About Me
Dr. Mark Congdon Jr. is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication Studies at Sacred Heart University. He holds a Ph.D. in Communication with a concentration in Social Entrepreneurship in Communication Pedagogy and Educational Leadership from the University of Maine. His research and teaching focuses on active learning and innovative teaching practices that increase the civic engagement and career readiness of students. Specifically, Mark centers Universal Design for Learning (UDL) with a (critical) service-learning framework in his course designs.
Mark is an expert in designing and helping others design courses through a (critical) service-learning framework, where students gain hands-on experience partnering with local organizations and community partners. Mark’s research has been published in Communication Education, Communication Teacher, The Qualitative Report, and Partnerships: A Journal of Service-Learning & Civic Engagement, among others.
Mark is also a National Board Member of U.S.-El Salvador Sister Cities, a nonprofit dedicated to creating a cultural-economic model of relationships between the US and El Salvador based on social justice, solidarity, and empowerment. He is a former special education teacher and a Teach for America alumnus. Outside of teaching and research, Mark is a huge Buffalo Bills fan, loves to cook, perform karaoke, and travel, especially to the beach.
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Research Interest Areas:
1. Communication Pedagogy and Community Engagement: Experiential learning; service-learning; civic engagement; utilizing innovative practices of teaching, leadership, & mentoring; critical & interpretive approaches to leadership & student development; critical pedagogues; project-based learning; social entrepreneurship; social innovation; data-driven instruction; relationship-based pedagogy
2. Culture and Organizational Communication: Critical & interpretive theories of culture & organizational communication; how cultural ideologies are produced, consumed, performed, hidden, & resisted through communication & in/within education and organizations; intersections of class, race, (dis)ability, gender, &/or sexual orientation with student learning, success, engagement, & leadership
3. Approaches and Methods: Qualitative: ethnography & textual analysis; Critical/cultural; Mixed methodological approaches
Awards & Honors:
- Capital Region Engaged Scholar Teacher (CREST) Fellow, College of Saint Rose
- Provost’s Innovative Teaching Award, University of Maine
- Faculty of Excellence Award, University of North Carolina at Greensboro’s Tri-Sigma
- John Andrew and Margaret E. Robinson Memorial Fellowship, UNC Greensboro
- Scholars Recognition Program, Office of Multicultural Affairs, UNC Greensboro
- Inclusiveness Award, UNC Greensboro
- AmeriCorps Education Award, Teach for America
- Helping Hands Award for Diversity, Wilkes University
- Scholars in Service Award, AmeriCorps
- Pennsylvania State Scholar for Academic Excellence & Service, Horatio Alger Association
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University of North Carolina at Greensboro;
Wilkes University
Teach for America
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