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Elizabeth Michelle Franko

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franko.elizabeth@gmail.com

 

 

EDUCATION:

MA: Journalism and Mass Comunication (Full-Stipend, Multiple Travel Fellowships) University of Colorado, 2009, Major Research Works and Publications: “Sex and the City: Something is Wrong at the Core of the Big Apple”; “Democracy at Work”; “Imagining Democracy in the Balkans”

MPS: Interactive Telecommunications (Tisch Scholar), New York University, 2002, Thesis: “Memorializing September 11th”

BA: Art History and Humanities (Summa Cum Laude, Texaco Foundation Scholar, Phi Beta Kappa, Honors College), University of Colorado, 2000, Thesis: “Manufacturing Reality: The Simulacra and MTV’s The Real World”

CURRENT POSITION:

Upper School History Teacher, World History I, World Geography, Mullen High School, Denver, CO, Fall 2009-ongoing

HIGH SCHOOL TEACHING:

Upper School History Teacher, World History I, World History II, Yoga, Speech & Debate, The Emery Weiner School, Houston, Texas, Fall 2007-Spring 2009

UNIVERSITY TEACHING:

The University of St. Thomas, Houston, TX, 2005-2007 (Public Speaking, Introduction to the Media)

Houston Baptist University, Houston, TX, 2007-ongoing (Introduction to the Mass Media)

The University of Houston (Main and Downtown Campuses), Houston, TX, 2006-ongoing (Business and Professional Communication, Introduction to the Mass Media, Introduction to Speech Communication, Introduction to Public Speaking)

North Harris Community College, Houston, TX,  2007 (Public Speaking)

The University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, 2004-2005 (Media and the Public)

CORPORATE EXPERIENCE:

Usability Expert, 2002-2003, Web User Experience and Market Research, Eddie Bauer e-commerce, Seattle, Washington

Usability Researcher, 2001-2002, Corporate Research and Training, The Nielsen Norman Group, New York, New York

TRAINING:

Yoga Instructor, RYT 500 hrs., Certified by The Yoga Institute, Fall 2006

Invited Scholar: YIVO Conference on Eastern European Jewry, Summer 2009, Travel to NYC

Delegate, National Council on Graduate Student Leadership, 2005, representing the University of Colorado at Washington University, St. Louis, MO

Fellow: Politics, Economics and the Media in a Unified Germany, Fall 2005, Travel to Germany, Poland and Belgium, RIAS-Berlin program

Lead Graduate Teacher, 2005, University of Colorado, Pedagogical Training and Peer Leadership

Advanced Spanish Study, study abroad in Mexico and Costa Rica

ACTIVE MEMBERSHIPS:

National Association of Professional Women, inducted Winter 2009

Phi Beta Kappa, Honors Society, inducted Spring 2000

 

PUBLICATIONS:

Democracy in the Workplace? The Lessons of Donald Trump and The Apprentice”, in How Real is Reality TV?, edited by David Escoffrey (McFarland, 2006)

New Primitvism: The Art of Oscar Bialy”, in Magazine.Art, (2001)

"Girl Power: Reconsidered", In Media Res, June 2007, (available online: http://mediacommons.futureofthebook.org/videos/2007/06/15/girl-power-revisited/)

"The Sopranos cuts to black", Broo Waha, June 2007, (available online: http://www.broowaha.com/article.php?id=1809)

Emerging Virtual Democracies: Promise and Potential”, New Media and Society, (2007)

"Anatomy of a Breakdown: We the Voyeurs", In Media Res, October 2007, (available online: http://mediacommons.futureofthebook.org/videos/2007/10/11/anatomy-of-a-breakdown-we-the-voyeurs/)

FUN STUFF:

Pictures: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lizfranko

Old Web Stuff:

·         http://us-them.com/liz/mexico

·         http://us-them.com/liz/index/poetrypage.html

·         http://us-them.com/september11/

·         http://us-them.com/thesis/