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Global Humankind Course Syllabus
Global Humankind Course Syllabus
RESEARCH INTEREST
Regions:
America
Haiti, West & Central Africa & Diaspora, Afro-Creole & Latin
Topics:
Material culture; Diaspora Ritual Practice; Infants,
Subjectivity, Hope
LANGUAGES
Haitian
Creole:
French:
Swahili:
English:
HIGHER EDUCATION
2015 In progress. PhD Anthropology with Certificates in Latin American
Studies. Admitted to Candidacy May 18, 2013.
2009 MA Social Sciences. University of Chicago. Cum Laude. Masters Title:
Greeting Teotwawki With Assault Rifles: Narratives of Tyranny and a
Chronotope of the Post-Apocalypse in the Southeast Michigan
Volunteer Militia
2007 BA in Anthropology. Indiana University. Summa Cum Laude. Honors
Thesis Title: Salt for the Living, Salt for the Dead: salt use in rites of
transition and socio-economic correlates.
2015 Curatorial Intern for Dr. Susan Cooksey Elusive Spirits: African
Masquerades Samuel P. Harn Museum
2014 Organizer & Co-Curator. The Visual Art of Anthropology Turlington
Hall Permanent Photography Exhibit presented by the Department of
Anthropology
2013 Co-curator with Natlia Marques Da Silva. Mother of the Sea: Tracing
Yemaja in Africa and the Americas. Grinter Exhibit Hall
2013 Forthcoming. Curator. Spirit Bodies: Kongo Inspirations in Afro-Creole
Sacred Objects. Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art. 2013.
2011 Artist. No Room for Fate. American Anthropological Association
Photography Exhibit. November 2011. Montreal, Canada.
2009 Tour Author. Powerful Nature: History of Animal, Human and
Environmental Representations in the Ancient Near East. Oriental
Institute Museum. University of Chicago. Chicago, Illinois.
2009 Curatorial Intern. The Life of Meresamun: A Temple Singer in Ancient
Egypt. Oriental Institute Museum. University of Chicago. Chicago,
Illinois.
2004 Collections Intern. The Greist Collection of Inupiat Artifacts from Point
Barrow, Alaska. Mathers Museum of World Cultures. Indiana University.
2015
2014
2013 Jordan, A.M Kongo Memory in the Afro Atlantic. In: Kongo Across the
Waters edited by S. Cooksey, R. Poynor, H. Vanhee. Gainesville:
University of Florida
2015
2014 Teaching Associate & Course Designer. Race and Racism Department
of Anthropology, University of Florida.
2013 Assistant. Course activities and course design for class on
commodities, objects, materiality. Dr. Susan Gillespie. Department of
Anthropology.
2012 Teaching Associate. Course: Human Sexuality. Department of
Anthropology. University of Florida.
2012 Teaching Associate. Course: Sex Roles Cross Culturally. Department
of Anthropology. University of Florida.
2011 Guest Lecture. Nou Renmen Blan, Isit! The politics of skin color in Haiti
and her religions. Course: Race and Racism. Department of
Anthropology. University of Florida.TO: Tess Kulstad.
2011 Guest Lecture. Greeting Teotwawki with Assault Rifles: Approaches to
Studying Social Movements. Course: Political Anthropology.
Department of Anthropology. Univ of Florida. Prof: Dr. Chalfin
2011 Teaching Assistant. Department of Anthropology. Course: Political
Anthropology University of Florida. Dr. Brenda Chalfin.
INTERNSHIPS
2015
RESEARCH
2014
material culture of Ghanaian toilets & hygiene, fish smoking, oil rigs,
sanitation
2012 Follow-up Research. Barbancourt, Haiti.
2011 Principal Investigator. We Refuse to Become Animals: Social
Strategies for Disaster & Risk Mediation in a post-earthquake Haitian
IDP Camp. 2 months exploratory fieldwork in Barbancourt, Haiti.
2011 Research Assistant. Department of Anthropology. University of Florida.
Dr. Brenda Chalfin Assisted in archival research on theories of
infrastructure, urban infrastructure, architecture. Edited working
papers.
2010 Teaching Assistant. Department of Anthropology. University of Florida.
Dr. Brenda Chalfin Political Anthropology
2006 Research Assistant. Mathers Museum of World Cultures. Indiana
University. Dr. Ellen Sieber. Digital Cataloging, Archival Research,
Accessioning
2007 NSF REU Fellow. Department of Anthropology. University of Notre
Dame. Dr. Susan Sheridan. Osteological and biocultural research on
Bab Ed Dhra Collection.
2005 Assistant Research Director. Semliki Chimpanzee Project. Semliki
National Forest, Uganda.Indiana University Project headed by Dr. Kevin
Hunt.
SERVICE POSITIONS
2011 Volunteer Teacher. Subjects: English, Art. Camp Mahanaim,
Barbancourt, Haiti.
2011 Volunteer Aid Worker. Community Organizing, Breastfeeding Program.
Global DIRT. Cite Soleil, Haiti.
2010 Volunteer Psychological First Aid Worker. Haiti Post-Earthquake Team.
United Sikhs.Throughout Haiti.
2010 Volunteer Family & Child Worker. Medicines du Monde, Greek Chapter.
Port Au Prince
2005 International Project Organizer. Rwenzori Regional District Community
Association. Kasese, Uganda. Indiana, USA. Gainesville, USA
2002 General Volunteer. St. Vincents Hospice. Indianapolis, Indiana
2001 General Volunteer. San Miguel Hospital. Fresnillo, Zacatecas.
SCHOLARLY COLLABORATIONS
2015 Collaborative research with J. Vadala on Yucatec Maya memory.
2012 Preliminary collaborative research with J. Vadala, Carmen Alondra Diaz,
UF Archaeologists. Field visit Barbancourt, Haiti.
2010 Active Participant in Haiti Working Group at University of Florida.
[Venue for sharing information, discussing current trends and
facilitating learning and work done by UF facultyand graduate students
in Haiti.]