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This is an abbreviated Curriculum Vitae. You can download a full version in pdf format.
PROFESSIONAL HISTORY
Loyola Marymount University
Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, 2011-present.
University of Chicago
Collegiate Assistant Professor, Social Sciences, 2008 – 2011.
Lecturer, 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 (Peer Reviewed):
- “To Kill A Thief: Punishment, Proportionality, and Criminal Subjectivity in Locke’s Second Treatise,” in Political Theory 40:1, February 2012, pp. 58-83.
- “How I learned to keep worrying and love teaching the canon” in Symposium: Reflections on Continental and Feminist Pedagogy, in PhiloSOPHIA: A Journal of Continental Feminism (forthcoming, 2012).
- “Revisiting Johan Galtung’s Concept of Structural Violence,” in New Political Science 34:2, May 2012.
- “From ‘Entrepreneur of the Self’ to ‘Care of the Self’: Neoliberal Governmentality and Foucault’s Ethics”, in Foucault Studies, 12, October 2011, pp. 130-146.
Papers (Invited):
- “Incurable Blackness: Collateral Consequences to Incarceration and Mental Disability” in Social Text (forthcoming, Spring 2012).
- “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. 6. Special Issue on “The Prison and ‘Crisis,’” forthcoming 2011.
- Carceral Notebooks, Vol. 4. Co-edited with Bernard Harcourt, 2008.
Book Chapters
- “African American Women: Intersectionality in Politics,” (with Jamila Celestine and Cathy J. Cohen), in the Oxford Handbook of African American Citizenship, Henry Louis Gates Jr. (ed.), Oxford University Press, (forthcoming in 2012).
Reference Entries:
- “Law” in The Foucault Lexicon, Leonard Lawlor and John Nale (eds.), Cambridge University Press, (forthcoming in 2012).
Reviews:
- Ajume Wingo. Veil Politics in Liberal Democratic States, in Foundations of Political Theory Book Review. Available online at http://political-theory.org/books/reviews/wingo.html
RESEARCH IN PROGRESS
Book Length Projects:
- Punishment and Inclusion: Race, Membership, and the Limits of American Liberalism, Book Manuscript.
- Michel Foucault and the Chicago School: Neoliberal Human Capital Theory and the Care of the Self, Book Length Project, in development.
Articles/Working Papers:
- “Sovereignty and Membership: The Power to Pardon in Rousseau, Hegel, and Derrida, and the Inevitable Limits of Civil Rights Restoration,” article, under review.
- “Locking up Homo Œconomicus: Neoliberal Human Capital Theory and the Carceral State,” article, in revision.
INVITED LECTURES and TALKS
- “The Impossible Gift of the Pardon” at UCLA Political Theory Workshop, April 13, 2012.
- “How Liberalism Succeeds by Failing the Felon” at Luther College, February 25, 2011.
- 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
“Feminist and Continental Pedagogy,” Roundtable participant, PhiloSOPHIA Annual Meeting, Nashville, TN, May 5-8, 2011.
“Criminality as Seriality,” Western Political Science Association Annual Meeting, San Antonio, TX, April 21-23, 2011.
“Force, War, and Slavery in Locke’s Second Treatise: The Problem of “Highwaymen” in 17th Century England,” Radical Philosophy Association Annual Meeting, Eugene, OR, Nov. 13, 2010; Association for the Study of Law, Culture and the Humanities Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, NV, Mar. 11-12, 2011.
“Citizens Sans Frontières?”, Peculiar Institutions: The Society of Fellows Annual Weissbourd Conference and Lecture, Chicago IL, April 22-24, 2010.
“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; Political Theory Workshop, University of Chicago, April 19, 2010; American Philosophical Association, Eastern Division Annual Meeting, Boston, MA, Dec. 28, 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, and Western Political Science Association Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA, April 2010.
“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
- Faculty Senate, Social Sciences Representative, Loyola Marymount University, 2012-Present.
- Collegiate Faculty Chair (Social Sciences), Society of Fellows, University of Chicago, 2010-2011.
- Society of Fellows Annual Weissbourd Conference, Co-Organizer, 2009-2010.
- Reviewer: Journal of Politics; American Sociological Review; American Journal of Sociology; Foucault Studies; History of Human Sciences; Distinktion: Scandinavian Journal of Social Theory; Contemporary Political Theory
- Foundations of Political Theory, Online Book Review Editor, 2007-2008.
- Graduate Student Representative for Political Science Hiring Committee, 2004-2005.
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
- American Political Science Association
- Midwest Political Science Association
- Western Political Science Association
- Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy
- Association for the Study of Law, Culture and the Humanities
- American Philosophical Association
References, teaching history, and other information can be found in the full CV in pdf format.
