Kristine Newhall
Kristine Newhall, Kinesiology Department, presented the paper “I never go over there”: Gender dynamics in resistance training spaces at the 99th Annual Conference of the Western Society for the Physical Education of College Women in Oakland, Cal. This paper included research by Kate Jensen, Physical Education ’23, and current MS student in Recreation, Parks and Leisure Studies Department.
Thomas Hischak
Thomas Hischak, professor emeritus of theatre, is the author of The 100 Greatest American and British Animated Films, published this spring by Rowman and Littlefield. The book covers computer, stop-motion and hand-drawn animated movies from 1937 to 2017.
Cory Russell
Cory Russell, a graduate student in the Sport Management Department, presented a program on sport management and related careers to students and parents at the Access to College Education (ACE) Regional Institute held April 20 at Tompkins Cortland Community College (TC3). The ACE program was developed by a consortium from Cornell University, Ithaca College, SUNY Cortland and TC3.
Scott Anderson, Seth N. Asumah, Ibipo Johnston-Anumonwo and Mechthild Nagel
Scott Anderson, Geography Department, Seth N. Asumah, Political Science and Africana Studies departments, Ibipo Johnston-Anumonwo, Geography and Africana Studies departments, and Mechthild Nagel, Philosophy and Africana Studies departments and the Center for Gender and Intercultural Studies, attended the Race, Ethnicity and Place (REP) Conference held Sept. 21-23 at Kent State University in Ohio. The biannual conference attracts scholars representing interdisciplinary, national and international perspectives on racial transformation of places. Nagel, Asumah and Johnston-Anumonwo presented papers on race-ethnicity studies and Anderson chaired a session on Narratives of Place. Nagel’s paper was titled “Revisiting Prisons as Diasporic Sites.” Asumah’s paper was titled “Race and Diversity Leadership in Predominantly White Institutions: Rethinking Microaggressions.” In addition to her paper on “The Significance of Gender, Race and Ethnicity in the Experiences of Eritrean Migrants,” Johnston-Anumonwo was a panelist at a session honoring the late Professor Florence Margai, a founding member of the REP conference planning committee and associate dean of SUNY Binghamton’s Harpur College who died in 2015. All four SUNY Cortland faculty members were invited to the eighth REP conference at Kent and had presented at previous REP conferences hosted at Binghamton University dating back to 2002.
Thomas Hischak
Thomas Hischak, professor emeritus of theatre, has had the third edition of his textbook Theatre as Human Action: An Introduction to Theatre Arts published by Rowman & Littlefield.
Seth N. Asumah
Seth N. Asumah, Africana Studies and Political Science departments, is the author of a new book chapter titled, “African Relational Democracy: Reframing Diversity, Economic Development and Society-Centered Governance for the Twenty-First Century.” This chapter appeared in a volume, The Social Contract in Africa (2014, Africa Institute of South Africa), edited by Sanya Osha, Tshwane University of Technology, South Africa. The volume is part of the Africa Democracy Project of the Africa Institute of South Africa.
Tadayuki Suzuki
Tadayuki Suzuki, Literacy Department, presented with Darryn Diuguid of McKendree University at the 2022 National Council of Teachers of English on Nov. 19 in Anaheim, California. “Challenge Heteronormativity and Nurture “Queer Eye” in Children Using LGBTQ-Themed Children’s Books” was part of the roundtable sessions titled “Bringing LGBTQ+ Sueños into the Light.”
Danielle Candelora and Gigi Peterson
Danielle Candelora and Gigi Peterson, History Department, and students majoring in history and social studies, presented the History Department’s 2021 “Love Your Major” events on March 24 via Webex.
First, students from Peterson’s Teaching Secondary Social Studies class offered informative sessions on “Hidden Knowledge,” which required finding key campus information and resources, “Advising Advice,” “Connecting and Exploring,” introducing activities, clubs, and more, and “Student Power,” student government and civic engagement. Professors Candelora, Amy Schutt, History Department, and John Suarez, Institute for Civic Engagement, assisted. The History Department hopes to make the recordings available for future access, as part of a virtual “Survive and Thrive” guide by adolescence education 300-level students.
Later, a panel of students, faculty and alumna Claire Leggett provided insights about “Looking Ahead” to graduate study, study abroad and careers. Organized by Peterson, the panel featured history faculty members Leggett, Candelora, Bekeh Ukelina and Laura Gathagan and senior Sophia Hall.
The evening’s finale was run by the History Club. Led by President Sophia Hall, participants speculated about varied scenarios from the past and choices they would make in an entertaining game of “Would you Rather.” Students and faculty, including the club’s advisor Candelora, joined in the fun.
Chelsea Stinson
Chelsea Stinson, Foundations and Social Advocacy Department, was recently appointed as a co-editor of Multiple Voices - Disability, Race, and Language Intersections in Special Education, the official, peer-reviewed journal of the Council for Exceptional Children’s Division for Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Exceptional Learners (DDEL). Stinson also recently had three articles published, including as a co-author of “‘We persist in this cycle’: A critical disability raciolinguistic analysis of behavioral policies for emergent bilinguals labeled as disabled,” in the forthcoming The Urban Review; and as the author of “DisCrit Mothering as analytical tool,” in the International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education, and “Sanctuary as Praxis: Engaging families at the crossroads of disability, education, and migration,” in Equity & Excellence in Education.
Mechthild Nagel
Mechthild Nagel, Philosophy Department and Center for Gender and Intercultural Studies (CGIS), had her chapter, “Black Athena and the Play of the Imagination,” published in Transnational Trills in the Africana World. The book was edited by Cheryl Sterling and published by Cambridge Scholars Press.