Stanford University's EPIC Community College Fellowship 2020-21

IN THE NEWS
EPIC Symposium, All SPICE News. May 2021.
SBVC Alumna Credits Achievements at UC Berkeley to Her Community College Journey. Dec 2020.

TEACHING AND SPEAKING

• 2020 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

• 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."