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Robert Marks
Professor Emeritus
Department of History
562.907.4200, ext. 4966
rmarks@whittier.edu
Academic History
B.A., M.A., Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, Madison
Academic Focus
- History of environment of East Asia
- Chinese history
- World History
- Environmental History
Professional Interests
Late imperial and modern Chinese history, East Asian history, environmental history, social and economic history
Bio
Robert Marks is Professor Emeritus of History and Environmental Studies. After 41 years on the Whittier faculty, he retired in 2019. He is the author of several notable books and articles on Chinese and world environmental history, including Tigers, Rice, Silk, and Silt: Environment and Economy in South China (1998), The Origins of the Modern World: A Global and Environmental Narrative from the Fifteenth to the Twenty-first Century (4th ed. 2019), and China: An Environmental History (2nd ed., 2017) (all translated into Chinese). He has presented papers at conferences in China, Hong Kong, Sweden, Norway, Japan, and the Netherlands. In 1997
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Robert Marks (vocal coach)
Bob Marks | |
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Vocal coach Bob Marks | |
| Birth name | Robert Sonnenmark |
| Born | Kew Gardens, New York |
| Occupation(s) | Vocal coach, music director, conductor, author |
| Years active | 1974–present |
| Website | bobmarks.com |
Musical artist
Robert "Bob" Marks is an American vocal coach, music arranger, accompanist, conductor, and music director in New York City.[1] His students have included Natalie Portman, Britney Spears, Ariana Grande, Lea Michele, Laura Bell Bundy, Kerry Butler, Nikki M. James, Constantine Maroulis, Sarah Jessica Parker, Debbie Gibson, and Ashley Tisdale.[2] ] He is the co-author (with Dr. Elizabeth Gerbi) of "Bob Marks' 88 Keys to Successful Singing Performances: Audition Advice From One of America's Top Vocal Coaches," which was published by Thomas Noble Books in 2020.
Personal life
Marks was born in Kew Gardens, NY to Peter and Eve Sonnenmark. Marks is Jewish and both his parents were Holocaust survivors. His father Peter grew up in Prostějov, Czechoslovakia. Marks's paternal grandparents a
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Robert B. Marks wears many hats, most often a fedora. He is an author, writer, editor, and researcher. He holds a Master of Arts in War Studies, along with a Bachelor's in Medieval Studies and another Bachelor's in English Literature.
Robert made his first professional sale with Diablo: Demonsbane (Pocket Books, 2000), and followed it up with Garwulf's Corner - one of the first, if not the first, computer games issues columns to appear on the Internet. He then wrote The EverQuest Companion for Osborne/McGraw-Hill (2003).
It was in 2007 that he founded his publishing company, Legacy Books Press. He has since co-authored A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Agora (with R. Drew Griffith), an exploration of ancient humour that is now in its second edition, and published the collected Garwulf's Corner in print at last. His new project is The Eternity Quartet, with Ed Greenwood.
When he's not writing, editing, publishing, and doing other book-related things, Robert enjoys swordplay (with real longswords), playing the violin (badly), playing Magic: the Gat
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