Amanda E Aldridge Email: AmandaInfiniteStones@gmail.com Phone: (508) 404-6189 PERSONAL SUMMARY Passionate researcher with an affinity for photojournalism. Trained interviewer. Analytical; capable of exploring complex topics, collecting ethnographic data and creating and populating analytical categories/data sets. Ability to think abstractly and critically. Cultivates diplomatic resolve. EDUCATION B.A., Anthropology, 2016, Bridgewater State University, Bridgewater, MA. Graduated with a 3.7. Completion of Fulbright Grant Writing Workshop, 2016, Bridgewater State University, Bridgewater, MA. Biology Major, 2012, Framingham State University, Bridgewater, MA. Completion of the National Institutes of Health training course: “Protecting Human Research Participants,” 2012. A.A. Liberal Arts with a basis in Psychology, Sociology, and Anthropology, 2011, Massachusetts Bay Community College, Wellesley, MA. ETHNOGRAPHIC RESEARCH 2016 Directed Study: Anthropology of South Asia with Simone Poliandri, PhD Massachusetts, IRB approval by Bridgewater State University, study of symbolic representation of women at a Buddhist Temple, a Hindu Temple, and a Mosque, directed study focused on the issues that women face in India, used as a comparative analysis. 2015 Fondes Amandes Community Reforestation Project Interdisciplinary Field School with Diana Fox, PhD. Development of a Wordpress to advertise research projects available for students and tourists. 2015 Directed Study: The Experience of Gender in Native American Cultures, focus on the Dine with Diana Fox, PhD
2014 Directed Study: Sustainable Practices and Ritual Initiations of the Hopi with Curtiss Hoffman, PhD LANGUAGES English (mother tongue), French (intermediate) EDUCATIONAL GOALS ● Work for NGO that provides cultural heritage preservation and/or sustainable farming methodologies to communities. ● Continue to study forensics, primate evolution, archaeological theory and methodology. ● Further explore symbolic enculturation. ● Enhance ability to write explicitly and to develop a deeper knowledge of anthropological theories to increase ability to interpret ethnographic research. ● Continue to cultivate experience in sustainable and indigenous agrarian practices. ● Participate in an archaeological field school. ● Implement training and build skills acquired from a Research Methods course and an Interdisciplinary field school at the Fondes Amandes Community Reforestation Project in Trinidad in 2016. RESEARCH INTERESTS Epigenetic effects of social structure and social networks, altruism, enculturation of sustainable life practices, shamanism, community building, gender, symbolism, agriculture, underwater archaeology, ethnobotany, preservation, acoustic archaeology, architecture, art, nutrition, health, Hopi, Dine, India, Mohenjo-Daro, Maya. TEACHING EXPERIENCE 2023 Substitute Teacher, Macintosh Academy, Boulder, CO. 2020-2022 Owner/Manager, Uncommon Market, Montpelier, VT. 2010-2016 Teacher Naturalist, Massachusetts Audubon, Natick, MA. 2010-2013 Teacher, Mad Science of Greater Boston, Waltham, MA. COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT/OUTREACH 2017-2020 Farm Property Management, Montpelier, VT.
2018 Reporter/Photographer, Vermont Standard Newspaper, Woodstock, VT.
2016-2018 Editor, Kenosis Foundation, Bangalore City, India.
2016 Farm Educator Intern, Creation Plantation, Louisburg, NC.
2016 Farm Hand and CSA Lead, Heartwood Farm, Barnard, VT.
2016 Intern/Volunteer for Annual Indigenous Peoples’ Bazaar, Cultural Survival, Inc., Cambridge, MA.
2016 Volunteer, Fondes Amandes Community Reforestation Project, Fondes Amandes, Trinidad.
2015 Paid Intern, Wildlife Rescue with Sue Tuffy, Duxbury, MA.