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Faculty and Staff Activities

Rhiannon M. Maton

Rhiannon M. Maton, Foundations and Social Advocacy Department, had two chapters published in an edited volume on alternative schooling and student engagement. 

Ryan Fiddler

Ryan Fiddler, Kinesiology Department, was senior author on a presentation at the American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM) regional meeting Nov. 3 and 4 in Harrisburg, Pa. The research, titled “Beetroot Juice Supplementation Lowers Oxygen Cost of Vigorous Intensity Aerobic Exercise in Trained Endurance Athletes,” was presented by Nathaniel S. Ashton '16, who is currently working on his master’s thesis in exercise science.  

Mechthild Nagel

Mechthild Nagel, Philosophy Department and Center for Gender and Intercultural Studies (CGIS), has begun her year-long teaching duties at Germany's Fulda University of Applied Sciences, a partner university with SUNY Cortland. She teaches in the areas of social philosophy and diversity education. She received a German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) Visiting Professorship.

Teagan Bradway

Teagan Bradway, English Department, gave the keynote lecture for the annual Shifting Tides, Anxious Borders Graduate Conference hosted by the Department of English, General Literature, and Rhetoric at Binghamton University. Bradway’s lecture, presented on March 23, was titled “Feeling the Fantasy: The Politics of Pleasure in Queer and Trans Camp."

Erin Morris and Ryan Vooris

Erin Morris and Ryan Vooris, Sport Management Department, presented their research findings at the 2019 Commission on Sport Management Accreditation (COSMA) Conference, held Feb. 7 and 8 in Atlanta, Ga. Their presentation was titled “Study Like a Girl: An Analysis of Constraints and Facilitators to Female Sport Management Majors.”

Robert Spitzer

Robert Spitzer, Political Science Department, is coauthor of the just-published ninth edition of We the People, a synthetic look at the American political system. The book is published by W.W. Norton.

Robert Spitzer

Robert Spitzer, Political Science Department, was elected to serve on the Executive Council of Pi Sigma Alpha, the national political science honors society, at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association held Aug. 28-31 in Washington D.C. Spitzer will serve a four-year term on the society’s national governing board. Cortland has been a chapter member of Pi Sigma Alpha since 1970.

Tom Lickona

Tom Lickona, Center for the 4th and 5th Rs, was invited to write a monthly blog titled “Raising Kind Kids” for Psychology Today. The request was in response to Lickona’s How to Raise Kind Kids book (Penguin, 2018). 

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. 

Benjamin Wilson

Benjamin Wilson, Economics Department, co-presented at the National Environmental Health Association Conference in June in San Antonio, Texas. He and Kevin Kennedy, managing director at The Center for Environmental Health at Children’s Mercy Hospital, presented “Mapping Health and Housing: Using Community Wide Data to Investigate Environmental Exposure Risks.”