Kristine Newhall
Kristine Newhall, Kinesiology Department, was invited to co-present a symposium at the Social Justice Through Sport and Exercise Psychology Conference in March. The session was called “More than a Trend: Assessing the Literature on Trans Issues in Sport.”
Wylie Schwartz
Wylie Schwartz, Art and Art History Department, will co-chair a panel session with her colleague,Katherine Jackson (assistant professor, Department of Art History, Utah Valley University) from Oct. 19-22 at the 2025 Nordik Association for Art History Conference in Helsinki, Finland. Their panel session, titled, "Negotiating Spaces: Nordic artists working within or in resistance to institutional spaces," includes papers that examine Nordic and Northern European artists and artist collectives from the 1960s to the present in their operation within or in their attempt to change institutional bodies such as the government, the corporation and the art school. This panel ultimately grapples with the complex question: Can an artist operate critically within systemic structures without dismantling the institution itself?
Kathleen A. Lawrence
Kathleen A. Lawrence, Communication Studies Department, recently learned that her poem “Three’s A Crowd” was accepted for publication in the upcoming anthology Hay(na)ku 15, edited by Eileen R. Tabios and forthcoming from Meritage Press.
Robert Spitzer
Robert Spitzer, Political Science Department, presented a paper titled, "Hot Button Issues in the 2012 Presidential Campaign: 47% Yes, Guns No?" for a conference on the 2012 presidential elections held at Hiram College in Ohio on November 16-17.
Ute Ritz-Deutch
Ute Ritz-Deutch, History Department, had footage from her interview with Jose Sadana included in a Dec. 14 Pacifica radio segment on the impact of elders in prison and COVID, titled “Caging in COVID.” The footage originally aired on Ritz-Deutch’s weekly radio show, the WRFI Human Rights and Social Justice Program. The Pacifica show is part of a larger program on COVID, Race and Democracy and the first nationally produced radio program in some years.
Mark Dodds
Mark Dodds, Sport Management Department, edited the Encyclopedia of Sports Management and Marketing, which was chosen by the American Library Association RUSA BRASS Committee for Business Reference Sources as an Outstanding Business Reference source. This encyclopedia contained submissions from Sport Management Department chair Jordan Kobritz, faculty members Peter Han, Genevieve Birren and Ted Fay, and several graduate students.
Robert Spitzer
Robert Spitzer, Political Science Department, is co-author of an article posted Nov. 30 by U.S. News and World Report titled, “Obama’s Guantanamo Paradox.” The article is co-authored with Chris Edelson of American University.
John C. Hartsock
John C. Hartsock, Communication Studies Department, has had a new book accepted for publication by The University of Massachusetts Press. Hartsock’s Literary Journalism and the Aesthetics of Experience is due to be published in Fall 2015. The result of Hartsock’s most recent sabbatical project, the peer-reviewed volume explores theoretical issues that help to more clearly delineate narrative literary journalism as a genre, one that was long neglected by the academy. These include the advantages of a more traditional narrative approach to contemporary journalism practice, the distinctive nature of narrative literary journalism’s referentiality, the genre’s inherent assault on secular mythologies, and the relationship between the genre and memoir, among other concerns. Hartsock is the author of the critically acclaimed A History of American Literary Journalism: The Emergence of a Modern Narrative Form, which was the first history of the genre and was published by University of Massachusetts Press in 2000. In 2011, his award-winning Seasons of a Finger Lakes Winery was published by Cornell University Press. It is a narrative account of a mom-and-pop winery on Cayuga Lake.
Jim Hokanson
Jim Hokanson, Kinesiology Department, was invited to give a Zoom departmental seminar about recent research on metabolic rate and body temperature in a lower body positive pressure treadmill (Alter G) on Feb. 10 to the Department of Physical Therapy and Nursing, University of Salamanca, Spain.
Tiantian Zheng
Tiantian Zheng, Sociology/Anthropology Department, was invited by NBC News to comment on the “masculinity problem” facing boys in China. The NBC news article that quoted her comments was posted online on Jan. 9.