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CURRICULUM  VITAE    

Evelyn  R.  Pickering  evelynp@email.arizona.edu  evelyn.r.pickering@gmail.com  

 CHRONOLOGY  OF  EDUCATION:  

 Bachelor  of  Arts  in  Anthropology  University  of  Arizona,  Tucson,  AZ  Major:  Cultural  Anthropology    Minor:  Art  History  Start  Date:  August  2009  Graduation  Date:  May  2012  

Master  of  Arts  in  Anthropology    University  of  Arizona,  Tucson,  AZ  Major:  Cultural  Anthropology  Focus:  Applied  Anthropology  Start  Date:  August  2012  Graduation  Date:  December  2014  

   CHRONOLOGY  OF  EMPLOYMENT:    

Current  Position  Bureau  of  Applied  Research  in  Anthropology  (BARA)  Research  Specialist:  January  2015-­  Present    Previous  Positions  Bureau  of  Applied  Research  in  Anthropology  (BARA)  Graduate  Research  Assistant:  August  2012-­December  2014    School  of  Anthropology  (University  of  Arizona)  Teaching  Assistant  Fall  2013  and  Spring  2014    Bureau  of  Applied  Research  in  Anthropology  (BARA)  Student  Researcher:  May  2012-­August  2012  

 ASSISTANTSHIPS  &  AWARDS:    

Undergraduate:  -­Arizona  Excellence  Award-­Out  of  State  Student  Scholarship  Award.       August  2009-­May  2012  -­Explorer’s  Club  Youth  Activity  Fund  

    March  2012      Graduate:  -­Gottfried  and  Martha  Lang  Student  Award  in  Applied  Anthropology-­  High  Plains  Society     for  Applied  Anthropology-­  April  2015  -­Comins  Native  American  Studies  Fund-­  Scholarships  and  Awards  Committee  of  the    

    School  of  Anthropology  and  the  University  of  Arizona-­  April  2014  -­Bureau  for  Research  in  Applied  Anthropology  (BARA)  Research  Assistantship  

August  2014-­December  2014  -­School  of  Anthropology  Teaching  Assistantship  

January  2014-­May  2014  

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-­School  of  Anthropology  Teaching  Assistantship  August  2013-­December2013  

-­Bureau  for  Research  in  Applied  Anthropology  (BARA)  Research  Assistantship  August  2013-­December2013  

-­Bureau  for  Research  in  Applied  Anthropology  (BARA)  Research  Assistantship  August  2012-­May2012  

 TEACHING  EXPERIENCE:  

 University  of  Arizona:  

    -­Fall  2013-­  0.25  Teaching  Assistant-­  ANTH  106A  Patterns  in  Prehistory    (D.  Triadan)  Responsibilities  for  this  course  included  grading  and  leading  a  discussion  section  of  approximately  30  students.    

        -­Spring  2014-­  0.25  Teaching  Assistant-­  ANTH  200  Cultural  Anthropology    

(B.  Williams)  Responsibilities  for  this  course  included  grading.      ETHNOGRAPHIC  EXPERIENCE:    -­Ethnographic  Overview  and  Assessment  of  Arches  National  Park,  Utah  (2014-­Present)  -­Ethnographic  Evaluations  and  Traditional  Cultural  Property  Nomination,  Effigy  Mounds  National     Monument,  Iowa  (2013-­Present)  -­Climate  Change  Impacts  on  Odawa  Contemporary  Use  Plants  and  Culture  at  Sleeping  Bear     Dunes  National  Lakeshore,  Michigan  (2013-­Present)  -­Kaibab  Paiute  Aboriginal  Water  Resource  Study,  Kaibab,  Utah  (2012-­Present)  -­Ethnographic  Review  for  Solar  BrightSource  Hidden  Hills  Project  (2012)  -­Lake  Powell  Pipeline  Cultural  Site  Mitigation,  Southern  Paiute  Tribe  (2012-­2013)  -­Unav-­Nuquaint  Little  Springs  Lava  Flow  Ethnographic  Investigation,  Arizona  (2012)    FIELD  EXPERIENCE  &  SCHOLARLY  TRAVEL:    -­Canyonlands  NP  Ethnographic  Overview  and  Assessment  (August  2015)  -­High  Plains  Society  for  Applied  Anthropology  Conference  (April  2015)  -­Arches  NP  Ethnographic  Overview  and  Assessment  (November  2014,  March  2015,  May  2015)  -­Sleeping  Bear  Dunes  Ethnobotany  Study  (May  2014  and  September  2014)  -­Effigy  Mounds  TCP  Nomination  (July  2014)  -­Social  Construction  of  Water  in  Dominica  (June  2013  and  June  2014)  -­Society  for  Applied  Anthropology  Conference  (March  2013)  -­Society  for  Applied  Anthropology  Conference  (March  2013)  -­Little  Springs  Lava  Flow  Ethnographic  Investigation  (October  2012)  -­Lake  Powell  Pipeline  Environmental  Impact  Assessment  Southern  Paiute  Avoidance  and     Mitigation  Study  (May  2012  and  September  2012)  -­Kaibab  Paiute  Aboriginal  Water  Use  Study  (May  2012  and  July  2012)  -­University  of  Arizona  Primate  Studies  Field  School  in  Rwanda  (July  2011)          

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ACADEMIC  PRESENTATIONS:    

 The  Social  Construction  of  Water  in  Dominica:    and  how  it  Influences  Use  and  Exportation.     Presented  at  the  High  Plains  Society  for  Applied  Anthropology  Meeting  in     Denver,  Colorado  (April  2015).  

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 Perceptions  of  Abundance:  The  Life-­World  Impacts  on  Sustainable  Water  Management  in  Dominica.  Session  Title:  in  Search  for  Sustainability,  Part  II:  Vision  and  Practice  in  Environmental  Conservation.  

Presented  at  the  Society  for  Applied  Anthropology  Meeting  in  Albuquerque,  New  Mexico  (March  2014).  

○  Submitted  Presentation  ○  Discussant  

 Flowing  Energy:  The  Relationship  of  Solar  Power,  Spiritual  Power,  and  Water  System.  Session  Title:  Tavicha’impimu:  To  Catch  the  Sun:  Large  Scale  Solar  Energy  Development  in  the  Great  Basin  and  the  Cultural  Implications  for  Numic  Speaking  Peoples.    

Presented  at  the  Society  for  Applied  Anthropology  Meeting  in  Denver,  Colorado  (March  2013).  

○  Submitted  Presentation  ○  Discussant  

 PUBLICATIONS:  

 Stoffle,  Richard,  Katherine  Brooks,  Evelyn  Pickering,  Christopher  Sittler  and  Kathleen  Van  Vlack  

2015  Climate  Change  Impacts  on  American  Indian  Traditional  Use  Plants  and  Culture  at  Sleeping  Bear  Dunes  National  Lakeshore.  Prepared  for  Dusty  Shultz,  Sleeping  Bear  Dunes  National  Lakeshore,  Project  Number  PPMWMWROC4.  Bureau  of  Applied  Research  in  Anthropology.  Tucson:  University  of  Arizona.  

 Pickering,  Evelyn     2014.  The  Social  Construction  of  Water  in  Dominica,  and  how  it  has  Impacted     Use  and  Exportation.  MA  Thesis.  University  of  Arizona.      Van  Vlack,  Kathleen,  Richard  Stoffle,  Evelyn  Pickering,  Katherine  Brooks,  Jennie  Delfs.    

2013.  UnavNuquaint:  Little  Springs  Lava  Flow  Ethnographic  Investigation.  Prepared  for  the  National  Park  Service.  Bureau  of  Applied  Research  in  Anthropology,  University  of  Arizona,  Tucson  AZ.    

 Stoffle,  Richard,  Hannah  Johnson,  Kathleen  Van  Vlack,  Katherine  Brooks,  Jennie  Delfs,  and  Evelyn  Pickering    

N.D.  Kaibab  Paiute  Aboriginal  Water  Use  Study.  Report  Prepared  for  the  Kaibab  Band  of  Paiute  Indians.  Tucson:  Bureau  of  Applied  Research  in  Anthropology,  University  of  Arizona.    

 

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MEMBERSHIP:       Society  for  Applied  Anthropology       September  2012  to  Present       Ethnology  (Journal)       Subscription  since  2013    LIST  OF  CONTACTS:    

Reference   Email   Phone   Relationship   Years  Known  

Veronica  Peralta   vperalta@email.arizona.edu   (520)621-­6974   Business  

Manager,  Senior   3  

Christopher  Sittler   csittler@email.arizona.edu   (520)456-­4920   Co-­Worker   4  

Michelle  Coe   macoe@email.arizona.edu   (702)556-­9507   Former  Classmate   4  Elizabeth  Kelly   eakelly2@email.arizona.edu   (520)9816193   Former  Manager   5