Denise D. Knight
Denise D. Knight, English Department, will present a paper titled “Charlotte Perkins Gilman and the Green Diaspora” at the Transatlantic Women III Conference to be held in June 2018 in Dublin, Ireland.
Genevieve Birren
Genevieve Birren, Sport Management Department, gave two presentations at the bi-annual Play the Game Conference held Feb. 4 to 7 in Trondheim, Norway. Both were on anti-doping in sport. The first was “Social media use in doping prevention and enforcement” and the second was “The Rodchenkov Anti‐Doping Act: The United States’ newest approach to doping control.”
Ute Ritz-Deutch
Ute Ritz-Deutch, History Department, gave the keynote address at the Nov. 24 international webinar “Reproductive Choice of Women: A Fundamental Right” organized by St. Aloysius College in Mangaluru, India, which is one of SUNY Cortland's study abroad locations. The daylong webinar event was under the initiative of the National Commission of Women (NCW), India for better implementation of the existing policies, schemes, programs or projects relating to the well-being and empowerment of women. An article quoting Ritz-Deutch titled “Domestic violence increased during Covid-19 pandemic” was published in the Deccan Herald.
Robert Spitzer
Robert Spitzer, Political Science Department, served as a discussant on a panel titled, “Presidents, the Courts, and the Law” at the recent annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, held in Philadelphia from Sept. 1 to 4. Also, he attended the executive council meeting of Pi Sigma Alpha, the national political science honors society, on which he is serving a four-year term.
James Hokanson and Erik Lind
James Hokanson and Erik Lind, Kinesiology Department, along with current undergraduate exercise science students Mary Savi and Madison Heffern recently presented research at the Mid-Atlantic Regional Chapter of the American College of Sports Medicine conference in Lancaster, Pa. The group co-authored two posters titled “Comparison of Fat Oxidation During Walking on a Normal and Lower Body Positive Pressure Treadmill” and “Perceptual and Affective Responses Relative to Maximal Fat Oxidation During Treadmill Walking Exercise.”
Kathleen A. Lawrence
Kathleen A. Lawrence, Communication Studies Department, had a poem, “Always Blue Cops,” accepted for publication recently by Rosebud Magazine. It is an abecedarian told in three parts that can be read together as well as stand each on its own. Each of the parts is made up 26 words in alphabetical order, like the title, made up of 3 words starting with a, b and c. Also, two micro-poems were accepted for The Her Heart Poetry Annual 2017. “A Brevity of Affirmations" and “Through Colored Glasses” also will be featured on Instagram in November.
James Felton
James Felton, Institutional Equity and Inclusion Office, co-authored a book, Inclusive Directions: The Role of the Chief Diversity Officer in Community College Leadership, that made Spelman Johnson’s 2019 Summer Reading List. Spelman Johnson is a premier executive search firm exclusively committed to serving higher education. Additionally, Felton’s book received a positive review from Choice, a publishing unit at the Association of College & Research Libraries, a division of the American Library Association. Choice has been the acknowledged leader in the provision of objective, high-quality evaluations of nonfiction academic writing and its flagship publication, Choice Reviews, is in database format.
Andrew Fitz-Gibbon and Kathy Russell and Mechthild Nagel
Andrew Fitz-Gibbon and Kathy Russell, Philosophy Department, and Mechthild Nagel, Philosophy Department and Center for Gender and Intercultural Studies, presented papers and commentaries at the Public Philosophy Conference, held March 14-16 in Atlanta, Ga.
Chris Manaseri
Chris Manaseri, Foundations and Social Advocacy Department, had his article titled “Keeping Schoolhouses in the Finger Lakes Region of New York State,” published in the Country School Journal, Volume 6.
Christina Knopf
Christina Knopf, Communication and Media Studies Department, had a chapter titled “AfterShock’s Rough Riders and the Reification of Race Reimagined,” published in the anthology Drawing the Past (Vol. 1): Comics and the Historical Imagination in the United States, from the University Press of Mississippi. The essay argues that though speculative histories purportedly challenge historical record and accepted limits of physical and social worlds, an alt-history founded on an aesthetic of capitalist and colonial violence (steampunk) will be restricted in its ability suggest new visions of equity and inclusion.