Marc Reyes Email & Phone Number

Decatur, Ga, Us

Atlanta, Georgia, United States

I recruit and work with students as they apply for a number of national scholarships and fellowships. Those awards might be for research, study abroad, cultural immersion, language training, leadership development, or funding for graduate studies. I also oversee the Honors College's internal awards process and advise students on local Atlanta awards and internships.

Atlanta, Georgia, United States

As a Coordinator in the Honors College's Office of Undergraduate Research and Fellowships, I manage and help award internal Honors College scholarships, and recruit and advise students on competitive external scholarships like Gilman, CLS, Boren, and Fulbright. In addition, I am part of the team overhauling and reinventing the Honors College's research methodology and best practices.

As part of the 2022 Fulbright Alumni Ambassador cohort, I discuss my 2018-2019 Fulbright experience, recruit U.S. students to apply for Fulbright, and offer guidance as students apply and later on, prepare to depart for their host country. I have participated in virtual events and spoken to students interested in language training, conducting research, cultural exchange, and people-to-people diplomacy.

I am one of the three editors and co-founders, along with my wonderful colleagues Erin Bartram and Bill Black, of Contingent Magazine, a history-focused publication aimed at a wider history audience. We publish all types of different histories for scholars inside and outside the academy. Our contributors are graduate students, postdocs, adjunct instructors, archivists, librarians, and independent scholars. Contingent operates based on three principles: 1.) History is for everyone 2.) Every way of doing history is worthwhile 3.) Historians should be paid for their work. So much academic writing is uncompensated and Contingent set out to change that model because writing is work. Contingent is member-supported, and we are not backed by a university or think tank or one large donor; thanks to hundreds of one-time and recurring donors, we have been in operation since 2019 and publish between 4-6 pieces a month. Besides my role as editor, I also serve on Contingent's board and am the Treasurer for the organization, handling month-end/year-end reports and paying contributors and editors.

I am currently working on my doctoral dissertation, a history of India's atomic energy and nuclear weapons programs. To accomplish this project, I have undertaken research in the US, Canada, the UK, Austria, and India. Message me to learn more about my research.

Storrs, Ct

Since 2017, I have worked as a graduate instructor in UConn's Digital Media & Design Department (DMD). I served as the instructor-of-record for DMD 3010W: Critical Perspectives on Digital Media. This DMD offering is a writing-intensive upper-level undergraduate seminar where students produce fifteen pages of original and revised work. During the semester, students review and debate a complex set of sources that examine identity, the attention economy, digital culture's impact on the natural world, and what it means to be human in the digital age. As the instructor, I moderated student discussions, reviewed student's weekly blog posts, and evaluated and offered audio and in-person feedback on the writing they produced during the semester. I also lectured on the writing process, revising your work, and finding a writing style based on popular writing guides.

Storrs, Ct

At UConn, I enjoy the opportunity to assist on upper level undergraduate classes. These seminars have examined topics as diverse as human rights in Latin America, the rise of nationalism in Southeast Asia, and the modern political and religious history of the Middle East. Assisting challenging classes like these offer me the chance to work closely with students and participate in the development of semester-long assignments such as lengthy research papers and oral history projects.

New Delhi Area, India

I am a 2018-2019 Fulbright-Nehru Fellow, supported by the United States Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs. My Fulbright experience will entail three months of Hindi language training plus nine months conducting research at the Nehru Memorial Museum and Library, The National Archives of India, the Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses, and the P.C. Joshi Archives on Contemporary History. I am affiliated with Jawaharlal Nehru University's Center for Canadian, US, and Latin American Studies, housed within JNU's School of International Studies. This fellowship ensures the timely completion of my dissertation, "In the Circle of Great Powers: India, the United States, and the Postcolonial Atomic State, 1947-1974."

Storrs, Ct

As a graduate student intern, I spent the summer processing the "Black Experience in the Arts" collection. The collection chronicled a University of Connecticut, School of Fine Arts course, lasting over twenty years, that highlighted the artistic contributions of African-American artists. The course consisted of visiting lecturers including acclaimed black musicians, poets, and actors. I was responsible for writing a finding aid of the collections's contents, posting regular contributions to the Archives' Blog, and cataloging the thousands of pages and hundreds of recordings compromising the collection. My final project involved developing a resource guide, on the Black Arts Movement, for the University of Connecticut Homer Babbidge Library.

Kansas City Research Center

As an intern at The State Historical Society of Missouri, I reorganized the archive's holdings of the J. C. Nichols Company scrapbooks. In all, there were fifty-eight scrapbooks describing the activities of and properties owned by the J. C. Nichols Company, covering the period, 1910-1997. Furthermore, I collected metadata on four hundred and thirty-six images in preparation for inclusion in the State Historical Society of Missouri’s online collections. In preparing the images for their digital debut, I contributed approximately five hundred terms to the research center’s name / subject authority file. I am happy to report that the images are now online and are of great use to scholars interested in the business and entrepreneur history of early Kansas City, Missouri. For more information about my internship experience, please follow the provided link.http://career.uconn.edu/blog/2016/03/10/marc-reyes-student-success-story/

Kansas City, Missouri

My time working at the University of Missouri-Kansas City was my first experience as an educator. It was here where I first learned what it takes to succeed as an instructor but also where I discovered how much I enjoy working with students and that teaching is one of the most rewarding professions imaginable. Selected as a teaching assistant for the university's history department, my responsibilities included attending course lectures and preparing substantive lesson plans every week for between 40 and 50 students. In addition to those duties, I also held regular office hours, offered writing workshops, and evaluated student exams and essays. One of the many highlights of this position included conducting weekly discussion sections. Over the course of a semester, students read a variety of primary source documents, covering more than a century of American history. A good instructor emphasizes more than summarizing what the document entailed; they push their students to analyze the thinking and motivations of the author, consider the intended audience the author was in conversation with, and ask whether the document speaks to any contemporary issues. I stress to my students that I strive to create an open and engaging space where they should feel free to offer opinions, ask questions, and contribute to complex conversations about historical events and actors. I want them to both do the work (reading/analyzing/contributing) but also learn from each other, as well as from me, and discover how history incorporates many different interpretations to produce greater knowledge about a person or event. When they realize that their voice is now part of the conversation too, it is more personal to them and makes the material more three-dimensional than just names and dates of people and events from long ago.

Kansas City, Missouri

I had the privilege of serving as the inaugural graduate research assistant for UMKC's Latino/Latina Studies program. Working under the supervision of Dr. Miguel Carranza, I collected and assembled the program's onsite research library and created a lengthy bibliography of humanities-oriented literature on Latin America. The bibliography provided me an avenue to see how other disciplines framed their investigations of issues important to people of Latin and Hispanic descent. In addition, I could compare the different types of questions posed by non-historians and how their findings are presented in a variety of data sets. A large component of my duties later included gathering information and making contacts with Kansas City-based mentoring programs geared toward Hispanic populations. Dr. Carranza's research examined the role of mentoring programs at a variety of developmental stages: pre-K, adolescence, teenage, college-bound, and 20+. I had two tasks here. Reach out as well as find mentoring programs that covered the desired age span. A hope of the project was to demonstrate that a Hispanic child could benefit from some type of mentoring program at every stage of their development. A strong mentorship program could play a role in giving them a boost early in their education, their transition from primary to secondary education, as they applied for college, and when they completed their higher education and embarked onto the job market. To learn more about these programs, I contacted the officials in charge, developed a questionnaire, and interviewed them so their testimony could be included in the program's library as well as Dr. Carranza's research. I enjoyed my time with the Latino/Latina Studies Program so much, as well as working on Professor Carranza's mentoring program project, that I stayed on for another year as the program's Research Advisor.

Doctor Of Philosophy (Ph.D.), History

Activities and Societies: History Graduate Student Association; Graduate Teaching Assistant; UConn Graduate School's Multicultural Scholar.

Master Of Arts (M.A.), History, Graduated With Completion Of Master'S Thesis.

Activities and Societies: Vice-President of UMKC's History Graduate Student Association; Graduate Teaching Assistant for Department.

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), History

At the University of Missouri-Columbia, I studied European religious history with an emphasis on the Holy Roman Empire and Martin Luther's.