Karen E. Eppley, Assistant Professor of Education
2014
Eppley, K. 2014. “‘Hey, I saw your grandparents at Walmart’: Teacher Preparation for Rural Schools and Communities.” American Educational Research Association annual meeting, Philadelphia. April.
2013
Eppley, K. 2013. “My Roots Dip Deep: Literacy Practices as Mirrors of Traditional, Modern, and Postmodern Ruralities.” American Educational Research Association annual meeting, San Francisco, CA, April.
———. 2013. “Close Reading in the Four Corners of Picture Books.” National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) annual meeting, Boston, MA, November.
2012
Eppley, K. 2012. “‘My dad drives a truck and plays the banjo’: Preservice Teachers Consider Place.” National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) annual meeting, Las Vegas, NV, November.
Howley, A., M. Howley, K. Eppley, and C. Howley. 2012. “How Agricultural Science Trumps Rural Community in the Discourse of US History Textbooks.” American Education Research Association (AERA) annual meeting, Vancouver, BC, April.
2011
Eppley, K. 2011. “Facing Each Other: Social Networking as Engagement in Undergraduate Language and Literacy Methods Courses.” National Council for Teachers of English (NCTE) annual meeting, Chicago, IL, November.
Eppley, K., and A Howley. 2011. “Restless Pioneers Push West: Settled Farmers Face Hardships.” National Rural Education Association (NREA) Research Symposium, Hilton Head, SC, October.
2010
Eppley, K. 2010. “Picturing Rural: Preservice Teachers’ Understanding of Rural Teaching.” the American Educational Research Association (AERA) annual meeting, Denver, CO, March.
———. 2010. “Toward a Contextually Relevant Rural Teacher Preparation: Four Views from the Field.” National Rural Education Association (NREA) Research Symposium, Branson, MO, October.
2009
Eppley, K. 2009. “Enemies or Brothers: Literacy (Mis)Understood.” National Council for Teachers of English (NCTE) annual meeting: Philadelphia, PA, November.
———. 2009. “Friction, Fiction, and Failure: Scientifically Based Research and the Rural.” Chance Dissertation Award presentation. National Rural Education Association (NREA) annual meeting, Cincinnati, OH, October.
———. 2009. “Place-conscious Pedagogy in Teacher Education: Rural Pen Pals.” American Educational Research Association (AERA) annual meeting, San Diego, CA, April.
2008
Eppley, K. 2008. “Making Space: Introducing Multimodal Literacy to Preservice Teachers.” Association of Teacher Educators (ATE) 2008 Summer Conference: Washington, DC, August.
———. 2008. “We Won’t Have to Teach Art or Music: Disrupting the Text of School.” National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) 2008 annual meeting, San Antonio, TX, November.
———. 2008. “What Does It Mean to Be Rural? Subjectivity, Friction and the Elementary Sciences Reform Act.” Poster presentation at the 2008 American Educational Research Association (AERA) annual meeting, New York, NY, March.
Eppley, K., and K. Shannon. 2008. “Engaging the Reading-Writing Connection through ‘Zines.” Workshop presented at the 2008 International Reading Association (IRA) annual meeting, Atlanta, GA, May.
2007
Eppley, K. 2007. “Fiction and Composite Figures in Ethnography: A Postmodern Step Too Great?” American Educational Research Association (AERA) annual meeting, Chicago, IL, April.
———. 2007. “Hearts Apart: A Feminist Analysis of Gender and Visual Representation of the Amish in the Nickel Mines School Shooting Newspaper Coverage.” The Amish in America: New Identities and Discoveries International Conference, Elizabethtown, PA, June.
2006
Eppley, K. 2006. “Highly Qualified Teachers: Critical Policy Explorations.” National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) annual meeting, Nashville, TN, November.
———. 2006. “Reading the Rural Other in the Text of Commercial Photography: A Feminist Poststructural Analysis.” Rural Women’s Studies Association Conference, Lancaster, PA, October.
———. 2006. “Talking Back: A Feminist Poststructural Analysis of Representation of Rural Women in Photography.” Women’s Studies Graduate Organization Annual Conference, University Park, PA, April.
Peter M. Hopsicker, Division Head, Associate Professor of Kinesiology
2012
Hopsicker, P. 2012. “Body and Action: The Central Tenets of a Theology of Disability Sports.” International Association for the Philosophy of Sport, Annual Conference, Faculty of Sport at the University of Porto, Portugal, September.
———. 2012. “The Grim Reaper Is at the Steering Wheel: The 1932 Lake Placid Olympic Bobsled Events as an Omen to the Death of a Luger.” North American Society for Sport History, Annual Conference, Berkeley, CA, June.
2011
Hopsicker, P. 2011. “An Epilogue to the 1932 Lake Placid Winter Games: The Failure of New York State’s Recreation Amendment.” North American Society for Sport History, Annual Conference, Austin, TX, May.
———. 2011. “The Value of the Inexact: An Apology for Inaccurate Motor Behavior.” International Association for the Philosophy of Sport, Annual Conference, SUNY Brockport, Rochester, NY, September.
Hopsicker, P., and C. Carlson. 2011. “To Play or To Parent: An Analysis of the Adult-Child Interaction in Make-Believe Games.” Philosophy at Play Inter-Disciplinary Conference, University of Gloucestershire at Cheltenham, UK, April.
2010
Hochstetler, D., and P. Hopsicker. 2010. “Competitive and Recreational Endurance Athletes: On the Value of Endurance Sport Practice Communities.” International Association for the Philosophy of Sport, Annual Conference, University of Rome, Rome, Italy, September.
Hopsicker, P., and D. Hochstetler. 2010. “Runners and Joggers, Cyclists and Riders: Phenomenological Differences between Competitive and Recreational Endurance Athletes.” British Philosophy of Sport Association, Annual Conference, Centre for Applied Ethics, Cardiff University, Cardiff, UK, March.
Jirásek, I., and P. Hopsicker. 2010. “Panel Discussion on JPS Special Section on Philosophy of Sport in Non-English Speaking Countries/Regions.” International Association for the Philosophy of Sport, Annual Conference, University of Rome, Rome, Italy, September.
2009
Hopsicker, P. 2009. “Finding Places to Go: Exploring the Benchmarks to Improvisational Behavior in Sporting Activity.” International Association for the Philosophy of Sport, Annual Conference, Seattle University, Seattle, WA, August.
2008
Hopsicker, P. 2008. “The Art of Cycling: A Polanyian View from the Saddle.” International Association for the Philosophy of Sport, Annual Conference, Tokyo City University, Tokyo, Japan, September.
———. 2008. “‘No Hebrews Allowed’: Anti-Semitism vs. Americanism in the Adirondack Sporting Culture, 1877–1932.” North American Society for Sport History, Annual Conference, Lake Placid, NY, May.
2007
Hopsicker, P. 2007. “Miracles in Sport: Interlocking the Natural and the Supernatural on the Fields of Play.” International Conference on Sport and Spirituality, The Centre for the Study of Sport and Spirituality, York St. John University, York, UK, August.
2006
Hopsicker, P. 2006. “It’s Just Like Riding a Bike: Overcoming the Paradoxes of Cycling.” International Association for the Philosophy of Sport, Annual Conference, Brock University, Niagara Falls, Canada, September.
2005
Hopsicker, P. 2005. “Is Super Bowl Sunday an American Holiday?” North American Society for Sport History, Annual Conference, Green Bay, WI, May.
———. 2005. “To Ride or Not to Ride: Cycling as a Jamesian ‘Genuine Option.’” International Association for the Philosophy of Sport, Annual Conference, Palacky University, Olomouc, Czech Republic, September.
2004
Hopsicker, P. 2004. “Bracketology 101: Tournament and Bracket Structure in Intramural Sports.” National Intramural–Recreational Sports Association, Annual Convention, Albuquerque, NM, April.
———. 2004. “Forever Wild: Building the Lake Placid Bobsled Run.” North American Society for Sport History, Annual Conference, Asilomar Conference Center, Pacific Grove, CA, May.
———. 2004. “Moral Development through the Unwritten Rules of Sport.” International Association for the Philosophy of Sport, Annual Conference, Grapevine, TX, September 2004.
2003
Hopsicker, P. 2003. “The Adirondack Guide: The Wilderness Representative of Invasion and Invitation into an Imagined Community.” North American Society for Sport History, Annual Conference, Columbus, OH, May.
———. 2003. “Representative Athlete.” North American Association for the Philosophy of Sport Conference, Columbus, OH, May.
2002
Hopsicker, P. 2002. “Are You Your Own Department?: Administrative Strategies in a Small School Setting.” National Intramural–Recreational Sports Association, Annual Convention, San Antonio, TX, April.