Christopher Badurek
Christopher Badurek, Geography Department, was honored with the 2018 GISP of the Year Award in February from the Geographic Information Systems Certification Institute (GISCI) for over five years of sustained contributions to the development of GIS professional knowledge certification standards used nationally in industry, government, and academia.
Jeremy Jimenez
Jeremy Jimenez, Foundations and Social Advocacy Department, presented a paper titled “Portrayal of Religion Against the Backdrop of Progress and Modernity in the US and Canadian Social Science Textbooks from 1850 to 2010” at the Future of World Society conference at Pomona College, Los Angeles.
Christina Knopf
Christina Knopf, Communication and Media Studies Department, was named a Wilson Scholar of the John P. Wilson Fellowship of the New York State Communication Association (NYSCA). The Wilson Scholar Committee awards the Wilson Fellowship to a member of NYSCA who has established an exemplary record of scholarship and service to the association. To be considered for the award, nominees must be members of NYSCA, have contributed a significant body of research, and have a record of service to NYSCA.
Also, Knopf planned the 79th annual convention of the New York State Communication Association, held Oct. 15 to 17 in Callicoon, N.Y. The conference featured nearly 30 programming sessions with 75 faculty and student speakers from throughout New York, Massachusetts, Connecticut, New Jersey and Pennsylvania. Knopf is now serving as president of the New York State Communication Association through October 2022.
Dan Harms
Dan Harms, Library, had his chapter, “Hell and Fairy: The Differentiation of Fairies and Demons within British Ritual Magic of the Early Modern Period,” published in the edited collection Knowing Demons, Knowing Spirits in the Early Modern Period from Palgrave Macmillan.
Katie Ducett
Katie Ducett, Foundations and Social Advocacy Department, co-authored two chapters included in recently published books, one in Multimodal and Digital Creative Writing Pedagogies and the second in Creating Our Own Lives: College Students with Intellectual Disability.
Larissa True
Larissa True, Kinesiology Department, recently was interviewed for an article on training the nervous system that appears in the June issue of Runner’s World UK magazine. The article, titled “Circuit Training: A neurological master class in conditioning your nervous system for improved running performance,” was written by James Witts.
Jose Ortiz and Maria Timberlake
Jose Ortiz and Maria Timberlake, Foundations and Social Advocacy Department, will be presenting at the upcoming American Educational Studies Association Conference: https://convention2.allacademic.com/one/aesa/aesa25/online_program_direct_link/view_session/2262372/.
Teagan Bradway
Teagan Bradway, English Department, authored the lead chapter, “Affect and Aesthetics,” recently published in the Routledge Companion to Politics and Literature in English, edited by Matthew Stratton.
Gregg Weatherby
Gregg Weatherby, English Department, served as a consultant for a number of books on poet Paul Blackburn: The Blackburn Reader to be published by Shearsman; an as yet untitled book of critical essays to be published by Macmillan (followed by a symposium at the University of Kent, UK); and a reissue of Blackburn's translation of selected Provencal poets, Proensa, to be published by the New York Review of Books. In addition to being a poet and translator, Blackburn was also a member of the English Department faculty 1970-71.
Teagan Bradway
Teagan Bradway, English Department, was awarded a Hunt-Simes Visiting Junior Chair of Sexuality Studies with the Social Sciences and Humanities Advanced Research Centre at the University of Sydney. In February, she traveled to the University of Sydney and taught a seminar on “Queer Relationality” as part of the Hunt-Simes Institute for Sexuality Studies, which ran from Feb. 19 to March 1.