Women's Job List: The Job Board for Women

Posted on: 2014-01-24

RESUME / CURRICULUM VITEA

Lamia Kosovic

4809 Calvert rd.,

College park, MD 20740

E-mail: (email hidden) Phone: (phone hidden)

EDUCATION:

• European Graduate School, PhD in Philosophy of Comm. Arts, 2006-2014

• New School University, New York, MA in Media and Cultural Studies, 2003- 2006

• University of Wisconsin, BA in Communication Arts (Film Arts), 1998-02

• Wisconsin in Scotland, Edinburgh, Scotland, British film and criticism 2002

• University of London, UK - Theater in London program, summer school 1999

• Academy of Film and Theater Arts, Dramaturgy studies, Sarajevo, 1994-95

WORK EXPERIENCE:

University of Maryland, National Foreign Language Center, Instructional developer, January 2014

Developing online materials (EFAs) for the USA clients in the domain of public and political matter for the Serbo-Croatian language

Center for legal help to women, Bosnia and Herzegovina: Online teacher in gender equality, 2013

Developed curriculum for the course, prepared materials and timeframe for the implementation of the course; developed guidelines for academic writing for continuing students;

developed essay questions and multiple choice tests for students; advised students on papers, essay choices, and performed monitoring of their work as well as the final evaluation of students works.

Center for Postgraduate Interdisciplinary Studies, University of Sarajevo, Dept. of Gender Studies, Advisor, Returning Scholar, and Adjunct lecturer and Researcher, 2006-13

Providing group and individual advising sessions on a regular basis and outreach for the ones with ambitions for enhancement of their study skills;

working closely with students from diverse backgrounds to provide academic advising and supervision during the academic paper’s writing and other examinations;

providing resources and support for infusing diversity into the academic curriculum to foster BiH and international cultural competency; inviting international scholars to the Center and securing funds for their lecturing at the University;

collaborating with governmental agencies and international donors in order to provide funding sources for the Center and the Program; writing project applications and working on their implementation once approved.

Lecturing students in two languages using new teaching and interactive methods instead of the common ex-cathedra method.

Courses taught: Introduction on Human Rights, Feminist and Communication Methodology, Gender Theories, Film and Memory: Politics of Remembering (part of the Gender and Politics module), Introduction to Feminist Film Theory, Gender and Communication, Feminist Film Theory and Criticism: Post-structuralism and Aesthetics of Sensation, and Gender and Religion.

Courses in progress: Gender, Body and Cybernetics, Gender and Politics: New political subject/s, Introduction to Feminist Film Theory, and Introduction to Deleuze and Feminism (in progress as an online course, Jan 2014)

Researcher on the Academic Project: Contesting Female, Feminist, and Muslim Identities – Post-socialist contexts of BiH and Kosovo

Returning Scholar duties: Conducting research on religion and gender in former Yugoslavia, Sensation and memory in arts, and presenting it at the International AFP meetings in Istanbul (2010, 2012), and Budapest (2011); collaborating with international scholars from the USA, Pakistan, Western and Eastern Europe on various projects related to human rights and gender issues.

The University of Gothenburg, Varieties of Democracy Project, Country expert, online 2013

Conducted surveys on media and democratic issues for the country of BiH for the Project Varieties of Democracy, a large international effort to measure hundreds of features of democracy for all countries and colonies in the world from 1900 to the present.

TPO Foundation, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina: Educational program coordinator in gender and politics, 2012-13

Developing educational curriculum for Political Academy for young men and female politicians; course leader at the Academy; implementing monitoring and evaluation of educational workshops throughout the country; identifying and developing funding sources, including state grants and funding; developing relationships with government agencies, community and non-profit groups and organizations, and international foundations; writing progress and final narrative reports; designing communications strategies with partners; designing guidelines for advocacy; writing news for the TPO website, doing all the translations for the office; doing all the administrative work for the office; creating guidelines for the educational workshops for education of women from rural areas and developing training programs on human rights and genders issues for young politicians in the country; wrote and edited the Guideline for Political Communication for the NGO sector.

SIT Study Abroad, a program of World Learning, Peace and Conflict Studies in the Balkans: Serbia, Bosnia and Kosovo, ISP Advisor, 2011

Acted as a mentor for SIT Study abroad students; providing inputs on methodology and research design, literature, and conducting final evaluations of students’ work

UN WOMEN Gender Consultant, 2011

Performed monitoring and evaluation; Conducted Needs assessments and final report for a nonprofit org on the project related to the victims of war rape at the Canton 10 of the Federation Bosnia and Herzegovina

Helsinki Citizens’ Assembly Banja Luka, Curriculum developer, course leader and lecturer for the Women’s Political Academy

Curriculum developer and lecturer at the Women’s Political Academy (2011/12) Course leader at the Political Academy (2012/13): education of members of political parties on gender equality and human rights

Association for Language and Culture "Linguists," President of the Board on the Project Gender Sensitive Language in Education, the Media, and Legal Documents

Providing advising for development and implementation of the Project; overseeing the implementation and conducting final evaluation of the Project

The World Bank, Sarajevo, 2010, National Gender Consultant on the Project Women’s Property Rights in BiH, 2010

Conducted a gender analysis focusing on the current status of women’s property rights in the country; identified gaps and weaknesses in land rights access for women and suggested what improvements could be made within the existing projects and timeframes.

TPO Foundation, Sarajevo, Education coordinator on Project “101 Reasons to Vote for Women”, and “Empowerment of men and women in politics” 2010-2013

Took part in establishing of the working group consisted of women from partner's organizations; assisted in developing of the unified educational framework for all partners in the project; prepared and conducted educational workshops for women in BiH cities and rural areas; prepared and delivered information for media about educational activities in the field; monitored and evaluated educational workshops, street campaigns and public debates of partners in the Project; designed communications strategies with other colleagues for the media campaign and advocacy purposes; wrote Project’s preliminary and final reports for donor, wrote curriculum for Political Academy and evaluated/graded students seminars.

ACIPS Group for the issues of human rights, development, and social justice, Gender consultant, 2009

Provided gender analysis for donor organizations in various fields in BiH (mostly the environment, war and gender violence (rape), and ICT sector). Wrote reports, performing research analysis of the empirical data, monitoring and evaluation, etc.

Independent Bureau for Humanitarian Issue (IBHI), Sarajevo,Gender Trainer, 2007

Worked in the area of mainstreaming gender in Bosnia and Herzegovina in 2007. Support to donors in BiH interested in joint gender mainstreaming activities, funded by DFID, SIDA, NORAD and Netherlands Embassy. Provided training and refresher course in basic gender mainstreaming issues and skills to 20 development agency staff.

GenderIT.org, Online journal: Women and technology, Writer, 2006/07

Writing monthly articles for genderIT online journal on the issue of gender and ICT in Bosnia and Herzegovina

E-net Center, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, E-net learning specialist, 2006

Developing and delivering training courses on E-net learning; teaching presentation skills through the use of technology and through applying innovative instructional strategies and effective presentation strategies as part of the process. In collaboration with the University of Alberta Canada e-net learning specialists, also developing training materials on structuring e-courses.

Embassy of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Executive Assistant to the Ambassador, Washington D.C., 2006

Working closely with the Ambassador in promoting and fostering international relations, particularly in the domain of human rights; developing relationships with the US government agencies, international donors, and other relevant political, cultural and economic actors in order to foster BiH ties with the USA; writing reports for consular services and doing all of the administrative duties.

AWARDS:

• Professional Development Fond, Soros Foundation, Research visit to the International Institute of Social Studies / Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Hague, The Netherlands, 2013

• Returning Scholar, Soros Foundation, 2011-12 and 2012-13

• Professional Development Fond, Soros Foundation, Research visit to the Institute of Humanities and Digital Studies, Ljubljana, Slovenia, 2012

• University of Dublin, Ireland, travel award for the workshop on Deleuze

• Teaching Assistantship for Foundation of Media Theory at New School University Graduate Program in Media Studies

• Scholarship for Media Studies, New School University • HESP Budapest Scholarship for Communication and Education at Inter- • University Center Dubrovnik, Croatia

• HESP Budapest Scholarship for Feminist Critical Analysis at Inter-University Center Dubrovnik, Croatia (4 times)

PUBLICATIONS:

• Kosovic, Lamija, and Besima Boric. Guide to Political Communication. TPO Foundation, 2013.

• Women’s Side of Politics. “Introduction to Semiotics”. Helsinki Citizens’ Assembly, 2012/13 (in print)

• “Women and Politics” and “Being a Woman” (co-author) in Contesting Female, Feminist, and Muslim Identities – Post-socialist contexts of BiH and Kosovo. CIPS UNSA, Sarajevo, 2011.

• “Embodiments of Virtual: In Contact with the real”. In Identities Journal. Vol. 8 / No. 1: "Bodies, Affects, and the Political", edited by Slavco Dimitrov. http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B006TYF8OE/ref=sc_pgp__m_A1IBJRJ01PYUDD_7?ie=UTF8&m=A1IBJRJ01PYUDD&n&s&v=glance

• Cyberpunk K-inema: Re-imag(in)ing of the Posthuman. Sarajevo: EnkiDu, August 2006.

• ---. “Modification of virus in the theoretical machine of disembodiment.” Dijalog 3-4 (2008): 135-154. http://www.ceeol.com/aspx/issuedetails.aspx?issueid=b987da98-516d-4821-a80e-a95de23edb9f&articleId=fbd924fb-c7ef-4cee-b(phone hidden)9ecb

• GenderIT.org: Changing the Way You See ICT. Gender and ICT Policy in Bosnia and Herzegovina: Re-thinking ICT development through Gender. December, 2006. http://www.genderit.org/content/gender-and-ict-policy-bosnia-and-herzegovina-re-thinking-ict-development-through-gender

• Mlinarevic Gorana and Lamia Kosovic. “Women’s Movements and Gender Studies in Bosnia and Herzegovina.” Aspasia 5 (2011)

Instructional developer and lecturer in gender studies