Liz Shesko

Duke University, Durham, North Carolina
Ph.D program in History
Examination Fields (April 2008): Colonial and Modern Bolivia (John D. French, Chair), Modern Latin America (Jocelyn Olcott), Colonial Latin America (Pete Sigal), Cultural Anthropology (Orin Starn)
Latin American and Cultural Studies Certificate, 2008

Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine
A.B., Spanish and English, summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa
Departmental Honors in Spanish for thesis entitled "Fusionando dos mundos: El diálogo con la oralidad en Sula y Cien años de soledad" (Enrique Yepes, Advisor)

2005-2009

2008
2006
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2002

1998-2002
1998

James B. Duke Fellowship, Duke University (competitive University-wide grant that supplements departmental stipends for four years)
Duke Graduate School Travel Grant for International Research
Tinker Graduate Student Research Grant, Duke University
Summer Foreign Language and Areas Studies (FLAS) Fellowship for Portuguese
History Department Summer Travel Grant, Duke University
Philip C. Bradley Spanish Prize, Bowdoin College (awarded yearly to one outstanding student in Spanish language and literature)
Sarah and James Bowdoin Scholar
National Merit Commended Student

2008


2008



2008

“La historia del servicio militar obligatorio en Bolivia.” Presented to the History Department, Universidad Mayor de San Andres, La Paz, Bolivia, June 27, 2008

“Children of the Inca and of the Patria: Representations of Indigeneity at Bolivia’s 1945 Indigenous Congress.” Presented at the University of Pennsylvania Humanities Forum Conference on Origins, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, February 29, 2008

“‘Who Will Speak for the Indian’?: Representations of Indigeneity at Bolivia’s 1945 Indigenous Congress.” Presented at the Carolina and Duke Consortium Conference: The Politics of Culture in Latin America and the Caribbean, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, February 9, 2008 and at the North Carolina History Graduate Student Conference, Raleigh, North Carolina, February 16, 2008

Assistant for History 111A (Duke University): North America to 1760, taught by Elizabeth Fenn. Responsible for class readings, attending class, and grading student papers and examinations.

Assistant for History 127B (Duke University): Caribbean - 18th Century, taught by David Barry Gaspar. Responsible for class readings, attending class, and grading student papers and examinations.

Guest Lecturer for History 174A (Duke University): Latin America - Colonialism, taught by Pete Sigal. Responsible for writing and delivering lecture on Andean Rebellions.

2006-2007




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2001-2002

American Historical Association, Washington, D.C.
Program Committee Assistant: Responsible for reading panel submissions, preparing committee documents, and communicating with committee members for the 2008 AHA Annual Meeting, held in Washington, D.C.

American School of Guatemala, Guatemala City
First Grade Teacher: Taught all academic subjects in English to Guatemalan students at bilingual school. Assisted in development of report card and curriculum

Lynch, Brewer, Hoffmann & Fink, LLP, Boston, Massachusetts
Paralegal: Assisted in the defense of an $8 million corporate fraud case, compiling facts, reviewing depositions, drafting briefs and preparing for trial. Managed over 20,000 documents related to the case.

Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine
Writing Assistant: Completed a semester of intensive training in tutoring. Assisted students with the revision of papers for content, organization and style. Worked individually with an ESL student in the planning and revision of papers.

Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine
Spanish Teaching Assistant: Planned and instructed mandatory weekly conversation sessions for students in Elementary Spanish.

American Historical Association (AHA)
Conference on Latin American History (CLAH)
Latin American Studies Association (LASA)
Bolivian Studies Association (BSA)

Advanced command of written and oral Spanish; passed graduate Spanish language exam in October, 2005
Intermediate ability in written and oral Portuguese; passed graduate Portuguese language exam in October, 2005

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