Brooklyn, NY • ergillcrist@gmail.com • emilygillcrist.com
Instagram: @emilygillcrist/ @vitalthoughtcourses
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/emilygillcrist
Highlights
Founder & Manager, Vital Thought, vitalthought.org 2021-present
Instructor, Stony Brook University, NY 2016-2021
Instagram: @emilygillcrist/ @vitalthoughtcourses
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/emilygillcrist
Highlights
- 10+ years experience in project management, psychological and cultural research, visual presentations, writing & communications, event planning, and teaching
- Key skills: management, qualitative and quantitative research, verbal/written/visual communication, creative and analytical thinking, relationship building, working independently and collaboratively in fast-paced environments
- Founder of an innovative virtual humanities education organization, vitalthought.org
- Working knowledge of social media management, Microsoft Office, Adobe Suite, Google Suite, and skilled at learning new applications
Founder & Manager, Vital Thought, vitalthought.org 2021-present
- Managing team to create and operate a virtual educational organization providing academic humanities and social science learning to general audiences
- Coordinating all aspects of program creation and operation: market analysis, hiring, team management, website design, visual strategy, marketing and data collection, advertising, copywriting, e-commerce, contract writing, payroll, budgeting, strategic planning, and publicity
- To date (4 months active): 70 enrollees from 8 different countries; 700% increase in Instagram following; 120-person mailing list
- Leading tech platform creation
Instructor, Stony Brook University, NY 2016-2021
- Performed 6 years of research in cultural studies topics eps. psychology, ideology, sustainability, film/ media/visual thinking, and technological experience and change (technocriticism.)
- Taught university courses in multimodal, analytic, and persuasive research rhetoric; science & technology studies; 20th Century continental philosophy; cultural, environmental, and media/visual studies.
- Taught intro to advanced level courses, ~30 students per class, 50%+ international students
- Wrote winning application for Graduate Council Fellowship ($105,000 over 5 years)
- Planned and coordinated conferences, round tables talks, and a writing group
- Provided general administrative/communications support; data entry and maintenance; calendaring; drafted syllabi and assignment copy; individually tutored students as needed
- Assisted with Cognitive Psychology research in the Conceptual Organization, Reasoning, and Education (CORE) Lab
- Studied how people categorize the natural world, attention, and inductive reasoning
- Assisted with test design, visual stimuli design, recruiting subjects, performing experiments, debriefing, processing qualitative data sets, and data entry
- Methods: card sorting, inhibition/selective attention tests, interviews, surveys
- Ph.D. Cultural Analysis & Theory — Stony Brook University, NY 2022
- M.A. Philosophy, Psychoanalytic Theory — The New School for Social Research, NY 2014
- B.S. Psychology & Philosophy, Fine Art — Northeastern University, MA 2011

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