Kristine Newhall
Kristine Newhall, Kinesiology Department, was quoted in a New York Times article, “Californians Will Soon Have Nonbinary as a Gender Option on Birth Certificates,” on Oct. 19 about California’s new legislation allowing for a gender-neutral designation on IDs and birth certificates and other official documents; specifically, how Title IX compliance might be affected by the law. Also, Newhall coauthored an article titled “‘Stick to Soccer’: Fan Reaction and Inclusion Rhetoric on Social Media” published in Sport in Society. Along with being published online, it will be in the forthcoming special issue on Women’s Soccer in the U.S., to be released in print in 2018.
Kathleen Lawrence
Kathleen Lawrence, Communication Studies Department, had five of her poems published by the HIV Here & Now Project in March. They include “Mingle,” “Male Gaze,” “Muscle Men,” “Breasts and Below” and “Music Menu.” Also, her elegy for B. B. King will be published in an introduction to poetry textbook edited by Gerry LaFemina, forthcoming from Kendall-Hunt. In addition, she received an honorable mention for her abecedarian “Boy Hoods” in the non-rhyming poetry category of the 2015 Writer’s Digest Annual International writing competition. ?
Tyler Bradway
Tyler Bradway, English Department, was interviewed about his book, Queer Kinship: Race, Sex, Belonging, Form, on the New Books Network podcast.
Robert J. Spitzer
Robert J. Spitzer, Political Science Department, gave a talk titled “It’s All Academic: The Meaning of the Second Amendment Versus Heller,” at a conference on “The Second Amendment: Its Meaning and Implications in Modern America,” held Jan. 18 at Lincoln Memorial University School of Law in Knoxville, Tenn.
Robert Spitzer
Robert Spitzer, Political Science Department, spoke on “The Architecture of the Gun Debate” at Colby College in Maine on April 2. The talk was hosted by Colby’s Goldfarb Center for Public Affairs.
In Memoriam
Teresa Smith, an administrative assistant in the Modern Languages Department, died on May 26, 2023.
Nancy Kane
Nancy Kane, Performing Arts Department, was a featured speaker at TEDx Cortland, an independent TED event held on Nov. 9 in Cortland. Her topic was “Traditional Dance in a Digital Era: Contra Dance.”
Joseph Anthony
Joseph Anthony, Political Science Department, co-edited Lessons Learned from the 2020 U.S. Presidential Election: Hindsight is 2020, recently published by Palgrave Macmillan Press. Scholars in the book contributed their research on how the COVID-19 pandemic impacted the administration of the 2020 elections.
Kent Johnson
Kent Johnson, Sociology/Anthropology Department, gave a talk titled "A Re-evaluation of Evidence for Kinship at Çatalhöyük" at the inaugural World Neolithic Congress held Thursday, Nov. 7 in Sanliurfa, Turkey.
Alexandru Balas
Alexandru Balas, International Studies Department and Clark Center for International Education, presented his research projects in three panels at the International Studies Association Annual Convention in March. He presented a paper titled “‘Double Agent’ Negotiators at the Ottoman-Russian-Austrian Peace Negotiations (1699-1878): Applying a Negotiation Analysis Framework to the 18th and 19th Century ‘Eastern Question’ Negotiations.” Also, he was part of two roundtable discussions on the topics of “UN-Regional Collaboration: Achievements, Stumbling Blocks, and the Way Forward” and “The Decline of Violence and the Rise of Peace in the International System.” Finally, he served as a discussant for the panel “Multi-Actor Peace Operations: Approaching a Standard Operating Procedure Theoretically and Empirically.”