I am delighted to present the 2007-2008 collection of Faculty Achievements in Scholarship and Service at Marymount Manhattan College! This annual publication celebrates the scholarly achievements and service contributions of our full-time faculty members. A very special thank you is extended to those faculty members who have shared their research and creative activity via exhibitions, performances, Faculty Project Luncheons, Honors Day, forums, and guest lectures.
Your contributions to Marymount Manhattan College through service are vital to the achievement of our institutional mission! Thank you for sponsoring student organizations, chairing and serving on standing and ad-hoc committees, collaborating on college-wide strategic initiatives, serving on peer review and search committees, and so much more. The Marymount Manhattan College community is richer as a result of your important contributions.
I am enormously proud of the faculty at Marymount Manhattan College and your significant achievements in teaching, scholarship and service! MMC is proud to offer students an opportunity to study with faculty who are passionate teachers, active scholars, and devoted members of the academy. Congratulations to each of you!
All the Best, Marguerita J. Grecco, Ph.D. Acting Academic Dean
Please click on the links below for each section of the Awards and Achievements page
Granted tenure and promoted to Associate Professor of Psychology
Dr. Susan Behrens, Ph.D.
Promoted to Professor of Speech-Language Pathology & Audiology
Dr. Mark Conard
Granted tenure and promoted to Associate Professor of Philosophy
Dr. Manolo Guzmán
Granted tenure and promoted to Associate Professor of Sociology
Dr. Kathleen LeBesco
Promoted to Professor of Communication Arts
Dr. Rosemary Nossiff
Granted tenure and promoted to Associate Professor of Political Science
Dr. Mark Ringer
Promoted to Professor of Theatre Arts
Professor Emeritus Awards
Distinguished Chair Awards
List of Award Winners for 2009-2012
Marymount Manhattan College created the Distinguished Chair Award, funded by This is the Day, the Campaign for Marymount Manhattan, to be one of the highest honors it can bestow upon a faculty member. The Distinguished Chair is awarded to faculty whose scholarship has been widely recognized for its excellence; its purpose is to provide the time and resources to allow awardees to produce major works in their discipline.
Freeman Awards
List of Awards for 2008-2009
Dr. Ann Aguanno, Ph.D.
Biology, AY 2008-2009
Dr. Ann Aguanno, Ph.D.
To support faculty-student research projects in cellular and molecular biology, providing undergraduate students with the opportunity to work one-on-one with a faculty member.
Dr. Ann Jablon, Ph.D.
Special-Language Pathology and Audiology, Fall 2008
Dr. Ann Jablon, Ph.D.
In collaboration with Dr. Susan Behrens, to continue analyzing conversational models in clinical teaching. The work has the potential to serve as a model applicable to other fields in which clinical work forms an essential aspect of the program structure.
Sokol Award, Marymount Manhattan College
List of Award Winners for 2008-2009
Communication Arts
Funding to investigate why people continue to communicate stereotypes despite the prescription to avoid this behavior. Specifically, Dr. Kurylo is interested in exploring the types of benefits people gain from communicating stereotypes.
Dance
Funding to complete a book manuscript The Body of the People: Choreographies of Propaganda and Resistance in East Germany. This book “broadens the scope of scholarship in German Dance and Performance Studies by examining dance as a tool of indoctrination and simultaneously of resistance to state powers.”
Dr. Michael Colvin
Spanish
Funding for travel and lodging in Lisbon, Portugal for research for a book on the genesis and evolution of Fado music in relation to Portugese cinema and the fascist dictatorship of Salazar, Estado Novo. This award will allow Dr. Colvin to access several key archives in order to conduct research on the role of Fado music in Portugese cinema from 1931 to 1974.
Prof. Millie Falcaro
Art
Funding to complete coursework in photography at The International for Photography. Prof. Falcaro has mounted several exhibitions in traditional photographic mediums. Her study of digital photography will benefit our new concentration in Photography as well as Professor Falcaro's own professional creative work.
Dr. Cecilia Feilla
English
Funding to cover the reproduction and permission costs associated with two images in a scholarly publication, “Movie Pictures: The Sentimental Tableau in Eighteenth-Century Literature,” which will appear in Form and Genre in the Eighteenth Century, edited by Sandro Jung.
Dr. Magdalena Maczynska
English
Funding to develop two interdisciplinary COR 300 courses in world literature. These course offerings will provide a curricular shift from an emphasis on Anglo-American traditions to a more international and global perspective. The proposed courses will “draw upon literature, film, historical accounts, and journalism to introduce students to the cultural and political forces shaping post-independence India and Africa, as well as the articulation of those forces in works of imaginative fiction.”
Prof. Jeff Morrison
Theatre Arts
Funding to develop a three-dimensional, articulated and animated model of human respiration. Having tested a prototype model, developed with funds from San Diego State University, Prof. Morrison is now ready to advance the model to better demonstrate the role of organs and other viscera in the breathing process and to fabricate a workable lung that demonstrates how the lungs respond to the movement of the torso and to changes in air pressure.
Dr. Mark Ringer
Theatre Arts
Funding to conduct research in Austria to support his book, Brief Mortal Conflicts: Schubert's Theatre for Song which will be published by Amadeus Press. During this trip Dr. Ringer will access the resources of museums in Austrian cities, where Schubert performed, and make contact with other Schubert scholars.
Prof. Jill Stevenson
Theatre Arts
Funding to complete a book tentatively titled, Sensual Bodies and Devotional Encounters: Performance as a Mode of Visual Piety in Late Medieval York.
Communication Arts
Funding to investigate why people continue to communicate stereotypes despite the prescription to avoid this behavior. Specifically, Dr. Kurylo is interested in exploring the types of benefits people gain from communicating stereotypes.
Dance
Funding to complete a book manuscript The Body of the People: Choreographies of Propaganda and Resistance in East Germany. This book “broadens the scope of scholarship in German Dance and Performance Studies by examining dance as a tool of indoctrination and simultaneously of resistance to state powers.”
Dr. Michael Colvin
Spanish
Funding for travel and lodging in Lisbon, Portugal for research for a book on the genesis and evolution of Fado music in relation to Portugese cinema and the fascist dictatorship of Salazar, Estado Novo. This award will allow Dr. Colvin to access several key archives in order to conduct research on the role of Fado music in Portugese cinema from 1931 to 1974.
Prof. Millie Falcaro
Art
Funding to complete coursework in photography at The International for Photography. Prof. Falcaro has mounted several exhibitions in traditional photographic mediums. Her study of digital photography will benefit our new concentration in Photography as well as Professor Falcaro's own professional creative work.
Dr. Cecilia Feilla
English
Funding to cover the reproduction and permission costs associated with two images in a scholarly publication, “Movie Pictures: The Sentimental Tableau in Eighteenth-Century Literature,” which will appear in Form and Genre in the Eighteenth Century, edited by Sandro Jung.
Dr. Magdalena Maczynska
English
Funding to develop two interdisciplinary COR 300 courses in world literature. These course offerings will provide a curricular shift from an emphasis on Anglo-American traditions to a more international and global perspective. The proposed courses will “draw upon literature, film, historical accounts, and journalism to introduce students to the cultural and political forces shaping post-independence India and Africa, as well as the articulation of those forces in works of imaginative fiction.”
Prof. Jeff Morrison
Theatre Arts
Funding to develop a three-dimensional, articulated and animated model of human respiration. Having tested a prototype model, developed with funds from San Diego State University, Prof. Morrison is now ready to advance the model to better demonstrate the role of organs and other viscera in the breathing process and to fabricate a workable lung that demonstrates how the lungs respond to the movement of the torso and to changes in air pressure.
Dr. Mark Ringer
Theatre Arts
Funding to conduct research in Austria to support his book, Brief Mortal Conflicts: Schubert's Theatre for Song which will be published by Amadeus Press. During this trip Dr. Ringer will access the resources of museums in Austrian cities, where Schubert performed, and make contact with other Schubert scholars.
Prof. Jill Stevenson
Theatre Arts
Funding to complete a book tentatively titled, Sensual Bodies and Devotional Encounters: Performance as a Mode of Visual Piety in Late Medieval York.
Science Faculty Awards
List of Award Winners for 2007-2008
Faculty Leaves And Fellowships
List of Awards for 2008-2009
Communication Arts, AY 2008-2009
To complete a video installation Radical Pragmatical, a documentary project about experimental communities, speculative writing and visionary thinking. In addition to the documentary video installation project described above, Professor Schwartz will develop a new course on software design and society.
Physics, Spring 2009
To analyze data for future publication on seamount shapes and distributions of undersea volcanoes in an area of the South Pacific Ocean.
English, AY 2008-2009
To complete a book manuscript comprised of personal essays ed on place, ethnicity, and South Asian diasporic identity. In addition, Prof. Shah will develop a number of new courses such as a workshop in writing creative nonfiction and a course in ethnic literature.
Prof. Millie Falcaro
Art, Spring 2009
To complete a book and an installation of photographs and poems that investigates the intersection of the disciplines of photography, psychology and writing. The book is tentatively titled Freud's House. In addition, Prof. Falcaro will submit photographic work to juried competitions and select exhibition venues.
Dr. Cecilia Feilla
English, AY 2008-2009
To complete a book manuscript The Tutor's Body: Seduction and Education in the Eighteenth-Century Novel. In addition to the scholarly productivity afforded by this leave, Dr. Feilla's research will strengthen her preparation to teach existing courses in the curriculum.
Dr. Leslie Levin
Business Management, Spring 2009
To complete a book manuscript, A Heavenly Offer: Religious Imagery in 19th- and 20th- Century American Advertising. In addition, Dr. Levin will continue to work with Dr. Pashkevich to investigate how consumers respond to advertisements containing religious imagery.
Dr. Mark Ringer
Theatre Arts, Fall 2008
To complete his third book, Brief Mortal Conflicts: Schubert's Theatre of Song, which is under contract with Amadeus Press. In addition, Dr. Ringer will develop a new COR.E course on Schubert and Romanticism.
Dr. Linda Solomon, Ph.D.
Psychology, Spring 2009
To develop two new areas of research: a) young adult career indecision, and b) travel and culture shock. Based upon pilot data, Dr. Solomon will design studies, collect data, and present and publish results.
Dean's Fellowships
External Grants and Gifts to Support
Academic Programs and Scholarship
Foundations
The Starr Foundation
The Starr Foundation made a grant of $200,000 to the C.V. Starr Foundation Endowed Scholarship Fund. The Fund, which supports students who demonstrate academic merit and financial need, is the College?s largest scholarship fund.
The Ford Foundation
The Ford Foundation awarded Marymount Manhattan a grant of $130,000 to support the project entitled ?Integrating Macroeconomic Strategies and Economic and Social Rights: A Case Study of Mexico and the United States?. Dr. Radhika Balakrishnan.
The Betty and Norman F. Levy Foundation
The Betty and Norman F. Levy Foundation made a grant of $50,000 for the Bedford Hills College Program endowment. This grant was made as a challenge and awarded after the College raised $50,000 for the Bedford Hills College program endowment. Dr. Cindy Mercer and Aileen Baumgartner.
The Glickenhaus Foundation
The Glickenhaus Foundation awarded MMC a grant of $35,000 to support scholarships for students who demonstrate academic merit and financial need.
Rose M. Badgeley Residuary Charitable Trust
The Rose M. Badgeley Residuary Charitable Trust renewed its support for the Rose M. Badgeley Scholars Program at Marymount Manhattan with a grant of $15,000. This program supports student-faculty research projects in the Division of the Sciences. Through these projects, MMC students have the opportunity to participate in laboratory-based research activities.
Jephson Educational Trusts
The Jephson Educational Trusts awarded MMC a grant of $10,000 to support scholarships to students who demonstrate academic merit and financial need.
The Henry E. Niles Foundation, Inc.
The Henry E. Niles Foundation, Inc. awarded $10,000 to the Bedford Hills College Program for general support. Dr. Cindy Mercer and Aileen Baumgartner.
The Frederick Loewe Foundation
The Frederick Loewe Foundation gave a grant of $1,500 to the College?s Music Theatre program. An individual donor provided a grant of $4,500 to support a new production of An American Tragedy. Professor Patricia Hoag Simon.
The Thomas J. Watson Foundation
The Thomas J. Watson Foundation made a grant of $1,500 to support the presentation of candidates for the Jeanette K. Watson Fellowship program. This program supports paid summer internships for students who demonstrate financial need. Dr. Marguerita Grecco.
The Mortimer Levitt Foundation, Inc.
The Mortimer Levitt Foundation, Inc. gave five grants to the Writing Center totaling $52,000. Lewis Frumkes.
Joseph C. and Clare F. Goodman Memorial Foundation, Inc.
The Joseph C. and Clare F. Goodman Memorial Foundation, Inc. awarded MMC a grant of $30,000 to support the Writing Center, which has encouraged writers and the craft of writing since 1995. Lewis Frumkes.
The Samuel J. & Ethel Lefrak Charitable Foundation, Inc.
The Samuel J. & Ethel Lefrak Charitable Foundation, Inc. awarded MMC a grant of $10,000 to support the Writing Center. Lewis Frumkes.
The Louis and Anne Abrons Foundation
The Louis and Anne Abrons Foundation awarded a grant of $8,000 to the Writing Center. Lewis Frumkes.
The Byrd Drucker Aphasic Fund
Family, friends and MMC supporters contributed more than $11,000 to the Byrd Drucker Aphasic Fund, in honor of the late Mr. Drucker, a long-time patient of the Smadbeck Center. Teresa Signorelli and Ann Jablon.
External Grants and Gifts to Support
Academic Programs and Scholarship
Government Grants
United States Department of Education
A Congressionally-directed federal appropriations grant of $335,043 will support a minority teacher preparation initiative, including recruitment of students to the Teacher Education Program at the College, to be accomplished through outreach, a partnership with a local high school, and financial aid. This is thanks to the support of Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney (D-NY).
The New York State Department of Correctional Services
Two awards of $7,200 each, through the Youth Offender Grant, will support tuition payments for a semester of coursework for five students in the Bedford Hills College Program. Dr. Cindy Mercer and Aileen Baumgartner.
New York State Department of Education
A grant of $6,312 supported textbook expenses at the Bedford Hills College Program with the support of New York State Senator Thomas Duane (D-NY).
Faculty Service Learning Fellowship, Marymount Manhattan College
Barbara Adrian
Professor, Theatre Arts
Susan Behrens, Ph.D.
Professor , Speech-Language Pathology & Audiology
Adrienne Bell
Assistant Professor , Art
Carrie-Ann Biondi
Assistant Professor , Philosophy and Religious Studies
Yu-Yin Cheng
Associate Professor , History
Hallie Cohen
Associate Professor , Art
Michael Colvin
Associate Professor , Humanities
Mark Conard
Associate Professor , Philosophy and Religious Studies
Kevin Connell
Associate Professor, Theatre Arts
Millie Falcaro
Associate Professor , Art
Cecilia Feilla
Assistant Professor , English and World Literatures
Anthony Ferro
Associate Professor , Dance
Mary Fleischer
Theatre Arts
Manolo Guzmán
Associate Professor , Sociology
Bradley Herling
Assistant Professor , Religious Studies
James Holl
Associate Professor , Art
Kathleen LeBesco
Professor , Academic Affairs
Alessandra Leri, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor , Chemistry
Leslie Levin
Associate Professor , Business Management
Magdalena Maczynska
Assistant Professor , English and World Literatures
Lia Leon Margolin, Ph.D.
Associate Professor , Mathematics
David Mold
Associate Professor, Theatre Arts
Anthony Naaeke
Assistant Professor , Communication Arts
Peter Naccarato
Associate Professor , English and World Literatures
Ellen Orenstein
Associate Professor, Theatre Arts
Cheryl Paradis, Psy.D.
Associate Professor , Psychology
Jason Rosenfeld
Associate Professor , Art
Benedetta Sampoli Benitez, Ph.D.
Associate Professor , Chemistry
Alister Sanderson
Professor , Communication Arts
Ghassan Shabaneh
Associate Professor , International Studies
Linda Solomon, Ph.D.
Professor , Psychology
Rebecca L. Sperling
Associate Professor , Sociology
Jill Stevenson
Assistant Professor, Theatre Arts
Richard (Roy) Tietze, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Psychology
Laura Tropp
Associate Professor , Communication Arts
Jerry Williams
Associate Professor , English and World Literatures
