecture on “Of Seas, Silence, and Signs: The Deaf Community of Martha’s Vineyard in the World of Maritime New England,” on July 20 at the Martha’s Vineyard Museum in Tisbury, Mass. The lecture was part of the programming in support of the museum’s new exhibit, “They Were Heard: The Unique Voice of the Martha’s Vineyard Deaf Community.” Edwards’ scholarly work on the Vineyard Deaf community will appear as part of the forthcoming book, written with co-author Eric Nystrom, Ordinary Lives: Recovering Deaf Social History through the American Census (January 2024).
August 23, 2023

Jonathan Schroeder, the William A. Kern Professor of Communications, published a review of the book Afro-Nostalgia: Feeling Good in Contemporary Black Culture, by Badia Ahad-Legardy, for the Society of U.S. Intellectual History.
August 17, 2023

Bruce Austin, professor in the School of Communication, presented “Setting the Stage: Stickley’s 1903 Arts & Crafts Exhibitions” on Aug. 9 during the Arts & Crafts in August conference.
August 15, 2023

Christine Keiner, chair of the Department of Science, Technology, and Society, spoke with the New Books Network about her book Deep Cut: Science, Power, and the Unbuilt Interoceanic Canal. The book addresses the Cold War-era technoscientific, environmental, and diplomatic debates about building a sea-level canal across Central America with peaceful nuclear explosives.
August 11, 2023

An interdisciplinary team presented “Music, Motion, and Mixed Reality: An Interdisciplinary, Problem-Based Educational Experience” at the SIGGRAPH 2023 Educator’s Forum on Aug. 9 in Los Angeles. Team members are Joe Geigel, professor in the Department of Computer Science; Thomas Warfield, director of dance; Yunn-Shan Ma, assistant professor in the School of Performing Arts; Shaun Foster, professor in the School of Design; and Dan Roach of DJR Design. The talk described collaborative educational experiences created during the Fall 2022 semester involving computation, design, art, and music.
August 11, 2023

Amit Batabyal, the Arthur J. Gosnell Professor of Economics and interim head of the Department of Sustainability, presented a paper on centralized versus decentralized approaches to cleaning water pollution in the Ganges river at the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay on July 20 and at the University of Hyderabad on July 26. Batabyal also presented two more papers in a conference held July 24-25 at the Indian Institute of Technology Madras.

July 2023

July 27, 2023

Hinda Mandell, professor in the School of Communication, led a two-day workshop on “Making & Memoir: Storytelling through Fibers” as a visiting instructor at the Eliot School of Fine & Applied Arts in Boston.