Robert Spitzer
Robert Spitzer, Political Science Department, is the author of the new fifth edition of The Politics of Gun Control. Published by Paradigm Publishers, the book is widely recognized as the standard work on the subject.
C. Ashley Ellefson
C. Ashley Ellefson, professor emeritus of history, was interviewed by a reporter from the Baltimore Sun for an article that ran in the March 16 issue about the impending appeal of capital punishment in Maryland. Last fall, Ellefson provided a law clerk in the Maryland attorney general’s office with information on executions in Maryland from 1776 through 1800.
Sebastian Purcell
Sebastian Purcell, Philosophy Department, had his article, “Life on the Slippery Earth,” published in Aeon magazine’s July 4 issue. Purcell’s article discusses how the Aztec moral philosophy has profound differences from the Greek tradition, not least its acceptance that nobody is perfect.
Seth N. Asumah
Seth N. Asumah, Africana Studies and Political Science departments, was conference co-chair with Professor Akosua Adomako Ampofo, University of Ghana, for the 2017 Biennial Conference of the African Studies Association of Africa (ASAA) from Oct. 12 to 14 at the University of Ghana, Legon, Ghana. The ASAA Conference theme was “African Studies and Global Politics.” Asumah was also one of the keynote speakers for this conference and he spoke about his research on “Africa: Rethinking Democratic Consolidation and Development.” Professor Jacob Gordon, University of Kansas; Dr. Wangui Wa Goro, African Development Bank; rofessor Jean Allman, Washington University; Dr. Yao Graham, Third World Network-Africa; and Professor Takyiwaa Manuh, UN Economic Commission for Africa, were also plenary keynote speakers at the conference. Also, SUNY Cortland Africanists Ibipo Johnston Anumonwo, Geography Department, and Bekeh Utietiang, History Department, presented papers at the ASAA Conference in the concurrent session, “African Migrations: National Security and the Politics of Representing the Movements of Persons.” Organizations such as the Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA) and the Association of African Universities (AAU) presented their position papers on higher in Africa and the African Diaspora. Africanists, Africologists and African enthusiasts from the African continent, United States, the Caribbean and Europe, participated in this international conference.
Tim Delaune
Tim Delaune, Political Science Department and pre-law advisor, presented a paper on Taoist elements in the political thought of philosopher Martin Heidegger at the annual conference of the Western Political Science Association held April 2-4 in Las Vegas.
David Barclay
David Barclay, Geology Department, led a dendroarchaeology focus group at the 2013 North American Dendroecological Fieldweek held June 24 to July 1 at Cornwall, N.Y.
Jeff Walkuski
Jeff Walkuski, Physical Education Department, presented workshops on fitness education for K-12 students for both the Minneapolis public schools and the Woodstock, Ill., public schools outside Chicago.
Deborah Seipp
Deborah Seipp, a Fall 2022 graduate international student from the German Sport University in Cologne, lectured in a spring 2022 physical education class on the European sport of team handball. In April she traveled with the new men’s handball team and several women, who joined the Ohio States women’s team, to the 2023 USA Team Handball Collegiate National Championships in Ohio, where she coached the team and also competed herself. Seipp personally captured the Top Scorer Award, the All-American All-Star Team Award and the USATH Academic All-Americans 2022-2023 Award for academic performance.
Janet Duncan
Janet Duncan, Foundations and Social Advocacy Department, recently attended Babes-Bolyai University in Cluj-Napoca, Romania as an Erasmus Plus Scholar for the Public Administration Department and the Social Work Department. During her week-long appointment in May she gave two graduate lectures on Human Rights for Persons with Disabilities and met with three leaders of national non-governmental organizations (NGOs) for Romania. The Erasmus Plus Project is funded through the European Union.
Denise Knight
Denise Knight, English Department, has had her essay, “‘[a] country of whose language I knew not a word’: Charlotte Perkins Gilman In and On Italy,” accepted for inclusion in a collection of essays titled Transatlantic Women: American Women Writers in Italy. The essay is an expanded version of the conference paper that Knight gave in Florence, Italy, last June.