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Marcia L. Mikulak – Professor Home: 701-330-1311Department of Anthropology Office: 701-777-4718Babcock Hall 104 E-mail: marcia.mikulak@email.und.edu236 Centennial Drive Stop 8374Grand Forks, ND 58202-8374

Education1996 – 2002 Ph.D., Cultural Anthropology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM

Dissertation: “The Social Construction of Disposable Children: Street and Working Children in Minas Gerais, Brazil,” UMI Number: 3072249

1992 – 1995 MA, Cultural Anthropology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM1970 – 1974 MFA, Mills College, Oakland, CA1966 – 1970 BM, San Francisco Conservatory of Music, San Francisco, CA

Areas of SpecialtyHuman Rights, Violence, Social and Cultural Constructions of Childhood, Rural and Urban Migration

Research SitesDomestic Violence, Grand Forks, ND; Human Rights (children and indigenous rights) Belo Horizonte, Brazil, and Pesqueira, Pernambuco, Brazil (Xukuru Indigenous Human Rights)

Professional ExperienceUniversity Employment2009 – Present Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of North Dakota, Grand

Forks, ND2003 – 2008. Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of North Dakota, Grand

Forks, ND2000 – 2001 University of New Mexico, Adjunct (Graduate Student)2000 – 2001 Teaching Assistant, Department of Anthropology, University of New Mexico (Graduate

Student)1999 – 2000 University of New Mexico, Adjunct (Graduate Student)1998 – 1999 University of New Mexico, Adjunct (Graduate Student)1991 – 1992 Northern New Mexico Community College, Fine Arts Department1985 – 2000 Director and Creator: Santa Fe Research Institute. Development of innovative learning

curriculums for children and adolescents1978 – 1985 College of Santa Fe, Department of Performing Arts, Individual Piano, Music Theory,

Piano Pedagogy1977 – 1979 College of Santa Fe, Department of Performing Arts, Head of Piano Department

Research Employment1989 – 2002 Santa Fe Research. Director, for-profit institute dedicated to the investigation of

learning, perception, and creative educational curriculums.Jan, 2002 – Oct, 2002: Researcher Position - New Mexico Department of Health, Injury Prevention, and

Emergency Medical Services Bureau. Contractor/Qualitative Data Analysis, Assessment on Violence Against Women in the state of New Mexico. Data collection, analysis, assessment, and authorship of final report.

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Sep, 2001 – Dec, 2001 Research Assistant to the Sexual Assault Nurse Examiners Collaborative (SANE), Office of Evaluation, University of New Mexico. Principle duties encompassed coding, data analysis, and report writing for a five-year review of the SANE unit in the Albuquerque, New Mexico area.

Jun, 2001 – Aug, 2001: Child Occupant Protection Program, Field Research Assistant and Team Leader: Attitude and Practice Survey (KAP), Office of Evaluation at the University of New Mexico. Duties included traveling to six Northern New Mexico Communities, interviewing via prepared interview instrument for the collection of quantitative data on seat belt use and car safety in New Mexico. In addition, team work and shared responsibilities as rotating team leaders required coordination of work protocol, organization of materials, and write up and presentation to Project Coordinator.

Oct, 1999 – Feb, 2001: Native American Diabetes Project, Research Assistant, Strong in Body and Spirit! University of New Mexico. Responsibilities included utilizing anthropological skills in the observation, evaluation, and analysis of community health education training programs on diabetes. Additional responsibilities included nation wide program development, travel and participation observation, evaluation, and interviewing of community participants in training sessions. Report writing, development of interview protocols for focus group interviews were additional responsibilities, as were the design of consensus coding protocols and team coordination, and analysis of qualitative data.

Feb, 1999 – Oct, 1999: Masters in Public Health, Research Assistant to the Public Health Outreach Education Program (PHOEP). Responsibilities included design, data entry, preliminary analysis, and preparation of various needs assessment surveys. Additional duties included literature searches and compilation of course materials, design of fliers, posters, and advertisement of PHOEP courses, general organization of PHOEP workshop arrangements and materials, as well as design and collaboration of team consensus coding. In addition, responsibilities included knowledge of the following computer programs (MS Word, Excel, SPSS, Power Point, and Access) for the design and production of class and lecture slides, calendar organization, data analysis, and the organization of deliverables on several grants.

Jan, 1998 – Dec, 1998: Research Assistant for the Department of PEDS/School and Community Health, University of New Mexico, CDC study on tobacco and youth. Job responsibilities included transcript cleaning and word processing preparation for entry into Nudist (a computer qualitative data analysis tool), working in MS Word 95, Microsoft office 1997, consensus coding, data analysis, and report writing.

Jan, 1996 – Jan, 1997: Research Assistant Department of PEDS/School and Community Health, University of New Mexico, CDC study on tobacco and youth. Areas of work: research analyst, data entry in Nudist (a computer qualitative data analysis tool), word processing and transcript cleaning, and member of project team working in areas of presentation and publication of data.

PublicationsBooks

2015 - Mikulak, Marcia. Childhood Unmasked: The Agency of Brazil’s Street and Working Children. San Diego: Cognella Academic Publishing. June 15, 2015

2014 - Mikulak, Marcia. Ed. In Search of a New Paradigm: A Cultural Anthropology Reader San Diego: Cognella Academic Publishing, January 4, 2014

Book Chapters

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2014 Mikulak, Marcia. Childhood, in Searching for a New Paradigm: A Cultural Anthropology Reader. First Edition. San Diego: Cognella Academic Publishing. June 15, 2015

2014 Mikulak, Marcia. The Social Constructions of Childhoods: Historical Framework, in Searching for a New Paradigm: A Cultural Anthropology Reader. First Edition. San Diego: Cognella Academic Publishing. June 15, 2015

Peer-Reviewed Journal Publications 2016 Mikulak, Marcia. Colonial Subjugation and Human Rights Abuses: Twenty-First

Century Violations against Brazil’s Rural Indigenous Xukuru Nation. Contemporary Rural Social Work. Vol 8, No 3 (2016). June

2011 Mikulak, Marcia. The Symbolic Power of Color: Constructions of Race, Skin-Color and Identity in Brazil. Humanity and Society, 35(1)

2011 Mikulak, Marcia. Music, Anthropology, and the Senses: Cognition for Social Change. Ethnisc-ripts, 13.1

2007 Mikulak, Marcia. The Political Economy of Everyday Life: Working Children in Curvelo, Minas Gerais, Brazil. Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences, Vol. 1, Issue 2. ISSN 1934-7227. On-line peer reviewed international electronic journal http://www.scientificjournals.org/journals2007/articles/1127.pdf

2007 Mikulak, Marcia. Love and Suffering in Bom Jesus: Marileia as Favela Woman and Mother. Bulgarian Journal of American and Transatlantic Studies. #2/2007-02-10. On-line peer reviewed, international electronic journal. http://www.jatsbulgaria.org

Encyclopedia Articles – Peer Reviewed 2005 Mikulak, Marcia. Childhood in the Encyclopedia of Anthropology. H. James Birx,

Ph.D., D. Sci., Editor. Encyclopedia of Anthropology, SAGE Publications, California USA. 2005. Pp. 495-498

Conference Proceedings Publications (Peer Reviewed) 2017 Mikulak, Marcia. Society for the Study of Social Problems 67th Annual Meeting. Those

Who Tell the Stories Rule the World: Native American Proverb. Montreal, Quebec Canada. Paper presentation – Thematic Panel: Mobilization and Narratives of Resistance in Today’s America. Paper title: Standing Rock Nation Water Protectors in North Dakota and Brazil’s Xukuru Nation: Human Rights Abuses by the State against Indigenous First Nations Peoples. August 12, 2:30 pm.

2015 Mikulak, Marcia. Society for Applied Anthropology 75th Annual Meeting. Pittsburgh, Penn. Chair: Indigenous people – Continuity and Change. Paper presentation North Dakota’s Oil Boom, Ft. Berthold and Indigenous Rights Social Action Research. Collaborative paper presentation with Lisa DeVille, TAB.

2013 Mikulak, Marcia. Indigenous Human Rights Advocacy and Constructed Boundaries of Indigenous Identity among the Xukuru. Society for Applied Anthropology 73rd Annual Meeting. Denver, CO. Session Title: Indigenous Rights, Part II. March 20 th, 2013

2013 Mikulak, Marcia. Hawaii International Conference on Arts and Humanities. Peer Reviewed Submission. Colonial Subjugation and Indigenous Human Rights Abuses: Twenty-First Century Violations Against Brazil’s Xukuru Population. Jan. 10 – 13. Jan. 12th, 2013. Session: Anthropology. http://www.hichumanities.org/2013%20Final

%20Program.pdf 2012 Mikulak, Marcia. Hawaii International Conference on Arts and Humanities. Peer

Review submission. Indigenous Human Rights in Brazil: Faculty/Student Social Action Research. http://www.hichumanities.org/2012%20Final%20Program.pdf

2011 Mikulak, Marcia. Hawaii International Conference on Arts and Humanities. Peer review submission. Successful Indigenous Activism: Brazil’s Indigenous Xukuru. January 11,

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2010 Mikulak, Marcia. “Music, Anthropology, and the Senses: Cognition for Social Change. Narrative Soundings, 3rd International Conference Narrative Inquiry in Music and Education. The University of Queensland, St Lucia, Brisbane Queensland, Australia. Nov. 24-27, 2010

2009 On Developmental Leave 2008 Mikulak, Marcia. “University of North Dakota’s Department of Anthropology

Community Based Social Action Research on Domestic Violence.” Hawaii International Conference on Arts and Humanities. Peer reviewed submission – invited presentation and publication in conference proceedings. January. ISBN# 1541-5899

2007 Mikulak, Marcia and Sergio Gallo. Music, Anthropology, and Communication: Sensuality, Complex Cognition, and Social Change. Published in the Proceedings to the World Conference on Arts and Communication, São Paulo, Brazil. Copyright 2007, COPEC – Council of Researchers in Education and the Sciences. ISBN: 85-89120-51-1

Invited Book Reviews 2014 Oxford Bibliographies on Childhood Studies. Lewis Aptekar’s

Bibliographic Article and Annotated Citations. Invited Reviewer. 2012 Mikulak, Marcia. Review of “White Kids: Language, Race, and Styles of Youth

Identity. Journal of Anthropological Research, Ed. by Robert A. LeVine and Rebecca S. New. Vol. 68.

2010 Mikulak, Marcia. Review of "Anthropology and Child Development: A Cross-Cultural Reader.” Journal of Anthropological Research, invited book review. Edited by Robert A. LeVine and Rebecca S., Volume 66, Number 2

2009 Developmental Leave through Summer 2010 2008 Mikulak, Marcia. Review of “Raising an Empire: Children in Early Modern Iberia and

Colonial Latin America,” Journal of Anthropological Research, Ed. by Ondina E. González and Bianca Premo. Invited book review. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press. Volume 64, Number 3

2007 Mikulak, Marcia. Review of “Forsaken Females: The Global Brutalization of Women,” Andrea Parrot & Nina Cummings American Anthropologist, invited book review. Boulder: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., Volume 109, Issue 3, 576-577.

2006 Mikulak, Marcia. Review of “Children’s Places: Cross-Cultural Perspectives,” Ed. by Karen Fog Olwig & Eva Gullǿv. Journal of Anthropological Research, invited book review. New York: Routledge. Volume 62, Number 3

2003 Mikulak, Marcia. Review of “Street Children in Kenya: Voices of Children in Search of a Childhood,” Philip Kilbridge, Collette Suda, and Enos Njeru. Journal of Anthropological Research, invited book review: Westport, Connecticut: Bergin & Garvey. Volume 59, Number 3

2000 Mikulak, Marcia. “At Home in the Street: Street Children of Northeast Brazil,” Tobais Hect. Invited book review for the Journal of Anthropological Research: Volume 55, Number 4

Published Reports 2009 Mikulak, Marcia. Amnesty International – Analysis of the “US Department of State

Report – Country Reports on Human Rights Practices, Brazil 2009.” December 2008 Mikulak, Marcia. Amnesty International – Analysis of the “US Department of State

Report – Country Reports on Human Rights Practices – Brazil 2007,” Released by the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor, March 11

2003 Heaven, P.C.L., Hebert, D.M., Hecht, M.L., Hedeker, D., Heeren, T. Helitzer, D.,Metzler, C.W., Mezzich, A.C., Michell,L. Migneault, J.P., Mikulak, M. Published on Robert Wood Johnson Foundation website. Grants Reports Lists Activities, “Non-

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Smokers More Likely to Take Part in Extracurricular Activities” http://www.rwjf.org/reports/grr/032020.htm

2002 Mikulak, Marcia. New Mexico Department of Health, Public Health Division, Injury Prevention and Emergency Medical Services Bureau, “An Assessment of Domestic Violence and Sexual Violence in the State of New Mexico. CDC Grant #U17/CCu619387-02. Report Distributed to all Key Stakeholders

1997 Davis, Sally (PhD); Allen, P; Shorty, L.; Wilson, C. Helitzer, D; Ingraham, L; Mason, C.; Mikulak, M. “Rural New Mexico Teens’ Views on Tobacco: Summary Report of Findings from a Qualitative Study.” University of New Mexico, Center for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention

Public Scholarship 2015 Community Connect: Journal of Civic Voices. Senior Editor & Introduction 2014 Community Connect: Journal of Civic Voices. Senior Editor & Introduction 2013 GMIRatings: Discover Key Measures of Value – Biweekly View: Petrobras Grapples

With Oil Spill Prevention by Sonja Ryst, Financial Reporter. Marcia Mikulak Interviewed regarding Brazilian case of the Fishermen’s Organization Associação Homens e Mulheres do Mar (AHOMAR) and their war against Petroleo Brasileiro SA (PBR.) Jan3, 2013

2012 Xukuru Human Rights Blog - http://xukurujustice.blogspot.com/ & http://www.blogger.com/profile/11619729976896545528

2012 Xukuru Human Rights – Marcia Mikulak YouTube Videos (4 short historical videos – social action activism) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dWUmaZwL0Sg

2012 UND Discovery – A Voice for the Xukuru. Anthropologist Marcia Mikulak. Pp. 12-13. http://webapp.und.edu/dept/our/discovery/a-voice-for-the-xukuru

2012 Mikulak, Marcia UND Professor Seeks Human Rights in Dangerous Corners of the World. By Jennifer Johnson, Grand Forks Herald. Dec. 8, 2012

2012 Mikulak, Marcia UND Anthropologist Plays Vital Role in Dropped Charges for Brazilian Indigenous Tribe. Grand Forks Herald, Dec. 3. http://undnews.areavoices.com/tag/marcia-mikulak/

2012 UND students return Friday from three weeks of study at field school in Brazil. By Patrick C. Miller. UND. July, 2012 http://www.ndus.edu/happenings/detail.asp?

newsID=316&printable=1 2012 YouTube video – Transmutation – Pianist Marcia Mikulak. Published by Dane Rudhyar

Institute – Hexameron http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RFaUGwLx9SU 2011 National Group Endorses UND Human Rights Petition: Dr. Marcia Mikulak's work on

behalf of Brazil's Xukurú tribe wins approval. 5-25-2-11http://und.edu/news/archives/story.php?id=3459

2011 UND WebPage – Spotlight. UND Collaborates on Field School for Students to Work with Brazil’s Indigenous Peoples. http://und.edu/news/2011/12/field-school-for-student-to-work-in-brazil.cfm

2011 Mikulak, Marcia. Cultural Anthropologist, Marcia Mikulak. UND Studio 1. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4HAEw-Qooe4

2011 Mikulak, Marcia (Amnesty International Brazil Country Specialist). On-Line Urgent Action – Brazil – Protect Smallholders from Violence in Tocantins, Northern Brazil. 6-6-11 (online Amnesty International Urgent Action Request)

2011 Mikulak, Marcia (Amnesty International Brazil Country Specialist) On-Line Urgent Action – NGO Staff Threatened with Death in Brazil. 8-2-11 (online Amnesty International Urgent Action Request)

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2011 Amnesty International Brazil Co-Group Newsletter: Brazil’s Indigenous and Traditional Peoples Continue to Struggle for their Constitutional Rights to Traditional Lands and Land Reform Legislation. July 29, 2011

2010 UND University Faculty Lecture Series presents anthropologist Marica Mikulak http://undnews.areavoices.com/2010/11/08/und-university-faculty-

lecture-series- presents-anthropologist-marica-mikulak/ 2009 WDAZ TV Xukuru Research Synopsis 9-06-09 – Marcia Mikulak.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dWUmaZwL0Sg 2008 University of North Dakota Seed Grant: Final Report – Assessment of Domestic

Violence in Grand Forks, North Dakota. 2008 Brazil: In Brazil’s Lawless Shanty-Towns, Women Face Devastating Toll of Violence.”

Amnesty International USA Press Release, 4/19/08 http://www.silobreaker.com/DocumentReader.aspx?Item=5_848053000

2008 “Swastikas anger and alarm us all.” Grand Forks Herald - 05/23/2008. Gregory Gordon, Paul Sum, and Marcia Mikulak http://www.und.nodak.edu/instruct/chrgs/CHRGSGFHerald.pdf

2008 “Another Swastika Found on the UND Campus.” 5/4/08. The Bismarck Tribune http://www.bismarcktribune.com/articles/2008/05/05/news/state/154881.txt

2004 Crandall, Cameron (MD); Deborah Helitzer (Sc.D), La Valley, J; Mohahan, C; Worthington; Mikulak, M. An Impact Evaluation of the Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner’s (SANE) Program in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Web publication. http://www.ncjrs.gov/pdffiles1/nij/grants/203276.pdf

2003 Mikulak, Marcia. Kurzmeldungen 2003 Elektronischer Übersetzer von Kleinkindgeschrei: Technik statt Bonding. 8-8-03 http://www.zeitgeist-online.de/news2003.htm

1996 Mikulak, Marcia. Frieda Butler Award Lecture: Excerpts, in yefief: The Force of Good, Book 3, New Mexico: Images for Media

1995 Mikulak, Marcia. “Street Children in Rio de Janeiro” Las Noticias Estudiantiles. Vol. xii No.4, March 1995, p. 3-5

1995 Mikulak, Marcia. “The Social Construction of Disposable Children: Street Children in Brazil” Encuentros, Vol. I, No. 2 May

1994 Mikulak, Marcia. “Learning Disabilities: A Biological Response to Our Cultural Paradigm” in New Perspectives, Vol. 8, No. 3

1987 Mikulak, Marcia. “Santa Fe Research: Children’s Experimental Music” in Experimental Musical Instruments, Vol. III, No. 3

Research - Social Media and News-outlet Publicity 2013 GMI Ratings: Discover Key Measures of Value – Biweekly View: Petrobras Grapples

With Oil Spill Prevention by Sonja Ryst, Financial Reporter. Marcia Mikulak Interviewed regarding Brazilian case of the Fishermen’s Organization Associação Homens e Mulheres do Mar (AHOMAR) and their war against Petroleo Brasileiro SA (PBR.) Jan3, 2013

2012 UND Discovery – A Voice for the Xukuru. Anthropologist Marcia Mikulak. Pp. 12-13. http://webapp.und.edu/dept/our/discovery/a-voice-for-the-xukuru

2012 Mikulak, Marcia UND Professor Seeks Human Rights in Dangerous Corners of the World. By Jennifer Johnson, Grand Forks Herald. Dec. 8, 2012

2012 Mikulak, Marcia UND Anthropologist Plays Vital Role in Dropped Charges for Brazilian Indigenous Tribe. Grand Forks Herald, Dec. 3. http://undnews.areavoices.com/tag/marcia-mikulak/

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2012 UND students return Friday from three weeks of study at field school in Brazil. By Patrick C. Miller. UND. July, 2012 http://www.ndus.edu/happenings/detail.asp?

newsID=316&printable=1 2012 YouTube video – Transmutation – Pianist Marcia Mikulak. Published by Dane Rudhyar

Institute – Hexameron http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RFaUGwLx9SU 2011 National Group Endorses UND Human Rights Petition: Dr. Marcia Mikulak's work on

behalf of Brazil's Xukurú tribe wins approval. 5-25-2-11http://und.edu/news/archives/story.php?id=3459

2011 UND Web Page – Spotlight. UND Collaborates on Field School for Students to Work with Brazil’s Indigenous Peoples. http://und.edu/news/2011/12/field-school-for-student-to-work-in-brazil.cfm

2011 Mikulak, Marcia. Cultural Anthropologist, Marcia Mikulak. UND Studio 1. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4HAEw-Qooe4

2011 Mikulak, Marcia (Amnesty International Brazil Country Specialist). On-Line Urgent Action – Brazil – Protect Smallholders from Violence in Tocantins, Northern Brazil. 6-6-11 (online Amnesty International Urgent Action Request)

2011 Mikulak, Marcia (Amnesty International Brazil Country Specialist) On-Line Urgent Action – NGO Staff Threatened with Death in Brazil. 8-2-11 (online Amnesty International Urgent Action Request)

2011 Amnesty International Brazil Co-Group Newsletter: Brazil’s Indigenous and Traditional Peoples Continue to Struggle for their Constitutional Rights to Traditional Lands and Land Reform Legislation. July 29, 2011

Journal Referee 2008 - present Journal of Anthropological Research – Referee 2006 - 2008 Journal - American Anthropologist - Referee 2007- 2008 Journal of Social Science and Humanities – Referee

Solo Piano Recordings 1994 Mikulak, Marcia (Solo Piano), Kronos Quartet. Dane Rudhyar: Advent; Crisis and

Overcoming; Transmutation. Composers Recordings, Inc. NY. ASIN: B000005TUU 1985 Mikulak, Marcia (Solo Piano). “Improvisation: The Appropriate Gesture” in Artspace:

Southwestern Contemporary Arts Quarterly. Vol. 10, No. 1 1981 Mikulak, Marcia (Solo Piano). 1750 Arch Records, "Gardner Jencks: Selected Works

for Piano, 1942-1980 S-1781 1972 Mikulak, Marcia (Solo Piano). Composers Recordings, Inc. New York "American

Contemporary Music of Dane Rudhyar," S.D. 372

Video Documentaries 1991 Mikulak, Marcia. Research in Zimbabwe, Africa. “A Comparative Study: Sensory

Testing Between American Children and Children of Zimbabwe, Africa” 1983 Mikulak, Marcia (Piano). Channel 6, PBS, California. Half hour color video

documentary – collaborative work with Composer Gardner Jencks 1981 Mikulak, Marcia (Piano). Opus 22 – Channel 22, Las Cruces, N.M. Guest Artist 1980 Channel 6 PBS, CA. Video documentary: American Composer, Gardner Jencks, Marcia

Mikulak, PianistProfessional Presentations

International Conferences. 2013 Thirteenth Assembly of the Xukuru Indigenous Peoples, Pedra da Agua, Terra do

Xukuru do Ororubá, Pesqueira, Pernambuco, Brazil, May 19 – 21.

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2013 January 10 – 13. 11th Hawaii International Conference on Arts & Humanities, Honolulu, Hawaii. Peer Reviewed Submission “Xukuru Activism, Reconstruction of Identity, and Self –determination and State Violence against the Xukuru”. (accepted/presented)

2012 January 09 -12, Hawaii International Conference on Arts & Humanities, Honolulu, Hawaii. Peer reviewed submission “Indigenous Human Rights in Brazil:

Faculty/Student Social Action Research” 2010 Paper accepted for up-coming November 24-27, 2010, 3 rd International Conference

Narrative Inquiry in Music Education, School of Music, University of Queensland, St. Lucia, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. Paper presentation: Music, Anthropology, and the Senses: Cognition for Social Change

2009 Paper accepted for up-coming January 9 – 12, Hawaii International Conference on Arts and Humanities. Peer reviewed submission: “Symbolic Domains of Skin Color: Brazil’s Embedded Historical Paradigmatic Racism.”

2008 January 11-14, 2008 – Hawaii International Conference on Arts and Humanities. Peer reviewed submission – invited presentation and publication. “Pathways to Peace: University of North Dakota’s Department of Anthropology Community Based Social Action Research on Domestic Violence.” Published in the proceedings. ISBN # 1541-5899

2007 November 2007 – World Congress on Communication and the Arts, São Paulo, Brazil, November 18 - 21. Plenary Session IV, 8:30 – 9:15 a.m. Peer reviewed submission. “Anthropology and Communication: Sensuality, Complex Cognition, and Social Change.” Marcia Mikulak, Assistant Professor, University of North Dakota; Sergio Gallo, Assistant Professor, Georgia State University

2005 5th International Conference on Domestic Violence, Sexual Assault, Child Witness, Cyber-Stalking and Stalking. San Diego, CA April 20-22. Participant

1996 International Society for the Study of Behavioral Development (ISSBD), Quebec City, Canada. August. Poster Presentation: “The Social Construction of Disposable Children: Street Children in Brazil.”

National Conferences 2017 Annual Meeting of the Society for the Study of Social Problems, Montreal, Quebec

Canada. Narratives in the World of Social Problems: Power, Resistance, Transformation. Session Title – Mobilization, Resistance, and Narratives of Power Conflict, Social Action, and Change. Paper Submission & Presentation: Standing Rock Nation Water Protectors in North Dakota and Brazil’s Xukuru Nation: Human Rights Abuses by States Against Indigenous First Nation Peoples. August 11 – 13.

2015 Society for Applied Anthropology Annual Meetings, Omni William Pen Hotel 75th Annual Meeting, Pittsburgh, PA, March 24-28 – Continuity and Change. Indigenous People: Continuity and Change – Chair; Thursday 10:00 to 11:50, Fox Chapel.

2014 Annual Amnesty International General Meeting Training and Conference. Country Specialist Presentation on Human Rights Advocacy and Research in Brazil among the Xukuru Indigenous Peoples. Chicago Hilton. April 3 – 6

2013 Society for Applied Anthropology 73rd Annual Meeting: Natural Resource Distribution and Development in the 21st Century. Denver, CO. Session Title: Indigenous Rights, Part II – Paper Presentation Indigenous Human Rights Advocacy and Constructed Boundaries of Indigenous Identity among the Xukuru. March 20th, 10:00 – 11:50 a.m.

2013 American Anthropological Association Annual 112th Meeting, Chicago, Il, Nov. 20-24. Paper presentation/Panel: Gender and Indigenous Identity Politics. Paper title: Colonial Subjugation and Indigenous Human Rights Abuses: Twenty-First Century Violations against Brazil’s Indigenous Xukuru. Nov. 21, 1:45 p.m.

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2009 Paper accepted for up-coming March 17 – 21, Society for Applied Anthropology 69th Annual Meetings. Peer reviewed submission – invited presentation: “Mitigating Domestic Violence through Community Social Action Research: Survivors Initiating Life Changes and Community Transformation.”

2007 Crossroads II – Community-Based Collaborative Research for Social Justice Conference. June 7 – 9. Hartford, CT. Gender, Power, and Violence Panel. “Domestic Violence Assessment and Survivor Empowerment Research Collaborative”

2006 12th National Conference on Domestic Violence. National Coalition against Domestic Violence, Atlanta Georgia, Omni Hotel at CNN Center, July 9 – 12. Workshop Title: “Grand Forks, North Dakota – Small City, Rural State: Collaborative Research for a Greater Community Response to Domestic Violence” (Marcia Mikulak, University of North Dakota & Julie Christianson, Community Violence Intervention Center)

2006 105th American Anthropological Association Meetings, San Jose, CA. Invited Session: Occupying Spaces: The Negotiated Imaginaries of Urban Youth. Paper title: “Brazilian Favela Youth in Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil: What’s the Meaning of the Color of Your Skin?” November 18th 2006, 4:00 – 4:45.

2005 104th American Anthropological Meetings, Washington DC. Session Title: Approaching Globalized Latin America from a Fresh Glance, 12/03/05. Paper Title: “Street Children of Curvelo, Minas Gerais, Brazil: Political Economy of Everyday Life.”

2004 103 rd American Anthropological Association Meetings , Chicago, Ill. November. (attendee)

2003 102 nd American Anthropological Association Meetings (attendee) 2001 101 st American Anthropological Association , Washington, DC. Paper title:

“Performance and Vulnerability: Street and Working Youths’ Stories,” Visual Anthropology of the Senses Panel

1999 97th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association Meetings, Philadelphia. Paper Title: “The Social Construction of Disposable Children: Street and Working Children In Brazil.” Boundaries of Bodies, Spaces of States panel.

State and Local Lectures/Presentations 2011 Summer Institute of Linguistics, UND. “Human Rights Field Work: Being Morally and

Ethically Engaged as well as Objective?” Lecture, June 30, 8:00 p.m., Gamble Hall 5. 2007 International Buffet and Talk, UND School of Medicine and Health Sciences (UND Seed

Grant Domestic Violence Data) 2006 CVIC – Domestic Violence Task Force “Presentation of Data Results from UND Seed

Grand, “Assessment of Domestic Violence in Grand Forks Count.” 2006 UND Seed Grant Report to CVIC Board Meeting, March 14th, 2006. Sanders

Restaurant, GF, ND. Report on UND Seed Grant: Emerging Themes and Up-Coming Grant Writing

2006 Panel Member “Perspectives on 50 Golden Years in Music.” 50th Annual North Dakota Music Teachers Association Conference. Panel members: Marcia Mikulak, Jay Hershberger, Christopher Anderson, Carole Flatau, and Beth Klingenstein

2006 Invited Panel Member: “Countdown to 2013,” Memorial Union River Valley Room. Martin Luther Kin, Jr. Week, January 24-27, UND

2005 Domestic Violence Task Force Meeting, presentation of achieved research goals for the UND Seed Grant on Domestic Violence in Grand Forks. Nov., Community Violence Intervention Center

International Invited Guest Speaker Engagements 2010 Guest Speak in the Departmento do Anthropologia, Universidade do Recife. January

2010

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2010 Council of Xukuru Indigenous Leaders: Presentation of Developmental Leave Research – Collaboration with CIMI, Xukuru Legal Counsel Gilberto Marques, and the University of North Dakota. March 12, 2010

2010 Presentation of Developmental Leave Research – Xukuru Human Rights and Mitigation of the Legal Criminalization of the Xukuru – Social Action Research. February, 2010

2005 University of São Paulo, May 20. “Racismo, Crianças, Direitos Civis e Humananos no Brasil” - Institute for Research on Violence.

2005 Universidade Metodista de Piracicaba, São Paulo, Brazil, May 23 2005 Guest presentations at public and private schools:

- O Colégio Atlântico( Private School, São Paulo)May- Eschola, Olivia Bianco (Public School, São Paulo)May- Colegio Santa Cruz- (Private School)May- Escola Estadual Assis Gebara (Public School) May

Invited Presentations and Panels 2011 Amnesty International – Human Rights Situation among the Xukuru, in

Pesqueira, Pernambuco, Brazil. AI Annual Training Meeting, Aug., 2011

2010 Amnesty International Endorses UND Human Rights Petition in support of Xukuru human rights defenders in Pesqueira, Pernambuco, Brazil.

Petition authored by Marcia Mikulak, Associate Professor, UND Department of Anthropology

(http://www.aaanet.org/cmtes/cfhr/Xukuru-Letter.cfm_ ) Apr 2008 Community University Forum “Generating Community Ideas.” CVIC/UND

Domestic Violence Research Panel Jan 2007 Domestic Violence Survivors Panel – Domestic Violence in Grand Forks.

University of North Dakota, School of Medicine. Oct 2006 Unitarian Church. Guest Speaker Nov 2005 Presentation of research benchmarks - UND Seed Grant on Domestic Violence in

Grand Forks. Domestic Violence Task Force Meeting 1996 Keynote Speaker: Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, St. Katherine's Indian School,

Santa Fe, NM 1995 Frieda Butler Lecture Series, University of New Mexico, Frieda Butler Award

Recipient 1993 Harvey Mudd College, Claremont, CA Coming To Our Senses: Education for

Intelligence. 1990 International Institute for Educational Excellence, Stroudsburg, PA 1982 Education Otherwise: An Educational Symposium. Santa Fe, NM

Invited Guest Lecturer – Local/National 2011 Summer Institute of Linguistics, UND. “Human Rights Field Work: Being

Morally and Ethically Engaged as well as Objective?” Lecture, June 30, 8:00 p.m., Gamble Hall 5.

2010 The University of North Dakota Faculty Lecture Series. November 10, 2010. Successful Activism: How the Xukuru Peoples of Brazil Countered

Nation-State Violence to Regain Dignity and Constitutional Rights. North Dakota Museum of Art.

2007 Invited Guest Lecturer – Georgia State University, October 11, 2007 - Department of Anthropology. Anthropology and Communication: Sensuality, Complex Cognition, and Social Change.

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2007 Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston Fashion Week Runway Show. Handeira Linens & Lace: Xukuru Micro-business production – Center for Reflective Practice, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, School of Architecture and Planning/Presentation of proposed future sabbatical research in collaboration with the Xukuru Tribe, Pernambuco, Brazil and Micro-Business.

Grants and ContractsSubmitted – Funded/Not Funded

2016 College of Arts and Sciences Strategic Investment Opportunity. Brazil Field School. Funding Request, $32,250. Denied. Partial Funding - Pending

2014 UND College of Arts and Sciences Funding. North Dakota’s Oil Boom, Ft. Berthold and Questions of Indigenous Rights Abuses. $3,455 Funded

2014 Global Visions Funding (spring semester) – SOFA. Funding Request - $2, 895.00. Funded

2013 Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences Funding Application North Dakota’s oil Boom, Ft. Berthold and Questions of Indigenous Rights Abuses. Amount Requested $14,984.25. Submitted Dec. 20, 2013. Not Funded

2013 SSAC Application for Faculty Travel Costs to Chicago for AAA Annual Meetings & paper presentation. Requested $1,625.00. Funded in part.

2013 Global Visions Funding – SOFA. Funding request - $2,296.26 – Funded 2006 – 2012 Global Visions Funding – (The Multicultural Awareness Committee/SOFA)

UND Internal Funding – Average Annual Funding $4,000 per year Funded 2011 OID – FIDC Teaching Materials Purchase Request - Videos Addressing

Issues Facing Indigenous Peoples. $1,076.00 Funded 2009 Developmental Leave, Indigenous Human Rights – Pernambuco, Brazil. ¾

Salary 2008 Office of Instructional Development (FIDC Grant), collaboratively written with

Dr. Melinda Leach (Chair), and Dr. Frank Cuozzo – Department of Anthropology, UND. May $2,630.65 (Funded)

2008 The Waitt Family Foundation “Leadership for Change Project.” $907,055.00. Submitted January 23. (Not Funded)

2008 Research Development and Compliance – Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences Grant. “Handiera Linens and Lace: Indigenous Human Rights and Micro-Business in Pernambuco, Brazil.” January 25, 2008. $5,000 (Funded)

2007 The Bush Foundation, Social Action Community Research Grant. $150,000. Submitted, August 30. (Not Funded)

2007 Research Development and Compliance. Travel funds – São Paulo, Brazil - presentation of paper at World Congress on Communication and the Arts. $941.00 (Funded)

2007 Student Technology Fee Award (Written collaboratively with Anthropology Club). Awarded computer and software equipment (price $3,004.85) (Funded)

2007 Intercollegiate Academic Funding Award (For Department of Anthropology Students - attendance at American Anthropological Association’s Annual Meetings), Washington, DC. $1,600 (Funded)

2006 FIDC Equipment Grant, Instructional Videos – Anthropology Department. $521.46 (Funded)

2005 New Faculty Teaching Seminar, (OID and Bush Foundation). $1,500 (Funded) 2005 Intercollegiate Academic Funding (Department of Anthropology Students Assist

Funds) – Travel Abroad Summer Study Program. $2,400.00 (Funded) 2004 Writing Across The Curriculum (WAC) – Summer $500.00 (Funded)

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2004 Research Proposal Writing Fellowship. $1,000 (Non-Funded) 2004 FIDC Faculty Instructional Development Grant ($1,203.70) (Funded) 2004 FIDC Summer Instructional Development Professorship $3,000 (Funded) 2004 FIDC Travel Grant, Atlas.ti © Workshop $750 (Funded) 2004 New Faculty Scholar Awards. “Racism and Civil Rights in Brazil.” $5,000

(Funded) 2004 Faculty Seed Grant. “Domestic Violence in Grand Forks County.” $35,000.00

(Funded) 2004 PT3 Grant $1,000 (Funded) 2003 FIDC Teaching Related Travel Grant $750 (Funded) 2003 FIDC Equipment Grant. $338.00 (Partially Funded) 1998 Field and Research Grant (FRG), the University of New Mexico, Latin

American Studies. Dissertation field research – Brazil $3,000.00 (Funded) 1996 Graduate Research, Project and Travel (RPT) Grant. The University of New

Mexico Office of Graduate Studies $500 (Funded) 1996 Sigma Xi, the Scientific Research Society. Sigma Xi Grants-in Aid of Research

$800 (Funded) 1996 Johann Jacobs Foundation Young Investigator Grant $5,000 (Funded) 1996 RPT Grant. (Research, Project and Travel Grant). Office of Graduate Studies,

UNM $250 (Funded) 1994 Anthropology Field Work Grant: University of New Mexico. $500 (Funded) 1994 Student Research Allocation Committee (SRAC) Award: University of New

Mexico. $250 (Funded) 1994 Tinker Foundation Field Research Award, for fieldwork in Brazil. $500

(Funded) 1994 Full Moon Foundation Research Award. $5,000 (Funded) 1991 “Children and Social Structure in Mali, Africa.” Funded anonymously and

privately $10,000 (Funded) 1989 “Sensory Development in Children in Zimbabwe, Africa.” Funded anonymously

and privately $20,000 (Funded) 1989 Santa Fe Research. Funded anonymously and privately. $10,000 (Funded) 1985 Santa Fe Research. Funded anonymously and privately $25,000 (Funded) 1985 New Mexico Arts Commission and the National Endowment for the Arts, for

“Visualizations in Sound,” learning disabled children in New Mexico $1,500 (Funded)

1985 New Mexico Arts Commission and the National Endowment for the Arts, for “Visualizations in Sound,” continued funding. $800 (Funded)

1977 – 1980 Solo piano albums of American Contemporary Music. Funded anonymously and privately $10,000 (Funded)

Academic ScholarshipsUniversities and Foundations

1997 Johann Jacobs Foundation Young Investigator Grant $5,000 1996 Challenge Grant Recipient, University of New Mexico, $8,000 1996 Frieda Butler Memorial Lecture Award, UNM Dept. of Anthropology and the

Maxwell Museum of Anthropology $500.00University of North Dakota Awards

2012 Nominated Outstanding Professor, Fall 2011 Nominated Outstanding Professor, Spring 2008 UND Presidential Scholars – Faculty ‘Stars’ Nominee

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2007 Public Scholar Award – Center for Community Engagement, University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, ND. October 17, 2007

2007 Memorial Union Leadership Award – Outstanding Student Organization Advisor, University of North Dakota, spring semester

2005/6 Who’s Who Among American Teachers, 10th Edition 2006 Advisor: The Anthropology Club Award – Recognition of Efforts Memorial

Union Award, spring semester (advisor) 2006 Nominated - Outstanding Community Service Award, College of Arts and

Sciences, University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, ND. Spring semester 2005 Who’s Who Among America’s Teachers 2005 Nominated Outstanding Professor, Fall Semester, 2005 2005 Memorial Union Leadership Award – Outstanding Student Organization

Advisor, University of North Dakota. Spring Semester 2005 Nominated Outstanding Professor, Spring Semester, 2005 2006 Ninth Annual Martin Luther King, Jr. Awards – Certificate of Appreciation 2005 National Crime Victims’ Rights Week, April 10-16, 2005, Certificate of

Appreciation. Community Violence Intervention Center (CVIC), Grand Forks, ND

Professional AssociationsMemberships and Offices Held

2014 – Pres The Society for the Study of Social Problems 2013 – Pres. North Dakota Human Rights Coalition – Board Member 2011 – Pres. Fellowship for Reconciliation – Working for Peace, Justice, and Non-Violence.

http://forusa.org/members/marciamikulak 2007 – Pres. The Center for Human Rights and Genocide Studies, UND. (Advisory

Committee) 2006 – Pres. The Press Institute for Women in the Developing World. NGO and Citizen

Journalism Initiative (http://www.piwdw.org/) (Board Member) 2000 – Pres. American Anthropological Association (member) 2006 – Pres. Amnesty International (Country Specialist, Brazil) 2005 – Pres. Society for Applied Anthropology (member) 2006 – Pres. National Coalition Against Domestic Violence (member)

Professional DevelopmentTrainings and Workshops

2015 Rotary Diversity Leadership Retreat for the Grand Cities Professionals. Oct. 10 – 12. 2015 Faculty Shared University Governance 2015 Evening of Possibilities – North Dakota Human Rights Coalition. Aug. 20 2014 Evening of Possibilities – North Dakota Human Rights Coalition. Aug. 15 2014 Amnesty International, Country Specialists Meetings/Trainings (Africa and Americas),

Chicago. March 12 - 15 2013 Faculty Learning Community: Diversity, Isms, and Otherness. Sept. 16, Oct. 21, Nov.

18, Dec. 9 (The New Jim Crow) 2013 UND Shared Governance and Leadership Group. “Enhancing Campus Capacity for

Leadership: An Examination of Grassroots Leaders in Higher Education”. Thr., Oct. 24; Thr., Nov. 21; Thr., Dec. 5; Thr; Dec. 12.

2012 STOP Sexual Assault Training: Your Role in Working with Victims of Sexual Assault. September 20. Trail County Courthouse, Hillsboro, ND STOP Training and Education Committee & the ND Council on Abused Women’s Services Coalition Against Sexual Assault in ND. 525 N. 4th St., Bismarck, ND 58501

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2012 Amnesty International, Country Review Meetings & Training (Africa and Americas), Washington DC, August 15-17

2011 Amnesty International, Country Review Meetings & Training (Africa and Americas), Washington DC, September 16 – 18

2009-10 Developmental Leave – One Year: Pesqueira & Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil – fieldwork on human rights activism with indigenous Xukuru

2009 Amnesty International, Country Review Meetings & Training (Africa and Americas), Washington DC, August 14 - 16

2008 Amnesty International, Country Review Meetings & Training (Africa and Americas), Washington DC, July 13 – 14

2008 MAC Diversity Training Retreat, April 17 2007 IRB – Recertification Education – June 30 2007 Amnesty International, Country Review Meetings & Training (Africa and Americas),

Washington DC, July 19 - 22 2007 On Teaching Box Lunch Discussion, Joan Hawthorn and Research Team “Cultural

Awareness” –Prairie Room, Memorial Union. 12:30-1:30 p.m. 2007 Reflecting on Teaching: An All-Campus Colloquium. “Taking it Personally: The

Importance of Self-Awareness in Professional Disciplines. Gaye Burgess & Patti Alleva. 2007 Center for Community Engagement Luncheon. Oct. 19, 12:00 – 1:30. Red River Room,

Memorial Union 2005 Law Enforcement Response to Sexual Assault Training. CVIC (Community Violence

Intervention Center) training, on the campus of UND

Teaching Seminars – Mentorship Programs 2009/10 Developmental Leave – Pesqueira, Pernambuco, Brazil. Development of collaborative

student/faculty research using social media (Skype and web-based media) 2009 UND Forum on Indigenous Human Rights – Local to Global. Memorial Union, UND

Campus. November 11, 2010 2005/6 New Faculty Teaching Seminar, Summer 2005 Faculty Writing Group, Spring 2005 New Faculty Teaching Seminar, Summer 2004 WAC: What Works, What Doesn’t: Teaching Compressed 3-Week Courses during the

Summer Session. 2004 Alice T. Clark Mentorship Program 2004 Student /Faculty Reading Groups 2004 Summer Instructional Development Professorship Award 2003 Alice T. Clarke Mentoring Program, 2003 2003 Reflecting on Teaching Conference/Workshop, 2003 2003 UND Faculty Reading Group: Teaching With Your Mouth Shut

Academic Teaching, Advising, and CommitteesRegular Assignments

Ethics in Anthropology 309 Introduction to Cultural Anthropology 171 Brazil Field School 379 (2011, 2012) Brazil Field Trip (2013, 2015) Indians of Latin America 373 Indigenous Identity Formation in Northeastern Brazil 309 Cultural Constructions of Childhood 309 Cultural Theory 372

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Culture, Illness, and Health 465 Senior Capstone Seminar 480 Ethnographic Methods 350 Cultural Dynamics 371 (Civil Rights Movement in the US – Race and Racism in America) Cultural Dynamics 371 (Conformity and Conflict) Cultural Dynamics 371 (Magic, Witchcraft, and Religion) Cultural Dynamics 371 (Social Construction of Difference and Inequality: Race, Class, Gender,

and Sexuality) Gender in Latin America 309 (Special Topics - ST) Language and Culture 370 Human Rights and the Cultural Construction of Violence 309 (ST) Independent Studies (40) Readings in Anthropology (3) Honors Committees (1) Graduate Committees (3) Study Abroad – Summer Brazil Trip-Joint Collaboration between Anthropology Dept. and

Department of Music @ UND. 2005 (8 students) Cultural Dynamics (The Civil Rights Movement: Race and Racism in the US) Cultural Dynamics – Ethics in Anthropology Cultural Dynamics – Standing Rock Water Protectors/Xukuru Nation: Indigenous Peoples Push

Back against Nation-States (2017)

Advisees (Undergraduate – students) – (10 - 18 per semester)Independent Studies – Readings (undergraduate and graduate students) (1 – 3 per semester)Honors Senior Thesis Committee Member:

2014 – 2015 Jolie Schmidt (Honors Thesis Chair) Thesis – Non-Suicidal Self-Injury: Defining the Syndrome and Locating Causes

2011 - 12 Madisson Whitman (Honors Thesis Chair) Thesis – "Gender Performance and Identity Formation Women's Roller Derby in North Dakota:

An Ethnography" 2006 Elizabeth Wilkinson (Honors Program Committee) “Wicken in North Dakota”

Interdisciplinary Studies Program Senior Project Committee Member: 2011 Karim Bahgat (IDS 498: Senior Project) “The Morality of Survival: How

Geographic Proximity Influences Perception of Terrorism”Master’s Theses Committee Member:

2004 Twyla Baker (Masters, Geo-science) 2007-8 Yuliya Kartoshkina (Masters Student) “Cultural Identity, Communication, and

Reentry: Experiences of American Students)Doctoral Committees

2015 Committee Member at Large – Doctoral Dissertation for Nnenna Lindsay, M.A – Counseling Psychology Doctoral Student

Curriculum Development Activities 2011 - Anthropology Department Retreat – Program Assessment and Development,

August 22, 2011. 2011 – 2012 Development – Anthropology Field School – Pesqueira Brazil with Global

Citizen’s Network (NGO) & UND International Programs (Director, Ray Legasse). Prerequisite course & summer 3 week field school

2010 – 2011 In Development – Student Study Abroad Course – in partnership with Global Citizen’s Network (www.globalcitizens.org)

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2009 – 2010 Development (in progress) of UND Summer Student Internship with World Visions, Recife, Brazil (Initiated during Developmental Leave 2009-

2010) 2003 – 2008 Curriculum Planning Meeting, Department of Anthropology 2004 – 2008 Collaboration with Dept. of Anthropology faculty on Annual Report 2004 – 2008 Collaboration with Dept. of Anthropology faculty on Teaching and Research

Evaluation Policies 2005 – 2008 Collaboration with Dept. of Anthropology faculty on Strategic Plan 2004 – 2007 Department of Anthropology, Annual Assessment of Department Goals: Senior

Capstone Seminar. Co-Taught by Dr. Marcia Mikulak, Dr. Melinda Leach, Dr. Frank Cuozzo, and Dr. Ann Reed. Data presentation at faculty retreats Presentation/discussion of curriculum and department goals

2006 Review of the following Gen-Ed courses: Culture, Illness, and Health 465, and Cultural Dynamics 371 (approved). Advising and assisting in the preparation of Introduction to Cultural Anthropology 171 (prepared by Dr. Ann Reed).

2005 – 2006 New Faculty Teaching Seminar, Summer (development of Ethnographic Methods)

2005 – 2008 Student Tech fee grants for the Anthropology department (new computer, monitor, and software – Atlas.ti © and SPSS). Grant written with students from the Department of Anthropology. Funded

Institutional Service 2016 – present Chair – University Senate Library Committee 2014 – 2015 Elected College of Arts and Sciences Representative Senator to

the University Senate 2011 – 2014 Senator – University Senate, member-at-large 2012 – Pres. Appointed Member, Faculty Representative – UND Senate to President Kelley’s

Committee on Sexual Violence 2013 – Pres. Senior Editor, Community Connect: Journal of Civic Voices.

Vol. 6, No. 1 Forum - Warren, Minn. 2012 Senior Editor, Community Connect: journal of Civic Voices, Vol 5,

No.1. Forum: Buffalo, ND 2013 Center for Community Engagement Advisory Board Steering Committee

member. 2013 Center for Community Engagement Stone Soup Awards Luncheon –

Present Award, Gorecki Center  2004 – 2014. Global Visions Film Series – Sponsored by: The Black Student Association, Era

Bell Thompson Multicultural Center, and the Office of International Studies – Funded by UND SOFA

2012 – 2013 Brazil Field School – Short-Term Programs http://und.edu/studyabroad/short- term/index.cfm

2012 – 2013 Student Appeals Committee – Standing Committees of the College of Arts and Sciences

2012 – Fall Going Global Week. Era Bell Thompson Multicultural Center – Brazil Field School Presentation with Participating Students. Sept. 11

2011 – 2012 Special Review Committee Pool – University Senate 2011 – 2012 Co-Chair, Community Connect Forum at Buffalo, North Dakota 2012 – Spring Global Visions Film Series – Sponsored by the Anthropology Club & the

Department of Anthropology – Funded by UND SOFA 2012 UND International Fair – Friday, Nov. 16th, Wellness Center 6 – 8 PM. Brazil

Field School

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2010 – 2011 Co-Chair, Community Connect Forum at Mountain, North Dakota, Center for Community Engagement, University of North Dakota.

2010 – 2011 University of North Dakota Student Grievance Committee 2005 – 2008. Faculty Member – Multicultural Awareness Committee 2003 – Pres. Global Visions Film Series – Departmental, University, and Community Service

(Memorial Union Lecture Bowl – continued by Anthropology Club and Interim Advisor, Robert West during my developmental leave 2009-2010)

2007 – Pres. Advisory Committee, Center for Human Rights and Genocide Studies, Law School, University of North Dakota

2007 – Pres. Center for Community Engagement: Focus Group Research - UND student awareness of diversity/ cultural sensitivity

2008 Center for Community Engagement: Public Scholarship Grant Review Committee

2008 Center for Community Engagement: Culture Scoring Research Assistant Group – UND Student Focus Groups on Cultural Assessment, supervision of student coding, July to present

2007 Committee to Improve Working Conditions at UND – North Dakota Employee Association. Member, April 2007

2007 Public Scholarship Grant Review Committee – Center for Community Engagement

2006 – 2008 UND Meet and Greet Captain - Incoming UND Freshman 2007 MAC University Outreach – Badlands Room, Oct. 24, 2007 2007 – 2006 Faculty Facilitator – Welcome Weekend 2007, Chester Fritz Auditorium 2005 – 2007 Leadership Enrichment Series – The Center for Student Involvement and

Leadership, UND Memorial Union. Guest Lecture: Interest, Insight, and Leadership; Thinking Outside the Box; Human Rights: Who Leads Whom and with What?

2007 Panel Member - The "S" Word: The Historical Impact of the "S" Word: From One Generation to the next. Native Media Center. Memorial Union, Lecture Bowl

2005 Fundraising Concert for the Community Violence Intervention Center (CVIC). A collaboration between the Music Department and the Department of Anthropology at UND. November 10th. Raised $1,000 for CVIC

2005 International Student Travel: Planning and Coordination of Anthropology Club and Piano Club Collaboration Foreign Travel: Winter break. Brazil Trip to São Paulo. 9 students: 4 Anthropology Club students & 5 Piano Club students, (summer)

2005 Liaison for UND International Studies Program in Brazil: Meeting with University of São Paulo and the Methodist University of Piracicaba, Brazil regarding UND’s International Studies Abroad Program, May

2005 Exploring Higher Education Leadership: panel member 2005 Liaison for UND International Studies Program in Brazil: University of São

Paulo and the Methodist University of Piracicaba, Brazil International Studies Abroad Program

2005 AAHRPP UND IRB Interview - Historical Racism and Curriculum Building in Brazil and Domestic Violence Seed Grant

2005 Honors Student for a Day: Students observe in my ANTH 171: Cultural Anthropology class

2005 Grand Forks Public Schools: Job Shadow , Central High School. Christine LaFontaine. 10:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m. Class observation, job talk and tour of

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anthropology building, meeting with all anthropology professors including the contract archeology department

Guest Speaker in UND Classrooms 2017 Guest Lecturer – Communication 402, Professor Slavka Antonova. 2016 Guest Lecturer – Communication, Professor Lana Rackow 2006 Invited Lecturer in Dr. Charlene Chamberlaine’s Communication Disorders

class, UND 2006 Invited Lecturer in Dr. Carenlee Barkdull’s Qualitative Research Class 2006 Invited Lecturer in Dr. Lana Rakow’s Public Scholarship Seminar. Qualitative

Data Design and Methods 2005 – 2006 Guest Speaker – UND Department of Anthropology (Dr. Elizabeth Scharf,

Introduction to Anthropology, 171 2004 Guest Speaker – UND Nursing Department 2004 Guest Speaker – UND Music Department 2004 Gail Baldwin – Sex, Gender, and Religion 2003 University of North Dakota, College of Nursing

Advisor Positions – Student Organizations 2003 – 2008 Anthropology Club 2010 – 2011 Anthropology Club 2004 – 2013 Hope Across Boarders (UND UNICEF Student Organization) 2007 – 2008 Amnesty International Student Organization 2003 – 2005 The UND Dance Club, Spring 2003 – 2005

Departmental Service (2003 – 2017)Promotion Chair Dr. John Mihelich, promotion to full, Fall 2016Promotion Review Committee – Dr. Elizabeth Scharf 2016Annual Review Committee – Dr. Melinda LeachAnnual Review Committee – Dr. Frank CuozzoAnnual Review Committee – Spring 2013 Department of Anthropology Tenured and Tenure Track

FacultyBrazil Field School Developed 2011 – Housed in the Department of Anthropology – Open to UND

Academic CommunityGlobal Visions Film Series – 2003 – Present- Departmental, University, and Community Service.

Seven films per semester – sabbatical during fall semester 2012 from GVFS due to health issues

Global Visions Film Series – 2003 – 2011 Departmental, University, and Community Service. Seven films per semester (continued during my developmental leave by the Anthropology Club and Interim Advisor, Robert West)

Global Visions Film Series - Grant Proposals 2005 – 2011 Submitted to Multicultural Awareness Committee until 2009, and to SOFA

(Student Organization Funding Association) 2009-Spring 2011 for Public Performance Rights for films. Average request $2,000 (funded)

Annual Review Committee Work 2011 Dr. Phoebe Stubblefield, Dr. Frank Cuozzo, Dr. Elizabeth Scharf 2007 – 2004 Dr. Phoebe Stubblefield, Dr. Elizabeth Scharf, Dr. Frank Cuozzo, Dr. Melinda

LeechTri-Annual Review Committee work

2003 Dr.Melinda Leach 2006 Dr. Melinda Leach

Tenure Review Committee 2010 Dr. Phoebe Stubblefield

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Department Development 2012 Essential Studies Department Curriculum Review 2011 Department of Anthropology Annual Retreat – Curriculum Assessment &

Assessment of Goals 2010 – 2011 Faculty Committees: Revising Department of Anthropology By-Laws; Revising

Department of Anthropology Curriculum. Committee Members: Associate Professor, Frank Cuozzo & Associate Professor, Marcia Mikulak

2010 Department Retreat – Annual Assessment of Department Goals 2003 – 2008 Collaboration on Teaching & Annual/Tenure/Promotion Evaluation Policies 2007 Centennial Celebration, Babcock Hall – Research Display, NGO work in Brazil 2003 – 2008 Department of Anthropology, Annual Assessment of Department Goals 2004 – 2007 Senior Capstone Seminar, Co-Taught with Dr. Melinda Leach, Dr. Frank

Cuozzo, and Dr. Ann Reed. Data presentation at faculty retreats, (Have taught and assessed departmental goals for 2004-2007)

2007 General Education Revaluation – Cultural Dynamics 371 (approved) 2007 Anthropology Departmental Tour - Luis Brito, Instructor and Students – ELS

Language Centers, UND. 2005 – 2008 Department tours for prospective students 2005 – 2008 Revision of Departmental Mission Statement 2005 Collaboration on Anthropology Department Alumni Survey 2003 – 2008 Curriculum Planning Meetings, Department of Anthropology 2004 – 2005 Research Poster Presentation/Display - Department of Anthropology, University

of North Dakota: The Social Construction of Disposable Children: Street and Working Children in Brazil. 2003

Student Tech Fee Grant Proposals (cross-listed under curriculum development) 2006 – 2008 Student Tech fee grants for the Anthropology department

Anthropology Club Departmental Programs 2010 – 2011 Global Visions Film Series – Anthropology Club Sponsorship 2004 – 2008 Anthropology Club Advisor Assistance – Brown Bag Series 2007 – 2008 Anthropology Club Advisor Assistance – Faculty/Student Discussion Sessions 2007 – 2008 Anthropology Club Advisor Assistance – Anthropology Department Annual

Student Symposium 2004 – 2008 Anthropology Club Annual Semester Fund Raising Garage Sale. Organization

Department of Anthropology Graduate School Informational Sessions 2004 – 2008 Graduate School Information Session, UND Dept. of Anthropology, November

UND Open Houses 2003, 2004, 2005, UND Open House, Memorial Union: January 28. Advised potential students

about UND Anthropology DepartmentBi-Annual Reading and Review Day Potluck

2003 – 2008 Reading and Review Day Potluck, Department of AnthropologyConsultant Activities

2013 – Pres. North Dakota Human Rights Coalition – 4th Annual ND Human Rights Summit “Mobilizing for 2014” – November 9, 2013. 9:00 – 4:00 p.m., Fargo Country Club, Fargo, ND

2007 – Pres. Amnesty International – Brazil Consultant2011 Institute of International Education, US Student Fulbright Program. National Screening

Committee 2012 – 2913. Dec. 9, 2011

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2008 – Pres. Consultant to the UND School of Medicine – Rural Health, National Resource Center on Native American Ageing to Dr. Laurie Betting. Dr. Leander Russ McDonald, Director and PI for the National Resource Center on Native American Aging at UND, and for the Spirit Lake Planning Department (summer to present)

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