Area of Research / Interest: Critical Communication and Cultural Studies, Black/African American Rhetorics, Science and Technology Studies
Undergraduate Education Institution: Brooklyn College, CUNY
Undergraduate Major: Communication, Visual & Media Studies
Biography: isaiah is a poet and researcher originally from Vermont. As a scholar of communication and media, they study the challenges associated with race and colony in mediatized societies. They focus on people of the African diaspora, media and cultural politics, technology, rhetoric, performance, government and public policy, and international affairs. Their writing has been published by Obsidian: Arts & Literature in the African Diaspora, and FLAT Journal, along with books by Slope Editions and Roof Books. They are a graduate assistant at the New York State Council on Developmental Disabilities. Their debut collection null landing was the recipient of the 2020 Slope Editions Book Prize and a finalist for the 2023 Legacy Award in Poetry from the Zora Neale Hurston/Richard Wright Foundation.
Email: hinesi@rpi.edu