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Faculty and Staff Activities

Mark A. Dodds and David L. Snyder

Mark A. Dodds and David L. Snyder, Sport Management Department, had their article, “U.S. Supreme Court Holds NFL is Not a Single Entity,” published in the November/December 2010 issue of The Journal of Physical Education, Recreation & Dance (JOPERD). The article examines the high court's recent decision in American Needle, Inc. v. National Football League, et al. In American Needle, the Supreme Court held that the NFL is not a single entity and, therefore, is not exempt from antitrust scrutiny.

Jeremiah Donovan

Jeremiah Donovan, Art and Art History Department, was invited to exhibit his recent ceramic artwork at the Navio Artisans Gallery in New Bedford, Mass. The exhibition, “Circling into Now,” opened Oct. 1.

Catherine Porter Lewis

Catherine Porter Lewis, professor emerita of French, recently had her translation of Avital Ronell’s “Fighting Theory: In Conversation with Anne Dufourmantelle,” published by Illinois University Press. Her 2009 Presidential Address, “English Is Not Enough,” appeared in Publications of the Modern Language Association (PMLA), volume 125.3. Her translation of an article by Abdelkebir Khatibi, “The Language of the Other: Testimonial Exercises,” was included in PMLA, volume 125.4. Her article “Translation as Scholarship” was published in the Association of Departments of Foreign Language Bulletin, volume 41.2.

Porter Lewis has also presented several papers in recent months: “Translation in the Curriculum,” at the Association of Departments of English (ADE) Seminar West held June 23 at Pomona College in Claremont, Calif.; “A Translator’s Statement,” at the Shifting Paradigms colloquium held Oct. 24 at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign; “High School-College Collaborations: The SUNY Cortland Model,” at a Modern Language Association (MLA) session at the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL) annual convention held Nov. 19 in Boston, Mass.; “Forging Alliances,” the keynote address at the National Network for Early Language Learning session keynote address at the Nov. 20 ACTFL convention; and “Translation in the Modern Language Curriculum,” at another MLA session at the Nov. 20 ACTFL convention.

Ryota Yaginuma,

Ryota Yaginuma, a visiting scholar from Japan, will study character education under the guidance of Thomas Lickona, Childhood/Early Childhood Education Department and Director of Center for the 4th and 5th Rs, through September 2011. Yaginuma is an associate professor at Gifu National University, Graduate School of Education in Japan, and has a Ph.D. in literature from Waseda University in Japan for the study of John Dewey’s pragmatism and educational theory.

Yaginuma has published numerous works, including John Dewey’s Pragmatism and Education (2002); The Problem-Solving Type Moral Teaching (2006); The Study of Moral Education (2007);  Rorty’s Philosophy and Education (2008); The Problem-Solving Type Moral Teaching -Case Study (2009); and Schooling and Moral Education (2010).

The goals of this visiting scholarship study are to write about character education for Japanese teachers and to translate important papers and books regarding character education, in particular, “Smart & Good High Schools,” written by Lickona and Matthew Davidson in 2005. Yaginuma will visit area schools that represent best practices of character education and make a comparative study of American character education and Japanese moral education.

Lin Lin

Lin Lin, Childhood/Early Childhood Education Department, will present three papers at the 90th Annual National Council for the Social Studies (NCSS) annual conference from Nov. 10-14 in Denver, Colo. Lin and two co-authors will present their published article on social studies titled “Whose History? An Analysis of the Korean War in History Textbooks from Six Countries: the United States, China, Japan, South Korea, North Korea and Russia.” As one of the co-authors, Lin will present another presentation on the topic of “Collective Memories of World War II in History Textbooks from China, Japan and South Korea.” The manuscript has been sent to Curriculum Inquiry and is under review. Both papers will be presented at the College and University Faculty Association (CUFA) session of NCSS. With three Chinese faculty members from other universities, Lin will present on the topic of “Learning and Teaching about the Reemerging China: Stories and Perspectives of Chinese Immigrant Social Studies Educators in the U.S.”

Ute Ritz-Deutch

Ute Ritz-Deutch, History Department, presented “Detention and Deportation of Immigrants in the United States: A Year in Review” as part of Cornell University’s Committee on U.S.-Latin American Relations series on Feb. 23 at Cornell University.

Brett Troyan

Brett Troyan, history, organized and hosted the New York Latin American History Workshop at SUNY Cortland, which took place on Oct. 16.

Mark Dodds

Mark Dodds, Sport Management Department, had an article accepted by the journal Choregia. “Using Mobile Marketing to Engage NASCAR Fans and Increase Sales” will be published in an upcoming edition of the journal.  

Bob Ponterio and Jean LeLoup

Bob Ponterio, international communications and culture, and Jean LeLoup, international communications and culture emerita, are the authors of an article appearing in the Oct. 2009 volume of The Language Educator, a publication of the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages. The article, "FLTeach Marks 15 Years as Foreign Language Forum," describes the FLTeach project, a discussion forum for teachers of all languages at all levels of instruction that was begun by LeLoup and Ponterio in February 1994 and now has more than 5,000 subscribers in all 50 states and 73 foreign countries.  

Marley Barduhn

Marley Barduhn, Academic Affairs, has received $219,372 from the New York State Education Department for her project titled “Liberty Partnerships Program 2010-2011” for the period Sept. 1, 2010 through Aug. 31, 2011.