VITAE
Marcia L. Mikulak – Associate Professor Home: 701-330-1311
Department of Anthropology Office: 701-777-4718
Babcock Hall 104 E-mail:
236 Centennial Drive Stop 8374
Grand Forks, ND 58202-8374
Education
1996 – 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, NM
1970 – 1974 MFA, Mills College, Oakland, CA
1966 – 1970 BM, San Francisco Conservatory of Music, San Francisco, CA
Areas of Specialty
Human Rights, Violence, Social and Cultural Constructions of Childhood, Rural and Urban Migration
Research Sites
Domestic Violence, Grand Forks, ND; Human Rights (children and indigenous rights) Belo Horizonte, Brazil, and Pesquiera, Pernambuco, Brazil (Xukuru Indigenous Human Rights)
Professional Experience
University Employment
2009 – present Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, ND
2003 – 2008. Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, ND
2000 – 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 Department
1985 – 2000 Director and Creator: Santa Fe Research Institute. Development of innovative learning curriculums for children and adolescents
1978 – 1985 College of Santa Fe, Department of Performing Arts, Individual Piano, Music Theory, Piano Pedagogy
1977 – 1979 College of Santa Fe, Department of Performing Arts, Head of Piano Department
Research Employment
1989 – 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.
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.
Publications (Accepted & Published)
Books
· 2012 Mikulak, Marcia. Ed. Introduction to Cultural Anthropology: A Reader Exploring Contemporary Problems. San Diego: Cognella Academic Publishing. In Progress
Peer-Reviewed Journal Publications
· 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
Conference Proceedings Publications (Peer Reviewed)
· 2010 Mikulak, Marcia. “Music, Anthropology, and the Senses: Cognition for Social Change.” Narrative Soundings: 3rd International Conference – Narrative Inquiry in Music and Education. University of Queensland, Australia. Nov. 24-27, 2010
· 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
Articles Submitted and/or in Progress for Peer-Reviewed Journal Publication
· 2011 Mikulak, Marcia. “Indigenous Human Rights: Abuse and the Nation State in Brazil.” Journal of Race and Ethnic Studies. To be submitted in the Spring of 2009. To be submitted in Spring 2009. (In progress)
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
Invited Book Reviews
· 2011 Mikulak, Marcia. “White Kids Language, Race, and Styles of Youth Identity,” Bucholtz, Mary. Invited book review for the Journal of Anthropological Research. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2011
· 2009 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
· 2007 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
Invited Book Reviews – In Process
· 2011 Mikulak, Marcia. “Childhood and Violence in the Western Tradition.”
Oxford: Oxbow Books, 2010. Journal of Anthropological Research, invited book review. Brockliss and Heather Montgomery, Eds. (In process)
· 2011 Mikulak, Marcia. “Everyday Ruptures: Children, Youth, and Migration in Global Perspective. Cati Coe, Rachel R. Reynolds,Deborah A. Boehm, Julia Meredith Hess, and Heather Rae-Espinoza. Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press
Peer-Reviewed Published Abstracts
· 2010 Mikulak, Marcia. “Music, Anthropology, and the Senses: Cognition for Social Change”
Published Abstract in proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Narrative Inquiry in Music and Education - Session 3, Thursday November 25 @ 3:00 – 4:00. The University of Queensland, St. Lucia, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.
· 2009 Mikulak, Marcia. “Mitigating Domestic Violence Through Community Social Action Research: Survivors Initiating Life Changes and Community Transformation.” Paper accepted for March 17 – 21 Society for Applied Anthropology 69th Annual Meetings. submission – invited presentation: Up-coming published abstract. (Peer reviewed)
· 2009 Mikulak, Marcia. “Symbolic Domains of Skin Color: Brazil’s Embedded Historical Paradigmatic Racism.” Paper accepted for up-coming January 9 – 12, Hawaii International Conference on Arts and Humanities. Peer reviewed submission – invited presentation: Up-coming published abstract
· 2008 Mikulak, Marcia. “Pathways to Peace: Anthropology and Domestic Violence Survivor Social Action program for Community Peace” Hawaii International Conference on Arts and Humanities (Peer reviewed)
· 2007 Mikulak, Marcia. “Anthropology and Communication: Sensuality, Complex Cognition, and Social Change. International World Congress on Communication and the Arts, São Paulo, Brazil.” Plenary Session ISBN: 85-89549-47-X (Peer Review)
· 2007 Mikulak, Marcia. Domestic Violence Assessment and Survivor Empowerment Research Collaborative. Crossroads II – Community-Based Collaborative Research for Social Justice. Hartford, CT. (Peer Reviewed) http://www.incommunityresearch.org/publications/publications.htm
· 2006 Mikulak, Marcia. “Grand Forks, North Dakota – Small City, Rural State: Collaborative Research for a Greater Community Response to Domestic Violence.” 12th National Conference on Domestic Violence: National Coalition Against Domestic Violence, Atlanta Georgia – CNN Center. (Peer Reviewed) http://www.ncadv.org/conferences/2006ConferenceRecap_180.html
· 2006 Mikulak, Marcia. “Brazilian Favela Youth in Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil: What’s the Meaning of the Color of Your Skin?” 105thAmerican Anthropological Association Meetings, San Jose, CA. ISBN-13: 978-1931303323 (Peer Reviewed)
§ 2005 Mikulak, Marcia. “Street Children of Curvelo, Minas Gerais, Brazil: Political Economy of Everyday Life” 104th American Anthropological Association Meetings, Washington, DC. ISBN-13: 978-1-931303-25-5 (Peer Reviewed)
§ 2001 Mikulak, Marcia. “Performance and Vulnerability: Street and Working Youths’ Stories,” 101stAnnual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association Meetings in Washington, DC. Visual Anthropology of the Senses Panel. ISBN-13: 978-9991251523 (Peer Reviewed)
§ 1999 Mikulak, Marcia. “The Social Construction of Disposable Children: Street and Working Children in Brazil,” 97th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association Meetings, Philadelphia. Boundaries of Bodies, Spaces of States Panel. ISBN-13: 978-9999803304 (Peer Reviewed)
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-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
Other Publications
· 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
· 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