Christopher Gascón
Christopher Gascón, Modern Languages Department, has been re-elected secretary of the Association for Hispanic Classical Theater (AHCT). Annually, the AHCT hosts a conference, publishes a journal and supports the oldest and longest-running Hispanic Golden Age theater festival in the world at the Chamizal National Memorial Theater in El Paso, Texas. In addition, the organization provides a library of digitized editions of plays, a video archive of performances of plays available for streaming and a biannual newsletter. Gascón has served as secretary since 2011 and has produced the last eight issues of the AHCT Newsletter, reporting on performances and scholarly activities related to Hispanic Golden Age drama.
Scott Moranda
Scott Moranda, History Department, is listed in the credits of a PBS documentary on Carl Schenck, one of America’s first foresters, which showed on WSKG Binghamton and WCNY Syracuse from April 15-18. Moranda was asked to review “America’s First Forest: Carl Schenck and the Asheville Experiment” and summarize Schenck’s life in relation to his return to Germany where he lived during the Nazi period. The documentary shows German contributions to American forestry in its earliest days.
C. Ashley Ellefson
C. Ashley Ellefson, professor emeritus of history, was interviewed by a reporter from the Baltimore Sun for an article that ran in the March 16 issue about the impending appeal of capital punishment in Maryland. Last fall, Ellefson provided a law clerk in the Maryland attorney general’s office with information on executions in Maryland from 1776 through 1800.
Kate McCormick
Kate McCormick, Childhood/Early Childhood Education Department, presented at the 2019 Reconceptualizing Early Childhood Conference held in Las Cruces, New Mexico. She presented a paper titled, “‘Wake up! I’m here to help!’: Participatory research possibilities with young children.”
Nancy Kane
Nancy Kane, Kinesiology Department, was cited by the Theatre Association of New York State for her musical and ensemble performances in an outdoor summer performance of the Greek tragedy “Antigone” by Sophocles, held at the former Case Mansion in Auburn, N.Y. Also, she choreographed the stage combat in “Antigone.”
Also, Kane’s History and Philosophy of PE and Sport class welcomed guest speaker Conor Heffernan, an assistant professor of physical culture and sport studies at Department of Kinesiology and Health Education at the University of Texas at Austin. Heffernan presented a session on “Irish Emigrants and the Shaping of American Sport.” Kane met the speaker through their participation in the summer 2020 International Society for the History of Physical Education and Sport (ISHPES) Tokyo virtual conference, where Heffernan was a presenter.
The Fall 2020 American Dance Circle, a publication of the Lloyd Shaw Foundation (LSF), featured an article by Kane, who is LSF vice president, about dance and social activism at the Highlander School, where Myles Horton, Pete Seeger, Rosa Parks, Dr. Martin Luther King, John Lewis and many others met to discuss workers’ rights, civil rights, adult literacy and more during the 20th century.
Robert Spitzer
Robert Spitzer, Political Science Department, spoke at King’s College in London, England, and at the Southbank Centre in London on “American Gun Policy,” “Gun Violence: A Comparative Perspective,” and “America and the World, 1960-1990,” from Nov. 9 to 11. Two of the talks were in conjunction with the Southbank Centre’s Superpower Weekend, examining America's influence on Britain and the world.
Brian Barrett
Brian Barrett, Foundations and Social Advocacy Department, and Arron Bound ’14, had their article titled “A Critical Discourse Analysis of No Promo Homo Policies in US Schools” published in volume 51, issue 4 of Educational Studies. The article reports on research they conducted during Bound’s Summer 2013 Undergraduate Research Fellowship offered through Cortland’s Undergraduate Research Council. Barrett served as Bound’s faculty mentor.
Christina Knopf
Christina Knopf, Communication and Media Studies Department, presented a talk titled “Compassion and the Apocalypse: ‘Commanders [and Communities] in Crisis’” on Aug. 7 at the Comics Studies Society annual conference, Re/Building Community.
Timothy Delaune
Timothy Delaune, Political Science Department and pre-law advisor, had a peer-reviewed chapter published in the special issue on law and the liberal state, volume 65 of the book series Studies in Law, Politics and Society. His chapter, “Jury Nullification: An Illiberal Defense of Liberty,” examines the practice of American juries in criminal cases acquitting clearly guilty defendants as an exercise of democratic political power contrary to the liberal order, in accordance with the political theory of Carl Schmitt.
Nan Pasquarello
Nan Pasquarello, Title IX coordinator, was one of seven women recognized by the Zonta Club of Cortland on International Women’s Day for their thoughtfulness and for acts of kindness that have improved the wellbeing of women and children in the community. Pasquarello, who coordinates campus prevention and response to gender-based discrimination and harassment, has served on the Cortland YWCA board of directors since 2011 and is completing her second year as board president.