Gigi A. Peterson
Gigi A. Peterson, History Department, will lead a program that includes several SUNY Cortland students and alumni in a Universität Potsdam Summer School, “Teaching the SDGs” (United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.) The program takes place in Germany from Saturday, Aug. 27 through Saturday, Sept. 3. The group will participate in “Engaging with Global Citizenship,” one of several courses at the summer school. This class centers on issues of migration, language and culture and identities. Instructors from the fields of English language education, literature and history will guide participants in developing their understanding of historical and contemporary migrations, and of transformative, culturally responsive pedagogy that empowers diverse learners. Students began background preparation through modules in history and language and culture education, and they are meeting their German partners virtually before the week in Potsdam.
The SUNY Cortland instructors include two area social studies teachers who continue to collaborate with Peterson and the Adolescence Education Social Studies Program as SUNY Cortland alumni-teacher associates. They are Caitlin Goodwin ’11, M.S.Ed. ’16, McGraw Middle School, and Taylor Weigand '10, Binghamton High School. Both have extensive international and classroom experience and will be important contributors to this international learning community.
Benjamin C. Wilson
Benjamin C. Wilson, Economics Department, co-authored a peer-reviewed article titled “Food, Money & Democracy: Cultivating Collective Provisioning for Resilient & Equitable Communities of Work,” published July 31 online in Food, Money & Democracy. Also, the online version of his edited volume of Care, Climate, and Debt - Transdisciplinary Problems and Possibilities was published with the hardback edition due out in October.
Teagan Bradway
Teagan Bradway, English Department, was awarded the Hunt-Simes Visiting Junior Chair Fellowship from the Social Sciences and Humanities Advanced Research Centre at the University of Sydney to teach in the Institute in Sexuality Studies in 2024.
Quincy Loney
Quincy Loney, Mathematics Department, was invited to present selected results from his doctoral dissertation at the 1,072nd meeting of the American Mathematical Society held Sept. 10-11 at Cornell University. Quincy’s talk, “Decomposition of Level-1 Representations of D_4^(1) with Respect to its Subalgebra G_2^(1) in the Spinor Construction,” was given as a part of the special session on Kac-Moody Lie Algebras, Vertex Algebras and Related Topics.
Robert Spitzer
Robert Spitzer, Political Science Department, is the author of a new book, just published by Oxford University Press, titled, Guns Across America: Reconciling Gun Rules and Rights. The book argues that, contrary to the current national debate, gun laws and rights were perfectly compatible throughout most of American history, and that guns were actually regulated more strictly in the past than in the current era. In addition to gun law history, the book also examines the so-called right of rebellion, the Second Amendment and the assault weapons ban controversy, modern “stand-your-ground” laws, and New York state’s tough new gun laws and their impact on gun habits.
Mechthild Nagel
Mechthild Nagel, Philosophy Department and the Center for Gender and Intercultural Studies (CGIS), presented “Troubling Justice: A Case for a Ludic Ubuntu Ethic” on April 27 at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity in Goettingen, Germany. Nagel is a scholar-in-residence from January through July, and this is her official contribution as a research professor at Max Planck under the auspices of the African Diversities Colloquium.
Christopher Gascón
Christopher Gascón, Modern Languages Department, wrote and recorded a song inspired by Cortland’s common read, Braiding Sweetgrass, by Robin Wall Kimmerer. The single, “Hold On,” was released in February 2024 and can be heard on Spotify and other music streaming services under artist name Juniper Salute.
Christopher Gascón
Christopher Gascón, Modern Languages Department, has been invited by publisher Gale Cengage to produce an installment of their Drama Criticism series on the play “Fuenteovejuna” (1619), by Spanish playwright Lope de Vega. “Fuenteovejuna” is currently the most performed, read and studied play of the Spanish baroque period. Drama Criticism is a resource for scholars; the entry will include a study of the author and the play, reprints of the most important research on the work, and an annotated bibliography of additional key criticism of the drama.
Bryanne Bellovary, Erik Lind and James Hokanson
Bryanne Bellovary, Erik Lind and James Hokanson, Kinesiology Department, co-authored two research posters with senior exercise science majors Lauren Roberts and Jacqueline Santaniello. Roberts presented the posters at the Mid-Atlantic Regional Conference within the American College of Sport Medicine, held Nov. 5 and 6 in Harrisburg, Pa. The poster titles are: “Heart Rate Responses to Three Unweighted Conditions on an Alter-G® Treadmill” and “Arterial Blood Pressure Responses Reflect Differences in Alter-G® Treadmill Chamber Pressure in College Age Participants.”
Juan Diego Prieto
Juan Diego Prieto, Political Science Department, wrote a commentary about Colombian politics for the Oct. 22 issue of Latin American Advisor, published by The Dialogue think-tank.