Seth Asumah, Mechthild Nagel and Tiantian Zheng
Seth Asumah, Africana Studies and Political Science departments, Mechthild Nagel, Philosophy Department and Center for Gender and Intercultural Studies (CGIS), and Tiantian Zheng, Sociology/Anthropology Department, had their essays published in Wagadu’s special issue on “Race, Resistance, Reason: Contextualizing Racial Epistemologies, Imagining Social Justice.” Asumah’s essay is titled “Race, Immigration Reform, and Heteropatriarchal Masculinity: Reframing the Obama Presidency.” Nagel’s submission is “Angela Y Davis and Assata Shakur as Women Outlaws: Resisting U.S. State Violence,” and Zheng submitted “Spousal Violence, Women, and Resistance in Postsocialist China.” Nagel edited the issue and some of its essays were presented at the CGIS conference Race, Resistance, Reason, 2012.
Jeremy Jiménez
Jeremy Jiménez, Foundations and Social Advocacy Department, recently gave a presentation about his published findings surveying sustainable development goals and content in approximately 1,000 social science textbooks worldwide. He presented at the Comparative and International Education Society Conference held April 14 to 18 in San Francisco, Calif.
Larissa True
Larissa True, Kinesiology Department, had her manuscript “Relationships Among Product- and Process-Oriented Measures of Motor Competence and Perceived Competence” published in the Journal of Motor Learning and Development.
Richard Hunter
Richard Hunter, Geography Department, presented his paper, “Historical Land use Change in Central Mexico: Another Potential Contributor to the Little Ice Age,” at the meeting of the Conference of Latin Americanist Geographers in Panama City, Panama, on Jan. 7. This paper explores how the extensive conversion of agricultural semi-terraces to pastoralism in the 16th century may have increased central Mexico’s carbon sequestration rate and thereby potentially contributed to climatic cooling.
Bonni C. Hodges
Bonni C. Hodges, Health Department, recently served as the chair of the Council on Education for Public Health (CEPH) accreditation site visit team for the University of Nebraska-Omaha's bachelor's degree in public health.
Jaclyn Pittsley
Jaclyn Pittsley, English Department, is coordinator of the Campus Equity Week Rally planned for 3 p.m. on Friday, Oct. 27 in front of Brockway Hall. She serves on the executive board of SUNY Cortland’s chapter of United University Professions, the group that is hosting the event.
Julie Ficarra
Julie Ficarra, International Programs, presented research on the coloniality of images used in study abroad marketing materials, and the unequal relations of power that can be perpetuated in international programs, with a focus on program design strategies that promote equity, ethics, and social justice. She also presented on her recently published article, titled: ‘Curating Cartographies of Knowledge: Reading Institutional Study Abroad Portfolio as Text’. The Forum on Education Abroad conference was held from March 21 to 23 in Boston, Mass.
Jeremy Wolf
Jeremy Wolf, Political Science Department, had his article titled “Universal Basic Income and the Economy Effect” published in July in the peer-reviewed journal Theory in Action.
Richard Hunter
Richard Hunter, Geography Department, has been appointed to the editorial board of the Journal of Cultural Geography. In this position, he will review manuscripts submitted to the journal, actively solicit manuscripts for submission and provide general counsel to the editor and other members of the editorial staff on a wide range of publication issues.
Tyler Bradway
Tyler Bradway, English Department, presented a paper titled “Queer Contiguity and the Narration of Kinship in The Argonauts” at the Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present’s ASAP/10 conference on Oct. 19 at Tulane University in New Orleans, La.