Anu M - Union Institute & University



Anu M. Mitra

8240 Brill Road

Cincinnati, Ohio 45243

513.658.4706

Anu.Mitra@myunion.edu

Anu.Mitra.10@

EDUCATION:

1981-86: Ph.D. in English Literature and Women’s Studies, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York

Dissertation: “Images of the Self: Autobiographies of Seventeen Century Women Writers”

1980-81: Master’s in English Literature, University of Rochester,

Rochester, New York

1975-79: Bachelor’s with Honors in English Literature, Loreto

College, Calcutta, India. Minor in Economics

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CONTINUING EDUCATION:

Muktabodha: a joint research project among Oxford University Press, the Government of India, and the SYDA Foundation, outreach volunteer, 2015-present.

Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, Ohio, 2001- present, docent.

Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, Ohio, 2001- present, docent.

21C Museum Hotel, Cincinnati, Ohio, 2012-present, docent.

University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio, 1987: technical writing courses

British Museum, London, England, 1982; research intern

Indo-American Society, Calcutta, India, 1979: diploma in Creative Writing and Journalism

AREAS OF SCHOLARSHIP:

Arts-based Learning in Organizations; Design Thinking; Visual Culture; Art History and Interpretation; Museum Studies; Social Justice Theory and Practice.

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WORK EXPERIENCE:

Academic Experience

2006-Present: Union Institute & University, Cincinnati, Ohio

Faculty in the Ph.D. Program in Interdisciplinary Studies: Teaching courses in visual culture, art and social justice, museum studies, social justice theory, design thinking, critical thinking and writing, multicultural literature; created and facilitate the Museum Studies and Design Thinking Advanced Certificates for graduate students.

2002-2005: Empire State College, SUNY’s Center for Distance Learning, NY

Adjunct Faculty Member: Conducted graduate-level seminars on multicultural fiction in the U.S. and the autobiographical “I.”

1998-2000: Sichuan University, Chengdu, China

Visiting Professor: Taught graduate students multicultural literature and theory; ideas of god; the role of the media in modern China.

1992-98: Antioch University, Yellow Springs, Ohio

Adjunct Faculty Member: Directed Master’s-level work in interdisciplinary studies; American literature; feminist literary criticism; creative writing.

1984: Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut

Instructor: Taught undergraduate courses on composition.

1981-82: University of Rochester, Rochester, New York

Instructor: Taught expository writing and composition at the undergraduate level.

Administrative Experience

2000-2002: Asian Community Alliance at the YWCA of Greater Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio

Founder and Advisory Board Member: Completed needs assessment and feasibility study leading to the establishment of Asian Community Alliance--a comprehensive program providing culturally sensitive social and education services to the Asian population in Greater Cincinnati that currently serves 25,000 individuals.

1998-2000: All China Women’s Federation, Guangzhou, China; Intern: Developed grassroots programs in women’s empowerment issues, including suicide prevention.

1997-98: Union Institute & University, Cincinnati, Ohio

Assistant Vice President of Institutional Advancement and University Editor: Strategic planning in overall image development including editorial identity, community outreach programs, fund development, marketing and advertising to support the mission of the University as cutting-edge in higher education for adult learners

1992-96: Union Institute & University, Cincinnati, Ohio

Director of University Communications and University Editor

1989-92: Union Institute & University, Cincinnati, Ohio

Director of Publications

1988-89: Union Institute & University, Cincinnati, Ohio

Editorial Writer

1986-88: South-Western Publishing Company, Cincinnati, Ohio

Associate Editor: Edited textbooks on international economics and business communication

1982: University of Rochester, Rochester, New York

Intern, Rare Books Department: Edited manuscripts, researched, and wrote for the Directory of American Publishing Houses, ed. Peter Dzwonkoski.

PUBLICATIONS:

Named series editor for Arts, Creativities, and Learning Environments in Global Perspectives, Brill Publishers, Netherlands, 2018-current.

Peer Reviewer, Organizational Aesthetics, 2014-current.

“Artist as Activist in Select Works by Swoon and Tomas Saraceno,” in A Grassroots Leadership & Arts for Social Change Primer for Educators, Organizers, Activists & Rabble-Rousers, ed. Susan J. Ehrenrich and Debra DeRuyver, International Leadership Association, 2021. 

“Artist as Activist in Select Works by Swoon and Tomas Saraceno,” The Grassroots Leadership & the Arts for Social Change Corner, ILA Intersections, February 20, 2019.

“Renaissance Painting,” under consideration in Arts and Humanities Leadership: A Reference Guide, ed. Kristin M. S. Bezio, Mission Bell Media, 2018.

“Innovating Social Change through Grass-roots Leadership Practices in the Arts,” in Grassroots Leadership & The Arts for Social Change, Building Leadership Bridges series, International Leadership Association, 2017.

“Understanding Leadership: An arts and humanities perspective--an interview with Rob McManus and Gama Perucci,” International Leadership Association Connector, August, 2015.

“Participatory Action Research and Social Justice: issues of moral relevance in life and art,” in Proceedings of the Seventh International Art of Management and Organizations Conference, Copenhagen Business School, Copenhagen, Denmark, August 28-31, 2014.

Review Board, Leadership and the Humanities, 2013.

“Learning How to Look: the art of observation and leadership development.” In Leadership Studies: The Dialogue of Disciplines, ed. Michael Harvey and Ronald Riggio, Edward Elgar Press: Cheltenham, UK, 2011.

“Technology and Education,” Leadership Cincinnati Alumni Newsletter, Cincinnati, Fall 2011.

“Learning How to Look: Developing Leadership Through Intentional Observation,” CEIBS Business Review, Beijing, June 2011.

“Learning How to Look: Developing Leadership Through Intentional Observation,” Journal of Business Strategy, Vol. 31, No. 4, July/August 2010.

Peer Reviewer of conference proposals, International Leadership Association conference, 2009-11.

“A Place Called Home,” Cincinnati Magazine, August, 1999.

An essay on Roshni Rustomji-Kerns in Distinguished Asian Americans: A Biographical Dictionary, ed. Robert Hyung-Chan Kim, Greenwood Press: Connecticut, 1998.

“Positive Peace Education: From Philosophy to Curriculum,” in Exploring Self Science Through Peace Education, ed. Rose Duhon-Sells, Edwin Mellen Press: New York, 1997.

“Spelling Bee,” introductory essay in Contours of the Heart: South Asians Map North America, “ ed. Sunaina Moira, Asian American Writer’s Workshop: Boston, 1997. Winner of the 1997 Before Columbus Foundation Award.

“Romantic Stereotypes,” in Contours of the Heart: South Asians Map North America, ed. Sunaina Moira, Asian American Writer’s Workshop: Boston, 1997. Winner of the 1997 Before Columbus Foundation Award.

“South Asian Literature,” in Issues and Identities in Literature, Salem Press: California, 1996.

“Gratitude,” Hinduism Today, 18.7, July 1996.

“Gratitude,” Nileshwari, SYDA Foundation, Mumbai, India, 1996.

“Time,” Nileshwari, SYDA Foundation, Mumbai, India, 1996.

Three essays in the Journal of South Asian Literature, vol. 30, nos. 1-2, 1995.

“An Awakening,” in Our Feet Walk the Sky, ed. the University of California, Berkeley’s Women of South Asian Descent Collective, Aunt Lute Press: San Francisco, 1993.

Six entries in the Directory of American Publishing Houses, ed. Peter Dzwonkoski, 1982.

Numerous articles in Union Institute publications which have been reprinted in national publications such as the National Black Review, El Mundo Latino, the Journal of the National Association of College Services, etc. Highlights include interviews with Clarissa Pinkola Estes, historian Daniel J. Ransohoff, and philanthropist Frederick Hauck.

PROFESSIONAL HONORS AND AWARDS:

Fulbright Specialist’s Award, US Department of State, 2019-2022.

Judge, Indian Film Festival, Cincinnati, Ohio, 2020.

Interviewed in AEQAI magazine, an international journal on art and museum studies, May 2020.

Gopman Award for Excellence in Research, Union Institute & University, 2019.

Greater Cincinnati Consortium of Colleges’ Teacher of the Year Award, November, 2011; 2018.

Certificate of Distinction for Excellence in Scholarship, Union Institute & University, 2015.

Interviewed by the Cincinnati Enquirer, May 30, 2010, for an article on artist Shephard Fairey.

The Priyam Award from Peace Trust International, Tirunelvelli, India, for fund-raising for AIDS affected and infected children in India, 2006.

Appointed a Kentucky Colonel by the Governor of Kentucky, Paul E. Patton, for contributions toward the quality of life in Cincinnati-Northern Kentucky, March 8, 2003.

Who’s Who of American Women, 1999.

Leadership Cincinnati, Class XXI, 1997-98.

Gem Award, Association for Women in Communications, 1998.

World’s Who’s Who of Women, 1998 edition.

Before Columbus Foundation Award for essays in the book, Contours of the Heart: South Asians Map North America,” ed. Sunaina Moira, Asian American Writer’s Workshop: Boston, 1997.

Outstanding Young Women of America, 1997

Who’s Who of International Women, 1995, 1996, 1997 editions

Chair of the Golden Galaxy Awards, a program of the Youth Collaborative and the Cincinnati Enquirer, 1996, 1997

Network Magazine Writing Award, International Association of Business Communications (IABC), 1997

Network Magazine Writing Award, Public Relations Society of America, 1997

Writing Award for interview with Grace Mitchell, IABC, 1996.

Writing Award for interview with Eleanor Smith, Cincinnati Editor’s Association (CEA), 1995.

Writing Award for interview with Clarissa Pinkola Estes, CEA, 1994

Most Valuable Employee of the Year, The Union Institute, 1991.

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RECENT PRESENTATIONS:

Stream Facilitator, Courageous Activism, Tenth International Art of Management and Organizations Conference, Liverpool, England, August 20-23, 2020 (moved to 2021 because of COVID).

“Ideas of Self: Visual Culture and South Asian identity in Trinidad & Tobago, Guyana, and Suriname,” World Indian Diaspora Conference 2020 , Post Indentureship Movements and Trends, originally scheduled for May 29 - June 1, 2020, in Trinidad, but moved to a virtual format August 21-23, 2020. The conference is organized by the National Council of Indian Culture in collaboration with The University of the West Indies and the Indentured Labour Route Project.

“The Social Activism of Jacob Lawrence,” a web video on CAM Connect, the Facebook presence of the Cincinnati Art Museum, August 5, 2020.

“Art Based in Activism: the work of 20th and 21st century African American artists, Summer Teacher Institute, Cincinnati Art Museum, July 14, 2020.

“Artistic practices in the age of COVID-19,” in an international virtual conference on Being and Becoming, June 9, 2020.

Invited panelist, International Leadership Association annual conference, West Palm Beach, FL, October 24-27, 2018, on the work of artists-as-leaders within the framework of collaborative and horizontal leadership.

Paper presenter, “Performativity as social action in the works of Gillian Wearing, Swoon and Tomas Saraceno,” Ninth International Art of Management and Organizations Conference, University of Brighton, Brighton, England, August 29-September 2, 2018,

Paper Presenter, “Innovating Social Change through Grass-roots Leadership Practices in the Arts,” Eighth International Art of Management and Organizations Conference, IEDC-Bled School of Management, Bled, Slovenia, September 1-4, 2016.

Workshop Presenter, Institute for Learning in Retirement of the University of Cincinnati, “Jochen Lempert: Field Guide,” October 2015.

Workshop Presenter, Institute for Learning in Retirement of the University of Cincinnati, “Sublime Beauty: the Portraits of Raphael,” September 28, 2015.

Presenter, "Arts-Based Methods in Management Education", Academy of Management Conference, August 7-11, 2015, Vancouver, BC, Canada.

Workshop Presenter, Institute for Learning in Retirement of the University of Cincinnati, “From Rubens to Ruisdael,” May-June 2015.

Docent-to-Docent Presenter, “Radical Woman: the Art of Louise Nevelson,” Cincinnati Art Museum, April 8 and 18, 2015.

Stream Organizer, Seventh International Art of Management and Organizations Conference, Copenhagen Business School, Copenhagen, Denmark, August 28-31, 2014.

Workshop Presenter, “Contemporary Indian Artists: Atul Dodiya and Hema Upadhyaya,” Contemporary Art Center, February, 2013.

Workshop Presenter, Institute for Learning in Retirement of the University of Cincinnati, “James Welling,” February, 2013.

Workshop Presenter, Institute for Learning in Retirement of the University of Cincinnati, “Claude Monet,” September, 2012.

Workshop Presenter, Institute for Learning in Retirement of the University of Cincinnati, “Nick Cave: Meet Me at the Center of the Earth,” July, 2012.

Presenter, Sixth International Art of Leadership Conference, September 5-9, 2012, York, England.

Workshop Presenter, “Green Acres: Artists Farming Fields,” Contemporary Art Center, September, 2012.

Workshop Presenter, “Spectacle: the History of Video,” Contemporary Art Center, July, 2012.

Presenter, Executive Program in Arts-Based Leadership, Clark University, Worcester, MA, October 2011.

Presenter, The Art of Science Learning Conference held at the Smithsonian Museum, Washington, 2011.

Presenter, Ohio Association of Gifted Children, February 2010.

Panelist, Women’s Empowerment in Asia, AID (All India Development Association), University of Cincinnati School of Business, Cincinnati, Ohio, January 30, 2010.

Workshop Presenter, Institute for Learning in Retirement of the University of Cincinnati, “Roaring Tigers, Leaping Carp: Decoding the Symbolic Language of Chinese Animal Painting,” September, 2009.

Workshop Presenter, Institute for Learning in Retirement of the University of Cincinnati, “Imperishable Beauty: Art Nouveau Jewelry,” August, 2009.

Docent-to-Docent Presenter, Cincinnati Art Museum, “Hindu Aesthetics and Indian Art,” May 7-9, 2009.

Pre-Conference Presenter, “Learning How to Look: The Art of Observation and Leadership Development,” International Leadership Conference, held at the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA, November 12, 2008.

Conference Presenter, “Learning How to Look: Leadership Models in Education, Business, and the Visual Arts,” International Leadership Conference, Los Angeles, CA, November 14, 2008.

Workshop Presenter, Institute for Learning in Retirement of the University of Cincinnati, “China Design Now,” October 25, 2008.

Workshop Presenter, Duveneck Society of the Cincinnati Art Museum, “Surrealism and Beyond: In the Israel Museum, Jerusalem,” March 2, 2008.

Workshop Presenter, Institute for Learning in Retirement of the University of Cincinnati, “Masterpiece Quilts from the Shelburne Museum,” February 20, 2008.

Conference presenter, “Learning How to Look: the Art of Observation and Leadership Development,” International Leadership Conference, Vancouver, British Columbia, November 2, 2007.

Workshop Presenter, Institute for Learning in Retirement of the University of Cincinnati, “Andrew Wyeth Watercolors and Drawings,” March 2, 2007.

Workshop Presenter, Institute for Learning in Retirement of the University of Cincinnati, “African Art, African Voices: Long Steps Never Broke a Back,” November 1, 2005.

Workshop Presenter, Institute for Learning in Retirement of the University of Cincinnati, “Strokes of Genius: Masterworks of the New Britain Museum of American Art,” May 10, 2005.

Workshop Presenter, Institute for Learning in Retirement of the University of Cincinnati, “Petra: Lost City of Stone,” October 14, 2004.

Workshop Presenter, Institute for Learning in Retirement of the University of Cincinnati, “Coming of Age in Ancient Greece: Images of Childhood from the Classical Past,” June 1, 2004.

Workshop Presenter, Institute for Learning in Retirement of the University of Cincinnati, “African American Masters: Highlights from the Smithsonian American Art Museum,” February 7, 2004.

Workshop Presenter, Institute for Learning in Retirement of the University of Cincinnati, “Native American Art from the Peabody Essex Museum,” January 4, 2003.

Keynote Speaker at a day-long workshop, “Effective Advocacy for Battered and Abused Immigrant Women.” Alliance for Battered and Abused Immigrant Women, Cincinnati, Ohio, October 23, 2002.

Numerous presentations on immigrant women and the dynamics of domestic violence in Cincinnati, 2001-present.

“Leadership Styles Among South Asian American, African American, and Native American Peoples.” National Race and Ethnicity in Higher Education Conference, Orlando, Florida, 1997.

“Patterns of Culture.” National seminar for Union Institute doctoral candidates, Washington, D.C., 1996.

“Educating One-Third of a Nation,” American Council on Education, Kansas City, Missouri, 1996.

BOARD MEMBERSHIPS:

Cincinnati Art Museum, Board of Trustees, September 1, 2019-

Chair, Acquisitions Committee

Executive Committee, Diversity Committee, Individual Giving Committee

Cincinnati Ballet, Board of Trustees, 1996-98; 2015-2019

Co-chair, Board Engagement Committee

National Docent Symposium, Cincinnati, Ohio, 2013-2015

Steering Committee in charge of securing nationally known speakers-- for the symposium held in September 2015, and attracting educators from museums all over the US and Canada.

IUSBN, Cincinnati, Ohio, 2011-15 (India-U.S. Chamber of Commerce Business Network): Education and Outreach Committee

YWCA, Cincinnati, Ohio, 2001-2012

• Executive Committee

• Program Evaluation Committee, Chair

• Art Committee

Leadership Cincinnati Alumni Association, 2001-present

• Arts and Media Committee

• Diversity Committee

American International School of Guangzhou, Guangzhou, China, 1998-2000

• Curriculum Development Committee

Cincinnati Film Commission, 1997-98

Indian Hill Schools, Cincinnati, Ohio

• Fine Arts Liaison, 2009-2013

• Planning Commission,1997-98

Greater Cincinnati Consortium of Colleges and Universities, 1997-98

• Steering Committee

• Diversity Committee

• Schools-Colleges Partnership Committee

Architectural Foundation of Cincinnati, 1996-98

Vidya Publishing, Berkeley, California, 1994-98

LANGUAGES:

Speaking, reading and writing: Hindi, Bengali, Sanskrit

Speaking and limited reading: Mandarin

Reading for translation: Latin, Classical Greek, French.

MEMBERSHIPS:

• ILA-- International Leadership Association

• EGOS—European Association on Organizational Studies

• AACORN—Association on Aesthetics, Creativity, and Organizational Studies

• SCOS—Society for Creativity in Organizational Systems

• AoMO—Art of Management and Organizations

• All China Women’s Federation, Guangzhou, China.

• MELUS: An Association for the Study of Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States.

• American Council on Education.

• Council for the Advancement and Support of Education (CASE)

Of Interest:

I worked with Mother Teresa in Nirmal Hriday, Kolkata, India, 1974, her home for lepers, the dying and destitute. Subsequently, I went back each year to work in her mission for a few weeks in the summer.

I lived in Guangzhou, China, from 1997-2000, and gave birth to my youngest child while we were there!

I have traveled to almost 100 countries and lived on 3 continents.

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