Faculty & Staff

Md Khorshed Alam, Ph.D., has joined the Department of Rhetoric & Communications Studies as a Visiting Research Scholar. Dr. Alam completed his Ph.D. in Communication from the University of South Florida in December '20.

Photogrammar, an open-access, web-based tool that allows users to easily navigate and engage photographs taken between 1935-1943, is now housed at UR thanks to the work of Lauren Tilton, assistant professor of rhetoric & communication studies, and Taylor Arnold, assistant professor of statistics. Read more about the program here.

Jennifer Bowie, associate professor of political science, published "Kelly v. US on Public Fraud and the Bridgegate Controversy" in SCOTUS 2020 Major Decisions and Developments of the US Supreme Court edited by Morgan Marietta. January 2021, Palgrave pp. 101-109.

David Wilkins, professor of leadership studies, co-authored the chapter "Indigenous Peoples in the USA: At the Crossroads of Race and Sovereignty in Trump’s Divided States of America" in the book "Legal Status of Indigenous Peoples in Russia and Foreign Countries."

Mariela Méndez, associate professor and chair of LALIS, was invited to Brazil in December ’20 and January ’21 to give lectures at Universidade Federal de São Paulo and Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro on Brazilian writer Clarice Lispector.

Monti Datta, associate professor of political science, and Bob Spires, associate professor of graduate education, hosted a webinar titled “Trust and Civic Engagement Matter: Connections to Human Trafficking in the United States” for the Zehr Institute for Restorative Justice. Watch the webinar here.

Lauren Henley, assistant professor of leadership studies, published "The Richest Black Girl in America" in Truly Adventurous. 

Sunni Brown, director of media and public relations, and Lindsey Grow, media relations specialist, presented "Elevating Expertise: Leveraging Faculty and Staff Experts Across Communications Platforms" at the CASE Better Together: All Districts Online Conference.