CURRICULUM VITAE

Marie-Claude Thomas

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Arlington, Virginia 22203, Apt. 1711

440-***-****

acsiey@r.postjobfree.com

Title

Researcher, French and Arabic Linguist, Translator, Interpreter, Language and Media Analyst, MENA and Francophone Countries Specialist

SUMMARY

Fifteen years’ experience in language analysis and instruction in Higher Education settings, French and Arabic, in USA

Specialist in assessing information value and analyzing media in Arab countries, tracking trends, and consolidating findings into reports

Seven years’ experience in International Business, in Paris, France

Fluent Trilingual (speaking, reading and writing) Arabic, French and English

EDUCATION

Baldwin Wallace College, Berea, OH, U.S. A.

Masters of Business Administration

Field: International Management

Université de Paris 2, Assas, Sorbonne, Paris, France

French Press Institute

Master's and DESS Degrees in Communication and Information

School of Education, Beirut, Lebanon

Bachelor’s Degree in Philosophy and Education

INTERNATIONAL AND BUSINESS POSITIONS

Self-employed, Bay Village, OH, USA, 1998- 2000

Translations

Translated a technical maintenance manual

English to French translation for Caterpillar, Belgium

Matra Conlgomerate, Saint Quentin en Yvelines, France

Communication Department

Worked closely with journalists

Acted as liaison to the Arab World

Wrote L'Histoire de Matra P29, Matra Automobile Catalogue

U.N.E.S.C.O., Paris, France

United Nations for Education Science and Culture Organization

Member of the Lebanese Delegation

Participated into 7th session of the International Program for Communication

Arab International Development and Investment Company, Paris, France

Public Relations Associate

Implemented and coordinated relations with international banks

Supervised French and Arabic correspondence

Led public and commercial relations with Middle Eastern countries

Performed translation and interpretation duties

Prepared logistics for special events

APPOINTMENTS

United States Naval Academy, Annapolis, MD 2012 – 2014

Division of Humanities and Social Sciences

Languages and Cultures Department

Visiting Assistant Professor of Arabic

Illustrative initiatives include:

Taught Arabic Language MSA and Spoken Levantine: Arabic 101-102 (Beginning level); Arabic 201-202 (Intermediate); Arabic 486F (Modern Arab Thought); Arabic 342 Lebanese Spoken Arabic; and Conversation.

Designed and introduced a new language course FA342 Lebanese Spoken Arabic, spring 2013.

Invited at the Library of Congress, African and Middle Eastern Division to deliver a lecture titled Living Together and Facing Modernity, February 2013.

Organized a Movement Order for midshipmen to Chemonics International, a development company that promotes social and economic change around the world, and a Movement Order to the Library of Congress.

Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH 2007 – 2012

Division of Humanities

Religion Department

Visiting Assistant Professor of Arabic

Illustrative achievements include:

Launched Oberlin College’s Arabic Language Program.

Independently designed, developed and taught the college’s first introductory, intermediate, and advanced Arabic courses.

Designed, developed and taught courses concerning contemporary Arab societal issues, including “Religion, Gender, and Cultural Identity in the Modern Arab World.”

Designed, developed, and taught courses concerning Arabic philosophy, including Modern Arab Thought. Contributed to the strategic direction and helped the program to grow in designing first content Arab course offered in Arab society.

Baldwin-Wallace College, Berea, OH 1996 – 2004

Division of Humanities

Department of Languages and Literatures

Visiting Assistant Professor of French

Illustrative achievements include:

Taught French Language: French 101-102 (Beginning level); French 201 (Intermediate); French 210 (Introduction to French literature); French 310-311 (French Civilization & Culture); French 341 (Conversation). Important topics include a comparative perspective between France and USA on gender roles and women's issues.

Grew French language program enrollment by 50%.

Organized cultural extra-curricular French activities including trips to the Cleveland Museum of Art and Playhouse Square to listen to and discuss French Opera and musicals such as La Vie Parisienne and Operettes by Jacques Offenbach, Carmen by Georges Bizet, Le Mariage de Figaro by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.

Ministry of Education, Beirut, Lebanon

Taught C.A.P.E.S. Program

Baccalauréat d'Etudes Secondaires

Instructor

Illustrative achievements include:

Taught Western Philosophy in French

Taught Medieval Arab World in Arabic

PUBLICATIONS

Book

Thomas, Marie-Claude, Women in Lebanon: Living with Christianity, Islam, and Multiculturalism New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.

Article

Thomas, Marie-Claude (2014), Religious Practices in Lebanon, Worldmark Encyclopedia of Religious Practices, Second Edition, Gale Group, Michigan, USA.

PAPER PRESENTATIONS

Thomas, Marie-Claude (2015), Civil Marriage in Lebanon: Construction of Citizenship, Foreign Language Association of Virginia, September 24-26, 2015.

Thomas, Marie-Claude (2014), Integrated Approach in Teaching Arabic: Evidence From the Field, Foreign Language Association of Virginia “Language Matters”, September 25-27, 2014.

Thomas, Marie-Claude (2002), Moral Responsibility of Corporate America Doing Business in China, International MBA Program at Baldwin-Wallace College, OH.

WORK IN PROGRESS

Translation of a poetry prose book The Churches' Street from Arabic into English (forthcoming)

RESEARCH PROJECTS

ARABSAT et le Développement du Monde Arabe UNESCO, Communication Department, Paris, France.

ACADEMIC CONFERENCES AND WORKSHOPS

The Midwest Faculty Seminar, Global Feminism, January 2008, Center of Teaching and Learning, University of Chicago.

Mellon 23 Middle East Studies and Liberal Arts Conference, November 2008, Grinnell College, Des Moines, Iowa.

Middle East Studies Association Annual Conference, Washington D.C., November 2008; Boston, November 2009; San Diego, November 2010; Washington D.C., December 2011.

The Midwest Faculty Seminar, Alternative “Modernities,” April 2012 at the Center of Teaching and Learning, University of Chicago.

STARTALK training, Arabic: Teaching Best Practices, AACC and USNA, Annapolis, June 2013.

Professional Development LEARN Workshop for Language Teaching and Learning, Foreign Service Institute, Arlington, VA, May14-15, 2014.

Foreign Language Association of Virginia “Language Matters,” September 25-27, 2014.

Foreign Language Association of Virginia “C’s The Day,” September 24-26, 2015.

AWARDS AND SCHOLARSHIPS

The Minneapolis Foundation Grant, Oberlin 2011.

Power Travel Grant, Oberlin 2009.

Two-year U.N.E.S.C.O. scholarship to conduct a research on satellites that led to an M.A. and a D.E.S.S. diploma in Journalism and Information related to both Europe and the Arab World.

Four-year scholarship from the Ministry of Education in Lebanon that led to the teaching C. A. P. E. S. diploma.

LANGUAGES

Fluent (speaking, reading and writing) in Arabic, French and English.

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