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Faculty and Staff Activities

Henry Steck

Henry Steck, professor emeritus of political sciencepresented a lecture at the Ratiu Dialogues on Democracy-Transylvania 2019, held May 19 to 22 in Turda and Cluj-Napoca, Romania. The title of his presentation was “Democracy: 1989 and After.”

Brittany Adams

Brittany Adams, Literacy Department, had an article titled “Beyond Perpetrators, Victims, and Survivors: Young Adult Literature as Bystander Intervention Education” published in Volume 49, Issue 3 of The ALAN Review.

Danica Savonick

Danica Savonick, English Department, delivered the plenary address for Bryn Mawr College’s 9th Annual Blended Learning in the Liberal Arts Conference. Her talk, “Savor this Moment: The Activist Possibilities of Digital Pedagogy” is available online.

Nancy Kane

Nancy Kane, Performing Arts Department, had her article published in the September issue of The American Dance Circle. “Dance in New York’s Southern Tier” profiled Hilton Baxter, a contra dance inventor and caller for the Binghamton Community Dance group.

John Suarez

At the May 17 SUNY Civic Education Community of Practice Convening in Albany, N.Y., John Suarez, director of the Galpin Institute for Civic Engagement, co-developed and co-facilitated an active listening activity for about 65 people with Babette Faehmel, a history professor at SUNY Schenectady.

Rhiannon Maton

Rhiannon Maton, Foundations and Social Advocacy Department, is a co-editor for a special series for Critical Education journal, titled Contemporary Educator Movements: Transforming Unions, Schools and Society in North America. Series co-editors have recently published the first issue in the series: Teacher Learning In/Through Social Movements.

Christopher Gascón

Christopher Gascón, Modern Languages Department, guest-edited a special issue of the scholarly journal Symposium focusing on current critical approaches to 17th century Spanish and Latin American theater. In Symposium: A Quarterly Journal in Modern Literatures: Special Issue: Twenty-First Century Approaches to Hispanic Golden Age Drama, Gascón brings together the work of six leading scholars to demonstrate how diversity and inclusivity guide current analyses of baroque drama in Spanish. His introduction shares the same title as the special issue.

Thomas Hischak

Thomas Hischak, Performing Arts Department, has received a SUNY Global Grant to partially finance his trip to Anadolu University in Eskisehir, Turkey. Hischak will be in Turkey for three weeks in May to teach and run workshops about American theatre and film.

Richard Hunter

Richard Hunter, Geography Department, co-authored an article in the current volume of Rangelands titled “Application of Vulnerability Assessment to a Grazed Rangeland: Toward an Integrated Conceptual Framework.”

Chelsea Stinson

Chelsea Stinson, Foundations and Social Advocacy Department, was recently appointed as a co-editor of Multiple Voices - Disability, Race, and Language Intersections in Special Education, the official, peer-reviewed journal of the Council for Exceptional Children’s Division for Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Exceptional Learners (DDEL). Stinson also recently had three articles published, including as a co-author of “‘We persist in this cycle’: A critical disability raciolinguistic analysis of behavioral policies for emergent bilinguals labeled as disabled,” in the forthcoming The Urban Review; and as the author of “DisCrit Mothering as analytical tool,” in the International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education, and “Sanctuary as Praxis: Engaging families at the crossroads of disability, education, and migration,” in Equity & Excellence in Education.