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Gama Perruci, Ph.D.
Dean of the McDonough Center
McCoy Professor of Leadership Studies

A native of Brazil, Gama Perruci is the dean of the McDonough Center for Leadership and Business at Marietta College. Dr. Perruci has a doctorate in political science from the University of Florida, a master’s in international journalism and undergraduate degrees in journalism and economics from Baylor University (Texas). His current research focuses on the impact of globalization on leadership development. Aside from teaching, research and administrative duties, Dr. Perruci also serves as the Vice President for Internal Affairs for the International Leadership Association (ILA), hosted by the James MacGregor Burns Academy of Leadership at the University of Maryland, College Park. He is a consultant to colleges and corporations dealing with international strategic planning. His most recent consulting assignments include a review of the Department of Leadership, Ethics and Law (LEL) at the United States Naval Academy (Annapolis, Maryland) and an evaluation of the leadership program at Zayed University in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. He has been a frequent guest analyst for the BBC World Service broadcast to Brazil. For the past two years, he also has served as a member of the National Selection Committee, America's Best Leaders Project, convened by Harvard University’s Center for Public Leadership (Kennedy School of Government) in collaboration with the weekly magazine, U.S. News & World Report.

contact:
740.376.4562
perrucig@marietta.edu


Tanya Judd Pucella, M.A.
Director of Civic Engagement
Assistant Professor of Leadership Studies

A native of Florida, Tanya Judd Pucella recently completed her doctorate in the College of Health and Public Affairs at the University of Central Florida while working full-time at the McDonough Center. Her dissertation focuses on the impact of certification by the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards on burnout levels in teachers. In addition, Judd Pucella has earned a master’s degree in social science education and a bachelor’s degree in history from the University of Florida. For the past ten years she has taught in the public school system in Orlando, Florida. She has also served as a member of the administrative team of her school, with the responsibility of providing professional development experiences for a faculty of nearly two hundred. Aside from teaching, Judd Pucella also has worked as a trainer with the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards and has helped begin a program to support teachers going through the National Board certification process in Orange County. While managing service learning and community service opportunities for McDonough Scholars and the College at large as the Director of Civic Engagement, Judd Pucella teaches courses within the action component in the McDonough Leadership Program.
While managing service-learning and community-service opportunities for the McDonough Scholars and the College at large as the Director of Civic Engagement, Professor Pucella also teaches some of the core courses in the McDonough Leadership Program.

contact:
740.376.4490
tj002@marietta.edu

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Christy Hockenberry
Administrative Coordinator

Christy, who has more than 16 years of customer service experience, is the Administrative Coordinator and Building Manager for the McDonough Center. Before joining the McDonough Center, she was the Administrative Assistant to the Major and Planned Giving departments at Marietta College for over four years. Prior to Marietta College, she worked for more than ten years at a local electric cooperative. There she started as a part-time entry clerk and progressed to the full-time position of Head Billing Clerk, responsible for over 10,000 accounts.

contact:
740.376.4624
hockenba@marietta.edu


Full-Time Teaching Faculty

Mark Bagshaw, Ed.D.
Professor of Management and Leadership

Mark Bagshaw teaches half time in the McDonough Leadership Program and half time in the Department of Economics, Management, and Accounting (EMA). He is tenured in both academic units. He came to Marietta College in 1993 as associate provost and has taught here full time since 1995.

Dr. Bagshaw received his bachelor's and doctoral degrees from Penn State, and a Master of Philosophy degree (M.Phil.) in literature from Yale. In the late eighties and early nineties, he owned and operated Music Friends, a successful direct-mail retailer of classical music CDs.

In the summer of 2005, Dr. Bagshaw received a Fullbright grant to participate in the Pearl River Delta Faculty Development Program organized by ASIANetwork and the Hong Kong American Center. In the spring of 2004, Dr. Bagshaw was on sabbatical in China as a visiting professor in the MBA program at the Suzhou Campus of the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC). He also conducted research on international leadership and management issues at the Suzhou Industrial Park, near Shanghai, which includes operations of multinational companies from Japan, Taiwan, Germany, France, Singapore Australia, and the U.K., as well as the U.S. and China.

At MC, Dr. Bagshaw currently teaches classes to non-leadership minors in the Foundations of American Leadership and Leadership in Global Contexts. He also teaches the capstone seminar for students in the International Leadership Studies major. In EMA, he teaches strategic management and business policy, an introduction to managing organizations, and (in alternate years) international consumer behavior. He also teaches the capstone course in the Master of Arts in Liberal Learning program.

contact:
740.376.4637
bagshawm@marietta.edu





Rob McManus, Ph.D
McCoy Assistant Professor of Leadership Studies

Rob McManus is the McCoy Assistant Professor of Leadership Studies and Communication at Marietta College. He is one of the research team faculty advisors for the America’s Best Leader’s Project published annually in conjunction with the Center for Public Leadership at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government and U.S. News and World Report. Dr. McManus is widely published and has been recognized and honored by the National Communication Association ( United States) for his scholarship in the area of Communication Studies. He is currently co-authoring a book with Dr. Gama Perruci on leadership and the liberal arts, and is an active business consultant. Dr. McManus recently won the John G. and Jeanne B. McCoy Award, a prestigious and endowed award for teaching excellence. His regular course offerings at McDonough Center include: Foundations of Leadership, Organizational Leadership, Theories and Models of Leadership, Global Leadership as well as courses in Communication Studies. Dr. McManus holds a Ph.D. in Communication Studies, a Master of Business Administration, and a Bachelor of Arts in Communication.

contact
740.376.4588
robert.mcmanus@marietta.edu

Affiliated Faculty & Staff

Aside from the Core Team, many Marietta College faculty and staff participate actively in the life of the McDonough Center. Many of them have advanced degrees from prestigious institutions, including Harvard, Johns Hopkins, Purdue, Vanderbilt, Duke, Penn State, and Cornell. They represent a wide variety of fields and interests:

William M. Bauer
Assistant Professor of Education, Director of Hartel Program
B.S., M.S., Ohio University; M.A., Ph.D., The Ohio State University

Christy Burke
Director of International Programs
B.A., Miami University; M.A. (Candidate) School for International Training

Richard K. Danford
Associate Professor of Spanish and Portuguese, Director of Latin American Studies,Academic Advisor for Study Abroad
B.A., M.A., Ph.D. Ohio State University

Eric J. Fitch
Associate Professor of Environmental Science and Leadership
B.S., St. Meinrad College; M.En., Miami University; Ph.D., Michigan State University

Bill Fournier
Associate Director of the Career Center
A.A., Eastern Maine Technical College; B.A. University of New England; M.A. Ohio University; Ph.D. Ohio University

Lianne Gray-Starner
Assistant Professor of Communication
B.A., Wittenberg University; M.A., Western Kentucky University; Ph.D. Ohio University

Hilles Hughes
Director of Career Services
B.A., College of Wooster; M.A., John Caroll University

Peter E. Hogan
McCoy Professor of Biology
B.S., Worcester State University; M.S., University of Connecticut; Ph.D. Michigan State University

Kathryn McDaniel
Associate Professor of History
B.A., Davidson College; M.A., Ph.D. Vanderbilt University

David G. McShaffrey
Associate Professor of Biology
B.S., M.S. University of Akron, Ph.D. Purdue University

Scott McVicar
Associate Director of Admission
B.A., M.A.Ed., Marietta College

James H. O'Donnell, III
McCoy Professor and Andrew U. Thomas Professor of History
B.A., Lambuth College; M.A. Ph.D. Duke University

Mabry M. O'Donnell
McCoy Professor of Communication and Hilyer Professor of Literature, Rhetoric, and Oratory, Director of Individuals Events
B.A., Louisiana State University; M.A., University of Alabama; Ph.D., Bowling Green State University

Sidney Potash
Professor of Leadership and Management
B.S., Utica College; M.B.A., Ph.D., State University of New York, Buffalo

Janie Rees-Miller
Associate Professor of Language and Linguistics, Director of English as a Second Language
B.A., Oberlin College; Ph.D., M.A., State University of New York at Stony Brook; M.A., American University of Beirut

Mark Schaefer
Assistant Professor of Political Science
Ph.D., M.A., B.A. West Virginia University

Mark E. Sibicky
McCoy Professor of Psychology, Director of the M.A.P. Program
B.A., University of Connecticut; M.A., Colgate University; Ph.D., University of Arkansas

Michael D. Taylor
McCoy Professor of Management and Leadership
B.A., Carleton College; M.B.A., Ohio University; S.T.B., (B.D.), Ph.D., Harvard University

Luding Tong
Associate Professor of Chinese
B.A., Anhui University (Anhui Province, China); M.A., Southern Illinois University; M.A., Ph.D. Washington University in St. Louis

Ena Cecilia Vulor
McCoy Associate Professor of French Language and Literature
B.A. University of Ghana, M.A., Ph.D. Cornell University

Xiaoxiong Yi
Associate Professor of Political Science, Director of China Institute
B.A., Beijing Normal University (China); M.A., Pennsylvania State University; Ph.D., American University

Matthew Young
McCoy Associate Professor of History, Director of Asian Studies
B.A., Kenyon College; M.A., Ph.D., Bowling Green State University



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