Bryan Thomas
Bryan Thomas, Art and Art History Department, led a hands-on workshop series for area teenagers during July in coordination with the Center for the Arts of Homer. Sessions focused on printmaking, offering students the opportunity to participate in a linocut, collaborative stamp and screen-printing exercise. Jenn McNamara, Art and Art History Department, also assisted.
Teagan Bradway
Teagan Bradway, English Department, gave an invited lecture entitled, “Group Work: How to Practice and Sustain Queer Kinship,” at the University of Amsterdam then taught a masterclass on Queer and Trans Narrative Theory at Leiden University in the Netherlands in June. Her visits were sponsored by the Queer Formalism Research Group, Amsterdam Institute for Humanities Research and the Gender and Sexuality in Society and Culture program at Leiden University.
Casey Hickey, Amber Pakkala, Suzanne Sprague and Jeremy Zhe-Heimerman
Susan Rayl
Susan Rayl, Kinesiology Department, presented a paper, “A great coach, leader, motivator and even better person: Eric Shoan Prior,” at the North American Society for Sport History Annual Conference on May 25, 2026, at the University of Toronto. She also served as a session moderator and the site conference photographer.
Megan Swing
Megan Swing, Sustainability Office, earned a $3,500 grant from the New York State Association for Reducation, Reuse and Recycling’s Grant Review Committee and the Center for Sustainable Materials Management to help fund the Red Dragon Reuse project.
Jean Costa-Silva
Jean Costa-Silva, Modern Languages Department, was invited to give a talk, “How learning languages reshapes our thinking: Evidence from motion events in English and Portuguese,” at the Instituto Federal de Minas Gerais in Congonhas, Brazil, on June 2. The event was geared toward teaching English to TESOL majors at the institution but also welcomed students from other programs and the local community.
Lindsey Darvin
Lindsey Darvin, Sport Management Department, recently had a paper titled "Get in the Game Through a Sponsor: Initial Career Ambitions of Former Women Assistant Coaches" published in the Journal of Issues in Intercollegiate Sport (JIIA). Also, she was featured in a Jan. 21 Forbes article discussing Title IX and changes to NCAA name, image and likeness policy.
Tiantian Zheng
Tiantian Zheng, Sociology/Anthropology Department, just published her paper titled “Affective Risks, Criminal Justice System, and Intimate Partner Violence in Postsocialist China” in Routledge International Handbook of Criminology and Affect (eds). 2026. Routledge.
Nancy Kane
Nancy Kane, Kinesiology Department, was cited by the Theatre Association of New York State for her musical and ensemble performances in an outdoor summer performance of the Greek tragedy “Antigone” by Sophocles, held at the former Case Mansion in Auburn, N.Y. Also, she choreographed the stage combat in “Antigone.”
Also, Kane’s History and Philosophy of PE and Sport class welcomed guest speaker Conor Heffernan, an assistant professor of physical culture and sport studies at Department of Kinesiology and Health Education at the University of Texas at Austin. Heffernan presented a session on “Irish Emigrants and the Shaping of American Sport.” Kane met the speaker through their participation in the summer 2020 International Society for the History of Physical Education and Sport (ISHPES) Tokyo virtual conference, where Heffernan was a presenter.
The Fall 2020 American Dance Circle, a publication of the Lloyd Shaw Foundation (LSF), featured an article by Kane, who is LSF vice president, about dance and social activism at the Highlander School, where Myles Horton, Pete Seeger, Rosa Parks, Dr. Martin Luther King, John Lewis and many others met to discuss workers’ rights, civil rights, adult literacy and more during the 20th century.
Robert Spitzer
Robert Spitzer, Political Science Department, spoke at King’s College in London, England, and at the Southbank Centre in London on “American Gun Policy,” “Gun Violence: A Comparative Perspective,” and “America and the World, 1960-1990,” from Nov. 9 to 11. Two of the talks were in conjunction with the Southbank Centre’s Superpower Weekend, examining America's influence on Britain and the world.