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Faculty and Staff Activities

Robert Spitzer

Robert Spitzer, Political Science Department, spoke on “Gun Policy and Schools After Parkland” at the SUNY Student Assembly Spring Conference held in Syracuse on April 7.

Ute Ritz-Deutch

Ute Ritz-Deutch, History Department, was presented with the “Amnesty International Keeper of the Flame Activism Award” for the northeast region. At the annual regional conference, which took place on Nov. 15 in Providence, Rhode Island, she also led a workshop on “How to create a Human Rights Podcast.” She hosts a weekly one-hour talk radio show on WRFI community radio in Ithaca, N.Y., called “The Human Rights and Social Justice Program.” The award was partly based on that. She has more than 260 podcasts on Soundcloud.

Tyler Bradway

Tyler Bradway, English Department, was invited to present a keynote lecture at Cornell University for the English Department’s Graduate Student Conference, which was held on March 15 and 16. His lecture was titled “Queer Narrative Theory and the Belongings of Form.” 

Genevieve Birren

Genevieve Birren, Sport Management Department, gave an invited presentation on the Rodchenkov Anti-Doping Act at the National Sports Law Institute's Fall Symposium held Oct. 15 at Marquette University Law School. 

Lindsey Darvin

Lindsey Darvin, Sport Management Department, had a publication titled “Voluntary occupational turnover and the experiences of former intercollegiate women assistant coaches” published in October in the Journal of Vocational Behavior.

Dennis Weng

Dennis Weng, Political Science Department, presented three papers at a conference at The University of Texas at Austin from Oct. 31 to Nov. 1. His paper “Contextual Effects on individual Voting Behavior: the Case of Taiwan,” has been accepted for publication in the Asian Journal of Political Science by the end of this year. 

Kathleen A. Lawrence

Kathleen A. Lawrence, Communication and Media Studies Department, recently had two poems published. They were written in cherita form on the theme of Bouquet in the “Poet’s Salon” of Colorado Boulevard, edited Aug. 7 by Kathabela Wilson. The two cherita, titled “six years old” and “like roots extending,” were accompanied by a photo taken by Lawrence captioned as “Summer’s Bouquet.” Also, Lawrence received word that her two abecedarians titled “Vacay” and “Bath” have been accepted for publication in the December 2019 issue of Rosebud Magazine with Michael Kriesel, poetry editor.

Katherine M. Polasek

Katherine M. Polasek, Kinesiology Department, co-authored an article titled “Women in Sport and Exercise Psychology: A North American Perspective” that was recently published in the International Journal of Sport Psychology.

Tiantian Zheng

Tiantian Zheng, Sociology/Anthropology Department, was invited by Columbia University to give a campus-wide talk on April 23. Her talk was titled “Gender Politics in Current Regime in China.”

Lauren deLaubell and Jennifer Kronenbitter

Lauren deLaubell and Jennifer Kronenbitter, Memorial Library, presented “Adapting the Jigsaw to Grow Online in a Hurry” at the SUNYLA 2021 (Virtual) annual conference held June 16 to 18. They shared the classroom technique called the jigsaw method used by SUNY Cortland and was modified for use in a professional development program and online instruction reboot.