Caroline Kaltefleiter
Caroline Kaltefleiter, Communication Studies Department, was an invited speaker on a panel titled “Beauty Standards of Women Filling Nontraditional Roles in Film” at the Park School of Communications at Ithaca College in March. The panel explored representations of women in film as well as women serving in lead film crew positions. Her talk, “Juno and Ladybird: Liberated Girlhood and Beyond” discussed the 2018 Best Director Nomination of Greta Gerwig, women crew members on both films and reaction to the #TimesUp and #MeToo movements.
Mechthild Nagel, Seth N. Asumah and Lewis Rosengarten
Mechthild Nagel, Philosophy and Africana Studies departments and Center for Gender and Intercultural Studies, Seth N. Asumah, Africana Studies and Political Science departments, and Lewis Rosengarten, Educational Opportunity Program and Africana Studies Department, presented papers at the recent New York African Studies Association at CUNY and Columbia University. Students Deidre Kirkem and Adesola Belo also presented their papers. Asumah and Nagel’s book, Diversity, Social Justice, and Inclusive Excellence, published in 2014 by SUNY Press, won the New York African Studies Book Award.
John C. Hartsock
John C. Hartsock, Communication Studies Department, has learned that his book, Seasons of a Finger Lakes Winery, was named one of four finalists for the Louis Roederer Award for International Wine Book of the Year. The award is sponsored annually by the distinguished French Champagne House of Louis Roederer. Last March, Hartsock’s book won best in class at the Gourmand awards in Paris. The book was published in 2011 by Cornell University Press.
In other news, Life in the Finger Lakes published excerpts from the book in the summer and fall issues of the magazine.
Lisa Czirr
Lisa Czirr, Memorial Library, presented “Cross-Pollination: Lessons Learned from Online Delivery to Enhance the Return to In-Person Information Literacy Instruction” at the SUNYLA 2021 (Virtual) annual conference held June 16 to 18. The session highlighted takeaways from the online format that can potentially improve in-person instruction. The conference theme was “From Seeds to Service: Growing the New Academic Library.”
Mary McGuire
Mary McGuire, Political Science Department, gave two presentations on New York State Constitution Convention processes and history. She provided background for the November vote on whether or not New York should hold a convention to amend the state constitution for the Cortland County Republican Women’s Spring Luncheon and at the New York State Rural Democratic Conference.
Jordan Kobritz
Jordan Kobritz, Sport Management Department, co-authored an article titled “Creating an Action Plan for Event Cleaning” that was published in the September issue of Cleaning & Maintenance Management magazine.
Barbara A. Barton
Barbara A. Barton, Health Department, was awarded an exemplary rating from the BlackBoard Exemplary Course Program for her online graduate course, HLH 593, Methods and Practices in Community Health. The Exemplary Course Program recognizes instructors whose courses demonstrate best practices in four major areas: course design, interaction and collaboration, assessment, and learner support. Submitted courses are evaluated by peer reviewers, and to receive an exemplary award, all standards must be met or exceeded.
Charles DeMotte
Charles DeMotte, Sociology/Anthropology Department, has been named co-winner of the 2020 Larry Ritter Book Award by the Society for American Baseball Research (SABR) for the best baseball book of the dead ball era. His book, James T. Farrell and Baseball: Dreams and Realism on Chicago’s South Side, was published by University of Nebraska Press. The award is granted annually by SABR’s Deadball Era Committee to the author of the best book about baseball between 1901 and 1919 published during the previous calendar year. The winner’s work must demonstrate original research or analysis, a fresh perspective, compelling thesis, impressive insight, accuracy and clear, graceful prose.
Susan Rayl
Susan Rayl, Kinesiology Department, organized a three-article forum on basketball, “Excellence in Basketball On and Off the Court,” for the Spring 2011 issue of The Journal of Sport History, a peer-reviewed journal. Her article, “‘Holding Court’: The Real Renaissance Contribution of John Isaacs” was the first of the three articles. The two other articles provided poignant biographies of Holcombe Rucker and Charlotte Lewis. Rayl also wrote the introduction to the forum, “Three People, Three Journeys, Three Legacies.”
Henry Steck, William Veit, Julia West and John Suarez
Henry Steck, distinguished service professor emeritus of political science, William Veit, risk management officer, Julia West, risk management intern, and John Suarez, Institute for Civic Engagement director, participated in SUNY Central’s Deliberative Democracy Conference held June 22 and 23 at the SUNY Oswego Metro Center. Steck participated in the Experience a Deliberation workshop. West, Veit and Suarez conducted the Risk Managed Applied Learning Workshop in which participants applied enterprise risk management concepts to a real-life project as a way of determining how they could apply those concepts to their own projects. Suarez served as a panelist on the Envisioning the Uses of Deliberation panel and served as a facilitator in the Experience a Deliberation workshop.