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Elizabeth Michelle Franko

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franko.elizabeth@gmail.com

 

EDUCATION:

Ph.D.: Mass Communications (all coursework complete // partially completed qualifying exams and thesis) (RIAS fellow, Full-Stipend, Lead Graduate Teacher), University of Colorado, Spring 2008, Thesis: “Sex and the City: Something is Wrong at the Core of the Big Apple”

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), University of Colorado, 2000, Thesis: “Manufacturing Reality: The Simulacra and MTV’s The Real World”

CURRENT POSITION:

Upper School History Teacher, World History, Yoga, Speech/Debate, The Emery Weiner School, Houston, Texas, 2007-ongoing

UNIVERSITY TEACHING:

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

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

The University of Houston,  Houston, TX, 2006-ongoing (Business and Professional Communication)

The University of Houston - Downtown,  Houston, TX,  2007-ongoing (Business 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)

National University, San Diego, CA, 2008 - (t.b.d.)

 

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, Courses Taught at Rice University, University of Houston, University of St. Thomas, and The Emery/Weiner School

Initiate, Woman Within, July 2007, Dickinson, Texas AND Graduate, Woman Within Level II, Feb. 2008, Dickinson, Texas

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

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

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

Advanced Oral and Written Spanish, 2002, Academia Falcon, Guanajuato, Mexico

Continued Spanish Study, 2008, La Escuela del Sol, Montezuma, Costa Rica

Rice University: AP Summer Institute, 2008, AP: World History, Houston, Texas

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/