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Nancy Andes, Professor of Sociology, has headed up UAA’s Center for Community Engagement & Learning since its founding in 2000. As Director, Professor Andes has had a role in the development of community-based learning and research as well as in the building of UAA as an engaged university. She secured a Learn & Serve Higher Education grant from the Corporation for National and Community Service, establishing start-up funds for university-community projects and partnerships.
Professor Andes entered the service of the University in 1991 after serving as a Fulbright Scholar to Peru. Her research focused on community characteristics important for infant mortality. In her publications, articles, and lectures, Professor Andes has discussed topics such as participatory action research, social organization and change, statistical computing, institutional determinants of mortality, and evaluation of community health programs.
Phone:907-786-4063
E-mail: afna@uaa.alaska.edu
Post Doctoral Faculty Member
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Annalisa Raymer, was born in Louisville and hails from Berea, Kentucky. In 2007 she was quite delighted to finish a doctorate at Cornell University with a concentration in Planning and Program Evaluation (Department of Policy Analysis and Management, College of Human Ecology), along with minors in Development Sociology, Anthropology, and Adult and Extension Education. Her dissertation, a design-based participatory action research study under the direction of Davydd Greenwood, was titled: Democratic Places Through Democratic Means: Participatory Evaluative Action Research for Habits and Habitats Where Democracy Matters.
Annalisa also holds from Cornell a MPS degree in Community and Rural Development. A member of the first cadre when the program launched in 1997, her thesis project was under the direction of Thomas Lyson, and compared concepts of place as held by community practitioners. Preceding her studies in New York, Annalisa completed a MLIS in Library and Information Science at the University of Kentucky. Her post-secondary studies began at Berea College, a labor college, where she completed a BA in English and learned on the job as a radio station manager, theater sound designer, lapidarian, visuals production leader, voice narrator and art model. Not actually in school her entire life, Annalisa’s work focuses on civic engage, public realm, and community development. She came to UAA in Fall of 2007.
Phone: 907-786-4011
E-mail: afalr@uaa.alaska.edu
Project Coordinator/Bonner Leaders Program Coordinator
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Kim Miller, is excited to be taking on a new role at the University of Alaska Anchorage having worked previously as a Residence Coordinator in the Department of Residence Life at UAA. Kim holds a bachelor's degree in Philosophy and minors in creative writing, women's studies and music from Mansfield University in Pennsylvania and received her Master's Degree in Higher Education and Student Development from the University of Maine in 2002. In addition to a passion for community engagement and learning, Kim is a lover of dogs, books, her guitar and the outdoors.
Phone: 907-786-4087
E-mail: ankm2@uaa.alaska.edu
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