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Elizabeth Michelle Franko
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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 ·
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