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Faculty and Staff Activities

Mechthild Nagel

Mechthild Nagel, Philosophy and Africana Studies departments and director of the Center for Ethics, Peace, and Social Justice, had her book chapter titled “Transitional Justice in Rwanda and South Africa” published this spring in The Routledge International Handbook on Penal Abolition.

 

David Kilpatrick

David Kilpatrick, Psychology Department, co-authored a book chapter with Esther Geva of the University of Toronto on learning disabilities. The chapter was published this summer in Consultation and Mental Health Interventions in School Settings: A Scientist–Practitioner’s Guide by Hogrefe & Huber.

Kerri Freese

Kerri Freese, Noyce Project coordinator, collaborated with Maritza Macdonald, senior director of education and policy and co-director of the Master of Arts in Teaching Earth Science Residency Program at the American Museum of Natural History, to plan and implement a workshop for National Science Foundation (NSF) Noyce Scholars. The workshop, held Dec. 4 at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City, highlighted using a museum and informal resources for science, technology, engineering and math education (STEM) and culture knowledge. More than 60 Noyce scholars and faculty from Noyce programs throughout the northeast attended the workshop. The event was supported by leftover funds from a NSF conference grant awarded to Gregory D. Phelan, Chemistry Department, Sheila Vaidya, Drexel University and Lisa Gonsalves, University of Massachusetts Boston, that aimed to enhance pre-service and in-service teachers’ successful teaching practices in high-need schools. The SUNY Cortland Noyce Project, sponsored by the NSF, seeks to encourage talented STEM majors to become K-12 teachers in high-need rural and urban schools.

Evan Faulkenbury

Evan Faulkenbury, History Department, has had his book, Poll Power: The Voter Education Project and the Movement for the Ballot in the American South, published by UNC Press.

Ute Ritz-Deutch

Ute Ritz-Deutch, History Department, learned that her article, “Hermann von Ihering: Shifting Realities of a German Brazilian Scientist from the Late Empire to World War I,” has been accepted for publication in a special edition of the British Journal German History. The volume is scheduled for publication in 2015.

Tadayuki Suzuki

Tadayuki Suzuki, Literacy Department, presented two roundtable sessions on Nov. 17 at the 2023 National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) annual convention in Columbus, Ohio. “The Right to Read: The Voices of School Teachers and Preservice Teacher Students” was part of the roundtable session “Working to Understand Censorship and its Impacts on the Teaching Profession.” “Exploring the Complexity of Cultural Authenticity in Children’s Books with Gender Nonconforming Characters” was part of the roundtable session “Queer(ing) Conexións.”

Tadayuki Suzuki

Tadayuki Suzuki, Literacy Department, presented “How to Evaluate Cultural Authenticity in Multicultural Children’s Literature” at the New York State Reading Association Conference held Nov. 10 in Saratoga Springs, N.Y. On Nov. 21, he will give a presentation at the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE). The title of the presentation is “Discussing the Missing Piece of the Puzzle: LGBTQ Books for Children in Intermediate Grade Levels.”

Kathleen Lawrence

Kathleen Lawrence, Communication Studies Department, had two abecedarians, “Lab Test” and “Adding Machines,” accepted for publication in Lemon Quarterly in the April 2017 issue. She also was notified her poem “Trump vs. Big Bird,” written to the tune of Sesame Street’s “Sunny Day,” was accepted for publication in Parody Poetry Journal, April Issue. Lawrence’s abecedarian originally titled “Resisting Trump” was the featured “Your Line” on April 3, 2017 to the epic poem being built on-line by OVS Magazine. In the last year, 53 poems by Lawrence have been published or are forthcoming.

Deborah Wilson and Mary Emm

Deborah Wilson and Mary Emm, Communication Disorders and Sciences Department, had their article, “Opportunity for Effective Feedback: A Supervision Tool,” published in the March 2013 journal of Perspectives on Administration and Supervision.

Rhiannon Maton

Rhiannon Maton, Foundations and Social Advocacy Department, co-authored an article with Kathy Mantas, Nipissing University, that was published in the SUNY Journal of the Scholarship of Engagement. The article is titled “Nurturing Mentorship Relationships with Inquiry-based Dialogue.”