Concord High School Teaching Staff In the 2009/2010 academic year, Concord will be staffed by an impressive group of educators, many of whom hold multiple degrees and teaching credentials. With their experience and contagious enthusiasm, they warm the heart of our school. Attesting to the fact that teaching at Concord is a challenging and rewarding experience, all of our teachers are once again returning, and some teachers have been with us for over nineteen years. As well as teachers, they have been writers, lecturers, editors, researchers, artists, illustrators, business and finance consultants, musicians, travelers, and scholars. Humanities/Social Science Marissa DeSiena, who graduated Magna Cum Laude and Phi Beta Kappa from Fairfield University, received her Masters in History at UCLA, and is currently a Doctoral Candidate in History at UCLA, has received numerous awards for academic excellence and scholarship, including several fellowships at UCLA in History and Foreign Language Area Studies. She has also studied abroad extensively in England and Russia. She will be teaching World History, AP United States History and a Politics & Media English class for seniors. Andrew Taylor, who received his BA (Hons) in History and Italian; 2:1 with Distinction, at St. Edmond Hall, Oxford University, his Masters in Italian at UCLA, and expects his Ph.D. in Italian shortly, at UCLA, will teach English, AP English and AP European History. Max Duganne, a Concord High School graduate who received his B.A. in Business Management, Finance Concentration, at the Carroll School of Management, Boston College , will be teaching AP English and AP United States Government & Politics. Science and Mathematics Adriana Popescu has been teaching at Concord for over twenty years. She will continue to teach AP Biology, Chemistry and AP Chemistry. Adriana has an extensive background teaching agriculture and science in Romania for 19 years before coming to teach in the United States. Charles Garcia, Jr., was selected to study at the University of California, Berkeley Summer Mathematics Institute for two years while earning his B.A. in Pure Mathematics from the University of Tampa . He received his Masters in Applied Mathematics while continuing in the Doctoral program at UCLA. He will be teaching Algebra I, Algebra II, Pre-Calculus, AP Calculus (AB) and (BC), Multi-Variable Calculus, Linear Algebra and Differential Equations and AP Physics. Max Duganne will be teaching Geometry and Pre-Calculus. Foreign Language Martine Anderson returns to the school to head our Foreign Language Department. Martine teaches all levels of French, including AP French Language and AP French Literature. The trilingual René Llave, born and educated in France, teaches all levels of Spanish including AP Spanish Language and AP Spanish Literature. Latin I through AP Latin Language, AP Latin Literature, Greek and Russian are taught by Classicist, Chris Hudson, who returns to his fourteenth year at Concord while he continues to teach Latin and Greek at UCLA. Italian is taught by Andrew Taylor, who in addition to being in the process of completing his Ph.D. in Italian at UCLA, has also worked as the Research Assistant to the Director of the Getty Research Institute for the Arts and Humanities, and has taught at the Istituto Italiano di Cultura, Los Angeles. Japanese will be taught by Toyoko Fujimoto, who attended both Meiji University and the American Japanese English Institute in Japan. Toyoko has been teaching since 1973, and began at Concord seven years ago. Art John Park, painter, illustrator, and a graduate of the Rhode Island School of Design, is a staff member at the Brentwood Art Center who will teach Advanced Art and AP Studio Art. John, who assisted in teaching figure drawing, design, anatomical dissection and anatomy at RISD, is also a mural painter and medical illustrator.   Staff Degrees and Credentials Martine Anderson -- French B.A., Université de Louvain, Belgium, 1976 Certificate of Translation and Interpretation French-English, University of California, Los Angeles, 1981 Marissa DeSiena -- English, History M.A., Ph.D. Candidate, History, University of California, Los Angeles, 2004 B.A., Magna Cum Laude, Phi Beta Kappa, International Studies, Minors in Russian and Eastern European Studies and History, Fairfield University, Fairfield University Honors Program, 2001 Max Duganne -- English, Geometry, Government, Pre-Calculus B.A., Business Management, Finance Concentration, Wallace E. Carroll School of Management, Boston College, 2005 Toyoko Fujimoto -- Japanese Interpreter, translator, Instructor of Japanese, 1981 to present Entered American Japanese English Institute in Japan, 1970 Attended Meiji University, 1969 Charles Garcia, Jr. -- Algebra II, Pre-Calculus, Calculus, Physics Ph.D. Candidate in Applied Mathematics, University of California, Los Angeles, 1999-2009 M.A., Applied Mathematics, University of California, Los Angeles, 1998 B.S., Mathematics, University of Tampa, Florida , 1995 Chris Hudson -- Greek, Latin, Russian M.A., Classics, University of California, Los Angeles, 1994 Post-Baccalaureate Program in Classical Studies, University of Pennsylvania, 1989-91 B.A., Yale University, 1981 René Llave -- Spanish French Masters Degree, University of Grenoble, 1993 E.S.I.T., Sorbonne III, 1992 C.A.P.E.S. (Spanish), University of Lyon, 1990 John Park -- Art B.F.A. (Illustration), Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, Rhode Island, 1996 Rhode Island School of Design European Honors Program, Rome, Italy, 1995-96 Adriana Popescu -- Biology, Chemistry Ph.D., University of Bucharest, 1984 M.S., University of Bucharest, 1977 B.S., University of Bucharest, 1968 Andrew Taylor -- English, History, Italian Ph.D. expected 2009, Italian, University of California, Los Angeles M.A., Italian, University of California, Los Angeles, 1996 BA (Hons) in History and Italian; 2:1 with Distinction, St. Edmund Hall, Oxford University, 1991