Manhattan College History Professor Authors New Book on Golf

Dr. George Kirsch, professor of history at Manhattan College, is the author of the new book Golf in America, a concise social history of golf in the United States from the 1880s to the present. To read a short excerpt from the book, click Here. Kirsch is also the author of Baseball and Cricket: The Creation of American Team Sports, 1838-72; Baseball in Blue and Gray: the National Pastime During the Civil War; editor of volumes three and four of Sports in North America: A Documentary History; and co-editor of the Encyclopedia of Ethnicity and Sports in the United States.

 

Faculty and Staff Accomplishments

Dr. Nada Marie Assaf-Anid, professor of chemical engineering, served as programming board chair for the Environmental Division at the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) Centennial Meeting in Philadelphia this past November. She chaired three sessions: One Hundred Years of Environmental Law and Policy; Water and Waste; and Inorganic Contaminants in Water.

Dr. Jonathan Hartman and Dr. Yassir Samra, assistant professors of marketing, published the paper “Crisis Management: An Empirical Investigation of the Effects of Improvisation on New Product Development in the Chemistry and Chemical Engineering Industries” in the journal Insights to a Changing World.

Dr. Claudia Setzer, professor of religious studies, presented the paper “Woman Learners in the Ancient World” at the Columbia University New Testament Seminar this past September.

Dr. Natalia Imperatori-Lee, assistant professor of religious studies, presented the paper “The Significance of Mestizaje in 21st Century Theology” at L’Institut Catholique de Paris in Paris, France, this past October.

For more faculty and staff accomplishments, click Here.

 

Welcome New Employees

Manhattan College welcomed three new employees in January: John Bennett (student activities), Steve Ortiz (physical plant) and Susan Rowe (campus security. For a full list of recent new employees, click Here.

 

Manhattan College Milestones

Congratulations to Omar Harris (security) and Shannon Mulrooney (student activities), who celebrate their 10-year anniversaries with Manhattan College in February. Brendon Ford (O’Malley Library) and Stephen Laruccia (college advancement) will celebrate their five-year anniversaries. For a complete list of recent anniversaries, click Here.