REBECCA LEE NELSON
Department of Anthropology, 354 Mansfield Road • Storrs, Connecticut • 06269-1176
CELL (315) 323-1274• E-MAIL rebecca.nelson.jacobs@gmail.com
OBJECTIVE
To obtain an administrative position in a non-profit organization, transferring administrative and communicative skills from academia into a non-academic setting.
Experience
Primary Instructor, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, 2010-2015
Prepared syllabi, course materials, and lectures for Gender and Globalization, Anthropological Perspectives on Women, and Other People’s Worlds, an introductory writing class
Editor, Scribendi, Inc., Chatham, ON, 2014
Edited and proofread professional and academic documents for style, content, and form
Assistant, Department of Women’s Studies, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, 2013
Designed program newsletters and advertising materials
Assisted with administrative tasks, including scheduling courses and organizing symposia
Coordinator, Trama Textiles, Quetzaltenango, Guatemala, 2010–2013
Recruited and managed a team of up to 15 volunteers
Facilitated logistics for orders of up to 1,000 pieces for wholesale clients through various stages of production
Created online Etsy handicrafts shop
Designed and organized production of new catalog
Handled exports
Volunteer Sales Associate, Ten Thousand Villages, West Hartford, CT, 2010–2011
Assisted customers with their purchases
Set up merchandise displays
Communicated the organization’s mission
Intern, Webb-Deane-Stevens Museum, Wethersfield, CT, 2008
Catalogued library
Planned children’s activities
Researched and created jewelry display
Summer Fellow, Historic Deerfield, Deerfield, MA, 2007
Published research project based on museum collections and local archives
Guided tours of historic houses
Teaching Assistant, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, 2007-2010
Taught discussion sections of Other People's Worlds, Introduction to Anthropology, and Social Anthropology
Intern, Potsdam Public Museum, Potsdam, NY, 2007
Researched, designed, fabricated and publicized display
Intern, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, D.C., 2006
Catalogued library
Researched Hmong flower cloths at libraries and Museum Support Center
Intern, Charles T. Weaver Museum of Anthropology, SUNY Potsdam, Potsdam, NY, 2005
Created a website and online exhibit for the museum
Researched and installed exhibit
Research Assistant, Department of Geology, SUNY Potsdam, Potsdam, NY, 2004
Mounted and examined samples of rock on Scanning Electron Microscope
Presentations
Extensive experience presenting my research at local, regional, nation and international academic conferences, as well as coordinating sessions and organizing panels with other scholars.
Highlights include the American Anthropological Association in Washington, DC in 2014 and Chicago, IL in 2013; the New England Council of Latin American Studies Conference at Wheaton College in Norton, MA in 2013; the Guatemala Scholars Network Conference in Antigua, Guatemala in 2013; the 3rd Annual International Graduate Student Conference on Latin America and the Caribbean at York University in Toronto, Canada in 2013, and the Textile Society of America Biennial Symposium in Toronto, Canada in 2006.
Grants and Fellowships
Successfully applied for research funding totaling $48,768 from a variety of institutions including the Inter-American Foundation from 2011 to 2012 and the Tinker Foundation in 2011.
Activities
NGOs and Nonprofits AAA Special Interest Group Committee, 2015
Intern at Savage Minds: Notes and Queries in Anthropology, 2015
SUNY Potsdam Women’s Leadership Program Mentor, 2014
Human Rights Reading Group Organizer: Human Rights in Latin America, 2010
University of Connecticut Library Student Advisory Committee, 2009–2010
SUNY Potsdam History Association Treasurer and Vice President, 2006
Contributing Editor, Collegiate Anthropologist, 2005
Presidential Scholars Steering Committee Student Representative, 2005–2006
Education
Ph.D., Department of Anthropology, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, 2009–April 23, 2015
Graduate Certificate in Human Rights, 2009–2014
M.A., Department of Anthropology, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, 2007–2009
Bachelor of Arts, valedictorian in Anthropology and Archaeology, SUNY Potsdam, Potsdam, NY, 2003–2007
Minors: Museum Studies, Art History
References
Leslie Thomas
Cofounder and Creative Director, WORKSHOP/CoOp
1074 W Taylor St #113, Chicago IL 60607
312 649 0025
lthomas@artworksprojects.org
Amparo de León de Rubio
President, Trama Textiles
3ª Calle 10-6, Zona 1
Quetzaltenango, Guatemala
502 5472 5821 (Spanish)
admin@tramatextiles.org (Spanish and English)
Dr. Françoise Dussart
Professor of Anthropology & Women's Studies
Department of Anthropology
University of Connecticut
354 Mansfield Road Unit 2176
Storrs, CT 06269-2176
francoise.dussart@uconn.edu