Wendy L.

Branwell
303 Washington Ave, Manitou Springs, CO 80829. (719) 685-9123 Wbgrail@qwest.net

EDUCATION (1)

M.A., Anthropology, 2001 Multicultural Education Certification (TESOL), 2001

Wichita State University, Wichita, KS Wichita State University, KS
Concentration: linguistic anthropology

Doctoral Candidate, 1987-1988 B.S. Professional Writing, 1987

Rice University, Houston, TX, University of Houston, TX
Dept. of English, Doctoral Program Minor: Literature
Concentration: literary theory

Associates Degree, English, 1983

Houston Community College

SUMMARY OF THESIS (2)

Thesis Title: The Wind People: A Historical and Grammatical Introduction to The Extinct Kanza Indian
Language I constructed an introductory grammar in a teachable format of Kanza, an extinct Siouan dialect.
The grammar was presented to the Kaw Tribal Council in Kaw City, Oklahoma to be used in their
elementary school’s Kanza language revitalization program.

TEACHING EXPERIENCE (3)

Adjunct Faculty, Pikes Peak Community College, Department of Anthropology (2003-present)

Teach Cultural Anthropology, Biological Anthropology, Indians of North America

at five campuses

Adjunct Faculty, Pikes Peak Community College Military Program—Ft. Carson (2003-2005)

Taught Biological and Cultural Anthropology to soldiers pre- and post- deployment.

Adjunct Faculty, Pikes Peak Community College, Peterson Air Force Base ( 2003-2006)

Taught Biological Anthropology, Cultural Anthropology and English Composition to soldiers pre- and
post-deployment.

Adjunct Faculty, Pikes Peak Community College, English (2045-present)

Teach Composition I, Composition II, Introduction to Literature, Technical

Writing, Academic Achievement Strategies, Area Vocational Program AVP Sign Language Program
(Anthropology for Sign Language Majors) at five campuses.

Adjunct Faculty, Colorado Technical University, English (2008 to present)

Teach Developmental English, Composition I and Hybrid Online Composition I at two campuses

Adjunct Faculty, Colorado Medial College, English (2002-2003)

Taught Business English, Medical Spanish, GED

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Instructor, Kansas School for Effective Learning (KANSEL) (2000-2001)
Taught Beginning, Intermediate and Advanced ESL; taught Spanish for
Travelers; language skill assessment for incoming students

Graduate Assistant/Program Coordinator, International Conversational (2000-2001)

Partners Program, Department of Anthropology, Wichita State University

Assisted newly arrived international graduate students with remedial grammar

and cultural coping skills

Executive Director/Instructor, Hispanic Opportunity Center of Wichita, KS (1998-1999)

Directed Adult Education, Welfare-to-Work, Senior Volunteer Programs; taught

Beginning, Intermediate and Advanced ESL courses; provided translation
Services to Migratory Farmers Services Program and Immigration Department

Founder, Instructor, Lénguas Matérnas, Institúto de Inglés Cónversácionál (1989-1993)

y Técnico, San José, Costa Rica

School founder, owner; ESL instructor; supervisor, trainer, staff of nine. Performed English/Spanish
translations for businesses such as ad agencies and grocery stores

Instructor, Inglés USA, San José, Costa Ríca (1989)

Managed school; taught all levels of ESL

Instructor, The English School, Houston, Texas (1986-1987)

Taught advanced ESL, U.S. History for U.S. Department of Immigration Amnesty Program

Instructor, YMCA International Refugees Service Office, Houston, Texas (1985-1988)

Taught all levels of ESL, U.S. History, Citizenship, Cultural Coping Skills for
U.S. Department of Immigration Amnesty Program; provided language assessment and testing

RELEVANT EXPERIENCE (4)

Journalist, Costa Rica Today, San José, Costa Rica, Central América, February 1990--October 1994. Full-
time staff writer specializing in Costa Rican culture, environmental policy, and Amerindian issues.

Technical Writer, Ridgeway’s Computer Graphics, Houston, Texas, January 1986—November 1986.
Wrote proposals, responses to RFPs, user manuals for translation software; designed and wrote magazine
advertisements.

Founding Editor, University of Houston Literary Magazine, The Bayou Review, 1986. Featured in
Houston Chronicle newspaper and Houston Pride Magazine; acquired funding, printed and distributed the
university’s first literary magazine. $2500.00

AWARDS (5)

*Presidential Award for Commitment to Education, Leadership and Excellence, Pikes Peak Community
College, 2009-2010

* Charles William Merton Hart Student Traveling Award, Wichita State University, 2001.
Awarded to one anthropology department graduate student annually to fund traveling for thesis research.

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Based on academic excellence and economic need. $150.00

* Nancy J. Berner Graduate Student Research Fund Award, Dept. of Anthropology, Wichita State
University, 2000. Awarded to one anthropology department graduate student annually to fund thesis
research. Based on academic excellence and thesis research potential. $350.00

* Delano Maggard Jr. Graduate Research Scholarship, Wichita State University, 200.1
Awarded to seven graduate students per year on the basis of academic excellence and potential for
outstanding research success. $500.00.

* Lambda Alpha, National Anthropology Honor Society, 1999.

Awarded to anthropology students nationwide who maintain high grade point averages.

* Fellowship, Department of English, Rice University, 1987.

Awarded Ph.D. studies fellowship of $10,000

* Senior and Alumni Recognition Award, University of Houston, 1987.

Two awarded annually for academic excellence and potential for community
achievement.

* Who's Who in American Colleges and Universities, University of Houston, 1985.

* W.I. Dykes Academic Scholarship, University of Houston, 1985.

One of two awarded campus-wide for academic excellence. $1,000.

TECHNOLOGY (6)

Desire 2 Learn, Banner, Blackboard, Windows XP, Microsoft, PowerPoint, Excel, office machinery

CITATIONS OF MY WORK (7)

2009 Branwell, Wendy. “Special Edition: As Snapshot of Instructor Compensation in Colorado Higher
Education,” Pikes Peak AAUP Faculty Matters, 3.1, February 23, 2009, unpublished electronic newsletter,
http://intranet.ppcc.edu/larry.giddings.ppcc.edu.

2002 Schmidt, Wendy. “Guanacaste’s Cowboy Culture Preserved,” La Nacion,

www.nacion.com/zurqui/pruebas/hoveno 2002. Accessed April, 12, 2009.

1994 Schmidt, Wendy. “The Guatuso Culture.” Moon Handbooks: Costa Rica. Ed. Christopher P. Baker.
4th ed. Avalon Travel Publishing: Emeryville, 2001.

1993 Schmidt, Wendy. "Local guide narrowly escapes eruption of Volcan Arenal."
Learning English: A Course for Costa Rican Students. 2nd ed. McGraw-Hill InterAmericana: Columbia,
1993.

1992 Schmidt, Wendy. “The Ticos.” The Ticos: Culture and Social Change in Costa Rica, Mavis Hiltunen
Biesanz et al. Lynne Rienner Publishers: Boulder,1999.

PAPERS PRESENTED AT CONFERENCES (8)

2001 A Wierzbickan Treatment of Human Emotion Words in the Dhegihan Languages:

Some Preliminary Considerations. Paper presented at the 21st Siouan and Caddoan Languages
Conference. The Chicago Linguistic Society and The Native American Student Association.
University of Chicago.

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2001 Paleolinguistics: The Big Picture. Lambda Alpha Second Annual Conference, Wichita State
University, Wichita, Kansas.

2000 Acculturation: Anger, Anomie and Language. Colloquium on New Research, Wichita State
University, Kansas.

CONFERENCES FACILITATED (9)

2001, “Lexical Borrowings in Siouan Languages: Implications for Chronology and Archaeology,” by Dr.
Robert Rankin, Professor of Linguistics, University of Kansas, April 5, 2001, for the Department of
Anthropology, Wichita State University, KS.

PROFESSIONAL CONTRIBUTIONS (10)

* Faculty Senate, Adjunct Representative, Pikes Peak Community College, June 2008 to present
* Faculty Senate Salary and Budget Subcommittee, Pikes Peak Community College, July
2008 to present
*Co-founder, Pikes Peak Adjunct Association, 2008 to present
*COAT Reading Assessment Committee, Pikes Peak Community College, CO, March 2008-
2009

PROFESSIONAL AND ACADEMIC AFFILIATIONS (11)

Society for Technical Communication (STC), 1985-1987

Phi Kappa Phi, 1985-1987
American Anthropological Association (AAA), 1998- present
Lambda Alpha, 1998-2001
Society for Linguistic Anthropology (SLA), 1999-2007
Society for Anthropology in Community Colleges (SACC), 2002-2006

TRAVEL/LIVING ABROAD (12) LANGUAGES (13)

England, 1994-1997 Spanish, low-advanced fluency

Galápagos Islands, Ecuador, 1994-1995 Coursework in French, Arabic
Panamá, 1994
Central America1988-1994
U.S.S.R/West Asia 1983-1985
East Asia/Europe 1979-1981
Mexico, 1977-1979

COMMUNITY SERVICE (14)

Instructor, 2005
Parks and Recreation Leisure Learning Program, Woodland Park, CO
Taught Intermediate Spanish; offered courses in Anthropology, Introductory Spanish, ESL

TAP After-School Instructor, 2003-2004

Ute Pass Elementary, Green Mountain Falls, CO
Taught introductory Anthropology to students from third to fifth grade; taught introductory Spanish to
students from kindergarten to fifth grade

Advisory Board Member, The Salvation Army Nicaraguan Tsunami Relief Board, San José, Costa Rica,
Central America, 1993; assisted in coordination of tents, food and medicines acquisition

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REFERENCES (15)
The following persons have either written letters of recommendation on my behalf, or are
available as a reference:

Dr. Dorothy Billings

Department of Anthropology Janele Johnson, Dept. of English
Wichita State University, Wichita, KS Pikes Peak Community College
(316) 684-1469 5675 S. Academy Blvd
Colorado Springs, CO 80906
Dr. Tina Bennett-Kastor (719) 502-3000
Department of English
Wichita State University, Wichita, KS
(316) 686-7687
Ron Shields, Program Manager, Military
Program Pikes Peak Community College
Ronda Burkhart, Dept. of Anthropology Peterson AFB/USAFA Office
Pikes Peak Community College Bldg 1141, Ste 112
5675 S. Academy Blvd, CC17 Peterson AFB, CO 80914
Colorado Springs, CO 80906 (719) 574-1169
(719) 310-7222

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