New appointments in Fine Arts research
Dean Catherine Wild of the Faculty of Fine Arts is pleased to announce the consecutive appointments of professors Haidee Wasson (Cinema) and Mark Sussman (Theatre) as Associate Dean, Research and Graduate Studies for the Faculty in 2011-12 and 2012-15 respectively.
Wasson’s one-year term begins on July 1, 2011. She takes over from Lynn Hughes, who has held the position for 3 1/2 years. Sussman will follow Wasson in the post on July 1, 2012, continuing until June 30, 2015.
Wasson and Sussman each bring strong research profiles and varied experience to the position. Dean Wild invites the Concordia community to join her in extending a warm welcome to Wasson and Sussman in their new roles.
She would also like to thank Lynn Hughes for her longstanding support and contribution in the Dean’s Office. Since 1996 she has held two terms in the academic portfolio in addition to the research post. She returns to the Department of Studio Arts in 2012 following a well-deserved administrative leave.
Effective July 1, Wasson can be reached as follows:
Haidee Wasson
Associate Dean, Research and Graduate Studies
Tel: 514-848-2424, ext. 5040
haidee.wasson@concordia.ca
Haidee Wasson
Wasson first came to Concordia in 2004 as an assistant professor, receiving tenure in 2008. Her interdisciplinary scholarship includes work on film and film culture, museums, emergent technologies, feminism and media historiography.
Wasson’s active research profile includes a residency at New York City’s Museum of Modern Art, a visiting appointment at Harvard, and membership on five international editorial boards.
She also co-edits a book series for the British Film Institute devoted to cultural histories of cinema.
Her own published work includes: Useful Cinema, with Charles Acland; Inventing Film Studies, co-edited with Lee Grieveson; and the award-winning Museum Movies.
Wasson is the program director for the MA in Film Studies at the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema. She has been a member of University Senate and Fine Arts Faculty Council, and also served on numerous internal and external awards committees. She has been actively involved in supervising graduate students in the Humanities program as well as the new PhD in Film and Moving Image Studies, housed in the School of Cinema.
Mark Sussman
Sussman is a theatre artist and scholar working on the animation of public space and the integration of old and new technologies in live performance.
He is co-founder and co-artistic director of Great Small Works, an award-winning Brooklyn-based theatre collective, for which he has directed, designed, produced and performed in a number of stage productions, variety evenings, exhibitions and international festivals.
Sussman joined Concordia as an assistant professor in 2005 and was tenured in 2010. He is the principal organizer of Café Concret, an occasional cabaret of experimental puppetry and object-based performance and a forum for new works in a variety of media. Sussman is a member of the Association québécoise des marionnettistes and the Puppeteers of America, and Scholar-at-Large for the Museum of Everyday Life in Glover, Vermont.
Currently, Sussman is Acting Chair of the Department of Theatre. He served on the Faculty of Fine Arts research committee from 2005 to 2007 and Concordia’s Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies in Society and Culture advisory board from 2007 to 2009. Sussman holds a doctorate in Performance Studies from New York University and is active in fostering the emergence of the field as a research current at Concordia, specifically with the Special Individualized Program and interdisciplinary PhD in Humanities program.
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