AMTP Wins NEA Grant The American Music Theatre Project receives $15K to support a collaboration with Chicago’s House Theatre on Girls vs. Boys.

CSD professor receives ASHA honor Cynthia Thompson wins the 2008 Editor's Award for her article "Complexity in Treatment of Syntactic Deficits."

Reported March 2009

Sumit Dhar and Emily Klemp – Volume 19(7) of the Journal of the American Academy of Audiology featured their article “Speech Perception in Noise Using Directional Microphones in Open-Canal Hearing Aids.” The issue also featured an editorial by editor-in-chief James Jerger, who commended them for their excellent research, going on to say “the faculty at Northwestern appear to have mounted an Au.D. program in which training in research is alive and well.”

Nina Kraus – the work of her Auditory Neuroscience Laboratory was featured in the Northwestern NewsCenter article “Musicians’ Brains ‘Fine-Tuned’ to Identify Emotion”. You can view all media coverage of her lab’s research, ranging from interviews in the New York Times and Chicago Tribune to a clip on NPR.

Reported January 2009

James Booth was awarded a grant for "Neural Development and Disorders of Math Processing" from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development.

Reported December 2008

Viorica Marian presented an invited session on "Bilingualism and its Consequences" at the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA), which featured a panel comprised of recent CSD alumni who are now faculty from other universities. She was also recently featured on Oprah as part of a segment on first-time voters. Watch video

Reported September 2008

James Booth – His research was featured in the Bloomberg article “Male, Female Anatomy Also Differs in the Brain, Researchers Say.”

 

Reported April 2009

Paul Leonardi – his co-authored article “The Enactment-Externalization Dialectic: Rationalization and the Persistence of Counter-Productive Technology Design Practices in Student Engineering” was published in Volume 52(2) of the Academy of Management Journal.

Reported February 2009

Jason DeSanto was interviewed in a Chicago Tribune article “A Lot of Lincoln Links – Does Obama Have Abe Envy?” regarding President Barack Obama’s return to Springfield, Ill., to celebrate the 200th birthday of Abraham Lincoln.

David Zarefsky was on a "Lincoln's Language" panel sponsored by NU's American Studies Program in February 2009. That same month, he was at the University of Illinois for a lecture on the House Divided speech as part of their year-long program on "Lincoln's Voices." He will deliver one of the keynote presentations at a bioethics conference at Wake Forest in April, and lecture for three weeks at University of Amsterdam in May.

James Schwoch posted a blog on the Illinois Press Book Blog, where he discusses "Watching Obama from the Arabian Peninsula" and his new book Global TV with Illinois Press.

Noshir Contractor – his research was featured in the MSNBC.com article “Online gamers keep it local”. His co-authored article “Computational Social Science” was also featured in Science Magazine.  

James Webster was featured in the CNN.com article “TV Viewing at ‘all-time high,’ Nielsen says”.

Reported January 2009

Pablo Boczkowski was recently interviewed and quoted in the Columbia Journalism Review, in the article "Journalism’s Battle for Relevance in an Age of Too Much Information." And his 2004 book Digitizing the News: Innovation in Online Newspapers serves as a basis for the Jan. 6 Slate Magazine article "How Newspapers Tried to Invent the Web, but Failed."

Eszter Hargittai recently traveled to Washington, D.C., to meet with members of Barack Obama's Presidential Transition Team. She advised them on the policy implications related to her research, which focuses on how information technologies may contribute to or alleviate social inequalities.

Robert Hariman received two 2008 awards from the National Communication Association (NCA): the Diamond Anniversary Award and the Winans-Wichelns Award for the book he co-authored entitled No Caption Needed: Iconic Photography, Public Culture, and Liberal Democracy.

Paul Leonardi received the National Communication Association's 2008 Gerald Miller Dissertation Award for “Organizing Technology: Toward a Theory of Sociomaterial Imbrication."

Daniel O’Keefe received the National Communication Association's 2008 Distinguished Article Award (from its Health Communication Division) for "The Relative Persuasiveness of Gain-framed and Loss-framed Messages for Encouraging Disease Prevention Behaviors: A Meta-analytic Review." The article, which he co-authored, was published in the Journal of Health Communication.

Reported December 2008

Cori Ellis will enjoy her first publication in the 2008 winter edition of Electronic Media, written with S. Perry and D. Trunnell. The article is entitled "Commercial Quality Influence on Perceptions of Television News."

 

Reported March 2009

Eric Patrick and his 2009 winter quarter viral video class (most likely the first course of its kind) were profiled in the Northwestern NewsCenter article “YouTubing 101: Northwestern Offers Course in Viral Videos”.

Kat Falls sold her novel Dark Life, a sci-fi adventure story for young audiences, to Scholastic in a two-book deal after winning first place in the sci-fi/fantasy category of the 2008 Crested Butte/Sandy writing contest. Dark Life is set in the near future, when global warming has caused the oceans to rise and reduced America to half its former size. Sixteen-year-old Ty and his family live on an ocean floor homestead. When outlaws attack the pioneer settlement, Ty teams up with a girl from the "Topside" who has arrived sub-sea to search for her brother. Together they face dangerous sea creatures and venture into the frontier town's rough underworld to discover the secret behind the outlaws' eerie abilities. Dark Life will arrive in bookstores in May 2010.

Lynn Spigel was featured in the Chronicle of Higher Education article “Hollywood in the Box; Tony, We Hardly Knew You; Art in the Ring”.

Reported January 2009

Marlena Novak - The Center for Contemporary Non-Objective Art (CCNOA) in Brussels, Belgium, recently presented her video installation of localStyle.

Hamid Naficy was featured in the Louisville Courier-Journal article "Iranian movies may help bridge a cultural gap".

Reported December 2008

Hamid Naficy was invited to give a keynote talk at the Film and History Association of Australia and New Zealand Conference: "Remapping Cinema, Remaking History" (University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand, Nov. 27-30). The talk was titled "From Accented Cinema to Multiplex Cinema." He also gave a talk to members of the Cultural Transformations Research Network there, with a paper entitled “Female Trouble: Women in the Islamic Republic Cinema.”

 

Reported February 2009

E. Patrick Johnson – His book Sweet Tea: Black Gay Men of the South, was a 2009 Stonewall Book Award Honor Book, for the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgendered Round Table of the American Library Association.

Mary Zimmerman – Her Metropolitan Opera production of Lucia di Lammermoor was broadcast live in movie theaters nationally on Feb. 7. Her production of La Sonnambula opened at the Met on March 2, with live movie theatre broadcasting later that month. Mary directs Lookingglass Theatre’s production of The Arabian Nights to run May 20 to July 12, 2009 at the Water Tower Works downtown. Mary also directed the play at Kansas City Repertory Theatre (where the artistic director is Performance Studies alumnus Eric Rosen) in a co-production with Berkeley Repertory Theatre.

 

Reported March 2009

Molly Shanahan – Her dance company Molly Shanahan / Mad Shak performed the New York premiere of their work My Name is a Blackbird in April, as part of Joyce SoHo’s “Inbound Festival.”

Todd Rosenthal won an Olivier Award in March for Best Set Design, for the London production of August: Osage County. Also, Steppenwolf Theatre Company will host the 16th annual Michael Merritt Design Awards Program honoring him on April 27.

Reported January 2009

David Bell was profiled by the Daily Northwestern for "One Minute with David Bell" - where he shares what he views as history's most influential musicals, and also which musical all NU students should see.

Anna Shapiro - Newcity magazine recently identified 50 theatre professionals who "really perform for Chicago." Among them were Shapiro, professor emeritus Frank Galati, alumni Barbara Gaines, David Catlin, Martha Lavey and more.

Shawn Douglass will see his production of Mark Twain's A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (the Wallis Works-in-Progress show at the SoC last fall) get a reading in May at Chicago's Remy Bumppo Theatre Company. This spring, he will also produce the company's annual thinkTank project, entitled American Ethnic.

Harvey Young sat at a Goodman Theatre roundtable on Jan. 10 with Elizabeth LeCompte, artistic director of The Wooster Group, to discuss the company's innovative use of media, movement and often deconstructed versions of classic plays.

Reported December 2008

Henry Godinez was the recipient of the Latino Professional Award at the Chicago Latino Network's 2008 Awards Gala. Watch a video recap

Susan Manning curated an exhibition that will open at the Centre National de la Danse in Paris on Jan. 15. The exhibition is titled "Danses Noires/ Blanche Amerique" and will be accompanied by an illustrated catalogue.