English and Communication
Cabrini College
Radnor, Pa. 19087
jzurek@cabrini.edu
Department site:
Professional:
- Professor of the Year for Pennsylvania 2005, awarded by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and the Council for Advancement and Support of Education.
- The Poynter Institute National Teaching Award for Excellence in the Teaching of Writing.
- The Poynter Institute Seminar Award: Convergence for College Educators.
- National Endowment for the Humanities summer seminar for college teachers.
- Lindback Award for Distinguished Teaching.
- Sears-Roebuck Foundation Teaching Excellence and Campus Leadership Award
- Brazil Solidarity Tour 2006,
- Mexico-U.S. Border Tour 2007,
- El Salvador Solidarity Tour 2008. The potential site for future Cabrini social justice courses.
- Proposed and developed Catholic Relief Services Global Solidarity Network, an online site that connects students and faculty across the country with poverty and development issues and Catholic Relief Services staff around the world.
- My current focus: http://www.socialjusticejournalism.org/ . How student journalists can work for a better world.
- As a result of our February 2009 social justice journalism tour to Guatemala, our wonderful seniors on the trip (Kara Schneider, Christine Graf, Jillian Smith, Megan Pellegrino, and Jessica Hagerty) and their instructors, Cathy Yungmann and I, produced this site.
Courses I teach:
- Mass Communication and Online Role of Mass Media in a Democracy
- Shakespeare
- Online Shakespeare--Plays & Movies
- Homer's Iliad and Odyssey
- Sem 300 Working for Global Justice
- Professional Development Program
- Journalism
- Our Interdependent World. Engagements with the Common Good pilot course: Cabrini’s exciting new core curriculum takes shape with the freshmen this year.
- Face of Justice. Pilot course for sophomores.
Students:
- Cabrini College student newspaper, the Loquitur. Winner of the 2006 Associated Collegiate press Pacemaker award, as one of the top 18 college papers in the nation.
- Cabrini College radio station, WYBF - the Burn
- Iraqi Refugees: the Hidden Crisis -
- Our Hands Are Not Tied -
- Microfinance: Securing Futures in Developing Countries -