Professional Memberships
Cultural Studies Association PresentInternational Communication Association PresentLatin American Studies Association PresentNational Communication Association PresentNew England Council for Latin American Studies PresentSociety for Cinema and Media Studies PresentAwards and Honors
2022, Co-Best Arts and Sciences Honors Capstone Award, Bentley Honors Program2022, Nominee - Who's Who in America, Marquis2021, Nominee - Who's Who in America, Marquis2019, Dr. Earl L. Avery MLK Leadership Award, Bentley University2018, Recognition for Service, Faculty Senate2014, Best Honors Capstone Award, Bentley University Honors Program2013, Bentley Rainbow Award, LGBTQ@Bentley2012, Best Honors Capstone Award, Bentley University Honors Program2012, Dean's Fund for International Travel Award2011, Outstanding Scholarly Contribution Award, Bentley University2010, Publication Award, Bentley University2010, Teaching Fellow, Bentley University Valente Center for the Arts and Sciences2009, Dean's Fund for International Travel Award, Bentley University2009, Publication Award, Bentley University2009, W. Michael Hoffman Undergraduate Award for Best Paper in Business Ethics given to honors capstone advisee Amanda Mongell, Bentley University Center for Business Ethics2006, Bentley Arts and Sciences Research Fellow2006, Bentley Publication Award2006, Dean's Fund for International Travel award for research in Chile2006, First Prize in Bentley Summer Research Poster Competition2005, Indiana University's Department of Communication and Culture Teaching Award for outstanding service in teaching Interpersonal Communication2003, Indiana University's Graduate and Professional Student Organization Research Award2003, Second Honors in the Association for the Study of the Cuban Economy paper contest for paper Post-revolutionary Cuban CinemaPublications
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 EditoresSorensen, 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. RoutledgeSorensen, 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. RoutledgeGordon, 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 PublishingSorensen, 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, PublishersSorensen, 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 PressSorensen, 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
Book Reviews
Sorensen, K. I. (2024). [Review of the book Textures of Terror: The Murder of Claudina Isabel Velásquez and Her Father’s Quest for Justice ]. CHOICE: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries, (61) 6 (Link)Sorensen, K. I. (2023). [Review of the book A History of Chile 1808-2018, Third Edition ]. CHOICE: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries, (61) 1 (Link)Sorensen, K. I. (2023). [Review of the book Pop Culture, Politics, and the News: Entertainment Journalism in the Polarized Media Landscape ]. CHOICE: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries, (60) 9 (Link)Sorensen, K. I. (2023). [Review of the book From Threatening Guerrillas to Forever Illegals: U.S. Central Americans and the Cultural Politics of Non-Belonging ]. CHOICE: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries, (60) 5 (Link)Sorensen, K. I. (2022). [Review of the book Surviving Mexico: Resistance and Resilience among Journalists in the Twenty-First Century ]. CHOICE: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries, (60) 3 (Link)Sorensen, K. I. (2022). [Review of the book The Anthropology of Peace and Reconciliation: Pax Humana ]. CHOICE: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries, (59) 10 (Link) Forthcoming.Sorensen, K. I. (2022). [Review of the book Fighting Unemployment in Twentieth-Century Chile ]. CHOICE: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries, (59) 6 (Link)Sorensen, K. I. (2021). [Review of the book How We Use Stories and Why That Matters ]. CHOICE: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries, (58) 7 (Link)Sorensen, K. I. (2019). [Review of the book P.C. Chang and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights ]. CHOICE: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries. (Link)Sorensen, K. I. (2019). [Review of the book Transmitted Wounds: Media and the Mediation of Trauma ]. CHOICE: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries. (Link)Sorensen, K. I. (2019). [Review of the book Technicolored: Reflections on Race in the Time of TV ]. CHOICE: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries. (Link)Sorensen, K. I. (2019). [Review of the book Human Rights in Thick and Thin Societies: Universality without Uniformity ]. CHOICE: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries. (Link)Sorensen, K. I. (2018). [Review of the book Beyond the Vanguard: Everyday Revolutionaries in Allende's Chile ]. CHOICE: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries. (Link)Sorensen, K. I. (2018). [Review of the book The Mediated Mind: Affect, Ephemera, and Consumerism in the Nineteenth Century ]. CHOICE: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries. (Link)Sorensen, K. I. (2018). [Review of the book Disability Media Studies ]. CHOICE: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries. (Link)Sorensen, K. I. (2018). [Review of the book Evaluating Media Bias ]. CHOICE: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries. (Link)Sorensen, K. I. (2017). [Review of the book Fragile Freedoms: The Global Struggle for Human Rights ]. CHOICE: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries. (Link)Sorensen, K. I. (2017). [Review of the book Assassination of a Saint: The Plot to Murder Oscar Romero and the Quest to Bring His Killers to Justice ]. CHOICE: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries. (Link)Sorensen, K. I. (2017). [Review of the book The Ideological Origins of the Dirty War: Fascism, Populism, and Dictatorship in Twentieth Century Argentina ]. The Americas: A Quarterly Review of Latin American History, (74) 3 (Link)Sorensen, K. I. (2017). [Review of the book The World Reimagined: Americans and Human Rights in the Twentieth Century ]. CHOICE: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries. (Link)Sorensen, K. I. (2017). [Review of the book Human Rights and Humanitarian Diplomacy ]. . (Link)Sorensen, K. I. (2016). [Review of the book Updating to Remain the Same: Habitual New Media ]. CHOICE: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries. (Link)Sorensen, K. I. (2016). [Review of the book The Routledge Companion to Literature and Human Rights ]. CHOICE: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries. (Link)Sorensen, K. I. (2015). [Review of the book Chilean New Song ]. CHOICE: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries. (Link)Sorensen, K. I. (2015). [Review of the book Media Imperialism ]. CHOICE: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries. (Link)Sorensen, K. I. (2015). [Review of the book Media and Left ]. CHOICE: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries. (Link)Sorensen, K. I. (2014). [Review of the book Transitional Justice, Culture, and Society: Beyond Outreach ]. CHOICE: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries. (Link)Sorensen, K. I. (2013). [Review of the book Citizenship Excess: Latino/as, Media, and the Nation ]. CHOICE: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries. (Link)Sorensen, K. I. (2013). [Review of the book Human Rights Journalism: Advances in Reporting Distant Humanitarian Interventions ]. Human Rights Quarterly: A Comparative and International Journal of the Social Sciences, Humanities, and Law, (35) 4Sorensen, K. I. (2013). [Review of the book The Media in Transitional Democracies ]. CHOICE: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries. (Link)Sorensen, K. I. (2012). [Review of the book Human Rights Journalism: Advances in Reporting Distant Humanitarian Interventions ]. CHOICE: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries. (Link)Sorensen, K. I. (2012). [Review of the book Marshall McLuhan's Mosaic: Probing the Literary Origins of Media Studies ]. CHOICE: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries. (Link)Sorensen, K. I. (2011). [Review of the book The Handbook of Critical Intercultural Communication ]. CHOICE: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries. (Link)Sorensen, K. I. (2011). [Review of the book @ is for Activism: Dissent, Resistance and Rebellion in a Digital Culture ]. CHOICE: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries. (Link)Sorensen, K. I. (2011). [Review of the book Deconstructing Development Discourse: Buzzwords and Fuzzwords ]. CHOICE: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries. (Link)Sorensen, K. I. (2010). [Review of the book Latina/os and the Media by Angharad N. Valdivia ]. CHOICE: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries. Middletown, CT: (Link)Sorensen, K. I. (2010). [Review of the book Passionate Subjects / Split Subjects in Twentieth-Century Literature in Chile: Brunet, Bombal, and Eltit ]. CHOICE, Current Reviews for Academic Libraries. February (Link)Sorensen, K. I. (2009). [Review of the book A Passion for Cultural Studies ]. CHOICE: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries. DecemberMiddletown, CT: (Link)Sorensen, K. I. (2009). [Review of the book Media Witnessing: Testimony in the Age of Mass Communication ]. CHOICE Reviews Online. (Link)Sorensen, K. I. (2009). [Review of the book Communist Women in Scotland ]. CHOICE Reviews Online. (Link), ., Sorensen, K. I. (2008). [Review of the book Policing Dissent: Social Control and the Anti-Globalization Movement ]. CHOICE Reviews Online. Middletown, CT: (Link)
Other(s)
Sorensen, K. I. (2005). Chilean Media and Discourses of Human Rights. Presentations
Sorensen, K. I. (2023). “50 years since the September 11, 1973 military coup in Chile - discussion of Chile and the role that the U.S. played in Chile” Presented at theFascinating People, Fascinating Places podcast series by Dan Mainwaring Kansas City Sorensen, K. I. (2023). “Human Rights and Historical Memory in Northern Chile: Cycles of Violence, Silence, and Remembering” Presented at theGlobal Studies Department Research Colloquium Bentley University Sorensen, K. I. (2019). “Human Rights and Historical Memory in Northern Chile: Cycles of Violence, Silence, and Remembering” Presented at the Latin American Studies Association Latin American Studies Association annual conference Boston Sorensen, K. I. (2019). “Transitional Justice and Memory in Chile” Presented at the Latin American Studies Association Latin American Studies Association annual conference Boston Sorensen, K. I. (2016). “Human Rights and Historical Memory in Northern Chile: Cycles of Violence and Forgetting” Presented at the New England Council of Latin American Studies New England Council of Latin American Studies annual conference Trinity College, Hartford, CT Sorensen, K. I. (2016). “Politics of Memory and Human Rights Reconciliation” Presented at the New England Council of Latin American Studies New England Council of Latin American Studies annual conference Trinity College, Hartford, CT Dayal, S., Abbott, T., Korepanova, E., Sorensen, K. I., Aslinger, B. S. (2013). “Gender, Queerness & Nation” Presented at the Gender Studies Program and LGBTQ@Bentley Faculty Roundtable Bentley University Sorensen, K. I. (2012). “In/Visibility in the Internet's Third Age” Presented at theCultural Attitudes towards Technology and Communication Aarhus University, Denmark Sorensen, K. I. (2010). “Chile Online: New Venues for Public Discourses in a Post-Repressive Nation” Presented at the University of California Cultural Studies Association Berkeley, Califronia Sorensen, K. I. (2010). “Reimagining Girlhood in Chile” Presented at the State University of New York Reimagining Girlhood: Communities, Identities, Self-Portrayals Cortland, NY Sorensen, K. I. (2009). “Capturing Contested Memories: The Day Pinochet Died” Presented at the Universidad Catolica Latin American Studies Association Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Sorensen, K. I. (2008). “Representations of Rape in Chilean Media” Presented at the National Communication Association National Communication Association Annual Convention San Diego, CA Sorensen, K. I. (2008). “Visible Memories of State-Sponsored Violence in Post-Repressive Chile: The Cases of Londres 38 and FUNA” Presented at the Syracuse University Visible Memories Conference Syracuse, NY Sorensen, K. I. (2007). “Machuca: Chilean Historical Memory as Box Office Success” Presented at the Latin American Studies Association After the Washington Consensus: Collaborative Scholarship for a New America Montreal, Canada Sorensen, K. I. (2007). “Fernando ha vuelto?: Re-Visioning Historical Memory in Chilean Cinema” Presented at the Mt. Holyoke College New England Council of Latin American Studies South Hadley, MA Sorensen, K. I. (2007). “Globalization, Media, and Human Rights in Chile” Presented at the National Communication Association Rethinking Communication within Changing Global Contexts University of Maine at Orono Sorensen, K. I. (2005). “Chilean Historical Memory, Media, and Discourses of Human Rights” Presented at the Syracuse University Contesting Public Memories Syracuse, NY Sorensen, K. I. (2005). “Chilean Television and Human Rights Discourse: The Case of Chilevisión” Presented at the National Communication Association National Communication Association Annual Conference Boston, MA Sorensen, K. I. (2005). “Mediated Discourses of Chilean National Histories” Presented at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Media in Transition Cambridge, MA Sorensen, K. I. (2005). “Vistas chilenas: The Performance of Gender, Human Rights, Social Activism, and Politics in Contemporary Chile” Presented at the Cultural Studies Association Cultural Studies Association Annual Conference Tucson, AZ Sorensen, K. I. (2005). “Local and Global Media Flows of Chilean Human Rights Discourses” Presented at the Vanderbilt University Southeastern Council of Latin American Studies Nashville, TN Service
Department Service
Committee Chair for Cultural Studies/Anthropology Lecturer Search Committee 2023 - PresentCommittee Chair for GLS diversity, equity, and inclusion committee 2022 - PresentCommittee Member for GLS diversity, equity, and inclusion committee 2021 - PresentCommittee Chair for summer research grants application review committee 2016 - PresentGLS 114 Cross Cultural Understanding course coordinator 2005 - PresentCommittee Member for Academic Coordinator Search Committee 2022 - 2023Principal Advisor to Tenure-Track Faculty for primary evaluator for tenure-track faculty member 2022 - 2023Committee Member for search committee for lecturer in American politics 2022 - 2023Committee Chair for department chair nomination, election, and recommendation process 2015 - 2023represent Global Studies Department for Faculty Senate 2013 - 2023search committee for tenure-track assistant professor - 2021Committee Member for assurance of learning department committee 2020 - 2021Committee Member for Global Studies Dept. curriculum committee 2020 - 2021co-host for Dr. Magda Hinojosa guest lecturer - 2020Committee Member for search committee for tenure-track assistant professor - 2019student engagement subcommittee 2018 - 2019Task Force Member for taskforce to review the Global Studies major 2016 - 2018Principal Advisor to Tenure-Track Faculty for primary evaluator 2016 - 2017Course designer and instructor for new permanent course: GLS 251 Latin American Cinema - 2015full-time lecturer search committee 2013 - 2013represented Global Studies Department for majors/minors fair - 2013Global Studies Minor Coordinator for Global Studies Minor Coordinator 2013 - 2013Committee Member for Summer Research Grant Application Review Committee 2013 - 2013Global Studies Department respresentative for Bentley's Open House for Accepted Student Applicants - 2012student engagement subcommittee 2011 - 2012full-time lecturer search committee 2011 - 2011University Service
Mentor (Faculty) for Bentley Faculty Mentor 2023 - PresentCommittee Member for tenure evaluation committee 2020 - Presentco-facilitator for Whiteness Accountability Group 2020 - PresentCommittee Member for LGBTQ@Bentley Steering Committee 2007 - Presentco-director with Anna Siomopoulos, Associate Professor of English and Media Studies for Bentley's International Film Series 2006 - PresentCommittee Member for salary and benefits committee 2022 - 2023Guest Speaker for international film series - 2022Former Chair for Faculty Senate Planning Committee 2018 - 2022Other for Bentley trauma training - 2021Committee Member for New England Commission of Higher Education planning and evaluation subcommittee for accreditation committee 2021 - 2021Co-Facilitator for Whiteness Accountability Group - 2021helped review and evaluate faculty proposals for 2019-2020 and 2021-2022 faculty led travel courses for Cronin Office of International Education 2019 - 2021Guest Speaker for Bentley Office of Admissions and Gloria Cordes Larson Center for Women and Business - 2020Task Force Member for Lecturers Task Force - 2020Committee Member for Diversity Council 2014 - 2020judge for La Cultura Latina student organization - 2019member of interview committee for Associate Dean of Health Counseling and Wellness position for Student Affairs - 2019Committee Member for Presidential Search Committee 2017 - 2018Other for Shared Governance Working Group 2016 - 2018Committee Chair for Board of Trustees Academic Affairs Committee 2015 - 2018Chair for Faculty Senate 2015 - 2018Committee Member for Graduate Council 2015 - 2018Committee Member for PhD Council 2015 - 2018Blind Reviewer for Fusio: The Bentley Undergraduate Research Journal - 2016Committee Member for EQUIS working group on shared governance 2015 - 2016Committee Member for Diversity and Inclusion Training for New Faculty 2014 - 2016Committee Member for Bentley University Honors Council 2013 - 2016Bentley University representative and participant for Boston's PRIDE Parade 2007 - 2016Committee Member for Academic Space Planning Task Force - 2015Judge for Best Arts and Science Honors Capstone Award Review Committee 2013 - 2015tenure track evaluation committee 2011 - 2015Bentley's Annual Honors Conference 2010 - 2015Mentor (Faculty) for Bentley International Relations Organization 2009 - 2015Committee Member for Bentley University Short Term Education Travel Program Advisory Committee 2006 - 2015Vice-Chair of Faculty Senate for Faculty Senate 2013 - 2015Guest Speaker for Office of Diversity and Inclusion - 2015respondent for Valente Center for the Arts and Sciences Working Seminar Series - 2013panelist for Gender, Queerness, and Nation roundtable discussion - 2013Judge for Bentley's Got Talent competition - 2012facilitator for What Women Want forum - 2012Coordinator for all Bentley faculty and staff LGBTQ ally training 2011 - 2012Salary and Benefits Committee 2011 - 2012Business Studies Major task force - 2011EQUIS accreditation team - 2011The Laramie Project - 2011Committee Member for Bentley University Honors Council 2008 - 2010Professional Service
consultant for 440K Project 2021 - PresentBoard of Advisors of a Company for Copper and Cobalt 2020 - PresentReviewer, Book for CHOICE: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries 2008 - PresentReviewer, Book for Cornell University Press - 2022Reviewer, Book for Palgrave Macmillan - 2021Reviewer, Book for Cornell University Press - 2020Reviewer, Journal Article for Continuum: Journal of Media and Cultural Studies - 2019Conference/Workshop Session Chair for Latin American Studies Association - 2019Reviewer, Book for The Americas: A Quarterly Review of Latin American History - 2017Reviewer, Journal Article for Security Dialogue 2014 - 2016Reviewer, Journal Article for Journal of Asian and African Studies - 2013external reviewer for grant proposal submitted by Chile's Museum of Memory and Human Rights for Prince Claus Fund for Culture and Development - 2012Reviewer, Journal Article for Social Theory and Practice - 2012Reviewer, Journal Article for Journal of Information Technology and Politics 2009 - 2012Reviewer, Journal Article for Journal of Latin American Studies 2010 - 2010Reviewer, Journal Article for Journal of Management and Technology in China 2010 - 2010Reviewer, Book for Palgrave Macmillan 2009 - 2009Reviewer, Textbook for Westview Press 2009 - 2009Reviewer, Journal Article for Peace and Change: A Journal of Peace Research - 2004
