EDUCATIONCURRICULUM VITAE
Rita M. Csapó-Sweet, Ed.D.
1990 Ed.D., Graduate
School of Education, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA.
1982 Ed.M.,
Graduate School of Education, Harvard University
1977 B.F.A.,
Painting and B.A., History, (Eastern
European) Washington University, St. Louis, MO.
1973-74
International Student ... Painting, Royal Academy of Fine Arts,
Budapest, Hungary.
ACADEMIC POSITIONS
1999 - Associate Professor
of Communication,
University of Missouri - St. Louis
1991-99 Assistant Professor
of Communication,
University of Missouri - St. Louis
1990-91 Adjunct Assistant Professor
of Communication,
University of Missouri - St. Louis
1984-85 Teaching Fellow,
Fundamentals of Painting. Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Harvard
University
1983-84 Teaching Fellow,
Graduate School of Education, TV and the Developing Child Harvard
University
1979-81 Visiting Lecturer,
Czechoslovakian Film of the Sixties & Contemporary Hungarian
Film. Washington University
NON-ACADEMIC POSITIONS
1981-82 Program Director/Producer, Educational
Cable TV. Somerville, MA.
1980-81 Program Director, St. Louis Area Agency
on Aging.
1974-81 Freelance Medical Illustrator, St. Louis,
MO
TEACHING SPECIALTIES
Film history
Video production,
Film theory
Public speaking,
American cinema
Communication research
Eastern European media and culture
Independent media
Courses Taught in Department of Communication
Com 070 Introduction to Cinema
Com 210 Television Production I
Com 272 The History of Film Since
W.W.II Com
040 Public Speaking
RESEARCH
Summary of research on television and child development, Eastern European
media and culture, art, independent media/propaganda and free speech issues.
Journal Articles
Csapó-Sweet, R., Kaposi, Ildiko, (1999). Mass
Media in Post-Communist Hungary.
International Communication Bulletin (in press)
Csapó-Sweet, R., (1999). Where in the World is SZEZAM UTCA? Children's Television in Eastern Europe and the Arrival of SESAME STREET in Hungary The Global Network (in press)
Csapó-Sweet, R., (1998). 'Sesame Street' English Vocabulary and Word Usage for Hungarian ESL Student. Communications: The European Journal of Communication, Volume 22 (2) 175 - 190.
Hill, C., translated by Csapó-Sweet, R.M., (May/June 1994) TV Judit and Video Andras - An Interview with Judit Kopper and Andras Solyom. The Humanist, Volume 54 (3) 9 - 14.
Csapó-Sweet, R.M., (1994) Press
Now Supports Independent Media in Former Yugoslavia, Acts as Information
Link.
The St. Louis Journalism Review. Volume 24 (172) 12-13.
Csapó-Sweet, R.M., Kopper, J., (1994) Propaganda
is to Democracy, What Violence is to a
Dictatorship: Noam Chomsky on the American
Media. Magyar Narancs. Volume 6 (1-2) 44-45.
Csapó-Sweet, R.M., (1994) Sesame
Street in Hungary: Implications for Teaching ESL in a United Europe
The Journal of Applied Linguistics. Volume 1 33-41.
Csapó-Sweet, R.M., (1992) Preliminary Results from a Study on the Effects of Sesame Street on Hungarian ESL Students. The Speech and Theatre Association of Missouri Journal (STAM). Volume 22 14 - 20.
Books & Book Chapters
Csapó, R. M., Editor (1987) Artists
Resource Guide to Galleries, Grants and Services.
The Artists Foundation, Boston.
Csapó-Sweet, R., (1998). Propaganda in Motion Pictures, in The History of the Mass Media In the United States: An Encyclopedia. Edited by Margaret A. Blanchard, for Garland Publishing.
Film, Video and Broadcast Television Productions
Csapó-Sweet, R., Democracy and Propaganda: An Interview with Noam Chomsky, 1998, (30- minute TV/video program). Producers: Rita Csapó-Sweet, Judit Kopper; Director, András Solyom. Conversation with MIT Professor Noam Chomsky on various topics. Hungarian version broadcast on Hungarian Television, and screened at the Mediawave International Film Festival, Gyor, Hungary, 1997. English version will be broadcast on the Higher Education Cable Channel, Fall 98.
Csapó-Sweet, R., Noam Chomsky: Uncensored, 1996, (50 minute TV/video program). Original footage of the interview with Noam Chomsky. Shown at the annual meeting of the Union for Democratic Communication, in Chicago, Illinois, 1996. Will be broadcast on the Higher Education Cable Channel, Fall 98.
Csapó-Sweet, R., Virtual Objectivity: Media and the Critics, 1996, (30 minute TV/video program). Producers: Rita Csapó-Sweet, Judit Kopper; Director, András Solyom. 30-minute series of interviews with American and East European media critics, filmed in Hungary and the United States. Screened as a work-in-progress at the conference: Media and Mass Democracies at the Budapest University of Economics in 1994; completed form presented at the annual meeting of the Union for Democratic Communication, in Chicago, Illinois, 1996; the Missouri Video Festival 1997; Mediawave International Film Festival in 1997; and will be broadcast on the Higher Education Cable Channel, Fall 98.
Csapó-Sweet, R., Joseph Pulitzer's Message 1994, (30 minute TV/video program). Hungarian version shown on Hungarian Television, December 1993; English version shown on the Higher Education Cable Television Channel 1995 & 1996. Presented at the 1995 annual meeting of the AEJMC in Washington D.C. Producers: Rita Csapó-Sweet, Judit Kopper; Director, András Solyom. Examines the legacy of Joseph Pulitzer and the relevancy of his message to the daily operation of the St. Louis Post Dispatch. Includes scenes of Pulitzer's birth-place in Hungary; interviews with staff at the Post; interview with Pulitzer biographer Dr. Dan Pfaff; and rare photographs from the archives of the St. Louis Post Dispatch and Pulitzer family.
Csapó-Sweet, R., Animated Research Short, 1983, (16mm animated short film) for Project Zero, Harvard Graduate School of Education. Created animated short film for research in children's appreciation of visual narrative. Production funded by Harvard University.
Csapó-Sweet, R., Sisters, 1983. Short animated film on the theme of sibling friendship. Originally made in 16mm film, presently being re-edited for video. Animation and original sound-track by Csapó-Sweet. In progress, no copy available yet.
Csapó-Sweet, R., VIETNAM: A Television History, 1982. A researcher for the preparation of telecourse material for the PBS series produced at WGBH-TV, Boston, MA.
Csapó-Sweet, R., No Borders, 1982 (16mm short film), Abstract collage images and a sound track made from Hungarian sounds (natural and electronic). Shown on AIRTIME, Public Broadcasting System (PBS) KETC St. Louis, MO., and PBS Kansas City, (1984).
Csapó-Sweet, R., Say Amen, Somebody, 1981. Production assistant. Academy Award nominated documentary film. George Nirenberg, Director.
Csapó-Sweet, R., Women in Video, 1978. Presented two of my video shorts in this festival of women video directors, St. Louis, MO.
Presentations at Scholarly Conferences
Csapó-Sweet, R., (1997, August). Protest 96: Revolution in Cyberspace. Paradigm Shift in Global Communication. Presented to the Creative Projects Division of the Association for Educators in Journalism and Mass Communication Annual Meeting, Chicago, Illinois.
Csapó-Sweet, R., (1997, May). Noam Chomsky and Virtual Objectivity; Programs presented at the Mediawave International Film Festival, Gyor, Hungary.
Csapó-Sweet, R., (1996, October). Noam Chomsky: Uncensored; and Virtual Objectivity; Programs presented at the Annual Meeting of the Union for Democratic Communication, Chicago, Illinois.
Csapó-Sweet, R., (1995, August). Joseph Pulitzer's Message; 30 minute television program presented at the Annual Meeting of the Association of Educators in Journalism and Mass Communication Washington, D.C.
Csapó-Sweet, R., (1994, May). Virtual Objectivity: The Media and the Critics, video work-in-progress presented at the conference: Media and Mass Democracies, at the Budapest University of Economics, Budapest, Hungary.
Csapó-Sweet, R., (1994). Where in the World is SZEZAM UTCA? Children's Television in Eastern Europe and the Arrival of SESAME STREET in Hungary, presented at the Popular Culture Association Twenty-Fourth Annual Meeting, Chicago, Illinois.
Csapó-Sweet, R., (1992, October). Sesame Street in Hungary: Implications for Teaching ESL in a United Europe, presented at the International Communication Conference. Eger, Hungary.
Csapó-Sweet, R., (1991, September). Preliminary Results from a Study on the Effects of Sesame Street on Hungarian ESL Students, Presented at the Speech and Theater Association of Missouri, Annual Convention. St. Louis, MO.
Csapó-Sweet, R., (1988, October). Education and Television in the United States: A Case for Pro-social Values on Sesame Street, presented at the International Communication Conference, Eger, Hungary.
Csapó-Sweet, R., (1986, October). Peace Education in the United States: The Work of Educators for Social Responsibility, presented at the International Communication Conference, Eger, Hungary.
Unpublished Reports
Flagg, B., Csapó-Sweet, R. et al., (1992) Formative Evaluation of Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego? Season Two, Report for WGBH / Boston and WQED / Pittsburgh. Research Report No. 92-010.
Csapó-Sweet, R.M., (1990) The Impact of Sesame Street
on Hungarian Children Learning English.
Dissertation. Harvard University.
Curated Film Programs and Museum Exhibitions
Csapó-Sweet, R., (October 1998). Balkan Video Festival, UM - St. Louis, October 29 - 30. Film and video from the former Yugoslavia, including a panel discussion of filmmakers and scholars examining the question: how can people of different ethnic and religious back grounds co-exist in peace in contemporary society.
Csapó-Sweet, R., (November 1998). Curated two film programs
for the St. Louis International Film Festival: Australian side-bar,
sponsored by the Center for International Studies at UM - St. Louis featured
the films: Amy, Dance Me To My Song, Doing Time with Patsy Cline, and the
shorts; Maidenhead, Wednesday, and God, I Missed You Baby.
Hungarian side-bar, focused on the 1956 revolution and showed the films:
Personal Belongings, and Hungarian Fragments. Program sponsored by
the Communication Department and the History Department at UM - St. Louis,
and the Center for International Education at Webster University.
Csapó-Sweet, R., (November 1997). St. Louis Film Festival. Curated two programs, and wrote program notes. In collaboration with the Center for International Studies at UM - St. Louis brought award winning film director Werner Penzel from Germany to screen his film Middle of the Moment.. Werner Penzel was a panelist for "Magnificent Obsession: Documentary Filmmaking" at the St. Louis Art Museum. The St. Louis Film Festival also screened the film Dollybirds from Hungary. As part of the Festival, curated the screening of the Hungarian film Sztracsatella for KETC - TV Channel 9.
Csapó-Sweet, R., (November 1997). Best of Mediawave Video Festival at UM - St. Louis. Three day event included award winning video programs from all over Eastern Europe, most of which had never been screened in the United States. Video Festival co-sponsored by the Center for International Studies, and the Humanities Center at UM - St. Louis.
Csapó-Sweet, R., (1996-1997) Protest 96: Revolution in Cyberspace. (Interactive Communication-Art Gallery Exhibition). Exhibition opened in mid-December in UMSL's Gallery 210, in response to daily street demonstrations in Belgrade, Serbia. The exhibit Protest 96: Revolution in Cyberspace included images downloaded from the Internet of the demonstrations (blown up to 3x4 feet), artifacts symbolic of the protest movement (TV, radio, whistles, eggs, flowers,etc.), and a computer hooked up to the Internet so that people in St. Louis could log on and communicate directly with protesters in Belgrade; or with the Milosevic government. For the first time in history the Internet was used as a communication tool to spark and then sustain a revolution in one country while facilitating interaction from all over the world. This was a radically new, and experimental use of this new information technology. Funding for project came from: the Department of Communication, the Humanities Center, the Center for International Studies, the Instructional Technology Center, the Art Department, and the College of Arts and Sciences. After three weeks in Gallery 210, Protest 96: Revolution in Cyberspace invited for one month to the Infomachines Gallery in the St. Louis Science Center. The St. Louis Science Center is one of the top five science museums in the United States..
Csapó-Sweet, R., (1985) Films of Hungarian Filmmaker; Janos Rozsa. Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Harvard University. Guest Curator, program notes. Brought film director János Rozsa to Harvard University to show several of his films and discuss issues of contemporary filmmaking in Eastern Europe. Co-sponsored by the Russian Research Center, Emerson College, the Graduate School of Education, and the Harvard Film Archive.
01 Csapó-Sweet, R., (1978) Hungarian Film of the Seventies. Guest Curator, program notes. St. Louis Art Museum. Organized a week of films from Hungary, majority of which had never been seen in the United States. Following the festival in St. Louis, portions of the program was screened at the Museum of Modern Art, New York.
Media / Art
Csapó-Sweet, R.M., (1996 and 1997) Collages by Rita M. Csapó-Sweet, Group Show, Woods Hole Community Center, Woods Hole, MA.
Csapó-Sweet, R.M., (1987) Busyworks: Paintings and Collages by Marika Csapó and Anna Pulaski, Skylight Gallery, Boston, MA.
Csapó-Sweet, R.M., (1982) Programs produced for Somerville Cable TV. Cable community access programs on teen drinking, peer counseling, and parenting. Somerville, MA.
Csapó-Sweet, R.M., (1981) The Birds Spelled War. Video documentary, oral history of the recollections of senior citizens of the signing of the Armistice ending World War I. Thirty minute documentary, funded through the St. Louis Area Agency on Aging by the Missouri Arts Council.
Csapó-Sweet, R.M., (1980) Can I Borrow Your Name Vivian Pickles; Coming Together. Series of work incorporating dance, video, and my photography. Shown locally in film festivals at: Double Helix, Duffs Restaurant, ìWomen in Video Festivalî at UM - St. Louis.
Csapó-Sweet, R.M., (1981) The Handwriting is on the Wall, One woman retrospective of painting, work on paper, and black and white photography, Sutton Loop Gallery, Maplewood, MO.
Csapó-Sweet, R.M., (1978) Work on Paper by Vivian Hertelendi and Marika Csapó, Exhibition of pastel drawings, Olivette City Hall.
02 Csapó-Sweet, R.M., (1977) Group Art Show, Exhibition of two paintings, Steinberg Hall, Washington University, St. Louis, MO.
01 Csapó-Sweet, R.M., (1974) Group Art Show, Exhibition
of three paintings, Academy of Fine Arts, Budapest, Hungary.
RECORD OF REFEREED GRANTS
External Grants
10 Csapó-Sweet, R.M., (1996) Independent Cinema
in Post Cold War Eastern Europe: What the Mediawave Archive Reveals.
Travel grant submitted to the International Research and Exchanges Board
(IREX).
09 Glassman, J., (PI), Csapó-Sweet, R.M., (1994) Student Exchange with Kossuth Lajos University in Debrecen, Hungary. One year, full funded exchange program for four Hungarian students and four UMSL students from the United States Information Agency, Samantha Smith Foundation.
08 Csapó-Sweet, R.M., (1993) Through the Looking Glass: An East European View of Media and Politics in America. Production grant for collaborative media program with Hungarian Television. Funded by the Higher Education Center.
07 Csapó-Sweet, R.M., (1991) The Impact of Sesame Street on Hungarian Society. Travel grant submitted to the International Research and Exchanges Board (IREX).
06 Dean Mills (PI), (Csapó-Sweet, R.M., faculty grant participant) (1991) Journalism Training and Education for Democratizing Societies in Central Europe: Building a Professional Ethic, Identifying a Management Strategy, Choosing Appropriate Technology. Submitted to the United States Information Agency by University of Missouri - Columbia, (1991).
05 Csapó-Sweet, R.M., (1989) Sesame Street Research Travel grant for one trip to Hungary plus per diem, from the Soros Foundation
04 Csapó-Sweet, R.M., (1988/89) Sesame Street Research Funds for expenses associated with school based testing of the program Sesame Street from the Hungarian Ministry of Education.
03 Csapó-Sweet, R.M., (1986) Fellowship for doctoral dissertation research in Eastern Europe Funds from the International Research and Exchanges Board (IREX).
02 Csapó-Sweet, R.M., (1984) Schulman Foundation Grant in Interactive Technology at Harvard University.
01 Csapó-Sweet, R.M., (1976) Ruth Keels Macmillan
Scholarship at Washington University.
Internal Grants
02 Csapó-Sweet, R.M., (1995) Networking with Independent Filmmakers in Eastern Europe Small Grants Fund.
01 Csapó-Sweet, R.M., (1993) Through the Looking
Glass: An East European View of Media and Politics in America, University
of Missouri Research Board.
SERVICE
On Campus Events
Three day festival at UM- St. Louis: Best of Mediawave Video Festival.
JC Penney Building, showcasing the best videos from Eastern Europe,
from
the Mediawave Festival in Hungary.
1997
Interactive Exhibition in Gallery 210: Protest 96: Revolution in Cyberspace.
Provided a forum connecting UM - St. Louis with the University of
Belgrade via the Internet. Students and faculty regularly came
by to send
messages to Protest 96 in Serbia.
1996 - 1997
Greek film directors, Antonis Kokkinos and Pantelis Voulgaris lecture
on
their films and meet with UM- St. Louis students, in connection with
the
St. Louis Film Festival, the Center for International Studies,
and the Karakis Family Foundation.
1996
Sister University Faculty / Student Exchange with the Institute for
English
and North American Studies at Kossuth Lajos University in Debrecen,
Hungary.
Mentoring of Hungarian students, conducting orientation seminars for
both
UM - St. Louis students and Hungarian students in the exchange.
1995
Meet Hungarian Filmmakers: Judit Kopper and Andras Solyom
(JC Penney Auditorium, Funded by a grant from the Higher Education
Channel, and UM - Research Board).
1993
Festival of Student Academy Awards (Lucas Hall, Room 200) 1993
PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS
Co-Chair of Creative Projects: Visual Communication Division
Association of Educators in Journalism and Mass Communication.
1998
Fellow at the Center for International Studies - UMSL
1991 - present
Member, International Communications Association
1992/1996
Member, Legacy Productions Inc.
1994 - 1997
Member, Association of Educators in Journalism and Mass Communication
1995 - 1998
Member, Jury, Mediawave International Film Festival
1995 - 1996
Member, Women in Communication
1996 - 1997
Graduate Student Fellow, Russian Research Center, Harvard University
1986 - 1987
Graduate Student Fellow, Educational Technology Center, Harvard
1986 - 1988
SUMMARY OF PROFESSIONAL CONSULTING
Summative evaluation for IMAX Special Effects Exhibition at the
St. Louis Science Center.
1997
Formative evaluation Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego?
WGBH -TV. Multimedia Research, New York.
1991
Project proposal and formative evaluation for a program of Sesame Street
on Hungarian Television: Pilot project for Eastern Europe,
Children's Television Workshop, New York, NY.
1987 - 1989
MTV, Hungarian Television. 1988/1993/1994/1995