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Faculty and Staff Activities

Mechthild Nagel

Mechthild Nagel, Philosophy Department and Center for Gender and Intercultural Studies, served as a panelist reviewing Summer Institute/Seminar proposals for the National Endowment for the Humanities, on April 24 in Washington, D.C. 

Anna Curtis

Anna Curtis, Sociology/Anthropology Department, recently had her book, Dangerous Masculinity: Fatherhood, Race, and Security Inside America’s Prisons, published by Rutgers University Press.

Jena Nicols Curtis

Jena Nicols Curtis, Health Department, was named coordinator for the Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies Program. The academic minor, which is part of the Center for Gender and Intercultural Studies, engages students in interdisciplinary research and pedagogy to examine the ways that concepts of gender, sexuality, race, nation, class, ethnicity and ability shape our world. Curtis is an associate professor of health whose research interests focus on gender and sexuality. In 2014, she received a Chancellor’s Award for Internationalization for a study abroad program that she developed. The public health research course takes students to Southern India for a month each summer to explore the impact of gender, class and religion on public health disparities. In April 2016, her article on how EMS providers can most effectively respond to campus sexual violence was a feature article in the Journal of Emergency Medicine. In September 2016, Curtis was invited to Quantico, Va., to deliver sexual violence prevention training to the Sexual Assault Prevention and Response (SAPR) Branch for Marine Headquarters. 

Mark Dodds

Mark Dodds, Sport Management Department, edited the Encyclopedia of Sports Management and Marketing, which was chosen by the American Library Association RUSA BRASS Committee for Business Reference Sources as an Outstanding Business Reference source. This encyclopedia contained submissions from Sport Management Department chair Jordan Kobritz, faculty members Peter Han, Genevieve Birren and Ted Fay, and several graduate students. 

Tiantian Zheng

Tiantian Zheng, Sociology/Anthropology Department, was invited by University of Rochester and Yale University to deliver two talks this November: “Structural Inequality and IPV,” and “Culture and Political Economy A Journey Through Influence and Beyond.” She also organized a conference panel, "Gender, Identity and Social Movements," for the New York Conference on Asian Studies held from Oct. 3-4 at SUNY Brockport.

Evan Faulkenbury

Evan Faulkenbury, History Department, co-edited a book titled Teaching Public History that was recently published by UNC Press. 

Kathleen A. Lawrence

Kathleen A. Lawrence, Communication Studies Department, had four of her speculative poems published in the special Gothic themed April issue of Prachya Review. Her surreal poem titled “Horror Show” is written in hay(na)ku form. Her second poem is a spiraling abecedarian describing a spectral “Flock of Morose.” Her poem “Aftermath” is written as a post-apocalyptic warning and “Little Mayhem” is a dark accounting of a visit from tiny but threatening otherworldly creatures. Lawrence also just received word that her love letter-inspired spiraling abecedarian titled “Love Note” was accepted for publication in the fall issue of the James Dickey Review.

Mike Fusilli

Mike Fusilli, Development Office, a major gift officer and a volunteer coach for SUNY Cortland’s wrestling team, was inducted into the upstate New York chapter of the National Wrestling Hall of Fame. Fusilli helped lead Ithaca College to two national titles during his collegiate wrestling career and was an NCAA Div. III individual national champion in 1990. He previously served as head coach at Binghamton University and has prior assistant coaching experience at Ithaca College and North Carolina University.

James Hokanson

James Hokanson, Kinesiology Department, was invited to collaborate with ongoing ageing research at the University of Salamanca, Spain. The study, sponsored by the Salamanca University Hospital and Department of Physical Therapy and Nursing, focuses on the health and fitness levels of older adults. The study, which has been continuously funded for nearly 20 years, evaluates health and fitness of approximately 600 adults in the province of Salamanca in the Castille and León region of Spain and includes organized rehabilitation and exercise programs.   

Robert Spitzer

Robert Spitzer, Political Science Department, is co-author of an article posted Nov. 30 by U.S. News and World Report titled, “Obama’s Guantanamo Paradox.” The article is co-authored with Chris Edelson of American University.