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Faculty and Staff Activities

Alexandru Balas

Alexandru Balas, International Studies Program, Clark Center for Global Engagement, International Studies Program and EU Erasmus+ Campus, has written a chapter titled “The European Union’s Role in Addressing Environmental Disputes in Central Asia: Evaluating the Effectiveness of a Reluctant 3rd Party” in the edited volume European Union Governance in Central Asia. A Sectoral Approach (Routledge, 2025)  

Katie Ducett

Katie Ducett, Foundations and Social Advocacy Department, is a co-author with two colleagues from a different institution of a published article on “Working to Work: Gaining Employment After Inclusive Postsecondary Education” in the British Journal of Learning Disabilities - Wiley Online Library. The article focuses on how individuals with intellectual disability in the United States have historically been underemployed due to societally constructed barriers.

Christina Knopf

Christina Knopf, Communication and Media Studies Department, gave an invited talk to the New York Society for General Semantics.  She spoke on “Conceptualizing campaign media and misinformation in 2024” as part of the “Misinformation, Misdirection, Manipulation and Mischief: Making Sense of Contemporary Political Propaganda” event held on Jan. 17 at the historic “Players” club in Gramercy Park, New York City. A recording of the event is available on the NYSGS YouTube channel.

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.

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.

Kate McCormick

Kate McCormick, Childhood/Early Childhood Education Department, co-authored an article published in the Journal of Early Childhood Teacher Education titled “Artful learning: Early childhood pre-service teachers and art integration.”

Steven Gabriel

Steven Gabriel, Health Department, has had his paper appear in the SUNY Journal of the Scholarship of Engagement, which is published in collaboration with SUNY Buffalo students and housed at SUNY Cortland.

Teagan Bradway

Teagan Bradway, English Department, was elected to serve a five-year term on the Modern Language Association (MLA) Sexuality Studies Executive Committee. She also gave a presentation on LGBTQ+ kinship narratives at the annual MLA Convention held in New Orleans, Louisiana.

Alexandru Balas

Alexandru Balas, International Studies, published a book chapter titled "Mixing Western and Eastern Medical Practice in the Ottoman Empire: the Adventures of a Transylvanian Doctor in Constantinople, Syria, Lebanon, Egypt and Iraq (1815–1838)" in the edited volume Travellers in Ottoman Lands II: The Balkans, Anatolia and Beyond. (Oxford: Archaeopress, 2025)

Li Jin

Li Jin, Geology Department, has been appointed associate editor for Water Resources Research for the term 2024 to 2028. Published by the American Geophysical Union (AGU), this journal is recognized as a leading publication in the field of hydrology.