GENESEO, N.Y. – Three SUNY Geneseo faculty members have received a 2014-15 SUNY Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Adjunct Teaching. Two of the recipients are from the Department of Music: Joan Floriano, who teaches voice, and Ernest Lascell, an instructor of clarinet and saxophone. Jasmine Tang, who teaches both elementary and intermediate Chinese in the Department of Languages and Literatures, also received the award.

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.