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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Grants Administrator
• 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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The New York Public Library
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Researcher, Manhattan Research Library Initiative (MaRLI)
New York, New York
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US-UK Fulbright Commission
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Reading Panelist
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CAA Advancing Art & Design
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Grants and Special Programs Manager
•	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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Springer Nature
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Assistant Editor
•	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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UC Berkeley
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Researcher
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UC Berkeley
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Graduate Student Instructor
• 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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UC Berkeley
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Editor, Qui Parle, Interdisciplinary Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences
Berkeley, CA
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U.S. Department of Education
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Foreign Language & Area Studies Fellow, French Language, Literature, and Theory
Institute of European Studies, UC Berkeley
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ProFellow
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Fulbright Advisor
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US-UK Fulbright Commission
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Fulbright Postgraduate Scholar
University of Sussex
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McCabe Library, Swarthmore College
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Research and Information Assistant
Andrew W. Mellon Librarianship Recruitment Program
Swarthmore, PA
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McCabe Library, Swarthmore College
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Editor, Small Craft Warnings (Literary Magazine)
Swarthmore, PA
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Intern
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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Rutgers University
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Rutgers English Diversity Institute
New Brunswick, NJ
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Deutsches Haus
New York University
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German Language and Literature
Penn Alumni Program
University of Pennsylvania
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Institute for World Literature
Harvard University
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Rhetoric, Designated Emphasis in Critical Theory
Master
University of California, Berkeley
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Critical Theory
Master of Arts
University of Sussex
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Fulbright Scholar, Hannah Leedom Fellow
Dissertation: "Philosophie dans le pissoir: Skepticism and Aesthetic Form in Marcel Duchamp's Readymades"
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English, Art History, Interpretation Theory
Bachelor of Arts
Swarthmore College
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Specialized Study/Visiting Student, NYU in Madrid
New York University
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English
The Cambridge Tradition
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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“The Place of Consignation, or Writing and Memory in Derrida’s Archive”
Journal of Comparative Literature and Aesthetics
Vol. 41 Issues 1–2, pages 62–76
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.
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.
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.
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.
https://doi.org/10.1353/mln.2013.0092
“Killing the Modern: Classicism, Spiritualism, and the Atomic Age in Salvador Dalí’s Nuclear Mystical  Paintings.”
Collegiate Journal of Art, Dartmouth College
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.
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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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Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship, French
US Department of Education/Institute for European Studies, University of California, Berkeley
Academic-year fellowship to undertake intensive language training in French.
Tuition Scholarship
Institute for World Literature, Harvard University
John Russell Hayes Poetry Prize
Department of English, Swarthmore College
Philip M. Hicks Prize for Literary Criticism
Department of English, Swarthmore College
US-UK Fulbright Postgraduate Award
US-UK Fulbright Commission, Institute for International Education
Mimi Bresler Smith Scholarship, Creative Writing, New York State Summer Writers Institute
New York State Summer Writers Institute, Skidmore College
NYU Visiting Student Specialized Scholarship
New York University
Monroe C. Beardsley Humanities Research Fellowship and Internship Grant
Swarthmore College
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.
Education
Swarthmore College
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Admissions Alumni Volunteer
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Education
Swarthmore College
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Activities Coordinator, Club Despertar
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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Education
SEWA International USA
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International Fellow for Service, Yuva for Sewa
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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Health
Hendricks Regional Health
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Emergency Department Volunteer
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Certificate of Teaching in Higher Education
UC Berkeley
Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFRL) - German
B1.2
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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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