With our extensive liberal arts and sciences curriculum, College of Charleston's dedicated professors guide, challenge and inspire our students to be creative problem solvers, ethical leaders and thoughtful global citizens.
Mark Sloan has been the Director and Senior Curator of the Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art at the College of Charleston since 1994. The Halsey Institute is a multi-disciplinary, non-collecting contemporary arts museum, with an emphasis on emerging and mid-career artists from around the world. In his twenty-eight year career he has organized hundreds of exhibitions, ranging from contemporary Japanese installation art to 19th Century Baluchi tribal weavings. Several of his exhibitions have traveled to institutions such as the High Museum in Atlanta, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco, the New Orleans Museum of Art, Presentation House in Vancouver, and the American Visionary Art Museum in Baltimore. He has authored or co-authored twelve books on subjects ranging from Russian conceptual art to early twentieth century circus life. He is also an active visual artist whose works have been exhibited, published, and collected internationally. Watch a video of a recent Halsey Institute exhibit: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eLIJuQSOJis
Jeanette Guinn is an arts management professor at the College of Charleston and the producer, writer and hosts of Arts Daily, a public radio show. Before coming to the College she worked as an art manager including 25 excellent years at the South Carolina Arts Commission where she was Director of Performing and Presenting, Director of Electronic Communication and Planning, Regional Arts Coordinator, Director of Special Projects and intern but not all at the same time. Watch a video of Jeanette's "Arts and the Media at Spoleto" Maymester course: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DWy3IJ6crCA She has served on panels for the National Endowment for the Arts, South Arts and many state arts agencies. She was co-curator of Making Music for the City Arts Series at Bank of America Plaza in Columbia, SC and a juror for Gallery ETV. For three years, she was an adjunct in the Arts Management Program and is pleased to have former students working throughout the US. She hosted her first live show at WUSC in Columbia. She earned a Bachelor of Music and a Master of Media Arts from the University of South Carolina and a certificate in Arts and Technology from Columbia University. A native of Loveland, Ohio, Jeanette has lived in seven states. She has two daughters in college and a retired greyhound. Jeanette is an INFP. If you are one too, please introduce yourself.
Arts management professor Karen Chandler might call Nashville, Tenn., home, but the Music City native keeps busy celebrating her adopted city's musical heritage. In 2003, Chandler and a colleague started the Charleston Jazz Initiative, an attempt to document the history of Charleston's early-20th-century jazz musicians. A majority of these musicians learned to play in the humble surroundings of the Jenkins Orphanage. Others were taught across town at the Avery Normal Institute -- a private school for children from wealthier black families. No matter how refined their training, musicians from both schools eventually moved north to play with jazz greats that included Duke Ellington, William "Count" Basie and John Coltrane. Bands from the Jenkins Orphanage even played for the presidential inaugurations of Theodore Roosevelt and William Howard Taft.
Students at the College of Charleston recently had the opportunity to enroll in ENGL 462: Poe, Place and History and study with a leading authority on Edgar Allan Poe, English Professor Scott Peeples. The course covered many of Poe's well-known and lesser-known works, including The Raven which has spawned a new film starring John Cusack, Alice Eve and Oliver Jackson-Cohen. In the film, Poe (Cusack) tracks down a serial killer whose murders mimic Poe's literary works.
Tyler Ross is an avid performer, composer, and educator in the Charleston area. He completed his undergrad at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point and a master's at Western Illinois University both in jazz performance. With eclectic tastes ranging from jazz to folk to rock, Tyler continues to acknowledge and explore his broad musical interests through a variety of projects. More info at http://www.TylerRossMusic.com
The College of Charleston has two of the country's best undergraduate teachers, according to The Princeton Review's new book, The Best 300 Professors. Spanish professor Devon Hanahan and mathematics professor Martin Jones are two of 300 professors that represent the top .02% of the roughly 1.8 million post-secondary teachers instructing students at colleges and universities across the United States. They were chosen from an initial list of 42,000 professors. Martin Jones received his Ph.D. in Mathematics from the Georgia Institute of Technology in 1989 specializing in probability and stochastic processes. Since then he has been teaching at the College of Charleston where he oversees the undergraduate and graduate statistics programs. Martin lived and taught mathematics in Venezuela for two years and in Costa Rica for one year. He regularly teaches statistics workshops in Nicaragua, El Salvador and Mexico. He is a vegan, plays jazz flute and has no TV, no cell phone and no car. The Princeton Review editors say, "He is realistic about students' perceptions of math (even if they are only superficial), and he uses this awareness in his teaching approach, which is "very animated, high-energy, but quite informal and relaxed." The featured professors are in more than 60 fields ranging from accounting to neuroscience to sports management. They hail from 122 colleges and universities across the nation.
The College of Charleston has two of the country's best undergraduate teachers, according to The Princeton Review's new book, The Best 300 Professors. Spanish professor Devon Hanahan and mathematics professor Martin Jones are two of 300 professors that represent the top .02% of the roughly 1.8 million post-secondary teachers instructing students at colleges and universities across the United States. They were chosen from an initial list of 42,000 professors. Devon Hanahan '87 has taught Spanish at the College since 1995. Her classes include Spanish 201 and Spanish 202, and she finds it enthralling "to teach a skill that anyone can use, no matter what their major or discipline." The Princeton Review editors cite Hanahan's classroom conduct as a reason for her selection. "She is very strict and predictable in terms of starting and finishing on time, sticking to the syllabus, returning homework promptly, and adhering to class rules." "So many people are afraid of learning languages. I want each and every student to believe that he/she is capable of learning Spanish and using it in the real world," says Hanahan. "I also want him/her to be excited about the prospect of speaking Spanish, because that excitement is what motivates them." The featured professors are in more than 60 fields ranging from accounting to neuroscience to sports management. They hail from 122 colleges and universities across the nation.
Praised by the American Record Guide as "a distinguished cultural asset of international stature", and The Strad as a "trailblazing role model for string players," Lee-Chin Siow has performed to critical acclaim in over 20 countries on five continents, from Carnegie Hall to Osaka Symphony Hall.
College of Charleston history professor Robert R. Crout is one of the world's leading authorities on the Marquis de Lafayette. Crout is the co-editor of the Lafayette Papers Project at Cornell University. Preview part of his interview from the documentary Lafayette: The Lost Hero which premieres nationally on PBS stations on Monday, September 13, 2010 at 10 p.m. EST. Check you local listings.
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