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Curriculum Vitae

JENNIFER A. DICKINSON

ACADEMIC AND ADMINISTRATIVE APPOINTMENTS

2016-present Provost’s Faculty Fellow for Assessment, University of Vermont

2010-present Director, Center for Teaching and Learning, University of Vermont

2010-2014 Director, Russian and East European Studies Program, University of Vermont

2008-present Associate Professor of Anthropology, University of Vermont

2002-2008 Assistant Professor of Anthropology, University of Vermont

1/2001-7/2002 Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Michigan, Dept. of Anthropology

1999-2001 Izaak Walter Killam Memorial Postdoctoral Fellow. University of Alberta,

Department of Modern Languages (Ukrainian Studies)

EDUCATION

12/1999 Ph.D. in Anthropology. University of Michigan

12/1996 MA in Russian and East European Studies. University of Michigan.

5/1995 MA in Anthropology. University of Michigan.

5/1992 AB in Anthropology and Russian. Bryn Mawr College.

Degree awarded summa cum laude with honors in both major subjects.

SELECTED FELLOWSHIPS AND GRANTS

2016 CIEE U.S. Fulbright Scholar (Two-year Flex, Ukraine, Teaching/Research)

2013 EEIEE Grant for Museum Studies in Anthropology/Art History

2013 Research Award in the Natural and Social Sciences (UVM

2012 Instructional Incentive Grant (UVM)

2009 Lattie Coor Fund award for Faculty Research

2005 University of Vermont Dean’s Fund Award

2004 UVM junior faculty nominee for NEH summer stipend award

2003 University of Vermont Dean’s Fund Award (Faculty Development)

2000 IREX Short Term Travel Grant

1999-2001 Izaak Walter Killam Postdoctoral Fellowship, University of Alberta

1998-9 Social Science Research Council Dissertation Write-Up Fellowship

1998-9 Rackham Pre-Doctoral Fellowship, University of Michigan

509 Williams Hall

Dept. of Anthropology

University of Vermont

Burlington, VT 05405

email: [email protected]

Contact telephone: 802-373-4739

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1998 Mellon Dissertation Fellowship, University of Michigan

1996-8 National Science Foundation Dissertation Improvement Grant

1996-7 Fulbright-Hays Dissertation Abroad Fellowship

1996-7 IREX Individual Advanced Research Grant

RESEARCH AND SCHOLARSHIP

Research Areas

Focus on linguistic and economic anthropology of Eastern Europe, especially Ukraine and

Transcarpathia.

Research topics include linguistic diversity (sign languages; dialectology); socio-economic

transformation and work-based identities; narratives and storytelling; language and identity;

semiotics of writing systems; language, advertising and social media in post-socialist societies

Field Research

2015- Ongoing research into language, identity and vocation in Ukraine’s Deaf

communities, including four month as a Fulbright scholar in 2017 and 2018.

2014- Ongoing research into home renovation and residence patterns in rural Zakarpattia

5/2014 Interview project with Ukrainian Deaf on the Ukrainian Euromaidan Protests;

observation of Ukrainian Presidential elections.

8/12; 5/13-6/13 Preliminary research on Ukrainian Deaf Culture and Deaf work-based identities

in Ukraine.

10/08-12/08 Research on language, urban space and advertising in Lviv Ukraine.

7/05 Supplemental research on migrant laborers from Zakarpattia region and on

contemporary markets and advertising in Ukraine.

7/04 Research on contemporary markets and advertising in Ukraine.

7/03 Research on contemporary advertising and consumer culture in Ukraine.

Project included conducting individual and group interviews with advertisers and

consumers in four locations throughout Ukraine.

12/01 Scholarly observer of the 2001 Ukrainian National Census, Zakarpattia, Ukraine

7/00-9/00 Research on Local Markets in Zakarpattia Region, Ukraine.

Research included life history interviews with market sellers through the

Zakarpattia region.

7/95-8/95 Dissertation Research in Zakarpattia Region, Ukraine.

7/96-11/97 Dissertation Research in Zakarpattia Region, Ukraine.

1995-1999 Research Assistant, Ford Foundation Project “Identity Formation and Social

Problems in Estonia, Ukraine and Uzbekistan”.

6/92-7/93 Independent Ethnographic and Oral History Research on WWII survivors in the

Former Soviet Union. Watson Foundation Fellowship.


Refereed Publications

Articles

Dickinson, Jennifer. 2017. “Physicality and Texts: Rematerializing the Transparent.” In

Language and Materiality: Ethnographical and Theoretical Explorations. Eds. Jillian R.

Cavanaugh and Shalini Shankar. Cambridge University Press.

Dickinson, Jennifer. 2015. “Plastic Letters: Alphabet Mixing and Ideologies of Print in

Ukrainian Shop Signs.” In “Language Ideologies and Writing Systems” special issue of

Pragmatics 25 (4): 517-534.

Dickinson, Jennifer. 2015. “Introduction: Language Ideologies and Writing Systems”

Introduction to edited volume (J. Dickinson, editor). Pragmatics 25 (4): 507-516.

Dickinson, Jennifer. 2014. “Prosymo maksymal’nyj perepost! Tactical and Discursive Uses of

Social Media in Ukraine’s EuroMaidan.” Ab Imperio. Volume 3/2014: 75-93.

Dickinson, Jennifer. 2010. “Languages for the Market, the Nation, or the Margins: Overlapping

Ideologies of Language and Identity in Zakarpattia.” Jennifer Dickinson. International Journal

of the Sociology of Language 201: 53-78.

Dickinson, Jennifer. 2007. “How do you write yourself? How do you call yourself?”:

Official and Unofficial Naming Practices in a Transcarpathian Ukrainian Village.

Anthropological Linguistics. 49(2):118-141

Dickinson, Jennifer. 2007. “Go [expletive] a girl for me”: Bivalent Meaning and Cultural

Miscues in Ukrainian Jokes about Migrant Labor.” Journal of Linguistic Anthropology 18(2):

231-245.

Dickinson, Jennifer. 2007. “Changing Money in Post-Soviet Ukraine.” In Ethnographic

Encounters with Money, edited by Stefan Senders and Allison Truitt. Berg Press. Pp. 27-42.

Dickinson, Jennifer. 2005. “Post-Soviet Identities in Formation: Looking Back to See Where

We are Now.” Jennifer Dickinson. Introduction to Identity Formation and Social Problems in

Estonia, Ukraine and Uzbekistan, edited by Jennifer Dickinson (Primary/First editor) and

Oksana Malanchuk. Special issue of the journal Nationalities Papers 33(3):291-301

Dickinson, Jennifer. 2005 “Gender, Work and Economic Restructuring in a Transcarpathia

(Ukraine) Village.” In Identity Formation and Social Problems in Estonia, Ukraine and

Uzbekistan, edited by Jennifer Dickinson (Primary/First editor) and Oksana Malanchuk. Special

issue of the journal Nationalities Papers 33(3):387-401

Edited Journal Volumes

Dickinson, Jennifer (ed.). 2015. Language Ideologies and Writing Special issue of the journal

Pragmatics, Volume 25, issue 4.

Identity Formation and Social Problems in Estonia, Ukraine and Uzbekistan, edited by Jennifer

Dickinson (Primary/First Editor) and Oksana Malanchuk. Special issue of the journal

Nationalities Papers 33(3), 2005.


Articles – Dickinson listed as co-author

Costanza, Robert, et al. (Dickinson listed as a co-author). 2007. “Quality of Life: An Approach

Integrating Opportunities, Human Needs, and Subjective Well-Being.” Ecological Economics 61:

266-276.

Editorially Reviewed Publications

Dickinson (Associate Editor). Encyclopedia of Linguistic Anthropology. Expected publication

date 2020. London: Wiley-Blackwell.

Dickinson, Jennifer and Ihor Kobel. 2018. Моделі інклюзії для глухих: погляд із США.

“Models of Deaf Inclusion: A View from the US.” In Актуальні питання корекційної освіти. Випуск 11.

Dickinson, Jennifer. Forthcoming. Entries: “Humor, Joking and Verbal Play” and “Emojis” in

The Encyclopedia of Linguistic Anthropology. Oxford University Press. Expected publication

2020.

Dickinson, Jennifer. 2014. “Brother Nation or Brothers No More? Seeing Asymmetry in Post-

Maidan Ukraine” Solicited for Cultural Anthropology online “Hot Spot” forum on Ukraine.

Dickinson, Jennifer. 2009. “Documenting Identity: The Discourse of Census Categories and

Rusyn Self-Determination in the 2001 Ukrainian Census.” In E. Rusinko, ed. Selected Papers in

Rusyn Studies. East European Monograph series of Columbia University Press.

Dickinson, Jennifer. 2007. Review of L. Bilaniuk’s Contested Tongues: Language Politics and

Cultural Correction in Ukraine. In Comparative Studies in Society and History, 49(2): 487-488

Dickinson, Jennifer. 2005. Review of Keith Sawyer’s Improvised Dialogues: Emergence and

Creativity in Conversation. Journal of Linguistic Anthropology 15(2): 277-278.

Dickinson, Jennifer. 2002. Review of E. Ochs and L. Capps Living Narrative. Jennifer

Dickinson. In American Ethnologist. 29(3):737-8, 2002

Dickinson, Jennifer. 2002. Review of A. Duranti’s Linguistic Anthropology: A Reader. Jennifer

Dickinson. In Current Anthropology, 43:337-8

Dickinson, Jennifer. 2000. Review of C. Wanner’s Burden of Dreams and A. Wilson’s

Ukrainian Nationalism in the 1990’s. Jennifer Dickinson. National Identities 2(1)

Dickinson, Jennifer 1998. “Introduction” Jennifer Dickinson and Mandana Limbert. In

Linguistic Form and Social Action, Michigan Discussions in Anthropology Volume 13, J.

Dickinson, et al., eds. pp. 1-11. Volume reviewed in Language in Society 29:4, pp. 583-86

Dickinson, Jennifer. 1995. “Rebuilding the Blockade: New Truths in Survival Tales from

Leningrad.” Jennifer Dickinson. In Anthropology of Eastern Europe Review.

Manuscripts in preparation or submitted

Dickinson, Jennifer. Under contract. Book proposal for Po-nashomu: Life in a Zarkarpattia

Village. Under contract with Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute Press. Manuscript due to

press 7/2019.


Dickinson, Jennifer. 2018. “Alternative Sovereignties in Ukrainian Comic Book Worlds.” Part

of a series of pieces on comics in post-socialist societies. In preparation for Anthropology News.

Dickinson, Jennifer, with Natalia Adamiuk. “Politics and Practice of Signed Ukrainian.

Implications for Accessibility and Educational Reform” In preparation for submission to Sign

Language Studies.

Curation of Museum Exhibits Faculty advisory/supervisory curator. Spring 2020. “Human/Animal” Museum Anthropology

Student Exhibit, Fleming Museum.

Faculty advisory/supervisory curator. Fall 2018. “House to Home” Museum Anthropology

Student Exhibit, Fleming Museum.

Co-curator with Margaret Tamulonis of “Imbibe: Drinking in Culture” Spring 2017 at the

Fleming Museum.

Faculty advisor/supervisory curator. Fall-Spring 2015. “Sex Show” EEIEE Museum

Studies/Museum Anthropology jointly curated exhibit. Fleming Museum.

Co-curator. May-September 2014. “For Democracy and Dignity. A Photo Exhibit from

Euromaidan.” At the Ukrainian Institute of America, New York.

Faculty advisor/supervisory curator. Fall 2013. Honors College Museum Studies Exhibit

“Framing Food”. Fleming Museum.

Co-curator of “Storied Objects: Tracing Vermont Women’s Lives.” Fleming Museum 2/2010-

9/2010. Multi-media exhibit with online component through Omeka software.

Faculty advisor/supervisory curator. Fall 2010. Museum Anthropology class exhibit:

“Metals/Material/Culture”. Exhibit incorporated students exhibit designs and research on metal

objects from the Fleming collection.

Conference presentations (selected, since 2000)

“Kiborhy and Superheroji: Idealized Images of Ukrainian-ness in Contemporary Comic Books”

on the panel “Components of Ukrainian-ness: Interdisciplinary Perspectives” (Organizer: J.

Dickinson). American Association for Slavic and East European Studites Annual Convention.

Boston. 12/2018.

Discussant for the panel “Post-Socialist Identities: New Approaches.” ASEEES Annual

Convention. Boston. 12/2018.

Panel participant, “Superheroes.” Pulp Culture: Comic Arts Festival and Symposium. University

of Vermont, 10/2018.

“Interpretation as an interface of ownership: Ideologies of order and disorder and perceptions of

‘calqued’ versus natural Ukrainian Sign Language (USL).” American Anthropological

Association Conference, Washington, DC. 11/2017.

“[thumbs up][laughing Meep][Pusheen heart]: Ukrainian Deaf Expression and Alignment in

Pictorial and Text Comments on Facebook Posts” on the panel Between Graphic and Grapheme:

Representation in Writing organized by Jennifer Dickinson. International Pragmatics

Association Conference, Belfast, Ireland. 7/2017.


“Masking and Unmasking Profanity in Ukrainian Public Media” ASEEES-MAG International

Conference in Slavic Studies. Panel organizer of “Language in the Ukrainian Public Sphere.”

Lviv, Ukraine. 6/2016.

“Location and Orientation as Essential Elements in a Ukrainian Sign Language Narrative of

Euromaidan” American Anthropological Association Meetings, Denver. 11/2015.

“Buy Ukrainian!: Geopolitics and Ethical Consumption after Russia’s Annexation of Crimea.”

On the panel “Food systems, ethical systems and post-socialism” Association for the Study of

Food and Society Meetings, University of Vermont 6/2014

“The Revolution will be livestreamed: Social Media and Maidan” Postsocialist Cultural Studies

Symposium. Havighurst Center, Miami U. Ohio. 2/2014.

“The City Underneath: Uncovering Socialist Landscapes in Personal Narratives from Lviv.”

American Anthropological Association Meetings, Chicago. 11/2013

“Whither the Shpor? 100 YearsKitchen Redesign in Rural Ukraine.” American Folklore Society

Meetings, Boston. 11/13.

“Digraphia and Alphabet Mixing: Systematic Aspects of Outdoor Advertising in Lviv/Діграфія

та змішування письмових систем у зовнішній рекламі в м. Львові” Seventh Annual Lviv

International Sociology Forum: Postmodern, Modern and Traditional Aspects of Contemporary

Ukrainian Society. Ivan Franko National University. Ukraine. 5/13.

“Multiscript Materiality: Fixed and Emergent Values in Two Multilingual Contexts” with

Emily Manetta. American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting, Montreal. 11/11

“Print Technology and the Aesthetics of Global Capitalism: A Case Study from Ukraine”

Presented at the American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting, Philadelphia. 12/09.

“Social Relations, Urban Space and the Aesthetics of Shopping in Lviv, Ukraine” Presented at

the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies conference. Boston, 11/09

“The Semiotics of Selling and the Transformation of Public Space in Postsocialist Ukraine”

Presentation at the Soyuz Annual Symposium, UC Berkeley. 4/08

“Spelling it out: Mixing Alphabets and Ideologies of Consumption in Contemporary Ukrainian

Advertising.” Presentation at the Association for the Study of Nationalities Conference. 4/06

“Narrator, Audience and Performance in Rural Ukrainian Storytelling” Invited presentation at

the Havighurst Symposium on Post-Socialist Performance at Miami University of Ohio 4/06.

“Consuming National Pride: Food, Locality and Healthfulness in Ukraine.” On the panel

“Health, Wealth, Beauty, and Connections: Producing and Consuming “Democracy” in Eastern

Europe” American Anthropological Association Meetings, Washington D.C. 12/05

Participant, Honors College Faculty Seminar, UVM. Seminar title “Quality of Life” resulted in

the two papers listed above under “Articles – Dickinson listed as Co-Author”

“Joining the Empire: Oral History Narratives of Becoming Soviet in 1940's Zakarpattia,” panel

on Ukrainian Oral Narrative organized by Jennifer Dickinson. Association for the Study of

Nationalities Conference. Columbia University, 4/05

“Selling the `European Way of Life': Advertising, Consumption and Economization of

Democracy in Post-Soviet Ukraine,” on the panel “Visions of the Good Life and Just Getting By:


Commoditization, Money, and Cultures of Economy in Postsocialist Space” for the American

Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies conference, Boston. 12/04

“Dialogues and Data: Methodological Insights from Group Interviews in Rural Ukraine.”

Invited Symposium on Orality and Oral History at the University of Saskatchewan. 10/04

“Advertising and Identity: National and Regional Perspectives from Ukraine,” Association for

the Study of Nationalities Conference. Columbia University, 4/04.

“Where’s gender?: Narrative structure in market workers’ life histories from Zakarpattia,

Ukraine.” Invited talk for the International Symposium on Gender and Language, University of

Toronto. 10/03

“We’ve Changed!: Redefining the European Landscape in Post-Soviet Ukrainian Cigarette

Ads” part of the organized session “Language and Landscape: Practices of Representation,” co-

organizers J. Dickinson and Barbra Meek. American Anthropological Association Meetings,

Chicago. 11/03

“The Rusyn Campaign for the 2001 Ukrainian census.” American Association for the

Advancement of Slavic Studies Conference, Toronto. 11/03

“Choosing Sides in Zakarpattia: Self-Identification as Ukrainian, Rusyn, or Hungarian during the

2001 Ukrainian Census.” Presented at the Association for the Study of Nationalities Conference,

Columbia University. 4/02

“Particularities of the Ukrainian National Census: Zakarpattia.” Invited talk for the Symposium

on the Russian National Census, Brown University. 3/02

“A Full-time Job, but Still not Work: Occupational Identity in Ukrainian Market Workers’

Narratives.” Presented at the Soyuz Symposium of Postsocialist Cultural Studies, Ann Arbor,

Michigan. 2/02

“Go [expletive] a girl for me”: Bivalent meaning and cultural miscues in jokes about Ukrainian

migrant laborers.” Presented at the American Anthropological Association Annual Meetings,

Washington D.C., as part of the SLA panel “Joking and Identity: Subverting Dominant

Paradigms through Laughter,” organizers J. Dickinson and D. Suslak. 11/01

“The Only Job for a Woman Abroad Is on Her Back’: Crossing Borders of Gender and

Language among Transnational Traders in Ukraine.” Presented at the American Anthropological

Association Annual Meetings, San Francisco, as part of the SLA panel “Blurring the Lines:

Crossing Borders of Gender and Language in the Post-Communist World,” organizers J.

Dickinson and L. Bilaniuk. 11/00

“Languages for the Market, the Nation, or the Margins: Overlapping Ideologies of Language

and Identity in Zakarpattia.” Invited Presentation at Ukrainian Politics in the Twentieth Century:

An International Conference at Yale University. 4/00

Invited Lectures and University Presentations

Panel participant, “Wastelands: Anthropological Perspectives on Trash.” University of Vermont.

11/2018.

“Language and Identity among Deaf Ukrainians” Talk for Global Village, UVM 4/2018


“Глуха спiльнота та моделi iнклюзiї” (Deaf community and models of inclusion) Invited

presentation for Ukrainian Catholic University. Lviv, Ukraine 3/2018.

“Мова та iдентичнiсть українських глухих пiсля Майдану.(Language and identity among

Ukrainian Deaf after the Maidan). Invited lecture for Fulbright Ukraine. Kyiv, Ukraine 2/2018.

“Drawing fieldwork” guest lecture for “Graphic Anthropology” course at Oberlin College.

2/2018

“What’s Going on Now in Ukraine?” Elder Education Enrichment (EEE) program, Chittenden

Country Road Scholar Network. 9/17.

“Making sense of theory and fieldwork.” Invited lecture for Middlebury Sociology-

Anthropology annual dinner. Middlebury College. 5/2017.

“Drinking Cultures” Public talk in association with the “Imbibe” Exhibit at the Fleming

Museum. 4/2017.

“What is Academic Integrity?” Invited presentation for the Social Anthropology Department of

the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Lviv, Ukraine. 3/2017.

“The US System of Higher Education.” Invited presentation to the English Department at Ivan

Franko University, Lviv, Ukraine 3/2017.

“Online Discussion” and “Hybrid Instruction” Invited workshops for the Center for Innovative

and Educational Technology, Ukrainian Catholic University, Lviv, Ukraine. 3/17

“Ukraine Travelogue: Food and Feasting in Ukraine.” Public presentation and food tasting for

the Shelburne Public Library Travelogue Series. February, 2016.

Invited speaker in Language and Power seminar at Middlebury College. Topic “The X Word:

Profanity in the Ukrainian Public Sphere.” Fall 2015.

Invited speaker for “Language, Politics and Identity in Ukraine.” and “Update: What’s going on

in Ukraine?” Elder Education Enrichment (EEE) program, Chittenden Country Road Scholar

Network. 2/15 and 9/15.

Facilitator/Q&A for “Ukraine Is NOT a Brothel” at the Vermont International Film Fest. 10/14.

Panelist for the Rankin series roundtable “Crisis in Ukraine.” University of Vermont. 10/14.

Guest lecture/Q&A for Anthropology of Post-Socialism, Yale University. 3/14.

Organizer and panelist “Teach-In: What’s Going on in Ukraine.” Co-sponsored by CAS and

REES 3/14

Public presentations/Q&A on events in Ukraine. Ilsley Library (Middlebury); Dorset

Congregational Church. 3/14.

“Contemporary Ukrainian and Russian Popular Music” Lecture given for the Russian House

Program, University of Vermont. 2/07

“Pysanky and Krasanky: Ukrainian Easter Egg Traditions” Lecture given for the Russian House

Program, University of Vermont. 3/07


"Learning to Consume: The Development of Advertising and Consumer Culture in

Post-Soviet Ukraine" Invited presentation for the Union Institute at Vermont College.

Montpelier. 12/04.

“The Challenge of Democracy in Cultural Context: Understanding the 2004 Ukrainian

Presidential Elections" Colloquium given for the AIS Program, UVM 12/04

“We’ve Changed!: Contemporary Ukrainian Advertising.” Colloquium given for the

International and Areas Studies Program at the University of Vermont. 12/03

“Post-Speculator Markets: Daily Bread, the Daily Grind and the New Collective in Ukrainian

Bazaar Workers' Narratives.” Invited lecture in the Center for Russian and East European

Studies Brownbag series. University of Michigan. 3/02

“Transforming Cultures of Work in Post-Soviet Ukraine: Insights from Rural Zakarpattia.”

Invited Lecture given for the Modern Languages and Cultural Studies program lecture series,

University of Alberta. 3/00

TEACHING AND ADVISING

Courses developed and taught for UVM

Senior Proseminar in Anthropology (Career path preparation course for majors)

Linguistic Anthropology

Anthropology of Humor

Anthropology of Eastern Europe

Sociolinguistics

Language, Gender and Sexuality

Language and Diversity in the US (TAP first year seminar)

Storytelling across Cultures (TAP first year seminar)

Human Cultures

Anthropology of Work

Modernity and Material Culture

Museum Anthropology

Museum Studies

Linguistics and Archaeology

Major Decisions (developed and taught for undecided majors in Arts and Sciences)

Online and Hybrid Courses

Alcohol and Culture (online course developed in 2012; taught again in 2013 and 2015)

Careers in Anthropology (online)

Business Anthropology (online; taught 2006; 2008; 2010)

Anthropology 28: Linguistic Anthropology (taught three times as an online course and taught as

a 100+ student hybrid course in Fall 2011 and Spring 2012)

Thesis and Independent Project Advising

Thesis committee Chair, Russian Honors thesis. Eleanor Maloney, 2018.

Thesis committee Chair, FTS Honors thesis, Ziggy Chelsey, 2017.


Thesis committee member, Anthropology Honors thesis, Cara Zhuang, 2017.

Thesis committee member, Anthropology Honors thesis, Julianna Fedrizzi, 2016.

Thesis Advisor, Anthropology Honors thesis, Nicole Bull, 2014/2015

Thesis committee member, Anthropology Honors thesis, Camille Clancy, 2015

Thesis Chair, English Honors Thesis, Hazel Wright, 2015

Thesis Advisor, Anthropology Honors thesis, Corrie Roe, 2014

Thesis Chair, Russian Thesis, Geoff Wilson, 2013

Thesis Advisor, Anthropology/Political Science Honors Thesis, Molly Campbell, 2011/2012

Thesis Chair, Psychology Honors Thesis, Brianna Goddard, 2012

Thesis Chair, Engilsh Honors Thesis, Elizabeth Fortier, 2012

Thesis Advisor, Anthropology Honors Thesis, Virginia Foster, 2006/2007

Thesis Chair, Sociology Honors Thesis, Elizabeth Anne Glatfelter 2007

Thesis Chair, History Honors Thesis, Elizabeth Ehrlich 2007

McNair Scholar Program, Project Supervisor and Faculty Mentor for John Austin, 2006/2007

Thesis advisor, Anthropology Honors Thesis, Nika Graci. 2005/06

Thesis Chair, German and Russian Thesis, Elissa Owens, 2006

Thesis and major Advisor, Independently Designed Major in Linguistic Studies,

Andras Pokorny 2005

Thesis committee Chair, Geography Honors Thesis, Gates Gooding. 2005

Thesis committee member, Anthropology Honors Thesis, George Stinson. 2005

URECA! Project supervisor, Gates Gooding. 2003/04. Student completed a documentary film,

which was screened at UVM and several national conferences and an international festival.

Advising

Typical advising load: 20-40 students, including Anthropology majors and minors. Designed and

taught Winter Session online course on Careers in Anthropology, Winter 2006; also taught in

May session 2006, Winter sessions 2007, 2009, 2011, 2013, 2015, 2016 and August 2010.

TAP advisor 2004/2005; 2006/2007; 2014/2015; 2015/2016

Second day registration advising for Admitted Students (June Orientation), and additional

registration sessions for incoming and transfer students (CAS): 2003-2018

SERVICE

UVM Service

Administrative/Service Positions

Provost’s Faculty Fellow for Assessment, 2016-present (4 year appointment)

- Responsible for planning and implementing UVM’s assessment initiative in advance of the

2019 reaccreditation self-study and visit


- Develop supports and resources to enable effective university-wide assessment of Gen Ed

and program-level outcomes

- Provide and organize professional development for assessment coordinators, chairs and

others responsible for assessing student learning outcomes

- Co-direct, with CTL staff, the Student-led Focus Group Initiative, which trains UVM

students to conduct focus group research for Gen Ed, program and college curriculum

assessment.

Director, Center for Teaching and Learning, 2010-present

- Director UVM Hybrid Course Initiative 2013-2017

o Designed five-year Hybrid initiative and secured internal funding ($250,000) to

support the design of 80+ hybrid courses by UVM faculty

o Design and facilitate face-to-face and online training in Hybrid (Blended) course

design. Over 70 UVM faculty participated in workshops and trainings.

o Consult with faculty and departments interested in developing Hybrid courses

o Oversaw the design of a searchable database of UVM hybrid course profiles.

Database will continue to grow as more courses are taught multiple times:

https://www.uvm.edu/ctl/apps/hybrids/

- Co-director, Universal Design for Learning training group for Arts and Sciences (and as of

2019, University-wide) 2013-present

o Project includes co-designing workshops and assessments of program

effectiveness

o Focus on course design and assessment of learning outcomes

o Work with Foundation to develop initiative reports and a second five-year

programming proposal for a private donor.

- With CTL staff, offer Scholarship of Teaching and Learning training and support for

faculty SoTL projects. UVM SoTL project began as a collaboration between CTL and the

Office of the Provost in Fall 2017.

- Design and facilitate a range of workshops. Recent topics include:

o Writing Learning Outcomes

o Effective Course and Assessment Design

o Promoting class discussion (in face to face and online contexts)

o Writing effective student response system questions

o Engaging students in Large Enrollment Classes

- Facilitate retreats on curriculum planning and assessment of student learning outcomes for

departments and programs

- Conduct individual course design and teaching consultations

- With Associate Director, do strategic and program planning

- Serve on key planning and advisory councils related to Academic Technology and Faculty

Development Initiatives on Campus (e.g. CIO’s Academic Technology Planning

Committee; Provost’s Academic Planning Council and Educational Stewardship Council;

Distance and Continuing Education Advisory Board)

https://www.uvm.edu/ctl/apps/hybrids/


Director, Russian and East European Studies Program, 2010-2014

Committee and Task-Force Memberships

CAS Distribution Requirement Task Force. 2017-2018.

Executive Committee member, NEASC/NECHE 2019 reaccreditation team, 2016-2019; Lead

Draft Coordinator for Self-Study Report; Liaison for Standard 6: Teaching, Learning, and

Scholarship.

Ex-officio Member, Educational Stewardship Committee, 2015-present

Ex-officio member, University IT Committee, 2016-present

EPI Grant review committee, 2015-present

Member, Distance Education Advisory Board, 2014-present

Member, Humanities Center Advisory Board.

College representative to Curricular Affairs Committee of the Faculty Senate 2010-2019

Member, Career Center Advisory Board, 2014-2018.

Member, Provost’s Academic Planning Council, 2014-2015

Member, Academic Technology Planning/TIF committee 2010-2015

Member, IT Align Taskforce. 2013-2016

Contributor, Internationalization initiative 2011-present

Member, First Year Experience Advisory Board 2011-2014

Member, Student Success and Satisfaction Committee/SIP 2011-2012; 2014-15

Member, Assessment Task Force for the Gen Ed committee 2010-2011; 2014-

Arts and Sciences Curriculum Committee, member 2004-2007.

Linguistics Program Steering Committee. 2006-2010

Continuing Education Summer University Planning Committee 2003-2005

Anthropology Department Service

Anthropology APR preparation committee, 2014-2015

Anthropology Department Curriculum Committee 2002-present, Chaired 2010-2012

Anthropology Student Advising Handbook Committee 2009-2010

Anthropology Department Curriculum Update Coordinator 2002-2007

Anthropology Department ad hoc committee to update major requirements 2005/2006

Anthropology Department ad hoc committee to update RPT guidelines 2004-2005

Anthropology Department Representative to the Faculty Senate 2003-2005

Anthropology Department Search Committees 2002/2003; 2003/2004

Search Committees

Member, American Sign Language Instructor search 2018.

Member, American Sign Language Instructor search 2015.

Member, Fleming Museum Curator search, 2015

Member, Fleming Museum Curator search, 2013

Member, Instructional Design Librarian position, 2012

Member, CUPS Director search, 2012

Member, CAS Dean’s search committee, 2011/2012

Member, Anthropology Instructor position search committee, 2011/2012


Member, Russian Tenure Track Search Committee 2010/2011.

Other University Service

Humanities Center Summer Research Grant reviewer, 2016

REACH grant reviewer, 2016

Mock lecture for high school Sophomores, 11/2015

Commencement Marshal for CAS Commencement 2006, 2007, 2012, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2018

Summer Orientation for new students. 2005-2015

Invited by Dean’s office to participate in panel presentation to CAS admitted students 2006-2016

Offered half-day workshop in Ukrainian Easter Egg decoration for Global Village: 2006, 2007,

2009, 2010, 2012, 2014.

Professional Service

IIE-Fulbright Scholar Grant Application Reviewer. 9/2018.

Member, External Evaluator committee for NEASC regional re-accreditation of the University of

Rhode Island. Fall 2017.

Member, Program Committee, Society for Linguistic Anthropology (AAA). 2009-present

Volunteer translator (Ukrainian to English), Krytyka, an intellectual magazine based in Ukraine.

Moderator for Ukraine Now: News and Commentary Facebook group (5500 members), 2014-

present

International Election Monitor, Ukrainian Presidential Elections. 5/2014.

Member, Davis Center Book prize committee for outstanding book in Slavic Studies (social

sciences), 2010-2012.

Webmaster and H-Net List Editor for H-Soyuz, Post-socialist Cultural Studies interest group of

the American Anthropological Association (elected position) 2006-2011

Member, Editorial Board of the interdisciplinary journal Nationalities Papers 2005-2009

Book manuscript review for Cornell University Press (Russia/Eurasia).

Peer reviews of articles submitted to American Anthropologist, American Ethnologist, Journal of

Linguistic Anthropology; Slavic Review, East European Politics, Slavic and East European

Journal, Nationalities Papers, Canadian Slavonic Papers, Ethnos, Journal of Oral History,

Anthropology Forum, Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, Food and

Foodways; Die Friedens-Warte - Journal of International Peace and Organization.

Ad Hoc Proposal Review for National Science Foundation, 2016.

Proposal Review for SSRC Dissertation Proposal Development Fellowship, 2015-16

Proposal Review for National Science Center of Poland, 2015

Proposal Review for Estonian Research Council, 2014

Proposal Review for NEH Collaborative Research Fellowship, 2009

Proposal review for Social Science Research Council Dissertation Fellowships, 2004-2006

Proposal review for ACTR-ACCELS Title VIII Research Scholars Program, 2002

Participant, University of Michigan/University of Chicago Linguistic Anthropology Research

Consortium, 2001- 2004

MEMBERSHIPS IN PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS

American Anthropological Association, member

American Ethnological Society, member

Association Slavic Eurasian and East European Studies, member


American Folklore Society, member

International Pragmatics Association, member

Society for Linguistic Anthropology, member

Society for the Anthropology of Europe, member

Society for the Anthropology of Work, member

Society for Humanistic Anthropology, member

Society for Urban and Transnational Anthropology, member

LANGUAGE SKILLS

Sign Languages: Ukrainian Sign Language and American Sign Language, beginning level.

Ukrainian (including Zakarpattia dialects): Fluent speaking, reading and listening skills,

excellent translation skills, very good writing skills.

Russian: Fluent speaking, reading, and listening skills, excellent translation skills, very good

writing skills.

French: Good speaking and listening skills, very good reading skills.

Spanish: Fair listening skills, good reading skills.

Hungarian, Latin: Some familiarity

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