In a new paper, URI researchers argue that Barstool Sports helps to normalize racial exclusion and white male dominance in ways that parallel the rise of the alt-right in the U.S.
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Madison Jones won a 2022 CCCC Technical and Scientific Communication Award for his co-authored article “Deep Mapping for Environmental Communication Design.” The article shares lessons from designing and producing EcoTour, a multimedia environmental advocacy project that takes place in Paynes Prairie State Park in Gainesville, Florida.
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James Horban, assistant professor of Theatre, was the recipient of a Champlin grant for new equipment and lights. “Our awarded grant will add a large quantity of cutting-edge lighting instruments to our inventory,” he says, “opening new interfaces between live performance, technical mastery, and community outreach.”
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Assistant Professor of Library and Information Studies Melissa Villa Nicholas’ latest book, Latinas on the Line, was published by Rutgers Press in January. Using archives and oral history from Latinas who had been telephone operators and information workers for decades, it builds a Latinx history of technology.
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Dr. Niku T’arhechu T’arhesi, Multicultural Postdoctoral Fellow in Indigenous Studies of the Americas, studies how language works at the cognitive, grammatical, and interactional levels and has worked on P’urhépecha, a Mesoamerican language unrelated to any other language.
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Justin Wyatt, associate professor of communication studies, journalism, and film/media has a new book out titled ReFocus: The Later Films and Legacy of Robert Altman.
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Peter Covino, associate professor of English, recently published a book chapter and eight poems.
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Jessica Frazier, associate professor of Gender and Women’s Studies and History, is working on a book titled “Creating Transnational Feminist Networks, 1940-2000,” which traces the genealogy of transnational feminist praxis through a collective biography of three non-state feminist activists from South Asia, North Africa, and North America.
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Professor Ashish Chadha’s new book “Bureaucratic Archaeology: State, Science, and Past in Postcolonial India” was published by Cambridge University Press.
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Professor Hilda Lloréns’ new book, Making Livable Worlds: Afro-Puerto Rican Women Building Environmental Justice (U. of Washington Press), will be published in November.
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Professor Annu Matthew will have a solo exhibition titled “UNREMEMBERED- Indian soldiers from World War II” at the Newport Art Museum this fall.
Continue reading "Annu Palakunnathu Matthew on her Solo Exhibition at the Newport Art Museum"Drs. Brian Krueger and Marc Hutchison discuss the research they conducted in their article, “Science-Based Communication to Decrease Disparities in Adult Pneumococcal Vaccination Rates” and discuss the research they found regarding vaccine hesitancy, especially in BIPOC populations. Dr. Krueger and Professor Hutchison also make connections between the pneumococcal vaccinations and the current COVID-19 vaccinations in terms of vaccine hesitancy.
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Renee Hobbs, Professor of Communication Studies, wrote Mind Over Media: Propaganda Education for a Digital Age (Norton, October 2020). It received the Association of American Publishers 2021 PROSE Award for Excellence in Social Sciences.
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Introducing a question-and-answer style series that will highlight research and creative works by our faculty. This month explores Native American Roots: Relationality and Indigenous Regeneration Under Empire, 1770-1859, a new book from Professor Christian Gonzales.
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