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Lisa Burton (HR) and Kristin Bontrager (Engineering) were honored as the administrator and support staff member of the year, respectively, for the 2012-13 year.
Paul Otto (History) served as guest editor for the Journal of Early American History for a special issue titled “Early Iroquoian-European Contacts: The Kaswentha Tradition, the Two Row Wampum Belt, and the Tawagonshi Document.†In addition, his essay, “Wampum, Tawagonshi, and the Two Row Belt,†was included in the volume. Another essay, “Real Estate or Political Sovereignty? The Dutch, Munsees, and the Purchase of Manhattan Island,†has been published in Opening Statements: Law, Jurisprudence, and the Legacy of Dutch New York. Finally, he published a review of The Memory of All Ancient Customs: Native American Diplomacy in the Colonial Hudson Valley by Tom Arne Midtrød in the Journal of American History 100, No. 2.
Two of Ed Higgins’ (English) poems, “Driving Lesson,†and “Rocking Horse Rider,†were published in the online literary journal Blacktop Passages, Summer 2013 issue. Also, three of his science fiction poems – “Space/Time,†“Galaxies,†and “Astrobiography†– have been republished in the science fiction anthology collection Point Mass.