Donna M. Videto
Donna M. Videto, Health Department, recently was selected as one of the American Association for Health Education (AAHE) fellows. Videto will be inducted as a fellow during the 2013 Annual American Alliance of Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance (AAHPERD) meeting at the AAHE Scholars’ Presentation on Friday, April 26, in Charlotte, N.C.
John C. Hartsock
John C. Hartsock, Communication Studies Department, has had a new book accepted for publication by The University of Massachusetts Press. Hartsock’s Literary Journalism and the Aesthetics of Experience is due to be published in Fall 2015. The result of Hartsock’s most recent sabbatical project, the peer-reviewed volume explores theoretical issues that help to more clearly delineate narrative literary journalism as a genre, one that was long neglected by the academy. These include the advantages of a more traditional narrative approach to contemporary journalism practice, the distinctive nature of narrative literary journalism’s referentiality, the genre’s inherent assault on secular mythologies, and the relationship between the genre and memoir, among other concerns. Hartsock is the author of the critically acclaimed A History of American Literary Journalism: The Emergence of a Modern Narrative Form, which was the first history of the genre and was published by University of Massachusetts Press in 2000. In 2011, his award-winning Seasons of a Finger Lakes Winery was published by Cornell University Press. It is a narrative account of a mom-and-pop winery on Cayuga Lake.
Dianne Wellington
Dianne Wellington, Literacy Department, recently published a co-authored article titled "Fostering antiracist pedagogies: centering Black and Brown students through instructional practices as semiotics of care and hope" in the academic journal Teachers and Teaching. The journal article presents two critical ethnographic studies that challenge traditional educational hierarchies to empower Black and Brown students. By engaging in-service and pre-service teachers, the research centers youth voices and promotes agency, visibility and racial justice. Grounded in critical hope and critical care, the studies reveal how transformative teaching practices can foster inclusive literacies and reimagine educational environments. The work highlights pedagogies that celebrate diverse identities and inspire both students and educators to envision possibilities beyond systemic constraints.
Bridget Hier
Bridget Hier, Psychology Department, had her research article titled “Effects of the Good Behavior Game on Students’ Academic Engagement in Remote Classrooms During the Covid-19 Pandemic” published in the Journal of Positive Behavior Interventions.
Jim Hokanson
Jim Hokanson, Kinesiology Department, was invited to give a Zoom departmental seminar about recent research on metabolic rate and body temperature in a lower body positive pressure treadmill (Alter G) on Feb. 10 to the Department of Physical Therapy and Nursing, University of Salamanca, Spain.
Brian Barrett
Brian Barrett, Foundations and Social Advocacy Department, had his article titled “Towards a realist sociology of education: A polyphonic review essay” published in the Educational Theory, Volume 67, Issue 2. The article was co-authored with Michael Grenfell from the University of Southampton in the United Kingdom, Susan Hood from the University of Technology Sydney, Australia, and Dan Schubert from Dickinson College in Pennsylvania.
Tiantian Zheng
Tiantian Zheng, Sociology/Anthropology Department, was invited by NBC News to comment on the “masculinity problem” facing boys in China. The NBC news article that quoted her comments was posted online on Jan. 9.
Katherine M. Polasek, Larissa True, Erik Lind, Joy L. Hendrick and Patrick R. Boerner ‘13
Katherine M. Polasek, Larissa True, Erik Lind and Joy L. Hendrick, all from the Kinesiology Department, and Patrick R. Boerner ‘13, had their paper titled “Is What You See What You Get? Perceptions of Personal Trainers’ Competence, Knowledge, and Preferred Sex of Personal Trainer Relative to Physique” published in the July issue of the Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research.
Keith Newvine
Keith Newvine, Literacy Department, in collaboration with Sarah Fleming, was awarded a grant from the Abolitionist Teaching Network, which awards grants to those who strive to disrupt inequalities and injustice within their schools, communities or both. The funds will be used to purchase class sets of young adult texts written by and about people of color that are loaned to school districts in Onondaga County and Cortland County to introduce and reinforce the Abolitionist Teaching Network’s commitment to culturally and historically responsive education. After students and teachers engage in this antiracist literacy work, students will become Antiracist Ambassadors who engage in courageous conversations with students and educators from other high schools in Onondaga and Cortland County about the ways in which white supremacy is demystified, dismantled, and decentered in these texts and amplify the culturally sustaining and joyful counternarratives written by these authors and realized by these texts.
Karen Downey
Karen Downey, Chemistry Department, attended the Biennial Conference on Chemical Education, held in State College, Pa., from July 29 through Aug. 2. While there, she presented her innovations in the pedagogy of physical chemistry.