RESUME
Professional ​
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​My expertise triangulates on to the intersection of several disciplines: rhetoric, media studies, and information studies. I regularly present my work at professional conferences and serve as a discussant on research panels. Below are some of my professional highlights.
A short resume is available here
To see a full version of my CV, go here.
Skills
Work​
Experience​
Graduate Student Assistant
College of Liberal Arts at UT Austin
​2020 - 2021
​I joined the team working on the Diversity and Inclusion Project and assisting with conducting focus groups, constructing surveys, collecting and analyzing data and writing reports.
Assistant Professor of Communication
University of North Texas at Dallas
​2010 - 2016
​As the only communication professor on campus for quite some time, I taught introduction to communication, business communication, presentational speaking and a few writing classes.
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Graduate Research Assistant
Annette Strauss Institute for Civic Life at UT Austin
​2004 - 2008
​I worked on several political communication research projects with Dr. Roderick Hart and Dr. Talia Stroud. I also wrote curriculum materials for the American Trustees project. (https://moody.utexas.edu/centers/strauss/american-trustees)
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Education
University of Texas at Austin
​2018 - present
​I'm completing my master's degree in Information Studies at iSchool. iSchools are relatively new players on the higher education terrain but they are super cool, which is why I am taking one extra year to graduate -- too many exciting things to learn.
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University College of Dublin
​2017 - 2018
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​I took a year to figure out how college works in Europe and I enrolled into a master's program in American Studies in Dublin, Ireland. Why go to Ireland to study America? Well, large things are better viewed from a distance.
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University of Texas at Austin
​2004 - 2010 ​
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I earned my doctoral degree in Communication Studies from UT Austin, specializing in political communication and media. My dissertation examined the transformation of public dialog in times of political change.
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University of Massachusetts in Amherst
​2000 - 2002 ​
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At UMASS I earned my master's degree in Education and took all classes that fit my schedule -- from poetry with Jim Tate to linguistics with Barbara Partee to political science with MJ Peterson and instructional web design with Claire Kilbane ad Mei-Yau Shih.
DATA ANALYSIS
OpenRefine; R; SPSS; KNIME;
NLTK; Dedoose; DICTION
Exmaralda; Mallet; Voyant;
Gentle and Drift
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DATA VISUALIZATION
Gephi; QCIS; TimeMapper
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SURVEY TOOLS
Qualtrics, SurveyMonkey
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IMAGES
Adobe Photoshop; ImagePlot
Tropy
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DIGITAL LIBRARIES
Omeka; Greenstone
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LEARNING MANAGEMENT
Blackboard; Canvas; Brightspace
CompClass
Languages
Russian
Ukrainian
English
German
Japanese