Mary C. Murdock
Mary C. Murdock
Associate Professor
(716) 878-4070
Campus Address: Chase Hall 246
murdocmc@buffalostate.edu
Mary C. Murdock is an Associate Professor and graduate faculty member at the International Center for Studies in Creativity, Buffalo State College, Buffalo, NY, where she teaches graduate courses and supervises masterÕs work. She has international teaching experience as a guest lecturer on qualitative research in the Cognitive Psychology Unit of the University of Bergen and in teaching Creative Problem Solving courses at international schools in five countries (Colombia, Dominican Republic, Tanzania, China, Malaysia).
Mary is an Advisory Board member of the American Creativity Association (ACA) and founder of the Buffalo-Niagara ACA chapter, a Colleague of the Creative Education Foundation and past editor of Celebrate Creativity, the National Association for Gifted Children's Creativity Division newsletter. She also serves as a national Scenario Evaluator for the Future Problem Solving Program.
Her publications include three texts: Creative Leadership: Skills that Drive Change with Gerard Puccio and Marie Mance; Creative Problem Solving and Role Playing, co-authored with E. Paul Torrance and Creativity Assessment: Readings and Resources with Gerard Puccio. She was also a co-editor along with Center colleagues, of Understanding and Recognizing Creativity: The Emergence of a Discipline and Nurturing and Developing Creativity: The Emergence of a Discipline.
Mary holds a BA in English from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, an M.Ed. in Gifted Education and an Ed. D in Educational Psychology from the University of Georgia. Her research interests include creative climate, theory and practice in the Torrance Incubation Model, cognitive and affective skills in CPS: The Thinking Skills Model, and application of CPS.