Christopher Gascón
Christopher Gascón, Modern Languages Department, presented a paper at the annual conference of the Association for Hispanic Classical Theater (AHCT), held March 3-6 in El Paso, Texas. The paper, “Directors Explore Contemporary Cultural Trauma through Lope’s Fuenteovejuna and El caballero de Olmedo,” considers two recent productions of Spanish Golden Age plays in the light of sociological theories of cultural trauma. The contemporary traumas addressed in the plays are related to immigration in the U.S. and the exhuming of Spanish Civil War victims buried in mass graves.
Jeremy Pekarek
Jeremy Pekarek, Memorial Library, presented a poster titled “The Tale of two hats: Time-management in the life of an Archivist & Instructional Services Librarian,” at the virtual New York Archives Conference on June 12.
Moyi Jia
Moyi Jia, Communication and Media Studies Department, co-authored an article that was published in December in Health Communication, one of the leading journals in this field. The article is titled “Promoting Mental Health on Social Media: A Content Analysis of Organizational Tweets.”
Gail Wood
Gail Wood, Library, has received an award from the New York State Library for “Coordinated Collection Development Aid” in the amount of $9,868.
Teagan Bradway
Teagan Bradway, English Department, had an article titled “The Queerness of Character-Details” published in MLQ: Modern Language Quarterly. The essay examines the importance of queer characters in contemporary LGBTQ+ literature.
Teagan Bradway
Teagan Bradway, English Department, gave an invited talk at the University of Pennsylvania on March 21. Bradway’s talk was titled “Renarratable Bonds: Queer Relationality in the Scene of Redress” and is drawn from her forthcoming article in differences: a journal of Feminist Cultural Studies.
John Suarez
John Suarez, the Institute for Civic Engagement’s coordinator of the Office of Service-Learning, peer-reviewed “Writing Partners: Bridging the Personal and Social in the Service-Learning Classroom,” a chapter for an upcoming book titled Culturally Engaging Service-Learning in Diverse Communities.
Seth N. Asumah, Mechthild Nagel and Ibipo Johnston-Anumonwo
Seth N. Asumah, Political Science and Africana Studies departments, and Mechthild Nagel, Philosophy and Africana Studies departments and the Center for Gender and Intercultural Studies, presented a workshop titled “Diversity Leadership, Inclusive Excellence and the Emerging Roles of Chief Diversity Officers and Faculty Engagement” at the November SUNY Diversity Conference in Albany, N.Y. Ibipo Johnston-Anumonwo, Geography and Africana Studies departments, gave a workshop on “Visualizing Diverse Worlds: Film and Social Media in the Social Science Classroom.” Both Asumah and Nagel served on the SUNY-wide diversity conference organizing committee and also chaired sessions at the conference.
Tracy Hudson ’89, M ’93
Tracy Hudson ’89, M ’93, Physical Education Department, initiated a program to create a culture of care in the Physical Education Department. The goal of “Wear to Care in PE” is to engage students in different ways so they learn what a culture of care means and to start a conversation of how to create a culture of care. Students and staff can wear a color on a certain day which can inspire classroom discussions about what it means to care for others and to develop a culture of care within the Physical Education Department. This project has shown success in Dr. Hudson’s EDU 470: Foundations of Education in American Culture course.
Rhiannon Maton and Jessica Carrick-Hagenbarth
Rhiannon Maton, Foundations and Social Advocacy Department, and Jessica Carrick-Hagenbarth, Economics Department, had their article “This Could Be Me': Simulation of Refugee Experiences” published in Kappa Delta Pi Record. The authors discuss how the kinesthetic, affective and conceptual learning triggered through simulation can support future teachers in building empathy for refugees and immigrants.