Araceli Alonso 5002 Odana Rd. Madison, WI 53711, USA (608) 274-0656 aalonso@wisc.edu aalonso@weinterantional.

org EDUCATION Undergraduate and Graduate Degrees Ph.D., Cultural Anthropology. University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA 2002. M.A., Cultural Anthropology. University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA, 1997 M.S., Social Anthropology. Minnesota State University, USA, 1993. B.A., Bachelors Degree in Philosophy and Letters, Major in History, University of Madrid-Spain, 1989. R.N., Register Nurse, Ministry of Education and Science, Spain, 1980. Other Related Training Education Womens Commission for Refugee Women and Children. Certificate Minimum Initial Service Package for Reproductive Health (MISP), 2007. United Kingdom Department for International Development and the Canadian Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade Training. Course on Gender and Peacekeeping, 2006. UNHCR, United Nations Suremian Endeavor Training. International Studies University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2005. WORK EXPERIENCE (2006-2008) Consultant WE International Inc./ Save Somalia Women and Children (SSWC) Head of Reproductive Health Project for Somali women living in Kenya (2007-2008). Developed a project that includes the production of a 20-minute documentary DVD on FGM/C among the Somali population of North Eastern Kenya. Wisconsin Womens Rights/Prostitution Project (2007-2008). Advocacy for womens rights. In conjunction with a group of professionals, I research and develop theories to implement health programs and safety nets for street prostitutes of Wisconsin. Redfem-Cuba. Developed workshops on womens leadership, prostitution, and sex trafficking in Havana (2007-2008). (1991-2008) University Teaching Professional Womens Leadership Matrix, UW-Madison (2007-2008). Associate Faculty, Lecturer Anthropology of Women, Womens Health and Reproductive Health Cross-culturally; Social Justice and Womens Human Rights, Gender and Politics; Sex Trafficking. Womens Studies Department, Anthropology Department, Political Science Department, UW-Madison, (1994-2007).

Associate Faculty, Instructor of Medical Spanish, School of Medicine and Public Health UW-Madison (1997-2008). Lecturer Cultural Anthropology, Anthropology Department, University of Minnesota, USA (1991-1993). INTERNATIONAL WORK EXPERIENCE (1998-1999) Havana, Cuba Project researcher for health status of elderly Cuban women during the Special Period in Time of Peace, after the collapse of the Soviet Union and the Communist European Eastern Bloc (1995-1996). Project researcher on Gender, Health, and Politics before and after the Revolution of 1959 (1998-1999). Film co-producer ICAIC Instituto de Cultura, Arte e Industria de Cuba, Cuban Film and Art Industries Institute of Cuba, (1998-1999). (1980-1991) Madrid, Spain Register Nurse at Our Lady of Carmen Military Hospital, Madrid. Pediatrics and General Medicine (1980-1991). RESEARCH EXPERIENCE Womens Reproductive Health Cross-culturally 1994-2007 Womens Reproductive Health, FGM/C in Africa (Somalia and Kenya) 2005-2008 Gender, Sex Work, and Sex Trafficking (local, national, transnational), 2006-08 Gender and Leadership in a Global Context, 2004-2007 Prostitution and Womens Health, Cuba 1998-2006 Women and Politics, Cuba 1998-99 PUBLICATIONS In Havana Yesterday Came Suddenly. (2008) Under review for publication. De vctima a culpable: discursos de victimizacin en el trabajo sexual femenino en Cuba (From Victim to Criminal: Discourses of Victimization in the Female Sex Work in Cuba). MUGAK Centro de Estudios y Documentacin sobre Racismo y Xenophobia, n. 43, June 2008, Spain. Once Upon a Revolution: Women Coming to Age and Growing Older in Castros Cuba. Doctoral dissertation, 2002. Cuba: The Search for Womens Rights in Private and Public Life. in Womens Rights: A Global View. Lynn Walter (ed.). Westport, CT: Greenwood Publishing Group Inc. October 2000. Condicin de gnero y raza a travs de la oralidad: un acercamiento antroplogico 2

Reyita sencillamente (Gender and Race Revisited Through Oral Narrative: An Anthropological Approach of Reyita Sencillamente) in Casa. La Habana: Casa de Las Amricas, August 2000. COMPUTER SKILLS Microsoft Word, Power Point, Front Page, Excel, Spreadsheet, Databases. LANGUAGES Bilingual English/Spanish; French intermediate; Italian and Portuguese reading proficiency; elementary Chinese. COMITTEES, BOARDS, AND AFFILIATIONS Community Advisory Board Planned Parenthood for Reproductive Health among Latino Populations of Wisconsin (2007-2008) Wisconsin Committee on Human Trafficking (2007-2008) Womens Studies and Gender Studies, UW-Madison (1994-2008) Center for Global Health, MSPH UW-Madison (2007-2008)