Paul J. Benson
75 East Chautauqua Street
Mayville, NY 14757-1017
(716) 753-6438
pkbenson@roadrunner.com
Degrees:
A.B.D. (anthropology) University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Dissertation Topic: Philanthropic Development at Chautauqua Institution
M.A. 1992 (anthropology) University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
B.A. 1986 (anthropology and English) SUNY College at Oswego
A.A. 1983 Jamestown Community College, Jamestown, NY
Additional Education: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Museum Studies Program,
Krannert Art Center 1989-90
Chautauqua Institution Summer Program, Philanthropy and Grantsmanship, 1992
Grantsmanship Center Training Program, April 1996
Experience: Project Director Teaching American History Grant, Jamestown Public Schools
2002-2005 Grant Chautauqua County
2004-2007 Grant Allegany, Cattaraugus, Southern Erie Counties
2006-2009 Grant Allegany, Cattaraugus, Chautauqua, Chemung,
Schuyler, Southern Erie, Steuben, Tioga and Tompkins Counties
Online Professional Development Course Writer/Facilitator JPS: Current
Project Coordinator Small Learning Communities Research Grant 2003-2004
Robert H. Jackson Center, Jamestown, NY. Program and Grant Development
Chautauqua Leadership Network Coordinator 1999-2002
Book Review Editor: Anthropology and Humanism 1992 to Present
Consortium: Brocton, Chautauqua, Panama, Ripley and Westfield School
Districts, Chautauqua County, NY. Grant Development 1992-1999
Westfield Academy and Central School, Westfield, NY. Grant Development
Westfield Memorial Hospital Foundation, Westfield, NY. Grant Development
St. Columban’s On the Lake Retirement Home, Silver Creek, NY.
Grant Development
Planned Giving Committee, Northern Chautauqua Community Foundation
Adams Art Gallery, Dunkirk, NY. Grant Development 1995-1998
Chautauqua County Visitor Bureau Project Consultant: Tourism Inventory,
Handbook and Access Databases 1998-1999
Chairman: New Facilities Committee, Chautauqua Lake Central School District
Cub Master and Scout Leader: Pack/Troop 126 Mayville, NY 1998-2008
West Lake Citizens Council, Community Relations 1994-96
The Chautauqua County Mirror, Jamestown, NY. Editor, Feature Writer, 1994-95
Jamestown Community College, Jamestown, NY. Adjunct Course Instructor
Anthropology, Spring 1993
Chautauqua County Public Schools. Substitute Teacher, 6-12, 1992-93
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Assistant to Editor-in-Chief,
American Anthropologist 1989-92; Assistant to Editor Sociological
Quarterly 1992; Editor-in-Chief, Journal of the Steward Anthropological
Society 1986-91; Museum of Natural History, Curatorial Assistant 1988,
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1990; Krannert Art Museum, Curatorial Assistant 1989; Research
Assistant in anthropology, 1988-89; Teaching Assistant in introductory
and physical anthropology, 1987-88, Instructor in art history 1989.
Palladium Times, Oswego, NY Correspondent, 1985-86
State University of NY College at Oswego. Editor-in-Chief, Great Lake
Review Literary Magazine 1985-86
Honors:
University of Indiana Center on Philanthropy Fellow 1993-1994
University of Indiana Center on Philanthropy's Governance of Nonprofit
Organizations Fellowship 1993
Aspen Institute Nonprofit Sector Dissertation Fellow 1994
University of Illinois Fellow, 1988-89
Norman E. Whitten Sr. Award for Anthropology 1986, SUNYC Oswego
Grants:
Aspen Institute Nonprofit Sector Research Fund for dissertation research 1994
University of Indiana Center on Philanthropy Grant for dissertation research on
Philanthropy at Chautauqua Institution, Chautauqua, NY 1993-94
University of Indiana Center on Philanthropy's Governance of Nonprofit
Organizations Grant for dissertation research 1993
University of Illinois Dissertation Research Grant, 1992
Professional Organizations: American Anthropological Association
New York State Council for the Social Studies
International Society for Technology Education
Society for Humanistic Anthropology
Western Southern Tier Council for the Social Studies
Publications: 2008 “The Liberia Project: Students Take History and Human Rights into Their
Own Hands” Magazine of History. Organization of American Historians.
Vol 22, No. 2: 46-48.
1996 "Michael Jackson: At Home with the Word". In Anthropology and
Humanism Quarterly, 21:1 June. Book Review.
1994-95 Feature editor and staff writer Chautauqua County Mirror
1993 Anthropology and Literature. (editor and compiler) Urbana, IL:
University of Illinois Press.
1990 Conversations in Anthropology: Anthropology & Literature. (editor)
Journal of the Steward Anthropological Society, Vol. 17.
1990 "Royal Bronze Hip Mask." In The Sacred and the Cool: The Richard
Faletti Collection. Urbana, IL: School of Art & Design, University of
Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
1989 Ignatius Streibich: Blacksmith with Charles Keller. The Chronicle of the
Early American Industries Assoc. 42:47-49.
Personal:
Married: Kim Weborg-Benson
Children: Hunter Benson & Cassidy Benson
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