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Dr. Marcia Mikulak is an Associate Professor of Anthropology at University of North Dakota (Ph.D., University of New Mexico, MA, University of New Mexico). Dr. Mikulak is a cultural anthropologist whose work specializes in the cultural constructions of childhood, human rights, violence, and identity. Her doctoral dissertation worked with street and working children in Curvelo, Minas Gerais, Brazil. Dr. Mikulak has published articles in peer-reviewed national and international journals and in the proceedings of international conferences, and has presented her research in numerous professional conferences both nationally and internationally.
In 2005 she received a $35,000 UND Seed Grant to assess the state of domestic violence in Grand Forks County in collaboration with the Community Violence Intervention Center (CVIC). Her work with Native American health includes working with the University of New Mexicos (UNM) Strong in Body and Spirit! Diabetes prevention program and with the UNM Center for Disease Control grant on teen smoking.
In addition, Dr. Mikulak is a Country Specialist with Amnesty International for Brazil. Her current fieldwork research includes work on the impact of race and racism on street and working youth in Brazil, the Xukuru Indigenous tribe in Pernambuco, Brazil on land demarcations and human rights abuses, and with CVIC on the development of community programs to enhance and improve the life opportunities of domestic violence survivors. Her research with the Xukuru tribe in Pernambuco, Brazil was recently funded by a UND Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences grant. In the fall of 2009, Dr. Mikulak will be in Pernambuco, Brazil working with the Xukuru tribe on human rights as related to cultural rights, and documenting the social, economic, and legal marginalization of the Xukuru people, whose cacique (chief), Marcos Xukuru has been advocating for the social and political rights of his people. Recently, cacique Marcos Xukuru has been sentenced, by the state court, to ten years and four months in prison for his activism on behalf of his people.
In addition to her work as an anthropologist, Dr. Mikulak has been an accomplished concert pianist with degrees in music performance from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music and Mills College. She has a number of solo piano recordings to her credit
Country
United States
Occupation
Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of North Dakota
Schools
Ph.D Anthropology - University of New Mexico; MA - University of New Mexico; MFA - Mills College; Bachelor of Music - San Francisco Conservatory of Music
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