Christopher Gascon
Christopher Gascon, Modern Languages Department, has been elected secretary of the Association for Hispanic Classical Theater (AHCT), an international scholarly organization of 200 academics, directors, actors and musicians that annually hosts a conference in El Paso, Texas, supports the Spanish Golden Age Theater Festival at the Chamizal National Memorial Theater, and publishes the journal Comedia Performance. As secretary, he will assist the president, vice-president and treasurer in running the organization. He has served the AHCT for 15 years.
Brian D. Barrett
Brian D. Barrett, Foundations and Social Advocacy Department, is acknowledged in Knowledge, Pedagogy and Society: International Perspectives on Basil Bernstein's Sociology of Education, Routledge, 2010, edited by D. Frandji & P. Vitale, for his translation and editorial work on 10 chapters by authors whose first language is not English.
Peter McGinnis
Peter McGinnis, Kinesiology Department, accompanied two graduate students who presented at the “Research That Matters: An Exposition of Graduate Research in SUNY and CUNY” on March 8 at the Legislative Office Building in Albany, N.Y. Hobit LaFaye, master’s degree candidate in outdoor and environmental education in the Recreation, Parks and Leisure Studies Department, presented “Creating Cultural Change through Heritage Interpretation and the Theory of Planned Behavior: A Project Promoting the Safety and Use of Bicycling for Transportation.” Her faculty sponsor is Edward Hill, Recreation, Parks and Leisure Studies Department. Katherine Clancy, master’s degree candidate in exercise science, Kinesiology Department, will discuss “Comparison of Lumbar Spine Loads During Back and Front Squats. Her faculty sponsors are Kinesiology Department faculty members McGinnis, Joy Hendrick and Wendy Hurley.
Robert Spitzer
Robert Spitzer, Political Science Department, is the author of an article titled, “Still Saving the Constitution from Lawyers” that has just been published in the most recent issue of the Gonzaga Law Review.
Robert Spitzer
Robert Spitzer, Political Science Department, presented “The Law and Politics of Gun Control after Tucson” at the 6th Annual Harry Frank Guggenheim Symposium on Crime in America on “Law and Disorder: Facing the Legal and Economic Challenges to American Criminal Justice.” It was held Jan. 31-Feb. 1 at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice, CUNY, New York City.
Christopher Tucker, Hugh Anderson, Michael Bersani and Ron Hulslander
Christopher Tucker, Purchasing Office, serves as captain of the SUNY Cortland J.P. Morgan Chase Corporate Challenge team that learned recently it will compete at the series’ international championship race in San Francisco on Wednesday, Sept. 9. The College’s four-person men’s team finished with the fastest total time at the 3.5-mile Syracuse race in June 2014. Tucker will be joined by Hugh Anderson, International Programs Office; Michael Bersani, Public Relations Office; and Ron Hulslander, Physical Plant.
Rhiannon Maton
Rhiannon Maton, Foundations and Social Advocacy Department, had a public press article on the recent Rutgers University faculty strike published in Spectre Journal. The article is titled “Lessons from the Rutgers Strike: Lessons Six Months Later.”
Maton also was interviewed on the History of Education Quarterly podcast. On the podcast, she discusses recent co-authored research on a radical and experimental alternative school in Philadelphia in the 1970s. The original published article on which this podcast is based is titled, “Opposing Innovations: Race and Reform in the West Philadelphia Community Free School, 1969-1978.”
Kristine Newhall
Kristine Newhall, Kinesiology Department, had an article titled "'Mostly what we do is ride bikes': A case study of cycling, subculture, and transgender policy" published in the most recent issue of Transgender Studies Quarterly.
Robert Spitzer
Robert Spitzer, Political Science Department, was elected to serve on the Executive Council of Pi Sigma Alpha, the national political science honors society, at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association held Aug. 28-31 in Washington D.C. Spitzer will serve a four-year term on the society’s national governing board. Cortland has been a chapter member of Pi Sigma Alpha since 1970.
Tiantian Zheng
Tiantian Zheng, Sociology/Anthropology Department, had her ethnography titled Violent Intimacy: Family Harmony, State Stability, and Intimate Partner Violence in Postsocialist China, published in July by Bloomsbury Publishing. Also, she co-authored a refereed journal article titled “Fanzuixue he Faxue de Tianye Jianghu” (Fieldwork in Criminology and Legal Studies). It was published in August by Jingxue Yanjiu (Police Science Research).