Liberal Arts Faculty

Degree MFA, University of Iowa
BA, University of Iowa

Courses  Visual Culture and the Manufacture of Meaning

Degree EdD, Northern Illinois University
MA, The School of Art Institute of Chicago
BFA, University of Illinois at Chicago

Mary Assad

Title Adjunct Faculty
Department Liberal Arts
Phone 216.421.7000

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Courses  Writing + Inquiry II: Research + Intellectual Traditions | Writing for the Sciences

Degree PhD, English (Case Western Reserve University); MA, English (Case Western Reserve University); BA, History (Baldwin-Wallace College)

Mark Bassett

Title Adjunct Faculty
Department Liberal Arts
Phone 216.221.6025 (home)

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Courses  Writing + Inquiry II: Research + Intellectual Traditions

Degree PhD and MA, University of Missouri-Columbia
BA, University of Alabama-Huntsville

For many years, Dr. Bassett has conducted research on CIA's history. With Henry Adams, he is now writing a book about the school. For some examples of his research, visit http://cia.edu/history. At the top of that page, via the link "CIA at CMA," you can see 100 artworks in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection that were created by CIA people between 1882 and the present. A few profiles of historic alumni, like Tiffany lamp designer Clara Driscoll and interior architect and portrait artist Charles Sallée, can also be explored from this page.

On June 11, 2013, Mark Bassett's 1985 Ph.D. dissertation--John Horne Burns: Toward a Critical Biography--was published electronically: http://hdl.handle.net/10355/35623. This account draws from the novelist's correspondence, which, until recently, the family wouldn't allow to be published.

As a collector, dealer, and researcher specializing in American ceramics, Mark frequently speaks on this topic. He and his partner George Cooper were lenders to "The Jazz Age" exhibition at the Cleveland Museum of Art, Fall 2017.

Courses  Writing + Inquiry I: Basic Composition + Contemporary Ideas | Writing + Inquiry III: Narrative Forms

Degree MFA, Cleveland State University
BS, Kent State University

Courses  Writing + Inquiry II: Research + Intellectual Traditions

Degree MFA, Columbia University
BA, University of Notre Dame

Heath Patten

Title Adjunct Faculty
Department Liberal Arts
Phone 216.773.4138

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Courses  Art of China | India: Culture + Society

Degree PhD candidate (ABD), History of Art, The Ohio State University
MA, Anthropology, The Ohio State University
BA, Anthropology and History of Art, The Ohio State University
BA, History, The Ohio State University

He teaches Art and Design History I, Art and Design History II, Asian Art Survey, India: Culture & Society, and Art of East Asia. His research interests are ancient religions, ritual performances of the ancient Mediterranean basin, and the history of early photography and its use in archaeology. He is a published author, a professional photographer, and a professional archaeologist, who has been involved with the excavations of several sites in Ohio, Cyprus and Italy.

He is also the Curator of the Visual Resources Collection, Oberlin College Libraries, Oberlin College.