Resume

• 2005

  Karen

  Mylan Damian

  John A. Logan College

  Centerstone of Illinois

  Special Corrections

  Center for Dewey Studies

  Sharp Manufacturing Company of America

  I teach US history survey courses at Logan.

  John A. Logan College

  Independent Proxy Researcher

  I do independent proxy research for individuals interested in documents housed at Southern Illinois University's Morris Library or in local history. Topics of research have included Ida Craddock

  Eva Mirabel

  Victoria Woodhull

  John Dewey

  and Zelda Fitzgerald.

  Special Corrections

  Textual Editor

  Researcher

  Photo Archivist

  Collect

  edit

  and publish the papers (including correspondence) of American philosopher and educator John Dewey. Projects included publication of lecture notes taken by students of Dewey

  Dewey's correspondence

  and managing photo archive. Published a supplemental volume to the thirty-seven volume Collected Works of John Dewey and a fourth volume to the Correspondence of John Dewey (both on CDROM).

  Center for Dewey Studies

  Section Manager

  Parts Control

  Sharp Manufacturing Company of America

  Centerstone of Illinois

  Carbondale IL

  Division Administrative Assistant

  Program Assistant for ACT & TLP\n•\tProvide administrative support to multiple managers/directors\n•\tManage data for various client/staff reports; generate and distribute reports\n•\tMaintain resource

  medical

  and personnel files for staff and clients\n•\tMaintain customized documents on SharePoint\n•\tPlan

  attend

  and document events

  meetings

  conference calls\n•\tArrange transportation and lodging for executive staff\n•\tInteract with a variety of people within and without the agency to better serve clients\n•\tPerform clerical duties as needed including daily deposits

  photocopying

  faxing

  maintaining office supplies

  and handling of incoming and outgoing mail.\n•\tCover reception as needed

  Administrative Assistant

• 2001

  MA

  My focus as an undergraduate was modern American history. As a grad student I branched out and took some early American history classes. I served as student editor of the Phi Alpha Theta journal

  Legacy

  for three editions and also served three times as a \"writing fellow\" for the junior and senior paper classes. One of my \"students\" won the Edward J. O'Day prize! \n\nPapers/research:\nJunior paper -- “An Alternative Oppression: John Humphrey Noyes and the Women of the Oneida Community.” Published in Legacy

  A Journal of Student Scholarship 4 (2004) 57-73. (Winner of Edward J. O'Day prize for Best Undergraduate Paper.)\n\nSenior paper -- “A Twentieth Century Voice: The Politics

  Poetry

  and Prose of Kay Boyle.”\n\nSeminar 1 -- : \"Women's Political Role before Suffrage: The Case of Ruth Hanna McCormick.\"\n\nSeminar 2 -- \"Battling the Ballot: Caroline Fairfield Corbin and the Illinois Antisuffrage Movement\"

  American History

  HGSA

  Phi Alpha Theta's journal Legacy

• Event Planning

  Administrative Assistants

  Publishing

  Community Outreach

  Lotus Notes

  Teaching

  Public Speaking

  Publications

  Grant Writing

  Legal Writing

  Management

  Politics

  Program Development

  History

  Archives

  Research

  SharePoint

  Nonprofits

  Library

  Editing

  Mylan Damian