Faculty and Staff Activities
Celeste McNamara
Celeste McNamara, History Department, was invited to give a lecture at The College of William and Mary in Virginia on April 1. Her talk was titled “Sin and Salvation: The Threat of Scandal in Early Modern Italy.” She also gave a workshop for the Medieval and Renaissance Studies Faculty on her forthcoming book on the reform of the Catholic Church in 17th century Italy. Finally, she guest-taught a class on European Reformations, introducing students to her research.
Moyi Jia
Moyi Jia, Communication Studies Department, had an article published in the February issue of Management Communication Quarterly. It is titled, “Workplace Emotion and Communication: Supervisor Nonverbal Immediacy, Employee’s Emotional Experience, and Their Communication Motives.”
Tom Lickona
Tom Lickona, Childhood/Early Childhood Education Department, had his three-part review essay published in the January/February issue of MercatorNet, an Australian online newsletter. The essay is about the book, “Lost in Transition: The Dark Side of Emerging Adulthood,” by University of Notre Dame sociologist Christopher Smith. Smith’s interview study of 230 18- to 23-year-old young adults was the subject of a recent David Brooks column in The New York Times.
Gregg Weatherby
Gregg Weatherby, English Department, has had six poems from his current work-in-progress, Approaching Home, excerpted for an anthology of memoir to be published later in the year by Telling Our Stories Press.
Brian Barrett
Brian Barrett, Foundations and Social Advocacy Department, had his book, Knowledge, Curriculum and Equity: Social Realist Perspectives, published this summer by Routledge. The book was co-edited with Ursula Hoadley, University of Cape Town, and John Morgan, University of Auckland, and contains a chapter by Barrett and Foundations and Social Advocacy Department colleagues Anne Burns Thomas and Maria Timberlake.
Tyler Bradway
Tyler Bradway, English Department, presented a paper titled “Inchoate Kinship: Psychoanalytic Narrative and Queer Belonging” at the Project Narrative Summer Institute at Ohio State University. The Institute was held from July 9 through July 21 and brought together scholars working on “Queer and Feminist Narrative Theories.”
Louise Mahar and Evan Nolan
Louise Mahar and Evan Nolan, Recreational Sports Department, will present at the NIRSA Region I Conference, geared to leaders in collegiate recreation, on Nov. 17 in Hartford, Conn. Their presentation, “Personal Training, Upgraded: How to Create or improve a Campus Recreation Personal Training Program” focuses on sharing resources from the model program developed at SUNY Cortland. The presentation is designed to help colleges and universities create or improve their personal training program.
Assistant Chief Amanda Wasson and Lieutenant Dani Salisbury
Assistant Chief Amanda Wasson and Lieutenant Dani Salisbury, University Police Department, recently attended the International Association of Chiefs of Police Women’s Leadership Institute held in Saratoga Springs, N.Y. The Women’s Leadership Institute (WLI) is a one-week in-person leadership training program for women leaders and those developing women leaders. The curriculum is focused on teaching participants evidence-informed leadership theories to help them inspire followers, lead groups, and achieve organizational goals—all in the context of better understanding the unique challenges women face in the workplace.
Brian Barrett
Brian Barrett, Foundations and Social Advocacy Department, had his chapter titled "Rob Moore, social realism, and the sociology of education and knowledge" published in the <i>Research Handbook on Curriculum and Education</i> (Edward Elgar).
Richard Hunter
Richard Hunter, Geography Department, gave an invited presentation titled “Cambio de paisaje en el México central durante el siglo XVI: datos antiguos y nuevas técnicas” on Nov. 8 at the Centro de Investigación en Geografía Ambiental of UNAM-Morelia, Mexico.