Emerson faculty are active in their pursuit of research, creative practice, and the advancement of knowledge. Browse the Emerson Authors, Researchers and Creators (ARC) Project on Digital Commons.
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Research in Action
The Banjo Project
Visual and Media Arts professor Marc Fields began the creation of the Banjo Project, a digital museum and humanities project, in 1997. The project has been funded by two grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Popular Culture Association
Mapping Impactful Media Literacy Practices
Journalism professor Paul Mihailidis developed Mapping Impactful Media Literacy Practices in collaboration with the National Association for Media Literacy Education in 2020. The project reviewed media literacy interventions, interviewed with media literacy stakeholders, and produced a Field Guide for Equitable Media Literacy Practice.
Growing up Roxbury
Elma Lewis Center Executive Director and former first-year writing faculty Tamera Marko has been working on a digital humanities project called Growing Up Roxbury. This project, which received funding from Mass Humanities in 2023, began as the Elma Lewis Living Stories Project, focusing on Miss Lewis, one of Roxbury’s and Boston’s most important Black woman luminaries who worked in civil rights, education, and the arts.
Children Learning Language
Communication Sciences and Disorders associate professor Rhiannon Luyster is part of a collaborative research team funded by the National Institutes of Health that studies child language development, specifically how autistic and nonautistic parents interact through play with their autistic and nonautistic children.
EATS Lab
Communication Sciences and Disorders assistant professor Lindsay Griffin established the EATS Lab: Evaluation and Treatment of Swallowing at Emerson College, which conducts research on adults with or without swallowing difficulties (dysphagia).
Active Research News
- Growing Up Roxbury was funded by a Mass Humanities Grant
- Children Learning Language was funded by a National Institutes of Health (NIH) subaward (with New York University)
- EATS Lab is a faculty research project
- Holding Up The Sky is a documentary film and education project funded, in part, by a Mass Humanities grant
- Indigenous Language Politics in the Schoolroom (Mneesha Gellman) research was funded by 2 grants from the Sociological Initiatives Foundation and a Fulbright US Scholar Award (Mexico)
- Against White Interiority (Sam Binkley); research was funded by an internal grant through the Faculty Advancement Fund Grant (FAFG)
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