Marcia L. Mikulak

• Developed and authored technical human rights reports for immigration courts for individuals seeking asylum in the United States from Brazil. Reports informed immigration judges about judicial decisions for asylum applicants. Reports also required my expert witness testimony in asylum court cases.
• Compiled data from multiple sources into concise summaries for judicial review, including reports from my own human rights work in the field as a cultural anthropologist.

Department: Department of Anthropology:

• Organized seminars, workshops or other events related to topics within the discipline.
• Advised students in personal matters, driving academics, attendance and behaviors.
• Presented lectures at national or international conferences.
• Supervised dissertational research work to assist research publication process.
• Supervised graduate students in their thesis research projects.
• Provided letters of recommendation and other referrals to students pursuing further education programs or postgraduate employment.
• Mentored faculty members in teaching methods and best practices.
• Adapted instruction methods to address individual student needs.
• Designed collaborative learning exercises to capitalize on students' resources and skills.
• Chaired university-wide committees tasked with developing policies or procedures.
• Delivered course lectures using modern technology to enhance student comprehension.
• Used exams, quizzes, and projects to assess how well students grasped learning material and concepts.
• Tutored students requiring additional assistance in mastering concepts.
• Conducted research related to the field of study.
• Carried out nineteen years of internationally funded research in human rights in Brazil.
• Successful publication of peer-reviewed social science publications

Department: Department of Anthropology:

Successfully carried out all required duties as a tenured associate professor, and successfully promoted to full professor.

• Teaching
• Research
• Service
• International human rights work in Brazil.
• Successful funding for international research.
• Successful funding for national research on sexual assault and domestic violence.
• Presented at national and international conferences.
• Service workload at the university.

Department: Department of Anthropology:

• Carried out the required pre-tenure probation successfully, and was promoted to associate professor in the required time frame.

Successfully carried out all required duties as an assistant professor, and was successfully promoted to associate professor in the required time frame.

• Teaching
• Research
• Service
• International human rights work in Brazil.
• Successful funding for international research.
• Successful funding for national research on sexual assault and domestic violence.
• Presented at national and international conferences.
• Service workload at the university.

University Adjunct Faculty - Graduate Student

• Collaborated with fellow staff members to promote positive and welcoming learning environment.
• Integrated multimedia technology in classroom instruction for well-rounded and engaging approach to instruction.
• Developed custom course syllabus outlining standards, material, grading, and progression for students.
• Maintained accurate student records and submitted grades on time.
• Met with the graduate committee for training and teaching mentoring.
• Published articles in academic publications.
• I won university awards for my doctoral research: the Johann Jacobs Young Scholar Award (Switzerland), the Frieda Butler Lecture Award (University of New Mexico), the University of New Mexico Challenge Grant (campus wide), and the Sigma Xi Student Research Award.

Department: Department of Anthropology:

• I worked as a teaching assistant during my graduate work.
• I taught classes in my discipline of anthropology.
• Assisted the tenured professor for whom I was a teaching assistant with assignments, exams, lectures, and grading.
• I wrote notes to students on their work, discussing ways to improve their study skills, and encouraged the development of critical thinking and questioning regarding readings and assignments.
• I learned how to develop, write, and teach using a well-developed syllabus.
• I learned how to grade based on course criteria and individual student work in a fair and individualized manner through mentorship training.
• During my graduate work, and as a teaching assistant, I learned how to improve my own writing based on my preliminary research in Brazil.
• I learned the importance of organized student performance and enrichment activities as a way to facilitate student learning.

Santa Fe Research - an independent research program for children and youth.

• I developed Santa Fe Research in the early 1980s to investigate the creative processes that drive curiosity and learning in children, especially those with learning perception difficulties. My organization was dedicated to the investigation of learning and potential in children, and examined the ways in which children diagnosed with 'learning disabilities' could reach their unique potentials. This work has been cross-culturally informed and supported by private grants and fellowships, with research in Zimbabwe and Mali, Africa, on the cultures of 'childhoods.
• The organization and its research covered a fifteen-year period.
• I designed unique learning tools that focused on developing the physical senses.
• The materials I designed covered a broad range of disciplines and interests: Science, Music, Art, Mathematics, Reading, Writing, Poetry, Design, and innovative experiments with a focus on attention, perception, and critical thinking.
• The work with Santa Fe Research inspired me to earn my Master of Arts and Ph.D. in Cultural Anthropology (ethnography), working with street and working children, human rights, and identity in Brazil.

Department of Performing Arts, College of Santa Fe, New Mexico:

• Bachelor of Music degree - San Francisco Conservatory of Music
• Master of Fine Arts - Piano Performance - Mills College, Oakland, CA
• Several solo CDs - American Contemporary Music
• National performance career
• Decades of teaching individual advanced piano classes
• Rehearsal pianist - Margaret Jenkins Dance Company (a postmodern choreographer based in San Francisco, California. She was a Guggenheim Fellow)
• Head of Piano Instruction.
• Taught individual piano lessons, intermediate to advanced.
• Designed a piano curriculum and annual performance exams.
• Performed classical and American contemporary music concerts.
• I wrote grants to bring in contemporary music composers and musicians as interns.