July 14, 2014
Apollonya Maria Porcelli
Apollonya_porcelli@brown.edu
(860) 882-3504
Address:
Box 1916
Brown University
Providence, RI 02912
EDUCATION
Brown University, Providence, RI
Ph.D. student in Sociology (degree expected May 2018)
M.Sc. in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology (degree expected May 2016)
A.M. in Sociology (2014)
Thesis: “Sink or swim: bonding capital and aging in New Bedford’s commercial
fisheries”
Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
B.Sc. cum laude with Research Honors (2010)
Major: Natural Resources
Minors: Development Sociology, International and Rural Development
Thesis: “The effects of land privatization on açaí productivity in the Amazon
floodplain”
PROFESSIONAL PRESENTATIONS
Apollonya Porcelli. “Put in boxes: dominance and resistance in New England’s
groundfishery.” Presentation at Society of Human Ecology Conference, College of the
Atlantic, Bar Harbor, ME (2014)
Apollonya Porcelli. “Sink or swim: bonding capital in New Bedford’s commercial
fisheries.” Presentation at Society of Human Ecology Conference, College of the
Atlantic, Bar Harbor, ME (2014)
Apollonya Porcelli. “Sink or swim: aging and bonding capital in New Bedford’s
commercial fisheries.” Roundtable Presentation at American Sociological Association
Annual Conference, San Francisco, CA (2014)
Apollonya Porcelli. “All boxed up: the taming of New England’s groundfishery.”
Presentation at Scientific (R)evolutions Graduate Conference, Rutgers University, New
Brunswick, NJ (2014)
Apollonya Porcelli and Guillermo Metz. “Green Building Economic Opportunities in
Upstate New York.” Presentation at WeLiveNY Summit, Ithaca, NY (2011)
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Apollonya Porcelli. “The effects of land privatization on economic productivity in the
Amazon floodplain.” Presentation of undergraduate senior thesis at World Social Forum,
Belém, Brazil (2009)
PROFESSIONAL POSITIONS
Just A Start/Youthbuild, Cambridge, MA, Assistant Field Supervisor (October 2011 —
August 2012)
 Supervisor of affordable housing construction projects and GED educator for atrisk youth, specializing in carpentry, green construction and Pre-Apprenticeship
Construction Training (PACT)
Cornell Cooperative Extension of Tompkins County, Ithaca, NY, Local Building
Materials Project Coordinator (November 2010 — May 2011)
 Developed initiative to promote local forest materials production and
consumerism, created marketing plan and education materials, wrote grants,
managed interns
Cornell University Natural Resources Department, Pearl Lagoon, Nicaragua, Field
Technician (August — October 2010)
 Researched culture-based resource use in order to create alternative livelihood
plan, implemented direct marketing strategy, coordinated community build of
field school, taught conservation-based extraction using GPS and GIS, US Fish
and Wildlife funded
Cornell Cooperative Extension of Tompkins County, Ithaca, NY, Environmental
Issues Intern (October 2007 — May 2010)
 Collaborated with local non-profits to organize annual events, committee member
for two environmental education coalitions, website development,
communications management
Pobreza e Meio-Ambiente na Amazonia, Belém, Brazil, Community Development
Coordinator (June — August 2009)
 Taught female empowerment and renewable resource use workshops in four
riverine communities
HONORS AND FELLOWSHIPS
Open Graduate Program, Brown University, $60,000 (2013-present)
Marine Biological Laboratory Fellowship, Brown University, $75,000 (2012-2013)
NSF Summer Seminar on Environmental Sociology and Science and Technology
Studies, Vanderbilt University, $2,500 (June 2014)
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Sheridan Center Teaching Certificate I, Brown University (May 2014)
Teaching Assistant, Dept. of Sociology, Brown University
“Introduction to Sociology,” with Tyson Smith (Spring 2014)
 Led and created curricula for two discussion sections
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Supervised Undergraduate Research, Altamira, Brazil
Exploratory thesis research, with an undergraduate assistant (Summer 2013)
Teaching Assistant, Just-A-Start/YouthBuild, Cambridge, MA
Science and math GED and diploma portfolio courses (Summer 2013)
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
Joint Brown-Marine Biological Laboratory Program Fellow, Brown University (2012present)
Environmental Change Initiative, Brown University (2012-present)
Demography Program Trainee, Population Studies and Training Center, Brown
University (2012-present)
Spatial Structures in the Social Sciences Fellow, Brown University (2013-present)
RESEARCH AND DATA SKILLS
Stata 11 & 12, ArcGIS
Multivariate and multilevel modeling
NVivo, Dreamweaver
Languages: Portuguese—reading fluency and high speaking ability, Spanish—reading
fluency and intermediate speaking ability, French—reading fluency
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Environmental sociology
Sociology of knowledge/science
Inequality/Stratification
Demography
Cultural sociology
Adaptation
Fisheries science
Ecological knowledge
Coupled human and natural systems
Landscape ecology
SERVICE AND MEMBERSHIP
Society of Human Ecology (2014-present)
Population Association of America (2013-present)
American Sociological Association (2012-present)
Graduate Representative, Brown University Sociology Dept. (2013-present)
Diversity Committee, Brown University Sociology Dept. (2013-present)
Teaching Committee, Brown University Sociology Dept. (2014-present)
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