ISD6: Communication & Social Justice

We hosted a research symposium (Healthy Communities, Inclusive Storytelling, and Data Justice) in November 2022 at Syracuse University, Although this symposium did not receive funding from the CNY Humanities Corridor, it emerged from and was made possible through the writing retreat in Sept 2022. The purpose of the day-long CODE^SHIFT Research Symposium at Syracuse University was to build community, create networks and partnerships for collaborative multi-site grant projects, and get feedback on research projects. It included scholars from Upstate Medical Center, Cornell University, SUNY Albany, Dartmouth College, Hofstra College, U of Buffalo, James Madison University, and Newhouse School at Syracuse University. The symposium focused on relationship-building and grant writing. Many thanks to PhD students ( Kandice Green, Ryan Wen, Tiara Johnson, & Raiana de Carvalho), postdoc Dr. Martina Santia, and health comm faculty Dr. Rebecca Ortiz & Dr. Hua Jiang for co-facilitating the symposium. Shout-out to Dr. Helen Wang for leading the impromptu networking session and for all small group leaders for taking notes in our grant-writing sessions. Once a month or so, Srivi Ramasubramanian sends out a newsletter with upcoming research opportunities relating to health disparities and communication to this group. Monica Cornejo (Cornell) and Srivi Ramasubramanian (Syracuse U) are planning to submit a grant proposal on Immigrants and Media this upcoming year to work with local community networks on their media use. Monica Cornejo (Cornell) and Srivi Ramasubramanian (Syracuse U) are working with grad students (Shumaila Bhatti, SUNY-ESF and Shannon Burth, SU) on a bibliometric analysis of undocumented immigrants in the media for submission to the International Comm Association conference in 2024. Srivi Ramasubramanian (SU), Kaur-Gill, S, (Dartmouth) & Robinson, T. (Hofstra) are working on a book chapter on “De-whitening health communication methodologies: Critical autoethnography as an embodied approach to health disparities research”. In R. Ahmed, Y. Mao, & P. Jain (Eds.), Handbook of Communication and Health Disparities, Palgrave. SU grad students at Newhouse started a grad conference called Springboard this past year where we invited both Cornell, RIT, and other non member participants from Albany and Buffalo. Although they were not able to attend this year, we hope to be able to visit one another this upcoming year for such research workshops, symposia, and conferences. Faiz Kidwai (SUNY-Upstate) and team is collaborating with Ramasubramanian (SU) on a podcast on mental health. We will likely invite members of the working group as speakers to this series.