Dafna Lemish
Decemeber 2010 Radio-Television Faculty news updates.
Radio-Television - Phylis Johnson and Jan Thompson
Phylis Johnson and Jan Thompson have been recognized in an award ceremony for their years of service to SIUC in the Provost and Vice Chancellor area, on Friday December 3rd. Phylis has been with SIUC for 20 years and Jan for 10 years.
Radio-Television - David R Burns, Wago Kreider, HD Motyl, Jacob Podber
Four members of RT are presenting their creative work in the SIUC museum faculty exhibit: David Burns, Wago Kreider, Howard Motyl, and Jake Podber.
Radio-Television students Gabrielle Ntsimi and Brittney Edwards
Two RT students in the media industries sequence from this Fall's programming class have been accepted as interns for the National Association of Television Programming Executives (NATPE) international conference in Miami this coming January. Gabrielle Ntsimi and Brittney Edwards were selected from among hundreds of applicants who are studying the electronic media at universities throughout the nation. Interns help with information distribution, registration, seminar seating, publications distribution and other assignments that make the meeting go smoothly. The NATPE Educational Foundation pays the cost of conference registration, provides meals and covers the cost of housing at the Fontainebleu, Miami Beach for one week in January 2011, but the students are responsible for their own travel arrangements. The conference is not open to the public thus the student interns receive a unique, behind-the-scenes view of the television industry. Interns put in long hours but each student has an all access pass to the conference.
Radio-Television - Jacob Pobder
Jacob Podber attended the Oral History Association National Conference in Atlanta, GA, in October, where his article “Television’s Arrival in the Appalachian Mountains of the US: An Oral History," published in the journal Media History, was recognized as the 2010 Outstanding Article of the Year Award - Honorable Mention.
J. Bruce Baumann, Picture Editor-in-Residence at Southern Illinois University and the retired editor of The Evansville Courier & Press is the winner of this year's National Press Photographers Association's Clifton C. Edom Award.
The award recognizes an individual in the tradition of Cliff Edom to inspire and motivate photojournalists to reach new heights. Edom taught at the University of Missouri for 29 years, founded the Missouri Photo Workshop and is credited with coining the term "photojournalism."
Baumann was NPPA's Region 4 Photographer of the Year in 1968 and 1969 while shooting for the Sunday Courier & Press, and in 1970 while working for the Grand Rapids Press in Michigan. He received NPPA's highest honor, the Joseph A. Sprague Award, in 1992, an NPPA's President's Award in 1973, the John Durniak Mentor Award in 2007 and the Jim Gordon Editor of the Year Award in 2005.
He started his journalism career as a sports intern at the Evansville Courier while a student at Central High School, and he went on to work at daily newspapers in Dubuque, Iowa; Grand Rapids, Mich; Mansfield, Ohio; San Jose, Calif.; Pittsburgh and Monterey, Calif.
He also worked as a picture editor, designer and photographer at National Geographic magazine and is a past president of the Indiana News Photographers Association.
The award was presented Saturday during a Convergence '10 workshop at the Francis Marion Hotel in Charleston, S.C.
ABOY Poetry Award: First Place - Rita Quillen of Gate City, VA for Her Secret Dream
Poetry Judges: Jane Hicks, Robert Cumming, and Joyce Brown
ABOY Fiction Award: First Place - Holly Farris of Draper, VA for Lockjaw
Second Place - Garry Barker of Flemingsburg, KY for Kentucky Waltz
Third Place - Jimmy Carl Harris of Birmingham, AL for Wounds that Bind
Fiction Judges: Tamara Baxter, Thomas Alan Holmes, and Robert Lockhart
ABOY NonFiction Award: First Place - Sidney Saylor Farr of Berea, KY for My Appalachia: A Memoir
Second Place - Claude Lafie Crumb for River of Words: James Still's - Literary Legacy
Third Place - Jacob Podber of SIU Carbondale, IL for The Electric Front Porch
Nonfiction Judges: Janice B. Miller, Julie Hale, and Kimberley Holloway
CARBONDALE, Ill. -- Jyotsna Kapur, an associate professor in cinema studies and sociology at Southern Illinois University Carbondale, is a Fulbright award recipient.
Kapur will be at The Xavier Institute of Communications in Mumbai, India. She will also lecture at other universities during her six-month stay.
"The Fulbright offers a terrific opportunity to interact with and teach media students in the cultural capital of India's popular film industry," she said.
The lectures will be on "Hollywood's re-imagining of childhood and the relationship between children's cinema, media and consumer-driven culture since the 1980s," said Kapur. The lectures will be based on her 2005 book, "Coining for Capital: Movies, Marketing and the Transformation of Childhood."
"How a new generation is globally resisting and being integrated into contemporary capitalism and the part played by the media in this remains a core area of my research," she said.
In 2007, Kapur received an "Excellence Through Commitment" top scholar award from the College of Mass Communication and Media Arts. In April, she eared the college's top teaching award.
"We are very proud that Dr. Kapur has received the second research Fulbright in our college in the past year," Dean Gary P. Kolb said. "This is a testament to the important research that our faculty are conducting on the international stage and the growing recognition of the quality of our programs in the College of Mass Communication and Media Arts here at SIUC."
Kapur came to SIUC as a visiting assistant professor in 1998. She earned undergraduate and graduate degrees in 1983, 1986 and 1991, respectively, in India. Kapur earned a master's degree in 1992 from Cornell University in Ithaca, N.Y, and a doctorate from Northwestern University in 1998.
She has held a cross-appointment in the Department of Cinema and Photography and the Department of Sociology since 2005.
During her six-month stay in India, Kapur will also complete a collaborative digital video co-production involving three SIUC cinema and photography students and students from Xavier Institute of Communications. Nicholas Nylen, Jonathan Klemke and Danielle Williamson started working with Kapur and other faculty members on the independent study project last year.
The SIUC portion of the film centers on the story of an Indian gentleman who works in an American call center for a corporate printing firm. He learns his job is being outsourced overseas to, of all places, India. While other employees accept incentive packages to leave, the man resists. He calls the company's help line and talks with a woman in India who inspires him to continue the fight.
The SIUC effort focuses on themes of love and religion, "choosing to interpret it critically and cynically about the current economy," Kapur said. "Our project is about the love for money raised to the level of religion."
Students from Xavier Institute of Communications chose themes dealing with terrorism and living alone in a big city. Each group chose different formats, Kapur said, explaining the SIUC film is "experimental, playful and flamboyant," while the Indian students' work is more realistic and somber.
The films will integrate, said Kapur, who will work with students in India and talk to the SIUC students via the Internet. Youssef Osman, a graduate student who assisted in the project, will continue to work with Klemke, Nylen and Williamson, Kapur said.
"It is a great deal of time and effort that has gone into this so far, but true education, where people collaborate and bring their individual visions, takes such investment," Kapur said.
Source: Saluki Times
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CARBONDALE, Ill. - Four women from Southern Illinois University Carbondale received Women of Distinction awards Wednesday, March 28, as the capstone to SIUC's celebration of Women's History Month.
Faculty honorees were Frances J. Harackiewicz, professor of electrical and computer engineering, and Beverly J. Love, a lecturer in radio-television. Staff awards went to Tracy M.G. Lake, an accountant in the University Programming office, and track and field head coach Connie M. Price-Smith.
Given annually by SIUC's University Professional Advancement office, these awards recognize commitment to diversity, professional leadership and service to the University and community.
Here's a closer look at the honorees.
Harackiewicz, the engineering college's first female full professor, helped found a campus chapter of Women in Science and Engineering. She plays an active role in summer programs and special events aimed at expanding the number of women in science, mathematics and engineering fields. She also serves as a classroom reader for young children and conducts science experiments for them.
Harackiewicz is a three-degree graduate of the University of Massachusetts Amherst, earning her bachelor's in 1984, her master's in 1986 and her doctorate in 1990. She came to SIUC in 1989 and lives in Carbondale.
A native of Chicopee, Mass., Harackiewicz is the daughter of Chicopee resident Frances C. Harackiewicz and the late Joseph M. Harackiewicz.
Love, who began teaching at SIUC in 1998, also mentors young women and minority undergraduates, does public speaking, performs, and often serves as an on-air host for the campus public radio and television stations. In addition, she is working on a doctorate in instructional technology.
Love grew up in Rock Hill, S.C., earning her bachelor's from Rock Hill's Winthrop University in 1971 and her master's from the University of South Carolina Columbia in 1980. She expects to defend her dissertation this June.
The daughter of Rock Hill resident Eva B. Love and the late Osie E. Love. Love lives in Carbondale.
Lake, an SIUC employee since 1999, serves as a fraternity adviser and teaches a distance learning course in addition to her work in accountancy management and support, where she makes diversity part of her daily tasks.
Now a Carterville resident, Lake grew up in Mukwonago, Wis. Her parents are Racine residents David S. and Faye A. Austin . A two-degree graduate of SIUC, Lake earned her bachelor's in 1997 and her master's in 2001.
Price-Smith, a basketball Saluki who went on to become a four-time Olympian in track and field and was the first American woman to achieve world ranking in the shot put five consecutive years, came back to her alma mater in 2001 as head coach of women's track and field. Three years later, she became head coach of both men and women's programs.
Price-Smith recently was named head coach of women's track and field for this year's Pan American Games and has been nominated to the coaching staff of the U.S. Olympiad track and field team for next year's games in Beijing.
A native of St. Charles, Mo., Price-Smith is the daughter of St. Charles resident Ella M. Price. She lives in Carbondale.
CARBONDALE, Ill. - Southern Illinois University Carbondale honored nine faculty members as outstanding teachers April 26 during the University's "Excellence Through Commitment" awards dinner at the Student Center.
Gary A. Apgar, selected by the College of Agricultural Sciences, Nazeith M. Botros, selected by the College of Engineering, Gregory Budzban, selected by the College of Science, Wallace N. "Dave" Davidson, selected by the College of Business and Administration, Ronda R. DeMattei, selected by the College of Applied Sciences and Arts, Kathryn A. Hytten, selected by the College of Education and Human Services, Alice M. Noble-Allgire, selected by the School of Law, Jan I. Roddy, selected by the College of Mass Communication and Media Arts, and S. Jonathan Wiesen, selected by the College of Liberal Arts, each will receive $3,000 outright plus a matching amount through the Office of the Provost to support professional activities during the next fiscal year.
Roddy, a faculty member in the Department of Cinema & Photography since 1988, teaches a broad range of courses including entry-level production and graduate history, theory and studio seminars. She has developed new courses on digital imaging and in advanced topics such as art and politics and self as subject. She revamped the undergraduate photographic history sequence and served as an integral part of the team that developed the department's interdisciplinary MFA. In all her classes, Roddy blends theory with practice, technical skills with scrutiny of content. As coordinator of the department's Visiting Artist Series and liaison with the University's Visiting Artists Program, she helps bring practicing artists and their work not just to the students but to the community as well.
Roddy earned her bachelor's in 1985 from the New College of California and her master of fine arts degree in 1987 from the University of Illinois.
CARBONDALE, Ill. - Southern Illinois University Carbondale honored nine faculty members for outstanding scholarly work Thursday, April 26, during the University's "Excellence Through Commitment" awards dinner at the Student Center.
Om P. Agrawal, selected by the College of Engineering, She-Kong Chong, selected by the College of Agricultural Sciences, Jon D. Davey, selected by the College of Applied Sciences and Arts, Jyotsna Kapur, selected by the College of Mass Communication and Media Arts, Steven J. Karau, selected by the College of Business and Administration, Christopher C. Kohler, selected by the College of Science, Robbie Lieberman, selected by the College of Liberal Arts, Patricia R. McCubbin, selected by the School of Law, and Linda A. Toth, selected by the School of Medicine, each will receive $3,000 outright plus a matching amount through the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research to support professional activities during the next fiscal year. Each scholar also receives a wristwatch courtesy of the SIU Alumni Association.
Kapur, a faculty member in the Department of Cinema and Photography with a cross-appointment in the Department of Sociology, has written a book called "Coining for Capital: Movies, Marketing, and the Transformation of Childhood," describing how the portrayal of childhood in films made for children has changed over time. The book, with its interdisciplinary approach, has received favorable review from such publications as "The Journal of International Communication," "The Journal of American Culture," and "The Journal of Social History." Last year, her chapter on Harry Potter was translated into Chinese for inclusion in a leading Chinese trade journal.
Kapur joined the SIUC faculty in 1998. A three-degree graduate of Delhi University, she earned a bachelor's there in 1983, a master's in 1986 and a second master's in 1991. She also earned a master's in 1992 from Cornell University and a doctorate in 1998 from Northwestern University.
CARBONDALE, Ill. -- A book by Jacob J. Podber that offers a unique look at the arrival and impact of radio, television and the Internet on rural Appalachia is receiving literary honors.
"The Electronic Front Porch: An Oral History of the Arrival of Modern Media in Rural Appalachia and the Melungeon Community," recently received the 2008 Ray and Pat Browne Literary Book Award for the Best Focused Study in Popular and American Culture. The Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association presented the award.
Podber is an associate professor in Southern Illinois University Carbondale's Department of Radio-Television. Podber began his work while a doctoral student at Ohio University in Athens, Ohio, which is in Appalachian Ohio. Mercer University Press released the book in fall 2007.
"It's a great honor to have my book chosen for the best book award by such a diverse organization that covers such a wide array of fields and disciplines" Podber said.
Podber earned a doctorate of philosophy in mass communications from Ohio University, a master's degree in film from Columbia University, and a bachelor's degree in theater from the University of Florida.
CARBONDALE, Ill. -- For Cade Bursell, the opportunity to hone her creative filmmaking skills during an upcoming month-long residency will not only benefit her work, but also enable her to offer more creative strategies to her Southern Illinois University Carbondale students.
Bursell, an assistant professor in SIUC's Department of Cinema & Photography, recently earned a four-week National Endowment for the Arts International Digital Filmmaker Residency at Squeaky Wheel, Buffaloís Media Arts Center.
Bursell will participate in the residency later this fall. The residency is for a mid-career international experimental filmmaker interested in exploring digital media more fully, she said.
"Being able to work with other artists learn new software and have time to complete new work is a wonderful opportunity" she said. "It's a great opportunity to learn from the folks there and return with new skills that combine film and digital technologies in interesting ways."
Bursell's work covers a wide range of creative, socially engaged media arts practices focusing on human rights and environmental issues. Her work with motion picture film focuses on the hand-made; the manipulation of the film, including literally painting and scratching it. She experiments with the film image and soundtrack in order to impact how the viewer engages with the content.
During the residency, Bursell will present a workshop on sound and place, curate a program of films, including the work she will complete during the residency, and talk with a group of young filmmakers who are making documentaries about the environment.
"My work has to do with humans, nature and the environment and our responsibility and connection to the places we live" she said.
The residency, which will allow her to work creatively with digital media, provides opportunities for filmmakers who may not have access to these programs or "time to explore a different way of working" Bursell said. She will have a month to focus on production and post-production work on one of her current films, which focuses on how climate change will impact the Midwest landscape.
Bursell will have access to a film editing suite, a digital editing suite, and technical support. The residency also includes a stipend, provides housing and covers travel costs.
"It's going to help in my own work but also expand what I can teach"she said. "It's a challenge to keep up with the changes in my field. Digital technologies have had quite an impact on the filmmaking workflow."
Bursell is in her fifth year at SIUC, where she teaches film production, experimental film, queer cinema, and a graduate-level interdisciplinary environmental arts practice course that focuses on the Shawnee National Forest and Cache River. She received her master's of fine arts in cinema from San Francisco State University. She has taught at San Francisco State University, the San Francisco Art Institute and Film Arts Foundation before coming to SIUC in 2003. Her experimental films have screened internationally.
She is grateful for the support of Gary P. Kolb, dean of the University's College of Mass Communication and Media Arts, and Deborah Tudor, cinema & photography department chair.
"Luckily, I'm in a college and department that is supportive and sees the value of continued faculty development" she said.
"We in the college are proud and excited to see Cade receive this prestigious international recognition," Kolb said. "¨It is a testament to the quality, beauty, and intelligence of her work as a filmmaker. Over her years with us Cade has consistently demonstrated her commitment to her craft and she is highly deserving of this honor."
Bursell's most recent work, submitted with the grant application, "Heron Pond: Boardwalk View," was selected earlier this month for screening in the Ninth Annual Planet in Focus Environmental Film and Video Festival. The festival takes place Oct. 22-26, in Toronto. The film, based on impressions of Heron Pond, details the changes in the pond over the course of one year.
For more information, contact Bursell at 618/453-2360.
The Center's website: www.squeaky.org/
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