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Education

  • * Doctoral Candidate, Critical Social/Personality Psychology, Graduate Center of the City University of New York.
  • Dissertation: “Protest, possibility, and peacebuilding: Learning from the World March for Peace and Nonviolence”  Advisor: Dr. Michelle Fine.
  • * M. Phil., Critical Social/Personality Psychology, Graduate Center of the City University of New York, 2011.
  • * M.A., Critical  Social/Personality Psychology, Graduate Center of the City University of New York, 2011.
  • Thesis: “In research of critical knowledge: Tracing inheritance in the landscape of incarceration.”
  • * B.A., Psychology and Neuroscience,  Magda Cum Laude. Macalester College, 2006.
  • Thesis: “Multiculturalism and Cultural Competence, Participatory Action Research, and Mentoring: A Road to Effective Cross-Cultural Alliances?”


Teaching

  • *  Teaching Fellow, Hunter College Department of Psychology. Courses: Personality Psychology, Introduction to Psychology.  New York, 2009-2011.
  • * Teaching Fellow, Lehman College Department of Psychology. Courses: Personality Psychology, Introduction to Psychology. New York, 2008-2009.
  • *  Instructor, English Alive ELL School, Courses: Intermediate Level, Adults and children.  Santiago de Chile, 2007.
  • *  Educator, Pangea World Theater Education and Outreach Program.  Minneapolis, 2006.
  • *  Teaching Assistant, Macalester College Psychology Department. Course: Brain, Mind and Behavior.  Saint Paul, 2004
  • *  Tutor, The English Learning Center. Minneapolis, 2002-2005.

 

Curriculum Design and Education

  • *  Writing Fellow, Writing in the Disciplines Program, Medgar Evers College, City University of New York, Fall 2011-Spring 2012
  • *  Facilitator,  Summer Institute for Critical Participatory Action Research and Design, Public Science Project, June 2011.
  • *  Curriculum Design, Pangea World Theater Education and Outreach Program, 2006.
  • *  Program Design Fellow, English Leaning Center Youth Mentoring Program, 2005.

 

Digital Media  

  • *  New Media Consultant, Inequalities Committee, Advanced Research Collaborative at the CUNY Graduate Center. New York, present.
  • *  Student Researcher, CUNY Graduate Center New Media Lab. New York, 2010-present

 

Research

  • *  Principal Investigator, 2009-present. ‘Memoscopio: Memories and imaginations of peace and nonviolence.’ Funding: Applied Social Issues Internship, Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues. 2009-present.
  • *  Co-researcher, ‘Experiences of student activism in CUNY.’ Funding: Public Science Project, CUNY Graduate Center.  Fall 2011-present.
  • *  Research Consultant, Summer Institute for Critical Participatory Action Research and Design, Public Science Project, present.
  • *  Research Associate & Youth Video Producer. ‘Rebuilding urban communities and families through higher education: The economic, educational and civic impact of post-prison college on adults and their children.’ Funding: Ford Foundation. 2009-2010
  • *  Research Assistant, ‘Polling for Health, Education and Justice Project.’ Funding: Public Science Project. 2008.
  • *  Research Consultant,  ‘Women in Poverty Project, ‘ New York Women’s Foundation and Women of Color Policy Network at the Wagner School of Public Service, New York University. February 2008.
  • *  Program Evaluation Intern, ‘Campaign for  Rural High School Retention,’ UNICEF, Santiago Office, 2001.

 

Publications

  • *  Muñoz Proto, C, & Opotow, S. (in press). Justice, Activity, and Narrative: Studying the World March for Peace and Nonviolence. In Psychology’s Contributions to the Study and Practice of Sustainable Peace, Deutsch M. & Coleman, P. (Eds.). New York, NY: Springer.
  • *  Muñoz Proto, C, Devoto Lyon, A., Villar Castillo, C. & Batisttella, M. (in press). Memoscopio: Producing usable and collectively owned knowledge about the World March for Peace and Nonviolence. Journal of Social Issues.
  • * Muñoz Proto, C. (in press). Nonviolence. In T. Theo (Ed.), The Encyclopedia of Critical Psychology). New York, NY: Springer
  • *  Muñoz Proto, C. (2012). In research of critical knowledge: Tracing inheritance in the landscape of incarceration. In Steinberg, S. and Canella, G. (Eds.). Critical Qualitative Research Reader (pp. 479-490).  Peter Lang New York.

 

Presentations 

  • * Zeller-Berkman, S.,  Muñoz Proto, C., & Matsuura, K. (2012, June) Between Dreams and Betrayals: Reflections on a participatory study of the Occupy/Decolonize CUNY movements. Interactive Discussion facilitated at the 9th Biennial Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues (SPSSI) Convention, Charlotte, NC.
  • * Muñoz Proto, C. (2012, May). New media, participatory action research, and the World March for Peace and Nonviolence. Paper presented at the International Congress for Qualitative Inquiry, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.
  • * Muñoz Proto, C. & Opotow, S.  (2012, April). Justice, activity and narrative: Studying the World March for Peace and Nonviolence. Paper presented at the IX Annual Social Theory Forum, University Of Massachusetts, Boston.
  • *  Muñoz Proto, C. (2011, June). New media and transnational research. Paper presented at the Public Science Project Summer Institute, CUNY Graduate Center.
  • *  Muñoz Proto, C. (2010, November).  I want to be like my father: A critical analysis of inherited criminality. Paper presented at the Annual Common Session of the Common Study Programme in Critical Criminology: A New Criminology for the 21st Century, New York, NY
  • *  Muñoz Proto, C. (2010, November). The use of New Media in the production of usable knowledge about global nonviolence activism. Paper presented at the Annual Conference of the CUNY Graduate Center Sociology Students Association, Technology as Method/Method as Technology, York, New York.
  • *  Muñoz Proto, C. (2010, October). The intergenerational meanings of post-prison college in light of challenge mass incarceration and educational dispossession. Paper presented at Making Opportunity Real: A Conference in Honor of Dr. Roscoe C. Brown Jr., The CUNY Graduate Center.
  • *  Devoto Lyon, A. & Muñoz Proto, C. (2010, October). Memoscopio: Reflections on an experimental project. Paper presented at  the 2nd International Symposium of the World Center for Humanist Studies: Foundations of a New Civilization, Punta de Vacas, Argentina.
  • *  Muñoz Proto, C. & Devoto Lyon, A. (2010, June). Memoscopio Project: Impact validity and the production of relevant knowledge about the World March for Peace and Nonviolence. Paper presented at the 8th Biennial Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues (SPSSI) Convention, New Orleans, LA.
  • *  Muñoz Proto, C.,Wren, A., Busha, D., and Wiertelak, E. (2006).  The Antinociceptive Effect of a Total Alkaloid Extract of Datura Innoxia (Solanaceae) on the Tail-Flick Pain Paradigm on Rats: A Dose Study. Poster session presented at the Annual Minnesota Undergraduate Psychology Conference, Saint Cloud, MN.

 

Honors, Fellowships, and Grants

  • * Inequality Matters Fellowship, Advanced Research Collaborative, Summer 2012.
  • * Young Researchers and Scholars Award, Peace Islands Institute New York,  2012.
  • *  Mellon Doctoral Globalization Fellowship,  Graduate Center Committee on Globalization and Social Change.  Program title: “Solidarities: Politics and Ethics in a Global Age,” 2011-2012.
  • *  Enhanced Chancellor’s Fellowship, Graduate Center of the City University of New York, 2007-2012.
  • *  Applied Social Issues Internship, Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues.  Project title: “Memoscopio,” 2009-2010.
  • *  Phillips Scholarship, The Stephen Phillips Memorial Scholarship Fund. Project title: “Mentoring Program for East African youth,” 2004-2006,
  • *  Kofi Anan Scholarship, Macalester College. Minneapolis, MN,  2002-2006.
  • *  Chilean Representative, Lester B. Pearson United World College of the Pacific, Victoria, BC, 2000-2002.

 

Professional Service and Affiliations

  • Student Representative, Executive Committee, Social/Personality Program, Graduate Center.
  • Member, Public Science Project at the Graduate Center, City University of New York.
  • Member, Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues.
  • Member, American Sociological Association.
  • Member, Latin American Studies Association.

 

Language

  • English fluency, Native Spanish speaker

 

IT

  • Microsoft Office, Personal Brain, Prezi, Omeka, Word Press, Final Cut Pro, PC and Macintosh.

 

 

 

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