Szilvia Kadas
Szilvia Kadas, Art and Art History Department, presented her talk titled “Encouraging Students to Design with Social and Environmental Responsibility” at the Popular Culture Association Conference on June 3.
Tyler Bradway
Tyler Bradway, English Department, had his book, After Queer Studies: Literature, Theory, and Sexuality in the 21st Century, published recently by Cambridge University Press. Co-edited with E.L. McCallum from Michigan State University, the book contains 12 chapters that address the reciprocal relationships between queer studies and literary studies, including Bradway and McCallum’s co-written essay, “Thinking Sideways, or An Untoward Genealogy of Queer Reading.” Read more about the book.
Tim Delaune
Tim Delaune, Political Science Department, presented preliminary research on the concept of dignity in the jurisprudence of Clarence Thomas at the annual Western Political Science Association Meeting held April 13-15 in Vancouver, British Columbia. He serves as the College's pre-law adviser.
Jeremy Jimenez
Jeremy Jimenez, Foundations and Social Advocacy Department, had an essay advocating for indigenous land management in a climate changing world published in Resilence.org.
Kevin Dames
Kevin Dames, Kinesiology Department, and collaborators had their article, “Positive Impacts of a University Walking Program: A Case Study” published in the Journal of Physical Activity Research. Also, Dames and coauthors from the University of Northern Colorado had their article titled “Obese Adults Walk Differently in Shoes than While Barefoot” published in the journal Gait & Posture.
Brian Barrett
Brian Barrett, Foundations and Social Advocacy Department, had his article titled “Bernstein in the urban classroom: A case study” published in the British Journal of Sociology of Education, Volume 39, Issue 8.
Mechthild Nagel
Mechthild Nagel, Philosophy and Africana Studies departments and Center for Gender and Intercultural Studies, had her article, “Gender and the Law,” published in the current issue of Journal of Research in Gender Studies. The article is based on a keynote that she gave in Bucharest for a gender conference last spring, which was chaired by the journal’s editor, Ramona Mihaila.
Jen Drake
Jen Drake, The Learning Center, is co-founder and interim director of the Sharing Technology and Academic Resources-New York (STAR-NY) Consortium. She has been invited to present at the 2021 Association of Colleges for Tutoring and Learning Assistance virtual conference. Her session, Building an Online Tutoring Consortium from the Ground Up: Development of the STAR-NY Consortium, will take place at 9 a.m. on Friday, April 23.
Robert Spitzer
Robert Spitzer, Political Science Department, gave a talk titled, “Gun Laws, History, and the Second Amendment: What Does the Constitution Allow?” on April 17 at Clemson University, South Carolina. He also spoke to a political science class on the relationship between federalism and the gun debate.
Tadayuki Suzuki
Tadayuki Suzuki, Literacy Department, presented “Being Born in the Wrong Gender: Thinking about the Availability of Current Transgender Children’s Books,” at the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) annual convention, held Nov. 18 in St. Louis, Mo.