Rhiannon Maton
Rhiannon Maton, Foundations and Social Advocacy Department, recently had two interviews published in Spectre Journal. The first examines teacher organizing in Philadelphia during Covid-19, and the second interviews two educators in Vancouver, Canada about their recent union organizing efforts.
Tyler Bradway
Tyler Bradway, English Department, edited a special issue of College Literature, “Lively Words: The Politics and Poetics of Experimental Writing,” which was published by Johns Hopkins University Press. The issue argues for a comparative cultural studies approach to the study of 20th and 21st century experimental writing and contains 17 essays, including his essay “The Promise of Experimental Writing” and the Critical Forum he edited and introduces, “The Sonic Politics of Black Experimentalism.” View the special issue.
Danica Savonick
Danica Savonick, English Department, received the Dr. Nuala McGann Drescher Award as well as a yearlong faculty fellowship from the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS). The ACLS Fellowship Program awards fellowships to individual scholars working in the humanities and related social sciences. You can read more about the award and her project here: https://www.acls.org/Recent-Awardees/ACLS-Fellows
Henry Steck and Craig Little
Henry Steck, professor emeritus of political science, and Craig Little, professor emeritus of sociology, participated in a series of academic gatherings from Nov. 9 to 15 in Romania at the Polytechnic University of Timisoara, the Babeș-Bolyai University in Cluj-Napoca, and the Ratiu Center for Democracy in Turda. The subject of their presentations covered higher education in illiberal times, America in decline in the time of Trump, and the need for civic engagement as the prerequisite for a robust democratic society.
Rhiannon Maton
Rhiannon Maton, Foundations and Social Advocacy Department, had a coauthored article published in Globalisation, Societies and Education journal. The article, "For Once We’re Asking for MORE Testing": Organisational Infrastructure in the Safe Schools Movement during COVID-19, explores how U.S. educators mobilized a range of organizational structures in their activism and organizing during the Covid-19 pandemic.
Mark A. Sutherlin
Mark A. Sutherlin, Kinesiology Department, gave two presentations at the National Athletic Trainers’ Association 68th Clinical Symposia & AT Expo, was accepted into the NATA Foundation Research/Faculty Mentor Program, and participated as part of the Athletic Training Research Agenda Focus Group this summer in Houston, Texas.
Joshua Peck
Joshua Peck, Psychology Department, with co-authors Philip Chu and Joshua Brumberg of Queens College, had their peer-reviewed paper titled “Exercises in Anatomy, Connectivity and Morphology using Neuromorpho.org and the Allen Brain Atlas” published in the Journal of Undergraduate Neuroscience Education. The article discusses how laboratory instruction of neuroscience is often limited by the lack of physical resources and supplies and that the cost of acquiring, maintaining and updating the materials for these labs can be prohibitive. The authors recommend incorporating online, or e-learning, opportunities into undergraduate laboratory courses and describe a method using two free online databases, the Neuromorpho.org and the Allen Brain Atlas (ABA), that freely provide access to data from working brain scientists that can be modified for laboratory instruction and exercises.
Jordan Kobritz
Jordan Kobritz, Sport Management Department, wrote a book review that was published in the Journal of Sport Management, volume 26, issue 5. He reviewed “Money Games: Profiting From the Convergence of Sports and Entertainment,” by David Carter.
Tiantian Zheng
Tiantian Zheng, Sociology/Anthropology Department, edited a book titled Cultural Politics of Gender and Sexuality in Contemporary Asia, published by the University of Hawaii Press in March.
Tiantian Zheng
Tiantian Zheng, Sociology/Anthropology Department, recently was contacted by BBC World Service radio to be interviewed for their show “Outside Source.” She was asked to be prepared to discuss masculinity in China and the recent publication of Little Men, a textbook for boys aimed to correct effeminate behavior. Little Men contains six chapters that encourage boys to be in touch with their masculinity and is aimed at children in the 4th and 5th grades to fight the growing “gender crisis” in the country. Part of Zheng’s recent book Tongzhi Living has analyzed the perceived “crisis” of masculinity, “feminized” boys/men, and nation-wide implemented measures in China to enhance gender difference to combat the issue.