Recent Achievements

• Ian Koebner spoke to WWFM about the school’s efforts in the area of arts in health. DEAN’S OFFICE
• MyungJin Oh presented her paper “Chopin, Delacroix, and Improvisational Auditory-Visual Timbre” at the Joint Annual Meeting of the American Musicological Society and the Society for Music Theory in Minneapolis on November 6. Her presentation examined the interplay of sound and sight that shapes timbral perception in the human body, drawing on Chopin’s musical embodiment and Delacroix’s visual aesthetics to propose a new, multi-sensory understanding of timbre. MUSIC
• Interim Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Director of Research Stephanie Cronenberg edited a new volume, Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Arts and Arts Integrated Learning for Middle Level Education, set to publish on October 28. MUSIC/DEAN’S OFFICE
• Jeff Friedman authored the chapter “Oral History, Gender Identity, and Gender Expression: Theoretical Frameworks and Case Studies on the Embodied Interview” in The Handbook of Global Oral History, with a print edition forthcoming from Bloomsbury in 2026. DANCE
• Alessandra Williams is featured in the Institute for the Study of Global Racial Justice‘s Archive Spotlight. Williams led a residency with David Roussève’s REALITY company, immersing Rutgers dance students in queer Black movement and intersectional choreography. DANCE
• Atif Akin created O, an installation on crude oil silos in Istanbul using Perlin noise algorithms to visualize pressure. The project merges art, science, and sustainability, with materials later repurposed into colorful blankets. ART & DESIGN
• Valerie Ramshur collaborated with with Christopher Cartmill and Bret McCandless on an article titled “Wandering Minds, Staged Discoveries: Exploring Indirect and Direct Research in Dramaturgy, Design, and Library Instruction,” which was published in the Theater Library Association’s Performing Arts Resources, Volume 37. THEATER
• Sue Huang received a Rutgers Research Council Grant for her project “Total Archive: Science, AI, and the Collective Memory.” ART & DESIGN
• Evelyn Wang received a Rutgers Research Council Grant for her project Silent Utterances, three performances by OcampoWang Dance that ran September 12 and 13 at Loree Dance Theater. DANCE

Research Spotlights