Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences

Alexander Hiland Ph.D is a Senior Lecturer in Communication & Media. After earning his doctorate from the University of Minnesota in 2017 he served as the Assistant Director of Debate at James Madison University and the Director of Forensics (speech and debate) at Texas Tech University. Dr. Hiland comes to RPI with 14 years of experience coaching students in competitive public speaking events and 11 years of teaching at the collegiate level. In the 2022-2023 Academic Year Dr. Hiland will be teaching Public Speaking and Communication Theory & Practice.

I am an empirical micro-economist who leverages experimental and quasi-experimental settings to address policy-relevant research questions in health and labor economics.My up-to-date cv is always available at conorjlennon.com/cv

Andy Fitzgerald is an Assistant Professor of Communication & Media at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. His research and teaching expertise include critical communication and cultural studies, technology and audience studies, media theory, and global media ethics. Fitzgerald is currently starting a lab at RPI to use the "Screenomics" screen-capture research framework that collects screenshots of participants devices every few seconds for longitudinal studies to conduct critical digital audience and mobile user studies.

See http://kryten.mm.rpi.edu/selmerbringsjord.html for latest CV and Bio. Info re. Bringsjord's Rensselaer AI & Reasoning (RAIR) Lab, now going strong for over two decades, available here: https://rair.cogsci.rpi.edu/.

June Deery works in Media Studies and writes on commercialization, politics, gender, race/ ethnicity, class, and Reality TV. For some time, she has been investigating cultural perceptions of fact and fiction and is currently exploring their status within a political context. In Consuming Reality: The Commercialization of Factual Entertainment (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012), she demonstrates how reality television monetizes and consumes reality through its branding of content and propagation of capitalist narratives.