Sylvia R•••

About

On the record

I completed my Master's thesis, Seen Not Heard: African Students in East German Newspapers, 1960-1980, in late 2022, which examines the ways in which students from Africa were depicted by GDR news media during the highpoint of socialist internationalist solidarity. I spoke about my findings at the "Europe: Consider it all!" at UNC Chapel Hill and sent a presentation to "The Global GDR: A Transcultural History of Art, 1949-1990," at the Technische Universitat in Dresden, Germany (I could not attend in person due to surgery). I completed my Master's in Global History at Freie and Humboldt universities in Berlin, Germany, with DAAD funding. I wrote research papers about the role of Afro-German women in the Afro-German movement, Italian Americans' relationship with Mussolini's regime prior to and during World War II, the 1918-1919 influenza pandemic, and a literature review on Algerian war scholarship. My Bachelor's of Arts is from UNC Chapel Hill in Political Science and Contemporary European Studies. I graduated in May 2018 with Highest Distinction. As an undergraduate, I studied abroad four times, worked at two University area studies' centers, interned with different organizations, and worked as an Undergraduate Learning Assistant. My past employment has primarily dealt with public outreach, education, and website maintenance/development. I taught ESL in a rural town in eastern Hungary between my degree programs and worked with and for a former professor on a study abroad summer seminar program in international conflict resolution. I seek a position with a think tank, governmental, or non-governmental organization concerned with international politics and/or international education.