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Faculty and Staff Activities

Ute Ritz-Deutch

Ute Ritz-Deutch, History Department, learned that her article, “Hermann von Ihering: Shifting Realities of a German Brazilian Scientist from the Late Empire to World War I,” has been accepted for publication in a special edition of the British Journal German History. The volume is scheduled for publication in 2015.

Tadayuki Suzuki

Tadayuki Suzuki, Literacy Department, presented two roundtable sessions on Nov. 17 at the 2023 National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) annual convention in Columbus, Ohio. “The Right to Read: The Voices of School Teachers and Preservice Teacher Students” was part of the roundtable session “Working to Understand Censorship and its Impacts on the Teaching Profession.” “Exploring the Complexity of Cultural Authenticity in Children’s Books with Gender Nonconforming Characters” was part of the roundtable session “Queer(ing) Conexións.”

Tadayuki Suzuki

Tadayuki Suzuki, Literacy Department, presented “How to Evaluate Cultural Authenticity in Multicultural Children’s Literature” at the New York State Reading Association Conference held Nov. 10 in Saratoga Springs, N.Y. On Nov. 21, he will give a presentation at the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE). The title of the presentation is “Discussing the Missing Piece of the Puzzle: LGBTQ Books for Children in Intermediate Grade Levels.”

Kathleen Lawrence

Kathleen Lawrence, Communication Studies Department, had two abecedarians, “Lab Test” and “Adding Machines,” accepted for publication in Lemon Quarterly in the April 2017 issue. She also was notified her poem “Trump vs. Big Bird,” written to the tune of Sesame Street’s “Sunny Day,” was accepted for publication in Parody Poetry Journal, April Issue. Lawrence’s abecedarian originally titled “Resisting Trump” was the featured “Your Line” on April 3, 2017 to the epic poem being built on-line by OVS Magazine. In the last year, 53 poems by Lawrence have been published or are forthcoming.

Deborah Wilson and Mary Emm

Deborah Wilson and Mary Emm, Communication Disorders and Sciences Department, had their article, “Opportunity for Effective Feedback: A Supervision Tool,” published in the March 2013 journal of Perspectives on Administration and Supervision.

Rhiannon Maton

Rhiannon Maton, Foundations and Social Advocacy Department, co-authored an article with Kathy Mantas, Nipissing University, that was published in the SUNY Journal of the Scholarship of Engagement. The article is titled “Nurturing Mentorship Relationships with Inquiry-based Dialogue.”

Laura Davies

Laura Davies, English Department, co-authored an article, “Polymorphic Frames of Pre-Tenure WPAs: Seven Accounts of Hybridity and Pronoia,” which was published in the Fall 2016 issue of Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy.

Robert Spitzer

Robert Spitzer, Political Science Department, is the author of an article written in the aftermath of the Florida high school shooting titled, “Laws We Used to Have on the Books Could Have Prevented the Florida School Shooting,” published by the Washington Post on Feb. 15. 

Also, his article “The NRA’s Journey from Marksmanship to Political Brinkmanship” was published in the Feb. 23 issue of The Conversation.

Seth N. Asumah

Seth N. Asumah, Africana Studies and Political Science departments, presented his paper “United States Immigration Policy and the Politics of Exclusion: Seeing More Than African Immigrants” at the New York African Studies Association (NYASA) 43rd annual conference held April 12 and 13 at Seton Hall University, South Orange, N.J. Also, Asumah supervised the research projects of four Africana studies majors and minors, which were presented at NYASA conference: Alliyah Dookie presented “Rethinking Internal Migration Benefits for Africa,” Jacob Wrights presented “Should All Speech Be Free? How Hate Speech Negates Freedom,” Kevin Robinson presented “Miseducation, Socialization and Conformity in the Black Community,” and Devon Sanders presented his research paper on “Melanin.”

Jennifer Kronenbitter and Hailey Ruoff

Jennifer Kronenbitter, Library, and Hailey Ruoff, Library and Instructional Technologies and Design Services, presented at the Computers in Libraries conference held April 8-10 in Washington D.C. Their presentation focused on the streaming media project that converted the library’s video collection into a streaming format. Computers in Libraries is noted as the most comprehensive North American conference and exhibition on all aspects of library and information delivery technology.