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Dawn Rivers
Facilitations & Outreach

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Curriculum Vitae

Education

  

2022     Ph.D., Anthropology, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC; Advisor: Rudolf Colloredo-Mansfeld


2018     M.A., Anthropology, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill


2014     B.A., Anthropology and Economics, summa cum laude, Hartwick College, Oneonta, NY

Publications

  

Fall 2023:  “’Meat and Three’: Business Ownership as an Alternative Form of Work” Anthropology of Work Review (44:1), 5-14. https://doi.org/10.1111/awr.12246


June 2023: “The Value of Values: Sufficiency among single-person business in the U.S.” Economic Anthropology, Special Issue: Value and Change, Value in Crisis (10:2), 1-8. https://doi.org/10.1002/sea2.12289


May 2024. "Doing Business in a Pandemic: Resilience and Flexibility among U.S. Nonemployer Businesses.” Health, Money, Commerce, and Wealth: Anthropological Perspectives. Research in Economic Anthropology, Vol. 43, Donald Wood and Raja Swamy, eds., Bingley, UK: Emerald Publishing Ltd.

Invited Talks

 September 2022,  “How self-employed people use capitalism in non-capitalist ways,” invited by Dr. Ipshita Ghosh, Department of Anthropology, University of North Carolina at Charlotte.


October 2019, “Self-Employment and Sufficiency in Mature Capitalist Economies,”  invited by Dr. Kenneth Erickson, Darla Moore School of Business, University of South Carolina.

Presentations

 Papers


November 2021, Panelist, “Creating Alternative Forms of Work” Roundtable, Truth and Responsibility: 2021 American Anthropological Association Conference, Baltimore, MD


March 2019, “Self-Employment Across Cultures: Escape from Neoliberal Labor Markets,” Engaging Change in Turbulent Times: 79th Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology, Portland, OR


Posters

March 2021, “The Layered Essence of Place in Self-Employment,” Landscapes of Value/Economies of Place: 41stAnnual Meeting of the Society for Economic Anthropology, Virtual Conference


March 2019, “Self-Employment, Self-Valuation: A Comparative Glimpse of Self-Employment in North Carolina and Northern Spain,” Wealth in People: 2019 Annual Conference of the Society for Economic Anthropology, Orlando, FL


August 2017, “Entrepreneurial Beginnings: Self-Employment in the Post-Industrial West,” Expanding Understanding of Business Creation: Princeton Kauffman Conference, Princeton, NJ, August 1-3, 2017


Teaching Experience

  

August 2016 – 2021   Department of Anthropology

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill


Courses: 

Fall 2016

 Anthropology 101: General Anthropology (TA)

Spring 2017

 Anthropology 121: Ancient Cities of the New World (TA)

Fall 2017

 Anthropology 280: Anthropology of War and Peace (TA)

Spring 2018

 Anthropology 101: General Anthropology (TA)

Fall 2018

 Anthropology 101: General Anthropology (TA)

Spring 2019

 Interdisciplinary Studies 190: Death and Dying (TA)

Fall 2019

 Interdisciplinary Studies 190: Death and Dying (TA)

Spring 2020

 Anthropology 102: Cultural Anthropology (Lead TA)


Graduate Teaching Fellow [Instructor of Record]

 Summer 2021

  Anthropology 102: Cultural Anthropology (Online)

Spring 2021

 Anthropology 320: Anthropology of Development (Online)


2018-2020

Graduating Teaching Consultant – responsible for training department first year graduate students as Teaching Assistants, and serving as mentor during their first two semesters as TAs.


Fall 2018, Spring 2019 

Graduate Research Consultant – responsible for assisting faculty by guiding students through assigned research projects; helped students to learn ethnographic research methodologies and to locate reputable scholarly sources.


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