Tyler Bradway
Tyler Bradway, English Department, gave an invited guest lecture on April 19 at Ithaca College titled “Throuple Plots: Queer Kinship and Narrative Form.” The event was sponsored by the Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies program and the English Department.
Tadayuki Suzuki
Tadayuki Suzuki, Literacy Department, had his article, “Realities of War: Using Picture Books to Teach the Social Effects of Armed Conflicts,” published in the Multicultural Education Magazine in August. He coauthored this article with Barbara Fiehn, Jeanine Huss, and Roxanne Spencer at Western Kentucky University.
Brian Barrett and Anne Burns Thomas
Brian Barrett, Foundations and Social Advocacy, served as a co-organizer of the Third International Social Realism Symposium hosted at Jesus College, University of Cambridge, from June 29 to July 1. The symposium attracted a record number of researchers and teachers to address educational questions by drawing significantly on social realism, which explores the social conditions of knowledge production and exchange as well as its structuring in the curriculum.
Barrett and Anne Burns Thomas, Foundations and Social Advocacy Department, presented their paper titled “Flipping the Script: Exploring the Impact of Curriculum Modules on Access to Knowledge and Teacher Professionalism,” which also was co-authored by Maria Timberlake, Foundations and Social Advocacy, at the conference in Cambridge.
John C. Hartsock
John C. Hartsock, Communication Studies Department, has had a scholarly award established in his name by the International Association for Literary Journalism Studies. The award, the “John C. Hartsock Award for Best Article in Literary Journalism Studies,” was established by the association at their last international conference held at King’s College in Halifax, Nova Scotia in May. The award is given for the best article appearing in the association’s blind-reviewed journal, Literary Journalism Studies, for the previous publication year. Hartsock was the founding editor of the journal in spring 2009 and guided it for the first five years of publication. He has been invited to give the award next May at the association’s annual conference to be held at the Austrian Academy of Sciences in Vienna.
Anna Curtis
Anna Curtis, Sociology/Anthropology Department, recently had her book, Dangerous Masculinity: Fatherhood, Race, and Security Inside America’s Prisons, published by Rutgers University Press.
Kathleen A. Lawrence
Kathleen A. Lawrence, Communication and Media Studies Department, recently had two poems published. They were written in cherita form on the theme of Bouquet in the “Poet’s Salon” of Colorado Boulevard, edited Aug. 7 by Kathabela Wilson. The two cherita, titled “six years old” and “like roots extending,” were accompanied by a photo taken by Lawrence captioned as “Summer’s Bouquet.” Also, Lawrence received word that her two abecedarians titled “Vacay” and “Bath” have been accepted for publication in the December 2019 issue of Rosebud Magazine with Michael Kriesel, poetry editor.
Rhiannon Maton
Rhiannon Maton, Foundations and Social Advocacy Department, recently had a book chapter, “School Closures and the Political Education of U.S. Teachers,” published in Shuttered Schools: Race, Community, and School Closures in American Cities, edited by Ebony M. Duncan. The chapter was co-authored with Lauren Ware Stark.
Robert Spitzer
Robert Spitzer, Political Science Department, was the Constitution Day speaker on Sept. 17 at Manchester University in Indiana, where he met with students and gave a featured address on “The Second Amendment and Guns in America” as part of that university’s Values, Arts and Ideas speaker series.
Janet Ochs, Jeremy Pekarek, Rod Koch and Chris Badurek
Janet Ochs, Jeremy Pekarek and Rod Koch, all from Memorial Library, and Chris Badurek, Geography Department, presented virtually at the SUNY Conference on Instruction and Technology on Thursday, May 27. The title of the presentation was “Tired of video conferencing fatigue? Explore tools to increase learner engagement and energize the class.”
Nancy Kane
Nancy Kane, Kinesiology Department, was cited by the Theatre Association of New York State for her musical and ensemble performances in an outdoor summer performance of the Greek tragedy “Antigone” by Sophocles, held at the former Case Mansion in Auburn, N.Y. Also, she choreographed the stage combat in “Antigone.”
Also, Kane’s History and Philosophy of PE and Sport class welcomed guest speaker Conor Heffernan, an assistant professor of physical culture and sport studies at Department of Kinesiology and Health Education at the University of Texas at Austin. Heffernan presented a session on “Irish Emigrants and the Shaping of American Sport.” Kane met the speaker through their participation in the summer 2020 International Society for the History of Physical Education and Sport (ISHPES) Tokyo virtual conference, where Heffernan was a presenter.
The Fall 2020 American Dance Circle, a publication of the Lloyd Shaw Foundation (LSF), featured an article by Kane, who is LSF vice president, about dance and social activism at the Highlander School, where Myles Horton, Pete Seeger, Rosa Parks, Dr. Martin Luther King, John Lewis and many others met to discuss workers’ rights, civil rights, adult literacy and more during the 20th century.