Thomas Hischak
Thomas Hischak, Performing Arts Department, recently sold two plays to play publishers. Pioneer Drama Service, Inc. will publish the full-length comedy “Wildcat Crossing” and Brooklyn Publishers will publish the one-act comedy “The Chameleon Princess.”
Kevin Dames
Kevin Dames, Kinesiology Department, presented a poster at the 45th annual meeting of the American Society of Biomechanics in August. Coauthors of the project include Larissa True, Jacqueline Augustine and Sarah Rothstein, M ’20, all from the Kinesiology Department. Their work, “SHH! Quiet Running Promotes Sustained Reduction in Ground Reaction Force,” won the President’s Award.
Randi Storch and Kevin Sheets
Randi Storch and Kevin Sheets, History Department, attended the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) project director’s meeting to receive final training before launching their $180,000 Landmarks in American History and Culture workshop for K-12 teachers. The meeting was held Oct. 20-21 in Washington D.C. Their workshop, coordinated with the assistance of Kerri Freese, SUNY Cortland Noyce Project, invites teachers from around the country to learn about the Gilded Age and Progressive Era from the perspective of the wilderness, using Camp Huntington in Raquette Lake, N.Y., as a living classroom. The application and details about the workshop can be found at http://www2.cortland.edu/foreverwild/.
Jo Schaffer and Gregg Weatherby
Jo Schaffer, professor of art and art history emerita, and Gregg Weatherby, professor emeritus of English, will act in Reader’s Theater’s virtual presentation of “84 Charing Cross Road” at 7 p.m. on Sunday, April 11. The script is based on the memoir of Helene Hanff, a freelance writer in New York City, who ordered rare books from the London bookseller Marks & Company, at 84 Charing Cross Road. Schaffer will play Hanff, a part she first performed in 1988. Weatherby performs the part of Frank Doel. Community member and actor Barbara Jo Williams directs the play.
Mark Dodds
Mark Dodds, Sport Management Department, served as editor of the recently published book, Sports Leadership: A reference guide. The book includes contributions from Sport Management Department professors Genevieve Birren, Lawrence Brady, Ray Cotrufo, Ted Fay, Peter Han, Jordan Kobritz, Tara Mahoney, Matt Seyfried, Tracy Trachsler, George Vazenios and Ryan Vooris, and Kinesiology Department members Katherine Polasek and Brian Richardson.
Rhiannon Maton
Rhiannon Maton, Foundations and Social Advocacy Department, had an article “Fighting on the Frontlines: Intersectional Organizing in Educators' Social Justice Unions during Covid-19” published in Gender, Work and Organization Journal. The author discusses the intersectional frontline organizing work of educators’ social justice unions on behalf of a woman-dominated workforce and local students, families and communities.
Bernice Cooper and Lorraine Lopez-Janove
Bernice Cooper, Campus Technology Services, and Lorraine Lopez-Janove, Diversity and Inclusion, were interviewed by local ABC morning talk show Bridge Street to discuss the upcoming Juneteenth celebration hosted by the Cortland County Community of Color, a collaborative initiative between SUNY Cortland and Tompkins Cortland Community College.
Caroline Kaltefleiter
Caroline Kaltefleiter, Communication and Media Studies Department, presented a paper titled, “How Soon Is Now: Wave Resistance: Liminality, and Critical Girlhood Studies” at The Girl in Theory: Toward a Critical Girlhood Studies Online Symposium. Also, she moderated a panel titled, “(Re)Defining the Girl.” The event, held March 29 to 31, was sponsored by the Girlhood Studies Collective at Rutgers University, Camden, N.J.
Mecke Nagel
Mecke Nagel, Philosophy and Africana Studies departments and the Center for Gender and Intercultural Studies, gave a keynote at the recent Philosophy at Play Conference held April 11 and 12 at the University of Gloucestershire in Cheltenham, England. She presented “Peacemaking through Ludic Ubuntu.”
Mechthild Nagel
Mechthild Nagel, Philosophy Department and the Center for Gender and Intercultural Studies (CGIS), is research professor in residence at the Institute of Philosophy of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague. During the spring semester, her stay is supported by a grant project of the Czech Science Foundation titled “Performativity in Philosophy: Contexts, Methods, Implications. No. 16-00994Y.”