Seth N. Asumah
Seth N. Asumah, Africana Studies and Political Science departments, was named a Boren Merit Review Panelist by the Institute of International Education and the National Security Agency, Washington D.C. Between Feb. 26 and March 1, the panel reviewed 27 National Security Education Program Merit Fellowship applications and selected finalists for the Africa Region Boren Fellowships for 2017. Serving on the panel with Asumah were Kelly O’Brien from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University and Lynn Westley from Lake Forest University.
Seth N. Asumah
Seth N. Asumah, Africana Studies and Political Science departments, was invited to write a guest foreword, “Rethinking African Philosophy in the Twenty-First Century” which is published in a new volume of the Value Inquiry Book Series. The book, Postethnophilosophy, is authored by Sanya Osha, a professor of philosophy and a research fellow at Tshwane University, Pretoria, South Africa. The book was published by Edition Rodopi B.V., Amsterdam, Netherlands. Andrew Fitz-Gibbon, Philosophy Department, wrote the editorial foreword for this book.
Jacob Wright
Jacob Wright, Career Services, received the Central New York Career Development Association (CNYCDA) Student Success Champion Award at the CNYCDA annual meeting on June 2 in Dundee, N.Y. Wright is a career coach and educator. The award recognizes one professional in a 10-campus consortium for moving the industry of career development forward and promoting individual and group student success through student-centered programming.
Lisa Czirr
Lisa Czirr, Memorial Library, presented “Cross-Pollination: Lessons Learned from Online Delivery to Enhance the Return to In-Person Information Literacy Instruction” at the SUNYLA 2021 (Virtual) annual conference held June 16 to 18. The session highlighted takeaways from the online format that can potentially improve in-person instruction. The conference theme was “From Seeds to Service: Growing the New Academic Library.”
John C. Hartsock
John C. Hartsock, Communication Studies Department, gave lectures in early October at St. Petersburg State University in St. Petersburg, Russia on American and international literary journalism. He was invited by Russia’s oldest university as part of the Russia Program sponsored by Stony Brook University. In addition, he participated in a roundtable discussion on journalism ethics at the university, and gave a lecture to the general public on literary journalism at the bookstore Word Order in St. Petersburg. This was his first return to Russia in 24 years. From 1989 to 1993 he reported on the collapse of the Soviet Union for several publications.
Jordan Kobritz
Jordan Kobritz, Sport Management Department, co-authored an article titled “Creating an Action Plan for Event Cleaning” that was published in the September issue of Cleaning & Maintenance Management magazine.
Tyler Bradway
Tyler Bradway, English Department, gave an invited talk as part of a virtual roundtable on his new book, Queer Kinship: Race, Sex, Belonging, Form (Duke UP, 2022). Held Jan. 19, the event was hosted by the University of Southern California and sponsored by the Race, Gender, and Sexuality Research Cluster, the USC Department of American Studies and Ethnicity, the USC Consortium for Gender, Sexuality, Race and Public Culture, and the USC Association of English Graduate Students.
Mechthild Nagel, Seth N. Asumah and Lewis Rosengarten
Mechthild Nagel, Philosophy and Africana Studies departments and Center for Gender and Intercultural Studies, Seth N. Asumah, Africana Studies and Political Science departments, and Lewis Rosengarten, Educational Opportunity Program and Africana Studies Department, presented papers at the recent New York African Studies Association at CUNY and Columbia University. Students Deidre Kirkem and Adesola Belo also presented their papers. Asumah and Nagel’s book, Diversity, Social Justice, and Inclusive Excellence, published in 2014 by SUNY Press, won the New York African Studies Book Award.
John C. Hartsock
John C. Hartsock, Communication Studies Department, has learned that his book, Seasons of a Finger Lakes Winery, was named one of four finalists for the Louis Roederer Award for International Wine Book of the Year. The award is sponsored annually by the distinguished French Champagne House of Louis Roederer. Last March, Hartsock’s book won best in class at the Gourmand awards in Paris. The book was published in 2011 by Cornell University Press.
In other news, Life in the Finger Lakes published excerpts from the book in the summer and fall issues of the magazine.
Celeste McNamara
Celeste McNamara, History Department, is the author of The Bishop's Burden: Reforming the Catholic Church in Early Modern Italy, published in November by The Catholic University of America Press. Through a detailed examination of the diocese of Padua in the seventeenth century, this book provides fresh insight into the challenges and process of reforming the Catholic Church after the 1563 Council of Trent.