To earn a PhD and pursue a career in academia, publishing and teaching. I hope to develop an approach to global political thought that integrates the insights of social constructivist IR theory (such as Wendt) with those of critical social theory (such as Habermas and Foucault). I often think of myself as working at the intersection of political science, sociology, and philosophy.

September 2001-present.

New School for Social Research (New York, NY). Awarded Master of Arts Degree with concentration in Political Science in May 2003 (Earned the "Outstanding M.A. Graduate Award" in my department). Presently pursuing PhD in Political Science with major in Theory and minor in Comparative Politics.

September 1994-May 1995, January 1997-May 1999.

Vassar College (Poughkeepsie, NY). Awarded Bachelor of Arts Degree with concentration in Political Science.

September 1995-December 1996.

Miami-Dade Community College (Miami, FL).

September 2003-present.

Editorial Assistant for Constellations, New School for Social Research.

November 1999-June 2001.

Public Assistance Specialist/Social Worker, Florida Department of Children and Families. My job centered around interviewing clients and determining their eligibility or continuing eligibility for the Food Stamp, Medicaid, and in some cases AFDC programs. Duties also included managing ongoing cases, investigating suspected fraud, interpreting and explaining state policy, and assisting clients in managing high medical expenses.

August 1999-February 2000.

Production Director, Advent Professional Publishing. Responsibilities centered around the coordination of publishing a regular advertising supplement for doctors in the Dallas-Ft. Worth, Chicago, and Washington, D.C. areas.

May-August 1997, May-August 1998.

Web Designer, Vassar College Art Library. Duties were to redesign, reorganize, and update the "Virtual Resources Space" of the Library's web page (the library has completely redone the page since I worked on it).

September-December 1996.

Intern, Office of Senator Bob Graham. Duties included dealing with constituents, drafting letters in the senator's name, and assisting recent immigrants with INS policy, as well as general office duties such as answering phones, filing, running errands, etc.

Conference participant, "Sovereignty and the World Order," April-May 2004.

Annual conference of the Union of Political Science Students, New School for Social Research.

Paper title: "Critique and Crisis in Global Society."

"20 Years after Foucault", April 2004.

Co-organized a graduate student conference commemorating the work of Michel Foucault. Participants were invited from multiple universities and represented various social science disciplines. The keynote event featured a panel discussion by philosopher Agnes Heller, political scientist James Miller, and anthropologist Ann Laura Stoler, and it was moderated by Simon Critchley. The conference was funded by the Graduate Faculty's Union of Political Science Students.

2003 Outstanding M.A. Graduate Award.

Graduate Institute on Democracy and Diversity, Cracow, Poland, July 2002.

Organized through the Transregional Center for Democratic Studies, this program involved three weeks of intensive study of issues surrounding democratic culture and the negotiation of difference, with emphasis on contemporary concerns in Eastern Europe. Participants included graduate students and NGO activists from around the world.

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