{"id":2263,"date":"2016-07-07T15:51:00","date_gmt":"2016-07-07T15:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/developmenttwo.marymount.edu\/blog\/clark-named-dean-of-school-of-arts-sciences\/"},"modified":"2016-07-07T15:51:00","modified_gmt":"2016-07-07T15:51:00","slug":"clark-named-dean-of-school-of-arts-sciences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marymount.edu\/blog\/clark-named-dean-of-school-of-arts-sciences\/","title":{"rendered":"Clark Named Dean of School of Arts & Sciences"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dr. Christina Clark<\/a> joined Marymount University as dean of the School of Arts & Sciences on July 1. Clark, who had served in a variety of faculty and leadership roles at Creighton University since 2001, considers the move\u00a0<\/b>to be a homecoming.<\/span><\/p>\n

Growing up in a military family, Clark lived in Alaska, the Philippines and other spots before her father\u0092s final post in the Washington, D.C., area, which she considers her hometown. Her mother taught third grade in two parochial schools in Northern Virginia.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u0093It\u0092s great to be back,\u0094 Clark said. \u0093I haven\u0092t lived in the area since I left in 1986 and a lot has changed. It\u0092s wonderful to be in such a diverse place where you have a melting pot of cultures, people and traditions.\u0094<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Dr. Rita Wong<\/a>, Marymount\u0092s interim provost, said Clark has an impressive background of teaching, scholarship and administrative experience. Wong also praised the new dean\u0092s energy.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u0093She hit the ground running and has already immersed herself in learning everything she can about the university and meeting people in the School of Arts and Sciences and others across campus,\u0094 Wong added.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0As a teenager, Clark studied at the Virginia Ballet Company in Annandale and, during summers, in New York at the School of American Ballet and American Ballet Theater School. She danced with Virginia Ballet Company, Festival Ballet of Rhode Island and Washington Ballet. While she thought about a career as a dancer, she eventually chose to attend college and majored in classics at Georgetown University.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0While studying abroad her junior year at Trinity College, Dublin, she decided to pursue an academic career, though she worked in business for several years before graduate school. In addition to studying ancient literature, art and history as a grad student, she participated in archaeological projects in Greece.\u00a0<\/span>After earning her Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Clark taught at several large land grant universities and small liberal arts colleges before taking a position in the Department of Classical and Near Eastern Studies at Creighton, a Jesuit university in Omaha, Nebraska.<\/span><\/p>\n

In 1999\u00962000 Clark was a Junior Fellow at the Center for Hellenic Studies in Washington, D.C., where she began researching the representation of nonverbal behavior in archaic Greek poetry. This interest arose from her ballet experience and study of Greek choral poetry, which involved words, music and dance.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u0093Studying a<\/span>ncient Greek and Roman civilizations and cultures is a great way to connect with some of the best that human beings have produced,\u0094 she said. \u0093It\u0092s also a way to focus on beauty and wisdom for living a good life.\u0094<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Her other<\/span>\u00a0research interests are Greek and Latin poetry and gender studies.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0In addition to teaching and scholarship, Clark served in a variety of administrative roles at Creighton, including chair of her department and director of Health Administration and Policy.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Her husband, Gregory Bucher, also a professor of Classical and Near Eastern Studies at Creighton, will teach at the University of Maryland, College Park this academic year. Their daughter, Genevieve, is a high school sophomore. The family lives in Ballston. Clark said they love the cultural opportunities in the nation\u0092s capital and the natural beauty of the Virginia countryside.<\/p>\n

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Dr. Christina Clark joined Marymount University as dean of the School of Arts & Sciences on July 1. Clark, who had served in a variety of faculty and leadership roles at Creighton University since 2001, considers the move\u00a0to be a homecoming. Growing up in a military family, Clark lived in Alaska, the Philippines and other […]<\/p>\n

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