Recent Honors

• Dennis Mazzocco, Associate Professor of Radio, Television, Film, has been awarded the 2012 Franklin J. Schaffner Achievement Award from the Directors Guild of America.  

• Keep on Steppin’, a documentary by Christine Noschese, Associate Professor of Radio, Television, Film, won Best Short at the Newburyport Documentary Film Festival, and was exhibited at festivals nationwide, including BET and HBO’s Urbanworld Film Festival.

• Larry Russell, Associate Professor of Speech Communication, Rhetoric and Performance Studies, received the 2010 Ellis-Bochner Autoenthography and Personal Narrative Research Award for the article “Learning to Walk,” which appeared in the International Review of Qualitative Research.

In the News

• More news directors taking on GM jobs; Journalism Chair Bob Papper weighs in.   4/16/2012  TVNewsCheck.com

• PR professor Jeffrey Morosoff’s survey looks at the price of publicity for Long Island nonprofits  2/10/2012  LIBN.com

• Media studies professor Susan Drucker on Rick Santorum’s “Susan Boyle moment”  1/4/2012  NPR

• Journalism professor Kelly Fincham on the latest social-media tool for journalism educators 12/31/2011   PBS.org  

• Journalism Prof. Kristal Brent Zook:  “How Can We Make Every Woman Count?”  12/11/2011 Newsday

• Media Studies professor Susan Drucker shares her view of political debate gaffes.  11/10/2011  NPR

• Journalism Chair Bob Papper weighs in on a recent FCC proposal about online public file sharing for TV stations *    10/31/2011  Communications Daily

• Media Studies Prof. Mary Ann Allison's latest study shows progress for New Cassel 10/7/2011 Westbury Times

• Journalism Prof. Kristal Brent Zook: "Steve Harvey: TV Relationship Guru?" 9/28/2011  TheRoot.com

• Journalism Prof. Kristal Brent Zook:  “New Spider-Man Shouldn’t Surprise” 8/4/2011  Newsday

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Presentations & Conferences

Lisa Merrlll, Ph.D., Professor in the Department of Speech Communication, Rhetoric and Performance Studies, presented a  paper titled “ William and Ellen Craft and William Wells Brown Exhibiting Race ‘Under the World’s Huge Glass Case’ at the Great Exhibition in London, 1851,” at the International American Studies Association’s Fifth World Congress, in Rio de Janiero, Brazil. Dr. Merrill was one of the representatives from fifty different countries invited to present her research at this international gathering which was held July 27-29, 2011. Dr. Merrill’s paper will be published in an expanded form in the upcoming Special Issue of Slavery and Abolition.

Scholarly Work

While acknowledging the value of a good public relations program, most of Long Island's nonprofit organizations are devoting very few resources on getting their messages to their publics, according to a survey conducted recently by Hofstra University Assistant Professor Jeffrey S. Morosoff. See the study here.