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