work - MELISSA KING

Stanford University's EPIC Community College Fellowship 2020-21

2024 Panelist. Reproductive Rights, Values, and Voting. University of La Verne and the Andrew Goodman Foundation. La Verne, CA. March 20.
020 Lecturer. Workshop: Improving Workplace Accuracy: Understanding Biases of Culture and Race. LD 42 Supplement. San Bernardino Valley College Police Academy. Dec 27.
2018 Lecturer. Introduction to Linguistic Anthropology. University of California, Riverside, Anthropology Department.
2015 Presenter. King, Melissa and Jelena Radovic Fanta. “Visibility and Alliance in the Contingent Workforce: US Academics and Chilean Grape Workers.” American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting. Denver, CO. Nov 21.

ARMENIAN GENOCIDE AND SURVIVORSHIP

2017 Demsky, Jeffrey and Melissa King. “A Duty to Remember, a Duty to Forget.” In War Memories: Commemoration, Recollections, and Writings on War. Eds. Stéphanie Bélanger and Renée Dickason. McGill-Queen’s University Press.
2016 King, Melissa. Poems: “An Interview with sisters” and “Akhtamar Effect.” Armenian Poetry Project. armenian-poetry.blogspot.com. May 30 and 31.
2013 King, Melissa. “Piercing Through Stone:” Youth Activists Fighting Denial, Omission, and Forgetting of the Armenian Genocide. American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting. Chicago, IL. Nov 20.

EDITING AND COACHING

Consultant. The Cultural Consultants.
Co-editor. Culture, Humanity, and Urban Life series. Lexington Books.
Mentor. The Puente Project.
2019 Curriculum writer. Sex and Gender. Campus Outreach Services.
2018 Statewide Outstanding Advisor Award. Alpha Gamma Sigma, the California Community Colleges Honor Society.
2017 Banh, Jenny with Melissa King, Eds. Anthropology of Los Angeles. Lanham: Lexington Books.

"Melissa is an an amazing collaborator who is thoughtful, thorough, decisive, and supportive. I couldn't ask for a better partner."

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