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David Rosand
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For their work as both teachers and administrators of the Core, professors Elaine Sisman and David Rosand were each presented with a Distinguished Service to The Core Curriculum Award at a Thursday, Feb. 17, ceremony in the Heyman Center for the Humanities.
Director of the Heyman Center and John Mitchell Mason Professor Emeritus William Theodore de Bary, the evening's master of ceremonies, explained to the 60 colleagues and friends gathered in the center's Common Room that the Distinguished Service to the Core Curriculum Award is given annually since 1993-1994 to recognize that the "Core needs support outside of the classroom as well as effective teaching in order to maintain its health and to enable it to flourish within a competitive University context."
De Bary underscored the award's function as an honor for service to the Core, not for excellence in teaching alone. Service to the Core is defined as chairing one of its courses, serving on one of its committees, participating in gatherings devoted to topics about it and publishing work on its nature and purposes.
Rosand received his award from Vice President of Arts and Sciences David Cohen and Sisman from Dean of Columbia College Austin Quigley, both of whom praised their respective recipients' tireless and selfless work in support of the Core, behind the scenes work that is not often recognized.
The recipients graciously demurred, however. Instead of selfless, Rosand called his involvement with the Core the "most selfish--in terms of self-fulfilling--thing I've done." It was through the Core, Sisman said, that "I fell in love with Columbia."
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Elaine Sisman
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Rosand, Meyer Schapiro Professor of Art History and Archaeology, knows the Core from both sides of the classroom. Before teaching Art Humanities as a doctoral candidate in art history at Columbia in 1964, he studied it in the College during the late-50s (CC'59). Rosand is presently at work on the Raphael Project, which introduces electronic media into the Core's Art Humanities.
He is the author of several books, among them Robert Motherwell on Paper (1997), Painting in Cinquecento Venice (1982) and Titian and the Venetian Woodcut (1976).
A professor of music, Sisman has 15 years of leading music humanities classes to her credit, four of which as the Core course's chair. She arrived at Columbia in 1982 from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, where she taught after earning her PhD in music from Princeton. Sisman, a specialist in Viennese music--especially of the Classical and Romantic periods, is the author of Haydn and the Classical Variation (1993), Mozart: "Jupiter" Symphony (1993) and Haydn and His World (1997).
She currently serves on the executive committee of Arts and Sciences.
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