Dr. Marcia Mikulak

University of North Dakota, USA

In the fall of 2002 Ms. Mikulak received her Ph.D. in Cultural Anthropology from the University of New Mexico.  Her doctoral research began in Rio de Janeiro in 1994 and was supported by a Tinker Foundation grant, research grants from the Latin American Studies Institute, a Challenge Grant, The Frieda Butler Lectureship Award, and other grants from UNM, a grant from Sigma Xi, the Scientific Research Committee, and the Johann Jacobs Foundation Young Investigator Grant in Switzerland.  Doctoral fieldwork was carried out in Minas Gerais, Brazil with street and working children.  Additionally, Ms. Mikulak’s work also includes research and applied anthropology in domestic violence and violence against women.  Currently, Ms. Mikulak is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of North Dakota in Grand Forks, North Dakota.  Additionally, Ms. Mikulak is an accomplished musician, with undergraduate and graduate degrees from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music and Mills College in Oakland, California, respectively.  She has a number of solo piano recordings to her credit.

Contact Marcia Mikulak at: marcia.mikulak@und.nodak.edu