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The Reinvention Center |
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Who we are at the Reinvention Center |
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Staff Margaret J. Marshall, PhD, Associate Director Devika Milner, Assistant Director Sabrina Rembold, Assistant Director Regena Bowles, Staff Assistant
Karina L Diaz, Staff Assistant
Executive Board
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Margaret Marshall is the Associate Director of The Reinvention Center. She joined the staff of the Reinvention Center in 2007. Previously, she served as the Director of English Composition at the University of Miami from 1999-2006. In that position, Dr. Marshall oversaw a curricular reform that took seriously the call to involve undergraduates in research even in first-year courses. That curriculum led to a first-year textbook for composition courses built around inquiry projects that help students learn research methods and ways of presenting research in written forms. The book, Composing Inquiry: Methods and Readings for Investigation and Writing, is due out in early 2008. Dr. Marshall is the author of two other books on the rhetoric of educational discourses: Contesting Cultural Rhetorics: Public Discourse and Education, 1890-1900 and Response to Reform: Composition and the Professionalization of Teaching. In 2002 she coordinated the compilation of research from across the 75-year history of the University of Miami and developed assignments and training that allowed this book, Bold Beginnings, Bright Tomorrows: An Anthology of Faculty Writings, to be used in undergraduate courses. Dr. Marshall has also published articles and given presentations on curricular objectives, student writing, the politics of writing centers, National Board Standards for teacher accreditation, the rhetoric of educational research, graduate student preparation to teach, and faculty development initiatives. She regularly teaches first-year composition as well as advanced courses in legal rhetoric, research writing, women’s rhetoric and pedagogy.
Executive Board William Scott Green Dr. Green also teaches courses in religion and in entrepreneurship at the University of Miami. Until July 1, 2006, he was Professor of Religion and Dean of the College at the University of Rochester, where he founded the popular Department of Religion and Classics in 1983, led in developing Rochester's undergraduate curriculum, and was Director of Rochester's university-wide Center for Entrepreneurship. Dr. Green writes on religion, ancient Judaism, and higher education, and has served on the board of the Association of American Colleges, the chief academic organization for promoting liberal education. He is currently collaborating with David Sloan Wilson on a research project on religion and social evolution. Stanley N. Katz Formerly Class of 1921 Bicentennial Professor of the History of American Law and Liberty at Princeton University, Dr. Katz is a leading expert on American legal and constitutional history, and on philanthropy and non-profit institutions, and he is the author and editor of numerous books and articles, including Mobilizing for Peace: Conflict Resolution in Northern Ireland, South Africa, and Israel/Palestine. He received his bachelor's, master's and PhD degrees from Harvard and also attended Harvard Law School. Dr. Katz has served as President of the Organization of American Historians and the American Society for Legal History and as Vice President of the Research Division of the American Historical Association. He is a member of the Board of Trustees of the Newberry Library, the Social Science Research Council, the Copyright Clearance Center and numerous other institutions. He also currently serves as Chair of the American Council of Learned Societies/Social Science Research Council Working Group on Cuba. Dr. Katz is a member of the New Jersey Council for the Humanities, the American Antiquarian Society, the American Philosophical Society; a Fellow of the American Society for Legal History, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the Society of American Historians; and a Corresponding Member of the Massachusetts Historical Society, and he has honorary degrees from several universities. His recent research focuses upon the relationship of civil society and constitutionalism to democracy, and upon the relationship of the United States to the international human rights regime. Ralph W. Kuncl Dr. Kuncl has been a national leader in the neurosciences. Before becoming Provost at the University of Rochester in August 2007, he served as Provost of Bryn Mawr College for five years. Previously, Dr. Kuncl was Professor of Neurology, Pathology, and the Graduate Program in Cellular and Molecular Medicine, Director of the Neuromuscular Pathology Laboratory, and Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education at Johns Hopkins University. There, he created an 8-department multidisciplinary Motor Neuron Study Group, was Associate Editor of the leading international neuroscience journal, Annals of Neurology, and conceived and established several university philanthropic funds for research, including the Cal Ripken/Lou Gehrig Fund for Neuromuscular Research. As a teacher, he has won several awards for excellence, including the Frank Ford Award for outstanding teaching in neurosciences; he was the John Kendig Neuroscience Lecturer in 1998. He has trained numerous post-graduate and undergraduate students who have gone on to named fellowships and won research awards themselves. The inaugural volume of the philosophy journal, Prometheus, was dedicated to his mentoring of undergraduates. The University of Chicago honored him with the Distinguished Service Award in 2002. As a Fellow of the American Council on Education, he focused his research on how one might best re-design an undergraduate school of arts and sciences that exists within the mission of a strong research university. Most recently, he authored a study of federal under-investment in higher education research, published in the July 2004 issue of Academe. He has been active in the arts for the past 17 years as a performer with the Baltimore Choral Arts Society, which is heard regularly on national and international public radio on "The First Art." Barbara Nolan Bobbi
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Glenn Starkman Patricia A. Turner Vice Provost of Undergraduate Studies, University of California, Davis Patricia A. Turner was appointed Vice Provost—Undergraduate Studies at University of California, Davis in 1999. From 2004-2006 she served as interim dean of Humanities, Arts, and Cultural Studies (HArCS). She returned to the position of Vice Provost—Undergraduate Studies in spring of 2007. Vice Provost Turner serves on the National Association of State Universities and Land Grant Colleges (NASULGC)’s Commission on Access, Diversity and Excellence and on the executive board of the American Folklore Society. Vice Provost Turner recently completed her fourth book, Crafted Lives: Stories and Studies of African-American Quilters, scheduled for publication in either late 2008 or early 2009. Turner has served as a consulting scholar on several documentary film projects. She conducted research for and appeared on camera in Marlon Riggs’ Ethnic Notions which received a national Emmy award in 1989 for best research in a documentary. She also conducted research for and appeared on camera in his 1992 Peabody-award winning film Color Adjustment. Most recently, she was interviewed for a film on quilt artist Riche Richardson, scheduled for completion in 2008. Turner’s commentary on issues related to folklore and popular culture is frequently sought by print, radio and television journalists. She has been interviewed for stories in the New York Times, Boston Globe, Chicago Tribune, LA Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, Newsweek, and many other prominent publications. She has completed dozens of National Public Radio interviews including features on Fresh Air, Talk of the Nation, and All Things Considered. She has appeared on the NBC Nightly News, the CBS Evening News, the O’Reilly Factor and her book, I Heard It Through the Grapevine inspired a story on ABC’s 20/20.
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Reinvention Center Charter Members as of May 28, 2008
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