Each year, SUNY and numerous academic and professional groups honor hundreds of UUPers for accomplishments in their disciplines, on campus and in communities. The Voice is pleased to recognize three of these members.

• Axel Fair-Schulz, an assistant professor of history at Potsdam, recently published Loyal Subversions: East Germany and its Bildungsbürgerlich Marxist Intellectuals (Berlin: Trafo Verlag, 2009), which analyzes why and how certain intellectuals have shaped the society and culture of the former German Democratic Republic.

Among his publications are book reviews on East Germany, and he has contributed several book chapters and scholarly articles on German refugee intellectuals and historians.

• Jennifer Rogalsky, an associate professor of geography at Geneseo, is spending this semester as a Fulbright Scholar in Ghana, where she is teaching and conducting research on how women cope in the informal economy in urban markets.

Her trip is part of a new collaborative partnership between Geneseo and Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) in Kumasi, where she will teach “gender and development” in the geography and rural development department. The head of that department and vice dean of the faculty of social science at KNUST, Eva Tagoe-Darko, received a Fulbright grant for the entire academic year and is teaching and conducting research in Geneseo’s geography department.

• Potsdam librarian Jane Subramanian has been honored as one of two winners of the Music Library Association’s national competition titled “Best of Chapters,” with winners presenting their papers at a national final session. Subramanian is presenting her work, “The Norwood Brass Firemen Band’s Strong Beat Since the 1870s,” this month in San Diego.

The competition was created to honor presenters at chapter conferences for their excellent research and to allow a broader sharing of that valuable work.

— Karen L. Mattison