Rhiannon Maton
Rhiannon Maton, Foundations and Social Advocacy Department, co-edits the Handbook on Teachers’ Work, to be released September 30, 2025, by Routledge. The Handbook brings together research and evidence-based authoritative writings from across the globe. Drawing on research from twelve countries across 6 continents, the chapters are grouped into themes that represent key issues related to teachers' work from global perspectives, including:
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The Political and Policy Contexts of Teachers' Work
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Teaching as an Occupation
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Diverse Teacher Identities and Roles
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Teaching as Collective and Relational Work; and
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Teaching and Activism
The volume explores the idea of teaching as an occupation with a history and trajectory that are shaped by political economies; historical progressions; organizational structures; social relations among educators, students, and others; teachers’ career and labor patterns; their professional norms; and raced, gendered, classed, and culturally linked expectations of teachers and about public schooling. View further information including the table of contents here.
Tadayuki Suzuki
Tadayuki Suzuki, Literacy Department, presented “A Visit with Princess Boy, Jazz, Kyle, Morris and Jacob: Analyzing Recent Picture Books with Transgender and Gender Nonconforming Character” at the National Council of Teachers of English, held Nov. 16 in Houston, Texas.
John Foley
John Foley, Physical Education Department, was selected as a board member for the prestigious journal Adapted Physical Activity Quarterly.
Moyi Jia
Moyi Jia, Communication and Media Studies Department, recently presented two papers at the Eastern Communication Association Convention held April 10 to 14 in Providence, RI. They are titled, “Communicating Social Support to Enhance Student Emotional Wellness: Exploring Supportive Message Sources, Types, and Effectiveness” and “Computer-Mediated Communication and the Dual Identification in Chinese Organizations.”
Angela Pagano and Greg Phelan
Angela Pagano, Biological Sciences Department, Greg Phelan, Chemistry Department, Lisa Gonsalves from University of Massachusetts Boston, hosted the 2018 Noyce Northeast Conference from April 19 to 21 in New York City. The conference brought together science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) faculty, in-service STEM teachers and Noyce Scholarship recipients from 11 northeastern states to meet, network and share ideas and best practices on successful teaching in high-need schools. Collaborations with the American Museum of Natural History and the Alda Center for Communicating Science provided transformative experiences for members of the Northeast Noyce Scholarship community. Kerri Freese, Chemistry Department, organized the event with help from SUNY Cortland students Mia DiMartino, a biology major, Daniel Menendez, working on his masters in history, and Alicia Platt and Victoria Ryan, both history majors.
Kathleen A. Lawrence
Kathleen A. Lawrence, Communication and Media Studies Department, had seven poems published recently. Her poem ‘Catholic School” was published by Highland Park Poetry in their Winter 2019 Muses’ Gallery. Her speculative poem “Not Tonight” was published by Star*Line (Science Fiction and Fantasy Poetry Association) in January. Four poems appeared in Altered Reality Magazine: “The Conjunction: Jupiter Pursues Venus,” “Things That Go Bump & Smile In The Night,” “Brunch, Spaceship Side” and “Atopic Catastrophic.” Her poem “Zombie Love” was published in a special edition of The Cicada’s Cry: A Micro-Zine of Haiku Poetry (based on a Halloween theme) in Fall 2018.
Moyi Jia
Moyi Jia, Communication Studies Department, had her research paper accepted for presentation at the67th Annual Convention of International Communication Association to be held May 25-29 in San Diego, Calif. Her paper is titled “Exploring the effect of teacher social support on students’ positive/negative emotions and learning engagement: A U.S.-Chinese classroom investigation.”
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Jacqueline Augustine
Jacqueline Augustine, Kinesiology Department, recently was a co-author on the manuscript, “Influence of sex and presence of cardiovascular risk factors on relations between cardiorespiratory fitness and cerebrovascular hemodynamics,” published in the Journal of Applied Physiology.
John Suarez
John Suarez, Institute for Civic Engagement’s Office of Service-Learning, has been invited to conduct a Reflective Listening Workshop in January 2017 for employees of the MacCormick Secure Center in Brooktondale, N.Y. The Center is part of the Division of Juvenile Justice and Opportunities for Youth, of the New York State Office of Children and Family Services.
Brett Troyan
Brett Troyan, History Department, is on sabbatical for the spring semester. She was appointed a visiting scholar to Cambridge University’s Latin American Studies Center in the United Kingdom where she is working on a book manuscript on Costa Rica’s brief civil war.