Gene Bierbaum
Gene Bierbaum, professor of communications studies emeritus, recently had his book, The Parliamentarian of Tomorrow, published by Xlibris. Bierbaum, who retired from SUNY Cortland in 1992, defines and explains the building blocks of the parliamentary profession. It is available at www.xlibris.com, www.barnesandnoble.com or www.amazon.com.
Ute Ritz-Deutch
Ute Ritz-Deutch, History Department, presented a conference paper titled “German Colonists in Southern Brazil: Navigating Multiple Identities on the Brazilian Frontier,” at the Tales of Transit International Conference on June 9 in Antwerp, Belgium. The theme of the conference was transatlantic migration.
Cynthia J. Benton, Susan K. Stratton and Karen Stearns
Cynthia J. Benton and Susan K. Stratton, Childhood/Early Childhood Education, and Karen Stearns, English, have completed a 10-year assessment of master’s projects in education. Their work has been published in a Fall 2010 article, “Action Research Empowering Teacher Development: Connecting Teacher Reflection, Teaching Effectiveness and Program Change," in the journal Excelsior: Leadership in Teaching and Learning.
Henry Steck
Henry Steck, Political Science Department, gave the keynote lecture for the Constitution Day celebration at Sam Houston State University in Huntsville, Texas. The title of his lecture was “How James Madison & Federalist #10 & #51 Helps Me Think About 21st Century America.”
Charles Heasley and Jeremiah Donovan
Charles Heasley and Jeremiah Donovan, Art and Art History Department, were invited to exhibit their artwork in Jingdezhen, China, as part of the 2010 West Meets East Invitational Exhibition. This international exhibition included four SUNY Cortland students, Christine Brown, Leah Fries, Carolyn Furlong, and Xena Holzapfel, as well as regional students from Jingdezhen and professional artists from Shanghai and Beijing. Photographs of the exhibited work were included in a catalog produced for the exhibition, which opened June 10 at the Jingdezhen International Ceramic Museum.
Kathryn Kramer
Kathryn Kramer, Art and Art History Department, recently had her essay, “The Flaneur’s Redemption,” published in The European Mind: Narrative and Identity, University of Malta Press, 2010. In addition, her critical review of Richard Langston’s Visions of Violence: German Avant-Gardes after Fascism will appear in the October 2010 issue of German Studies Review.
Tiantian Zheng
Tiantian Zheng, Sociology/Anthropology Department, was recently informed that her book, Red Lights, is the winner of the 2010 Sara A. Whaley book prize from the National Women’s Studies Association for the book published in the previous calendar year judged to have made the most significant contribution to the topic of women and labor.
Susana Davidenko and Gail Tooker
Susana Davidenko and Gail Tooker, Childhood/Early Childhood Education Department, participated in the XIV International Consortium for Research in Science and Mathematics Education (ICRSME) Consultation from March 12-19 in Granada, Nicaragua. They made presentations to the mathematics and science educators who traveled to the site from abroad and to local elementary and secondary teachers. Also, the Cortland professors offered workshops to these teachers at one of the public elementary schools on topics related to mathematics fluency, outdoor education and environmental science projects.
Barbara Wisch
Barbara Wisch, Art and Art History Department, will have her co-edited book, Confraternities and the Visual Arts in Renaissance Italy: Ritual, Spectacle, Image (Cambridge University Press, 2000), reissued in paperback. Cambridge has selected a number of out-of-print volumes to be part of this new program.
Robert Spitzer
Robert Spitzer, Political Science Department, is co-author of a new book titled Encyclopedia of Gun Control and Gun Rights. Spitzer’s co-author is Glenn Utter, Lamar University. The book is a compendium of all aspects of the gun issue in America and abroad. It will be published next year by Grey House Publishers.