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Faculty and Staff Activities

Jean W. LeLoup

Jean W. LeLoup, International Communications and Culture emerita, along with U.S. Air Force Academy (USAFA) colleagues LeAnn Derby and  Ramsamooj J. Reyes, and Sheri Spaine Long from the University of North Carolina – Charlotte, had their paper, “Fusing Language Learning and Leadership Development: Initial Approaches and Strategies,”  published in Dimension 2014. The white paper was a result of a semester-long Faculty Learning Community in the Department of Foreign Languages at the USAFA that met throughout the spring of 2013. The paper focuses explicitly on the relationship between language learning and leadership development through discussion, reflection and exploration to advance strategies and develop related resources.

Bruce Mattingly and Jerome O’Callaghan

Bruce Mattingly and Jerome O’Callaghan, School of Arts and Sciences, presented at the annual conference of the Council of Colleges of Arts and Sciences (CCAS) held in early November in Montreal. Mattingly presented to colleagues on strategic planning. O’Callaghan’s presentation was part of a panel devoted to the dean’s relationship to the registrar.

Timothy J. Baroni

Timothy J. Baroni, Biological Sciences Department, organized and ran the 61st Annual Charles Horton Peck Foray that hosted 40 professional, amateur and student mycologists from the northeast, held Sept. 12-14 at the Vanderkamp Retreat Center in Cleveland, N.Y. Amateur Mycologists from the Central New York Mycological Association, the Rochester Area Mycological Association and the Western Pennsylvania Mushroom Club, joined faculty and students from Cornell University, SUNY Cortland, Clarion University and The New York Botanical Garden for the two day event that focused on collecting and studying macrofungi — mushrooms, cup fungi and their relatives. Cortland has hosted the event six times since 1976.

Mark Dodds

Mark Dodds, Sport Management Department, had his journal article “What can Bilfinger Teach Olympic Sponsors?” accepted for publication by Sports Management International Journal Choregia. It was co-authored by University of Missouri Assistant Professor Mario Palmero.

Justin Bucciferro

Justin Bucciferro, Economics Department, had the article “A Lucrative End: Abolition, Immigration, and the New Occupational Hierarchy in Southeast Brazil” published in March in Cliometrica: Journal of Historical Economics and Econometric History. Also, his book chapter, “The Evolution of Regional Income Inequality in Brazil, 1872–2015,” coauthored with P. Ferreira de Souza, was published in December 2020 in Time and Space: Latin American Regional Development in Historical Perspective

Alexandru Balas

Alexandru Balas, International Studies Department and director of the Clark Center for International Education, had his book, The Puzzle of Peace. The Evolution of Peace in the International System, published in February by Oxford University Press. The book is co-authored with Gary Goertz and Paul Diehl. The Puzzle of Peace moves beyond defining peace as the absence of war and develops a broader conceptualization and explanation for the increasing peacefulness of the international system. The authors track the rise of peace as a new phenomenon in international history starting after 1945.

Kathryn Kramer

Kathryn Kramer, Art and Art History Department, will have her most recent biennial exhibition report published in the May/June issue of Afterimage: The Journal of Media Arts and Cultural Criticism . Kramer has written exhibition reports for Afterimage since 2012. Her latest report examines Prospect.3 New Orleans, the third citywide exhibition of international contemporary art to be held in New Orleans since 2009.

Robert Spitzer

Robert Spitzer, distinguished service professor emeritus of political science, recently was interviewed on the Canadian Broadcasting System and the Australian Broadcasting System on the New York attorney general’s ongoing legal action against the National Rifle Association and its former executive director Wayne LaPierre, who is currently being tried for a series of violations.

Timothy Davis

Timothy Davis, Physical Education Department, has received a partnership agreement in the amount of $15,000, developed with the DeRuyter Central School District and SUNY Cortland, to support a new graduate assistant position from Sept. 1, 2011-June 30, 2012.

Tadayuki Suzuki

Tadayuki Suzuki, Literacy Department, had his article titled “Reading Picture Books and Discussing Gender Binary Topics with Elementary Students,” published in the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) blog on Oct. 25.