Rhiannon Maton
Rhiannon Maton, Foundations and Social Advocacy, is co-editing with Nina Bascia, University of Toronto, a handbook for Routledge in the field of teachers’ work. The volume is titled Handbook on Teachers’ Work: International Perspectives on Research and Practice, and includes over 30 chapters from leading international scholarly experts.
Rhiannon Maton
Rhiannon Maton, Foundations and Social Advocacy Department, recently had two interviews published in Spectre Journal. The first examines teacher organizing in Philadelphia during Covid-19, and the second interviews two educators in Vancouver, Canada about their recent union organizing efforts.
Tyler Bradway
Tyler Bradway, English Department, edited a special issue of College Literature, “Lively Words: The Politics and Poetics of Experimental Writing,” which was published by Johns Hopkins University Press. The issue argues for a comparative cultural studies approach to the study of 20th and 21st century experimental writing and contains 17 essays, including his essay “The Promise of Experimental Writing” and the Critical Forum he edited and introduces, “The Sonic Politics of Black Experimentalism.” View the special issue.
Ute Ritz-Deutch
Ute Ritz-Deutch, History Department, recently joined the Northeast Regional Planning Group of Amnesty International (AI) headquartered in Boston, Mass. Currently, she is the coordinator of the Ithaca Chapter of AI and the faculty advisor to the SUNY Cortland AI student group.
John Suarez
John Suarez, Institute for Civic Engagement’s Office of Service-Learning, has secured a $500 New York Campus Compact grant for a roundtable discussion that will focus on economic mobility in Cortland County. Broome Community College’s Civic Engagement Center will help guide the planning and execution of this event’s deliberative discussion format. The discussion, scheduled for Wednesday, Sept. 21, is part of the greater Cortland community’s economic Inequality Initiative.
Syed Pasha and Ralph Dudgeon
Syed Pasha, Communication Studies Department, and Ralph Dudgeon, Performing Arts Department, will team teach a new two-week class in India called “World Cultures and Communication” as part of SUNY Cortland’s Study Abroad Program. Students selected to be part of the class will travel to India for two weeks.
Rhiannon Maton
Rhiannon Maton, Foundations and Social Advocacy Department, had a co-authored article, “Opposing Innovations: Race and Reform in the West Philadelphia Community Free School, 1969-1978,” published in the History of Education Quarterly. This piece examines competing conceptions of “innovation” at work in the creation and operation of the West Philadelphia Community Free School, 1969-1978. The article pays particular attention to the range of values and goals amongst stakeholders in the school's community/university/district partnership and argues that the burden of reconciling opposing innovations fell unevenly upon the teachers and community members.
Ibipo Johnston-Anumonwo
Ibipo Johnston-Anumonwo, Geography Department, was awarded a fellowship by the Carnegie African Diaspora Fellowship Program to travel to Nigeria to work with Alabi Soneye at the University of Lagos. They will be collaborating on research in Sustainable Urban Transportation.
Their project is part of a broader initiative that will pair 51 African Diaspora scholars with one of 43 higher education institutions and collaborators in Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa, Tanzania and Uganda to work together on curriculum co-development, research, graduate teaching, training and mentoring activities in the coming months. The visiting fellows will work with their hosts on a wide range of projects that include controlling malaria, strengthening peace and conflict studies, developing a new master’s degree in emergency medicine, training and mentoring graduate students in criminal justice, archiving African indigenous knowledge, creating low cost water treatment technologies, building capacity in microbiology and pathogen genomics, and developing a forensic accounting curriculum. To deepen the ties among the faculty members and between their home and host institutions, the program is providing support to several program alumni to enable them to build on successful collaborative projects they conducted in previous years.
The Carnegie African Diaspora Fellowship Program, now in its sixth year, is designed to increase Africa’s brain circulation, build capacity at the host institutions, and develop long-term, mutually-beneficial collaborations between universities in Africa and the United States and Canada. It is funded by the Carnegie Corporation of New York and managed by the Institute of International Education (IIE) in collaboration with United States International University-Africa (USIU-Africa) in Nairobi, Kenya, which coordinates the activities of the Advisory Council. A total of 385 African Diaspora Fellowships have now been awarded for scholars to travel to Africa since the program’s inception in 2013.
Fellowships match host universities with African-born scholars and cover the expenses for project visits of between 21 and 90 days, including transportation, a daily stipend, and the cost of obtaining visas and health insurance. See full list of 2018 projects, hosts and scholars and their universities.
Lorraine Berry
Lorraine Berry, NeoVox, interviewed Ryan Gattis, author of the novel, All Involved, which chronicles the six days of the Los Angeles Riots of 1992. The interview can be found online on Salon.
Also, Berry had her essay on the new language of grief published in Salon. The essay was picked up by Literary Hub as a featured essay as well: http://lithub.com/lithub-daily-july-29-2015/
Kathryn Kramer
Kathryn Kramer, Art and Art History Department, will have her article “Flanerie’s Art and Measure of the Urbanizing Global” published in the December issue of the journal Visual Resources.