Previously, he served as director of the Le Moyne College music program, leading the program through a period of renewal and growth. He also founded the College’s undergraduate and graduate arts administration programs, successfully preparing students for careers at such varied not-for-profit institutions as the Manhattan School of Music, the San Diego Zoo, the National Museum for African American Music, Barrington Stage, and Cornell University.

Prior to his current role as interim Dean, Travis served as associate professor and chair of the department of visual and performing arts, facilitating the work of dozens of faculty and hundreds of students to further integrate the arts into the culture of the Le Moyne College campus, and to engage with the broader Syracuse community.

Dr. Newton’s research is focused on orchestra management and the relationship between professional symphony orchestras and their communities. In 2022, Oxford University Press published his Orchestra Management Handbook. His work has also been published in the Journal of Arts Management, Law & Society, American Journal of Arts Management, Artivate: A Journal of Entrepreneurship in the Arts, and book chapters published by Routledge and Oxford University Press, including a co-authored chapter in The Oxford Handbook of Arts and Cultural Management. Dr. Newton previously served as an officer of the Association of Arts Administration Educators Board of Directors and as a board member of Classical Kids Music Education, and he currently serves on the board of the Syracuse Friends of Chamber Music, as well as Social Theory, Politics, & the Arts (STP&A).

As an arts administrator, his previous experience includes serving as Operations Director of The Florida Orchestra in Tampa Bay, managing the 74-member orchestra’s daily operations,
including approximately 200 rehearsals and concerts each season. Travis also served in numerous roles at the Syracuse Symphony Orchestra, including Operations Manager, Education Manager, and Director of Community Engagement.

Travis has played and conducted more than 500 performances of Broadway musicals across the U.S. and Canada as well as multiple guest conducting appearances with the Syracuse Symphony Orchestra and Central New York’s professional orchestra, The Syracuse Orchestra (formerly Symphoria). He is a frequent guest conductor of all-county and area all-state orchestras, and has performed as section violinist with the orchestras of Syracuse, Charleston and Greensboro, as well as the Eastern Philharmonic Orchestra at Eastern Music Festival, where he previously served as a faculty member. He is also the co-creator of Kafka’s Metamorphosis: The Musical! With Puppets!, which has received dozens of performances, including the New York Musical Festival and a recent month-long run at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. The GRAMMY-winning label Broadway Records released a recording of the show, produced by Dr. Newton, in July 2019.

He holds a bachelor’s degree in music performance (violin) from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, an MBA from Le Moyne College, and a Ph.D. in Arts Administration from the University of Kentucky.

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Stacey is passionate about leveraging assistive technology to increase access, engagement, and meaningful learning opportunities for all students. Her research interests include vision impairment, low incidence disabilities, alternate assessment, curriculum, and assistive technology. She currently serves on the board for the Council for Exceptional Children’s Division on Visual Impairments and Deafblindness.

Education

• B.A. Music Education – California State University, Fresno
• M.A. Teaching Autism/Special Education – National University
• Ed.D. Educational Leadership, Curriculum & Instruction — Evangel University

Areas of Specialization

• Special Education
• Low-incidence disabilities
• Vision impairment
• Alternate assessment
• Curriculum

Publications

• Buck, S.J., (2025, June). Adaptive Technology in the Education Setting. Invited author for Project ACCESS Continuing Education for Teachers Series. Springfield, MO.

Honors & Awards

• CEC Division on Visual Impairment and Deafblindness (DVIDB) Virginia M. Sowell Student of the Year Award February 2024

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• Clinical Psychology

Courses I will be teaching

• Abnormal/Normal Psychology
• Counseling and Psychotherapy
• Motivation and Emotion

I was drawn to Le Moyne because I loved the sense of community and belonging on campus.��In my first year here, I’m looking forward to getting to know my colleagues and students, and beginning to develop my research lab. My research focuses on hoarding, mindfulness and��acceptance-based therapy, self-help, and stigma, and I can’t wait to collaborate with Le��Moyne students.

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Courses I will be teaching: In Fall 2025 I will be teaching Calculus I.

I was drawn to Le Moyne because I believe in the benefits of a liberal arts education. I value the opportunities for community building and student mentorship that Le Moyne fosters.
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In my first year here, I’m looking forward to getting to know the campus community and developing student research projects.

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• American literature
• African American literature
• Women’s, gender, and sexuality studies
• Queer theory
• Cultural & media studies
• 20th-century print culture
• Intellectual property law
• Archival methods

Publications

• “Rereading the Black Naturalist Novel: Ann Petry’s The Street and the Black Women Writers Series,” African American Review, 57.3 (2024): 301–322.��.
• “Introduction: I’m Not A Girl I’m A Genius” in On Strike Against God by Joanna Russ, ed. Alec Pollak (Feminist Press, July 2024), 1-38.
• “On Joanna Russ,” The Paris Review, June 2024, .
• “Hansberry Offstage: The Playwright’s Lesbian Writings,” The Yale Review, Vol. 111, No. 3 (Fall 2023), 61-75. .
• “On Taking Woolf for Granted,” Virginia Woolf Miscellany, Vol. 100 (Spring 2023), 3-4. .
• “Toni Morrison’s Their Eyes Were Watching God,” MELUS: Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States, 47.1 (2022): 107–129. .
• “Fantasizing Gender in the J. Peterman Owner’s Manual,” Feminist Theory, 23.3 (2022): 327–350. .

Awards & Honors

• 2023 Hazel Rowley Prize, Biographers International Organization
• 2023 Katharine Newman Best Essay Award, Society for the Study of the Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States
• 2022 Biddy Martin Graduate Prize, LGBT Studies, Cornell University
• 2021 Rosenthal Advancement of College of Arts and Sciences Women Graduate Research Award, Cornell University
• 2021 Moses Coit Tyler Essay Prize, Department of Literatures in English, Cornell University
• 2020 Truman Capote Ph.D. Writer’s Award, Department of Literatures in English, Cornell University

Grants/Sponsored Research

• 2024 LGBT Studies Research Fellowship, Yale University
• 2023 Barker Fellowship, Durham University
• 2023 Harry Ransom Center Research Fellowship in the Humanities, Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas–Austin
• 2022 Short-Term Research Fellowship, New York Public Library, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
• 2022 Library Research Grant, Princeton University
• 2022 Houghton Mifflin Fellowship in Publishing History, Harvard University
• 2022 Donald C. Gallup Fellowship, Yale University
• 2022 Spencer Research Library Travel Awards, University of Kansas
• 2021 Nebraska Cather Collaborative Grant, University of Nebraska–Lincoln
• 2021 American Studies Program Graduate Research Grant, Cornell University
• 2021 Pearl & Otto Delikat Memorial Grant, Jewish Studies, Cornell University
• 2018 Le Guin Feminist Science Fiction Research Fellowship, Center for the Study of Women in Society, University of Oregon

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