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.
Rhiannon Maton
Rhiannon Maton, Foundations and Social Advocacy Department, was elected to the secretary/treasurer position of the Teacher's Work/Teachers Unions Special Interest Group of the American Educational Studies Association for a three-year term. In addition, she co-presented two papers at the same conference, titled: “The Micro-Macro Dialectic: Teacher Activism Within and Across Multiple Systemic Domains” and “Theorizing Resistance: Teacher Resistance to Neoliberalism in Canada and the United States.”
Alexis Blavos
Alexis Blavos, Health Department, presented her research “Responding to the COVID-19 Pandemic as Professionals: Health Education Specialists in Action,” at the Society for Public Health Education annual conference. Also, her article “Universities as catalysts for COVID-19 vaccination: A call to action” has been accepted for publication by the peer-reviewed journal Health Promotion Practice.
Mark Dodds
Mark Dodds, Sport Management Department, had his article “Unassisted Goal: U.S. Soccer Does Not Need Approval to Use Player Likenesses in Group Ad” recently published by Sport Marketing Quarterly.
Tiantian Zheng
Tiantian Zheng, Sociology/Anthropology Department, was invited by the Department of Anthropology, Yale University, to give a talk on her ethnographic research on gay men in China. Her talk, “Activism and Shifting Identities of Self-Identified Gay Men in Postsocialist China,” was presented on April 18.
Mechthild Nagel
Mechthild Nagel, Philosophy Department and the Center for Gender and Intercultural Studies (CGIS), is on leave for the academic year. In July she started her visiting scholar position at Cornell University’s Feminist, Gender, Sexuality Studies Program, where she will write a monograph on Ubuntu ethics of punishment. She will remain a scholar-in-residence until December.
In January 2015, she will commence her scholar-in-residence at the Max Planck Institute for Religious and Ethnic Diversity in Goettingen, Germany, through July 2015.
Willnide Lindor
Willnide Lindor, English Department, had an article titled “Spectrum of Darkness: George Herbert’s Ventriloquism of an African Woman in “Aethiopissa ambit Cestum Diversi Coloris Virum” (1620)” accepted for publication in the fall issue of the peer-review journal English Literary Renaissance.
Christopher Gascón
Christopher Gascón, Modern Languages Department, presented at the 2015 Association for Hispanic Classical Theater Symposium held March 19-21 in El Paso, Texas. His paper, “The Supernatural Turn,” analyzed why young New York City directors have integrated supernatural elements into their recent productions of 17th century Spanish plays.
John C. Hartsock
John C. Hartsock, Communication Studies Department, has had one of his award-winning books accepted for publication in Chinese by Fudan University Press in China. A History of American Literary Journalism: The Emergence of a Modern Narrative Form, is expected to be published in Mandarin later this year. Translated by Li Mei, professor of journalism at South China University of Technology in Guangzhou (Canton), the book was the recipient of the two leading American awards for the history of journalism and mass communication from the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, and the American Journalism Historians Association. The book was originally published by the University of Massachusetts Press in 2000. It is the first history of the journalistic genre of literary journalism in the United States, and has also been published in Romanian. Fudan University Press is widely regarded as one of the leading academic presses in China. Fudan University is located in Shanghai.
In other news, Hartsock was the subject of a question-and-answer article in the May issue of the journal Mass Communication Historiography. The journal is publishing interviews in each issue of recipients of major awards in the field of journalism and mass communication history. The interviews focus on historical methodologies used by the recipients.
Also, Hartsock participated in an interview in April with Polina Popova, a graduate student in journalism at St. Petersburg State University in St. Petersburg, Russia. The interview focused on Russian analogues to American literary journalism. Hartsock lectured on American literary journalism at St. Petersburg State University last November.