Danica Savonick
Danica Savonick, English Department, had her book, Open Admissions: The Poetics and Pedagogy of Toni Cade Bambara, June Jordan, Audre Lorde, and Adrienne Rich in the Era of Free College, published by Duke University Press in August.
Quincy Loney
Quincy Loney, Mathematics Department, was invited to present selected results from his doctoral dissertation at the 1,072nd meeting of the American Mathematical Society held Sept. 10-11 at Cornell University. Quincy’s talk, “Decomposition of Level-1 Representations of D_4^(1) with Respect to its Subalgebra G_2^(1) in the Spinor Construction,” was given as a part of the special session on Kac-Moody Lie Algebras, Vertex Algebras and Related Topics.
Jose Ortiz
Jose Ortiz, Foundations and Social Advocacy Department, published two articles, one in the Ethnic Studies Pedagogies journal and another in the Association of Mexican American Educators Journal:
Ortiz, J. (2025). "The Potential Role of In Lak’ech and the Nahui Ollin in Nurturing Social Emotional Learning." Ethnic Studies Pedagogies, 3(1), 192-205. https://www.ethnicstudiespedagogies.org/gallery/Vol3-Issue1-29_PotentialRole.pdf
Ortiz, J. (2025). "Using Testimonios to Enhance Social Emotional Learning Skills for High School Latina/o/x Students." Association of Mexican American Educators Journal, 19(1), 32-61. https://doi.org/10.24974/amae.19.1.519
Mechthild Nagel
Mechthild Nagel, Philosophy Department and Center for Gender and Intercultural Studies, served as a panelist reviewing Summer Institute/Seminar proposals for the National Endowment for the Humanities, on April 24 in Washington, D.C.
Anna Curtis
Anna Curtis, Sociology/Anthropology Department, recently had her book, Dangerous Masculinity: Fatherhood, Race, and Security Inside America’s Prisons, published by Rutgers University Press.
Jena Nicols Curtis
Jena Nicols Curtis, Health Department, was named coordinator for the Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies Program. The academic minor, which is part of the Center for Gender and Intercultural Studies, engages students in interdisciplinary research and pedagogy to examine the ways that concepts of gender, sexuality, race, nation, class, ethnicity and ability shape our world. Curtis is an associate professor of health whose research interests focus on gender and sexuality. In 2014, she received a Chancellor’s Award for Internationalization for a study abroad program that she developed. The public health research course takes students to Southern India for a month each summer to explore the impact of gender, class and religion on public health disparities. In April 2016, her article on how EMS providers can most effectively respond to campus sexual violence was a feature article in the Journal of Emergency Medicine. In September 2016, Curtis was invited to Quantico, Va., to deliver sexual violence prevention training to the Sexual Assault Prevention and Response (SAPR) Branch for Marine Headquarters.
Mark Dodds
Mark Dodds, Sport Management Department, edited the Encyclopedia of Sports Management and Marketing, which was chosen by the American Library Association RUSA BRASS Committee for Business Reference Sources as an Outstanding Business Reference source. This encyclopedia contained submissions from Sport Management Department chair Jordan Kobritz, faculty members Peter Han, Genevieve Birren and Ted Fay, and several graduate students.
Tiantian Zheng
Tiantian Zheng, Sociology/Anthropology Department, was invited by University of Rochester and Yale University to deliver two talks this November: “Structural Inequality and IPV,” and “Culture and Political Economy A Journey Through Influence and Beyond.” She also organized a conference panel, "Gender, Identity and Social Movements," for the New York Conference on Asian Studies held from Oct. 3-4 at SUNY Brockport.
Evan Faulkenbury
Evan Faulkenbury, History Department, co-edited a book titled Teaching Public History that was recently published by UNC Press.
Kathleen A. Lawrence
Kathleen A. Lawrence, Communication Studies Department, had four of her speculative poems published in the special Gothic themed April issue of Prachya Review. Her surreal poem titled “Horror Show” is written in hay(na)ku form. Her second poem is a spiraling abecedarian describing a spectral “Flock of Morose.” Her poem “Aftermath” is written as a post-apocalyptic warning and “Little Mayhem” is a dark accounting of a visit from tiny but threatening otherworldly creatures. Lawrence also just received word that her love letter-inspired spiraling abecedarian titled “Love Note” was accepted for publication in the fall issue of the James Dickey Review.