About

Mark H. is an assistant professor at the Northwestern University School of Communication, specializing in acting, African diasporic performance, American performance, directing, and physical theaters. He is a director, performer, and scholar with a primary focus on physical theaters and performances rooted in African and American cultural contexts. His artistic work spans a range from classical to postmodern, text-based to body-centric, and has been performed in both traditional and unconventional spaces. Mark approaches performance as a rite, an art form, and a vital technology for sight, development, liberation, and healing. His artistic research is dedicated to retrieving, preserving, and expanding African American cultural heritage. He aims to develop a unique African American aesthetic by remixing ideas and practices from various cultural lineages, creating experiences where elements of the African, European, and American cultures mingle in harmonies and tensions that reflect the complexity of African American existence. He is particularly interested in how these interactions manifest in immersive, site-specific, and participatory performance contexts. Mark H. holds an MFA in Directing from Columbia University and a BFA in Acting from Rutgers University, Mason Gross School of the Arts. His work and research emphasize the importance of cultural heritage, aesthetic innovation, and performance as a means of social and cultural expression.

Research topics

• Computer Science
• Political Science
• Psychology
• Marketing
• Medicine
• Mathematics
• Nursing
• Public relations
• Business
• Statistics
• Social psychology

Selected publications

• The Oral History of Evaluation: Joan LaFrance, Indigenous Evaluation, and Attention to Culture in Evaluation

  American Journal of Evaluation · 2025-03-13 · 2 citations

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• Blaine Worthen: Good Steward of <i>AJE</i> and More

  American Journal of Evaluation · 2024-02-01

  articleOpen access1st authorCorresponding
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• Personalization of oncolytic virus therapy: Heterogeneous anti-tumor responses in preclinical prostate and bladder cancer models

  European Urology Open Science · 2023-10-01

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• Doing better in theory-based evaluation, from A to Z

  Evaluation and Program Planning · 2023-02-26 · 1 citations

  article1st authorCorresponding
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• The Oral History of Evaluation: The Influence of Edmund Wyatt Gordon on Evaluation

  American Journal of Evaluation · 2023-02-05 · 2 citations

  articleOpen access1st authorCorresponding
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• Surfacing, as well as testing, “elliptical assumptions” in a theory of change: Principled discovery

  Evaluation and Program Planning · 2023-02-26 · 2 citations

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• Evaluation policy: An introduction

  New Directions for Evaluation · 2022-03-01 · 2 citations

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  Abstract Evaluation policy involves the dictates that guide the planning, conduct, and use of evaluation in any organization. It is – or at least should be – a central concern to those involved with evaluation. Evaluation policy shapes what evaluation practice looks like, while enabling or constraining what it can accomplish. This chapter offers a brief and selective history of evaluation policy in the United States. A description of the American Evaluation Association's activities regarding evaluation policy follows. The chapter then sets the stage for the other contributions in the current set of papers about evaluation policy.

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• The future of evaluation policy

  New Directions for Evaluation · 2022-03-01 · 3 citations

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  Abstract We highlight some key issues regarding evaluation policy, including themes that emerged across chapters of this volume. These topics include what an evaluation policy is, the kind of content that evaluation policies can have, learning agendas (which are an increasingly common component of evaluation policies, especially at the U.S. federal level), the processes by which evaluation policies are developed and implemented, the role of relationships in evaluation policies, and the consequences of evaluation policy. We briefly highlight how the chapters in this volume offer guidance to those involved with developing, implementing, or revising an evaluation policy, especially—but not only—in the U.S. federal context in the wake of legislation signed into law in 2019. Looking to the future, we also share suggestions for further advances with respect to advocacy, accountability, research, and practice related to evaluation policies.

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• Conditions to Consider in the Use of Randomized Experimental Designs in Evaluation

  Journal of MultiDisciplinary Evaluation · 2022-12-31

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  Debates about the role of randomized experiments in evaluation have been heated at times, which likely has not facilitated and possibly has hindered thoughtful judgments about whether and when to use a randomized experimental design. The challenges of thoughtful deliberation may be especially great for funders and others who influence the choice of an evaluation design but are not immersed in methodological literatures. The current paper offers a non-technical summary of general factors to take into consideration when determining the appropriateness of a randomized design in a forthcoming evaluation or set of evaluations. Four general conditions are described that should be considered with respect to the specific context for the upcoming evaluation(s). These are, first, the expected value of the information that a well-implemented experiment can provide in the specific context; second, the legal and ethical issues that apply in the circumstances at hand; third, the practical constraints (or facilitating factors) that would apply to a randomized experiment in that context; and fourth, the likely value of the experimental findings in relation to and as part of a portfolio of evaluative studies in the specific context.

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• George Julnes: Scholar of Evaluation and of Life

  American Journal of Evaluation · 2022-04-19

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Frequent coauthors

• Gary T. Henry

  University of Delaware

  14 shared

• Robert C. Sinclair

  13 shared

• R. Lance Shotland

  10 shared

• George Julnes

  Pennsylvania State University

  10 shared

• Lawrence J. Sanna

  7 shared

• Leslie J. Cooksy

  Sierra Health Foundation

  7 shared

• Stewart I. Donaldson

  Claremont Graduate University

  6 shared

• Anthony S. Burns

  Children's Hospital of Western Ontario

  6 shared