Alexandru Balas
Alexandru Balas, International Studies, published a book chapter titled "Mixing Western and Eastern Medical Practice in the Ottoman Empire: the Adventures of a Transylvanian Doctor in Constantinople, Syria, Lebanon, Egypt and Iraq (1815–1838)" in the edited volume Travellers in Ottoman Lands II: The Balkans, Anatolia and Beyond. (Oxford: Archaeopress, 2025)
Seth N. Asumah
Seth N. Asumah, Africana Studies and Political Science departments, is a contributor to a new volume, The Social Contract in Africa, (The African Institute of South Africa, Pretoria, South Africa, 2014), edited by Sanya Osha. Asumah’s chapter is titled “African Relational Democracy: Reframing Diversity, Economic Development and Society-Centered Governance for the Twenty-First Century." Worldwide orders can be secured through African Books Collectives, Oxford, England.
Nan Pasquarello
Nan Pasquarello, Title IX coordinator, was one of seven women recognized by the Zonta Club of Cortland on International Women’s Day for their thoughtfulness and for acts of kindness that have improved the wellbeing of women and children in the community. Pasquarello, who coordinates campus prevention and response to gender-based discrimination and harassment, has served on the Cortland YWCA board of directors since 2011 and is completing her second year as board president.
Timothy Delaune
Timothy Delaune, Political Science Department and pre-law advisor, had a peer-reviewed chapter published in the special issue on law and the liberal state, volume 65 of the book series Studies in Law, Politics and Society. His chapter, “Jury Nullification: An Illiberal Defense of Liberty,” examines the practice of American juries in criminal cases acquitting clearly guilty defendants as an exercise of democratic political power contrary to the liberal order, in accordance with the political theory of Carl Schmitt.
Mary McGuire and Bruce Mattingly
Mary McGuire, Political Science Department, and Bruce Mattingly, dean, School of Arts and Sciences, along with eight other co-authors from SUNY Plattsburgh, SUNY Oneonta and SUNY Oswego, authored “The Common Problems Project: An Interdisciplinary, Community-Engaged, Problem-Based Pedagogy,” published in June in the Journal of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, volume 22, no. 2.
Kathleen Lawrence
Kathleen Lawrence, Communication Studies Department, had a spiraling abecedarian poem, “Dorothy Delivered,” published in March in The 2017 Rhysling Anthology (Science Fiction Poetry Association). In February Silver Blade Magazine published her “Haiku Swarm” group of four haiku: “Path,” “Rules of the Rodeo,” “Laws of Nature” and “Unrequited Love.” Altered Reality Magazine honored Lawrence as a Rhysling award nominee on their March/April 2017 front cover. Her free verse poem “Dear Lost Love of My Life” is the featured publication today in Silver Birch Press’s Lost & Found poetry and prose series. Lawrence’s published poem, “Trump's Tip,” was recorded by request of the editor at Rattle Magazine. In the last 12 months, 49 poems by Lawrence have been published or are forthcoming.
Ute Ritz-Deutch
Ute Ritz-Deutch, History Department, has been accepted as a participant in the seminar, “Writing Histories of Germans Abroad,” to be held at the annual conference of the German Studies Association in San Diego this fall.
John C. Hartsock
John C. Hartsock, Communication Studies Department, has had an invited article accepted for publication in the Routledge Companion to American Literary Journalism tentatively to be published at the end of this year. His article examines the place of the aesthetics of everyday experience in narrative literary journalism, and draws from his recently published book Literary Journalism and the Aesthetics of Experience (University of Massachusetts Press, 2016).
Bekeh Ukelina
Bekeh Ukelina, History Department, has been selected to participate in the SUNY Russia Programs Network. He will travel to St. Petersburg, Russia this summer to participate in the 12th New York-St. Petersburg Institute of Linguistics, Cognition and Culture where he will offer a three-week seminar, one general lecture and a mini-conference presentation on the topic of “Development and Global Migration.”
Deborah Matheron
Deborah Matheron, Communication Disorders and Sciences Department, presented a research poster at the Biennial Madonna Rehabilitation Hospital Conference on Motor Speech on March 4 in Newport Beach, Calif. Her poster was titled, “Speech breathing and laryngeal aerodynamics in individuals with Multiple Sclerosis.”