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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:
“Criminality Beyond Discipline and Punish” Forthcoming in The Carceral Notebooks, Vol. 4.
Edited Volumes:
The Carceral Notebooks, Vol. 4. Co-edited with Bernard Harcourt.
Presentations
“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
- 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
- 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.