Rhiannon Maton and Jessica Carrick-Hagenbarth
Rhiannon Maton, Foundations and Social Advocacy Department, and Jessica Carrick-Hagenbarth, Economics Department, had their article “This Could Be Me': Simulation of Refugee Experiences” published in Kappa Delta Pi Record. The authors discuss how the kinesthetic, affective and conceptual learning triggered through simulation can support future teachers in building empathy for refugees and immigrants.
Alexis Blavos
Alexis Blavos, Health Department, recently conducted an invited national webinar for the Society for Public Health Education (SOPHE) titled “Next Steps: Advocating for Gun Violence Prevention after the Advocacy Summit.”
Timothy Davis
Timothy Davis, Physical Education Department, was quoted in a story titled “H is for Hopscotch” about teachers who use organized play to prepare students, published Oct. 27 in The Highlands Current.
Seth N. Asumah
Seth N. Asumah, Africana Studies and Political Science departments, was invited by the Institute of International Education (IIE) and the National Security Education Program (NSEP) and served as a 2016 Boren Fellowship Merit Review Panelist for the Africa Region and the Africa Flagship Languages Initiative. Asumah and two colleagues from Virginia Commonwealth University, Virginia, and Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Arizona, reviewed and selected top applicants for the National Security Program Boren Fellowships for 2016 (Africa Region/AFLI) from Feb. 23-25 in Washington, D.C.
Tadayuki Suzuki
Tadayuki Suzuki, Literacy Department, presented “Implementing the DLTA with Kamishibai (Japanese Paper Theater)” at the New York State Reading Association Conference on Nov. 14 in Rochester, N.Y.
Mechthild Nagel
Mechthild Nagel, Philosophy and Africana Studies departments and Center for Gender and Intercultural Studies, gave an invited talk titled “Reconsidering the US’ Prison Dilemma: A Critique of the Affective Economy of Mass Incarceration” at a special seminar for the Microeconomic Seminar Series held June 11 at Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona.
Thomas Hischak and Mark A. Robinson ’98
Thomas Hischak, emeritus professor of theatre, and theatre major Mark A. Robinson ’98, have co-written a book about musicals since 1989 that misfired on Broadway. The e-book, Musical Misfires: Three Decades of Broadway Musical Heartbreak, examines 151 musicals that did not run long enough to be considered hits. Such shows were once called flops but that, the authors argue, is no longer an appropriate description. The book cover is designed by graphics design major Karen Hischak ’12.
“Some of these were superb pieces of musical theatre that, for one reason or another, couldn’t find an audience, did not please the critics, couldn’t pay the high weekly bills, or just were not right for the time and place in which they opened,” Robinson said.
Oft-overlooked gems like “The Scottsboro Boys,” “Grey Gardens,” “Sweet Smell of Success,” “Xanadu,” “If/Then,” “Caroline, or Change,” “Bright Star,” “Steel Pier,” “The Last Ship” and “Tuck Everlasting” are explored alongside such famous musicals as “American Idiot,” “Victor/Victoria,” “Chitty Chitty Bang Bang,” “Sister Act,” “All Shook Up,” “Be More Chill,” “Shrek the Musical,” “Seussical” and “Young Frankenstein” that never reached hit status on Broadway.
“This is a book for anyone who loves musical theatre, both its triumphs and its heartbreaks,” said Hischak.
Juke box musicals, cutting-edge musicals, movie adaptations, teenage musicals, biographical musicals, history musicals and even horror musicals are among the many genres included in this journey through Broadway shows from 1989 to 2020 in search of success.
Robinson is the author of such books as the two-volume reference series The World of Musicals and Sitcommentary: Television Comedies that Changed America, as well as a regular writer for various theatre websites and records companies.
Thomas Hischak is the author of The Oxford Companion to the American Musical and more than 30 other books on theatre, film and popular music.
Together, Robinson and Hischak penned the popular The Disney Song Encyclopedia in 2009.
Karen Hischak is a graphic designer for Hampton Golf Corporation and a freelance designer of print and online graphics.
Illustrated with 42 photographs and filled with backstage stories, reviews from the press, and commentary on why the musicals were not hits, Musical Misfires: Three Decades of Broadway Musical Heartbreak is available on all sites in which e-books are sold.
Doug Langhans
Doug Langhans, Admissions, has been elected chair of Study New York, a consortium of more than 50 SUNY, CUNY and private institutions formed to promote New York as a destination for international students. He will serve as chair-elect for two years prior to becoming chair for 2018-19. Langhans, a Study New York board member, has been active in the consortium for many years and represented the consortium this past May at NAFSA: Association of International Educators Annual Conference in Denver, Colo.
Kimberly Rombach, Krystal Barber and Kim Wieczorek
Kimberly Rombach, Krystal Barber and Kim Wieczorek, Childhood/Early Childhood Education Department, had their article, “The Power of Backstitching: A Model to Strengthen Student Learning About Racial Justice, Multicultural Perspectives,” published in the journal Multicultural Perspectives, volume 24, issue 1.
Nance S. Wilson
Nance S. Wilson, Literacy Department, had the following published. “Trying to Make Sense of E-readers” was published in the Summer/Spring 2014 issue of the Journal of Reading Education with V. Zygouris-Coe and V. Cardullo as co-authors; “Text Complexity of Popular Middle Grade Texts: How Do Popular Middle Grades Texts Stack up to CCSS Standards?” co-authored by M.D. Koss, was published in AMLE Magazine; Wilson’s textbook, Literacy Assessment and Instructional Strategies: Connecting to the Common Core, and co-authored by K. Grant and S. Golden, was published by Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.