Denise D. Knight
Denise D. Knight, English Department, will present a talk titled “Charlotte Perkins Gilman on and in Italy” at the Transatlantic Women II Conference in June in Florence, Italy.
Mecke Nagel
Mecke Nagel, Philosophy and Africana Studies departments and the Center for Gender and Intercultural Studies, learned that her Wagadu article, “OAJ and Wagadu: Towards a Diamond Model of Feminist, Postcolonial Publishing,” was published in the journal TripleC - Communication, Capitalism & Critique: Open Access Journal for a Global Sustainable Information Society, available at www.triple-c.at/index.php/tripleC/article/view/527.
Caroline Kaltefleiter
Caroline Kaltefleiter, Communication and Media Studies Department, received a 2022 Transformative Justice Scholar-Activist of the Year Award from the national grassroots fully-volunteer organization Save the Kids. The organization is dedicated to alternatives to, and the end of the incarceration of all youth and the school-to-prison pipeline. Her work on creative youth media outreach projects and mutual aid actions over the last decade was highlighted.
Jordan Kobritz
Jordan Kobritz, Sport Management Department, gave a presentation to a group of 30 high school students at the New York Times Pre-Collegiate Weekend Course, “Sports Management and Sports Media” on Nov. 21 in New York City. The title of the presentation was, “The Ins and Outs of Owning a Professional Sports Team.”
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.
Debbie Warnock
Debbie Warnock, Sociology/Anthropology Department, had her article “Paradise Lost? Patterns and Precarity in Working-Class Academic Narratives,” published in the inaugural issue of the Journal of Working-Class Studies in December.
Madeleine Orr
Madeleine Orr, Sport Management Department, made 2020’s class of Top 30 under 30 sustainability leaders. Sponsored by Corporate Knights, with support from Telus, there were two requirements listed when nominations were opened to the public: nominees must be under age 30 and either work in Canada or be a Canadian working abroad.
Cynthia Benton
Cynthia Benton, Childhood/Early Childhood Education Department, presented her paper, “The Role of Teacher Gender in Professionalization, Curriculum and Instruction and Student Achievement in Elementary School,” at the 2012 American Institute of Higher Education’s International Conference held March 7-9 in Williamsburg, Va.
Ute Ritz-Deutch
Ute Ritz-Deutch, History Department, recently attended the annual general meeting of Amnesty International USA in Washington, D.C., where she accepted the Hironaka Award for human rights activism on behalf of the Ithaca chapter, AI Group 73. She is the coordinator for the Ithaca chapter and a member of the Northeast Regional Planning Group. Ritz-Deutch is also the faculty advisor for the Amnesty International student group at SUNY Cortland and has recently volunteered to serve as area coordinator for Upstate New York.
Susan J. Rayl
Susan J. Rayl, Kinesiology Department, presented a paper titled “Student-Athletes as Agents of Social Change” at the inaugural “Athletes and Social Change” forum, held March 28-30 at the Muhammad Ali Center in Louisville, Ky.