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Faculty and Staff Activities

Brian D. Barrett

Brian D. Barrett, Foundations and Social Advocacy Department, is acknowledged in Knowledge, Pedagogy and Society: International Perspectives on Basil Bernstein's Sociology of Education, Routledge, 2010, edited by D. Frandji & P. Vitale, for his translation and editorial work on 10 chapters by authors whose first language is not English.

Peter McGinnis

Peter McGinnis, Kinesiology Department, accompanied two graduate students who presented at the “Research That Matters: An Exposition of Graduate Research in SUNY and CUNY” on March 8 at the Legislative Office Building in Albany, N.Y. Hobit LaFaye, master’s degree candidate in outdoor and environmental education in the Recreation, Parks and Leisure Studies Department, presented “Creating Cultural Change through Heritage Interpretation and the Theory of Planned Behavior: A Project Promoting the Safety and Use of Bicycling for Transportation.” Her faculty sponsor is Edward Hill, Recreation, Parks and Leisure Studies Department. Katherine Clancy, master’s degree candidate in exercise science, Kinesiology Department, will discuss “Comparison of Lumbar Spine Loads During Back and Front Squats. Her faculty sponsors are Kinesiology Department faculty members McGinnis, Joy Hendrick and Wendy Hurley.

Mark Dodds

Mark Dodds, Sport Management Department, is in the final editing stages of the Encyclopedia of Sport Management and Marketing. This encyclopedia is the first of its kind within the sport management discipline. Numerous persons from SUNY Cortland contributed by writing entries, including faculty members Peter Han, Ted Fay, Kevin Heisey, Dodds, several graduate students from Dodds’ sport marketing classes and undergraduate student Eli Roberge. The encyclopedia will be published by Sage Publications in September 2011.

Janet Ochs, Jennifer Parker and Jeremy Pekarek

Janet Ochs, Jennifer Parker and Jeremy Pekarek of Memorial Library had their bibliographic essay titled “Resources on Women in STEM” published in Choice Magazine and featured in the March 2020 issue. This essay highlights women role models in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) professions and includes 58 book titles that explore various elements within STEM fields such as gender inequality, history, education, academic contributions, societal impacts and government involvement.

Christina Knopf

Christina KnopfCommunication and Media Studies Department, recently was interviewed for the Washington Post's TikTok feature "Variant Cover," about "review bombing" and fan backlash to feminism in the new Disney+ series She-Hulk: Attorney at Law. The story can be viewed online.

Margaret Anderson

Margaret Anderson, Psychology Department, has written a chapter in Dynamic Classroom: Engaging Students in Higher Education, recently published by Atwood Publishing LLC. The book is a collection of 14 best-practices papers enabling instructors to discover innovative ways to incorporate the best techniques, transform the worst and create a meaningful and dynamic environment for learning.

Luis Columna

Luis Columna, Physical Education Department, received the Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance (AAHPERD) Social Justice and Diversity Young Professional Award. The award is given to a minority member of AAHPERD who is 40 years old or younger and who has demonstrated superior promise in the areas of service, teaching, scholarship and commitment to the goals of the alliance, focusing specifically on under-represented and/or underserved populations and promotion of social justice and diversity. 

Gregory Phelan

Gregory Phelan, Chemistry Department, served as the program chair for the International, Women, and Minority Track at the United States Association for Small Business and Entrepreneurship National Conference held Jan. 13-16 in Hilton Head, S.C. At this meeting, Phelan was also elected the co-chair of the International Entrepreneurship Special Interest Group. 

Barbara Wisch

Barbara Wisch, Art and Art History Department, served as a panelist for evaluating National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Summer Stipends applications in Art History for 2011. Wisch was awarded an NEH Summer Stipend in 2006 and an NEH Fellowship in 2007.

Alexander G. Gonzalez

Alexander G. Gonzalez, English Department, has been informed that his article, “Letting a Poem Mean as Much as It Can Mean: Additional Interpretations of Eavan Boland’s ‘I Remember’ and ‘In Her Own Image,’” has been accepted for publication at ANQ: A Quarterly Journal of Short Articles, Notes, and Reviews. It will appear in a special edition on contemporary Irish writers that also will feature his previously accepted annotations on Brendan Behan’s play “The Quare Fellow.”