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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.

Presidential Fund for Curricular Innovation: 2021 Curriculum Internationalization and Inclusive Excellence Studio Recipients

By Eric Asetta

On June 2, 2021

In Faculty News, Faculty Spotlight, Internal Grant Announcements

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:

VM331: Experimental Accessible Cinema (Malic Amalya – VMA)
Embracing Diversity in Digital and Algorithmic Marketing: Expanding dimensions of diversity literacy among students (Sereikhuoch Eng & Naa Amponsah Doodoo – MarcCom)
Crossing Cultures: Appreciation,accommodation, appropriation (Nejem Raheem & Bhamati Viswanathan – MarCom)
Communication Self-efficacy in Deaf and Hard of Hearing Adolescents: Improving access and participation (Maryann Salehomoum & Eileen McBride – SoC and Marlboro Institute)
Re-visioning Perspectives in World Dance (Kristin Horrigan & TBD – Performing Arts)

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:

Encourage collaboration among faculty;
Build our collective capacity to internationalize curriculum;
Develop specific courses, course modules, pedagogical and/or advising methods that contribute to these aims.

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.

Affiliated Faculty Professional Development Fund: Academic Year 2021-22 Recipients

By Eric Asetta

On May 17, 2021

In Faculty News, Faculty Spotlight, Internal Grant Announcements

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.

Norman and Irma Mann Stearns Distinguished Faculty Award: Academic Year 2021-22 Recipients

By Eric Asetta

On May 12, 2021

In Faculty News, Faculty Spotlight, Internal Grant Announcements, Scholarship and Research

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.

Assistant Professor Rashin Fahandej (Photo: Emerson College)

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. Gina Gayle, Assistant Professor, Visual and Multimedia Storytelling (Photo: Emerson College)

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.

Faculty Spotlight: Spring 2021 External Grant Recipients

By Diana Potter

On April 27, 2021

In Faculty News, Faculty Spotlight, Scholarship and Research

journal pre submission checklist — Mneesha Gellman

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.

Faculty Spotlight: March

By Diana Potter

On April 13, 2021

In Faculty News, Faculty Spotlight

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.

Submit your Work to Iwasaki Library’s “Emerson Authors, Creators, and Researchers” Project

By Eric Asetta

On March 12, 2021

In Faculty News, Faculty Spotlight, Scholarship and Research

EMERSON AUTHORS, RESEARCHERS, CREATORS (ARC)

Our full time and affiliated faculty are a vibrant community of Emerson Authors, Researchers, and Creators. A survey of the landscape at Emerson shows there are currently multiple avenues for showcasing faculty research and works. However, long term discoverability and inter-faculty academic connections are the final pieces missing from this landscape.

Iwasaki Library’s mission is to facilitate access and create opportunities for discovery and campus-wide connection. This has led us to the creation of an online space facilitating the discovery of faculty research and works. We will be gathering author, researcher, and creator data on projects, including keywords and descriptions, and creating a searchable and faceted database dedicated to faculty works.

Please help us get started in this important project by entering your 2020 works at: http://bit.ly/emARC2020

2021-22 FAFG Recipients

By Eric Asetta

On March 9, 2021

In Faculty News, Faculty Spotlight, Internal Grant Announcements, Scholarship and Research

The Office of Research and Creative Scholarship thanks the Faculty Development and Research Council for their contribution of time in service to review this year’s FAFG applications and develop their recommendations. Congratulations to the following recipients of the Faculty Advancement Fund Grant:

Amy Beecher, Department of Visual and Media Arts: Container Store Cantastoria: A Contemporary Picture Story Recitation
Gino Canella, Department of Journalism: Activist Media: Book
Lindsay Griffin, Communication Science Disorders: Determining an optimal delivery method for tongue strengthening
Amer Latif, Marlboro Institute: Reading the Qu’ran with Rumi
Ed Lee, Department of Visual and Media Arts: F*** You, It’s Funny
Pablo Muchnik, Marlboro Institute: Judging the ‘Inner-Judge’: Kant on the Limits of Sincerity and the Infallibility of Conscience
Rituparna Mitra, Marlboro Institute: In Partition’s Ruins: Beyond Trauma in South Asian Literature
Ougie Pak, Department of Visual and Media Arts: RED CARD
John Rodzvilla, Department of Writing, Literature and Publishing: Looking Beyond the Advance: Trade Publishing and #publishingpaidme
Magda Romanska, Department of Performing Arts: Transmedia Performance Project: Hamlet/Ophelia/Machine
Katerina Gonzalez Seligmann, Department of Writing, Literature and Publishing: Cuba – 1968: World Historical Location
Rae Shaw, Department of Visual and Media Arts: Untitled Black Kung Fu Chick Mobile Game App

The Faculty Advancement Fund Grant (FAFG) supports the scholarly and creative activities of the full‐time tenured and tenure-track faculty members. The Fund was established to enable the professional work of Emerson’s faculty in its efforts to sustain academic excellence in teaching, research/creative activity, and service. The Faculty Advancement Fund Grant supports proposals deemed likely to substantially improve the quality of research, publication, creative activities, teaching, and service that advance the mission of the College and the careers of its faculty.

Faculty Spotlight: February

By Diana Potter

On March 3, 2021

In Faculty News, Faculty Spotlight

Eric Gordon, School of the Arts Professor and Director of the Engagement Lab and Vassiliki Rapti, affiliated faculty in the department of Visual and Media Arts edited a new book “Ludics: Play as Humanistic Inquiry” published by Palgrave Macmillan.

Nejem Raheem, Associate Professor of Marketing Communication and environmental economist and his students were featured in a new report by The National Marine Sanctuary System featuring the 2018 study that Professor Raheem and his students conducted of the economic contributions of whale watching passengers in NOAA Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary. The study was funded by the National Marine Sanctuary Foundation.

Bethany Nelson, Assistant Professor and Graduate Program Director in the department of Performing Arts has a new book “Urban Playmaking: Constructivist Teaching with a Radical Agenda” published by Routledge Books.

Faculty Spotlight: January Part II

By Diana Potter

On January 27, 2021

In Faculty News, Faculty Spotlight

Julide Etem, affiliated faculty in the department of Visual and Media Arts has a new article “A Transnational Communication Network Promoting Film Diplomacy: The case of Turkey and the USA, 1950–86” in the Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television published by Taylor & Francis Research Insights.

David Kishik, Associate Professor of philosophy in the Marlboro Institute for Liberal Arts and Interdisciplinary Studies has an article “Homo Schizoid: Destituent Power & Nonrelational Life” in Ethics & Politics, an open access philosophical journal published by the philosophy department at the Italian Università di Trieste in Northern Italy.

Katerina Gonzalez Seligmann, Assistant Professor in the department of Writing, Literature and Publishing has a new essay “Sounding the Americas: The Politics and Aesthetics of Racialised Acoustics” in the Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies published by Taylor & Francis Research Insights.