RESUME

Name: / Mahatapa Palit, Ph.D.
Address: / 139-54 86th Rd
Briarwood, NY 11435
Phones: / (718) 509-5707 (Cellular)
(212) 220 – 8000 X 5256 (Office)
(718) 558-0635 (Home)
Fax: / (718) 558-0635
E-mail: /
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Role of Collaboration and Technology in Student Success; Social Entrepreneurship; Role of Performing Arts in Building Community
EDUCATION
1999 / Florida International University, Miami, Florida
Ph.D. in Business with an emphasis in Marketing
Dissertation Title: Consumer Satisfaction Response to Disconfirmation: An Examination of the Form and the Underlying Process
1986 / Delhi University, India, Master's in Business Administration
Major: Marketing
1984 / Delhi University, India, Bachelor of Arts (Hons) Psychology

Professional ORGANIZATIONS

Member of the Society of Marketing Advances

JOURNAL PAPERS
Palit, Mahatapa (2009). Can Digital Story Build Career Identity? Academic Exchange Quarterly, Spring, 13 (1).
Bishop, Sangeeta, Katherine Kavanagh & Mahatapa Palit (2009). The Role of CUNY’s Creative Campus. Magazine of Performing Arts. (in press)
Palit, Mahatapa & Stein, Christopher. How to Collaborate in a Virtual World: Teaching Teamwork and Technology. American Journal of Educational Studies. (under review).
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
2003 – Present / The City University of New York/BMCC, New York, USA
1995 – 1998 / Barry University, Miami, Florida, USA
1991 – 1995 / Florida International University, Miami, Florida, USA
WORK EXPERIENCE
8/94 – 6/98 / Assistant Professor, Barry University
6/90 - 7/91 / Associate Project Director, Indian Market Research Bureau, India.
12/88 – 6/90 / Senior Market Researcher, Indian Market Research Bureau, India
6/86 – 12/88 / Market Researcher, Probe Qualitative Research, India
AWARDS
CUNY’s Creative Campus: TheRole of Performing Arts Centers on Community, Economy and Education’ (with S. Bishop & K. Kavanagh), $30,000, CUNY CCRI Grant 6/2006 – 6/2007.
Communicating Across Borders: Collaboration Between Multimedia and Business Students (with C. Stein), $3000, PSC-CUNY 6/2006 – 6/2007.

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