Noel B. Salazar, PhD

Current

• Postdoctoral Fellow at K.U.Leuven
• Visiting Research Associate at Centre for Tourism and Cultural Change

Past

• Teaching Assistant at University of Pennsylvania
• Communications Officer at Missio Belgium
• Communications Officer at JRS International

• Interim Assistant Director at JRS Europe

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Education

• University of Pennsylvania
• Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
• University of Essex

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Noel B. Salazar, PhD’s Summary

Sociocultural anthropologist with broad experience in issues related to international mobility (tourism and travel), heritage, multiculturalism, and globalization.
Extensive field experience in Indonesia, Tanzania, Belgium, Chile, and the USA.
Consultancy in the area of tour guiding and heritage interpretation.

Noel B. Salazar, PhD’s Specialties:

Cross-cultural communication, analytical skills, problem solving, ethnography, questionnaires, participant observation, interviewing, teaching and training, academic and creative writing

Noel B. Salazar, PhD’s Experience

• Postdoctoral Fellow

  K.U.Leuven

  (Educational Institution; 5001-10,000 employees; Research industry)

  October 2008 — Present (1 year 3 months)

  Marie Curie Fellow (Seventh Framework Program of the European Commission)
  Postdoctoral Fellow of the Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO)

• Visiting Research Associate

  Centre for Tourism and Cultural Change

  (Research industry)

  2008 — Present (1 year )

• Teaching Assistant

  University of Pennsylvania

  (Educational Institution; 10,001 or more employees; Education Management industry)

  September 2003 — May 2005 (1 year 9 months)

• Communications Officer

  Missio Belgium

  (Non-Profit; 11-50 employees; Non-Profit Organization Management industry)

  January 2000 — August 2002 (2 years 8 months)

• Communications Officer

  JRS International

  (Non-Profit; 1001-5000 employees; Non-Profit Organization Management industry)

  August 1998 — December 1999 (1 year 5 months)

• Interim Assistant Director

  JRS Europe

  (Non-Profit; 1-10 employees; Non-Profit Organization Management industry)

  April 1998 — July 1998 (4 months)

Noel B. Salazar, PhD’s Education

• University of Pennsylvania

  PhD , Anthropology , 2002 — 2008

• Katholieke Universiteit Leuven

  MA , Anthropology , 2000 — 2002

• University of Essex

  MSc , Neuropsychology , 1996 — 1998

Additional Information

Noel B. Salazar, PhD’s Interests:

Border-crossing human mobility (tourism & migration), globalization and localization, anthropology and ethnography, heritage, culture contact and interculturalism

Noel B. Salazar, PhD’s Groups:

American Anthropological Association,
European Association of Social Anthropologists,
International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences,
World Anthropologies Network,
Tourism Research Information Network (TRINET),
IGU-UGI Commission on the Geography of Tourism Leisure and Global Change,
Asia Tourism Research

•    Global Anthropology
•    Expat Network
•    ASMALLWORLD.net
•    Friends of the European Union
•    University of Pennsylvania Alumni
•    U of P Alumni
•    Friends of Belgium Business and Tourism Link
•    The Tourism Society
•    University of Essex
•    UPENN Alumni
•    Ethnography Forum
•    The Friends of / Amigos de Chile
•    Gadjah Mada Alumni
•    UPenn Global Alumni Network
•    Friends of Indonesia
•    BAEF Alumni
•    The Anthropology Network
•    Advanced Scientific Communities (TM)
•    Ivy League Alumni
•    Ethnosnacker
•    Alumni of the Ivy League
•    Tanzania Incubator
•    Linked.cl
•    Ethnography
•    American Anthropological Association
•    The Ivy League
•    Friends of Tanzania
•    National Association for the Practice of Anthropology
•    21st Century Network
•    Living Stone Centre for Intercultural Entrepreneurship

Noel B. Salazar, PhD’s Honors:

EC FP7 Marie Curie Fellow, 2008-2011
NAPA Student Achievement Award, 2006
SAS Dean's Scholar, 2005
William Penn Fellow, 2002-2006
BAEF Honorary Fellow, 2002

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