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ONEONTA, N.Y. -- Three faculty members at the SUNY College at Oneonta--Dr. Matthew Hendley of
the History Department,
Dr. Donald Hill of the
Anthropology and
Africana & Latino Studies Departments, and Dr. Alexander Thomas of the
Sociology Department--have
been selected as recipients of the 2007 SUNY
Research Foundation Research and Scholarship Award.
Hendley, Hill, and Thomas were selected for the awards based on
nominations from the entire SUNY system. A selection committee of senior
SUNY Research Foundation managers evaluated the nominees based on their
records of research activity, grants, publications and presentations,
involvement of students in research, teaching, community activities, and
reputations in their fields.
Dr. Hendley, who holds a doctorate from the University of Toronto,
joined the SUNY-Oneonta History Department faculty in 2001. An assistant
professor, he received the 2003 Siegfried Junior Faculty Prize from the
College in recognition of outstanding academic achievement outside the
classroom. He was awarded a grant by the New York State Graduate
Research Initiative for Non-Doctoral Colleges to perform research on
microfilmed British newspaper and British Conservative Party collections
at McMaster University.
Dr. Hendley has received three Faculty Research Grants and two
Faculty Development Grants from the College and a number of fellowships,
scholarships, and awards from Canadian institutions of higher education.
His publications have appeared in "Albion," the "Canadian Journal of
History," and the "Journal of the Canadian Historical Association." He
is the author of a chapter in "Women and the Nation: The Right and
Projections of Feminized Political Images in Great Britain, 1900-1918"
and has four major entries in "The Home Front Encyclopedia: United
States, Britain and Canada in World Wars I and II." Dr. Hendley
presented a paper entitled "Culture in Conflict: Shakespeare as a
Cultural Symbol in Britain during the First World War" at the 2006
meeting of the New York State Association of European Historians.
Professor
Hill, an authority on the ethnography and ethnomusicology of the
Caribbean, is the author of "Calypso Calaloo: Early Trinidadian Carnival
Music," which won the 1994 Chicago Folklore Prize, and "The Impact of
Migration on the Metropolitan and Folk Society of Carriacou, Grenada,"
published by the American Museum of Natural History. He produced the CD
"Peter Was A Fisherman: The 1939 Trinidad Field Recordings of Melville
and Frances Herskovits, Volume 1," and co-authored the accompanying
booklet. He is the co-author of a book and co-compiler of a ten-CD set
entitled "West Indian Rhythm," released by the Bear Family.
Professor Hill has created a digital database of 18,000 commercial
recordings and deposited hundreds of hours of his own ethnomusicological
recordings at the Indiana University Archive of Traditional Music. He
has been a consultant to "60 Minutes" and PBS and lectured at the
Library of Congress. He recently received a grant from the Grammy
Foundation to digitize American blues, jazz, and folk field recordings
from 1958 to 1961, which will be housed in the Archive of the American
Folklife Center of the Library of Congress. Dr. Hill joined the
SUNY-Oneonta faculty in 1978. He worked previously as Curator of
Education at the American Museum of Natural History and an assistant
professor of anthropology at Hunter College.
Alexander Thomas,
Chair of the SUNY-Oneonta Sociology Department, is co-author of the
forthcoming book "Upstate Down" (SUNY Press) and author of the books "Gilboa:
New York's Quest for Water and the Death of a Small Town" (Rowman &
Littlefield, 2005), "In Gotham's Shadow: Globalization & Community
Change in Central New York" (SUNY Press, 2003), and "Spotlight on Social
Research" (Allyn & Bacon, 2002). With his interdisciplinary research
combining his background in sociology and anthropology, he has produced
numerous studies of the central New York area, including "Rural Retail
Redux: Supermarket Pricing in Rural Central New York," "Shopper's
Paradise Lost: Shopping by Elderly Adults in the Age of Big Box
Businesses," "Adjusting to Change: The Face of Downtown Oneonta,
1945-2005," and "Economic Activity in Downtown Cooperstown, 1979-2003."
The recipient of Walter B. Ford Foundation grants for studies on
"Sprawl in the Catskills" (2006) and "Schoharie Reservoir" (2002), Dr.
Thomas served from 2000 to 2003 as the Coordinator of the
College's Center for
Social Science Research, an interdisciplinary faculty organization
dedicated to fostering active research by faculty and students in the
social sciences. Alexander Thomas joined the College at Oneonta faculty
in 2000. He holds a doctorate and master's in sociology from
Northeastern University.
Drs. Hendley, Hill, and Thomas will be honored on May 2 at a dinner
celebrating research and scholarship at the Desmond Hotel and Conference
Center in Albany.
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