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Genevieve Greer
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Researcher / Assistant
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Canton,
United States
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Southeast Asian gender and migration expert with 4 years work / research experience in Southeast Asia, seeks challenging opportunity. Can relocate immediately. |
 Contact Genevieve Greer
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Social, Education, Gender, Youth, Child
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In 2010-2011 worked with WorldTeach as a volunteer English teacher in Thailand's Nakon Phanom province. Received TEFL certificate with WorldTeach Thailand in 2011. Prior to this, worked as a research assistant within Catalyst, the in-house think-tank at MARS, Inc.. Summer of 2009 was spent working as a volunteer at GHRE (Grassroots Human Rights Education and Development)in Phang Nga, Thailand. While at Harvard University, helped assist Professor Michael Herzfeld with the organization and management of his anthropological workshop, “Politics of Neighborhood in Asia” (spring 2008).
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Received MA in Asian Studies from University of Hawaii - Manoa in December 2013. MA thesis, titled "The Effects of Urban Migration on Rural Thai Household and Village Structures", investigated how the rise of Thailand's female urban-migration has altered rural household and village social / economic structures in Thailand's northeast Isan provinces. Received the Foreign Language Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowship in Thai 2012-2013 from the U.S. Department of Education and the Center of Southeast Asian Studies at UH-Manoa for cultural and language studies. At UH - Manoa was the Asian Studies Representative from 2012-2013 for the Graduate Student Organization and helped facilitate the 2013 School of Pacific and Asian Studies Graduate Conference. Graduated from Harvard College in 2010 with honors in the Field of in Social Anthropology. Undergraduate thesis titled "Influences on Gender Roles in Two Burmese Migrant Communities in Thailand" compared gender role transformations in Burmese migrant communities in Thailand's Tak and Phang Nga provinces, and also highlighted the important roles Thai NGOs play in the country's Burmese migrant / refugee communities. Fieldwork for undergraduate thesis research was funded in part by the Goelet Fund fellowship awarded by the Harvard University Anthropology Department.
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Available for: |
- Being headhunted – make me an offer
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Years of Experience:
0-2 years |
Highest Qualification:
Masters |
Languages:
English, Thai, Spanish |
Nationality:
United States
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