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Amanda Jenkins

Amanda Jenkins   
Amanda Jenkins
    Type:  Graduate Student
    Concentration:  The Americas and Africa
    Email:  ajenkins@ucsc.edu

Courses Taught 
TEACHING EXPERIENCE:



Instructor for Composition and Rhetoric, Writing About Difference: Deconstructing Categories of Race, Class, Gender, and Sexuality, Writing Program, UC Santa Cruz, Fall 2006.



Teaching Assistant, Department of History, UC Santa Cruz, 2003-present.
Courses included:

Film and the Holocaust

The Holocaust

Introduction to Modern Jewish History

Modern European History

Modern Jewish Intellectual History

Russian History (Imperial Russia)

Russian History (Twentieth Century)

U.S. History to 1877

U.S. History, 1914-1945


Research Focus 
United States Social History, Gender Studies, Modern Russia, and Jewish Studies

Long Description 
TEACHING EXPERIENCE:

Instructor for Composition and Rhetoric, Writing About Difference: Deconstructing Categories of Race, Class, Gender, and Sexuality, Writing Program, UC Santa Cruz, Fall 2006.

Teaching Assistant, Department of History, UC Santa Cruz, 2003-present. Courses included:
Film and the Holocaust
The Holocaust
Introduction to Modern Jewish History
Modern European History
Modern Jewish Intellectual History
Russian History (Imperial Russia)
Russian History (Twentieth Century)
U.S. History to 1877
U.S. History, 1914-1945

Special Assistant to the Writing Center Director, Learning Resource Center, The Evergreen State College, Olympia, WA, 2001-2003.

Academic Workshop Provider, Upward Bound Summer Program, The Evergreen State College, Olympia, WA, 2002.

Writing Tutor, Learning Resource Center, The Evergreen State College, Olympia, WA, 1998-2001.


PRESENTATIONS:

Guest Lecture, "Jewish Life in Imperial Russia and Immigration to the United States," presented in American Jewish History, UC Santa Cruz, August 2006.

Guest Lecture, "Jewish Resistance During WWII," presented in Holocaust: The Destruction of European Jewry, UC Santa Cruz, February 2005.

Conference Presentation, “Revising the Writing Center: Small, Doable Acts for Writing Center Communities,” presented at the Washington Center for Improving the Quality of Undergraduate Education’s 16th Annual Conference, Seattle, WA, February 2003.


FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS:

• Doctoral Student Sabbatical Fellowship, UC Santa Cruz, Fall 2007.
• Koret Foundation Grant for Graduate Student Support, Jewish Studies Program, UC Santa Cruz, Summer 2007.
• Travel Grant, History Department, UC Santa Cruz, Summer 2006.
• Travel Grant, Institute for Humanities Research, UC Santa Cruz, Summer 2006.
• Foundation Scholarship, The Evergreen State College, Olympia, WA, 1997.

Education History 
Ph. D. History, University of California, Santa Cruz, expected June 2010.
Dissertation: "The Radical Jewish Imagination in Los Angeles."

M. A. History, University of California, Santa Cruz, June 2005.
Thesis: "Philanthropic Women and 'Normal' Jewish Working Girls: Class and Gender in San Francisco’s Emanu-El Sisterhood For Personal Service, 1894-1921."

B.A. American Studies, The Evergreen State College, Olympia, WA., June 2001.