Adjunct Stipend                            Total Spent: $   300.00
Two stipends were awarded to adjunct faculty for significant participation in programs at the college.

• Reading and Talk by Ned Balbo
  Sponsor: Lia Purpura, Communication Department
• Lia Purpura, for participation in several department programs
  Sponsor: Ron Tanner, Communication

Student Summer Fellowships   Total Spent: $ 2,500.00
Funding was provided for two student summer research fellowships, including stipends for their faculty mentors.  .
Summer 2000:

• Catherine Roan with Robert Miola, English Department
• Jennifer Wylegala with Michael Franz, Political Science Department
• Bonard Molina with Richard Boothby, Philosophy Department
• Matt Hill with Matt Mulcahy, History Department
• Lee Brady Wilson with Joe Walsh, Classics

Student Research Assistant Program    
Total Spent: $ 4,947.75
Funding was provided for eight student assistants to work with six different faculty members, for a total of approximately 588 research hours.

Summer 2000

• Michelle Backes with Phil McCaffrey, English Department
• Sarah Sandoski with Lia Purpura, Writing & Media Department
• Tankia Brew with Angela Leonard, History Department
• Noelle Chandle with Joe Walsh, Classics Department

Fall 2000

• Elizabeth Johnson with Janet Headley, Fine Arts Department
• Carolyn Caccese with Phil McCaffrey, English Department
• Anthony V. Navarro with Angela Leonard, History Department

Spring 2001

• Michelle Backes with Phil McCaffrey, English Department
• Sarah Sandoski with Lia Purpura, Writing and Media Department
• Toy Jackson with Angela Leonard, History Department
• Elizabeth Johnson with Janet Headley, Fine Arts Department
• Thomas Cunnane with Mathew Mulcahy, History Department
• Terri Lavelle with Kelly DeVries, History Department 

Summer 2001

Four grants of $3,000 were given for the summer of 2001
The faculty recipients of these grants are as follows:
1. Angela O’Donnell, English, “The Sense of Place: Geography and the Literary Imagination”
2. Willie Young, Theology, “Friendship and Disciplines of Reflection: The Case of Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy.”
3. Jane Satterfield, Communication, “Great Hungers: Language, History and Desire”
4. William MacLehose, History, “The Significance of the Child in Twelfth-and Thirteenth-Century French and English Culture”
 
Cardin Chair                          Total Spent: $ 79,764.05
The Cardin Chair is a professorship dedicated to the study of the humanities in the Judeo-Christian tradition, filled bi-annually, on a rotating basis, by a department in the Humanities. 
The Fine Arts Department hosted the Cardin Chair this year and brought in two chair holders; one in the fall and one in the spring. The fall recipient was Mark Thistlethwaite, an art historian who is the Kay and Velma Kimball Chair of Art History at Texas Christian University. This spring’s Cardin Chair was Louis Fantasia, a theater director and writer from the Shakespeare Globe Theater Centre (USA) .  Both offered course to students and a faculty seminar “Whose Art is It?” and “Art, Aesthetics and Technology: The Search for “The Good” in the Twenty-First Century,” respectively. Mr. Fantasia also directed a play Measure for Measure and held a workshop for high school drama teachers.  Faculty attending the seminars were reimbursed for the texts.
 
Full-time Faculty Sabbatical Research Funds  
Total Spent: $ 16,000.00
Four grants of $4,000 each were given to support the summer research of full-time faculty members on sabbatical.

Team-Teaching Grants      Total Spent: $ 8,000.00
Brian Crockett, English Department, and Vigen Guroian, Theology Department, were granted a renewal on their team-taught course  “Literature and the Theological Imagination” a year-long course on the interplay between theology and literature.

II.  Funding for Lectures, Performances, and Other Public Events

The Humanities Symposium:    
Total Spent: $22,527.27
Text: Jacob Riis, How the Other Half Lives
Theme: “Poverty Perceived”
Funding and other support was provided for the following events:

• Faculty Teaching Workshop on Riis
  Led by Prof. Dan Schalpbach, Fine Arts Department
• Keynote Lecture
  Professor Michael Katz
  Sheldon and Lucy Hackney Professor of History
  and Director of the Urban Studies Program,
  University of Pennsylvania
  "Was Jacob Riis Right? Housing Reform and Child Saving as Solutions to Poverty"
   
  Professor Katz is the author of In the Shadow of the Poorhouse: A Social History of Welfare in America (1986); Poverty and Policy in American History (1983);The Irony of Early School Reform (1968), and many other scholarly works concerning poverty in America in this century.
• Concert by the DaCamera Singers, Ernest Liotti, conducting
  "Keys to the City" by Tobias Picker & Selections from "Street Scene" by Kurt Weill
• Screening: Bicycle Thief
  Vittorio DeSica, 1949, Italy
• Mr. Jonathan Kozol
  Award-winning Author and Rhodes Scholar
  "Amazing Grace"
  Mr. Kozol is co-sponsored by Leadership and New Student Programs, the Dean of Freshmen, and Education for Life.

Departmentally sponsored lectures on Riis’s  How the Other Half Lives and related themes:

• Fr. Raniero Cantalamessa, OFM, cap.
  Preacher to the Papal Household
  "Happy are Those Who Consider the Poor" (Psalm 41:1)
  Sponsored by Catholic Studies
• Professor Claude Cookman
  Assistant Professor of Journalism, Indiana University School of Journalism
  "Jacob Riis, Founder of American Social Documentary Photography"
  Sponsored by the Fine Arts Department
• Professor Timothy Gilfoyle
  Associate Professor of History, Loyola University of Chicago
  "How the Other Half was Incarcerated: Prison Life in the Age of Jacob Riis"
  Sponsored by the History Department
• Professor Kurt Raaflaub
  Professor of Classics, Brown University
  "Poverty, Frugality and Nobility: Contrasting Views of 'Poverty' in Classical Antiquity"
  Sponsored by the Classics Department

Other Symposia, Lecture Series and Performance Series:

Modern Masters Reading Series:     Total Spent: $ 9,958.10
This series was comprised of readings and other events, such as master-classes on craft or class visitations, involving the following distinguished authors and poets:

Alice McDermott
J. Baggott & J. Wenderoth
James Richarson
Lydia Davis
Edmund White
Mark Bowden
William Gass

Shenandoah Shakespeare Express     Total Spent: $ 5,941.75
The traveling theater company presented two plays, Twelfth Night and Othello
Sponsors: Bryan Crockett and Bob Miola, Dept. of English

Voice Master Class Series      Total Spent: $ 5,178.15
Voice Master Class
The Voice Master Class Series focused on different contemporary performance requirements from trained singers and offered three master classes: the Singing Actor, Cabaret signing and traditional serious American song. The master teachers were Ben Krywosz, singer-actor and director of operas and musical theater performances as well as winner of a Pulitzer Prize fo r one of his songs and an Emmy for a Public Television documentary, Into the Light, and John Musto, a contemporary song composer and Emmy winner. Also involved were Loyola voice students and the Loyola Jazz Ensemble.
Sponsor:  Elizabeth Hart, Dept. of Fine Arts
             
Theology Dept. Lecture Series     Total Spent: $ 2,188.12  
This lecture series supported the use of a common text, Catherine of Siena: Passion for Truth, Compassion for Humanity , in all Introduction to Theology courses.  The series, whose theme was
“Love of God and Love of Neighbor” included two events,a public lecture by Bernard McGinn and a panel discussion on the theme of love of God and love of neighbor. The series also included a seminar on Catherine for the faculty, led by Maiju Lehmijoki-Gardner.
Sponsors: Frederick Bauerschmidt and James Buckley, Theology

Annual Colloquium on Language Literature and Society                                       Total Spent: $ 9,491.55
“Living in Another Language: Language, Literature and Society Symposium”
The colloquium included four speakers: Dr. Tusiani, a multilingual poet, scholar and translator; Mr. James Crawford, a specialist of bilingualism; Dr. Hanna Geldrich-Leffman, a multilingual scholar; and Mr. Beltran Navarro, one of the major Latino leaders and advocates in the Maryland-Washington, D.C. corridor.
Faculty sponsor: Andre Colombat,  Modern Languages and Literatures
Co-Sponsored with the Dept. of Modern Languages and Literatures, Maryland Humanities Council, Education for Life, Multicultural Affairs, and Student Activities.

Story and Virtue: The Child’s Moral Imagination in Today’s Culture          Total Spent:  $5,076.46
Featured speakers addressed how great stories help to build character and morality in young people. Speakers included Donald Reitz, Vigen Guroian, William Kirk Kilpatrick, G. Ronald Murphy, S.J., William F. Wilson, C. N. Abromaitis, Suzanne Wolfe, and Gilbert C. Meilander.
Sponsors: Carol Abromaitis and Vigen Guroian

A Day with Charles Dutton      Total Spent: $5,000.00
Baltimore native, Charles Dutton is a well-known actor who spent the day in visits to classes, small group discussions and gave a campus-wide lecture on the craft of acting and the issues of drugs in poor communities.
Sponsor Angela Leonard, History

Conference on the Work of Andre Dubus    Total Spent: $ 6,536.07
Academic conference on the work of Andre Dubus with three keyknote presentations and a number of panels through a national call-for-papers and peer-review process. Keynote speakers were Patrick Samway, S.J., Andre Dubus, III, and Philip Spitzer.
Sponsor: Brennan O’Donnell

Individual Lectures and Performances    Total Spent: $22,151.00

• The Sixteenth Annual Jerome S. Cardin Lecture,  Supported by the generosity of the Jerome S. Cardin Family Keynote Speaker Peter Ochs, Edgar Bronfman Professor of Modern Judaic Studies, University of Virginia gave a lecture on “The One God, Trinity, and the Jews” with responses from William Cardinal Keeler, Archbishop of Baltimore and Rabbi Joel Zaiman, Chizuk Amuno Congregation.
  Sponsor: Claire Mathews McGinnis
• “Searching for Eve” a concert for Women’s History Month with sopranos Carolyn Black-Sotir and Elizabeth Hart and pianist R. Timothy McReynolds
  Sponsor: Anthony Villa, Fine Arts Department
• Lecture by Jan Bremmer, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, Netherlands on “The Birth of the Christian Afterlife”
  Sponsor: Thomas McCreight, Classics
• Lia Purpura reading from and discussion  of her book, Increase, with writing students.
• Lecture by Kurt Raaflaub, Brown University of “Poverty, Frugality, and Nobility: Contrasting Views of ‘Poverty’ in Classical Antiquity.”
  Sponsor: Thomas McCreight, Classics Department
• The Langauge of Song: Performance and Panel Discussion.
  Johns Hopkins/Morgan State choral conductor and bass-baritone soloist David Neal premiered a new work for voice and piano by composer Mark Lanz Weiser.  The work’s   libretto is based on William Carlos Williams’ complex relationship with the poet Hilda Doolittle. A panel after the performance featuring the composer, librettist, singer, pianist and writer Lia Purpura,  discussed the approaches in setting words to music.
  Co-sponsored by Johns Hopkins University.
  Sponsor: Lia Purpura, Communication
• Educator and independent experimental animator Lynn Tomlinson visit to demonstrate her unusual stop-motion, clay-on-glass animation technique and to speak on the importance of animation for language acquisition and skills learning for children; Craig Saper talk on the process of producing educational spots for television.
  Sponsor: Nick Miller, English Department
  Co-sponsors are English Department, Film Studies, Communication Department, Fine Arts Department and Speech Pathology Department. 
• Lecture by Diane Harris-Cline on “Discovering Ancient Religion through Archaeology”
  Sponsor: Martha Taylor, Classics Department
• Lecture by Cecilia Moore on “African American Catholic Conversion and Identity in the Twentieth Century.”
  Sponsor: Arthur Sutherland
• A lecture on “Faith and Justice in the Gospel and the World,” Mass and discussion with Father Jon Sobrino, S.J.
  Sponsor: June Ellis, English Department
  Co-sponsors: Encuentra El Salvador, Catholic Studies, Center for Values and Service, Loyola Jesuit Community, Committee on Catholic Social Thought.
• Bus trip to tour the Classical Collection at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City.
  Sponsor: Martha Taylor, Classics Department
• Next Year in Jerusalem: An Instructed Passover
  Sponsor: Angela Christman, Theology Department
• 6th Annual Faculty Retreat
  Sponsor: Angela Christman, Theology Department
• Lecture by Michael Budde on the “Death industry”
  Sponsor: Stephen Fowl, Theology Department
• Two lectures by John Stevens on “The Golden Bough and the Gate of False Dreams: the Philosophical Background to the Aenid” and “I was Unwise with Eyes Unable to See: Love and Sex in Aenid I &II”
  Sponsor: Tom McCreight, Classics Department
• Lecture by Christopher Wolfe on “Can and Should We ‘Legislate Morality’?”
  Sponsors: Peter Ryan, S.J. and Kevin Hula, Political Science
  Theology Department, Political Science Department, Catholic Studies & Intercollegiate Studies Institute
• Bus Trip to Brighton Beach “Russian America: A Bus Trip to Brighton Beach (Little Odessa), New York”
  Sponsor: Cheri Wilson, History Department
• Reading by Dana Gioia from his forthcoming book of poems and libretto Nosferatu .
  Sponsors: Brian Murray and Ned Balbo, Communication Department
• John Ruppert presented a slide show on his sculptures and its influences in anticipation of an art project at Loyola College near the Fine Arts building.
  Sponsor: Center for the Humanities and Janet Headley, Fine Arts Department
• The 18th Annual Sr. Cleophas Costello Lecture: Mary Chapin Carpenter
  Carpenter is an award winning country music artist and author of two children’s books. Her lecture combined spoken word and poetry and songs.
  The Center was a co-sponsor of this event of the Mount Saint Agnes College Alumnae Association. 
  College Sponsor: Mary Skinner, Office of Alumni Relations

Miscellaneous

Faculty Friday        Total Spent: $ 1,322.65
A monthly social gathering of faculty across the college intended to foster interaction of faculty across the disciplines.
Sponsor: Kathy Forni, English

III.     Honors Program      Total Spent: $37,250.48

The Honors Program receives half of its funding from the College’s regular operating budget and half from the Center for the Humanities.  The Center pays for expenses related to the Honors Experience, as outlined below, as well as for the certain administrative costs associated with running the program (Programs Coordinator salary; photocopying; postage).

Student-Faculty Colloquia
The following is a sampling of student-faculty colloquia held throughout the year, in addition to those colloquia that built on other performances and lectures around campus.

• Screening and discussion of A Christmas Story
• Walking tour of neighborhood in conjunction with Tenement Museum in New York City
• Attend “Orientalism in America: 1870-1930” at Walters Art Gallery
• Screening  and discussion of Matwan
• Viewing and Discussion of Tenement Museum in New York City
• Attendance and discussion of play, Fall by Bridget Carpenter
• Discussion on election politics over an exotic meal 
• Discussion of Border Crossings

Performances and Exhibits
Students were given the opportunity to attend the following performances and exhibits

Plays
She Stoops to Conquer by Oliver Goldsmith
Fall by Bridget Carpenter
Short Plays by Thornton Wilder 
The Investigation by Peter Weiss
Dinah Was by Oliver Goldstick

Museum Tours
Metropolitan Museum of Art

Concerts:
Six different concerts performed by the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra

Film Series
Roger and Me , Michael Moore, USA, 1989                                            
A Man of No Importance , Suri Krishnamma, Ireland, 1994                         
Bicycle Thief , Vittorio DeSica, Italy, 1949 Co-sponsored by the Humanities Symposium 
Pixote, Hector Babenco, 1981 Brazil            
Babette’s Feast , Gabriel Axel, Denmark, 1987   Co-sponsored with ALPHA
Xala, Ousmane Sembene, Senegal, 1974  Co-sponsored with Film Studies
400 Blows , Francois Truffaut, 1959, France        
Small Faces , Gillies MacKinnon, Scotland, 1996           

Social Gatherings

The Center funded a picnic and Christmas party for honors students, as well as a wine tasting for senior honors students with wine critic and English professor, Paul Lukacs.

Miscellaneous 

• Each Professor teaching in the program received $500 to fund course-related extra curricular activities with students (e.g., attendance at Walters Art Gallery exhibits, admission to the Holocaust Museum, etc.)
• Attendance at the National Collegiate Honors Council by the director of the program and four students;
• Magazine Subscriptions

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