lara stein pardo

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lara stein pardo
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Curriculum Vitae
Education
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan. 2006 - present
Certificate in Latin American and Caribbean Studies, 2011
Ph.D. Candidate with distinction in Anthropology, 2009
M.A. in Cultural Anthropology, 2008
University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado. 1999 – 2003
B.A. in Ethnic Studies and Fine Arts
Residencies and Visiting Positions
CIC Predoctoral Fellow, Smithsonian American Art Museum, 2011 - 2012
Visiting Researcher, University of Miami, Center for Latin American Studies, 2009 - 2011
Artist in Residence, Deering Estate at Cutler Bay, 2010 - 2011
Graduate Resident, Center for World Performance Studies, University of Michigan, 2008 – 2009
Teaching Experience
Deering Estate at Cutler Bay, Miami, Florida
Art Workshops, 2011
Art and Culture Center of Hollywood, Hollywood, Florida
Art Instructor, Young Artists, 2010
Assistant Art Instructor, Portfolio Academy, 2010
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan
Graduate Student Instructor
Winter 2009 “Mexico: Culture and Society” – Professor David Frye
Fall 2008 “Introduction to Africa and Its Diasporas” – Professors Lori Brooks and Amal
Fadlalla
Winter 2008 “Mexico: Culture and Society” – Professor David Frye
Fall 2007 “Cuba and Its Diaspora” – Professor Ruth Behar
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan
Tutor, Athletic Department, 2007 – 2009
Hialeah High School, Miami-Dade County, Florida
Photography Teacher, 2004 – 2006
Cultural Arts Club Sponsor and Coordinator, 2004 – 2006
New Horizons Bilingual Preschool, Boulder, Colorado
Teaching Assistant, 2001 - 2003
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Publications
(Future Publication) Contemporary Black Photographic Practice in Miami, Florida: Noelle Théard
and Donnalyn Anthony, Transatlantic Feminisms: Women and Gender Studies in Africa and the
African Diaspora, eds. Akosua Adomako Ampofo, Cheryl R. Rodriguez, and Dzodzi Tsikata,
Michigan State University Press, Publication Date TBD.
Mobile Portrait Studio, Nueva Luz, 16:1, En Foco, Bronx, Winter 2011.
Miami Art Salon - From Ideas to Actions, Arts of Citizenship Blog, University of Michigan, February
3, 2011.
Review: Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons, Everything is Separated by Water at the Bass Museum,
Gallery Diet, Miami, October 2007.
Performance in the Archive: María Magdalena Campos Pons, Gallery Diet, Miami, June 2007.
Presentations and Guest Lectures
Tracing the Terrain of Contemporary Caribbean Art in Miami, Florida, Smithsonian American Art
Museum, Washington, DC, April 13, 2012.
History, Memory, and Performance in Contemporary Black Photographic Practice: Noelle Théard
and Donnalyn Anthony, Performing History, Memory, and Identity in the Black World, Central
Pennsylvania Consortium Africana Studies Conference, Dickinson College, Carlisle, Pennsylvania,
February 23 – 24, 2012.
Performativity in Visual Art of the Caribbean Diaspora: Traces, Actions, and Social Practice in the
Work of Noelle Theárd, Antonia Wright, and Dinorah de Jesús Rodriguez,” Tracing Performance
Aesthetics in Africa, the Caribbean, and their Diasporas: History Making, Public Art, Social Practice,
and Subjectivity, American Anthropological Association Meetings, Montreal, Quebec, November 16
– 20, 2011.
Artists Mapping Miami, Vizcaya Museum and Gardens’ Contemporary Art Projects, March 30,
2011.
Photography and Memory: Reconstructing the Family Album in the Works of Cuban-born Artists
Nereida García-Ferraz and Elizabeth Cerejido, Stories of Migration and Migration Stories,
American Anthropological Association Meetings, New Orleans, LA, November 16 – 21, 2010.
Photography and Memory: Reconstructing the Family Album – Elizabeth Cerejido and Nereida
García-Ferraz, Global Caribbean(s): Interrogating the Politics of Location in Caribbean Literature
and Culture, University of Miami and the Little Haiti Cultural Center, Miami, FL, March 3 – 6, 2010.
Social Relationships and the Production of Art: Toward an Anthropology of Caribbean Women
Artists in Miami, Florida, American Anthropological Association Meeting: Inclusion, Collaboration
and Engagement, San Francisco, CA, November 19 – 23, 2008.
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Contemporary Artists from Africa and its Diaspora: Using Photographic Arts to Interpret the Past
and Present, Guest Lecture for CAAS 111 – Introduction to Africa and its Diasporas, December 2,
2008.
Performance in the Archive: Re-imagining the Cuban Diaspora and Contemporary Cuban Art
through the Performance-based Photography of María Magdalena Campos-Pons and Marta Maria
Peréz Bravo, Black Humanities Collective Conference, Bodies in Motion: Diaspora, Difference &
Discursive Performances, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, March 27 – 28, 2008.
Performance in the Archive: Re-imagining the Cuban Diaspora and Contemporary Cuban Art
through the Performance-based Photography of María Magdalena Campos-Pons and Marta Maria
Peréz Bravo, Virtual Caribbeans: A Conference on Representation, Diaspora and Performance in and
on the Caribbean, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA, February 27 – March 1, 2008.
Performance Art in Contemporary Cuba and Beyond, Guest Lecture for Anthrcul 314/Amcult 313Cuba and Its Diaspora, November 27, 2007.
Bodies/Subjectivities, Guest Artist in Womenstd 698/Amcult 699- Refugees of a World on
Fire: Women of Color and Transnational Feminisms, October 10, 2007.
Caribbean Migration: Patterns, Experiences, and Expressions, 32nd Annual Caribbean Studies
Association Conference: “Alternative Interpretations of the Circum-Caribbean: Interrogating
Connections across History, Society, Culture, and Performance.” Salvador da Bahia, Brazil, May 28
– June 1, 2007.
The Rests Between the Beats: the Silencing of a Voice, The Caribbean Woman Writer as Scholar:
Imagining/Theorizing/Creating, 10th Anniversary International Conference, Florida International
University, Miami, FL, May 30 – June 3, 2006.
La Voz del Patronato: Judaism in Havana, Cuba, Paper and Photographic works presented at Ronald
E. McNair Annual Symposium, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, July 2002.
Community Maintenance and Judaism in Havana, Cuba, Paper presented at Ronald E. McNair
Annual Rocky Mountain Conference, Colorado State University, Ft. Collins, CO, April 2002.
Recent Exhibitions and Screenings
2012 Miami Moments 2012: Contemporary Vasari Project, Miami-Dade County Public Library,
Miami, FL, curated by Cesar Trasobares, February 10.
2011 Four minutes, thirty-three seconds, LegalArt, Miami, FL, curated by Omar Lopez-Chahoud,
November 30 – January 20.
Forever Forged. Forever Becoming, African and African Caribbean Design Diaspora
presented by ARC, Bargehouse, London, England, September 9 – 25.
SoBayArt Festival, Deering Estate at Cutler Bay, Miami, FL, February 4 – March 11.
Mobile Portrait Studio, Alice Yard, Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, January 9 – 14.
2010
New Work Miami 2010: Afterhours, Miami Art Museum, Miami, FL, August 19.
Artists for Artists in Distress, Arteamericas with the Haitian Art Relief Fund, Miami, FL,
March 26 – 28.
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2009
Race, Gallery Project, Ann Arbor, MI, May 27 – July 5.
Latino Culture Show, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, March 29.
[Her]Story: Celebrating Women through the Arts, F.O.K.U.S Art Showcase, University of
Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, March 27.
Please Play Dress Up!, Center for World Performance Studies, Yellow Barn, Ann Arbor, MI,
March 13.
2008
Elbow Grease, Work Gallery, Ann Arbor, MI, Group Exhibition, October 10 – November 7.
Space is the Place, Diaspora Vibe Gallery, Miami, FL, August 14 – September 25. Curated
by Ayanna Jolivet McCloud.
Bodies in Motion, International Institute Gallery, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI,
March 27, 2008.
2007
Art on Newsprint, Art Basel Miami Herald online edition.
Safety Zones: Melting from the Pot into the Fire, Art Basel/Miami exhibit, Diaspora Vibe
Gallery, December 4 – 11.
Art Off the Main: African, Caribbean, and Latin American Art Fair, New York, NY, October
4 – 7.
If Other, Please Explain_________, Work Exhibition Space, Ann Arbor, MI. January 12 –
February 6.
2006
Tracked: A Performance Installation, Art Center South Florida, Miami Beach FL, Solo
Exhibition. July 4 – 18.
Spring Show, Dade Art Educators, Art Center South Florida.
Fellowships and Grants
Alliance for Graduate Education and the Professoriate (AGEP), Mini Grant, 2012
Research Grant, Institute for Research on Women and Gender, University of Michigan, 2012.
CIC/Smithsonian Institution Fellowship, 2011 - 2012
Rackham Travel Grant, University of Michigan, 2011
Arts of Citizenship Graduate Grant, University of Michigan, 2011
Rackham Research Grant, University of Michigan, 2010
Imagining America, Publicly Active Graduate Education (PAGE) Fellow, 2010
Arts of Citizenship Graduate Grant, University of Michigan, 2010
Alliance for Graduate Education and the Professoriate (AGEP), Mini Grant, 2010
Susan Lipschutz Award, Rackham Graduate School, University of Michigan, 2010
Alliance for Graduate Education and the Professoriate (AGEP) Mini Grant, 2010
Community Grant, Miami Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs, 2010
Center for World Performance Studies Travel Grant, 2009
Alliance for Graduate Education and the Professoriate (AGEP) Mini Grant, 2009
Imagining America, Publicly Active Graduate Education (PAGE) Fellow, 2009
International Institute Conference Travel Grant, 2008
Center for World Performance Studies Travel Grant, 2008
Rackham/Hewlett/International Institute International Travel Grant, University of Michigan, 2008
Center for the Education of Women, Summer Research Grant, 2007
Margaret Wray French Fellowship, University of Michigan, 2007
Student Academic Multicultural Initiatives Grant, University of Michigan, 2007
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Rackham/Hewlett/International Institute International Travel Grant, University of Michigan, 2007
Rackham Merit Fellowship, University of Michigan, 2006-2011
Undergraduate Research Opportunity Grant, University of Colorado, 2002
Ronald E. McNair Scholar, University of Colorado, 2001-2003
Awards and Honors
Honorable Mention, Ford Foundation Dissertation Fellowship, 2011
Honorable Mention, Ford Foundation Diversity Fellowship, 2008
Zora Neale Hurston Award, Association for Feminist Anthropology, 2008
Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor, Cuba and Its Diaspora, University of Michigan, Fall 2007
Rookie Teacher of the Year Nominee, Miami-Dade County, 2004
Jacob Van Ek Arts and Sciences Award, University of Colorado, 2003
Semester at Sea International Scholar, University of Pittsburgh, 2001
Deans List, University of Colorado, 1999 – 2003
Freelance Work Experience
Photographer
Rebirth Brass Band, 9:30 Club, Washington DC, February 2012.
Lauryn Hill, University of Miami, Miami, Florida, November 2010.
Ruth Behar, photographs of printing and binding An Island Called Home, Edwards Brothers
Printing, Ann Arbor, Michigan, September 2007.
Ron Blake, Detroit International Jazz Festival, Hart Plaza, Detroit, Michigan, September
2007.
Los Niños de La Revolución, Campus Maritus Park, Detroit, Michigan, August 2007.
Ruth Behar, photographs of Cuban iconography for books-in-progress, Ann Arbor, Michigan,
January 2007.
“Talking in Our Pajamas,” Ruth Behar and Sandra Cisneros, University of Michigan,
published in Center for World Performance Studies News, October 2006.
Lila Downs, Latin Funk Festival, Mansion, Miami Beach, Florida, April 2006.
Papa Roach, Bayfront Park Amphitheater, Miami, Florida, October 2005.
Chris Botti, Norman Brown, et al., Summer Storm, JVC Jazz Festival, Jackie Gleason
Theater, Miami Beach, Florida, June 2005.
DJ Le Spam and the Spam Allstars, JVC Jazz Festival, Jazid, Miami Beach, Florida, June
2005.
Bob Marley Festival, Bayfront Park Amphitheater, Miami, Florida, February 2005.
Dead Prez, The District, Design District, Miami, Florida, January 2005.
Latin Funk Festival featuring Yerba Buena, State, South Beach, Florida, November 2004.
The Roots, Mansion, South Beach, Florida, September 2004.
Ani DiFranco, Pompano Beach Amphitheater, Pompano, Florida, September 2004.
Reggae y Reggaeton Festival, Bayfront Amphitheater, Miami, Florida, April 2004.
Erykah Badu, Fillmore Auditorium, Denver, Colorado, February 2004.
Spirit Music Sextet featuring Me’Shell N’degeocello, Midtown Music Festival, Atlanta,
Georgia April 2004.
Peck Allmond Music. 2004.
Me’Shell N’degeocello, Boulder Theater, Boulder, Colorado, November 2003.
Spirit Music Sextet featuring Me’Shell N’degeocello, Blue Note, New York, November
2003.
Royal Rush Dance Troupe, Denver, Colorado, 2002-2004.
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Academic and Community Service
Blackbird Arts and Research, Miami, FL
Founder and Executive Director, 2009 – present
labotanica, international arts organization
Board Member, 2008 – present
Gwaltney Research Grant Award, Association of Black Anthropologists
Selection Committee, 2010 - 2012
New Methods Symposium Committee, Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami, FL
Committee Member, 2011
Michigan Association for Graduate Anthropologists, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
Member, 2006 – present
Diversity Recruitment Representative, 2007 – 2009
Sociocultural Representative, 2006 - 2007
University of Michigan Museum of Art, Student Programming and Advisory Board, Ann Arbor, MI
Board Member, 2008 – 2009
Alliance for Graduate Education and the Professoriate, Ann Arbor, MI
Advisory Board Member, 2008 – 2009
Future of Minority Studies, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
Member, 2006 – 2009
Workgroup Co-Chair- Globalization, Sexuality, and Transnational Feminism, 2008 – 2009
Anthropology Diversity Initiative, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
Core Member, 2006 – present
Special Events Coordinator, 2007
Founding Member, 2006
Black Humanities Collective, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
Member, 2006 – present
Conference Committee, 2008 and 2009
Miami Gay and Lesbian Film Festival, Miami, FL
Filmmaker Host, 2006
Event Volunteer, 2006
Leukemia and Lymphoma Society, Miami, FL
Team in Training
2004 – 2006
Cultural Events Board, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO
Community Member, 2003 – 2004.
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Voting Board Member, 2001 – 2003.
Jewish Museum of South Florida, Miami Beach, FL
Curatorial Assistant, 1998-1999.
Certifications
Latin American and Caribbean Studies Graduate Certificate, 2011
Cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR), 2010
Center for Research on Teaching and Learning (CRLT) Graduate Certificate, in progress
Program for Education and Evaluation in Responsible Research and Scholarship (PEERRS)
Certification, 2007 – 2011
Center for Research on Teaching and Learning (CRLT), Teaching and Responding to Upper-Level
Student Writing, 2007
Florida Department of Education Certificate in Art Education, 2004 – 2007
Memberships
Caribbean Studies Association
American Anthropological Association
Association of Black Anthropologists
Association for Feminist Anthropology
Association of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology
Association of Caribbean Women Writers and Scholars
Society for Visual Anthropology
Florida Art Education Association
Dade Art Educators
Women’s Art Fund
Florida Immigrant Advocacy Center
Michigan Association of Graduate Anthropologists
Black Humanities Collective
Association for the Study of the Worldwide African Diaspora
Triangle Foundation
Future of Minority Studies
Imagining America: Artists and Scholars in Public Life
Languages and Computer Skills
Proficient in Spanish – reading, writing, and speaking
Beginning Haitian Kreyol – reading, writing, and speaking
Adept at Microsoft Office software (Word, Powerpoint, Excel), Adobe Pagemaker, Adobe
Photoshop, Adobe Acrobat Professional, FinalCut Pro, and online gradebook software. Comfortable
in both MAC and PC operating systems.