Henry Steck
Henry Steck, professor emeritus of political science, presented a lecture at the Ratiu Dialogues on Democracy-Transylvania 2019, held May 19 to 22 in Turda and Cluj-Napoca, Romania. The title of his presentation was “Democracy: 1989 and After.”
Brittany Adams
Brittany Adams, Literacy Department, had an article titled “Beyond Perpetrators, Victims, and Survivors: Young Adult Literature as Bystander Intervention Education” published in Volume 49, Issue 3 of The ALAN Review.
Danica Savonick
Danica Savonick, English Department, delivered the plenary address for Bryn Mawr College’s 9th Annual Blended Learning in the Liberal Arts Conference. Her talk, “Savor this Moment: The Activist Possibilities of Digital Pedagogy” is available online.
Nancy Kane
Nancy Kane, Performing Arts Department, had her article published in the September issue of The American Dance Circle. “Dance in New York’s Southern Tier” profiled Hilton Baxter, a contra dance inventor and caller for the Binghamton Community Dance group.
John Suarez
At the May 17 SUNY Civic Education Community of Practice Convening in Albany, N.Y., John Suarez, director of the Galpin Institute for Civic Engagement, co-developed and co-facilitated an active listening activity for about 65 people with Babette Faehmel, a history professor at SUNY Schenectady.
Rhiannon Maton
Rhiannon Maton, Foundations and Social Advocacy Department, is a co-editor for a special series for Critical Education journal, titled Contemporary Educator Movements: Transforming Unions, Schools and Society in North America. Series co-editors have recently published the first issue in the series: Teacher Learning In/Through Social Movements.
Christopher Gascón
Christopher Gascón, Modern Languages Department, guest-edited a special issue of the scholarly journal Symposium focusing on current critical approaches to 17th century Spanish and Latin American theater. In Symposium: A Quarterly Journal in Modern Literatures: Special Issue: Twenty-First Century Approaches to Hispanic Golden Age Drama, Gascón brings together the work of six leading scholars to demonstrate how diversity and inclusivity guide current analyses of baroque drama in Spanish. His introduction shares the same title as the special issue.
Thomas Hischak
Thomas Hischak, Performing Arts Department, has received a SUNY Global Grant to partially finance his trip to Anadolu University in Eskisehir, Turkey. Hischak will be in Turkey for three weeks in May to teach and run workshops about American theatre and film.
Robert Spitzer
Robert Spitzer, Political Science Department, presented a paper titled, “The Bush Presidency and the Unitary Executive” at a conference on the presidency of the George W. Bush administration held at Hofstra University from March 24-26. The conference brought together presidency scholars, journalists and former members of the administration to analyze the second Bush presidency.
Gregory D. Phelan
Gregory D. Phelan, Chemistry Department, started a new volunteer program with St. Mary’s School in Cortland in mid-October. The work centers on the use of technology in the classroom. The students are using iPads and working through various activities in math, science and reading. Phelan hopes to expand the work to include other members of the SUNY Cortland community, including Noyce scholars.