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This is an abbreviated Curriculum Vitae. You can download a full version in pdf format.
PROFESSIONAL HISTORY
University of Chicago
Collegiate Assistant Professor, Social Sciences, September 2008 – present.
Lecturer in Political Science and the College, 2006-2008.
EDUCATION
University of Chicago – Division of Social Sciences, Department of Political Science
Doctor of Philosophy, 2008
Dissertation: “Excess Punishment: State, Citizens, and Felon Disenfranchisement”
Committee: Patchen Markell (Chair), Robert Gooding-Williams, Bernard Harcourt.
Qualifying exams passed in Political Theory (2004) and American Politics (2005).
Master of Arts, 2004
Masters Thesis: “Being/Becoming Felon: Identity and Felon Disenfranchisement,” Readers: Cathy J. Cohen and Patchen Markell.
Consortium on Qualitative Research Methods
Institute on Qualitative Research Methods, Arizona State University, January 2005.
Indiana University – College of Arts and Sciences
Bachelor of Arts with High Distinction, 2002 – Wells Scholar Class of 1998 – Phi Beta Kappa
Major in Economics with Departmental Honors; minor in Computer Science. Senior Honors Thesis: “Market as Leviathan,” Reader: Roy J. Gardner, Best Senior Thesis in Economics, 2002.
London School of Economics and Political Science
General Course for Visiting Students, 2000-2001
PUBLICATIONS
Papers:
“Michel Foucault Meets Gary Becker: Criminality Beyond Discipline and Punish” in Carceral Notebooks, Vol.4, 2008.
“Discipline, Security and Beyond: A Brief Introduction” (with Bernard Harcourt), in Carceral Notebooks, Vol. 4, 2008.
“African American Youth Political Participation”. Black Youth Project, PI: Cathy Cohen. Available online at http://blackyouthproject.com, 2006.
Edited Volumes:
Carceral Notebooks, Vol. 4. Co-edited with Bernard Harcourt.
Reference Entries:
“Contestation” and “Law” in The Foucault Lexicon, Leonard Lawlor and John Nale (eds.), (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming).
INVITED LECTURES and TALKS
- Participating Faculty & Text Seminar Leader, Collegium Phaenomenologicum, Città di Castello, Italy, July 2009.
- “From Slavery to Prison” at Modern Day Slavery and Slave-Like Conditions, Breaking Grounds, University of Chicago, April 15, 2008.
PRESENTATIONS
“From ‘Entrepreneur of the Self’ to ‘Care of the Self’: Neoliberal Governmentality and Foucault’s Ethics,” Foucault Circle, Baltimore, MD, April 2010; Western Political Science Association Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA, April 2010.
“Sovereignty and Membership: The Power to Pardon in Rousseau and Hegel, and the Inevitable Limits of Civil Rights Restoration,” Association for the study of Law, Culture and the Humanities Annual Meeting, Providence, RI, March 2010.
“Punishing Blackness at the Ballot Box: A Genealogy of Disenfranchisement in Maryland,” Worldmaking: The Society of Fellows Annual Weissbourd Conference and Lecture, Chicago IL, April 10-11, 2009.
“Highway Robbers, Tyrants, and Animals: Criminal Subjectivity and Sovereignty in Locke’s Second Treatise,” Western Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Vancouver BC, Canada, March 20, 2009.
“Michel Foucault meets Gary Becker: Criminality beyond Discipline and Punish,” Presented at the Crime and Punishment Workshop, University of Chicago Law School, February 8, 2008, Political Theory Workshop, University of Chicago, February 11, 2008, Le Carcéral, Sécurité, and Beyond: Rethinking Michel Foucault’s 1978-1979 Collège de France Lectures, University of Chicago Paris Center, Paris, June 6, 2008, and American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Boston, MA, August 30, 2008.
“To Kill a Thief: Locke and the Excess of Punishment,” Presented at the Crime and Punishment Workshop, University of Chicago Law School, April 6th, 2007, the Midwest Political Science Association Conference, Chicago IL, April 12 2007, and the Political Theory Workshop, University of Chicago, June 6th, 2007.
“Foucault and Felon Disenfranchisement,” Presented at the Western Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Albuquerque, NM, March 18, 2006, the Crime and Punishment Workshop, University of Chicago Law School, April 14, 2006, the Midwest Political Science Association Conference, Chicago, IL, April 22, 2006, and Contextualizing the Continent: European Thought Beyond Europe, DePaul University Department of Philosophy Graduate Student Conference, March 31, 2007.
“An Intersectional Approach to Youth Participation and the Gender Gap,” with Marissa I. Guerrero. Presented at the American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, PA, September 1, 2006.
“The ’So-called Gift in the [im]proper Sense’: Gifts and Alienation in Hegel’s Philosophy of Right,” Presented at the Midwest Political Science Association Conference, Chicago, IL, April 8, 2005 and at the Political Theory Workshop, University of Chicago, May 9, 2005.
“Being/Becoming Felon: Identity and Felon Disenfranchisement,” Presented at the Political Theory Workshop, University of Chicago, November 1, 2004, and at the Science, Technology, Society, and the State Workshop, University of Chicago, October 27, 2004.
AWARDS, HONORS, and FELLOWSHIPS
- Harper-Schmidt Fellow, Society of Fellows in the Liberal Arts, University of Chicago, 2008-Present.
- Dissertation Research and Teaching Fellowship, University of Chicago, 2007-2008.
- Grodzins Prize Lectureship, University of Chicago, 2006.
- University Fellow, University of Chicago, 2002-2006.
- Best Senior Thesis in Economics, Indiana University, 2002.
- Phi Beta Kappa, 2002.
- James E. Moffat Book Award – Indiana University Department of Economics, 2000 & 2001.
- Herman B Wells Scholar – Indiana University, 1997.
- Eagle Scout, 1995.
SERVICE and PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
- Society of Fellows Annual Weissbourd Conference, Co-Organizer, 2009-2010.
- American Sociological Review & American Journal of Sociology, Reviewer, 2008-
- Foundations of Political Theory, Online Book Review Editor, 2007-2008.
- Graduate Student Representative for Political Science Hiring Committee, 2004-2005.
- Social Science Graduate Student Activities Committee, Chair, 2004-2005, Representative 2003-2004.
- Political Science Graduate Student Association, Treasurer, 2003-2004.
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
- American Political Science Association
- Midwest Political Science Association
- Western Political Science Association
- Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy
References, teaching history, and other information can be found in the full CV in pdf format.
