As you know, I have decided to step down from my role as dean at the end of this academic year. I think that seven years is the right length of term for a leadership role of this kind, and I’m looking forward to working on a couple of major research projects over the next two to three years.
I have loved my years on the job—SC&I is exciting, dynamic, and forward-looking. It has outstanding faculty doing leading-edge and creative research across a range of topic areas drawing on different theoretical perspectives. Its faculty include leaders in academic fields and newer figures who redefine their disciplines and change their boundaries. It embodies a strong focus on engagement and social justice, which I treasure and have supported in different ways. It includes a dedicated, nimble, and energetic complement of staff who continually strive to improve systems and delivery and are fundamental to the school’s success. The school also enjoys an ever-growing roster of outstanding alumni.
Despite the pandemic, SC&I is on a very solid financial footing, which has allowed us to continue to hire new scholars, fill open staff positions, and give significant levels of support for faculty research, travel, and events. Our enrollments are strong. I have no doubt that we will need to continue an orderly growth of faculty and staff numbers to effectively deliver quality to our current and future student body. We have financial resources and smart plans for a state-of-the-art new building that will enhance our research, teaching, and operations. There is deep thinking to be done on exactly what the future will look like in terms of space use. When that project gets the full go-ahead, it promises to be transformative.
As we head into the final months of this semester, I want to thank you all for the enormous good humor and support you have shown me. The future is bright.
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Gifts for graduates!
SC&I has launched SC&I Buy, a new online store offering exciting SC&I-branded clothing and other merchandise to show your SC&I pride.
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Jenny Mandelbaum, an expert on Conversation Analysis who has served on the SC&I faculty for 35 years, has transitioned to Professor Emerita of Communication.
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NY Knicks Intern David Williamson JMS’22 Excels in Sports PR.
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“Takeover” Documentary Features Juan D. González as Co-Founder of the Young Lords Party.
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Mary Chayko presented her research on "Preparing Students for the Pandemic-Altered Workplace: The Role of Online and Hybrid Learning and Technologies" at the annual conference of the NJ Association of School Administrators Education and Research Foundation.
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Marija Dalbello is part of a research team on the funded project “T-Bone Slim and the Transnational Poetics of the Migrant Left in North America” that received a grant from the KONE Foundation in 2022-2023; she published a book co-edited with Kirsti Salmi-Niklander, “Reading Home Cultures Through Books,” and contributed several chapters. She was a contributor to “Semantic Web Manifesto: The Community of Data,” edited by the Italian Library Association, and was a keynote speaker at the official launch of the Semantic Web Manifesto event.
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Katherine Ognyanova co-authored the study, “Association of Major Depressive Symptoms with Endorsement of COVID-19 Vaccine Misinformation Among U.S. Adults,” published in the Journal of the American Medical Association Network Open.
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Britt Paris’ study, “Configuring Fakes: Digitized Bodies, the Politics of Evidence, and Agency,” was published in Social Media and Society.
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Brent Ruben co-wrote the “Excellence in Higher Education-Renewal (EHE-R) Framework" designed to assist U.S. colleges and institutions as they “confront disruptive challenges to their core purposes, operational practices, and long-term stability in the wake of the existential crisis brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic.”
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Read more faculty publications here.
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SC&I welcomed four new staff members: Vincent Andoldi, Andrew Cangiano, Matt Chiarello, and Alexis Welch-Dothard.
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Melissa Aronczyk’s piece, “How PR Firms Captured the Sustainability Agenda,” was published in Foreign Policy; she was quoted in the Washington Post article, “More than 450 scientists call on PR and ad firms to cut their ties with fossil fuel clients,” The Guardian article, “Fossil fuel firms among biggest spenders on Google ads that look like search results,” and the DeSmog article, “An FTI Consulting Presentation Pulls Back the Veil on Fossil Fuel PR.”
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Marc Aronson published a new book, “Four Streets and a Square: A History of Manhattan and the New York Idea.”
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Mark Beal’s research was featured in a Tearsheet article, “Gens under the lens: The Gen Z consumer;” he was quoted in The Fox Magazine article, “2022 Winter Olympics by the Numbers,” The Food Institute article, “New Findings Show Gen Z Researches Brands Extensively,” and the WalletHub article, “2022 Beijing Winter Olympics Facts.”
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Neal Bennett, who won a Telly Award for his role in the production of the Rutgers 2020 Virtual Commencement, helped develop and produce “Faces & Voices," the Rutgers storytelling series featuring President Jonathan Holloway.
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Jack Bratich was quoted in the Newsy article, “Some Social Media Sites Don’t Mind Being Home to Misinformation.”
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Mary D’Ambrosio’s proposed journalism class, “Writing the Mediterranean,” was adopted into the curriculum.
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Ralph Gigliotti and Vikki S. Katz were featured in a Rutgers Today article, “Two Years Since COVID-19: What Have We Learned?"
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Ralph Gigliotti was featured in The Chronicle of Higher Education article, “The Faculty Job (Almost) No One Wants.”
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David Greenberg was featured in a Dan Abrams Live segment; he was quoted in Forbes on Jen Psaki's first year as President Biden's press secretary, and in a Pittsburgh Post-Gazette article on Donald Trump’s influence on the Republican Party.
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Kathryn Greene, Yonaira M. Rivera, Maria Venetis, and doctoral students Liesl Broadbridge and Lauren Lee participated in the second annual Cancer Research Symposium jointly sponsored by Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey and Princeton University.
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Shagun Jhaver was quoted in a Vox article, “Does banning extremists online work? It depends.”
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Vikki S. Katz was quoted in the New Jersey Monitor article, “Measure to modernize state websites inches closer to final votes.”
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AEJMC President Susan Keith is presenting "Examining AEJMC’s presidential discourse: Analyzing the past to understand the present" and doctoral student Nikhila Natarajan is presenting "Understanding frictionless social media algorithms through homophily and correlation" at the AEJMC Midwinter Conference.
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Deepa Kumar wrote an opinion piece, “The GOP’s broad embrace of Islamophobia,” for the CNN “Race Deconstructed” newsletter article, “What 2021 taught us about the fight for racial justice.”
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Dafna Lemish was featured in an NBC News Now segment, “New CA Law Requiring Gender-Neutral Toy Sections Could Change Kids TV.”
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David Love wrote “MLK disobeyed unjust laws. The state of America today requires that we not forget that” for NBC News and “The Freedom to Vote: John R. Lewis Act, Explained” for The Grio.
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John V. Pavlik and doctoral student Shravan Regret Iyer presented their paper, “Understanding How Experiential Media was Utilized in Qatar 2022,” at the Sixth World Summit for Tourism and Hospitality Conference.
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Britt Paris, Rebecca Reynolds, and doctoral students Julie Aromi and Catherine McGowan received ASIS&T’s Best Long Paper, 3rd Place award for “Social and Digital Inequality as Factors in K-12 Emergency Remote Teaching and Learning in the Pandemic of 2020: Educator Perspectives.”
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Caitlin Petre discussed her new book, "All the News That's Fit to Click," with New Yorker writer Andrew Marantz in an event co-sponsored by the NJ Society of Professional Journalists and Montclair Public Library; an essay from her book was adapted for NeimanLab.
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Charles Senteio was featured in a Rutgers Global Health Institute article, “Local Internship Combines Social Work and Global Health.”
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Part-time lecturer and Asbury Park Press reporter Joseph Strupp’s new book, “A Long Walk Home,” explores the unsolved murder of Carol Ann Farino in 1966.
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Matthew Weber is an editor for Digital Journalism’s special issue, “Opening the Black Box of Code in Journalism: Materiality, Manufacture, and Methods.”
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Stacy Brody MI’18, who earned a fellowship in the Associate Fellowship Program at the National Library of Medicine, is a reference and instruction librarian at Himmelfarb Health Sciences Library at George Washington University in Washington, DC.
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Chisa Egbelu JMS’16 and Kayla Michele JMS‘17 co-founded PeduL, a diversity recruiting platform for employers; they received a grant from Google and have been invited to join Techstars.
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Ashley Gallagher MCM’21 is working as a post-production coordinator for Showtime Networks Inc.
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Arie Hammond MI’21 is library director at the San Diego Natural History Museum.
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Kathryn Tappen ’03, NBC Sports host and reporter, was a sideline reporter for Super Bowl LVI and covered the Olympic Games Beijing 2022.
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