Kristin Sorensen

Education

• DPhil Indiana University
• MA University of Arizona
• B.A. University of Massachusetts

Teaching Interests

• Cross cultural understanding;
• Global Commerce and Human Rights in Chile;
• Global cinema;
• Human rights in the media;
• Environmental movements in the media;
• Documentary film and video

Research Interests

• Communication and culture;
• Media studies;
• Global cinema;
• Chile;
• Human rights;
• Environmental movements; historical memory studies

Consulting/Practice Interests

• Communication and culture;
• Media studies;
• Global cinema;
• Chile;
• Human rights;
• Environmental movements; historical memory studies

Awards and Honors

• 2022, Co-Best Arts and Sciences Honors Capstone Award, Bentley Honors Program
• 2022, Nominee - Who's Who in America, Marquis
• 2021, Nominee - Who's Who in America, Marquis
• 2019, Dr. Earl L. Avery MLK Leadership Award, Bentley University
• 2018, Recognition for Service, Faculty Senate
• 2014, Best Honors Capstone Award, Bentley University Honors Program
• 2013, Bentley Rainbow Award, LGBTQ@Bentley
• 2012, Best Honors Capstone Award, Bentley University Honors Program
• 2012, Dean's Fund for International Travel Award
• 2011, Outstanding Scholarly Contribution Award, Bentley University
• 2010, Publication Award, Bentley University
• 2010, Teaching Fellow, Bentley University Valente Center for the Arts and Sciences
• 2009, Dean's Fund for International Travel Award, Bentley University
• 2009, Publication Award, Bentley University
• 2009, W. Michael Hoffman Undergraduate Award for Best Paper in Business Ethics given to honors capstone advisee Amanda Mongell, Bentley University Center for Business Ethics
• 2006, Bentley Arts and Sciences Research Fellow
• 2006, Bentley Publication Award
• 2006, Dean's Fund for International Travel award for research in Chile
• 2006, First Prize in Bentley Summer Research Poster Competition
• 2005, Indiana University's Department of Communication and Culture Teaching Award for outstanding service in teaching Interpersonal Communication
• 2003, Indiana University's Graduate and Professional Student Organization Research Award
• 2003, Second Honors in the Association for the Study of the Cuban Economy paper contest for paper Post-revolutionary Cuban Cinema

Publications

Journal Articles

• Sorensen, K. I. (2011). Chilean Print Media and Human Rights: Mainstream Silence Versus Satirical Subversion. Peace and Change, (36) 3 400-426.
• Sorensen, K. I. (2010). The Case of Chilevision: Negotiating Difficult Discourses on Chilean Television. Cuadernos de Informacion, (January-June 2010) 26 87-98.
• Sorensen, K. I. (2008). Truth and Justice, Transience and Doubt in Chilean Documentary. Journal of Human Rights, (7) 4 341-352.
• Sorensen, K. I. (2003). Chilean Media and Discourses of Human Rights. SECOLAS Annals: Journal of Southeastern Council of Latin American Studies, (XXXV) Nov 2003 82-109.

Books

• Sorensen, K. I. (2015). Los medios, la memoria, y derechos humanos en Chile. Santiago: RiL Editores
• Sorensen, K. I. (2009). Media, Memory, and Human Rights in Chile. 186. New York: Palgrave Macmillan

Book Chapters

• Sorensen, K. I. (2016). New Media, Collapsed Boundaries, and Hybridized Identities in the Context of Contemporary Chile In Ben Aslinger and Germaine Halegoua, (Eds.) Locating Emerging Media. Routledge
• Sorensen, K. I. (2015). Communication for Memory and Peace: Articulating Violence in Post-Repressive Contexts In Julia Hoffmann and Virgil Hawkins, (Eds.) Communication and Peace: Charting an Emerging Field. Routledge
• Gordon, N., Sorensen, K. I. (2012). Jamaica and Chile Online: Assessing the Uses of and Access to the Internet in a Developing World Context In Pauline Hope Cheong, Judith Martin, and Leah Macfadyen, (Eds.) New Media and Intercultural Communication: Identity, Community, and Politics. 275-289. New York: Peter Lang Publishing
• Sorensen, K. I. (2011). U.S. Foreign Policy in Latin America on Film: The Case of Salvador In Kimberly Moffitt and Duncan Campbell, (Eds.) The 1980s: A Critical and Transitional Decade. 369-379. New York: Lexington Books: A Division of Rowman & Littlefield, Publishers
• Sorensen, K. I. (2011). Chilean Historical Memory, Media, and Discourses of Human Rights In Kendall R. Phillips, Mitch Reyes, (Eds.) Global Memoryscapes: Contesting Remembrance in a Transnational Age. 159-172. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press
• Sorensen, K. I. (2005). Reception and Censorship of a Chilean Documentary: The Plight of Fernando Is Back In Nagy-Zekmi, Silvia; Leiva, Fernando, (Eds.) Democracy in Chile: The Legacy of September 11, 1973. 192-201. Sussex, United Kingdom: Sussex Academic Press