Christopher Butler Email & Phone Number

Columbia, Md, Us

Washington D.C. Metro Area

• Work with senior consultants to identify and recruit candidates in higher-education executive job searches• Communicate with candidates, committees, and institutional stakeholders during searches• Perform background research on institutions and develop marketing materials and search committee documents during searches• Provide logistical support to and consult with search committees during recruiting, interviewing, referencing, and candidate selection

• Coordinate editorial and composition work on academic manuscripts by managing schedule, directing changes to page proofs, and tracking project budgets.• Act as point of contact for publishing client and authors. • Oversaw initial layout, copy editing, proofreading, and indexing on academic manuscripts• Supervised freelance copy editors, proofreaders, and indexers and ensured the quality and consistency of their work• Worked in collaboration with project managers, publisher representatives, and authors to determine proper stylistic guidelines for projects and ensure that these guidelines were consistently implemented• Maintained updated style guides for publishing clients• Worked with a variety of style guides, including Chicago, American Psychological Association, Hart’s New Rules, and Harvard styles• Edited manuscripts for academic press clients of Apex CoVantage

• Completed dissertation Laboring at Secrecy: Class, Indigeneity, and Charity in Oklahoma Freemasonry• Designed and implemented ethnographic fieldwork project in eastern Oklahoma that included participant-observation, formal and informal interviews, and extensive archival research• Transcribed and coded resulting interviews and field notes for qualitative analysis• Presented elements of project at American Anthropological Association and America Society for Ethnohistory annual meetings • Project analyzes role of Masonic fraternity in the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma from the mid-nineteenth century to the present

• Courses taught included Cultural Anthropology and Human Diversity, Indians of Wisconsin, and Introduction to Speech Communication• Planned and taught weekly discussion sections to supplement lecture• Assessed written student assignments and provided feedback • Collaborated with faculty and teaching assistants to ensure consistent educational experience• Worked with students to revise and formally present written work (Fall 2009)

• Assisted with background research for Great Lakes Indian Fish and Wildlife Commission (GLIFWC) twenty-fifth anniversary compilation• Transcribed interviews with GLIFWC-affiliated community members and facilitated related undergraduate research projects

• Courses taught included Cultural Anthropology and Human Diversity, General Anthropology, Methods of Social Inquiry, Indians of North America, and Introduction to Speech Communication• Planned and taught weekly discussion sections to supplement lecture• Assessed written student assignments and provided feedback • Collaborated with faculty and teaching assistants to ensure consistent educational experience• Worked with students to revise and formally present written work (Fall 2008)• Develop curriculum and assignments for sociological research methods course and oversee reader/grader as teaching assistant instructor (Spring 2008)

• Managed and performed curatorial duties for the archaeological and ethnographic collections of the UW Department of Anthropology – Madison

• Checked citations for a manuscript being prepared for publication

• Managed and performed curatorial duties for the archaeological and ethnographic collections of the UW Department of Anthropology – Madison

• Proofread all articles and checked page layout• Ensured all articles complied with Associated Press style guidelines

• Served on newspaper editorial board to assist with style guidelines• Organized a team of four other copy editors• Laid out pages in QuarkXPress

Morgantown, West Virginia

• Utilized primary and secondary sources to produce historical report on project areas in Wheeling, West Virginia, and Gorman, Maryland

Doctor Of Philosophy (Phd), Cultural Anthropology

Graduate Certificate, Cultural Resource Management

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), History/Sociology