DEBORAH VESS
Associate Provost for Undergraduate Studies and Academic Programs
CUNY-College of Staten Island
2800 Victory Blvd. Staten Island (NYC), New York 10314
office: 718-982-2558
e-mail: deborah.vess[REMOVE THIS]@csi.cuny.eduPUBLICATIONS
"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.