Larissa True
Larissa True, Kinesiology Department, recently had her article “Motor Competence and Characteristics within the Preschool Environment” published in the Journal of Science and Medicine in Sport.
Andrew Fitz-Gibbon
Andrew Fitz-Gibbon, chair of the Philosophy Department, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.
Following a sabbatical during spring 2012, two of his books in the Lindisfarne series were published by Xlibris: An Intentional Life: Reflections of a Secular Monastic and Secular Monasticism: A Journey (with Jane Hall Fitz-Gibbon) and his novel, which he authored under the pen name Jack Andrews, titled The Quest for Paradise: An Owen Breese-Jones Story. A new book in the Value Inquiry Book Series’ Ethical Theory and Practice Series, Love as a Guide to Morals, was published by Rodopi. He also had two articles published: “The Reasonableness of Sentimentalism and Violence,” in the Oct.-Dec. issue of Peace Review, and “Somaesthetics and Nonviolence,” in Vol. 28 of Social Philosophy Today, the North American Society of Social Philosophy publication.
Robert Spitzer
Robert Spitzer, Political Science Department, is the author of an article written in the aftermath of the Florida high school shooting titled, “Laws We Used to Have on the Books Could Have Prevented the Florida School Shooting,” published by the Washington Post on Feb. 15.
Also, his article “The NRA’s Journey from Marksmanship to Political Brinkmanship” was published in the Feb. 23 issue of The Conversation.
Samantha Moss
Samantha Moss, Kinesiology Department, had an article titled “Home-and community-based interventions for physical activity and early child development: a systematic review of effective strategies” published in the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. The article, published in September, was co-authored by Xiangli Gu.
Kathleen A. Lawrence
Kathleen A. Lawrence, Communication and Media Studies Department, received word her poem titled “Too Many to Count,” previously published in The Daily Abuse, has been accepted by an anthology to be published by Guts Publishing later this year.
Rhiannon Maton
Rhiannon Maton, Foundations and Social Advocacy Department, co-authored an article with Kathy Mantas, Nipissing University, that was published in the SUNY Journal of the Scholarship of Engagement. The article is titled “Nurturing Mentorship Relationships with Inquiry-based Dialogue.”
Seth N. Asumah
Seth N. Asumah, Africana Studies and Political Science departments, presented his paper “United States Immigration Policy and the Politics of Exclusion: Seeing More Than African Immigrants” at the New York African Studies Association (NYASA) 43rd annual conference held April 12 and 13 at Seton Hall University, South Orange, N.J. Also, Asumah supervised the research projects of four Africana studies majors and minors, which were presented at NYASA conference: Alliyah Dookie presented “Rethinking Internal Migration Benefits for Africa,” Jacob Wrights presented “Should All Speech Be Free? How Hate Speech Negates Freedom,” Kevin Robinson presented “Miseducation, Socialization and Conformity in the Black Community,” and Devon Sanders presented his research paper on “Melanin.”
Mechthild Nagel
Mechthild Nagel, Africana Studies and Philosophy departments and the Center for Gender and Intercultural Studies, gave an Edu-Drama talk on March 4 titled “Playing with Memories” for the inaugural “Women of Character, Courage and Commitment” program at Hudson Valley Community College, Troy, N.Y.
Brian Williams
Brian Williams, Political Science Department, had an article accepted for publication in The Social Science Journal. His article, “Early Voting, Direct Democracy, and Voter Mobilization,” shows that direct democracy campaign contact increases voter turnout.
Tiantian Zheng
Tiantian Zheng, Sociology/Anthropology Department, had her ethnography titled Violent Intimacy: Family Harmony, State Stability, and Intimate Partner Violence in Postsocialist China, published in July by Bloomsbury Publishing. Also, she co-authored a refereed journal article titled “Fanzuixue he Faxue de Tianye Jianghu” (Fieldwork in Criminology and Legal Studies). It was published in August by Jingxue Yanjiu (Police Science Research).