Aakash M. Suchak
Grants Administrator at The Institute of Fine Arts, NYU
Grants Administrator at The Institute of Fine Arts, NYU
Higher education research administrator and grant writer with track-record of devising, securing, and directing five-, six-, and seven-figure grants from private foundations, federal agencies, and nonprofits for humanities academic programs. Alumni Admissions Volunteer for Swarthmore College and a Reading Panelist for the US-UK Fulbright Commission.
The Institute of Fine Arts, NYU
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• Manages grant fundraising program totaling $5m from Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Samuel H. Kress Foundation, National Endowment for the Humanities, and 5 others, including writing and submission of proposals
• Provides individualized pre- and post-award grant support to five full-time departmental faculty
• Administers fifteen sponsored research accounts
• Organizes all fiscal matters related to sixty adjunct faculty, guest speakers, workshops and student travel
• Reviews and approves grant expenditures, advises on spending policies within agency guidelines
• Plans and implements twenty academic and public outreach events, symposia, and lectures per year
• Coordinates communications, space allocation, catering, travel arrangements, fiscal aspects and budgets
Greater New York City Area
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Grants Administrator
The New York Public Library
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New York, New York
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Researcher, Manhattan Research Library Initiative (MaRLI)
US-UK Fulbright Commission
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Reading Panelist
CAA Advancing Art & Design
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•	Developed episodic content for informational video series on challenges museum professionals face at their institutions as part of larger grant-funded project, Resources for Academic Art Museums (raamp.hcommons.org)
•	Managed Terra Foundation International Publication Grant, Wyeth Foundation Publication Grant, Meiss Publication Fund, and Awards for Distinction in books, journalism, & criticism
•	Developed 
•	Wrote 50 proposals, budgets, reports, and ancillaries for new and existing programs
New York, NY
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Grants and Special Programs Manager
Springer Nature
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•	Developed content for five quarterly journals from contract to final manuscript
•	Actively acquired articles for journals with 121% commission rate (c. 100 articles annually)
•	Conducted annual editorial board meetings to discuss journal status and evaluate content 
•	Researched subject matter to determine current content needs and priorities
•	Supervised and submitted final editorial preparation of manuscripts for production
Philadelphia, PA
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Assistant Editor
UC Berkeley
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Researcher
UC Berkeley
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• The Craft of Writing: Research & Development in the Colonial World. Co-Instructor. S’16
• Global Modernism, Technology, and the Copy. Instructor of Record. F’14
• Reading Knowledge: The Rhetoric of Literary Criticism. Instructor. S‘14
• Introduction to Reason and Argumentation: Critique of Reason. Teaching Assistant. F’13
• Modern Philosophy. Teaching Assistant. Summer ‘13
• Rhetorical Interpretation: Rhetoric of the Visual Image. Teaching Assistant. S’13
• History and the Novel: Writing the Philippine Nation. Graduate Student Instructor. F’12
Berkeley, CA
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Graduate Student Instructor
UC Berkeley
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Berkeley, CA
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Editor, Qui Parle, Interdisciplinary Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences
U.S. Department of Education
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Institute of European Studies, UC Berkeley
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Foreign Language & Area Studies Fellow, French Language, Literature, and Theory
ProFellow
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Fulbright Advisor
US-UK Fulbright Commission
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University of Sussex
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Fulbright Postgraduate Scholar
McCabe Library, Swarthmore College
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Andrew W. Mellon Librarianship Recruitment Program
Swarthmore, PA
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Research and Information Assistant
McCabe Library, Swarthmore College
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Swarthmore, PA
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Editor, Small Craft Warnings (Literary Magazine)
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Cataloging analog transparencies in digital assets management system The Museum System (TMS), funded by Andrew W. Mellon Librarianship Recruitment Program
New York, NY
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Intern
Rutgers University
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New Brunswick, NJ
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Rutgers English Diversity Institute
Deutsches Haus
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New York University
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Penn Alumni Program
German Language and Literature
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University of Pennsylvania
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Institute for World Literature
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Harvard University
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Master
Rhetoric, Designated Emphasis in Critical Theory
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University of California, Berkeley
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Master of Arts
Fulbright Scholar, Hannah Leedom Fellow
Dissertation: "Philosophie dans le pissoir: Skepticism and Aesthetic Form in Marcel Duchamp's Readymades"
Critical Theory
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University of Sussex
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Bachelor of Arts
English, Art History, Interpretation Theory
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Swarthmore College
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Specialized Study/Visiting Student, NYU in Madrid
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New York University
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The Cambridge Tradition
English
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University of Cambridge
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American Comparative Literature Assocation
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College Art Association
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Fulbright Association
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“Will Wonders Never Cease? Laynie Browne’s ‘You Envelop Me’”
Jacket2
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Vol. 41 Issues 1–2, pages 62–76
“The Place of Consignation, or Writing and Memory in Derrida’s Archive”
Journal of Comparative Literature and Aesthetics
Review of The Planetary Turn: Relationality and Geoaesthetics in the Twenty-First Century, edited by Amy J. Elias and Christian Moraru. The Comparatist (The University of North Carolina Press) 40, (October 2016): 361–364. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/com.2016.0023.
Review of The Planetary Turn: Relationality and Geoaesthetics in the Twenty-First Century, edited by Amy J. Elias and Christian Moraru.
The Comparatist (The University of North Carolina Press) 40, (October 2016): 361–364.
https://doi.org/10.1353/com.2016.0023
Review of The Rhetoric of Error from Locke to Kleist by Zachary Sng. Modern Language Notes 128, no. 5, Comparative Literature Issue (December 2013): 1211–1214. https://doi.org/10.1353/mln.2013.0092.
Review of The Rhetoric of Error from Locke to Kleist by Zachary Sng.
Modern Language Notes 128, no. 5, Comparative Literature Issue (December 2013): 1211–1214.
https://doi.org/10.1353/mln.2013.0092
The Collegiate Journal of Art is the only annual undergraduate journal in the United States devoted to Art History and Criticism. The journal is published at Dartmouth College and accepts submissions from undergraduate students across the country.
“Killing the Modern: Classicism, Spiritualism, and the Atomic Age in Salvador Dalí’s Nuclear Mystical  Paintings.”
Collegiate Journal of Art, Dartmouth College
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“The Good Thief,” “Saltwater Perfume"
The Susquehanna Review
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“The Grebo Mask of Bateau Lavoir,” “Soft Portrait with Mirrors"
Helix
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Academic-year fellowship to undertake intensive language training in French.
US Department of Education/Institute for European Studies, University of California, Berkeley
Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship, French
Institute for World Literature, Harvard University
Tuition Scholarship
Department of English, Swarthmore College
John Russell Hayes Poetry Prize
Department of English, Swarthmore College
Philip M. Hicks Prize for Literary Criticism
US-UK Fulbright Commission, Institute for International Education
US-UK Fulbright Postgraduate Award
New York State Summer Writers Institute, Skidmore College
Mimi Bresler Smith Scholarship, Creative Writing, New York State Summer Writers Institute
New York University
NYU Visiting Student Specialized Scholarship
Within the Humanities Division, fellowships offer students the opportunity to pursue research, creative projects, or other scholarly engagement within the arts and humanities disciplines.  Grants are most typically awarded for the pursuit of scholarly research both independently or in collaboration with faculty members.
Swarthmore College
Monroe C. Beardsley Humanities Research Fellowship and Internship Grant
Education
Swarthmore College
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Admissions Alumni Volunteer
Education
Swarthmore College
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Mentored students from Mexican immigrant communities from Kennet Square, PA in English as a Second Language; designed educational activities for math and language arts
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Activities Coordinator, Club Despertar
Education
SEWA International USA
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Taught sciences in rural India, developed hands-on course modules for schools without adequate facilities, traveled on mobile science laboratory to underserved school districts

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International Fellow for Service, Yuva for Sewa
Health
Hendricks Regional Health
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Emergency Department Volunteer
UC Berkeley
Certificate of Teaching in Higher Education
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B1.2
Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFRL) - German
University of Sussex Alumni Network
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University of Sussex Alumni
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Swarthmore Business Network
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Swatties helping Swatties – Swarthmore College students, alumni and parents networking and mentoring
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UC Berkeley
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News of Interest to Professional & Scholarly Publishers
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International Fellows Network
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UK Fulbright Alumni Network
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Language, Literature and Criticism
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Fulbright Alliance
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