Meet the (New) SOC Faculty, Part 1
Here’s the first of two Emerson Today posts that will help you get to know the newest full-time instructors in the School of Communication.
School of Communication Students Take on Summer Internships
Amid a global pandemic, School of Communication students took on a range of communication summer internships — formative experiences spent working under political nonprofits, video production companies, major league sport teams and more.
Podcast: Let’s Talk About Race with Cheryl Owsley Jackson and Heather May
Emerson professors Cheryl Owsley Jackson, a bi-racial woman that identifies as black and Heather May, who identifies as a cisgender white women, are featured in this Campus on the Common episode, ‘Let’s Talk About Race.’
Mihailidis Leads $250K National Media Literacy Research Initiative
Rapid advancements in communication technologies have complicated the 60-year-old field of media literacy, and now its role and educational practices are being researched, assessed and developed through a quarter-million research grant led in part by Emerson College’s School of Communication.
With Entertainment for Change, Jade Zaroff ‘16 Combines Arts and Activism
As founder of the nonprofit organization Entertainment for Change (EFC), Jade Zaroff ’16 is connecting children with artists nationwide via online classes aimed at empowering youth on how to lead through art and activism.
First Business of Creative Enterprises Graduating Class Leaves Mark with Real Clients
Julia Perry ‘20 and her Business of Creative Enterprises (BCE) cohort made Emerson College history this spring when they became the first-ever graduating class in its BCE undergrad program. Beyond the College, the small cohort of 30-plus students left a lasting impression with real-world clients after they provided six local partners with applicable creative business services.
Journalism Students Take on Social Change with Multimedia Website Projects
Through the first half of the spring 2020 semester, students in the Journalism course TV News Magazine and Documentary had been developing short documentaries on subjects related to social change. But when production was disrupted by COVID-19 restrictions, they, along with Assistant Professor Gino Canella, saw the opportunity to expand their projects into multimedia websites, with deeply satisfying results.
Emersonians Help Lithuanian Government with Global Communications
The International Public Relations course in the Communication Studies department focuses on global and international media relations, social media, branding, media management, crisis communication, and policy. Students of the class then apply those concepts at GlobComm, coordinating across geographic, cultural, language, religious, technological, and national differences — just as they would in a professional setting.
Broadcast Journalism Students ‘Reporting from the Frontline’ with Alumni
In any other year, the students in Associate Professor Marsha Della Giustina’s broadcast journalism capstone class would have spent the semester producing their own half-hour television program about a topic of their choice. Each student would have contributed to each of their classmates’ programs, in roles such as anchor, reporter, or associate producer.
E3 Student Entrepreneurs Prove Creative, Resilient
Started in 2005, the E3 minor in Emerson’s School of Communication (SOC) is a yearlong immersive program designed to teach students from all majors how to build and launch their own business ventures. Directed by Lu Ann Reeb, Senior Executive-in-Residence in Marketing Communication, this year’s E3 class went remote along with the rest of the college in March due to the COVID-19 crisis. , leaving Reeb to instruct students both one-on-one and as a group across five time zones and four countries — including China, India, Costa Rica and the U.S.