Experience

FIT

• Higher Education
• 300 - 400 Employee

• Instructor

  • 2008 - Present

  Adjunct Faculty/Instructor, Florida Institute of Technology, HUM1024 Religions of World 1: Western Religions, Spring 2, 2008 through Spring 2, 2009, Online course. Adjunct Faculty/Instructor, Florida Institute of Technology, HUM 2052 Civilization 2: Renaissance Through Modern, May 2009 to present, Online course. Adjunct Faculty/Instructor, Florida Institute of Technology, HUM1024 Religions of World 1: Western Religions, Spring 2, 2008 through Spring 2, 2009, Online course. Adjunct Faculty/Instructor, Florida Institute of Technology, HUM 2052 Civilization 2: Renaissance Through Modern, May 2009 to present, Online course.



University of Missouri-St. Louis

• Research Associate/Lecturer

  • 1999 - 2005

  Anthropological research: Research Associate in Anthropology, UM-St. Louis Department of Anthropology on continuous stream of grant funded research projects secured through international, state level, and University competitions, jointly with my husband and research collaborator, Dr. Van Reidhead: John E. Fetzer Institute, Kalamazoo, MI, Project #1204.1, “Measuring the Relationship Between Spirituality and Health: A Model From Aging Monastic Communities,” responsible for interview protocol development, individual and focus group interviews, monastic team communication and activity coordination, January 1998-December 1999. • John E. Fetzer Institute, Kalamazoo, MI, Project # 1204.2, ”Develop a Test of Spiritual Integration among Senior Citizens of Diverse Religious Affiliations for use in Health and Aging Research,” responsible for questionnaire development, individual and focus group interviews, including interviewer training and supervision, getting permissions and scheduling interviews, in Senior Living Centers in Atchison, KS, St. Joseph, MO, and St. Louis, July 1, 2000–August 31, 2002. • University of Missouri System Research Board, Columbia, MO, “The Benedictine and Cistercian Lay Oblate Movement: A Model for Late Life Community Building,” responsible for participant observation, archive research, questionnaire development and interviews, and religious life history interviews in Utah, Kansas, and Pennsylvania, September 1, 2001-August 31, 2002. • Public Policy Research Centers, UM-St. Louis, internal grants to support monastic, spirituality, and oblate ethnographic research not covered by external grants, July 1, 1998–June 30, 2003. Philosophy: Graduate Associate in Philosophy, Medical Ethics, 2001-2005. Instructor of Record in Philosophy, Medical Ethics: Honors Section, Pierre Laclede Honors College, University of Missouri-St. Louis, Spring 2005. Show less