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ANGELA ORLANDO, Ph.D.
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EDUCATION
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Ph.D., Anthropology
Dissertation: “Taste is Within: Decorative Material Culture at Home in Los Angeles and Lima, Peru”
2006 New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM
Master of Arts, Anthropology
Thesis: “Tourism and Consumerism in Highland Peru: Effects on Andean Weavers’ Heritage”
2003 University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ
Bachelor of Arts, Anthropology
TEACHING APPOINTMENTS
(Teaching Evaluations Available Upon Request)
2016-2020 Pima Community College
Physical Anthropology, Introduction to Non-Western Culture, Language & Culture
Summer 2018 University of Arizona New Start Summer Program
Archaeology
2014-2017 The Art Institute of Tucson
Anthropology, Sociology, Humanities, and English undergraduate courses
(as General Education Department Chair)
2010-2012 University of California Los Angeles
Introduction to Culture and Society, Anthropology of Aesthetic Systems, Anthropology of Religion
2007-2013 West Los Angeles College
Biological Anthropology
2007-2011 University of California Los Angeles
Introduction to Archaeology, Human Evolution, Culture and Communication, Introduction to Cultural Anthropology
2003-2005 New Mexico State University
Introduction to World Cultures, Anthropology of Art, Nutritional Anthropology, Introduction to Anthropology
PEER-REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS
2017 Home and Homeland: Limeño Families’ Aesthetics Project a Sense of Place. Anthropology Now (December 2017).
2015 Andean Weavers Craft a New Aesthetic for a Changing Tourist Market. Anthropology Now (September 2015):24, 77-82.
2012 Mexico. In Zimring, Carl A., ed. Encyclopedia of Consumption and Waste. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.
2012 Residential Urban Refuse. In Zimring, Carl A., ed. Encyclopedia of Consumption and Waste. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.
2009 Counting Taste as Cultural Capital: Variable Decorative Material Culture in 32 Urban Homes. Center on Everyday Lives of Families, Working Paper #90.
2007 Everyday Aesthetics: Preference in Thirteen Los Angeles Houses. Center on Everyday
Lives of Families, Working Paper #64.
NONACADEMIC AUTHOR WEBSITES
https://tucsonfoodie.com/author/angelaorlando/
https://matadornetwork.com/author/angelaorlando/
http://ediblebajaarizona.com/author/angela-orlando
http://greensuitcasetravel.com/
https://medium.com/@angelaorlando
www.wilderwriters.com
http://ucla.academia.edu/AngelaOrlando
RESEARCH POSITIONS
2006-2010 Graduate Research Fellow
University of California Los Angeles
Center on Everyday Lives of Families: A UCLA Sloan Center on Working Families
www.celf.ucla.edu
I contributed an extensive database about cross-cultural household aesthetic taste and consumer preferences among 48 middle-class Lima, Peru and Los Angeles, California families. As post-production team leader, I hired, trained, and supervised undergraduate transcribers and analyzed thousands of hours of visual, auditory, and textual data.
RESEARCH GRANTS AND AWARDS (TRUNCATED)
2011 University of California Los Angeles Dissertation Year Fellowship
2009 Tinker Award, Latin American Studies, University of California Los Angeles
2007 United States Department of State Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship, Quechua
2006-2012 University of California Los Angeles Graduate Fellowship
2006-2010 Alfred P. Sloan Center on Everyday Lives of Families Research Fellowship
2006 New Mexico State University Chancellor’s List
2005 Willoughby L. Nason Fellowship, New Mexico State University
2005 Charles R. Jenkins Award, Lambda Alpha, National Collegiate Honor
Society for Anthropology
2004 Merit-Based Enhancement Fellowship for Graduate Assistants, New Mexico State University
2003 Fieldwork Travel Grant, University of Arizona
EMPLOYMENT EXPERIENCE (TRUNCATED)
2018-Present Freelance Website Designer (various platforms)
I design and provide SEO for assorted websites. Links are available upon request
2017-Present Wandering Writers Workshops, LLC
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Founder/owner
I own, operate, market, and manage a writing retreat business that takes participants to sites all over the world in order to intensively write along a specific genre. I manage all aspects of the business, from social media to marketing to sales. I hire genre experts to lead the workshops.
2014-2017 The Art Institute of Tucson
General Education Program Coordinator
I supervised the general education component of an art college, including hiring, training, and developing faculty members and helping ensure quality education of 320 students. I ensured compliance with accrediting bodies and assessed institutional effectiveness. I designed and modified curricula.
2012-Present Culture Writer/Blogger/Editor
I write for and edit multiple internationally renowned websites including Tucson Foodie, Edible Baja Arizona, Matador Network, Medium, and Green Suitcase Travel. I also edit technical documents for an archaeological firm.
2012-Present Alelo
Ethnographic Content Provider
I write modules for cultural sensitivity training software for major corporations as well as the U.S. military.
2012-2015 Teachers College Record
www.tcrecord.org
Copy Editor
I copy edited this established, peer-reviewed academic journal of education based at Columbia University’s Teachers College.
2011-Present Personal Tutor & College Entrance Consultant
I teach reading, writing, and social sciences to adult and teen students with and without learning disabilities (specializing in reading comprehension and writing).
2008-Present Anthropology Now!
www.anthronow.com
Section Editor
I write and edit a material culture column for a triannual peer-reviewed anthropology journal.
2006 Las Cruces Bulletin
Arts and Features Section Editor
I managed up to 20 writers, photographers, and graphic designers, ensuring that the managing editor and advertisers were satisfied with all content. I met stringent deadlines and confirmed that my staff provided accurate content in a timely and ethical manner. I trained, hired, fired, and rotated staff.
2005 TRC Environmental Corporation
Fort Bliss Survey and Mitigation Projects
Archaeologist
As part of Fort Bliss’ effort to manage, operate, and develop historic properties on the installation and compliance to Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act, I conducted surveys and excavations as well as determined the eligibility of sites located using the National Register Criteria for Evaluation as established by the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation.
2005 Human Systems Research
Archaeologist
I conducted survey research and excavation procedures in the U.S. Southwest. I used GPS technology, digital photography and basic orientation skills as well as writing site reports in accordance with state and federal laws.
2004 New Mexico State University/Fort Carson
Piñon Canyon Maneuver Site Project
Archaeologist
I conducted archaeological surveys and excavations for the university and for the United States Army at the Piñon Canyon Maneuver Site in southeastern Colorado.
2001 Arizona Daily Star
Sports Copy Editor; Calendar Section Assistant Editor
I managed up to 15 writers, photographers, and graphic designers, ensuring that the managing editor and advertisers were satisfied with content. I met stringent deadlines and confirmed that my staff provided accurate content in a timely and ethical manner.
1999 Grant Village Inn – Yellowstone National Park, WY
Front of House Manager
I managed the floor of this high volume, fine dining restaurant, complying with federal health, safety, food and alcohol handling codes. I supervised up to 100 servers, hosts, bussers, expediters, and bartenders. I trained, hired, fired, and rotated staff.
LANGUAGE PROFICIENCY
Spanish Advanced proficiency
Quechua Beginning proficiency
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
* American Anthropological Association
* Society for Applied Anthropology
* Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association
* Society for Cultural Anthropology
* Society for Visual Anthropology
* Society for Latin American Anthropology
* University of California Los Angeles Alumni Association
* Lambda Alpha
PANELS & PRESENTATIONS (TRUNCATED)
2017 SOCIETY FOR APPLIED ANTHROPOLOGY
Paper Presentation: “Student Success and Morale at a Closing For-Profit College” Santa Fe, New Mexico
2015 SOCIETY FOR APPLIED ANTHROPOLOGY
Panel Co-Chair and Paper Presentation: “Artfully Teaching to Adult Art Students: Gen Ed Andragogy Methods in the For-Profit Sector” Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
2014 SOCIETY FOR APPLIED ANTHROPOLOGY
Panel Chair: “Space, Place, and Memory: Participatory Action Research in Carhuaz, Ancash, Peru”
Paper Presentation: “Class, Status, and Debt in Lima, Peru: Plastic Access” Albuquerque, New Mexico
2012 AMERICAN ANTHROPOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION
Paper Presentation: “‘I Want a Sony TV Like They Have In America!’ Urban Middle-Class Peruvian Children’s Consumer Desires” San Francisco, California
2012 POPULAR CULTURE ASSOCIATION/AMERICAN CULTURE ASSOCIATION
Paper Presentation: “Posters and Picassos: Art in the Homes of Middle-Class Limeño and L.A. Families” Boston, Massachusetts
2011 SOCIETY FOR APPLIED ANTHROPOLOGY
Paper Presentation: “Teaching Anthropology to Underrepresented Community College Students” Seattle, Washington
2010 SOCIETY FOR APPLIED ANTHROPOLOGY
Panel Chair and Paper Presentation: “Changing Constructs of Domesticity in Latin America and Los Angeles: Managing “Time Crunch” Merida, Mexico
2006 SOCIETY FOR APPLIED ANTHROPOLOGY
Paper Presentation: “Aesthetics and Tourism in Highland Peru” Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
ADVANCED TRAINING
2008 Summer Institute for Research Design — National Science Foundation
Advanced Quantitative and Qualitative Methods for Anthropological Research Design and Analysis, Piver’s Island, North Carolina
2003 Summer Ethnographic Methods Field School
Center for Social Well-Being, Ancash, Peru
SERVICE TO THE PROFESSION
2007-2020 Section Editor: Anthropology Now
2010 University of California Los Angeles Graduate Student Admissions Committee
2007-2008 University of California Los Angeles Anthropology Graduate Student
Association – Secretary
2007-2008 Society for Applied Anthropology – Student Committee Communications Editor
2005-2006 Society for Applied Anthropology – Student Committee Secretary
VOLUNTEER SERVICE
2018-2020 SunSounds of Arizona on-air reader
2014-2017 KXCI Community Radio Station, Tucson, Arizona
2009, 2011 La Casa Panchita, Lima, Peru
English Instructor to Quechua and Aymara Speakers
FIELDWORK
2017 Documentary Filming: Seri Art and Language
Sonora, Mexico
2015 Documentary Filming: Navajo Art and Language
Blanding, Utah
2010-2011 Doctoral Fieldwork
Lima, Peru
2005 Master’s Thesis Fieldwork
Ancash, Peru
PROFESSIONAL REFERENCES
Dr. Michael Brian Schiffer - Professor Emeritus of Anthropological Archaeology, University of Arizona
Mentor
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Dr. Christine Eber - Professor Emeritus of Anthropology, New Mexico State University
Master’s Thesis Adviser
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Dr. Randal Munsen – Social and Behavioral Sciences Department Chair, Pima Community College Northwest
Former Supervisor/Department Chair
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Gregg Crowe – President, The Art Institute of Portland
Former Supervisor
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