Feminism and Marriage - Trends in Women's Education

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1 Katie E. Oliviero 195 Arizona Avenue NE, #193* Atlanta, GA * * [email protected] RESEARCH Postdoctoral Fellow: Emory University, Feminist Legal Theory Project - Advisor: Dr. Martha Albertson Fineman - Fields: Vulnerability Politics; Gender, Race & Queer Theory; Media; Law present Dissertation: Vulnerable Sensations: Compositions of Imperiled Citizenship, Intimacy and Personhood in 21 st Century Social Change - Professors Juliet Williams & Rachel C. Lee (Chairs); Leila Rupp & Douglas Kellner Research: The mediatized culture of vulnerability. Dissertation considered the cultural and legal effects of activist opposition to liberalized immigration, reproductive justice & gay rights legislation. Postdoctoral study explores progressive disability, children s & human rights. EDUCATION PhD in Women s Studies UCLA Specializations: Transnational Feminisms, Critical Race, Performance, Movements, Law & Society Master of Arts in Women s Studies UCLA 2007 Bachelor of Arts in Women s Studies Dartmouth College Cum Laude, Senior Thesis Masturbation On Stage: Autoerotic Performance Politics, High Honors FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS University of California, Los Angeles - Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Studies Teaching Fellowship Dissertation Year Fellowship Jean Stone Dissertation Research Fellowship Graduate Research Mentor Fellowship Center for the Study of Women Travel Grant National Women s Studies Association Travel Grant 2009 Dartmouth College - Excellence in Women s Studies Prize Hannah Croasdale Award Academic Citations in Thesis Research, Women s History and Masculinity Studies Health Services Award 2001 PUBLICATIONS 2011 Sensational Nation and the Minutemen: Gendered Citizenship and Moral Vulnerabilities, Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 36(3). State of Disunion: Racial Immorality & Imperiled Family in Same-Sex Marriage Opposition forthcoming in an anthology on marriage, ed. Verta Taylor & Mary Bernstein Introduction: Circling the Globe: International Feminisms Reconsidered, 1910 to 1975 (coauthor and co-editor Ellen C. Dubois), Women s Studies International Forum Special Issue 32(1) TEACHING EXPERIENCE Visiting Professor: Visual Vulnerabilities and Biopolitics Spring

2 - Emory University, Women s Studies Doctoral Program Instructor: Public Intimacies: Queering Kinship, Law and Culture Winter UCLA Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Studies Teaching Fellowship Instructor: Feminist Theories in the Humanities Summer UCLA Women s Studies Department Facilitator and Founder: Performance Studies Graduate Writing Forum (credited) Spring UCLA Theater and Performance Studies PhD Program & Center for Performance Studies Invited Guest Lectures UCLA Women s Studies and History - Marriage: Conserving Traditional Rites? Images of Reproductive Justice: Forced Sterilization, Fetal-Maternal Rights and Law Choreographing Protest: Immigration, ACT-UP and Civil Rights Pessaries & Prostitution: Ideal Femininity in 19 th Century International Activism 2006 Teaching Associate - UCLA Women s Studies and History Departments - Introduction to Women s Studies: Feminist Perspectives on Women in Society Historical Perspectives of Globalizing Feminisms: 1848-Present Spring 2006 INVITED PRESENTATIONS Interdisciplinarity and Intersectionality as Methodology and Practice November Graduate Institute of Liberal Arts, Emory University Social Movement Messaging and Vulnerability September Barton Child Law and Policy Clinic, Emory School of Law (Atlanta, GA) Queerly Conservative Public Intimacies: Proposition 8, Gender and Race - Sociologists for Women in Society Meeting (Santa Barbara, CA) February Invited lecture at Butler University (Indianapolis, IN) January 2010 Paradise Absent and Apocalypse When: Composing Risk in Proposition 8 January American Historical Association Annual Meeting (San Diego, CA) Conservative Body Politics: Staging Life in 21 st Century Anti-Abortion Campaigns August Emerging Scholars in Performance Panel, Association for Theater in Higher Education (New York) MANUSCRIPTS IN PROGRESS Queerly Right: Wedding Activism, Polygamy & the Political Impact of Queer Performance Flaying Life and Law: Precarious Personhood in 21 st Century Anti-Abortion Campaigns The Threshold of Vulnerability: Moral Risk and Sensationalism in Reactionary Movements CONFERENCE PAPERS 2

3 Never Forget! : Performing Memory, Resistance and Totalitarianism May Under Review for Performance Studies International Annual Meeting, (Utrecht, NL) Ethnic Nationalisms and Gendered Life in Contemporary Conservative Movements Nov Panel Organizer and Presenter, National Women s Studies Association Conference (Denver, CO) The Violent Affects of Vulnerability: Moralized Protectionism in Reactionary Legal Efforts - Law and Society Annual Conference (Chicago, Illinois) May 2010 Conserving Vulnerability: Affecting Victimization in Reactionary Movements Nov Violence and Vulnerability Workshop at Emory University (Atlanta, Georgia) - Convened by the Institutes for Developing Nations and the Feminist and Legal Theory Project Sensationalized Vulnerability: Yes on Prop. 8 s Compositions of Imperiled Family May Law and Society Annual Conference (Denver, CO) Militarized Vulnerabilities: Minutemen, Exemplary Citizenship & Moral Masculinity Feb UCLA Thinking Gender Conference (Los Angeles, CA) Some Boundaries of Activist Body Politics The Genocide Awareness Project Aug Performance Studies International, annual Conference (Copenhagen) Performing Queer Wedding Rites: Setting the Stage for Civil Rights Beyond Marriage June National Women s Studies Association Conference (Ohio) Writing in Red Ink: The Body-Politics of British Suffrage Hunger-Striking April UCLA Thinking Gender Conference (Los Angeles, CA) Selected Fiction Aug Keene State Writing Conference (NH) RELATED PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE Co-Editor: Women s Studies International Forum Special Issue Circling the Globe: International Feminism Reconsidered, , (co-editor Ellen C. Dubois), 32:1. Graduate Student Researcher: UCLA Women s Studies and History Departments - Studied and contributed to Women s Studies undergraduate curriculum reform Researched same-sex education initiatives for Professor Juliet Williams Researched sex scandal rhetoric for Professor Juliet Williams Co-edited Women s Studies International Forum Special Issue for Professor Ellen C. Dubois Coordinated Transnational Feminisms conference logistics with Professor Ellen Dubois Assisted in writing of the Women s Studies Departmentalization Proposal Invited Member: Emory University Working Group on Memory Present Publications: 2008 State of the Union: Marriage in the Shadow of Electoral Politics Conference Comments by Katie Oliviero with Evangeline Heileger. UCLA Center for the Study of Women Newsletter. Nov. Certificate of Teaching The New Teachers Collaborative, Devens, MA Massachusetts & New Hampshire Certifications in Secondary English Instruction 3

4 High School English Teacher: Contoocook Valley High School Peterborough, NH Courses included: Post World War II Modern Literature; Essay Writing; Crime and Mystery - Faculty Curriculum Committee Humanities Teacher: Francis W. Parker School Devens, MA Courses in: World Religions; Sexuality Education - Gay Straight Alliance Faculty Mentor; Middle School Girls Soccer Coach Gender and Sexuality Study Abroad, The Netherlands School for International Training and the University of Amsterdam Direct Services Provider: Sexual Harassment & Rape Prevention Program Durham, NH 2001 Abortion and Birth Control Counselor: Feminist Health Center of Portsmouth NH 2000 LEADERSHIP AND SERVICE UCLA Graduate Admissions Committee Evaluated prospective graduate student applications and their suitability for our curricular strengths Conference CoChair: Grad. Conference in Performance Studies- Anxieties of Overexposure Conceptualized theme, panels, events, plenaries, funding & marketing (200 attendees) Marriage Equality Volunteer Canvassed Southern California neighborhoods opposed to same-sex marriage Founder: Intersectional Feminisms Research Colloquium quarterly faculty and student symposium to foster scholarly community Graduate Representative to the Women s Studies Faculty Advisory Council Conceptualized Faculty and Student Research Colloquium - Solicited and communicated graduate students academic, financial, cultural and personal needs Performance Studies Graduate Student Working Group UCLA Conference and Group Coordinator (present) - Developed and led biweekly, cross-disciplinary, credited Performance Studies Writing Workshop - Collaborated with faculty and students to develop Group s mission and events - Proposed and organized extracurricular student reading group Conference Coordinator: Transnational Feminisms in History Collaborated with Professor Ellen C. Dubois and co-edited with her the subsequent journal publication Invited Member: UCLA Faculty and Graduate Student Working Group on Embodiment Employment Leadership - Faculty Curriculum Committee English Department, Contoocook Valley High School Gay Straight Alliance Faculty Member, Francis W. Parker Charter School Middle School Girls Soccer Coach, Francis W. Parker Charter School Fall 2002 Dartmouth College Student Programming Coordinator -Women s Resource Center, notably: 4

5 - Collaboratively created and organized Intersections, a multi-media intersectional performance - Vagina Monologues coordinator and director, 400 attendees in 2001& Take Back the Night organizer and speaker - Sex Series coordinator Founding Member of the Mobilize Coalition - Promoted policies and education to foster institutional social justice and diversity & counter violence Founding Member and CoFacilitator of the Dartmouth Women s Council AFFILIATIONS - National Women s Studies Association - Law and Society Association - Modern Language Association - Performance Studies International - Association of Theater in Higher Education REFERENCES Professor Martha Albertson Fineman (Postdoctoral Advisor) Robert W. Woodruff Professor of Law Emory University School of Law Phone: (404) ; Fax: (404) [email protected] Professor Juliet Williams (Dissertation Chair) Professor of Women s Studies UCLA Department of Women s Studies Phone: (805) ; Fax: (310) [email protected] Professor Rachel C. Lee (Dissertation Chair) Professor of English and Women s Studies UCLA Department of English Phone: (310) ; Fax: (310) [email protected] Professor Leila J. Rupp (Committee Member) Department of Feminist Studies University of California, Santa Barbara Phone: (805) ; Fax: (805) [email protected] Professor Douglas Kellner (Committee Member) George F. Kneller Philosophy of Education Chair UCLA Graduate School of Education and Information Studies Phone: (310) Fax: (310) [email protected] Professor Ellen Carol Dubois (Mentor) Professor of History and Women s Studies UCLA Department of History Phone: (310) Fax: (310) [email protected] 5