Faculty and Staff Activities

Robert Spitzer

Robert Spitzer, Political Science Department, is the author of an article titled, “President Obama: Veto Yes, Pocket Veto No,” that was posted on the Huffington Post on Oct. 8. The article takes issue with the manner in which President Obama vetoed a bill on Oct. 7. Spitzer is a regular blogger for Huffington.

David Kilpatrick

David Kilpatrick, Psychology Department, was the keynote speaker at the annual Arkansas Department of Education Literacy Conference on March 7 in Hot Springs. On March 18, he presented an all-day professional development workshop for the Ohio Valley Chapter of the International Dyslexia Association in Cincinnati. Both presentations were on research on effective interventions for reading difficulties. 

Jordan Kobritz

Jordan Kobritz, Sport Management Department, and Jeffrey Levine, University of Louisville, had their article “The Show Cause Penalty and the NCAA Scope of Power” published in the Fall 2013 issue of Arizona State University Sports and Entertainment Law Journal. 

Ann McClellan

Ann McClellan, Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs, presented her paper, “‘Oh, Watson, the (Record) Needle!’: Sherlock Holmes and American Jazz,” at the annual Popular Culture Association conference on March 29 in Chicago, Ill. Also, on April 23 she gave a virtual talk for the Groton Public Library in Groton, Mass., on “The Sherlock Holmes You Never Knew: Black American Adaptations, Then and Now.” 

Regina Grantham

Regina Grantham, Communication Disorders and Sciences Department, was appointed one of the four ambassadors for the New York State Speech-Language-Hearing Association (NYSSLHA). She will represent the Central New York region. The ambassador positions are highly prestigious and recognize leadership and professional knowledge. The ambassadors will be visible representatives facilitating communication between the NYSSLHA association and area members.

Brian D. Barrett

Brian D. Barrett, Foundations and Social Advocacy, had his article titled “Religion and Habitus: Exploring the Relationship Between Religious Involvement and Educational Outcomes and Orientations Among Urban African American Students,” published in a special issue of Urban Education on “Bringing the Neighborhood into the Classroom.” Additionally, he was interviewed for a podcast released in association with the special issue and available at iTunes.

Robert Ponterio and Jean LeLoup

Robert Ponterio, Modern Languages Department, and Jean LeLoup, professor emerita of international communications and culture, presented a workshop titled, “Practical Approaches to Teaching Culture: In Search of Cultural Perspectives,” on Oct. 15 at the Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association Conference in Albuquerque, N.M. The workshop focused on methods of integrating culture with language instruction through the national standards for foreign language learning. LeLoup is currently teaching Spanish in the Department of Foreign Languages at the U.S. Air Force Academy in Colorado.

Mark A. Dodds and David L. Snyder

Mark A. Dodds and David L. Snyder, Sport Management Department, had their article, “U.S. Supreme Court Holds NFL is Not a Single Entity,” published in the November/December 2010 issue of The Journal of Physical Education, Recreation & Dance (JOPERD). The article examines the high court's recent decision in American Needle, Inc. v. National Football League, et al. In American Needle, the Supreme Court held that the NFL is not a single entity and, therefore, is not exempt from antitrust scrutiny.

John Hartsock

John Hartsock, Communication Studies Department, gave a talk at the American University of Paris on Oct. 18 on the topic of “The Relevance of Literary Journalism in the Age of Globalization.” It was one of two talks he gave in Paris in addition to his serving as a visiting professor at Paris Université from Sept. 27-Oct. 22. His talk at the American University of Paris was sponsored by the departments of English, Communications and Comparative Literature, and explored why the aesthetic implications of literary journalism serve as an important vehicle for explaining our globalized world. On Oct. 16, Hartsock also gave a talk at the Institute for Anglophone, Romance and German Worlds at Paris Université on the subject of “American Literary Journalism and the Exploration of the Cultural Other,” examining how literary journalism resisted the elitist literary and journalistic paradigms that came to dominate the academy for much of the 20th century to the exclusion of the cultural other. As a visiting professor during this period, Hartsock taught a graduate course at Paris Université on the subject of “The Aesthetics of Cultural Experience in American Literary Journalism.” Hartsock has published widely on the subject of literary journalism, and is the editor of Literary Journalism Studies, the official peer-reviewed journal of the International Association for Literary Journalism Studies.

Lin Lin

Lin Lin, Childhood/Early Childhood Education Department, will present three papers at the 90th Annual National Council for the Social Studies (NCSS) annual conference from Nov. 10-14 in Denver, Colo. Lin and two co-authors will present their published article on social studies titled “Whose History? An Analysis of the Korean War in History Textbooks from Six Countries: the United States, China, Japan, South Korea, North Korea and Russia.” As one of the co-authors, Lin will present another presentation on the topic of “Collective Memories of World War II in History Textbooks from China, Japan and South Korea.” The manuscript has been sent to Curriculum Inquiry and is under review. Both papers will be presented at the College and University Faculty Association (CUFA) session of NCSS. With three Chinese faculty members from other universities, Lin will present on the topic of “Learning and Teaching about the Reemerging China: Stories and Perspectives of Chinese Immigrant Social Studies Educators in the U.S.”