Bonni C. Hodges
Bonni C. Hodges, Health Department, was an invited presenter at the SOPHE/CDC Institute for Higher Education (IHE) Academy, held March 20 and 21 in Atlanta, Ga. The IHE Academy works with teams from professional preparation programs across the country on refining and updating curricula and skills, so their programs provide their students with the most current essential tools required to teach health and physical education with a focus on health education teacher preparation.
Also, Hodges presented a poster on Educational Support Professionals: “Hidden Assets in Plain Sight” at the annual conference of the Society for Public Health Education held March 21 to 24 in Atlanta.
Caroline Kaltefleiter
Caroline Kaltefleiter, Communication and Media Studies, attended the first National Conference on Community News, hosted by the Center for Community News at the University of Vermont from Oct. 2-4. The conference focused on the impact of student reporting and brought together journalists and educators from across the country to discuss collaboration models between student media and local media outlets, and to addressing innovative storytelling tools and strategies amidst calls for greater transparency between news organizations and their communities.
Kathryn Kramer
Kathryn Kramer, Art and Art History Department, had her critical review of the photography and video art on display at the recent New Orleans biennial exhibition, Prospect New Orleans.2, published in the March-April issue of Afterimage: The Journal of Media Arts and Cultural Criticism. In addition, her article, “Flanerie and the Globalizing City,” co-authored with John Rennie Short, was published in the June-August 2011 issue of City.
Jeremy Pekarek
Jeremy Pekarek, Library, co-presented at the New York Archives Conference held June 5 to 7 in Rochester, N.Y. The presentation was titled “Portals to Public Access: Increasing Visibility of Archival Collections Via Digitization, Metadata, and Finding Aids” and was co-presented with Barbara Scheibel from Onondaga Community College and Kathryn Johns-Masten from SUNY Oswego.
Also, Pekarek co-presented twice at the 2019 State University of New York Librarian Association (SUNYLA) Conference held June 12 to 14 at Onondaga Community College. The first co-presentation was titled “On Board the Mentorship: Sailing the Sea of Change with Tenure Track Librarians” and was co-presented with SUNY Cortland Library staff members Lisa Czirr, Maaike Oldemans, Janet Ochs, Richard Powell, Jennifer Moore, Jen Parker and Hilary Wong. The second co-presentation was titled “Zombie Escape: Gamifying Library Instruction with Active Learning Activities” and was co-presented with SUNY Cortland Library staff members Annette Ernste and Jen Phelan.
Anne Vittoria
Anne Vittoria, Sociology-Anthropology Department, is the author of a book, Women of Color in a World Apart, An Ethnography of Care Workers published Oct. 29 by Routledge. The book addresses issues in the fields of medical sociology and the intersectional literature of race, class and gender.
Jeremy Jimenez
Jeremy Jimenez, Foundations and Social Advocacy Department, presented findings from his collaboration with Egyptian educators in an online historical thinking course at the Comparative International Education Society conference in Mexico City, Mexico.
Dennis L.C. Weng
Dennis L.C. Weng, Political Science Department, presented three papers at the Midwest Political Science Association (MPSA) annual meeting in Chicago from April 7-10. Also, his paper “Investigating The Changing Citizens in Southeast Asia: An Empirical Analysis of Political Participation and Democratization in Southeast Asia,” has been accepted for publication in April in the Journal of Southeast Asian Studies.
Alex Corbitt
Alex Corbitt, Literacy Department, was lead author of an article recently published in Pedagogies: An International Journal. “Expanding reader-response: Tracing emergence, nested ontology, and affect across playful activities” is about how to rethink how individuals “read” and analyze moments of play.
Danica Savonick
Danica Savonick, English Department, received the Dr. Nuala McGann Drescher Award as well as a yearlong faculty fellowship from the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS). The ACLS Fellowship Program awards fellowships to individual scholars working in the humanities and related social sciences. You can read more about the award and her project here: https://www.acls.org/Recent-Awardees/ACLS-Fellows
Barbara Wisch
Barbara Wisch, art and art history, received funding to present at the National Endowment for the Humanities' 2010 Summer Institute for College Teachers. "Ritual and Ceremony from Late-Medieval Europe to Early America." It is sponsored by the Folger Institute from June 21-July 23. Wisch will present in the session titled "Traditions and Transformations on the Continent" on Monday, July 5, and Tuesday, July 6.