Mark Dodds, Jordan Kobritz, Justin Lovich, Tara Mahoney and Ryan Vooris
Mark Dodds, Jordan Kobritz, Justin Lovich, Tara Mahoney and Ryan Vooris, all Sport Management Department faculty members, presented research at the 29th Annual Conference of the Sport and Recreation Law Association (SRLA) held March 2-5 in New Orleans, La. Also, Dodds was recognized with the President’s Service Award for service to SRLA.
John C. Hartsock
John C. Hartsock, Communication Studies Department, was recently invited to the United Arab Emirates to serve as an external dissertation examiner. The candidate successfully defended her dissertation “Negotiating the Intersection of Arabic and Anglo-American Literary Journalism: Exploring Possibilities, Challenging Canons.” The dissertation is believed to be the first to examine Arab literary journalism.
Li Jin
Li Jin, Geology Department, co-authored an article recently published in the journal Sustainability. The paper examines the impacts of climate change and population growth on the water quality of Awash River in Ethiopia where water resources are limited and comprehensive monitoring datasets are lacking. The outcomes of the work help evaluate the efficiency of mitigation measures to curb river water pollution. The paper is titled “Impacts of Climate Change and Population Growth on River Nutrient Loads in a Data Scarce Region: The Upper Awash River (Ethiopia).”
Mark Dodds
Mark Dodds, Sport Management Department, recently delivered sport business corruption presentations at the European Association for Sport Management (EASM) conference, the National Sports Law Institute fall symposium, and the International Sports Business symposium. Dodds also served as the sport law conference chair at EASM, and was a panel chair for a discussion on sport law post-Covid 19 panel. Also, he co-authored a paper on the prevention of ambush marketing from a social ambush evolution at the Sport Marketing Association conference.
Mechthild Nagel
Mechthild Nagel, Philosophy Department and Center for Gender and Intercultural Studies, presented an invited talk titled “The Ethic of Ubuntu and the End of Penality,” at the Symposium on Mass Incarceration, Religion, and Abolitionism, held Oct. 5 at Cornell University.
Also, Nagel was the keynote speaker for the annual Arts and Science lecture on Oct. 25 at Clarkson University. Her talk, “The Many Faces of Abolitionism Discourse: From Chattel Slavery, to Prisons and Prostitution,” also served as the opening lecture for the first Gender and Sexuality Studies Conference at the university.
Simon Brandon-Lai
Simon Brandon-Lai, Sport Management Department, co-authored an article, “Organizational Impression Congruence: A Conceptual Model of Multi-level Impression Management Operation in Sport Service Organizations,” that was published in Sport Management Review. In the paper, the authors addressed ways in which images projected by actors at different organizational levels combine to produce in/coherent consumer impressions. Conceptual links between these impressions and related outcomes (e.g., consumer trust, psychological connection, and re-patronage intentions) are discussed.
Seth N. Asumah
Seth N. Asumah, Africana Studies and Political Science departments, is the author of a book chapter, “African Cultures, Modernization and Development: Re-examining the Effects of Globalization.” It will be included in a new book, Globalization and the African Experience, edited by Emmanuel M. Mbah and Steven J. Salm, to be published in 2012 by Carolina Academic Press.
Thomas Hischak
Thomas Hischak, Performing Arts Department, has written a chapter on the “American Musical Theatre” for The Oxford Handbook of American Drama, published by Oxford University Press in December 2013.
Brice Smith
Brice Smith, Physics Department, is an invited presenter at a public forum titled “New York’s Energy Plan: Scaling Up Renewable Energy or Business as Usual?” being held Wednesday, March 5, in Ithaca, N.Y. The associate professor and former senior scientist at the Institute for Energy and Environmental Research has focused his work on renewable and sustainable energy systems for more than a decade. The forum will be moderated by Tony Ingraffea, a member of Cornell University’s School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, and is free and open to the public.
Thomas Hischak
Thomas Hischak, professor emeritus of theatre, had the second edition of his textbook, Theatre as Human Action: An Introduction to the Theatre, released by Rowman & Littlefield in March.