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Faculty and Staff Activities

Kristine Newhall

Kristine Newhall, Kinesiology Department, organized and presented on a panel called “Teaching about Trans Athletes: Multidisciplinary Perspectives” at the annual meeting of the North American Society for the Sociology of Sport held in April in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. 

Greg Phelan and Kerri Freese

Greg Phelan and Kerri Freese, Chemistry Department, hosted a booth at the Greater Syracuse Scholastic Science Fair at the Oncenter on March 25 to promote sciences at SUNY Cortland and Noyce scholarships to graduating high school seniors. Kate Boyce, M.A.T. ’11, biology, a Noyce Scholar in 2010/11, participated in the event with students from her seventh-grade class from Lincoln Middle School.

Tyler Bradway

Tyler Bradway, English Department, had his article, “Queer Exuberance: The Politics of Affect in Jeanette Winterson’s Visceral Fiction,” published in the March issue of Mosaic: A Journal for the Interdisciplinary Study of Literature. Also, he had an essay titled “Critical Immodesty and Other Grammars for Aesthetic Agency,” published in Stanford University’s digital salon Arcade: Literature, Humanities, and the World. Bradway presented a paper, “Reading in Crisis: Queer Hermeneutics in Samuel Delany’s Para-Academic AIDS Fiction” at the 2015 American Comparative Literature Association Conference held March 26-29 in Seattle, Wash. In January, Bradway presented his paper, “Trigger Warning: Kathy Acker’s Visceral Pedagogy,” at the 2015 Modern Language Association Conference in Vancouver, Canada.

Kathryn Kramer

Kathryn Kramer, Art and Art History Department, will have her critical review of the recent Shanghai Biennale art exhibition, “The Energizing Biennale,” published in the September/October issue of Afterimage: The Journal of Media Arts and Cultural Criticism

Brian Barrett

Brian Barrett, Foundations and Social Advocacy Department, had his article, coauthored with Graham McPhail from the University of Auckland, New Zealand, published in the Journal of Education. It is titled “Conceptualizing a radical visible pedagogy.”

Karen Downey

Karen Downey, Chemistry Department, and Joshua Eller ’14, had their article titled “Computational assessment of electron density in metallo-organic nickel pincer complexes for formation of P-C bonds” published in volume 36, issue 26 of the Journal of Computational Chemistry. The article reports on research they conducted during Eller’s senior year. Current senior Matt Ellis ’16 is advancing the work further, under the advisement of Downey.

Christina Knopf

Christina Knopf, Communication and Media Studies Department, made several presentations in November. She was a guest of The Ohio State University’s Mershon Center for National Security and Billy Ireland Cartoon Library and Museum for the Comics, Security, and the American Mission conference on Nov. 4, where she presented research called “Veteran-Created War Comics and the Workaday War.” On Nov. 10, she was an invited participant in an international panel hosted by “Military at Microsoft” about humor in the military, part of Microsoft’s National Veterans Awareness Week events. On Nov. 19, she presented in two panel discussions at the annual National Communication Association conference, held in New Orleans, La.

Vaughn Randall

Vaughn Randall, Art and Art History Department, recently brought three students to a planning event for the 2018 International Conference on Contemporary Cast Iron Art in Scranton, Pa., where they participated in a pour at Scranton Iron Furnaces, a state historic site in Pennsylvania. The students included: Paige Heil, an art studio major from Endicott, N.Y.; Justin Pribulick, an art studio major from Horseheads, N.Y.; and Erin Schiano, a therapeutic recreation major from Swain, N.Y.

Benjamin C. Wilson

Benjamin C. Wilson, Economics Department, co-authored a peer-reviewed article titled “Food, Money & Democracy: Cultivating Collective Provisioning for Resilient & Equitable Communities of Work,” published July 31 online in Food, Money & Democracy. Also, the online version of his edited volume of Care, Climate, and Debt - Transdisciplinary Problems and Possibilities was published with the hardback edition due out in October.

Tyler Bradway

Tyler Bradway, English Department, received a Choice award for Outstanding Academic Title for his book After Queer Studies: Literature, Theory, and Sexuality in the 21st Century. He co-edited the book with E.L. McCallum from Michigan State and it was published in 2019 by Cambridge UP.