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.
Tyler Bradway
Tyler Bradway, English Department, had his article, “Bad Reading: The Affective Relations of Queer Experimental Literature after AIDS,” published in the Duke University Press journal GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies. The article appears as the lead essay in a special issue devoted to the study of LGBTQ literature. It is drawn from Bradway’s ongoing research into the ways that contemporary LGBTQ writers use experimental literary forms to imagine new modes of social and political community.
Mark Dodds
Mark Dodds, Sport Management Department, co-edited The Encyclopedia of Sport Management and Marketing, which was recently recognized with a Best Reference 2011 - Business and Economics Division award by Library Journal. The encyclopedia featured submissions by faculty members Genni Birren, Ted Fay, Peter Han and Jordan Kobritz, and former faculty Kevin Heisey and Jim Reese, as well as many former sport management graduate students.
John Suarez
John Suarez, Institute for Civic Engagement and service-learning coordinator, had his presentation proposal titled “‘Hire’ Education, Public Purpose, and Student Employers,” accepted for the national Campus Compact’s 30th Anniversary Conference. Mary McGuire, Institute for Civic Engagement director, and Crissana Christie, service-learning intern, are co-presenters. Christie will provoke participants’ explorations of radical designs for higher education through her defense of her “Claimed-Learning Statement” in front of her degree-team, the session’s participants, by describing her learning during the years 2021-2024.
Kathleen A. Lawrence
Kathleen A. Lawrence, Communication and Media Studies Department, recently had her poem, “Little Thinking,” published in New Verse News. The piece was written as a political satire in response to recent news out of Washington.
Szilvia Kadas
Szilvia Kadas, Art and Art History Department, is a recipient of the Design Incubation Fellowship 2019. The assistant professor of graphic design and digital media recently participated in an intensive three-day Design Incubation Fellowship Workshop, held Jan. 10- 12 at St. John’s University’s Manhattan campus.
Moyi Jia
Moyi Jia, Communication and Media Studies Department, had her study published in the July issue of the journal Psychological Reports. Her study is titled “Emotional experiences in the workplace: Biological sex, supervisor nonverbal behaviors, and subordinate susceptibility to emotional contagion” and the abstract is available here.
John C. Hartsock
John C. Hartsock, Communications Studies Department, was a speaker at Lorraine University in Nancy, France, on March 8 where he gave a talk on “War, Literary Journalism, and the Aesthetics of Experience” sponsored by the English Department. Afterwards, for professional development, he traveled to Alsace to taste wine, accompanied by the founding president of the International Association for Literary Journalism Studies, Professor John Bak of Lorraine University. On March 12 he discussed his book Seasons of a Finger Lakes Winery before the Ladies Literary Society of Cortland at the Phillips Free Library in Homer. In related news, portions of the book were excerpted in this spring’s issue of Life in the Finger Lakes.