Dan Harms
Dan Harms, Memorial Library, published his article, “‘To Give Myself to Be Carried Immediatly into Hell’: Weather, Witchcraft, and Two Late Seventeenth-Century Contracts between a Magician and a Student.” in the latest issue of Preternature: Critical and Historical Studies on the Preternatural. He also gave three presentations: “‘A fitter spot for a tale of darkness’: The Appropriation and Marketing of Early Modern Spirit Summoning, Folklore, and Local Landscape in Robert Cross Smith’s Tales of the Horrible,” at the International Congress for Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, Michigan; “Winds, Witches, and Wicked Spirits: The Association of Witches with Other Dangers in a Late Seventeenth Century British Manuscript.” at the Witchcraft and Magic Conference, Centre for Renaissance and Early Modern Studies, University of York in the United Kingdom; and "'Thou Shalt Have Humanity’: Reciprocity, Reformation, and Conceptions of Spirit-Human Relations in a Ghost Summoning Incantation from Early Modern Britain.” during Ghosts in Britain and Ireland 1500-1950 History Conference at Mary Immaculate College, Limerick, Ireland.
Kristine Newhall
Kristine Newhall, Kinesiology Department, had an article titled "'Mostly what we do is ride bikes': A case study of cycling, subculture, and transgender policy" published in the most recent issue of Transgender Studies Quarterly.
Rhiannon Maton
Rhiannon Maton, Foundations and Social Advocacy Department, had a public press article on the recent Rutgers University faculty strike published in Spectre Journal. The article is titled “Lessons from the Rutgers Strike: Lessons Six Months Later.”
Maton also was interviewed on the History of Education Quarterly podcast. On the podcast, she discusses recent co-authored research on a radical and experimental alternative school in Philadelphia in the 1970s. The original published article on which this podcast is based is titled, “Opposing Innovations: Race and Reform in the West Philadelphia Community Free School, 1969-1978.”
Ute Ritz-Deutch
Ute Ritz-Deutch, History Department, recently had two chapters published, one each in very different books. Both will be available this summer. “German Colonists in Southern Brazil: Navigating Multiple Identities on the Brazilian Frontier” will be published in Tales of Transit: Narrative Migrant Spaces in Atlantic Perspective 1850-1950 by Amsterdam University Press, 2013. “Imprisoning Foreign Nationals” will appear in The End of Prisons by Value Inquiry Books, 2013.
Katherine M. Polasek
Katherine M. Polasek, Kinesiology Department, co-authored a chapter in the APA Handbook of Sport and Exercise Psychology. The chapter, “Girls and Women in Sport” utilizes a critical feminist perspective to introduce and discuss the intersection of sport and gender.
Kathleen Lawrence
Kathleen Lawrence, Communication Studies Department, had 12 poems accepted for publication. Eight poems were published during the summer. “Alice Abbreviated” and “Dorothy Delivered” both appeared in Altered Reality Magazine in August. “Intoxicated” and “A Sexual Assault in the Woods” were published in Crow Hollow 19 in July. Two more poems, “How to Write a Poem” and “How to Break Up with Your Dinosaur,” were published in the Muses’ Gallery of Highland Park Poetry in June. Her poem “Pure Prince” appeared in Delirious: A Poetic Tribute to Prince (NightBallet Press), also in June. “Requiem” appeared in A Prince Tribute (Yellow Chair Review) in May 2016. Also, Lawrence has four more poems currently forthcoming. “‘King," an elegy for B.B. King, will be published in October in an introduction to poetry textbook by Kendall Hunt. “Detecting Nancy Drew” will appear in the Nancy Drew Anthology forthcoming from Silver Birch Press. Two poems, “Breastfeeding Bliss” and “Milk and Honey,” will appear in the journal Breastfeeding Medicine.
Mark Prus
Mark Prus, Academic Affairs, had his manuscript, coauthored with Kevin Duncan and Peter Philips, accepted for publication in the journal Engineering, Construction and Architectural Management. The article is titled “Using Stochastic Frontier Regression to Estimate the Construction Cost Inefficiency of Prevailing Wage Laws.”
Thomas Hischak
Thomas Hischak, professor emeritus of theatre, has had his book, The Mikado to Matilda: The British Musical on the New York Stage, published this summer by Rowman and Littlefield. The book discusses 110 London musical successes from the late 18th Century to the present and how they were received in New York City.
Daniela Baban Hurrle
Daniela Baban Hurrle, International Programs Office, traveled to Bangkok, Thailand, in April at the invitation of the U.S. Department of State, to lead workshops at the Global UGRAD-Pakistan Alumni Academy Convocation. She was one of only five U.S. university representatives invited to serve as facilitators of workshops on leadership in higher education, sustainable community engagement and intercultural exchange. In addition to the workshops, the facilitators and 150 alumni participants of the Academy Convocation worked on a community cleaning service learning projects and celebrated 14 years of the Global Undergraduate Exchange Program launched by the U.S. Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs of the U.S. Department of State. Baban Hurrle secured SUNY Cortland’s designation as a sponsor of Global UGRAD-Pakistan students in 2018 and to date, the university has hosted nine sponsored students from Pakistan, and the campus will host another new student this fall.
Mary McGuire and John Suarez
Mary McGuire and John Suarez, Institute for Civic Engagement, conducted an “ignite” event, titled “’Hire’ Education, Public Purpose, and Student Employers” at Campus Compact’s 30th Anniversary Conference, held March 21-23 in Boston, Mass. This session used a “What If” approach to role-play in which the audience explored benefits of, and challenges to, a SUNY system that serves as a brokerage agency for college students. Examples included: Imagine a SUNY that refers students to professionals in their disciplines; students choose and hire professionals to be mentors; and students work with those mentors in applied-learning situations for the majority of their college educations.