DR. MARY ELLEN ZUCKERMAN

 

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Rochester, NY 14610                                                    SUNY Geneseo, Geneseo, NY 14454

(585) 442-0647                                                              (585) 245-5986

mzuckerman@rpa.net                                                  waller@geneseo.edu

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EDUCATION

 

Columbia University Graduate School of Arts & Science

 Ph.D. – History - 1987

 

Columbia University Graduate School of Business

M.B.A. - 1982

 

Simmons College

B.A. – 1976

 

ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS AND EXPERIENCE

Professor, School of Business                                                            1999-present

 

Dean, School of Business                                                                    1999-August 2008

State University of New York College at Geneseo

 

Responsible for operation of School comprised of 19 faculty, 3 staff, 650 business majors and 100 business minors. Oversee strategic planning, budget, fundraising, curriculum, student and faculty recruitment, external relations and communication activities. Oversee activities of Center for Women and Business, Small Business Development Center and Center for Survey Research.

 

Selected Initiatives and Accomplishments:

Curriculum

·         Led School of Business through process leading to initial AACSB-International  accreditation (received in Spring 2002).

·         Established Masters in Accounting program (2004-2005).

·         Oversaw two highly successful Economics program reviews (2003, 2008).

·         Created “slot” courses to allow flexibility and responsiveness to business world.

·         Oversaw update of curriculum to add more quantitative and computer skills (2006-2008).

·         Oversaw development of numerous extracurricular activities, including funded business plan competition, speaker series through Klainer Center, international travel and service learning programs for students (China, Nicaragua), Fed Challenge competition and Student Managed Investment Fund (SMIF).

 

Faculty

·         Instituted Annual Performance Planning program.

·         Worked collaboratively with faculty to develop School’s Strategic Charter.

·         Created Business Advisory Council Faculty Excellence Awards.

·         Put in place flexible teaching program, allowing one course reduction for research.

 

Fundraising

·         Led successful efforts to raise money targeted at strategic needs of the School, including the following:

·         Business Advisory Council Faculty Development Fund

·         David Martin Supported Professorship

·         Greg Sanders student activity fund

·         Funding and creation of new Women and Business Center

·         External funding for selected courses

·         Funding for development of an integrated business case

·         Funding for Internationalization of the curriculum

·         Insurance careers program funding

·         Student Managed Investment Fund

·         Annual Business Plan competition.

 

External Relations

·         Successfully managed and gained involvement of 25-30 person Business Advisory Council.

·         Established and managed Alumni Connections Council (alumni 10 years or less).

·         Established and managed External Advisory Board for Center for Women and Business.

·         Established and managed External Advisory Board for Student Managed Investment Fund.

 

Selected College-wide Accomplishments

·        Chair, Search Committee for school of Education Dean, 2004-2005.

·         Co-chair and member of college-wide Faculty Roles and Rewards committee, yielding report with comprehensive recommendations (2002-2004).

·         Co-chair College for College-wide Assessment Committee (2000-2002).

·         Member, College Middles States Committee. Co-chair of report section on Assessment.

 

Associate Professor, School of Business, SUNY at Geneseo                 1990-1999

Assistant Professor, School of Business, SUNY at Geneseo                   1985-1990

Teaching Areas: Principles of Marketing, Marketing Research, Organizational Behavior, Internship Supervision.

 

Visiting Associate Professor, Faculty of Management                      1990-1991

McGill University

Research Fellow                                                                                  1989-1990

Freedom Forum Media Studies Center

 

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES AND SERVICE

 

·         Advisory Committee member to Finger Lakes Community College Dept. of Business, 2008.

·         Mid-Atlantic Association of Colleges of Business Administration Executive Committee (MAACBA), 2002-2007.

·         President, 2005-2006.

·         Program Chair, 2004-2005.

·         President, SUNY Four-year Schools Business School Deans Council, 2006.

·         Susan B. Anthony & the Struggle for Women’s Rights,” conference at University of Rochester, March 2006, member of Planning Committee.

·         Rochester Business Hall of Fame Selection Committee, 2001-2006.

·         Advisory Committee member to Monroe Community College Dept. of Business, 2003–present.

·         Executive Marketing Council Member, 1998-1999.

·         Berkshire Conference on Women’s History Local Arrangements Committee Member, 1998-1999.

·         President, Rochester American Marketing Association (AMA), 1991-1992.

·         Council Member, National AMA Collegiate Activities Committee, 1989-1992.

·         Judge, AMA Collegiate Chapter Annual Reports Competition, 1988-1990.

·         Board of Directors, Rochester AMA, 1987-1992.

·         Chair, Collegiate Relations Committee, Rochester AMA, 1988-1989.

·Co-chair, Community Relations Committee, Rochester AMA, 1987-1988.

·         Co-organizer, Marketing Mentors Program, Rochester AMA, 1988.

·        Consultant, Total Quality Management for Public Sector and Governmental Agencies.

·        Consultant, Marketing Research Projects. Designing, analyzing and writing reports for quantitative and qualitative projects.

 

·         Reviewer, Business History Review, 1999, 2000, 2002.

·         Editorial Board of Journal of Magazines and New Media Research, 1999, 2000.

·         Expert Witness testimony on the magazine industry for Magazine Publishing Association before U.S. Postal Commission, Fall 1995.

·         Reviewer, Journal of Consumer Research. Journal of  Macromarketing, Marketing History Conference.

 

 

COMMITTEE WORK AND SERVICE AT GENESEO

 

·        Chair, Search Committee for Director, Small Business Development Center, 2008.

·        Liaison for Young Entrepreneur Academy at SUNY Geneseo, 2007-2008.

·        Member, Middle States Periodic Review Report Committee, 2005-2006

·         Member,  Susan B. Anthony commemoration planning Committee at SUNY Geneseo, 2005-2006.

·        Chair, Search Committee for Dean, School of Education.

·        External person on Political Science Search (2004), Math Search (2006).

·         Co-Chair College Faculty Roles and Reward Committee, 2003-2004, member 2002-2003.

·         College Resource Development Team, 2002-2003.

·         Freshman Convocation Speaker (2003).

·         College PDQWL Awards Committee, 1998-2003.

·         Co-Chair, College-wide Assessment Committee, 2000-2002.

·         Member, Middle States Committee, 2000-2002.

·    Chair, School of Business Appointments Committee, 1998-1999.

·         Advisor, Geneseo Student Marketing Club, 1998-1999.

·         School of Business Personnel Committee, 1995-1996 (alternate), 1996-1997, 1997- 1998, 1998-1999.

·         Reviewer for development of English 205 Exam, Spring 1998.

·         School of Business ETS/JWJ Testing Committee, Spring 1998.

·         Women’s Studies Advisory Council, 1997-1998.

·         Member, Political Science Department Search Committee, 1997-1998, 2004-05.

·         School of Business Faculty Development Committee, 1993-1997, Chair,1993-1995.

·         College Research Council, 1989-1997, Chair 1995-96.

·         Outside Department Reviewer for SUNY Geneseo Communications, Political Science and History Departments, 1995, 1996, 1997.

·         School of Business Faculty Development Committee, 1991-1993.

·         Director, School of Business Working Papers Series, 1988-1993.

·         Chair, College Senate Research Committee, 1989.

·         Advisor, Geneseo, AMA Student Club, 1985-1988.

·         Treasurer, Geneseo College Senate, 1987-1988.

·         College Women's Committee, 1987-1989.

·         College Academic Affairs Committee, 1987-1989.

·         College Affirmative Action Committee, 1987-1988.

·         School of Business Long-range Planning Committee, 1987-1988.

·         School of Business Working Papers Committee, 1986-1988.

·         School of Business Curriculum Committee, 1986-1988.

·         School of Business Appointments Committee, 1986-1988.

  • School of Business Scholarship Committee, 1985-1987.

 

COMMUNITY SERVICE

 

·         Regular participant in Rochester Interfaith Hospitality Network (RAIHN) program (2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009).

·         Two-time Odyssey of the Mind coach (2001, 2002).

 

 

AWARDS

 

SUNY Excellence in Faculty Service Award, 2006.

 

Co-Awardee on grant from Rochester International Development Corporation, 2005-2007.

 

Athena Award Nominee (Business Woman), 1999-2000, 2002-2003.

 

Visiting Professor, in the Advertising Educational Foundation program, at Time Inc.,  Summer 1996.

 

Mid-Career Summer Fellowship, Geneseo Foundation, 1994, funding research on women in advertising.

 

Spencer Foundation Grant, 1992-1994, funding "Educating Women: Gertrude Battles Lane and the Women's Home Companion."

 

New York Council for the Humanities 1992-95, selected for Speakers in the Humanities program.

 

Selected to be in Who's Who in the East, 24th edition, Marquis Who's Who.

 

Gannett Center for Media Studies Research Fellowship, 1989-1990 academic year, to research book on popular women's magazines.

 

Nuala Drescher Leave Award, 1989-1990 academic year, funding leave and research for the year, supplementing Gannett Fellowship.

 

NEH Travel to Collections Grant Summer 1989, funding travel to Library of Congress for research on history of women's magazines.

 

PDQWL Travel Grant Award (SUNY Union) Summer 1989, funding travel to do research the J. Walter Thompson Ad Agency archives in Durham, NC.

 

Geneseo Foundation Grant, Spring 1989, funding research assistance for completion of annotated bibliography.

 

American Marketing Association Faculty Advisor Research Grant, Summer, 1988, funding travel for research on the history of marketing research.

 

Geneseo Foundation Grant, Spring, 1987, funding travel to Advertising History Archives in Vancouver, Canada.

 

 

 

PROFESSIONAL PRESENTATIONS AND PANELS

 

 

“Training Women as Leaders: Are Women Only or Women-Men Experiences More Effective?” Roundtable facilitator (with B. Morrow, R. Schwartz and M. Allisandreaello) at Learning Leadership; 3rd Annual Women as Global Leaders Conference, March 2008, Dubai, UAE.

 

“Entrepreneurial Programming in Business Schools,” Panel Moderator, Mid-Atlantic Association of Colleges of Business Administration (MAACBA) Fall 2007.

 

“Fundraising as a Business School Dean,” Session Leader, SUNY Business School Deans Council, June 2006.

 

“An Academic/Business Collaboration; the Klainer Center for Women and Business,” International Conference on Women and Leadership, Abu Dhabi, UAE, spring 2006.

 

“The Integrated Business Curriculum,” Panel Moderator, Mid-Atlantic Association of Colleges of Business Administration (MAACBA), Fall 2005.

 

“Entrepreneurship Across the Disciplines,” presented at the Kauffman Consortium, Charleston, SC, Fall 2004

 

“Faculty Development, Retention and Retirement,” Panel Moderator, Mid-Atlantic Association of Colleges of Business Administration (MAACBA), Fall 2004.

 

“AACSB Assessment Strategies,” SUNY Business School Deans Conference, June 2004.

 

“Team Learning”, Moderator, SUNY Geneseo, Teaching and Learning Center Conference, May 2004

 

“Enrollment Control and Faculty Shortages,” Associate Dean’s Conference, AACSB, Fall 2002.

 

“Branding the Business School,” Panel Moderator, MAACBA, Fall 2002.

 

“Student Retention,” Undergraduate Curriculum Conference, AACSB, Fall 2001.

 

“Marketing Segmentation,” at Marketing Boot Camp, Rochester AMA, 2000.

 

“Making Use of Your Fellowship,” Freedom Forum Media Studies Center, September 1992.

 

“Managing Diversity: We’re All in this Business Together,” SUNY Plattsburgh, May 1991.

 

 

NON-DEGREE SEMINARS AND TRAINING

 

Michael Jensen Leadership Program, Simon School of Business, University of Rochester, 2007.

 

Management Leadership Education workshop (MLE), Harvard University School of Education, June 2003.

 

AACSB workshops on accreditation maintenance and new AACSB standards, curriculum innovation and development activities, 1999-present

 

SUNY Women’s Studies Council Curriculum Diversification Project, training                             workshop, Summer 1989.

 

Theory and Practice of Biography, NYU Humanities Seminar for Visiting Scholars, Fall 1988.

 

Advanced Research Methods, University of Rochester, Fall 1987.

 

Applications of Economic Analysis to Historical Problems, National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminar, 1987.

 

 

SCHOLARLY PUBLICATIONS

 

Books

 

A History of Popular Women’s Magazines in the U.S. (Greenwood Press, 1998).

 

Information Sources in the History of Popular Women's Magazines (Greenwood Press, 1991).

 

The Magazine In America, co-authored with John Tebbel (Oxford University Press, 1991).

 

Articles

 

“The Mommy Track”: Impact of Family Life on Women in the Professorate,” co-authored  with Mary Carsky and Ellen Kennedy, in Women and Work. A Handbook, Paula J. Dubeck  and Kathryn Borman, eds., Garland Publishing, Inc., 1996.

 

"From Educated Citizen to Educated Consumer: The Good Citizenship and Pro-Advertising Campaigns in the Woman's Home Companion, 1920-1934," American Periodicals,  Fall 1995.

 

"McCall's," "Family Circle," "Woman's Day," in Women's  Periodicals in the United States, Kathleen L. Endres and Therese L. Lueck, eds., Greenwood  Press, 1995.

 

"Feminist Theory and Consumer Research: New Approaches," co-authored with Mary Carsky, in Advances in Consumer Research, John Sherry and Brian Sternthal, eds., 1991.

 

"Pathway to Success: Gertrude Battles Lane and the Woman's Home Companion," Journalism History (Winter 1989).

 

"Gertrude Battles Lane" entry in American National Biography, New York: Oxford University Press.

 

"Magazines: General History," "Gertrude Battles Lane," "Edna Woolman Chase," "Vogue," "The Delineator," "Pauline Arnold," "Helen Woodward," "Advertising Women of New York," entries in the Encyclopedia of the City of New York, Kenneth Jackson, ed. New Haven: Yale University Press and the New York Historical Society (1992). Also served as an Associate Editor for this volume.

 

"In Search of Gender Differences in Marketing Communication: An Historical/ Contemporary Analysis," co-authored with Mary Carsky, in Proceedings of the Gender and Consumer Behavior Conference, June 1991.

 

"Advertising Copywriting, 1911-1940:  Did Gender Make a Difference?"  co-authored with Mary Carsky, in Proceedings of the Fifth Annual History of Marketing Conference,  April 1991.

 

"The Federal Trade Commission in Historical Perspective," in Marketing and Advertising Regulation:  The Federal Trade Commission in the 1990's, Patrick Murphy and William Wilkie, eds. Notre Dame, Indiana: University of Notre Dame Press, 1990.

 

"Contributions of Women to U.S. Marketing Thought: The Consumer's Perspective -- 1900-1940," co-authored with Mary Carsky, Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science, Fall 1990.

 

“Marketers as Communicators: A Comparative Analysis,” co-authored with Frank Krohn, Phil Ricci and Chris Taylor, Proceedings of the Atlantic Marketing Conference, Fall 1990.

 

Workstyles of Marketing Educators Revisited: A Comparative Analysis of Males and Females,” co-authored with Mary Carsky and Ellen Kennedy, in Proceedings of the Atlantic Marketing Conference, Fall 1990.

 

“Perspectives on Women in Marketing Education: A Comparison of the Career Paths of Male and Female Marketing Educators,” co-authored with Mary Carsky and Ellen                         Kennedy,  in Proceedings of the Academy of Marketing Science, Spring 1990.

 

“Women Marketing Educators: Interests, Productivity and Satisfaction,” co-authored  with Mary Carsky and Ellen Kennedy, Journal of Marketing Education, Spring 1990.

 

“Attitude Differences of Student and Professional AMA Members: A Potential Communication Problem,” co-authored with Frank Krohn, College Student Journal, January  1990.

 

"’Old Homes in a City of Perpetual Change':  The Women's Magazine Industry, 1890-1917," Business History Review, Winter 1989.

 

"Marketing the Women's Journals, 1873-1900," Business and Economic History, William J. Hausman, ed., volume 18, 2nd series, Fall 1989.

 

"Agencies, Entrepreneurs, and Media Owners:  Market Research in the Twenties and Thirties," Proceedings of the 11th Annual American Marketing Association Collegiate

Conference,  Spring 1989.

 

“The Business Side of Media Development: Women’s Magazines in the Gilded Age,” in Essays in Economic and Business History, Edwin J. Perkins, Editor, Vol.II, 1989.

 

"Vera Connolly: Progressive Journalist," Journalism History 15:2-3 Summer Autumn 1988.

 

"’Preconceived Notions' and the Historian's Dilemma:  Market Research by Women's Magazine Publishers in the Interwar Years," Proceedings of the Fourth Annual History of Marketing Conference, May 1989.

 

"Standards, Values and Ethics in the Marketing Curriculum: An Experiential Approach," co-authored with Therese Riordan, Proceedings of the Association of Marketing Educators' Conference, 1988.

 

"Aspects of Early Market Research, 1879-1917: An Overview," in Proceedings of American Marketing Association 1988 Winter Educators' Conference, February, 1988.

 

"Selling Mrs. Consumer: The Role of Women's Magazines in the Development of Advertising," Proceedings of Third Annual History of Marketing Conference, April, 1987.

 

 

Book and Other Reviews

 

Review of Magazines for Millions: Gender and Commerce in the Ladies’ Home Journal and The Saturday Evening Post, 1880-1910, in Business History Review, 1995.

 

Review of Telling the Untold Story,  American Journalism, 1993.

 

Review of The Kenyon Review, 1939-1970 A Critical History, in American Periodicals, Vol.1, No. 2, 1992.

 

Review of "Selling the Goods: Origins of American Advertising, 1840-1940" in The Public Historian, Spring, 1992.

 

Review of Profit's Prophet's: Garet Garrett (1878-1954), Journal of American History, Fall 1990.

 

Review of Creating America. George Horace Lorimer and the Saturday Evening Post, Business History Review, Autumn 1989.

 

 

PAPERS AND PRESENTATIONS

 

“Gender Differences in Teen Role Models: Effects on Leadership,” Learning Leadership; 3rd Annual Women as Global Leaders Conference, March 2008, Dubai, UAE.

 

Keeping up with the Anthonys; Sustaining the Legacy,” According to Anthony Lecture Series, Susan B. Anthony House, February 2007.

 

“Rhetoric and Reform: Searching for a Public Voice,” Session Chair, Susan B.Anthony and the Struggle for Women’s Rights Conference, University of Rochester, Spring 2006.

 

“History of Women’s Magazines,” at Cipe Pineles Forum  Rochester Institute of Technology, Spring 2005.

 

“The Role of Magazines in Movements for Social Change,” On the Issues retreat, October 1996.

 

“Women and the Media: The Case of the Women’s Magazines,” presentations at Geneseo Monday Evening Class (February 1998), Geneseo Alumni Day (Fall 1996), New York Council on Humanities Teacher Institute (July 1995), St. John Fisher College (July 1995), Genesee Community College (November 1995), Elmira Historical Society and Alfred State College (May 1995), Batavia Rotary Club (August 1995), Buffalo Professional Women Writers Group and Batavia Community  College (April 1995), SUNY Canton and Buffalo and Erie County Historical Society (March 1994)

 

“The Career of Mrs. Christine Frederick,” presented at the Organization of American Historians, Spring 1994.

 

"From Educated Citizen to Educated Consumer: The Good Citizenship and Pro-Advertising Campaigns in the Woman's Home Companion," presented at the History of Education Conference, October, 1992.

 

"Diversity in the Marketing Curriculum," presented at the National Woman's Studies Association Conference, June, 1992.

 

“Advertising the New Technology: Help or Hindrance to Quality of Life?” presented at the Quality of Life conference, November, 1992.

 

"The Need for Cultural Diversity in the Media," presented at Media at the Millennium, Freedom Forum Media Studies Center, November, 1991.

 

"Gendered Journals: U.S. Women's Magazines, 1873-1917," McGill University, History Colloquium, March 1991.

 

"Can Feminist Theory Contribute to Marketing Thought?  An Exploratory Analysis," presented at the American Marketing Association Summer Educator Conference, August, 1990.

 

"Gertrude Battles Lane and the Woman's Home Companion," presented at the Berkshire Conference on Women's History, June, 1990.

 

"Women's Own Companions:  Two Hundred Years of Women's Magazines," presented at the Gannett Center for Media Studies Research Seminar, April, 1990.

 

"Women in Marketing Academe: A Glimpse into the Next Century," co-organizer of this Special Session, American Marketing Association Winter Educator's Conference, February, 1990.

 

"The Effects of Competition on Magazine Content:  The Case of the Women's Journals," presented at the Economic and Business Historical Society, April, 1989.

 

"Politics in the Press: The Presentation of Suffrage in Popular Women's Magazines," presented at the Popular Culture Association Meeting, April, 1989.

 

"Women in Marketing and Marketing to Women:  An Historical Perspective," presented at the American Marketing Association's Winter Educators' Conference, February, 1989.

 

“Best Man in the Business: Editor Gertrude Battles Lane,” presented at Humanities Seminar on Biography, November, 1988.

 

"Mass Magazines and Mass Education in the Progressive Era," University of Rochester School of Education, December 1987.

 

"From Information to Persuasion: The Development of Advertising to Women," American Studies Lecture Series, SUNY Brockport, November 1987.

 

"The Changing Shape of Advertising in Popular Women's Magazines, 1890-1930," presented at the Popular Culture Association in the South, October, 1987.

 

"Marketing the Past: Issues in Business History for the Woman Researcher," presented at Conference on the Woman Researcher: Issues, Problems and Opportunities, Nov., 1986.

 

 

 

CURRENT PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

 

American Association of Colleges and Schools of Business (AACSB)

Mid-Atlantic Association of Colleges of Business Administration (MAACBA)

Beta Gamma Sigma

Conference on Historical Analysis and Research in Marketing

Rochester Women’s Network

American Marketing Association

Association of Marketing Educators

Business History Society

Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication