Kathleen A. Lawrence
Kathleen A. Lawrence, Communication and Media Studies Department, recently had her poem, “Three's a Crowd,” placed with 19 other selected poems in an exhibit titled “Hay(na)ku: A 21st-Century Diasporic Poetry Form” in the San Francisco Public Library. Also, she wrote a haiga, a Japanese form which is typically a haiku with illustration, accepted for publication in New Verse News. This poem called “Amiss” was written as a tribute (elegy) to Aretha Franklin on her passing. Her poem “Head Over Heels,” written for a fantastical theme in the haiku form, was accepted for publication in the last week of August by the Colorado Boulevard.net. Also, Lawrence received notice that her speculative poem titled “Not Tonight” will soon appear in Star*Line, the print journal of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Poetry Association (SFPA).
Kent Johnson
Kent Johnson, Sociology/Anthropology Department, was selected by the American Anthropological Association to participate in The Op-Ed Project's "Write to Change the World" workshop to be held Dec. 10-11, 2025.
Tyler Bradway
Tyler Bradway, English Department, had his article “Queer Exuberance: The Politics of Affect in Jeanette Winterson’s Visceral Fiction” (2015), re-published in Contemporary Literary Criticism Vol. 433, edited by Jennifer Stock and published by Gale Cengage.
Robert Spitzer
Robert Spitzer, Political Science Department, is the author of an article titled “Separating Truth and Myth in the American Gun Debate,” published in the Fall 2013 issue of The Islamic Monthly.
Tyler Bradway
Tyler Bradway, English Department, had his essay, “Literature in an Age of Plague: The AIDS Epidemic,” published in American Literature in Transition, 1980-1990. The volume was edited by D. Quentin Miller and published in November by Cambridge University Press.
Dennis Weng
Dennis Weng, Political Science Department, presented three papers at a conference at The University of Texas at Austin from Oct. 31 to Nov. 1. His paper “Contextual Effects on individual Voting Behavior: the Case of Taiwan,” has been accepted for publication in the Asian Journal of Political Science by the end of this year.
Kathleen A. Lawrence
Kathleen A. Lawrence, Communication and Media Studies Department, recently had two poems published. They were written in cherita form on the theme of Bouquet in the “Poet’s Salon” of Colorado Boulevard, edited Aug. 7 by Kathabela Wilson. The two cherita, titled “six years old” and “like roots extending,” were accompanied by a photo taken by Lawrence captioned as “Summer’s Bouquet.” Also, Lawrence received word that her two abecedarians titled “Vacay” and “Bath” have been accepted for publication in the December 2019 issue of Rosebud Magazine with Michael Kriesel, poetry editor.
Katherine M. Polasek
Katherine M. Polasek, Kinesiology Department, co-authored an article titled “Women in Sport and Exercise Psychology: A North American Perspective” that was recently published in the International Journal of Sport Psychology.
Tiantian Zheng
Tiantian Zheng, Sociology/Anthropology Department, was invited by Columbia University to give a campus-wide talk on April 23. Her talk was titled “Gender Politics in Current Regime in China.”
Lauren deLaubell and Jennifer Kronenbitter
Lauren deLaubell and Jennifer Kronenbitter, Memorial Library, presented “Adapting the Jigsaw to Grow Online in a Hurry” at the SUNYLA 2021 (Virtual) annual conference held June 16 to 18. They shared the classroom technique called the jigsaw method used by SUNY Cortland and was modified for use in a professional development program and online instruction reboot.