Abigail Droge
Abigail Droge, English Department, co-authored “What Everyone Says: Public Perceptions of the Humanities in the Media” with Alan Liu, Scott Kleinman, Lindsay Thomas, Dan C. Baciu and Jeremy Douglass, which was published in Daedalus in Summer 2022.
Mark Dodds
Mark Dodds, Sport Management Department, co-edited the recently published Encyclopedia of Sport Management and Marketing. Contributing writers include Sport Management Department faculty members Peter Han, Ted Fay and Genni Birren, former faculty members Kevin Heisey and James Reese as well as former students in the master’s-level sport marketing class.
Rhiannon Maton
Rhiannon Maton, Foundations and Social Advocacy Department, recently had her interview with Laval University faculty member Nat Nesvaderani published in the journal Spectre. The article is titled “'We Won!': University Professors Strike in Quebec City.”
Evan Faulkenbury
Evan Faulkenbury, History Department, has had his book, Poll Power: The Voter Education Project and the Movement for the Ballot in the American South, published by UNC Press.
Christina Knopf
Christina Knopf, Communication and Media Studies Department, recently was interviewed for the Washington Post's TikTok feature "Variant Cover," about "review bombing" and fan backlash to feminism in the new Disney+ series She-Hulk: Attorney at Law. The story can be viewed online.
Melissa A. Morris
Melissa A. Morris, Physics Department, appeared on the Discovery Channel show “NASA’s Unexplained Files” on March 11. Also, her paper, “New Insight into the Solar System’s Transition Disk Phase Provided by the Metal-rich Carbonaceous Chondrite Isheyevo,” was published in the March 10 issue of The Astrophysical Journal Letters.
Patricia Martinez de la Vega Mansilla
Patricia Martinez de la Vega Mansilla, Modern Languages Department, was awarded the Clark Center Internationalization Award on April 27. Since 2010, the Clark Center Internationalization Award is given each year at SUNY Cortland to recognize individuals from the faculty or staff who have significantly contributed to or shown leadership in internationalizing the campus.
In selecting an honoree, the Clark Center Steering Committee recognizes the variety of ways an individual can enrich SUNY Cortland and the wider community. Recognized activities include, for example, expanding study abroad opportunities or mentoring international students on campus. Awardees have also repeatedly exposed SUNY Cortland students to a diversity of international perspectives, whether by presenting their scholarship, bringing guest scholars to campus, promoting the study of foreign languages, or diversifying our curriculum.
Past recipients are:
2010 Henry Steck
2011 Carol van der Karr
2012 International Advocates
2013 Sharon Steadman
2014 Jerome O’Callaghan
2015 Craig Little
2016 Jeremiah Donovan
2017 Mary Schlarb
2018 Luo Xu
2019 William Skipper
2020 Mecke Nagel
Celeste McNamara
Celeste McNamara, History Department, was invited to give a lecture at The College of William and Mary in Virginia on April 1. Her talk was titled “Sin and Salvation: The Threat of Scandal in Early Modern Italy.” She also gave a workshop for the Medieval and Renaissance Studies Faculty on her forthcoming book on the reform of the Catholic Church in 17th century Italy. Finally, she guest-taught a class on European Reformations, introducing students to her research.
Gregg Weatherby
Gregg Weatherby, English Department, has had six poems from his current work-in-progress, Approaching Home, excerpted for an anthology of memoir to be published later in the year by Telling Our Stories Press.
Brian Barrett
Brian Barrett, Foundations and Social Advocacy Department, had his book, Knowledge, Curriculum and Equity: Social Realist Perspectives, published this summer by Routledge. The book was co-edited with Ursula Hoadley, University of Cape Town, and John Morgan, University of Auckland, and contains a chapter by Barrett and Foundations and Social Advocacy Department colleagues Anne Burns Thomas and Maria Timberlake.