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Faculty and Staff Activities

In Memoriam

Teresa Smith, an administrative assistant in the Modern Languages Department, died on May 26, 2023.

Robert Spitzer

Robert Spitzer, Political Science Department, gave a talk on “Gun Laws, Gun Policies, and the Second Amendment” at the annual meeting of the Central New York Council for the Social Studies, held in Syracuse on Oct. 20.

Emmanuel S. Nelson

Emmanuel S. Nelson, English Department, is the editor of the recently published Ethnic American Literature: An Encyclopedia for Students, Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO Press. It is a revised, updated version of the five-volume Encyclopedia of Multiethnic American Literature that he edited in 2005.

Tiantian Zheng

Tiantian Zheng, Sociology/Anthropology Department, had her paper, “Transnational Migration, Global Links, and Social Inequality: Human Trafficking and North Korean Women in China,” accepted for publication in the journal The Social Sciences Collection. Her ethnography “Tongzhi Living: Men Attracted to Men in Postsocialist China” was accepted by University of Minnesota Press and is in production for release in Fall 2015.

Jordan Kobritz

Jordan Kobritz, Sport Management Department, was quoted in an NBC news article on ballpark netting after a young girl was struck by a foul ball during a Yankees-Twins game at Yankee Stadium on Sept. 20.

Mark Dodds

Mark Dodds, Sport Management Department, was elected president of the Sport and Recreation Law Association.

Tyler Bradway

Tyler Bradway, English Department, had his book chapter titled "Inchoate Kinship: Psychoanalytic Narrative and Queer Relationality in Are You My Mother?" published in The Comics of Alison Bechdel: From the Outside In. The collection was edited by Janine Utell and published in February by the University of Mississippi Press. 

Lisa Kahle

Lisa Kahle, Campus Technology Services, completed a week-long intensive leadership program, from June 12 to 17.  The Leading Change Institute Program is described as engaging leaders who seek to further develop their skills for the benefit of higher education. More information on the application and selection process as well as the program can be found on the Leading Change Institute website.

Jeremiah Donovan

Jeremiah Donovan, Art and Art History Department, had his recent ceramic work selected by jury for inclusion in the National Juried Small Works Show at the Windsor Whip Works Art Center in Windsor, N.Y. This exhibition will open Saturday, Dec. 1, and continues through Saturday, Jan. 12. In August, Donovan and former B.F.A. student Xena Holzapfel were selected to exhibit their ceramic art work at the Elmira Arnot Art Museum Biennial Gallery Gala, an invitational exhibition of artists from throughout the Northeast. 

David Duryea

David Duryea, vice president for finance and management and a retired rear admiral in the U.S. Navy, spoke at Syracuse University’s U.S. Defense Strategy class taught by Robert B. Murrett on March 3. As a submarine officer, Duryea commanded the nuclear-powered submarine USS Florida, and as commander of the Naval Undersea Warfare Center, he led 6,500 civilian personnel in 15 locations across the U.S. and overseas while overseeing a $1.6 billion budget.