Araceli Alonso

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EDUCATION

Undergraduate and Graduate Degrees

Ph.D., Cultural Anthropology. University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA 2002.

M.A., Cultural Anthropology. University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA, 1997

M.S., Social Anthropology. Minnesota State University, USA, 1993.

B.A., Bachelors Degree in Philosophy and Letters, Major in History, University of Madrid-Spain, 1989.

R.N., Register Nurse, Ministry of Education and Science, Spain, 1980.

Other Related Training Education

• Women’s Commission for Refugee Women and Children. Certificate Minimum Initial Service Package for Reproductive Health (MISP), 2007.

• United Kingdom Department for International Development and the Canadian Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade Training. Course on Gender and Peacekeeping, 2006.

•UNHCR, United Nations Suremian Endeavor Training. International Studies

University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2005.

WORK EXPERIENCE

(2006-2008) Consultant

•WE International Inc./ Save Somalia Women and Children (SSWC) Head of Reproductive Health Project for Somali women living in Kenya (2007-2008). Developed a project that includes the production of a 20-minute documentary DVD on FGM/C among the Somali population of North Eastern Kenya.

•Wisconsin Women’s Rights/Prostitution Project (2007-2008). Advocacy for women’s rights. In conjunction with a group of professionals, I research and develop theories to implement health programs and safety nets for street prostitutes of Wisconsin.

•Redfem-Cuba. Developed workshops on women’s leadership, prostitution, and sex trafficking in Havana (2007-2008).

(1991-2008) University Teaching

•Professional Women’s Leadership Matrix, UW-Madison (2007-2008).

•Associate Faculty, Lecturer Anthropology of Women, Women’s Health and Reproductive Health Cross-culturally; Social Justice and Women’s Human Rights, Gender and Politics; Sex Trafficking. Women’s Studies Department, Anthropology Department, Political Science Department, UW-Madison, (1994-2007).

•Associate Faculty, Instructor of Medical Spanish, School of Medicine and Public Health UW-Madison (1997-2008).

•Lecturer Cultural Anthropology, Anthropology Department, University of Minnesota, USA (1991-1993).

INTERNATIONAL WORK EXPERIENCE

(1998-1999) Havana, Cuba

•Project researcher for health status of elderly Cuban women during the Special Period in Time of Peace, after the collapse of the Soviet Union and the Communist European Eastern Bloc (1995-1996).

•Project researcher on Gender, Health, and Politics before and after the Revolution of 1959 (1998-1999).

•Film co-producer ICAIC Instituto de Cultura, Arte e Industria de Cuba, Cuban Film and Art Industries Institute of Cuba, (1998-1999).

(1980-1991) Madrid, Spain

•Register Nurse at Our Lady of Carmen Military Hospital, Madrid. Pediatrics and General Medicine (1980-1991).

RESEARCH EXPERIENCE

Women’s Reproductive Health Cross-culturally 1994-2007

Women’s Reproductive Health, FGM/C in Africa (Somalia and Kenya) 2005-2008

Gender, Sex Work, and Sex Trafficking (local, national, transnational), 2006-08

Gender and Leadership in a Global Context, 2004-2007

Prostitution and Women’s Health, Cuba 1998-2006

Women and Politics, Cuba 1998-99

PUBLICATIONS

In Havana Yesterday Came Suddenly. (2008) Under review for publication.

De v ctima a culpable: discursos de victimizaci n en el trabajo sexual femenino en

Cuba (From Victim to Criminal: Discourses of Victimization in the Female Sex Work in Cuba). MUGAK Centro de Estudios y Documentaci n sobre Racismo y Xenophobia, n. 43, June 2008, Spain.

Once Upon a Revolution: Women Coming to Age and Growing Older in Castro’s Cuba. Doctoral dissertation, 2002.

Cuba: The Search for Women’s Rights in Private and Public Life. in Women’s Rights: A Global View. Lynn Walter (ed.). Westport, CT: Greenwood Publishing Group Inc. October 2000.

Condici n de g nero y raza a trav s de la oralidad: un acercamiento antrop logico

Reyita sencillamente (Gender and Race Revisited Through Oral Narrative: An Anthropological Approach of Reyita Sencillamente) in Casa. La Habana: Casa de Las Am ricas, August 2000.

COMPUTER SKILLS

Microsoft Word, Power Point, Front Page, Excel, Spreadsheet, Databases.

LANGUAGES

Bilingual English/Spanish; French intermediate; Italian and Portuguese reading proficiency; elementary Chinese.

COMITTEES, BOARDS, AND AFFILIATIONS

Community Advisory Board Planned Parenthood for Reproductive Health among Latino Populations of Wisconsin (2007-2008)

Wisconsin Committee on Human Trafficking (2007-2008)

Women’s Studies and Gender Studies, UW-Madison (1994-2008)

Center for Global Health, MSPH UW-Madison (2007-2008)

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