Faculty and Staff Activities

Emily Quinlan and Marinda Souva

Emily Quinlan and Marinda Souva, Advisement and Transition, facilitated a roundtable discussion on Excelsior Scholarship’s impact on advising and academic decision making at the first annual SUNY Academic Advising Conference held in February in Albany, N.Y.

Jack Carr and Nancy Kane

Jack Carr, Communications and Media Studies Department, and Nancy Kane ’13, Kinesiology Department, received discretionary awards for their musical performances and ensemble work with the Auburn Players in “Antigone and Letters to Soldiers Lost,” directed by Robert Frame, at the Theatre Association of New York Festival 2021 held Nov. 20 in Rome, N.Y. The play is a combination of Sophocles’ “Antigone” and actual letters left at the Vietnam Wall, with original music performed by Carr, Kane and John Fracchia from Ithaca College. Also, the production won adjudicators’ discretionary awards for Music and Best Long Production, as well as a People’s Choice Award for Best Production, among other honors. Kane was nominated for Best Performer in a Play on the Broadway World website.

Jeremy Jiménez

Jeremy Jiménez, Foundations and Social Advocacy Department, had his article “Waves of Diversity: Depictions of Marginalized Groups and their Rights in Social Science Textbooks, 1900-2013” accepted for publication in the forthcoming May 2019 issue of the Comparative Education Review. The article was co-authored with Julia Lerch of University of California, Irvine. 

Benjamin C. Wilson

Benjamin C. Wilson, Economics Department, had his article, “Stop Trying to Find the Money—Create It,” published in the October issue of Academe, a publication of the American Association of University Professors.

Beth Klein

Beth Klein, Childhood/Early Childhood Education Department, recently presented a plenary session on the “Status of the New York State Environmental Literacy Plan” at the New York State Outdoor Education Association (NYSOEA) conference in Callicoon, N.Y. Klein co-chairs the NYSOEA Environmental Literacy Plan Committee which is leading the development of a state-wide environmental literacy plan.

Kevin Pristash

Kevin Pristash, Campus Activities and Corey Union Office, attended the annual conference of the Association of College Unions International from March 22 to 25 in Anaheim, Calif., where he received, on behalf of SUNY Cortland, an award celebrating the College’s 50 years of membership. It was presented at the event’s honors luncheon. 

Lindsey Darvin

Lindsey Darvin, Sport Management Department, recently had a paper titled "Get in the Game Through a Sponsor: Initial Career Ambitions of Former Women Assistant Coaches" published in the Journal of Issues in Intercollegiate Sport (JIIA). Also, she was featured in a Jan. 21 Forbes article discussing Title IX and changes to NCAA name, image and likeness policy.

Samantha Moss

Samantha Moss, Kinesiology Department, had an article titled “The Associations of Physical Activity and Health-Risk Behaviors toward Depressive Symptoms among College Students: Gender and Obesity Disparities” published in March in the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. The article was co-authored by Xiaoxia Zhang, Ziyad Ben Taleb and Xiangli Gu.

Rhiannon Maton

Rhiannon Maton, Foundations and Social Advocacy Department, had her article, “What We Want is the Same Thing You Want”: Educator Union Organizing for the ‘Common Good’ during Covid-19 published in Radical Teacher journal. This piece examines the “common good” organizing efforts of U.S. educator unions during the 2020-2021 school year of the Covid-19 pandemic. 

Christine Paske

Christine Paske, Health Department, recently was elected to the American School Health Association (ASHA) Board of Directors.