Maria Feiler, MSc, RPA

Experience

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  River Bend Nature Center Inc

  Jun 2014 - Sept 2014

  Summer Camp Counselor

  Summer camp counselor and environmental educator. I organized games, taught skills like archery, survival, and canoeing, and provided assistance to other counselors in their activities.

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  Pick Staiger Concert Hall

  Sept 2014 - Sept 2015

  Technician

  Stage managing, recording, and doing PA for Northwestern performers and outside entities such as the Evanston Symphony Orchestra and Jump Rhythm Jazz Project.

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  The Prairie School

  Jun 2015 - Sept 2015

  Summer Camp Counselor

  Handled an emerging second grade class of about twenty, maintaining routine and providing guidance throughout the daily activities. This management occurred in the classroom as well as during field trips off campus and for after camp activities

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  Allada Lab

  Sept 2015 - Aug 2018

  Attended lab meetings and provided project updates by creating agendas and reports, supervised undergraduate conducting research to ensure task completion and lab productivity, and managed administrative responsibilities such as lab orders and expense reports, stocks, invoices, CO2 tanks, and work study hiring and training. Revitalized workspace atmosphere, employee scheduling, and task delegation processes; managed inventory; employee training sessions, schedules, and task delegation; and researcher/assistant relations Assisted research focused on circadian regulation of sleep behavior using the fruit fly Drosophila and provided a clean working space, prepared experimental equipment, and collaborated with researchers

  • Interim Laboratory Manager

    Apr 2018 - Aug 2018

  • Head Laboratory Aide

    Jun 2017 - Apr 2018

  • Laboratory Aide

    Sept 2015 - Jun 2017
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  The Prairie School

  Jun 2016 - Sept 2016

  Music and Movement Teacher

  Designed, prepared, and taught music, voice, and movement related activities for children aged three to fourteen years old

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  Northwestern University - Anthropology Department

  Jan 2017 - Jun 2017

  Undergraduate Research Aide

  Reviewed the current skeletal collections for accuracy; processed the skeletal collection curated from the Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL; augmented the curriculum for an intensive dry lab course in human osteology and assisted in choosing, organizing, and presenting testing material for the class

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  Northwestern University - Anthropology Department

  Sept 2017 - Apr 2018

  Intern

  Assessed, reorganized, and modified the storage system of the human skeletal remains; assisted in teaching an intensive dry lab course (between eight and ten students) in human osteology; studied forensic anthropological methods and built upon the work started as an undergraduate research aide

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  Cook County Medical Examiner

  Sept 2017 - Aug 2018

  Forensic Anthropology Assistant

  Worked under Dr. Erin Waxenbaum (Northwestern University) and Dr. Anne Grauer (Loyola University); applied current forensic anthropology standards to various legal cases from Chicago and the surrounding county; assessed biological profile, including age, sex, and pathological conditions, and taphonomic profile to aide forensic investigation

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  Leiden University

  Oct 2018 - Dec 2018

  Intern

  Worked within the Laboratory for Human Osteoarchaeology; performed age, sex, and pathological condition assessments on three adult skeletons and one subadult skeleton of varying preservation; completed standardized procedures for skeletal assessment, documented and photographed the remains

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  Leiden University

  May 2019 - Jul 2019

  Laboratory Assistant

  Worked within the Laboratory for Human Osteoarchaeology; updated lab database by consolidating physical osteological analysis reports into a digital format; assisted in organizing and presenting class materials for a BA level human osteology class; collected diaphyseal length and nutrient foramen location for 50 known subadult individuals; conducted full skeletal inventories, biological profiles, pathological condition assessments for approximately 150 individuals

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  American Museum of Natural History

  Apr 2020 - Jun 2021

  Research Intern

  Collecting and entering metadata and corrected information for museum specimensTidying data for public dispersal via online database

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  Wordvice Editing Service

  Dec 2020 - Jun 2023

  Freelance Editor

  Academic and dissertation editing services, specializing in anthropological works, admissions documents, and CVs

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  Research Foundation of The City University of New York

  Jun 2021 - Aug 2021

  Research Intern

  Under Dr. William Harcourt-Smith at CUNY's Lehman CollegeData management, processing and measurement of 3D scans of osteological elements

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  Stony Brook University

  Aug 2021 - now

  ANP 300: Regional Human AnatomyLab instructor, giving lectures, creating learning and testing materials to achieve a stated academic goal With the Percival Lab at Stony Brook University3DGM, data analysis with R, data management, manuscript preparation, lab management, undergraduate mentorship ANP 103: Archaeology for a Better World

  • Lab Instructor

    Jan 2023 - now

  • Graduate Research Assistant

    Jan 2022 - now

  • Teaching Assistant

    Aug 2021 - Jan 2022