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Faculty and Staff Activities

Keith Newvine

Keith Newvine, Literacy Department, and Dr. Lamar Johnson of Michigan State University will have their book chapter titled “Developing Racial Literacy through Critical Race English Education in Secondary English Language Arts Classrooms” published in Critical Race Theory and Classroom Practice, edited by Daniella Ann Cook and Nathanial Bryan. The book is set to be published in 2024, and the introduction to the textbook can be viewed here. 

Jeremy Jiménez

Jeremy Jiménez, Foundations and Social Advocacy Department, recently gave a presentation about his published findings surveying sustainable development goals and content in approximately 1,000 social science textbooks worldwide. He presented at the Comparative and International Education Society Conference held April 14 to 18 in San Francisco, Calif.

Jaclyn Pittsley

Jaclyn Pittsley, English Department, is coordinator of the Campus Equity Week Rally planned for 3 p.m. on Friday, Oct. 27 in front of Brockway Hall. She serves on the executive board of SUNY Cortland’s chapter of United University Professions, the group that is hosting the event.

Christina Knopf

Christina Knopf, Communication and Media Studies Department, had a chapter titled “AfterShock’s Rough Riders and the Reification of Race Reimagined,” published in the anthology Drawing the Past (Vol. 1): Comics and the Historical Imagination in the United States, from the University Press of Mississippi. The essay argues that though speculative histories purportedly challenge historical record and accepted limits of physical and social worlds, an alt-history founded on an aesthetic of capitalist and colonial violence (steampunk) will be restricted in its ability suggest new visions of equity and inclusion. 

Kathleen A. Lawrence

Kathleen A. Lawrence, Communication Studies Department, had a poem, “Always Blue Cops,” accepted for publication recently by Rosebud Magazine. It is an abecedarian told in three parts that can be read together as well as stand each on its own. Each of the parts is made up 26 words in alphabetical order, like the title, made up of 3 words starting with a, b and c. Also, two micro-poems were accepted for The Her Heart Poetry Annual 2017. “A Brevity of Affirmations" and “Through Colored Glasses” also will be featured on Instagram in November. 

Melissa Morris

Melissa Morris, Physics Department, and her postdoctoral consultants presented the latest results of their research on chondrule formation in impact plumes at the 47th Lunar and Planetary Science conference held March 20-25 at The Woodlands, Texas. Morris’s undergraduate research assistant, Anthony Terzolo, gave a poster presentation on the current results of his research on April 6 at the University of Rochester for the Rochester Symposium for Physics (Astronomy and Optics) Students, as well as at the SUNY Undergraduate Research Conference held Friday, April 15, at SUNY Cobleskill. Also, Terzolo gave an oral presentation at SUNY Cortland’s Transformations on April 8.

Richard Hunter

Richard Hunter, Geography Department, has been appointed to the editorial board of the Journal of Cultural Geography. In this position, he will review manuscripts submitted to the journal, actively solicit manuscripts for submission and provide general counsel to the editor and other members of the editorial staff on a wide range of publication issues.

Larissa True

Larissa True, Kinesiology Department, had her manuscript “Relationships Among Product- and Process-Oriented Measures of Motor Competence and Perceived Competence” published in the Journal of Motor Learning and Development.

Andrew Fitz-Gibbon and Kathy Russell and Mechthild Nagel

Andrew Fitz-Gibbon and Kathy Russell, Philosophy Department, and Mechthild Nagel, Philosophy Department and Center for Gender and Intercultural Studies, presented papers and commentaries at the Public Philosophy Conference, held March 14-16 in Atlanta, Ga.

Jeremy Wolf

Jeremy Wolf, Political Science Department, had his article titled  “Universal Basic Income and the Economy Effect” published in July in the peer-reviewed journal Theory in Action.