SUNY Geneseo faculty member Justin Behrend’s just-published book “Reconstructing Democracy” examines how politically engaged former slaves established a new system of governance in the South after the Civil War.

Behrend, associate professor of history, argues that newly freedpeople created a new democracy in the Reconstruction era, one that replaced the oligarchic rule of slaveholders and Confederates with a system based on egalitarian principles and grassroots participation. 

Contemporary portrait painter Ilene Sova will address her work to raise awareness of sexual violence through art as SUNY Geneseo’s next All-College Hour speaker Feb. 4 at 2:30 p.m. in the Doty Recital Hall. Her work also will be on display in the MacVittie College Union. Both her address and exhibit are free and open to the public.

GENESEO, N.Y. -- The State University of New York Board of Trustees today appointed Denise A. Battles, currently provost and vice chancellor for academic affairs at the University of North Carolina Wilmington (UNCW), as the new president of SUNY Geneseo. Her appointment is effective on or about July 1, 2015.

SUNY Geneseo recognized individual students and student organizations, a faculty member and community partners with 2015 Volunteer and Service Awards recently during the college’s annual volunteer and service awards dinner. The college’s Advisory Committee on Volunteer and Service Programs created the awards in 2011 to recognize the awardees for their high level of commitment to service with the college’s community partners.