Rhiannon Maton
Rhiannon Maton, Foundations and Social Advocacy Department, recently had a book chapter, “School Closures and the Political Education of U.S. Teachers,” published in Shuttered Schools: Race, Community, and School Closures in American Cities, edited by Ebony M. Duncan. The chapter was co-authored with Lauren Ware Stark.
Ryan Vooris, Lindsey Darvin and Tara Mahoney
Ryan Vooris, Lindsey Darvin and Tara Mahoney, Sport Management Department, had a paper about the playing experiences of esports participants accepted to the Journal of Athlete Development and Experience.
Kathleen Lawrence
Kathleen Lawrence, Communication Studies Department, had her paper, “A World without Limits: Living in a Barbie Reality as Pop Culture Ambassador” competitively selected for presentation in San Jose, Costa Rica, on July 26 at the International Popular Culture Association annual conference. The theme of the conference was global issues related to popular culture. Lawrence’s paper discussed how Mattel, one of the world’s largest toy companies, has promised generations of children and their parents that girls should boldly “dream, discover and explore their world” through Barbie. Lawrence explored this pack-and-go approach to international relations in the doll world. A rhetorical analysis of the “cultural” narratives, “authentic” artifacts, and “ethnic” costumes provided for each doll in the “Barbie Dolls of the World” series was included along with illustrations.
Tiantian Zheng
Tiantian Zheng, Sociology/Anthropology Department, was invited by Columbia University to give a campus-wide talk on April 23. Her talk was titled “Gender Politics in Current Regime in China.”
Kent M. Johnson
Kent M. Johnson, Sociology/Anthropology Department, had his chapter, “Opening Up the Family Tree: Promoting More Diverse and Inclusive Studies of Family, Kinship, and Relatedness in Bioarchaeology,” published recently in the edited volume Bioarchaeologists Speak Out: Deep Time Perspectives on Contemporary Issues. The volume was published by Springer.
Mechthild Nagel
Mechthild Nagel, Philosophy and Africana Studies departments and the Center for Gender and Intercultural Studies, had her article, “The Case for Penal Abolition and Ludic Ubuntu in Arrow of God,” published in a Max Planck Working Papers series.
Tyler Bradway
Tyler Bradway, English Department, had his article “Queer Exuberance: The Politics of Affect in Jeanette Winterson’s Visceral Fiction” (2015), re-published in Contemporary Literary Criticism Vol. 433, edited by Jennifer Stock and published by Gale Cengage.
Cheri Skipworth
Cheri Skipworth, residence hall director for Higgins Hall, participated in the Association of College and Personnel Administrators (ACPA) Conference held March 26-30 in Baltimore, Md. Skipworth serves on Pan African Network on the Committee for Multicultural Affairs. She helped to plan the Cultural Fest for the conference, which had 10 different performances.
Tom Lickona
Tom Lickona, Center for the 4th and 5th Rs, chaired a “Symposium on Parent-Teacher Partnerships in Character Education” at the Oct. 18 to 20 meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development in Philadelphia. Lickona is the author of a new book, How to Raise Kind Kids: And Get Respect, Gratitude, and a Happier Family in the Bargain (Penguin, 2018), and writes a monthly parenting blog, “Raising Kind Kids,” for Psychology Today.
Robert Spitzer
Robert Spitzer, Political Science Department, was the Constitution Day speaker on Sept. 17 at Manchester University in Indiana, where he met with students and gave a featured address on “The Second Amendment and Guns in America” as part of that university’s Values, Arts and Ideas speaker series.