Van A. Burd
Van A. Burd, professor emeritus of English, had his writings titled, “Young John Ruskin, His Tutor in Mathematics, John Rowbotham and the Geometric Impossible,” published in the Autumn 2010 issue of The Ruskin Review and Bulletin. It was published at the University of Lancaster in England.
Robert Spitzer
Robert Spitzer, Political Science Department, wrote an article for the The Huffington Post titled “Campuses Just Say ‘No’ to Guns” that appeared for the week of Feb. 28 about current efforts around the country to allow faculty and students to carry handguns on college campuses. Spitzer is a regular contributor to Huffington.
John Hartsock
John Hartsock, Communication Studies Department, gave a talk at the American University of Paris on Oct. 18 on the topic of “The Relevance of Literary Journalism in the Age of Globalization.” It was one of two talks he gave in Paris in addition to his serving as a visiting professor at Paris Université from Sept. 27-Oct. 22. His talk at the American University of Paris was sponsored by the departments of English, Communications and Comparative Literature, and explored why the aesthetic implications of literary journalism serve as an important vehicle for explaining our globalized world. On Oct. 16, Hartsock also gave a talk at the Institute for Anglophone, Romance and German Worlds at Paris Université on the subject of “American Literary Journalism and the Exploration of the Cultural Other,” examining how literary journalism resisted the elitist literary and journalistic paradigms that came to dominate the academy for much of the 20th century to the exclusion of the cultural other. As a visiting professor during this period, Hartsock taught a graduate course at Paris Université on the subject of “The Aesthetics of Cultural Experience in American Literary Journalism.” Hartsock has published widely on the subject of literary journalism, and is the editor of Literary Journalism Studies, the official peer-reviewed journal of the International Association for Literary Journalism Studies.
Brent T. Wilson
Brent T. Wilson, Communication Disorders and Sciences Department, has been invited to present at the 13th meeting of the International Clinical Phonetics and Linguistics Association June 23–26 in Oslo, Norway. Two Speech and Hearing Science majors who completed an independent study with Wilson during the Fall 2009 semester were also invited to present. They are Alyssa J. Riehle of Webster, N.Y., and Alicia M. Gloede of Coram, N.Y.
J. Richard Kendrick Jr.
J. Richard Kendrick Jr., Sociology/Anthropology Department and Institute for Civic Engagement, was a panelist at the New York Campus Compact Workshop, “Achieving Carnegie Community Engagement Classification,” on March 1 at Syracuse University. On Friday, March 5, he presented as part of the “Models for Civic Education and Engagement” series of the Civic Education and Leadership Fellows (CELF) program at Syracuse University. The CELF program brings eight scholars from the Middle East to study for a semester at the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs.
Tiantian Zheng
Tiantian Zheng, Sociology/Anthropology Department, was invited to speak in February at Oxford University in England and in March at the University of North Park in Chicago, about her first book, Red Lights: The Lives of Sex Workers in Postsocialist China, (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press).
Lin Lin
Lin Lin, Childhood/Early Childhood Education Department, was lead co-author of two articles that were recently published. “Teaching Historical and Current Events from Multiple Perspectives: The Korean War and Six-Party Talks” was published in Social Science Research and Practice, Winter 2009, Volume 4, Number 3. “Whose History? An Analysis of the Korean War in History Textbooks from the United States, South Korea, Japan and China” was published in the September-October 2009 issue of The Social Studies.
Ute Ritz-Deutch
Ute Ritz-Deutch, History Department, presented “Victimhood and Memory: Danube Swabians and the Ethnic Cleansing Campaigns in Yugoslavia, 1944-1948” at the Wayles Browne Slavic Studies Symposium on Feb. 26 at the A.D. White House at Cornell University. The symposium was held in honor of Browne, who is a linguist at Cornell and longtime human rights activist.
Susan Wilson
Susan Wilson, Recreation, Parks and Leisure Studies Department, has received, via Cornell University and through the New York State Compact via Washington Campus Compact, funding for eight intern service slots. Her proposal is titled “Students in Service AmeriCorps Program.” Interns will receive $1,200 upon completion of internship or service.
Mark Dodds
Mark Dodds, Sport Management Department, is in the final editing stages of the Encyclopedia of Sport Management and Marketing. This encyclopedia is the first of its kind within the sport management discipline. Numerous persons from SUNY Cortland contributed by writing entries, including faculty members Peter Han, Ted Fay, Kevin Heisey, Dodds, several graduate students from Dodds’ sport marketing classes and undergraduate student Eli Roberge. The encyclopedia will be published by Sage Publications in September 2011.