Christina Knopf
Christina Knopf, Communication and Media Studies Department, gave an invited talk to the New York Society for General Semantics. She spoke on “Conceptualizing campaign media and misinformation in 2024” as part of the “Misinformation, Misdirection, Manipulation and Mischief: Making Sense of Contemporary Political Propaganda” event held on Jan. 17 at the historic “Players” club in Gramercy Park, New York City. A recording of the event is available on the NYSGS YouTube channel.
Robert Spitzer
Robert Spitzer, Political Science Department, is the author of an article, “The NRA is Doomed. It Has Only Itself to Blame,” published in the Washington Post on Aug. 8.
Susan Rayl
Susan Rayl, Kinesiology Department, presented a paper titled ““18 Inches of Daylight”: Gale Sayers, “The Kansas Comet” at Southern Illinois University” at the 50th anniversary convention of the North American Society for Sport History, on May 29 in Chicago.
Christopher Xenakis
Christopher Xenakis, Political Science Department, is the author of a new book, World Politics and the American Quest for Super-Villains, Demons, and Bad Guys to Destroy. The 593-page text is published by Cognella Academic Publishing, with a 2014 copyright.
Lindsey Darvin
Lindsey Darvin, Sport Management Department, now serves on the Women in Esports Steering Committee with the Pittsburgh Knights, an esports organization sponsored by PNC, the Pittsburgh Stealers and the Pittsburgh Penguins. The first roundtable has been released, with others to follow. Also, Darvin’s paper was accepted by Sustainability Science and published online Oct. 20. It is titled “Mass-participant sport events and sustainable development: gender, social bonding, and connectedness to nature as predictors of socially and environmentally responsible behavior intentions.”
Mechthild Nagel
Mechthild Nagel, Philosophy Department and Center for Gender and Intercultural Studies (CGIS), holds a German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) 2012-13 Visiting Professorship at Fulda University of Applied Science, a partner university of SUNY Cortland. Recently, she presented a paper titled “An Ubuntu Ethics of Punishment” at the 7th Philosophy Conference hosted by Athens Institute for Education & Research (ATINER) in Athens, Greece. Also, Nagel has been invited to chair the program committee for gender studies, which will be embedded in the 2014 sociology conference hosted by ATINER.
Mechthild Nagel
Mechthild Nagel, Philosophy and Africana Studies departments and the Center for Gender and Intercultural Studies, had her article, “The Case for Penal Abolition and Ludic Ubuntu in Arrow of God,” published in a Max Planck Working Papers series.
Kathleen Lawrence
Kathleen Lawrence, Communication Studies Department, had her paper, “A World without Limits: Living in a Barbie Reality as Pop Culture Ambassador” competitively selected for presentation in San Jose, Costa Rica, on July 26 at the International Popular Culture Association annual conference. The theme of the conference was global issues related to popular culture. Lawrence’s paper discussed how Mattel, one of the world’s largest toy companies, has promised generations of children and their parents that girls should boldly “dream, discover and explore their world” through Barbie. Lawrence explored this pack-and-go approach to international relations in the doll world. A rhetorical analysis of the “cultural” narratives, “authentic” artifacts, and “ethnic” costumes provided for each doll in the “Barbie Dolls of the World” series was included along with illustrations.
Tom Lickona
Tom Lickona, Center for the 4th and 5th Rs, chaired a “Symposium on Parent-Teacher Partnerships in Character Education” at the Oct. 18 to 20 meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development in Philadelphia. Lickona is the author of a new book, How to Raise Kind Kids: And Get Respect, Gratitude, and a Happier Family in the Bargain (Penguin, 2018), and writes a monthly parenting blog, “Raising Kind Kids,” for Psychology Today.
Kent M. Johnson
Kent M. Johnson, Sociology/Anthropology Department, had his chapter, “Opening Up the Family Tree: Promoting More Diverse and Inclusive Studies of Family, Kinship, and Relatedness in Bioarchaeology,” published recently in the edited volume Bioarchaeologists Speak Out: Deep Time Perspectives on Contemporary Issues. The volume was published by Springer.