While this list focuses on areas of research, it does not include underrepresented faculty whose work may not focuses on DEI areas. See our faculty research page for more info.

• Kim Akass, Radio, Television & Film (RTF), focuses her scholarship on depictions of women, especially mothers, in American television.
  
  
• Amanda Almon, RTF and Biomedical Art & Visualization (BMAV), was part of a team of students and faculty that created a Warsaw ghetto virtual experience that was intended to be implemented in New Jersey’s Holocaust curriculum requirement.
  
  
• Megan Atwood, Writing Arts, founded Singularity Press, which focuses on underrepresented voices. The ultimate goals is ​ to turn profits from the company into scholarships for marginalized students interested in publishing. Atwood is also an enthusiastic proponent of We Need Diverse Books in the children's lit community.
  
  
• Mark Berkey-Gerard and Dianne Garyantes, Journalism, work as faculty support for the South Jersey Climate News, a student-run online newspaper focusing on sustainability efforts and news in this region.
  
  
• Jennifer Blaylock, RTF, is a film and media historian with research interests in audio-visual archives, postcolonial and decolonial theory, and African studies.
  
  
• Keith Brand, RTF, queer studies and currently working on documentary about Philadelphia-based civil rights activist Kiyoshi Kuromiya.
  
  
• Garrett Broad, Communication Studies and our soon-to-be Sustainability “Czar,” focuses his research on “food's relationship to environmental sustainability, economic equity, and the health of humans and nonhumans alike.”
  
  
• Katie Budris, Writing Arts and editor-in-chief of Glassworks, nominated Zorina Exie Frey’s “Pee is for Prejudice” for a Pushcart Prize. Frey she was named a winner of this prestigious award.
  
  
• Patti Coughlan, Communication Studies, works as a neurodiversity fellow for the Center for Neurodiversity here at Rowan.
  
  
• Joy Cypher, Communication Studies, works primarily in disability studies.
  
  
• Miles Coleman and Angela Cirucci, Communication Studies, co-chair the university-wide first gen task force. Coleman’s birdbot project also deals with sustainability and the effects of loss of natural habitats in New Jersey. Cirrucci’s work studies how digital spaces impact the lives of traditionally underrepresented communities.
  
  
• Jenny Drumgoole, RTF and Photography, inserts herself into marginal spaces with subversive actions that question our obsessions with celebrity, desire, and the limits and illusions of individuality in popular culture and political spheres, reaching communities and audiences outside of the traditional gallery setting. She uses humor, parody and satire as a means of social and institutional critique.
  
  
• Julie Haynes, Communication Studies, explores how categories of identity, such as gender, race, and class, influence public discourse, particularly in mediated and pop culture settings.
  
  
• Celine Hong and Bo Kim, Public Relations & Advertising (PR/ADV), were awarded a Camden Health Initiatives grant for $200,000 to study “Health Communication Campaign and Practice for Camden: Exploring the Variables Associated with Healthy Dietary Behaviors to Overcome Obesity Among Camden Residents Using Hierarchical Linear Model.”
  
  
• Celine Hong has also submitted a $385,568 NIH grant, Health Campaign for Underrepresented groups in NJ.
  
  
• Andrew Hottle, Communication Studies, is an art historian whose research focuses on the work of women, with particular emphasis on feminist art of the 1970s.
  
  
• Ted Howell, Writing Arts, has a joint appointment with Earth and Environment. His teaching and research focuses on environmental and sustainability issues, specifically climate change. 
  
  
• Candace Kelley, Journalism, is a “five-time Emmy®-nominated multimedia journalist and legal analyst. She has covered high-profile stories throughout her career, including the Derek Chauvin trial and the shooting of Ahmaud Arbery. Kelley has appeared on Court TV, PBS, Extra, BET Nightly News, BNC, and WCBS and has written for The Huffington Post, Black Star News, and AdWeek…. She is certified DE&I consultant and served on the New Jersey Department of Law and Public Safety's Domestic Violence Response Team.”
  
  
• Heather Lanier, Writing Arts, is a poet and memoirist whose work focuses on issues of child and disability advocacy, especially through her book Raising a Rare Girl.
  
  
• Krys Lemonias, Art, is an interdisciplinary visual artist, labor activist, and art educator. She is primarily influenced by her research on social class privilege, citizenship, labor rights, and how economic inequality affects Black communities.
• Jon Mason’s, RTF, HIGH, a virtually produced movie, focuses on what is now the most dangerous job in the U.S., cell-phone climbing. His previous works are international in subject matter and locale.
  
  
• Diana Nicolae’s, RTF, documentaries focus on Eastern Europe and Post-Communism Romania.
  
  
• Alison Novak, PR/ADV, co-chairs the Affordability Task Force and has written and received grants to support these efforts.
  
  
• Jon Olshefski’s, RTF, filmmaking has focused on underrepresented groups. His Sundance winning film, Quest, was a cinema verite exploration of the life of a black, north Philadelphia family, and his Without Arrows follows the life of an indigenous American who travels between Philadelphia and his South Dakota reservation.
  
  
• Amy Reed, Writing Arts, focuses on women in health situations, especially analyzing the role of stigma in medical communication--including stigma about Down syndrome in prenatal testing discourse and stigma about addiction in substance use disorder discourse.
  
  
• Julie Richmond, PR/ADV, has written articles on topics explore how gender is performed on various social media platforms to sell products and investigated country-of-origin bias that exists in coverage of the social media posts.
  
  
• Rachel Shapiro’s, Writing Arts, article “Transnational Networks of Literacy and Materiality: Coltan, Sexual Violence, and Digital Literacy” won the 2020 Richard C. Ohmann Award for Outstanding Article in the flagship journal College English. This work connects “conflict minerals and sexual assault in the Democratic Republic of Congo to consider our global and economic interconnectedness, the role of colonial histories, and the material consequences of our work.”
  
  
• Lauren Smith, Communication Studies and Sports CaM, conducts research that focuses on issues of gender, race, and national identity. She primarily analyzes how athletes are portrayed in the media, as well as how new technologies enhance a fan's enjoyment of a game
  
  
• Chris Winkler, RTF, was part of a $500,000 NSF grant that created virtual experiences in STEM careers to give students in low socio-economic high schools exposure to possible future careers.
  
  
• Winkler is also part of a new $2,829,164 proposal: Racial Equity: Promoting Anti-Bias Education Professionals, and Removing Systemic Barriers by Centering Voices of Racially Minoritized Women in STEM.

There are many initiatives going on in the college including:

• Syllabi review in RTF for inclusive content
• Extensive work in anti-racist pedagogies in Writing Arts
• Creatives 230 and their work with underserved communities

New spring 2023 sourses focusing specifically on DEI themes included:

• African American Film History, Shari Thompson (RTF)
• Identity on Television, Kim Akass (RTF)
• Special Problems in Art History - Harlem Renaissance, Beatrice Carey (Art)
• Spoken Word Poetry, Stephen Cobb (Writing Arts)
• Women & Nonbinary Identities in Sports Communication, Kate Harman (Communication Studies / Spots CaM)

• The college’s teaching of courses with LEAP Academy and the Camden City Schools
• Participation in the ROPES grant, beyond offering composition courses
• Civic Information Consortium