Resume

• 2009

  Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)

  Program in Anthropology & History

  Science

  Technology and Society (STS) Certificate

  University of Michigan

• 2002

  Bachelor of Arts (B.A.)

  Anthropology & Literature

  Washington University in St. Louis

• Human Resources

  Qualitative Research

  Grant Writing

  Research Design

  University Teaching

  Program Management

  Academic Writing

  Public Speaking

  Editing

  d'Avignon

  Robyn

  IOM

  US Fulbright Commission Belgium

  Peace Corps

  Kedougou

  Senegal

  Assisted villages in developing dry-season gardening sites and instructed classes in urban agricultural techniques at a women's technical center. Authored grants for and coordinated two public health campaigns: an HIV/AIDS prevention plan for villages in mining zones (funded by USAID)

  and the distribution of mosquito nets in two rural districts (in collaboration with NetLife).

  Sustainable Agriculture Volunteer

  Peace Corps

  Brussels

  Belgium

  Coordinated research on West and West-Central African migrant organizations in Belgium

  oversaw a study on the history of Rwandan migration to Belgium

  and maintained the Africa programs website.

  Program Assistant

  Migration for Development in Africa

  IOM

  Brussels

  Belgium

  Conducted oral history research on sub-Saharan African migration to Belgium since the 1960s.

  United States Fulbright Fellow

  US Fulbright Commission Belgium

  French

  Fulfulde

  Malinke

  English

  The National Science Foundation

  Graduate Research Fellowship Program

  Social Science Research Council

  International Dissertation Research Fellowship

  The Wenner Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research

  Doctoral Fieldwork Dissertation Fellowship