The Office of Research and Creative Scholarship has been spotlighting faculty on Twitter. Follow @Emerson_ORCS to see our posts tagged with #EC_FacultySpotlight.
If you have new creative or scholarly work that you would like to share and would like to be spotlighted, or know of a faculty colleague who we should recognize, you may email us at orcs@emerson.edu.
Dr. Tuesda Roberts, Director for Faculty Development and Diversity and Samantha Ivery, Director of Diversity and Equity Initiatives are looking for faculty participants for the pilot project of the RELATE (Re-imagining Equity in Learning And Teaching at Emerson) training.
The Re-imagining Equity in Learning And Teaching at Emerson (RELATE) program will feature learning opportunities through which faculty can both reflect upon and make decisions about how their unique praxes can meaningfully incorporate anti-oppressive approaches.
We are asking participants to both engage with the material and provide feedback. We are seeking engaged faculty to provide feedback on 1-2 learning modules that are part of the envisioned program. Using Canvas, this largely asynchronous program takes faculty though information, resources and activities to further develop anti-oppressive practices.
Full-time and affiliated faculty are welcome to apply. We are particularly interested in participants who come from a wide range of departments, career paths, and experience with DEI work. Participants will receive an honorarium of $100. We expect that it will take approximately 8 hours over two weeks. The pilot period will conclude no later than April 1st, 2022.
Faculty who are interested can fill out the RELATE Pilot Project Google Form
The Office of Research and Creative Scholarship has been spotlighting faculty on Twitter. Follow @Emerson_ORCS to see our Faculty Spotlight posts.
The Office of Research and Creative Scholarship has been spotlighting faculty on Twitter. Follow @Emerson_ORCS to see our Faculty Spotlight posts.
The Office of Research and Creative Scholarship is pleased to announce the awardees of this year’s Graduate Research Assistantship (GRA) Program:
| Faculty Member | Dept. | Project Title |
| Lina Giraldo | Journalism | Air Box |
| Leonie Bradbury | VMA/ Media Arts Gallery | Educational Program Assistant for the “Kerry Tribe: Onomatopoeia” exhibition |
| Phillip Glenn | Comm Studies | Analyzing the efficacy of positive communication practices: Data gathering and analysis |
| Marc Fields | VMA | The Banjo Project |
| Mneesha Gellman | EPI/Marlboro | Education Behind the Wall Around the World |
| Weiko Lin | VMA | 3 ASIAN AMERICAN and ASIAN TV SERIES for Streaming/Cable/Broadcast |
About the GRA:
Made possible with support from the Graduate Student Association and the Office of Graduate Studies, the Graduate Research Assistantship Program intends is to extend the student’s classroom learning, expose them to current challenges in their discipline, build analytical skills, and provide a meaningful work experience that will also benefit faculty in the development of their research and scholarship agenda. Each year, funds contributed by the GSA, OGS, and ORCS are awarded as a small number of competitive grants to full-time faculty, for the purpose of hiring a graduate student during the academic year. Through this program, we also hope to encourage external grant applications that include graduate research assistants.
The Office of Research and Creative Scholarship congratulates recipients of the 2021 Presidential Fund for Curricular Innovation (PFCI): Curriculum Internationalization and Inclusive Excellence Studio award. The following faculty and their projects have been accepted into the Studio:
As a member of the studio, each faculty member will receive a stipend of $1,200 for creating new curriculum. Faculty members selected for the Studio will have the opportunity to apply for further funding for project-related expenses.
About the PFCI: Internationalization, diversity, and Inclusion are major priorities for Emerson. Emerson’s Strategic Plan defines Internationalization as the commitment to “mutually beneficial engagement with the global society in which we participate, and to ensuring that all members of our community are prepared to thrive in that society.” Similarly, Emerson’s dedication to Diversity and Inclusion is rooted in the belief that “institutional and academic excellence are not possible without full engagement with diversity across all areas of the College.” The President’s Fund for Curricular Innovation supports Emerson’s commitment to internationalizing and diversifying the curriculum of the College, as well as the implementation of inclusive pedagogical approaches in the classroom Each year, faculty are invited to submit proposal projects for acceptance to the Curriculum Internationalization and Inclusion Studio. The goals of the Studio are to:
The PFCI and Curriculum and Internationalization and Inclusion Studio are jointly overseen by Dr. Anthony Pinder, Vice Provost Internationalization & Equity, and Dr. Tuesda Roberts, Director of Faculty Development and Diversity. The PFCI is sponsored by The Office of the President.
The Office of Research and Creative Scholarship is pleased to announce the grant recipients of this year’s Affiliated Faculty Professional Development Fund (AFDF) application cycle:
| Faculty Member | Department | Title of Project |
| Andre Puca | Visual and Media Arts | Six Letter Word For Love |
| Brynna Bloomfield | Performing Arts | Mask Making and Emotional Learning: A professional development workshop for middle and high school teachers |
| Caitlin McGill | Writing, Literature, and Publishing | Dogs Run Wild Here |
| David Kelleher | Visual and Media Arts | VR Green Screen Mixed Reality Videos |
| Divya Menon | Marlboro Inst. | “Farce as Form: Flaubert’s Picture of Revolution” |
| Elizabeth (Betsy) Schneider | Visual and Media Arts | Best Girl on The Team (part of a larger body of work working title “Identities”) |
| Gautam Chopra | Visual and Media Arts | Great Room – a short film production |
| Israela Brill-Cass | Communication Studies | Applying Restorative Justice Principles to Law and Conflict |
| John Krivit | Visual and Media Arts | Coordination of Education Events at the 2022 AES Academy at NAMM |
| Kathryn Dietz | Visual and Media Arts | Audio in a Visual Medium |
| Luis Arnias | Visual and Media Arts | Terror Has No Shape [Part ii] |
| Mark Brodie | Communication Studies | Diversity and Inclusion: Images and digital narratives from Migrants, Refugees and Activists on the US Southern Border |
| Martin Roberts | Visual and Media Arts | Creative Coding and the Digital Avant-Garde |
| Matthew Scully | Writing, Literature, and Publishing | Delegate Assembly, MLA 2022 (Washington, D.C.) |
| Melissa Bergstrom | Performing Arts | American Alliance for Theatre and Education 2021 Virtual Conference |
| Mina Cho | Performing Arts | The Collective Samulnori Project |
| Patrick Marshall | Visual and Media Arts | Untitled Austin Movie |
| Paul Haney | Writing, Literature, and Publishing | No Secrets to Conceal: A Memoir of Coming Out with Bob Dylan |
| Randy Harrison | Marketing Communication | Mass Tech and Leadership Council (MassTLC) Renewal |
| Scott Sanders | Writing, Literature, and Publishing | Mad River (working title) |
About the AFDF: The Affiliated Faculty Professional Development Fund supports the scholarly and creative activities of the affiliated faculty members of Emerson College. The Office of Academic Affairs administers the fund.
The Office of Research and Creative Scholarship is pleased to announce the recipients of this year’s Norman and Irma Mann Stearns Distinguished Faculty Award.
This year’s recipients are Rashin Fahandej, Assistant Professor in Visual and Media Arts, and Dr. Gina Gayle, Assistant Professor of Visual and Multimedia Storytelling in the Journalism Department. Professor Fahandej is a multimedia artist and filmmaker whose projects center on marginalized voices and the role of media, technology, and the public in generating social change. She will use the Mann Stearns Award to support a summer exhibition in San Francisco of A Father’s Lullaby— a VR-based series of interactive public installations and community engaged workshops that highlight the role of men in raising children, and the impact of their absences on families due to the racial disparities in the criminal justice system.
Dr. Gayle is a photojournalist, educator, and researcher with interests in media credibility, the future of photojournalism, and digital media entrepreneurship. Her father, the late James F. Gayle, was a pioneering photojournalist and one of a very few Black photographers documenting Black history in Cleveland and the country during the 1960’s. The Mann Stearns award will support her efforts to preserve, catalog, and archive Mr. Gayle’s work, which will culminate in multimedia installations in the Cleveland neighborhoods and Black communities that Gayle photographed.
About the Mann Stearns Award: Several years ago, the late Dr. Norman Stearns and Irma Mann Stearns established a distinguished faculty award in their name to honor a full-time tenured or tenure-track faculty member in recognition of outstanding scholarly or creative achievement. A $3,000 award is presented annually to at least one applicant. This funding may be used to enhance an ongoing project or for the development of a new scholarly or creative endeavor. Travel is strongly encouraged to be a part of the project activity.
Mneesha Gellman, Associate Professor in the Marlboro Institute for Liberal Arts and Interdisciplinary Studies received a second two-year grant from the Sociological Initiatives Foundation to continue her research on the effects of heritage language learning and use on citizen formation for high school age Native American youth in public secondary schools in Northern California and how state language regimes are crafting educational policy.
The Sociological Initiatives Foundation is a Boston-based foundation that support projects that use research and related strategies of assessment and inquiry to build knowledge and help address social concerns.
Leonie Bradbury, School of the Arts Distinguished Curator-in-Residence and Director of Emerson Contemporary received a project grant from the Massachusetts Cultural Council to support the Media Art Gallery exhibit Georgie Freeman: Hurricane Lost, a sculptural video and sound installation that that references extreme weather phenomena and visualizes the effects of our changing climate.
Massachusetts Cultural Council Projects Grants are one-year grants for specific, eligible, public programming to provide access, excellence, diversity, or education in the arts, humanities, or sciences.
Alden Jones, Senior Affiliated Faculty in the Marlboro Institute for Liberal Arts and Interdisciplinary Studies and the School of the Arts department of Writing, Literature & Publishing received a travel fellowship from the Marion and Jasper Whiting Foundation to travel to Vietnam and Cambodia to study the uses of photography as an antidote to cultural trauma fifty years after the first “viral” photo, “The Terror of War” triggered a great shift in the American perception of the war in Vietnam.
The Marion and Jasper Whiting Foundation is a Boston-based foundation whose purpose is to award fellowships to teachers at New England colleges and universities to enable them to study abroad or at new locations within the United States in order to broaden their minds and enhance the quality of their instruction.
Robin Danzak, School of Communication Associate Professor in the department of Communication Sciences and Disorders wrote an article “Someone Else’s Child: A Co-Constructed, Performance Autoethnography of Adoption from Three Perspectives” in The Qualitative Report, an online
journal of qualitative research.
Magda Romanska, School of the Arts Professor of Performing Arts and Executive Director of The Theatre Times published an article “The theatre of cruelty and the limits of representation: Sade/Salò” in
the Intellect Books Journal of Adaptation in Film & Performance.
Cathryn Cushner Edelstein, School of Communication Senior-Executive-in-Residence in the department of Communication Studies published a paper “Non-profit Board Membership and the Gender Gap” in Revista Tripodos (Tripod Review) a journal of communication published by Emerson College partner the Blanquerna School of Communication and International Relations at University-Ramon Llull in Barcelona, Spain.
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