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Mark Dodds

Mark Dodds, Sport Management Department, co-edited with James T. Reese a book that was recognized by Library Journal with a Best Reference 2015 award. Sports Leadership: A Reference Guide featured submissions by more than 10 SUNY Cortland faculty members.

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.”

Jerome O’Callaghan

Jerome O’Callaghan, Political Science Department, had an article accepted by the Loyola of Los Angeles Entertainment Law Review. The article, “Courts, Trademarks and the ICANN Gold Rush,” was co-authored with Paula O’Callaghan and will appear in the spring 2020 issue of the law review.

JoEllen Bailey

JoEllen Bailey, Physical Education Department, gave a poster presentation titled “Through Educated Eyes: Teacher Candidates’ Views of Field Experience” at the National Field Experience Conference held April 13-14 at the University of Northern Colorado.

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. 

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/.

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.

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."

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.