Curriculum Vitae
Elizabeth Nanas, M.Ed.
Contents:
Education
Professional Experience
Research Focus
Awards & Fellowships
Publications
Original Research
Invited & Guest Lectures
Selected Presentations
Affiliations
Professional Service Summary
Doctoral Coursework
EDUCATION
2020
Certification Georgetown University, Washington, D.C., Center for Social Impact Communication, Social Impact Storytelling
2004
M.Ed. Wayne State University, Detroit, MI, College of Education, Educational Psychology
1997
B.A. Wayne State University, Detroit, MI, College of Science, Psychology
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2012 - Present
Talking Seeds Consulting, Founder and Principal Consultant
Clients and Projects Include the Following:
2022
Michigan Association of CPAs, Troy, MI
Educational Program Assistance
2021, ongoing (Pro Bono)
Heidelberg Project, HALA, Detroit, MI
Creating Zines with Children and Youth
2019 – 2021
Christine Gavin and Company, Detroit, MI
Vice President of Innovation and Impact
Raised $1.5 million in new client contracts
Conceptualization and Development of Gen Z-focused community event focused on philanthropy and women and girls of color
Qualitative and quantitative research regarding donor interest in and awareness of sexual assault community services, needs, and potential
2016 - 2019
Character Education Initiatives, LLC, Detroit, MI
Conceptualization and Development of Marketing and Communications Materials
Proposal Writing
Strategic Organizational Development
Website Development
2013 - 2016
Director of Outreach, Partnerships, and Educational Programs Beyond Basics, Southfield, MI
Community Partnership Program Development
Conceptualization and Crafting of Program Logic Model
Creation of Program Objectives and Evaluation Framework
Development and Fundraising Activities
Donor Appeals, Grant Reporting, Proposal Writing
Event Management (Luncheons, Fundraisers, Gala)
Marketing and Communications
Program Design and Evaluation
Volunteer and Outreach Partnership Programs
2012 - 2013
Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History, 5/2012-2/2013
Conceptualization and Crafting of Evaluation Framework
Selected Grant Awards
$190K Ford Foundation
$750K John S. and James L. Knight Foundation
$170K The Kresge Foundation
2003 – 2011
Wayne State University, Detroit, MI
Instructor, Department of Anthropology
ANT 3150: Business Anthropology
ANT 2100: Introduction to Anthropology
Graduate Teaching and Research Assistant, College of Engineering, Engineering Management Master’s Program
Teaching
- MGT 7700: Leadership of the Global Technical Organization
- IE 7830: Management of Technology Change
Research
- Vehicle Evaluation & Verification Facility Outsourcing
- Vehicle System Strategy Decision Tool
- Prototype Investment Strategy
- Managing the Costs of Complexity
Proposal Assistance
- National Science Foundation
Education Programs Coordinator, Institute of Gerontology
Community Partnership Programs
Educational Meeting and Event Coordination
Elder Advisors to Research Programs
$5M National Institute of Health Pre-Doc Training Grant Assistance
1997 - 2003
Detroit School of Industrial Arts, Detroit, MI
Student Services and Programs Manager
Title-I Management
Vocational-technical program and fund development
Program partnership development and management with Focus:HOPE
North Central Association accreditation management
Reporting and evaluation
RESEARCH FOCUS
Collaborative Learning
Cultural Identity
Innovation and the Production of Knowledge
Kinship
Organizational Development
Geographic Focus: Detroit, MI, USA and Hong Kong, SAR, China
AWARDS & FELLOWSHIPS
2011-2012, 2005-2006
Graduate Professional Scholarship, Wayne State University
2009-2010
Dow Chemical Hong Kong Research Fellowship at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
2006-2009
King-Chavez-Parks Future Faculty Fellow Award, Wayne State University
2006-2007
The Point Foundation Merit Scholar Award
2006, 2007
President’s Commission for the Status of Women Grant, Wayne State University
2005
Society for the Anthropology of North America St. Claire Drake Award
2005, 2008, 2009
Wayne State University Travel Grant
PUBLICATIONS
Nanas, Elizabeth and Tani Bellestri
2011 “Highways.” In O. Ogunseitan (Vol. Ed.) & P. Robbins (Series Ed.), Green health: An A-to-Z guide (The SAGE Reference Series on Green Society: Toward a Sustainable Future, pp. 205–208). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
Nanas, Elizabeth and Tani Bellestri
2011 “Industrial Ecology.” In O. Ogunseitan (Vol. Ed.) & P. Robbins (Series Ed.), Green health: An A-to-Z guide (The SAGE Reference Series on Green Society: Toward a Sustainable Future, pp. 229–232). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
Best Practices Policy Project, Contributing Author
2010 “Report on human rights challenges and responses in the context of HIV and AIDS.” http://bestpracticespolicy.org/downloads/UNReportonHIV_Sept15_2010.pdf
Best Practices Policy Project, Contributing Author
2010 “Report the UN High Commissioner on Human Rights 2010.” http://bestpracticespolicy.org/downloads/FinalUPRBPPP_Formatted.pdf
Nanas, Elizabeth
2009 “Means and Ends of Practicing Anthropology.” Anthropology News 50(3):47.
Nanas, Elizabeth
2009 Review of “Notes from Toyota-land: An American Engineer in Japan.” Anthropology of Work 30(1):22-24.
Nanas, Elizabeth
2008 “Wayne State University and Applied Anthropology.” Society for Applied Anthropology Newsletter 19(4):15-16.
Nanas, Elizabeth
2006 “Feminist Sex Workers Attend NOW Convention.” $pread. Fall 2006:46-47.
Best Practices Policy Project, Contributing Author
2005 Report to the UN Division for the Advancement of Women. http://www.bestpracticespolicy.org/reports.html
ORIGINAL RESEARCH
May 2009 – June 2010
Project Title: “Improving scientific collaboration to accelerate scientific breakthroughs.”
Project Description: The goal of this research is to visualize, measure, and describe the complex processes involved in scientific and technological collaboration and knowledge production in order to accelerate scientific breakthroughs. The study has three objectives: [1] Visualize and map the existing co-author network of the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) learning community; [2] Analyze, describe, and compare the scientific collaborations within HKUST—and between HKUST, Chinese universities, and US universities—with a focus on technical breakthroughs; and [3] Refine and expand theories on the social construction of knowledge networks to improve the formation and development of scientific collaborations to accelerate scientific and technical breakthroughs.
Project Funding: Fellowship Awarded by Dow Chemical Hong Kong (US $35,000).
November 2005 –May 2007
Project Title: “Living on the edge: An ethnographic case study of encounters and identifications with race in Detroit.”
Project Description: Anthropology and the world it studies are in a state of flux—on the edge. For the discipline and its subjects, limitations and possibilities may be encountered and expressed through identifications. This paper addresses “Borderland” encounters and expressions through a study of identity in Detroit, Michigan, a place and symbol of the edge in terms of racial segregation, economic stratification, and the promise and failings of industrialization. Specifically, this research explores the ways that two related Puerto Rican families negotiate identity within a space that the larger social environment labels Mexicantown—a minority enclave within a racially-identified minority city.
Project Funding: King-Chavez-Parks Fellowship (US $36,000).
INVITED & GUEST LECTURES
Nanas, E. (2010, January). Social Networks, Collaboration, and Culture. Invited lecture given for Dow Chemical Greater China Headquarters, Shanghai, China, January 26, 2010.
Nanas, E. (2008, October). Globalization: Mexico and India. Lecture given for Industrial Engineering IE 7830, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI, October 16, 2008.
Nanas, E. (2008, October). Globalization: Germany and Japan. Lecture given for Industrial Engineering IE 7830, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI, October 6, 2008.
Nanas, E. (2008, September). The United States and Globalization. Lecture given for Industrial Engineering IE 7830, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI, September 18, 2008.
Nanas, E. and Jenkins, M. (2007, November). Reported Speech and Affect. Lecture for Linguistics course ANT 5310, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI, November 6, 2007.
Nanas, E. and Jenkins, M. (2007, November). Challenging Hegemonic Masculinities. Lecture for Linguistics course ANT 5310, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI, November 8, 2007.
Nanas, E. (2007, October). The Sources of Innovation. Lecture given for Industrial Engineering IE 7830, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI, October 1, 2007.
Nanas, E. (2006). Mexican Culture and Global Business Practices. Lecture given for Engineering Management Master’s Program IE 7830, Ford Training and Development Center, Dearborn, MI, October 24, 2006.
SELECTED PRESENTATIONS
Nanas, E. (2010, November). The Social Life of a Scientific Network in Hong Kong. Paper presented at the 109th Annual Conference of the American Anthropological Association. New Orleans, LA.
Nanas, E. (2010, May). Collaborative Networks, Science, and Culture. Research paper presented at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. Hong Kong SAR, China.
Nanas, E. (2009, November). Understanding Scientific Collaboration to Accelerate Innovative Breakthroughs. Paper presented at the Internationalizing Higher Education Conference, Guangzhou, China.
Nanas, E. (2008, March). Organizing Bodies, Counting on Faith. Paper presented at the 68th Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology, Memphis, TN.
Nanas, E. (2006, November). Belonging Matters: Academic Career Trajectories and Commercial Sex Industry Knowledge Production, Circulation, Authority. Paper presented at the 10th Annual KCP-DFI Joint Fellows Conference, Chicago, IL.
Nanas, E. (2006, September). Purity and Danger of Belonging. Paper presented at the 3rd National Prostitution, Sex Work, and the Commercial Sex Industry: The State of Women’s Health Conference, Toledo, OH.
Nanas, E. (2006, March). Waiting for the edge: In search of method, community, and identification. Paper presented as a part of the Managing Change Panel at the 66th Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology. Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
Nanas, E. (2005, December). Creating Queer Interfaith Networks Through Action and Engagement. Paper presented as a part of the Queer Social Movements Panel at the 104th Annual Conference of the American Anthropological Association. Washington, D.C.
Nanas, E. (2005, September). How “prostitutes” think: About being the problem, for example. Paper presented at the 2nd National Prostitution, Sex Work, and the Commercial Sex Industry: The State of Women’s Health Conference, Toledo, OH.
Nanas, E.N., Macera, L. and Tremethick, M.J. (2005, February). Growing old, gay, and gray: Opportunities and challenges for educators and practitioners. Paper presented at the Association for Gerontology in Higher Education 31st annual meeting and educational leadership conference. Oklahoma City, OK.
Nanas, E.N. (2004, September). Prostitute identity in theory and beyond. Paper presented at the Prostitution, Sex Work, and the Commercial Sex Industry: The State of Women’s Health Conference, Toledo, OH.
AFFILIATIONS
• Association of Latina and Latino Anthropologists
• Association for Queer Anthropology
• National Association for the Practice of Anthropology
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
American Friends Service Committee LGBT Issues Program, Representative & Strategic Planning Chair
Baldrige Excellence Framework Facilitator
Michigan Department of Education, Grant Reviewer
National Association for the Practice of Anthropology
2009-2010, Editor, NAPA e-Newsletter
2008, Student Representative
North Central Association, Peer Reviewer
University of Michigan Detroit Center, “Beyond the Ivory Tower Symposium”
DOCTORAL COURSEWORK
ANT 5060 Urban Anthropology
ANT 5140 Physical Anthropology: Biology and Culture
ANT 5200 The Ethnography
ANT 5210 Anthropological Methods
ANT 5270 Archaeology
ANT 5320 Linguistics: Language and Societies
ANT 5400 Anthropology of Health and Illness
ANT 6300 Anthropological Theory I
ANT 6310 Anthropological Theory II
ANT 6680 Studies in Cultural Anthropology: Anthropological Films
ANT 7200 Advanced Qualitative Methods I
ANT 7210 Advanced Qualitative Methods II
ANT 7630 Seminar in Cultural Anthropology: American Anthropology
ANT 7630 Seminar in Cultural Anthropology: Anthropology of Gender, Sex, and Sexuality
ANT 7630 Seminar in Cultural Anthropology: Race in America
ANT 7680 Medical Anthropology Seminar I
ANT 7690 Medical Anthropology Seminar II
ANT 7700 Seminar in Business Anthropology: Design Anthropology
ANT 7700 Seminar in Business Anthropology: Technology and Culture
ANT 7780 Conceptualizing the Dissertation
EER 7610 Evaluation and Measurement
ENG 5090 Literary Theory: Globalization and Collective Organization