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Susan J. Rayl

Susan J. Rayl, Kinesiology Department, presented a paper titled “Student-Athletes as Agents of Social Change” at the inaugural “Athletes and Social Change” forum, held March 28-30 at the Muhammad Ali Center in Louisville, Ky. 

Juan Diego Prieto

Juan Diego Prieto, Political Science Department, presented at the SUNY Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Social Justice in the Curriculum Conference: Building a Community of Practice conference, held Nov. 3 and 4 at the University at Albany. His presentation was titled “From Family and Community to the Global (and Back Again): A Writing Assignment on Lived Experiences of Political Economy.”

Jean W. LeLoup

Jean W. LeLoup, international communications and cultures emerita, received the Anthony J. Paplia Award for the outstanding article in a state or national foreign language education publication for her article “The effectiveness of Courses Abroad as a Professional Development Model for Foreign Language Teachers.” The New York State Association of Foreign Language Teachers presented the award at their annual meeting in late October.

Claus Schubert

Claus Schubert, Mathematics Department, was informed that his paper was accepted for publication in the Israel Journal of Mathematics. “Semiorderings and Stability Index Under Field Extensions” was co-authored with Karim Becher, Universiteit Antwerpen, Belgium, and David Leep, University of Kentucky.

Rhiannon M. Maton

Rhiannon M. Maton, Foundations and Social Advocacy Department, was extensively cited in a recent article published in the Chicago Tribune titled “Chicago’s striking teachers helped spark a new wave of teacher activists. Here’s why teacher activism is on the rise.”

Robert Ponterio

Robert Ponterio, Modern Languages Department, presented a session titled “Teaching French Culture through Literature” at the New York State Association of Foreign Language Teachers (NYSAFLT) annual convention in on Oct. 22 in Syracuse, N.Y. The session examined the use of literary text for the exploration of French cultural themes in their historical context and in their connections to today’s world both in France and in the U.S. Topics included the treatment of women in society in medieval France and today; the treatment of refugees in Victor Hugo, 1980’s France, and Calais; critical views of France in the occupation through film; and Romanticism in song from the 1780’s to Elvis Presley. Online lesson plans were provided to help teachers integrate the topics into their curricula. All presentation materials are available online: http://web.cortland.edu/flteach/wksp/nysaflt2016.html

Jeremy Jiménez

Jeremy Jiménez, Foundations and Social Advocacy Department, coauthored an article titled “‘Don't Say It’s going to be ok’: How International Educators Embrace Transformative Education to Support Their Students Navigating Our Global Climate Emergency,” recently published by the international peer-reviewed journal Education Sciences.

Meredith Morell

Meredith Morell, Career Services, was recognized with the Rising Professional Award from SUNY Career Development Organization (SUNYDCO) during an online conference in June. The award goes to a SUNYDCO member with less than five years of service to the profession with significant contribution to the career services field.

Nikolay Karkov

Nikolay Karkov, Philosophy Department, co-authored an article titled “Rethinking East-European Socialism: Notes Toward an Anti-Capitalist Decolonial Methodology,” recently published in Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies. The text makes a contribution to both anti-capitalist and decolonial critique from the perspective of the historical legacy of East-European socialism, by offering a genealogy of critical theory in the region after the Cold War, critically discussing socialist humanism's colonial origins, and also exploring South-to-East collaborations between the former Third and Second Worlds. The authors conclude that East-European socialism’s efforts to organize alternative and resistant modernities at times converged and at others starkly departed from capitalist colonial modernity.

Dan Harms

Dan Harms, Memorial Library, recently presented two papers:

  • “‘To Give Myself to be Carried Immediately into Hell’: Weather, Witchcraft, and Two Late Seventeenth-Century Contracts between a Magician and a Student,” at the 58th International Congress on Medieval Studies held May 11 to 13 in Kalamazoo, Mich., and
  • “’What Are You Doing Here?’: Notes on the Trans-European Textual Transmission of a Magical Operation for Invisibility” at the York University Centre for Renaissance and Early Modern Studies Magic and Witchcraft Conference held June 22 and 23. 

Also, Harms and Sanne de Laat, an independent scholar, had their article, “‘It’s a Kind of Magic’: Juggling Privacy and Prosecution for Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century English Magical Practitioners,” published in the Spring 2023 issue of Know: A Journal on the Formation of Knowledge.

And, Harms was awarded the Friend of SUNY Librarians’ Association Award at the annual SUNYLA conference held June 14 to 16 at SUNY Maritime. According to the organization, “The award is given to individuals or organizations that actively contribute to furthering the goals of SUNYLA and of SUNY libraries.”