Mark Fisch

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Address: *** ********* *****

City: Stella

State: NC

Zip: 28582

Country: USA

Phone: 252-***-****

Skill Level: Experienced

Salary Range: $50,000

Willing to Relocate

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Educational Background:

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MARK L FISCH, PhD

125 Deep Water Drive

Stella, NC, 28582

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Cell Phone: 910-***-****

Home Phone: 252-***-****

EDUCATION:

1975-1986 Ph. D., Department of Sociology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC. 5 Statistics courses 15 Credit hours, remainder of credits in Sociology and Anthropology, GPA 0 No grades were provided on a Pass/Fail system

DISSERTATION: Convergence or Divergence

A Human Ecological Theory of Interregional Structural Change in the U.S., 1940-1982,) December, 1985.

1974-1975 Master of Art, Divisional Master's Degree in Social Sciences, University of Chicago, IL. 12 credit hours in major, GPA 3.0 equivalent Pass/Fail system

THESIS: (Eastern European International Emigration Patterns, 1880-1930,) University of Chicago, 1974.

1969-1973 B.A., Sociology, City College of New York. 128 credit hours with approximately 68 hours in area of major study 3.8GPA 1973 Magna Cum Laude, B.A., City College of New York. Sigma Alpha, Honor/Service Society, 1969 New York State Regents Scholarship

EMPLOYMENT EXPERIENCE

6/02 to Present Professor Social Science, University of Maryland University College Europe Full Time Traveling Faculty. 40/60 hours per week. This position involved teaching any of the courses in my areas of expertise at military installations throughout Europe and the Middle East. During this period, I have had extensive interaction with the military and civilians in those locales, often acting as a liaison. Through my research and statistics experiences I have acquired the highest levels of proficiency in data base development. Throughout my experience with the military partnered with academic experts and military officials to establish long term project goals. Throughout my career I presented innumerable presentations to academic, professional, military and lay personnel. I sought and obtained multiple grant proposals, awards and administration of the funds, and reports have been an integral part of my experiences. I possess extensive expertise and skills in written and verbal communication, creative thinking, policy making, and use of web 2.0, Facebook, and Web Blogs. Research experience in review of proposals and interpretation of the reports and data submitted. Possess strong motivational skills which will aid in the integration of knowledge and experience in multiple areas of expertise. Throughout these years I have received multiple letters of recommendation, awards and metals form military and civilian authorities.

9/99 to 6/00 Associate Professor/Chair, Department of Sociology, Roanoke College, Salem VA 40/60 hours per week

8/94 to 6/99 Associate Professor/Chair, Department of Sociology, Centenary College, Shreveport, LA 40/60 hours per week

8/90 to 1994 Assistant/Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, Centenary College, Shreveport, LA. 40/60 hours per week

2/98 to 9/98 Centenary College Alumni Research Award. Deans Chair Committee

1999-2000. Convocations Committee, Centenary College 1996 - 1999. Publications Committee, Section on Undergraduate Teaching American Sociological Association, 1996

1994 to 1995. Learning Resource Committee, Chair, Faculty Development Committee,

1992 to 1994. Committee on Student Life

1991. Editor, Quarterly Journal of Ideology: A Critique of Conventional Wisdom. Special Issue, Inter and Cross Disciplinary Teaching, LSUS Press. Forthcoming.

Book Review:

Emerging Patterns of Innovation: Sources of Japan's Technological Edge, by Fumio Kodama. Harvard Business School Press. Boston, Mass., 1995. Appearing in Books and Articles in Brief, National Productivity Review, 15:1 (Winter 1995 to 1996).

Book Review: Violence at Work, by Joseph A. Kinney. Prentice Hall, N.J., 1995. Appearing in Books and Articles in Brief, National Productivity Review, 15:1 (Winter 1995 to 1996).

Book Review. The Productivity Game, by Craig R. Hickman. Prentice Hall, N.J., 1995. Appearing in Books and Articles in Brief, National Productivity Review, 15:1 (Winter1995 to 1996).

Book Review. Danger in the Comfort Zone, by Judith M. Bardwick. AMACOM, N.Y., 1995.

Appearing in Books and Articles in Brief, National Productivity Review, (Winter 1995 to 1996).

Editor, Quarterly Journal of Ideology: A Critique of Conventional Wisdom. Special Issue, The Impact of Technology, LSUS Press. Volume 16, Numbers 3 and 4, December, 1993 (published Oct. 1994).

Session Organizer: Deviance and Campus Life, Mid-South Sociological Association, (1996). Session Coordinator and Discussant: Deviance on Campus, Mid-South Sociological Association, (October 1994).

Mark Fisch with Steve Markell. The Effect of Federal Fiscal Policy on U.S. Population and Economic Shifts by Region 1952-1984, Mid-South Sociological Association (October1981)

RESEARCH PROJECTS

Chair, Centenary component of $15,000 challenge grant from the Ford Foundation in support of a planning effort for five liberal arts colleges and five communities from the Delta region. Status: Approved.

$1854 Infrastructure improvement Social Sciences division submitted to Centenary Muses. Status: Approved 11/1/95.

$7500 Institute for Social Analysis subcontract for U.S. Department of Justice. Grant collecting baseline data for Weed and Seed program evaluation, May-July 1995. Status: Completed.

$300,000 U.S. Department of Education grant for funding of public polling center. Joint effort Dean Ann McLaurin, LSUS, and Centenary College, April 1994. Status: Revised and submitted to Kellogg Foundation.

Application presented to the National Endowment for the Humanities by the Shreve Memorial Highland Area History, Exhibit and Festival Project. $69,000. Position: Sociologist. Fall, 1993-94.

2/98 to 9/98 Centenary College Alumni Research Award. Deans Chair Committee

1999-2000. Convocations Committee, Centenary College 1996 - 1999. Publications Committee, Section on Undergraduate Teaching American Sociological Association, 1996

1994 to 1995. Learning Resource Committee, Chair, Faculty Development Committee,

1992 to 1994. Committee on Student Life

1991. Editor, Quarterly Journal of Ideology: A Critique of Conventional Wisdom. Special Issue, Inter and Cross Disciplinary Teaching, LSUS Press. Forthcoming.

Book Review:

Emerging Patterns of Innovation: Sources of Japan's Technological Edge, by Fumio Kodama. Harvard Business School Press. Boston, Mass., 1995. Appearing in Books and Articles in Brief, National Productivity Review, 15:1 (Winter 1995 to 1996).

Book Review: Violence at Work, by Joseph A. Kinney. Prentice Hall, N.J., 1995. Appearing in Books and Articles in Brief, National Productivity Review, 15:1 (Winter 1995 to 1996).

Book Review. The Productivity Game, by Craig R. Hickman. Prentice Hall, N.J., 1995. Appearing in Books and Articles in Brief, National Productivity Review, 15:1 (Winter1995 to 1996).

Book Review. Danger in the Comfort Zone, by Judith M. Bardwick. AMACOM, N.Y., 1995.

Appearing in Books and Articles in Brief, National Productivity Review, (Winter 1995 to 1996).

Editor, Quarterly Journal of Ideology: A Critique of Conventional Wisdom. Special Issue, The Impact of Technology, LSUS Press. Volume 16, Numbers 3 and 4, December, 1993 (published Oct. 1994).

Session Organizer: Deviance and Campus Life, Mid-South Sociological Association, (1996). Session Coordinator and Discussant: Deviance on Campus, Mid-South Sociological Association, (October 1994).

Mark Fisch with Steve Markell. The Effect of Federal Fiscal Policy on U.S. Population and Economic Shifts by Region 1952-1984, Mid-South Sociological Association (October1981)

RESEARCH PROJECTS

Chair, Centenary component of $15,000 challenge grant from the Ford Foundation in support of a planning effort for five liberal arts colleges and five communities from the Delta region. Status: Approved.

$1854 Infrastructure improvement Social Sciences division submitted to Centenary Muses. Status: Approved 11/1/95.

$7500 Institute for Social Analysis subcontract for U.S. Department of Justice. Grant collecting baseline data for Weed and Seed program evaluation, May-July 1995. Status: Completed.

$300,000 U.S. Department of Education grant for funding of public polling center. Joint effort Dean Ann McLaurin, LSUS, and Centenary College, April 1994. Status: Revised and submitted to Kellogg Foundation.

Application presented to the National Endowment for the Humanities by the Shreve Memorial Highland Area History, Exhibit and Festival Project. $69,000. Position: Sociologist. Fall, 1993-94

8/90 to 1994 Assistant/Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, Centenary College, Shreveport, LA. 40/60 hours per week

8/87 to 1989 Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, Randolph-Macon College, Ashland, VA

8/84 to 8/86 Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, Kearney State College, Kearney, NE. 40/60 hours per week Mark Fisch. Alternative Careers for Sociologists and Finding Jobs in the Federal Government, Kearney State College, (1985).0/60 hours per week

9/83 to 5/84 PhD Candidate/Graduate Assistant. Department of Sociology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC 40/60 hours per week

6/80 to 8/83 Lecturer and Researcher, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC. 60 hours per week

Paul Tschetter, Mark Fisch, and Tom Marzilli. Coastal Energy Transportation Study: An analysis of Transportation Needs to Support Energy Projects in North Carolina's Coastal Zone. CEIP Project for North Carolina Department of Natural Resources and Community Development, Section 6, 1982.

Paul Tschetter and Mark Fisch. Perspectives on Urban Affairs in North Carolina Proceedings:

The Fourth Annual Urban Affairs Conference of the University of North Carolina. Warren Wicker, editor, Paper No. 26. The Projected Effects of Coal Exporting on Urban Development in Coastal North Carolina, 1982. University of North Carolina. Warren Wicker, editor, Paper No. 26.

8/79 to 12/79 Teaching assistant, Introductory Sociology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC.

7/79 to 8/79 Consultant on summer CETA Program, U.S. Department of Labor, Washington, DC. 40 hours per week

1/79 to 12/79 Teaching Assistant, Introductory Sociology, Department of Sociology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC. 40 hours per week

6/78 to 12/78 Social Science Analyst Statistician/Sociologist, Educational Statistics and Stratification Section, U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of the Census, Suitland, MD. GS 9/11

1/78 to 6/78 Research Assistant, Project: The All-Volunteer Army, Department of Sociology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC 40 hours per week

9/77 to 12/77 Discussion leader for sections of Marriage and the Family Course, Department of Sociology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC.

6/77 to 11/77 Natural Specialist, Sociological Concerns, U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Land Management, Alaska Outer Continental Shelf Office, Anchorage, AK. 40/60 hours per week GS 9/11 Mark Fisch, Department of Interior, Bureau of Land Management, Alaska Outer Continental Shelf Office, Kodiak, Environmental Impact Statement, (Sociological Concerns), 1976

1/77 to 6/77 Research Assistant on the Undergraduate Training Project, Department of Sociology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC. 40 hours per week

MAJOR AREAS OF PROFESSIONAL INTEREST: Policy Analysis, Migration, Population, Ecological Theory, Interdisciplinary Studies, Sociological Pedagogy, Demography

TEACHING EXPERIENCE: Urban Sociology *Deviance and Social Control, Introductory Sociology* Demography, Criminology ** Social Psychology, Research Methods * Work and Occupations, Social Problems *Cultural Anthropology * Senior Seminar, Classical Sociological Theory, Contemporary Sociological Theory*, White Collar Organized Crime *** International Economics, Microeconomics, Macroeconomics, Race, crime Criminal Justice** The Holocaust-European***

*Indicates areas of Primary interest **Indicates Criminal Justice Course *** Indicates History Course

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:

9/75 - 5/76 NICHD Population Fellowship, Administered by the University of North Carolina Population Center.

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS:

American Sociological Association, Southern Sociological Society

Alpha Kappa Delta, Pi Gamma Mu

COMMUNITY SERVICE:

Board of Directors, Highland Area Partnership, 1996 -1999

Steering Committee, Highland Area Partnership, 1992 - 1994.

United Way Coordinator, Centenary College, 1992.

Board of Directors, CLEAR (Center for Learning Enhancement and Research), 1990 - 1991.

Vice President, Ashland, Virginia Jaycees, 1988.

PUBLICATIONS JOURNALS

Media:

Editor, Quarterly Journal of Ideology: (A Critique of Conventional Wisdom). Special Issue, Inter and Cross Disciplinary Teaching, LSUS Press. Forthcoming.

Book Review. (Emerging Patterns of Innovation: Sources of Japan's Technological Edge), by Fumio Kodama. Harvard Business School Press.

Boston, Mass., 1995. Appearing in Books and Articles in Brief, National Productivity Review, 15:1 (Winter 1995-96).

Book Review. (Violence at Work), by Joseph A. Kinney. Prentice Hall N.J., 1995. Appearing in Books and Articles in Brief, National Productivity Review, 15:1 (Winter 1995-96).

Book Review. (The Productivity Game), by Craig R. Hickman. Prentice Hall, N.J., 1995. Appearing in Books and Articles in Brief, National Productivity Review, 15:1 (Winter 1995-96).

Book Review. (Danger in the Comfort Zone), by Judith M. Bardwick. AMACOM, N.Y., 1995. Appearing in: Books and Articles in Brief, National Productivity Review, (Winter 1995-96).

Editor, Quarterly Journal of Ideology: (A Critique of Conventional Wisdom). Special Issue, The Impact of Technology, LSUS Press. Volume 16, Numbers 3 and 4, December, 1993 (published Oct. 1994).

Book Review. (Human Ecology: A Theoretical Essay), by Amos Hawley. Social Science Quarterly. September, 1987. Vol. 68, #3.

Paul Tschetter, Mark Fisch, and Tom Marzilli. (Coastal Energy Transportation Study: An analysis of Transportation Needs to Support Energy Projects in North Carolina's Coastal Zone). CEIP Project for North Carolina Department of Natural Resources and Community Development, Section 6, 1982.

PUBLICATIONS, PARTICIPANT AND SESSION ORGANIZER:

Referred Roundtable:(Tribulations and Triumphs II: The Cross-Disciplinary Undergraduate Course), ASA, (1998) Informal Discussion Roundtable:(A Human Ecological Theory of Interregional Structural Change in the U.S): ASA (1997).

Referred Roundtable:(Tribulations and Triumphs: The Cross-Disciplinary Undergraduate Course), American Sociological Association, (August 1997).

Participant, The Sociology Internship: A Cross-Institutional Analysis, American Sociological Association, (August 1996).

Session Organizer: (Deviance and Campus Life), Mid-South Sociological Association, (1996).

Session Coordinator and Discussant: (Deviance on Campus), Mid-South Sociological Association, (October 1994).

Mark Fisch with Steve Markell. (The Effect of Federal Fiscal Policy on U.S. Population and Economic Shifts by Region 1952-1984), Mid-South Sociological Association, (October 1992).Session Coordinator: (The Impacts of Technology), Southern Sociological Society (March 1981).

Mark Fisch. (Uses of Census Data, Census Workshop), Joyner Library, East Carolina University, 1981.

Mark Fisch and John Maiolo. (Inter and Intra Generational Status Mobility Among North Carolina Shrimpboat Captains), Mid-South Sociological Association (October 1981).

MANUSCRIPTS IN SUBMISSION OR REVISION:

(Convergence or Divergence: A Human Ecological Theory of Interregional Structural Change in the U.S.: 1940-1981). American Journal of Sociology.

Federal Fiscal Policy and the Rise of the Sunbelt. Sociology. Forthcoming.

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