Title
Department
Education
- Ph.D. University of North Texas
- MA University of Pittsburgh
- BA Indiana University
- B.MUS. The Pennsylvania State University
Previous Positions
| Position | Start | End |
|---|---|---|
| Assistant Professor, tenured, promoted to Associate Professor, History and Philosophy, Georgia Perimeter College | 1992-08-01 | 1997-07-30 |
| Associate Professor, tenured, promoted to Full Professor, History and Interdisciplinary Studies, Georgia College & State University | 1997-08-01 | 2011-06-30 |
| Associate Provost for Undergraduate Studies and Academic Programs/Professor, tenured, History, CUNY-College of Staten Island | 2011-07-01 | 2013-12-31 |
| Vice President of Academic Affairs/Professor of History | 2014-01-01 | 2014-12-10 |
Courses Taught at Amarillo College
| Course ID | Course Name | Term |
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Other Credentials
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| certified administrator/evaluator, Intercultural Developmenetal Inventory |
| certified Covey Instructor, 7 Habits of Highly Effective People |
Publications, Presentations, Public Works and Awards
| PEER REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS "Stay Tuned for Podcasting U and the Data on M-Learning." In Handbook of Computer Mediated Communication, Vol. I. Edited by Sigrid Kelsey, 114-127. IGEA, 2008. With Michael Gass. "A Baby or a Fetus? The Abortion Debate in America." In Faith in America: Changes, Challenges, and a New Spirituality, Vol. II. Ed. Charles Lippy. Praeger, 2006. "History to Go: Why iTeach with iPods." In The History Teacher Vol. 39, No. 4 (August 2006): 479-492. "The Toys Are Really Cool But Will the Kids Play With Them? Multimedia Usage Patterns in Asynchronous and Hybrid World History Courses." In Journal of the Association of History and Computing Vol. IX, No. 1 (April 2006). "Eunuchs for the Kingdom: The Origin and Discipline of Clerical Celibacy." In Religion and Sexuality: Passionate Debates. Ed. C. K. Robertson, 137-167. Peter Lang Press, 2005. "Asynchronous Discussion and Communication Patterns in Online and Hybrid History Courses." In Communication Education Vol. 54, Issue 4 (October 2005): 355-364. "Monastic Moonshine: Alcohol in the Middle Ages." In Religion and Alcohol. Ed. C.K. Robertson. Peter Lang Press, 2004. "History in the Digital Age: A Study of the Impact of Interactive Resources on Student Learning." In The History Teacher Vol. 37, No. 4 (May 2004). Available online [http://www.historycooperative.org/journals/ht/37.3/vess.html] "Navigating the Interdisciplinary Archipelago: The Scholarship of Interdisciplinary Teaching and Learning." In Disciplinary Styles of Research in the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning. Ed. Mary Huber. Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, 2002. "Explorations in Interdisciplinary Teaching and Learning: a Study of Learning Outcomes in an Interdisciplinary Fine and Applied Arts Course." In Inventio Vol 3, Issue 1 (Spring 2001). "Abelard on Meaning and Usage: Some Implications for the Ethics." In The Modern Schoolman Vol. LXXVII (March 2000): 217-234. "The Emperor Hath No Clothes: Film and Revolution in Twentieth-Century Mali." In Selected Proceedings of the International Society for the Study of European Ideas. MIT press, 2001. "The Mudfish and the European: An African Record of the Age of Discovery." In Teaching History: A Journal of Methods 22.2 (Fall 1997): 80-91. "Applications for the World Wide Web in the History Classroom." In The History Teacher 30.3 (May 1997):265-283. Special Issue on Computers in the Classroom: Using the World Wide Web and the Internet in Research and Teaching. "Socrates On-line: A Multimedia Tool for the Development of Critical Thought." In Proteus: A Journal of Ideas. Special issue on Technology in Education (March 1997):13-22. "Creative Writing and the Historian: An Active Learning Model for Teaching the Craft of History." In The History Teacher (November 1996): 43-55; abstract reprinted in a special issue of The History Teacher (January 1997). "The Augustinian Mysticism of St. Thomas More." In Mystics Quarterly Vol. XXII, No. 1 (March 1996): 21-37. "Multicultural Perspectives on the Middle Ages." In The Journal of the Georgia Association of Historians Vol. XV (1994): 277-304. "A Place Where Virtue May Be Magnified: The City, the Polis, and the Monastery." In Word and Spirit Vol. 16 (1994): 3-13. Co-authored with Judith Sutera, O.S.B. "Continuity and Conservatism in the Cathedral Schools of the Twelfth Century: The Role of Monastic Thought in the So-Called Intellectual Revolution of the Twelfth-Century Renaissance." In The American Benedictine Review Vol. 45, No. 2 (June 1994): 161- 184. OTHER PUBLICATIONS Best Prep for the SAT II World History Exam. Princeton, New Jersey: Research and Education Association, 2006. Best Prep for the AP World History Exam. Princeton, New Jersey: Research and Education Association, 2006. "Finding World History: New Tools, New Possibilities." In World History Matters. George Mason University and the National Endowment for the Humanities, 2003. CONTRIBUTIONS "Abortion." In Encyclopedia of Religion in America, ed. Charles Lippy. CQ Press, 2010. 6000 word article. "Iona," "St. David's," and "Celtic Sites." In Encyclopedia of Medieval Pilgrimage. Brill, 2009. "Knights in Film and in Television." In Knights: In History and Legend, ed. Constance Brittan Bouchard, 260-272. Lane Cove, Australia: Global Book Publishing, 2009. A History Book Club selection. "Monasteries." In Greenwood Encyclopedia of Sex, Love, and Culture, Vol. 4, 17th and 19th centuries. Greenwood Press, Fall 2006. "Abelard," "Heloise," "Lanfranc," "England: Monastic Sites," "Monte Cassino," and "Assisi." In The Encyclopedia of Monasticism. Fitzroy Dearborn Press, 2000. COLUMNS "They're Not Just the Latest Gadget: How iPods Can Transform the Teaching and Learning Experience," in The Reporter, newsletter for the Georgia Association of Supervision and Curriculum Development, summer 2006. "Implementing an interdisciplinary core curriculum: The experiences of a small liberal arts institution in Georgia." Association of Integrative Studies Newsletter (March 1999). "Evaluating World History Web Sites." In History Computer Review 13.1 (March 1997): 74-90. "Active Learning for the Historian: An Interdisciplinary Model." Georgia College & State University Newsletter, Board of Regents' Distinguished Professors of Teaching and Learning Share Teaching Methods, Spring 1997. "Some Reflections on Great Teachers of the Past." In Kennesaw State University's Reaching Through Teaching Vol. 10, No. 1 (Winter 1997). "Team Teaching in an Interdisciplinary Environment." In Innovation Abstracts Vol. XVIII, No. 19 (Fall 1996). Co-authored with David Hutto. "Applications for the World Wide Web in the College Classroom." In Kennesaw State University's Reaching Through Teaching Vol. 9, No.2 (Spring 1996); reprinted in Bellmont University's The Art of Teaching. "Promoting Interdisciplinary Studies." In Innovation Abstracts Vol. XVII, No. 19 (Fall 1995). "An Open Letter From An Historian: An Historian's Reflections on Twentieth-Century Monasticism." In the American Monastic Newsletter (June 1993). EDITORIAL WORK Internet Review Editor, History Computer Review, 1997-1998. Founding Co-Editor, Magistra: A Journal of Women's Spirituality in History, 1995-1998; Board of Editors, 1998-present. Joint Editor, Vox Benedictina: A Journal of Women's and Monastic Spirituality, 1992-1994 Deborah Vess and Judith Sutera, O.S.B., eds.. Benedictine Women from Scholastica to the Present. Forthcoming. Deborah Vess and Judith Sutera, O.S.B., eds.. "Anglo-Saxon Monastic Women." In Magistra Vol. 1, No. 1 (Summer 1995). Vess and Sutera, eds., "Merovingian Monastic Women." In Magistra Vol. I, No. 2 (December 1995). REVIEWS Review of Amiens Cathedral Project. In The History Computer Review 14.2 (Fall 1998). Review of Byzantium: Byzantine Studies on the Internet. In The History Computer Review 13.2 (Fall 1997). Review of Lehn Huff and Clayton Dube. Early Chinese History: The Hundred Schools Period (Los Angeles: University of California, National Center for History in the Schools, 1995). In Education About Asia Vol. 2, No. 2 (Fall 1997). Review of David Bell, What Nuns Read: Books and Libraries in Medieval English Nunneries. (Kalamazoo: Cistercian Publications, 1995). Iin Magistra Vol. 1, No. 2. Review of Matrology: A Bibliography of Writings by Christian Women from the First to the Fifteenth Centuries (New York: Continuum, 1995). In Magistra Vol. 1, No. 2. PAPERS AND PRESENTATIONS "The Emperor Hath no Clothes: Film and Revolution in 20th century Mali," presented to the International Society for the Study of European Ideas, Haifa, Israel, August 1998. "Interactive Multimedia and the Primary Source: Creating Original Courseware for the World Civ Sequence," presented to the Georgia Association of Historians, April 1998. "Maximum interactivity: Multimedia and the World Wide Web," presented to the League for Innovation's Conference on Information Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, October 1997. "Transforming the Curriculum," panel presentation to the Association for Integrative Studies, Boone, South Carolina, October 1997. "Socrates On-line: Multimedia as a Critical Thinking Tool," presented to the National Conference on College and University Teaching, Jacksonville, Florida, April 1997. "Technology and the Global Curriculum: Using Multimedia to Teach World Civilization," presented to the American Council on International/Intercultural Education, Anaheim, California, April 1997. "Multimedia as a Tool for the Development of Critical Thought," to the League for Innovation's Conference on Information Technology, Phoenix, Arizona, November 1996. "Multimedia and the Liberal Arts," presented to the Mid-Atlantic Association for Computers and Writing, October 1996. "Creative Writing and the Historian: An Active Learning Model for Teaching the Craft of History," to the Society for History Education, Long Beach, Ca., June 1996. "The Role of Benedictine Women Before the Gregorian Reform" and "Research Problems in Benedictine Women's History" presented to Beyond Convent Walls: Conference on the History of Women Religious, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, in June 1995. "Abelard on Women: Ideals and Reality," presented to the International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, Michigan, in May 1995. "Peter Abelard: Rhetoric, Language and Reality," presented to the International Conference on Global and Multi-cultural Issues In Ancient and Medieval Philosophy in Binghamton, New York, in October 1994. "The Mudfish and the European: Africa and the West in the Age of Discovery," presented to the Southeastern World History Association in Atlanta, Georgia, in October 1994. "Editorial and Research Problems in Benedictine Women's Studies" presented to the communities of Mount Angel Abbey and Queen of Angels Priory, St. Benedict, Oregon, in August 1994. "Medieval Subversions of Gender: Women as Tempters and Mentors" presented at the National Women's Studies Association in Ames, Iowa, in June 1994. "Multicultural Materials for the Middle Ages" presented to the Georgia Association of Historians in Marietta, Georgia, in April 1994. "Women in the Middle Ages: A Multi-Disciplinary Approach to Sources and Gender Issues in Medieval Europe, Byzantium and Japan" presented to the Conference on Cultural Diversity in Atlanta, Georgia, in March 1994. "The Continuing Legacy of St. Thomas More: The Glow-Worm Light of Dame Gertrude More and the Recusants on the Continent in the Seventeenth Century" presented to the Sixteenth Century Conference in St. Louis, Missouri, in December 1993. "The English Eremitical Tradition: Thomas More and the Cloister of the Soul" presented to the International Medieval Congress in Kalamazoo, Michigan, in May 1993. "The Benedictine Rule in the Sixteenth Century: Thomas More and the Monastic Ideal" presented to the International Medieval Conference in Kalamazoo, Michigan, May 1992. "On the Frontiers of the Modern World: Christian Humanism, Thomas More's Utopia and the Mind of the Middle Ages" presented to the Central Renaissance Conference in Lincoln, Nebraska, April 1992. "Women, Monasticism and the Twelfth Century Renaissance" presented to the Women's Caucus of the Southwestern Social Sciences Association in Austin, Texas, March 1992. "The Desert in the Thirteenth Century: Hagiography and the Cloister of the Soul" presented to the Mid-America Medieval Association in Kansas City, Missouri, February 1992. "Abelard and Luther: Ethical Nominalism and the Evolution of Abelard's Twelfth Century Humanism" presented to the Mid America-Texas Medieval Association in Denton, Texas, February 1992. "From Abelard to Luther: Nominalism and the Growth of Reformation Ideology" presented to the University of Texas Historical Symposium in Austin, Texas, October 1991. "The Heresy of Peter Abelard: Nominalism and the Medieval Church" presented to the Phi Alpha Theta regional conference in Stephenville, Texas, April 1991. "Rhetoric, Philosophy and the Mystics: Eckhart and the Renaissance in the North" presented to the Central Renaissance Conference in Columbia, Missouri, April 1991. "Plotinus, Porphyry, and the Role of Heterodoxy in Augustine and Anselm" presented to the Southwestern Social Sciences Association in San Antonio, Texas, March 1991. "English Scholars and Their Schools" presented to the Southwestern Social Sciences Association in Fort Worth, Texas, March 1990. "Italy and England Before Lanfranc" presented to the Mid-America Medieval Association in Wichita, Kansas, March 1990. "Continuity and Conservatism in the Schools of the Twelfth Century: The So-Called Intellectual Revolution of the Twelfth Century Reexamined" presented to the Southeastern Medieval Association in Houston, Texas, October 1989. "Bede and the New Israel: Anxiety and Interpretation in the Eighth Century North" presented at the International Medieval Congress in Kalamazoo, Michigan, May 1989. WORKSHOPS OFFERED Several workshops on the Scholarship of Teaching and the Carnegie Campus Dialog project; offered to the University System of Georgia Board of Regents' Distinguished Professors of Teaching and Learning (Fall 1999), the University System of Georgia Conference on College and University Teaching 1999 (2 sessions Fall 1999), GCSU faculty workshop (Fall 1999), and Macon State College (Spring 2000). On-line presentation on "interactive technology for the classroom" for the mini-web conference in July 1998, University System of Georgia Board of Regents' Office of Instructional and Information Technology. Presenter for the University System of Georgia Board of Regents' Office of Instructional and Information Technology, Web server conference Spring 1998. "Class Assignments Incorporating Internet Resources," faculty development workshop for the Board of Regents Office of Information and Instructional Technology, Athens, Georgia, September 1997. "Is Asynchronous Learning Effective?" panelist for faculty development workshop for the Board of Regents Office of Information and Instructional Technology, Athens, Georgia, September 1997. "Integrating the WWW into the College Classroom," faculty development workshop for Georgia State University, October 1996. "Applications for the World Wide Web in the College Classroom," a faculty development workshop for the University System Board of Regents Office of Information and Instructional Technology, September 1996. Numerous faculty development workshops for DeKalb College's Center for Teaching and Learning on the use of technology (Internet and multimedia authoring packages) in the college classroom, internationalizing the curriculum, and interdisciplinary teaching. HONORS AND AWARDS Ernest L. Boyer International Award for Excellence in Teaching, Learning, and Technology, International Conference on College Teaching and Learning, 2008 Award for Innovative Excellence in Teaching, Learning, and Technology, International Conference on College Teaching and Learning, 2008 University System of Georgia Board of Regents' Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Award/Hall of Fame Award (statewide award), 2007. Excellence in Teaching Award, Georgia College & State University, Spring 2007. University System of Georgia Board of Regents' Research in Undergraduate Education Award/Hall of Fame Award (Statewide award), Spring 2001. Carnegie Scholar, Pew National Fellowship Program for Carnegie Scholars, Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement for Teaching, 1999-2000. Powell-Whipple Award for exemplary collaboration with the School of Education, Georgia College & State University, 1999. University System of Georgia Board of Regents' Distinguished Professor of Teaching and Learning (statewide award, for appointment at Georgia Perimeter College), 1996-1997. Excellence Award in Teaching, National Institute for Staff and Organizational Development, awarded May 1997. Instructional Enhancement Grant, DeKalb College (now Georgia Perimeter College), 1996. General Education Outcomes Award, DeKalb College(Georgia Perimeter College), 1995. Excellence Award in Teaching, National Institute for Staff and Organizational Development, 1994. New Faculty Award, DeKalb College (Georgia Perimeter College), 1993. Monastic Research Fellowship, granted by Mount Angel Abbey, Oregon, 1993. The Arts and Sciences Dean's Dissertation Award for Research Excellence in the Arts, Humanities, or Social Sciences, University of North Texas, 1992. Provost and Vice President of Academic Affairs Award: Outstanding Teaching Fellow, University of North Texas, 1991. Chamber Music scholarship 1982, Mary Brady award in Piano 1983, Galumbic scholarship in Piano 1983, winner of the 1983 and 1984 Young Artist competition at Penn State, appearances on WPSX, channel 13, Valedictorian of the School of Music 1985, the Pennsylvania State University. Andrew Mellon Predoctoral Fellowship in Philosophy, 1979. Senior undergraduate award in Philosophy, Indiana University, 1978. Distinguished Member of the National Society of Collegiate Scholars Elected to membership in Phi Beta Kappa, Phi Alpha Theta, Phi Kappa Phi, Pi Kappa Lambda, Alpha Lambda Delta, and the Golden Key National Honor Society. GRANTS AND FELLOWSHIPS CASTL (Carnegie Academy for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning) Seed Grant for Projects in the Scholarship of Teaching Sponsored by Academic Associations, awarded by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and the American Association of Higher Education for work under the auspices of the Association for Integrative Studies, September 2000, $5,000. Grant resulted in the creation of a multimedia course portfolio. Collaborator on Project Intermath Consortium grant (funded by the National Science Foundation) for creation of Godel, Escher, Bach (IDST 4950) course, and Digital Art (IDST 3950) course, Summer 1999. Grant directed by Dr. Jack Robertson, Chair of Mathematics and Computer Science, GC&SU. ($37,200) "Cultivating Humanity: Knowledge as Transformative," grant from the Georgia Humanities Council. $8,000. Spring 1999. Model Technology Infused Course grant from the University System of Georgia Board of Regents for the creation of a multimedia online textbook for the IDST 2310 Fine and Applied Arts course, Spring 1999. ($20,000) Model Techonology Infused Course grant from the University System of Georgia Board of Regents, Fall 1997. Global Issues: An Interdisciplinary Web Site for the 21st Century (http://deborah-vess.org/gissues/global.shtml). ($18,975) Monastic Research Fellowship, granted by Mount Angel Abbey, Oregon, 1993. $3,000. |