Katie Bowden

Experience

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  Center for Faith and Inquiry | Gordon College

  Aug 2012 - May 2016

  • Performed administrative tasks such as managing calendars, creating recruiting materials, and publicizing events using social media• Served as an ambassador of the center by accommodating guest speakers with personal tours of the university campus and travel assistance • Fulfilled mentorship requirement and professional development training • Assisted in classroom preparation, held individual and group review sessions, and graded and edited student work• Managed other teaching assistants, organized departmental events, and assisted in recruitment of prospective students• Created and updated faculty research pages for the college website• Translated Syriac manuscripts and created catalogue descriptions using the Text Encoding Initiative XML standard • Two-semester great books program guides a cohort of fourteen students to cultivate a tradition-informed and morally reflective sense of personal vocation by reading and discussing classic texts. The program capstone is an Oxford-style public debate • Awarded to students with a cumulative GPA of 3.50 or higher who design their own unique academic program that compliments and extends existing programs• As a participant, I added Ancient Languages as a second major. The requirements were fulfilled with already offered courses in Latin, Greek, Syriac, and Linguistics as well as several independent studies and a Greek Mathematics graduate course through Harvard Extension

  • Apprentice

    Aug 2015 - May 2016

  • Department Head Teacher's Assistant

    Aug 2015 - May 2016

  • Jerusalem and Athens Forum Fellow

    Aug 2014 - May 2016

  • Kenneth L. Pike Honors Program

    Aug 2012 - May 2016
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  Patton Family Project

  Jan 2013 - May 2013

  Paid Archival Intern

  • Worked as an archivist in the family home of the World War II General George S. Patton• Employed by a family relation to catalogue and curate book collections• Utilized Past Perfect Software and other archival techniques to repair and preserve items of historical importance

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  Green Scholars Initiative

  May 2014 - Jun 2014

  LOGOS Fellow

  • Transcribed and translated portions of a Syriac codex as part of the Green Scholar’s Initiative project• Standardized findings within a technical framework by adapting research to TEI so it could be shared with a larger community of scholars • Attended a summer conference on Biblical texts and vocation for students working on Green Scholar Initiative manuscript translations

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  Gordon College | Literature and Linguistics Undergraduate Colloquium

  Mar 2015 - Mar 2015

  LLUC Presenter

  • Presented and defended a paper on Dante’s Divine Comedy

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  The Fulbright Program

  Aug 2016 - Apr 2017

  Student Researcher

  • Prepared for living in a foreign country by attending orientation in Washington, D.C and New Delhi hosted by The Institute of International Education and The United States – India Educational Foundation • Lived in a monastic community and took courses with Syriac speaking priests and monks at St. Ephrem’s Ecumenical Research Institute in Kottayam, Kerala• Recorded, translated, and analyzed hundreds of Syriac inscription in churches on the Malabar Coast • Presented and defended research to a students in Kerala and a research conference in Calcutta • Partnered with Vimalambika Senior Secondary School to teach English and American history and culture • Preformed Syriac and American music at Malayali events such as weddings, graduations, and holiday celebrations • Hosted American Thanksgiving and Christmas celebrations for Malayalam-speaking seminarians and visiting scholars Show less

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  Moelis & Company

  Jun 2017 - Aug 2017

  Administrative Assistant

  • Performed all aspects of administrative assistance for 18 bankers participating in the Summer Analyst Internship Program• Coordinated extensive international and domestic travel arrangements including detailed itineraries, flights, accommodations, dining, and ground transportation • Prepared and submitted expense reports through Concur: Business Travel and Expense Management Software• Scheduled and prepared conference rooms for client meetings and interviews

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  Cushman & Wakefield

  Aug 2017 - now

  Data Analyst

  • Manage large commercial real estate property portfolios, checking for legal conflicts and international properties, creating presentations and spreadsheets in Excel, and coordinating and tracking fee allocations• Act as liaison between appraisers and clients by inputting legal reports into the C&W internal database, preparing for bookings, and generating invoices• Prepare status reports of unpaid invoices and follow up with clients through the payment process• Elected by director to participate in the Building Blocks Program to further develop technical and professional skills Show less