Robert J. Spitzer
Robert J. Spitzer, Political Science Department, gave a talk titled “It’s All Academic: The Meaning of the Second Amendment Versus Heller,” at a conference on “The Second Amendment: Its Meaning and Implications in Modern America,” held Jan. 18 at Lincoln Memorial University School of Law in Knoxville, Tenn.
Robert Spitzer
Robert Spitzer, Political Science Department, spoke on “The Architecture of the Gun Debate” at Colby College in Maine on April 2. The talk was hosted by Colby’s Goldfarb Center for Public Affairs.
In Memoriam
Teresa Smith, an administrative assistant in the Modern Languages Department, died on May 26, 2023.
Nancy Kane
Nancy Kane, Performing Arts Department, was a featured speaker at TEDx Cortland, an independent TED event held on Nov. 9 in Cortland. Her topic was “Traditional Dance in a Digital Era: Contra Dance.”
Joseph Anthony
Joseph Anthony, Political Science Department, co-edited Lessons Learned from the 2020 U.S. Presidential Election: Hindsight is 2020, recently published by Palgrave Macmillan Press. Scholars in the book contributed their research on how the COVID-19 pandemic impacted the administration of the 2020 elections.
Kent Johnson
Kent Johnson, Sociology/Anthropology Department, gave a talk titled "A Re-evaluation of Evidence for Kinship at Çatalhöyük" at the inaugural World Neolithic Congress held Thursday, Nov. 7 in Sanliurfa, Turkey.
Alexandru Balas
Alexandru Balas, International Studies Department and Clark Center for International Education, presented his research projects in three panels at the International Studies Association Annual Convention in March. He presented a paper titled “‘Double Agent’ Negotiators at the Ottoman-Russian-Austrian Peace Negotiations (1699-1878): Applying a Negotiation Analysis Framework to the 18th and 19th Century ‘Eastern Question’ Negotiations.” Also, he was part of two roundtable discussions on the topics of “UN-Regional Collaboration: Achievements, Stumbling Blocks, and the Way Forward” and “The Decline of Violence and the Rise of Peace in the International System.” Finally, he served as a discussant for the panel “Multi-Actor Peace Operations: Approaching a Standard Operating Procedure Theoretically and Empirically.”
Carolyn Bershad
Carolyn Bershad, Counseling and Student Development, presented “AUCCCD Annual Survey: Scope, Trends and Current Applications” with David Reetz at the 67th annual conference of the Association for University and College Counseling Center Directors (AUCCCD) on Oct. 24 in Tampa, Fla.
Thomas Hischak
Thomas Hischak, Performing Arts Department, signed a contract with publisher Rowman & Littlefield to write the Jerome Kern Encyclopedia, covering the life, stage musicals, movie musicals, songs and collaborators of the pioneer American theatre composer Kern. The book is a follow-up of sorts to Hischak’s The Rodgers and Hammerstein Encyclopedia (2006).
Gayle Gleason
Gayle Gleason, Geology Department, co-presented a paper with undergraduate student Amie Whitlock titled “What Happens to Microstructures in Re-activated Shear Zones: An Experimental Approach,” at the combined Northeast/Northcentral regional meeting of the Geological Society of America held March 20-22 in Pittsburgh, Pa.