Division of Interdisciplinary and International Studies
Culture and Communications Program
Faculty Research Highlights

Marie Garland, Ph.D.
Bruce Henderson, Ph.D.
Sandra Herndon, Ph.D.
Sharon Mazzarella, Ph.D.
Robert Sullivan, Ph.D.
Patricia R. Zimmermann, Ph.D.

 
Marie Garland, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Organizational Communication, Learning and Design
Roy H. Park School of Communications
Steering Committee, Culture and Communication

• “Corporate Space/Body Space: The Built Environment, Subjectivity, and Gendered Organizational Identities, competitive paper presented at Eastern Communication Association.
• "Now WOT?: Experiences of Women-Only Training Programs (with Kristin Wurster ’03, competitive paper presented Central States Communication Association.
• Workshop leader, “ Difference as the Foundation for Teaching Gender and Communication” with Pamela Tracy; National Communication Association.
• Co-author, “ Henri Fayol’s Use of the Organismic Metaphor: A Case Study of Administrative Organizational Theory (with Vincente Berdayes). Paper is currently under review and was accepted for presentation at the upcoming National Communication Association meeting in Chicago, November 04.
• Analyzed data and completed Park School planning document (Focus Group Report) with Kim Gregson (TVR).
• Elected to chair IC Human Subjects Research Review Board, effective January ’05.
• Succeeded to Vice President, New York State Communication Association. Planned conference: Navigating the Current: Stability and Change in Research, Practice, and Program Administration . Will assume President post in October, ’04.
• Reviewed manuscripts for the Organizational Communication Division of the National Communication Association.
• CFE Summer Institute participant: Civic Engagement through Service Learning

Bruce Henderson, Ph.D.
Coordinator, Culture and Communication
Professor
Speech Communication
School of Humanities and Sciences

• Essay commissioned (and accepted) for The Sage Handbook of Performance Studies.
• Three encyclopedia entries for Greenwood Encyclopedia of Ethnic American Writers.
• Essay accepted for publication in Kevin Barnhurst, editor, Media/Queered (University of Illinois-Chicago).
• Two entries for the Encyclopedia of Disability Studies, to be published by SAGE.
• Completed 44 hours and preliminary written exams for the PhD in Disability Studies at University of Illinois-Chicago, while holding a University Fellowship.

Sandra Herndon, Ph.D.
Professor
Organizational Culture, Learning and Design
Roy H. Park School of Communications

• Recipient of 2003 Jack Lewis Award for Exemplary Service to ( Ithaca) Community Members in Crisis (given by Suicide Prevention).
• Several presentations at Eastern Communication Association convention in 2004, including a roundtable on internet issues.
• Consulting project with GreenStar Cooperative Market, developing an in-house focus group program.

Sharon Mazzarella, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Television/Radio
Roy H. Park School of Communications
Steering Committee, Culture and Communication Program

• Editor, (in press). Girl Wide Web: Girls, the Internet, and the Negotiation of Identity. New York: Peter Lang.
• “Constructing youth: Media, youth and the politics of representation.” In A. N. Valdivia (Ed.) Media Studies Companion (pp. 227-246). Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishers. (2004, November).
• “Adolescent Girls, the Internet, and the Negotiation of Identity.” Paper to be presented at the Annual Meeting of the National Communication Association, Chicago, IL. (2004, May).
• “Dude, Why Am I So Popular?? The Cultural Economy of Teen Girl Fandom on the Web.” Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the International Communication Association, New Orleans, LA.
• Founding Co-Editor, Popular Communication, a journal published by Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc., now finishing its second year of quarterly publication.
• Editor of a book series on kid and youth culture to be published by Peter Lang Publishers.

Robert Sullivan , Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Speech Communications
School of Humanities and Sciences
Steering Committee, Culture and Communication

• “Pasquil the Playne: Sir Thomas Elyot and the Rhetoric of Counsel.” Presented at the Annual Conference of the American Society for the History of Rhetoric. Miami, FL: November 2003.
• “The Renascent Rhetorician: Isocrates' English Career, 1534-1624." Presented at the Biennial Conference of the International Society for the History of Rhetoric. Madrid, ES: July, 2003.
• “Establishing Legislative Intent; The Rise of the New Commonplaces.” 25th Annual Meeting of the Ontario Society for the Study of Argumentation. Windsor, ON: June 2003.
• “Demosthenes’ Renaissance Philipics: Thomas Wilson’s 1570 Translation as Anti-Spanish Propaganda.” Advances in the History of Rhetoric (in press).
• “Establishing Legislative Intent; The Rise of the New Commonplaces.” In Informal Logic at 25: Proceedings of the Windsor Conference. J. Anthony Blair, Daniel Farr, Hans V. Hansen, Ralph H. Johnson, & Christopher W. Tindale eds. Windsor, ON: OSSA , 2003.
• Invited colloquium on propaganda at Rochester Institute of Technology.
• Invited colloquium on propaganda at Roberts Wesleyan College.
• Sponsored four student papers at an undergraduate communication research conference at  Rochester Institute of Technology (BTW, two of the three "Best Papers" awards were won by IC students, one of whom is Alexa Kaiser, a Comm and Culture major. Alexa has also had a paper selected for presentation to the NYSCA meeting in October.).
• Editing the first modern edition of Sir Thomas Elyot's Pasquil the Playne (1536).
• Preparing a manuscript on Isocrates as a technical rhetorician.

Patricia R. Zimmermann, Ph.D.
Professor
Cinema and Photography
Roy H. Park School of Communications

• Ida Beam Distinguished Visiting Professorship, University of Iowa, March 21-27, 2005.
• Mining the Home Movie: Excavations into Historical and Cultural Memories, anthology co-edited with Karen Ishizuka (Berkeley: University of California Press, in press).
• Wide Angle Books, series editor with Ruth Bradley, Erik Barnouw, and Scott MacDonald. Temple University Press.
• Editorial Boards: Wide Angle, Journal of Film and Video, The Moving Image “Remixing and Revisiting Within Our Gates," special dossier on Within Our Gates performance piece, funded by the Australian Film Commission, www.sensesofcinema.com, forthcoming.
• “Indian Popular Cinema," review, Asian Journal of Communication, forthcoming.
• “Looking for Buddha,” in Iftikar Dadi, ed. The Future is Handmade: The Survival and Innovation of Crafts, ( Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Prince Claus Fund Journal, #10a, 2004)154-167.
• “Computers, Visualization and History,” The Moving Image: Journal of the Association of Moving Image Archivists, forthcoming.
• “Les Leveque: Digital Reprocessing and Exorcising Film History,” The Moving Image: Journal of the Association of Moving Image Archivists, forthcoming.
• “Transnational Digital Imaginaries Revisited,” Interactive Fictions edited by Marsha Kinder and Tara McPherson, ( New York: Routledge Press, forthcoming).
• “Digital Deployments,” in Red, White and Blue: Independence in Dependence, edited by Christine Holmlund and Justin Wyatt, ( New York: Routledge Press, forthcoming).
• “Documentaries and Digitalities," Institute for the Humanities, University of New Hampshire, May 7, 2004.
• “Cinematic Ruins: The Archive and the Amateur," Institute for Global Studies, University of Minnesota, April 6, 2004.
• Workshop Roundtable speaker, “Sound Cultures: An International Workshop for Artists and Scholars,” Rose Goldsen Archive, Cornell University, Ithaca New York, September 13, 2003.
• “InVisible Histories: Theory, Project, Performance," Orphans Film Symposium, Columbia, South Carolina, March 27, 2004.
• “Towards a Theory of the Archive: The Nanook Score,” Visible Evidence XI, Bristol, England, December 16-19, 2003.
• Artistic Director and Producer, commissioned live music score, digital imaging prelude and coda, and recitative script for soprano for Robert Flaherty’s Nanook of the North (1922). Commissioned for the 50th Anniversary Tribute to the Robert Flaherty Film Seminars, June 2004. World Premiere, Ithaca College, April 26, 2004; National Premiere, 50th Robert Flaherty Film Seminar, Vassar College, June 12, 2004; New York City Premiere, Museum of Modern Art,