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Sample CV Sections

EDUCATION (Sample 1)
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL
Ph.D. in English, expected graduation date: May 2004
Dissertation Title: "Mapping the Late-Victorian Subject: Cartography, Psychology, and the Gothic Novel"
Dissertation Adviser: Professor Cassandra Lane
Preliminary Examination Fields: Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Gothic Literature, Nineteenth-Century Representations of Rural and Urban Life, Theorizing the Nineteenth Century

M.A. in English, 1996
Thesis Title: "'Bad Feelings Surging in My Breast': Narcissistic Rage in Jane Eyre"
Thesis Adviser: Professor James Kent

Lewis and Clark College, Portland, OR
B.A. in English and Communications, with honors, 1987

EDUCATION (Sample 2)
PhD in English, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, anticipated graduation date: May 2004
Dissertation title: "Down on the Farm: World War One and the Emergence of Literary Modernism in the American South"
Dissertation adviser: Jacob S. Snyder

MA in English, Illinois State University, Bloomington, IL, 1998

BA in English, cum laude, Earlham College, Richmond, IN, 1996

TEACHING AND ADVISING EXPERIENCE (Sample 3)
Composition Instructor, Research Writing Program, University of Illinois, 2000-present
· Full responsibility for seven sections of composition.
· Planned and taught a writing-intensive course based upon various topics.
· Used instructional technology to enhance pedagogical technique.
· Taught in an innovative, interdisciplinary team-teaching program.

Literature Instructor, Department of English, University of Illinois, 2003-present
· Full responsibility for two sections of literature, including Major American Authors and Introduction to Poetry
· Integrated multimedia approaches to teaching literature using film and instructional technology.

Coordinating Group Leader, Research Writing Program, University of Illinois, 2002-2003
· Planned and led required training session for composition instructors.

Discussion Leader, Carolina Summer Reading Program, University of Illinois, 2001
· Led group discussion for first-year students on academic topics.

Teaching Assistant, Department of English, University of Illinois, 2000-2002
· Taught a section of film criticism, including film history, theory and technical vocabulary
· Planned lessons and assignments, led discussion sections, graded papers and exams.

TEACHING EXPERIENCE (Sample 4)
Graduate Teaching Assistant, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Music 133: "Introduction to World Music" (Spring 1999, Fall 2000)
Music 110: "Introduction to Music History" (Fall 1998, Fall 1999)

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE (Sample 5)
Editorial Staff, The Oxford American, 1998-present
· Coordinated editorial and subscription activities, editing, and soliciting manuscripts.
Assistant to the Director of Freshman English, University of Illinois, 1998-2001
· Acted as a liaison between graduate instructors and the Freshman English Program.
· Assigned courses for 50 graduate instructors.
· Planned and implemented workshops and meetings.

RESEARCH EXPERIENCE (Sample 6)
Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, 2003-present
Functional analysis of the proteasome, the central protease of cell cycle and growth control. John Wheeling, adviser.

Doctoral student, Department of Biochemistry, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1997-2003
Regulation of m2 muscarinic acetylcholine receptor desensitization of phosphorylation.

Research Assistant, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Northwestern University Medical School, Chicago, IL, 1997
Identification of angiogenic factors and Rb-induced antiangiogenic factors in retinoblastoma cells.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE (Sample 7)
Teacher, High School German. Rantoul Township High School, Rantoul, IL, 1993-1996.
· Cooperating Teacher, 1993-1996. Mentored and advised early field and student teachers.
· Student Council Advisor, 1994-1996.

PUBLICATIONS (Sample 8)
"Traditional Remedies, Indigenous Knowledge, and Intellectual Property Rights: the Current Status and Possible Future of the Ethnomedicine in Zimbabwe." Proceedings, African Studies: Ethnobotany, Language and Society, (August 31 - September 1, 1998), forthcoming.

Book Review of The Science of Ethnobotany, by Dirk J. Fox and Peter A. Butler. New York: Scientific American Library, 1996. Published in the Annual Botanical Review, December 1999.

"Post-colonial Processes and Revitalization Movements in Zimbabwe." Cultural Mosaic 23 (1): 88-125.

"Language and Zimbabwean Identity." Cultural Mosaic 22 (1): 11-32.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS (Sample 9)
James Joyce and Wong You, Comparison between the Measurements and Prediction of Complex Modulus of Binder, Sand Mastic, and Asphalt Mixture, Journal of Materials in Civil Engineering, ASCE, 2005 (in progress)

James Joyce, Joseph Tribby, and Wong You, Development of Hollow Cylinder Tester in the Fundamental Property Test of Pavement Mixture, Journal of Association of Asphalt Paving Technologists (AAPT), 2005 (submitted)

Wong You and James Joyce, Discrete Element Modeling to Predict the Modulus of Asphalt Concrete Mixtures, Journal of Materials in Civil Engineering, ASCE, 2004 (forthcoming)

Wong You, Discrete Element Analysis of the Asphalt Pavement over Culvert, Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Road & Airfield Pavement Technology, pp. 934-942, April 2003

Wong You, Winston Xia, and Chin Mi Kim, Finite Element Analysis of Concrete Pavement on Culvert, International Journal of Geomechanics, Vol. 2, Issue 3, pp. 337-350, ASCE, 2002

PRESENTATIONS (Sample 10)
"Folklorization of Traditional Zimbabwean Religious Customs: A Case Study." Paper presented at the Society for the Anthropology of Religion, Annual Meeting, April 15-18, 1999, Chicago, Illinois.

"Measuring the Biomedical Efficacy of Traditional Remedies in Zimbabwe." Poster Session, American Anthropological Association, 96th Annual Meeting, November 19-23, 1997, Washington, D.C.

"Aspects of Zimbabwean Identity." University of Illinois Graduate Student Colloquium, October 16, 1996.

"Ethnobotanical Research and Fieldwork in Bali." Ethnobotany Meeting, University of Wisconsin at Madison, September 29, 1994.

UNIVERSITY SERVICE (Sample 11)
Graduate Funding Consultant, University of Illinois, 2001-present
· Advise graduate students on external funding sources and fellowship applications.

Graduate Mentor, University of Illinois, 2002-present
· Counsel minority undergraduates on graduate programs, application procedures, and funding.

Career Advisory Committee, Graduate College, University of Illinois, 2001-2002
· Served on university committee to evaluate and propose career services for graduate students.
· Collaborated with faculty and students to prepare final report for submission to the Graduate College Dean.

University Library Advisory Committee, University of Illinois, 2000-2001
· Advised University Librarian on needed services and improvements.

Admission and Financial Aid Advisor, Millikin University, 1997-1999
· Advised prospective undergraduate students on enrollment opportunities.
· Reviewed applications and recommended appropriate admission decisions.
· Coordinated scholar recruitment and selection process.

PROFESSIONAL SERVICE (Sample 12)
Session Co-organizer and Chair for upcoming session at the Annual Meetings for the Society for Political and Legal Anthropology; session title "Intellectual Property Rights in the Next Millennium," December 11, 2004, Boston, MA.

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS (Sample 13)
National Society of Professional Engineers
American Society of Civil Engineers
Pan American Highway Association
Transportation Research Board
International Association for Computer Methods and Advances in Geomechanics

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS (Sample 14)
Modern Language Association · American Literature Association · American Studies Association · Robert Penn Warren Circle · Southern Research Circle

AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS (Sample 15)
Postdoctoral Fellowship, American Cancer Society, Washington, D.C., 1998-2001 Postdoctoral Traineeship, Cancer Biology Training Grant, University of Chicago, 1997-1998
Predoctoral Fellow, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, 1992-1997
Student Travel Fellowships, International Symposia on Subtypes of Muscarinic Receptors, 1994, 1996
Best Student Poster Award, Chicago Signal Transduction Symposium, 1996
Best Student Poster Award, Great Lakes Chapter of the American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics, 1995, 1997
Faculty Honors, Northwestern College, (awarded to two graduates each year), 1992

AWARDS AND HONORS (Sample 16)
Graduate Teacher Certificate, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2002-2003
· Completed two-semester program designed to enhance teaching skills.
· Participated in video-taped critiques of teaching.
· Attended professional development seminars.
· Received student feedback and evaluations.

Graduate Teaching Award
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1998-2003
· Received award eight consecutive terms.
· Listed among the top ten percent of teachers rated at the university for the following semesters: Fall 1999, Spring 2000, Fall 2001, and Fall 2002.
· Award is based on student evaluations.

German Academic Exchange Service Grant (Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst)
· Grant to participate in an eight-week German language course at the Goethe Institute in Düsseldorf, Germany.

Illinois Humanities Council Community Scholar's Grant · Co-authored successful grant proposal to develop and teach a public music appreciation course.
· Terms of the grant required thirty hours of public lectures, resulting in Music for Life, a community education course.

LANGUAGES (Sample 17)
Fluent in French and Dutch
Intermediate reading knowledge of German

RESEARCH INTERESTS (Sample 18)
Romanticism in music · Twentieth century social dance · Music of Native American cultures · Music of the Middle East · Ethnomusicological theory

RESEARCH INTERESTS (Sample 19)
· Transportation Materials: Asphalt, Aggregate, Asphalt Concrete, and Cement Concrete
· Micromechanical Modeling of Geotechnical Materials
· Image Processing
· X-Ray Computed Tomography
· Geotechnical Materials and Soil Stabilization
· Non-destructive Testing
· Test Instruments
· Asphalt Pavements and Concrete Pavements
· Finite Element Modeling
· Discrete Element Modeling
· Pavement Management
· Traffic Engineering

RELEVANT COURSES (Sample 20)
Ethnicity and Nationalism
Ethnomusicological Theory
Arabic (4 years)
Music of the Middle East
Ethnography
Music of Indonesia
Music of Latin America
Religion in an Anthropological Perspective
Colonialism and Culture
Music Cultures in Contact
Modern Standard Hebrew
Transnationalism

RELEVANT COURSEWORK (Sample 21)
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
SLAV 491: Independent Study (Advanced Russian) (Instructor: Professor John Tempest), Fall 2003
RUSS 481: Problems in Russian History: Early Russia (Instructor: Professor Lucille Randolph), Spring 2003
LIS 433: Slavic Bibliography (Instructor: Professor Richard Jacoby), Fall 2002
HIST 481: Problems in Russian History: Late Imperial Russia (Instructor: Professor Sally Wiley), Spring 2002
LAS 493: Ford Foundation Seminar: Arts and the Sacred in Russia (Instructor: Alexei Stravinsky), Spring-Summer 2002
[numerous courses follow]

Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois
SLAV C41: The Structure of Russian (Instructor: Professor Diane Colbert), Spring 1993
SLAV A02: Intermediate Russian (Instructor: Professor Charles Dunlap), Fall 1990, Winter, Spring 1991
[numerous courses follow]

TECHNICAL SKILLS (Sample 22)
Experienced in Fish, C++/C, FORTRAN, and Visual Basic programming.
Proficient in numerical analysis packages such as Partical Folow Code (PFC), Patran, Abaqus, and Algor.
Proficient in image processing packages such as Image Pro Plus and Image Pro.

FIELDWORK EXPERIENCE (Sample 23)
Cochabamba, Bolivia (Summer 2002)
Preliminary dissertation fieldwork working with indigenous Bolivian musicians. Harare, Zimbabwe (Summer 2001)
Ford Foundation Research in Harare, Zimbabwe. Ethnographic fieldwork with traditional mbira musicians in Harare and popular guitar bands in Chitungweza, Zimbabwe.
Cusco, Peru (Summer 2000)
Ford Foundation Research. Ethnographic fieldwork with indigenous musicians and dancers.

FESTIVALS, MASTER CLASSES, AND PRIVATE INSTRUCTION (Sample 24)
Tracy Whittney and Wayne Yerke, master class performances

International Double Reed Society Conference 2002, Banff, Canada

Nell Erlking, private study, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1999-2003

Alex Little, principal oboist of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, master class performance

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2000
Alan Black, Neil Black, and Richard Killmer, master class performances

Sarasota Music Festival, Sarasota, Florida, 1999
Christopher Borne, Oboe Professor, private study

Eastman School of Music, Rochester, New York, 1996-1998
[several earlier experiences follow]

SELECTED CHAMBER MUSIC AND SOLO EXPERIENCE
Baroque Artists of Champaign-Urbana, Urbana, Illinois, soloist, 2003
Alessandro Marcello's Oboe Concerto in c-minor

Solo, chamber and orchestral performances of contemporary compositions by Leon Jurica, Eda Driga, Beata Moravkova, Ales Pavlorek, Koren Cowgill, Yoshihisa Hirano, Gregory Mertl, and Edward Martin, 1990-present

The Champagne Trio (Oboe, Bassoon, and Piano), founding member, 1999-present

Martirano Music Festival, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, soloist, 2001
Kryzstof Penderecki's Capricio
[several earlier experiences follow]

REFERENCES (Sample 25)
John Jay, Assoc. Professor of Biochemistry
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
(217) 555-1112, jjjjay@uiuc.edu

Robert Warren, Professor of Biochemistry
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
(217) 555-0203, rprwarren@uiuc.edu

Jacob S. Snyder, Professor of Integrative Biology
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
(217) 555-4700, jsnssnyd@uiuc.edu

Sally Briscoe, Assoc. Professor of Biology
Butler University
(317) 555-8763, srlbriscoe@butler.edu

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