Danica Savonick
Danica Savonick, English Department, delivered the plenary address for Bryn Mawr College’s 9th Annual Blended Learning in the Liberal Arts Conference. Her talk, “Savor this Moment: The Activist Possibilities of Digital Pedagogy” is available online.
Nancy Kane
Nancy Kane, Performing Arts Department, had her article published in the September issue of The American Dance Circle. “Dance in New York’s Southern Tier” profiled Hilton Baxter, a contra dance inventor and caller for the Binghamton Community Dance group.
Peter M. McGinnis
Peter M. McGinnis, Distinguished Service Professor of Kinesiology, had the 4th edition of his textbook, Biomechanics of Sport and Exercise, translated to Japanese. The book was published by Medical Sciences International, Ltd. in Tokyo. Counting this translation and those of previous editions, the book has now been translated into six different languages.
Denise D. Knight
Denise D. Knight, English Department, has had her monograph, “‘what our union once was’: Newly Recovered Letters from Charlotte Perkins Gilman to Martha Luther Lane,” published in the Fall 2021 issue of American Literary Realism.
Robert Spitzer
Robert Spitzer, Political Science Department, was invited to submit testimony to the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee, Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights and Human Rights, for a hearing on “‘Stand Your Ground’ Laws: Civil Rights and Public Safety Implications of the Expanded Use of Deadly Force,” held in Washington, D.C., on Sept. 17. The hearing was chaired by Subcommittee Chair Dick Durbin.
Rhiannon Maton
Rhiannon Maton, Foundations and Social Advocacy Department, recently co-edited a special issue on education labor movements across the Americas for Critical Education journal. The issue is the fourth part of the “Contemporary Educator Movements: Transforming Unions, Schools and Society” special series that Maton co-edits for the same journal.
Kristine Newhall
Kristine Newhall, Kinesiology Department, presented at the annual meeting of the North American Society for Sport History in May in Washington, D.C. Her talk “Who is a women’s sports advocate?” focused on the life and activism of Dr. Jean Grossholtz of Mt. Holyoke College.
Carolyn Bershad
Carolyn Bershad, Counseling and Student Development, has been informed that the Counseling Center has met the criteria for full re-accreditation by the International Association of Counseling Services (IACS), the only association that accredits counseling services on university and college campuses. Accreditation by IACS is dependent upon evidence of continuing professional development as well as demonstration of excellence in counseling performance. The Counseling Center offers individual and group counseling for students, as well as consultation and outreach to the campus community and beyond.
Kevin B. Sheets
Kevin B. Sheets, History Department, had an article, “Talking Toward Success: In the World of the 19th Century, Social Climbers Used Conversation to Scale the Ladder,” published in the Fall 2022 issue of Forum, the quarterly magazine of Phi Kappa Phi.
Robert Spitzer
Robert Spitzer, Political Science Department, is the author of an article titled, “Flanagan’s Gun Permit, and Mine,” that was published in the New York Daily News on August 31. Spitzer argues that the man who shot a television reporter and cameraman in Virginia likely could not have obtained his gun had he lived in New York.