SOTHEARITH IM
175 Mill St, Athens, Ohio 45701
Cell phone. 740-274-1333, Email:si152203@ohio.edu

EDUCATION
Ohio University, 2005-
Ph.D. Candidate (Expect to graduate in June, 2009)
Major: Mass Communication – Telecommunications
Honors:
- Elected student senator representing College of Communications (2005-6)
- Ohio University's Global Ambassador, 2006-

Ohio University, 2004-2006
M.P.A. Master of Public Administration
Honors:
- Elected Vice President of International Student Union (2004-5)

Ohio University, 2003-2005
M.A. in Telecommunications Management
Honors:
- Representative of Southeast Asian Students Association to International Student Union-ISU (2003-4)

The Royal University of Phnom Penh, 1995-9
Major: Bachelor of Education (TEFL)
Honors:
- Elected class monitor
- Representative of students of the Department of English, the Foreign Language Institute

Australian Centre for Education (ACE), 1993-5
Graduate of the General English Program: English Proficiency Rating of Advanced

Prey Veng Krong Senior High School, 1985-8
Senior High School Certificate, Baccalaureate II
Honors:
- One of the top ten students at Mathematics in the province.

AWARDS
2006 OU’s Outstanding Doctoral Student Leader Award (Recipient)
2005- Assistantship from Ohio University (U.S.A.)
2003-2005 Fulbright Scholarship (U.S.A.)
2002 International Journalism Federation Scholarship (Romania)
2001 Konrad Adenauer Foundation Scholarship (Philippines)
1994 MTCP Scholarship (Malaysia)
1993 AUSAIDS Scholarship (Australia)

PUBLICATION AND CONFERENCE PAPERS

- Im, S. (2002). Cambodia: A shattered image. In Watching the Watchdog: Media regulation in Southeast Asia. Bangkok: SEAPA.

Edited the Khmer version of:
Him, C. (2000). When broken glass floats: Growing up under the Khmer Rouge. New York: W. W. Norton & Company.

Conference papers:
- "Communication Contributing to the Global Conflict Resolution.” Presented at the Asia Pacific Youth

- “Public Administration and Personnel: In the Case of Cambodia.” Presented at the 8th Socio-Cultural Research Congress on Cambodia, held at Royal University of Phnom Penh, Cambodia on November 21-23, 2005Forum, Okinawa, Japan, January 14-24, 2006

PARTICIPATION IN PROFESSIONAL TRAININGS AND CONFERENCES

Leadershape Workshop, Ohio University, 2004

Advanced Technology for Multimedia, Distribution, and Broadcasting, Bangkok, Thailand, Nov.-Dec., 2002

Regional Self-Regulatory Conference, Bangkok, Thailand, Sept, 2002

Summer School on how to teach effectively for young faculty of Journalism, Bucharest, Romania, July-August, 2002

A program of activities of the functions and management of an academic unit offering degree programs in the field of communication and media at Ateneo de Manila University, the Philippines, 2001

The Asia-Pacific Affairs Conference, Sydney, Australia, 1998

Conference of the Library Association in the Asia Pacific Region, Wellington, New Zealand, September 1994.

Basic course for library assistants, Malaysia, 1994

Computer-Based Cataloguing for Stand-alone and Networked Systems (BISA training course), University of New South Wales, Australia, 1993.

INTERNSHIPS

- CNN International, summer 2004

- National Library of Australia, 1994

- State Library of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia, 1993: Computer-based cataloguing

CONSULTANT AND CONTRACTOR

- Voice of America Contractor, Summer, 2006

- World Bank’s National Consultant on Statistical Master Plan in Cambodia, Summer 2005.

PROFESSIONAL WORK EXPERIENCE

The Royal University of Phnom Penh (RUPP), Cambodia
- Department of Media and Communications (DMC)
2001 – Present Head of Department (Currently on Study Leave)

- Institute of Foreign Languages (IFL)
1999- 2003 Instructor

Documentation Center of Cambodia (DC-Cam)
1995-1999 Database specialist and head of the documentation

Ministry of Culture and Fine Arts, the National Library of Cambodia
1997-1999 Budget and proposal consultant

1991-1995 Head of Technical Services Section

1991 Head of book loan section

1990 Staff member in technical services section

Ministry of Culture and Fine Arts
1995-1999 Member of the National Beauty Contest Committee

Yale University, New Haven, U.S.A.
1997 Working Fellow worked for Cambodian Genocide Program

University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
1993 Research assistant, School of Information, Library and Archive Studies

Various programs
1990- Present Free-lance writer for leading Cambodian newspapers. (Reaksmei Kampuchea Newspaper, and The Cambodia Daily).

1991- 1997 Private Tutor of English and Khmer

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

Angkorreach Center for Languages
1996-1998 Director

Cambodian Library Association
1993-1994 Representative

SKILLS
Computer expertise in Windows, CDS/ISIS, Winisis; Database design, especially for documents

LANGUAGES
Mother tongue: Khmer, fluent in English, and conversational in Thai.