Erin Morris and Ryan Vooris
Erin Morris and Ryan Vooris, Sport Management Department, presented their research findings at the 2019 Commission on Sport Management Accreditation (COSMA) Conference, held Feb. 7 and 8 in Atlanta, Ga. Their presentation was titled “Study Like a Girl: An Analysis of Constraints and Facilitators to Female Sport Management Majors.”
Robert Spitzer
Robert Spitzer, Political Science Department, is coauthor of the just-published ninth edition of We the People, a synthetic look at the American political system. The book is published by W.W. Norton.
Robert Spitzer
Robert Spitzer, Political Science Department, was elected to serve on the Executive Council of Pi Sigma Alpha, the national political science honors society, at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association held Aug. 28-31 in Washington D.C. Spitzer will serve a four-year term on the society’s national governing board. Cortland has been a chapter member of Pi Sigma Alpha since 1970.
Daniel Harms
Daniel Harms, Library, presented at the Scientiae: Disciplines of Knowing in the Early Modern World Conference in July at St. Anne's College, Oxford, England. He presented “Hell and Faerie: Differentiation of Fairies and Demons within Ritual Magic of the Early Modern Period."
Moyi Jia
Moyi Jia, Communication and Media Studies Department, co-authored an article that was published in December in Health Communication, one of the leading journals in this field. The article is titled “Promoting Mental Health on Social Media: A Content Analysis of Organizational Tweets.”
Tiantian Zheng
Tiantian Zheng, Sociology/Anthropology Department, was invited by University of Wyoming to deliver a book talk on Tongzhi Living: Men Attracted to Men in Postsocialist China in November.
Mark Prus
Mark Prus, Academic Affairs, reviewed two manuscripts for publication in the Labor Studies Journal. The two articles were “Unintended consequences of Nevada’s Ninety Percent Prevailing Wage Rule,” and “Prevailing Wages, Side by Side Bids and School Construction Costs.”
Brian Barrett
Brian Barrett, Foundations and Social Advocacy Department, presented his paper along with Jim Hordern, University of Bath, UK, titled “Towards Powerful Professional Knowledge in Teacher Education in the USA and England: Reframing the Foundations” at the Knowledge and Quality across School Subjects and Teacher Education (KOSS) Symposium on powerful educational knowledge. Barrett presented virtually at the hybrid event in October, which was based at the University of London’s Institute of Education.
Mechthild Nagel,
Mechthild Nagel, Philosophy Department and the Center for Gender and Intercultural Studies (CGIS), presented on Ubuntu Philosophy at a forum sponsored by the Critical Jurist Association of Frankfurt University, on June 11 in Frankfurt, Germany.
Caroline Kaltefleiter
Caroline Kaltefleiter, Communication and Media Studies Department, had her article published in the journal Theory in Action. The article “Dive In: Transformative Education, Direct Action, and Innovative Media Strategies in an (Inter)Collegiate Partnership to Save a Community Pool” highlights an innovative media campaign, design choices and digital media used for capacity building, critical reflection and social justice.