Rhiannon Maton
Rhiannon Maton, Foundations and Social Advocacy, is co-editing with Nina Bascia, University of Toronto, a handbook for Routledge in the field of teachers’ work. The volume is titled Handbook on Teachers’ Work: International Perspectives on Research and Practice, and includes over 30 chapters from leading international scholarly experts.
Mary McGuire
Mary McGuire, Political Science Department, gave two presentations on New York State Constitution Convention processes and history. She provided background for the November vote on whether or not New York should hold a convention to amend the state constitution for the Cortland County Republican Women’s Spring Luncheon and at the New York State Rural Democratic Conference.
Barbara A. Barton
Barbara A. Barton, Health Department, was awarded an exemplary rating from the BlackBoard Exemplary Course Program for her online graduate course, HLH 593, Methods and Practices in Community Health. The Exemplary Course Program recognizes instructors whose courses demonstrate best practices in four major areas: course design, interaction and collaboration, assessment, and learner support. Submitted courses are evaluated by peer reviewers, and to receive an exemplary award, all standards must be met or exceeded.
Charles DeMotte
Charles DeMotte, Sociology/Anthropology Department, has been named co-winner of the 2020 Larry Ritter Book Award by the Society for American Baseball Research (SABR) for the best baseball book of the dead ball era. His book, James T. Farrell and Baseball: Dreams and Realism on Chicago’s South Side, was published by University of Nebraska Press. The award is granted annually by SABR’s Deadball Era Committee to the author of the best book about baseball between 1901 and 1919 published during the previous calendar year. The winner’s work must demonstrate original research or analysis, a fresh perspective, compelling thesis, impressive insight, accuracy and clear, graceful prose.
Susan Rayl
Susan Rayl, Kinesiology Department, organized a three-article forum on basketball, “Excellence in Basketball On and Off the Court,” for the Spring 2011 issue of The Journal of Sport History, a peer-reviewed journal. Her article, “‘Holding Court’: The Real Renaissance Contribution of John Isaacs” was the first of the three articles. The two other articles provided poignant biographies of Holcombe Rucker and Charlotte Lewis. Rayl also wrote the introduction to the forum, “Three People, Three Journeys, Three Legacies.”
Debbie Warnock
Debbie Warnock, Sociology/Anthropology Department, gave an invited talk on “Inequalities in Educational Transitions” at Bennington College in September.
Robert Spitzer
Robert Spitzer, Political Science Department, is one of several experts interviewed in the new documentary film, “Under the Gun.” Produced by Katie Couric’s film company, Atlas films, and narrated by Couric, the documentary examines contemporary gun violence in America and why the country has not moved ahead with stricter gun laws. The film premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in January, and will have its New York City premiere in May.
Brian Barrett
Brian Barrett, Foundations and Social Advocacy Department, had his chapter, co-authored with Jim Hordern from the University of Bath, UK, published in Towards powerful educational knowledge: Perspectives from educational foundations, curriculum theory and Didaktik (Routledge, 2024). The chapter’s title is “Rethinking the foundations: Towards powerful professional knowledge in teacher education in the USA and England.”
Jena Nicols Curtis and Susan Burnett
Jena Nicols Curtis and Susan Burnett, Health Department, presented a workshop at the 23rd annual conference of the National Collegiate Emergency Medical Services Foundation held Feb. 26-28 in Philadelphia, Pa. The workshop was titled “Responding to Campus Sexual Violence” and was based upon Curtis’ and Burnett’s research with survivors of campus sexual violence.
Michelle Cryan
Michelle Cryan, Publications and Electronic Media Office, was the sketchnoter at the recent TEDxCortland Conference held Oct. 25. Her sketchnotes can be viewed online on the TEDxCortland Facebook page.