Clara Randimbiarimanana

Research Assistant, Documenting Freedom in Africa at University of Arizona
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(386) 825-5501
Location
Tucson, Arizona, United States, US
Languages
  • English Professional working proficiency
  • French Native or bilingual proficiency
  • Malagasy Native or bilingual proficiency
  • German Elementary proficiency

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Experience

    • United States
    • Higher Education
    • 700 & Above Employee
    • Research Assistant, Documenting Freedom in Africa
      • Jun 2023 - Present

    • Graduate Research Assistant
      • Jul 2020 - Present

      I served as a co-PI on a research project titled “Preserving Knowledge of Endemic Species in Madagascar through Storytelling", under the guidance of Dr. Stacey Tecot. The project is a collaboration between the University of Arizona and Ranomafana National Park (RNP), Madagascar. My role included conducting semi-structured interviews with skilled tour guides and researchers who have worked at the park for decades.

    • United States
    • Higher Education
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • Graduate Teaching Assistant
      • Jan 2020 - Aug 2023

      Classes: Anthropology in the global Context (ANTH 202- Spring 2020); Culture and the Individual (ANT 310- Spring 2021); Many Ways of Being Human (ANTH 150B-Fall 2021 & Spring 2022)

    • Instructor of Record
      • Jul 2021 - Jul 2022

      Anthropology/Gender and Women's Studies/Health Promotion Science (ANTH/GWS/HPS 438A): A cross listed course on Women's Health in Global Perspective.Course Description:In this course you will explore important issues in women’s health in a variety of sociocultural contexts across the world paying particular attention to the sociopolitical effects of health policies, public discussions, racial violence and (hetero-cis) patriarchy, and dominant medical discourses have on women. Drawing on anthropological, ethnographic, and feminist approaches and a social justice framework, we will first examine fundamental concepts, theory and major debates within the context of global health and how women’s health is incorporated into these debates. Show less

    • United States
    • Higher Education
    • 700 & Above Employee
    • Archival Researcher
      • May 2019 - Aug 2019

      I was a Research Assistant to Dr.Tasha Rijke-Epstein I was a Research Assistant to Dr.Tasha Rijke-Epstein

    • United States
    • International Trade and Development
    • 700 & Above Employee
    • Project Associate
      • Sep 2018 - Jun 2019

      Performance Management Support Contract- PERFORM/Pakistan

    • Project Management Intern
      • Jun 2017 - Aug 2018

      Solution for Peace and Recovery Project based in Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo: • Supported recruitment of long-term employees and short-term consultants (locally and from DR Congo), through a careful review of Taleo •Translated USAID quarterly reports, scope of works, trainings, and other project documents to and from French

    • Higher Education
    • 700 & Above Employee
    • French conversation facilitator and Language Lab Proctor
      • Aug 2014 - May 2018

      •Coordinated the use of computers and laboratory equipment such as iMovie, e-portfolio, and other software •Supported French learning students with writing assignments and oral presentation preparations/iMovie projects •Led partner conversation sessions with students to improve their French oral skill outside the classroom and expose them to different francophone cultures (e.g.: Francophone countries in Africa) •Coordinated the use of computers and laboratory equipment such as iMovie, e-portfolio, and other software •Supported French learning students with writing assignments and oral presentation preparations/iMovie projects •Led partner conversation sessions with students to improve their French oral skill outside the classroom and expose them to different francophone cultures (e.g.: Francophone countries in Africa)

  • ESDA/Friendly Haven
    • Windhoek, Namibia
    • Internship
      • Sep 2016 - Dec 2016

      ESDA/Friendly Haven is Namibia's only shelter for women dealing with domestic violence. It provides a safe place for survivors while their situation is investigated, and long term accommodations are secured. ESDA works closely with the Ministry of Gender Equality and Child Welfare's Women and children Protection Units. My tasks at ESDA/Friendly Haven includes fundraising activities, income generating activities, events awareness. I also lead therapeutic activities for children aged 2-13 victims of abuse. Show less

    • Tutor
      • Oct 2013 - May 2014

      I was tutoring children from kindergarten to introduce them to foreign languages: french, English. I also run a weekly English club for 6 and 7th grades, for them to practice and actually speak their foreign languages( French, English). I was tutoring children from kindergarten to introduce them to foreign languages: french, English. I also run a weekly English club for 6 and 7th grades, for them to practice and actually speak their foreign languages( French, English).

Education

  • University of Arizona
    Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Cultural Anthropology
    2019 - 2024
  • Université Sorbonne Nouvelle
    Doctor of Philosophy - Ph.D, Visiting Researcher
    2023 -
  • University of Arizona
    Master of Arts - MA, Sociocultural Anthropology
    2019 - 2021
  • Lafayette College
    Bachelor of Arts - BA, Sociology and Anthropology
    2014 - 2018
  • Lafayette College
    Bachelor of Arts - BA, International Affairs with concentrations in Human Rights and Social Justice in Africa
  • Augsburg University
    BA, Center for Global Education: Nation Building, Globalization, and Decolonizing the Mind, Study Abroad Program, Namibia and South Africa
    2016 - 2016

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