Katie E. Oliviero 195 Arizona Avenue NE, #193* Atlanta, GA 30307 *603-801-1636 * koliviero@emory.edu 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 2010 - 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 2002 - 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 2010 - Dissertation Year Fellowship 2009-2010 - Jean Stone Dissertation Research Fellowship 2009 - Graduate Research Mentor Fellowship 2008 - Center for the Study of Women Travel Grant 2008 - National Women s Studies Association Travel Grant 2009 Dartmouth College - Excellence in Women s Studies Prize 2002 - Hannah Croasdale Award 2001 - Academic Citations in Thesis Research, Women s History and Masculinity Studies 2000-2002 - 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. 2009 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 2011 1
- Emory University, Women s Studies Doctoral Program Instructor: Public Intimacies: Queering Kinship, Law and Culture Winter 2010 - UCLA Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Studies Teaching Fellowship Instructor: Feminist Theories in the Humanities Summer 2009 - UCLA Women s Studies Department Facilitator and Founder: Performance Studies Graduate Writing Forum (credited) Spring 2008 - UCLA Theater and Performance Studies PhD Program & Center for Performance Studies Invited Guest Lectures UCLA Women s Studies and History - Marriage: Conserving Traditional Rites? 2009 - Images of Reproductive Justice: Forced Sterilization, Fetal-Maternal Rights and Law 2008 - Choreographing Protest: Immigration, ACT-UP and Civil Rights 2007 - 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 2006-2008 - Historical Perspectives of Globalizing Feminisms: 1848-Present Spring 2006 INVITED PRESENTATIONS Interdisciplinarity and Intersectionality as Methodology and Practice November 2010 - Graduate Institute of Liberal Arts, Emory University Social Movement Messaging and Vulnerability September 2010 - 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 2010 - Invited lecture at Butler University (Indianapolis, IN) January 2010 Paradise Absent and Apocalypse When: Composing Risk in Proposition 8 January 2010 - American Historical Association Annual Meeting (San Diego, CA) Conservative Body Politics: Staging Life in 21 st Century Anti-Abortion Campaigns August 2009 - 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
Never Forget! : Performing Memory, Resistance and Totalitarianism May 2011 - Under Review for Performance Studies International Annual Meeting, 2011. (Utrecht, NL) Ethnic Nationalisms and Gendered Life in Contemporary Conservative Movements Nov. 2010 - 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. 2009 - 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 2009 - Law and Society Annual Conference (Denver, CO) Militarized Vulnerabilities: Minutemen, Exemplary Citizenship & Moral Masculinity Feb. 2009 - UCLA Thinking Gender Conference (Los Angeles, CA) Some Boundaries of Activist Body Politics The Genocide Awareness Project Aug. 2008 - Performance Studies International, annual Conference (Copenhagen) Performing Queer Wedding Rites: Setting the Stage for Civil Rights Beyond Marriage June 2008 - National Women s Studies Association Conference (Ohio) Writing in Red Ink: The Body-Politics of British Suffrage Hunger-Striking April 2007 - UCLA Thinking Gender Conference (Los Angeles, CA) Selected Fiction Aug. 2004 - Keene State Writing Conference (NH) RELATED PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE Co-Editor: Women s Studies International Forum Special Issue Circling the Globe: International Feminism Reconsidered, 1920-1975, (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 2009 - Researched same-sex education initiatives for Professor Juliet Williams 2008 - Researched sex scandal rhetoric for Professor Juliet Williams 2008 - Co-edited Women s Studies International Forum Special Issue for Professor Ellen C. Dubois 2007-8 - Coordinated Transnational Feminisms conference logistics with Professor Ellen Dubois 2006 - Assisted in writing of the Women s Studies Departmentalization Proposal 2005-06 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 2003 - Massachusetts & New Hampshire Certifications in Secondary English Instruction 3
High School English Teacher: Contoocook Valley High School Peterborough, NH 2003-05 - Courses included: Post World War II Modern Literature; Essay Writing; Crime and Mystery - Faculty Curriculum Committee Humanities Teacher: Francis W. Parker School Devens, MA 2002-2003 - Courses in: World Religions; Sexuality Education - Gay Straight Alliance Faculty Mentor; Middle School Girls Soccer Coach Gender and Sexuality Study Abroad, The Netherlands 2001 - 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 2010 - Evaluated prospective graduate student applications and their suitability for our curricular strengths Conference CoChair: Grad. Conference in Performance Studies- Anxieties of Overexposure 2009-10 - Conceptualized theme, panels, events, plenaries, funding & marketing (200 attendees) Marriage Equality Volunteer 2009 - Canvassed Southern California neighborhoods opposed to same-sex marriage Founder: Intersectional Feminisms Research Colloquium 2009 - quarterly faculty and student symposium to foster scholarly community Graduate Representative to the Women s Studies Faculty Advisory Council 2008-09 - Conceptualized Faculty and Student Research Colloquium - Solicited and communicated graduate students academic, financial, cultural and personal needs Performance Studies Graduate Student Working Group UCLA 2006-2010 - 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 2007 - 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 2006-09 Employment Leadership - Faculty Curriculum Committee English Department, Contoocook Valley High School 2004-2005 - Gay Straight Alliance Faculty Member, Francis W. Parker Charter School 2002-2003 - Middle School Girls Soccer Coach, Francis W. Parker Charter School Fall 2002 Dartmouth College Student Programming Coordinator -Women s Resource Center, notably: 4
- Collaboratively created and organized Intersections, a multi-media intersectional performance - Vagina Monologues coordinator and director, 400 attendees in 2001&2002 - 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) 712-2421; Fax: (404)-727-1973 Email: mlfinem@emory.edu Professor Juliet Williams (Dissertation Chair) Professor of Women s Studies UCLA Department of Women s Studies Phone: (805) 886-9587; Fax: (310) 206-7700 Email: jawilliams@women.ucla.edu Professor Rachel C. Lee (Dissertation Chair) Professor of English and Women s Studies UCLA Department of English Phone: (310) 825-7515; Fax: (310) 267-4339 Email: res08hrs@verizon.net Professor Leila J. Rupp (Committee Member) Department of Feminist Studies University of California, Santa Barbara Phone: (805) 893-6130; Fax: (805) 893-8676 Email: lrupp@femst.ucsb.edu Professor Douglas Kellner (Committee Member) George F. Kneller Philosophy of Education Chair UCLA Graduate School of Education and Information Studies Phone: (310) 825-0977 Fax: (310) 206-6293 Email: kellner@ucla.edu Professor Ellen Carol Dubois (Mentor) Professor of History and Women s Studies UCLA Department of History Phone: (310) 207-2002 Fax: (310) 206-9630 Email: edubois@history.ucla.edu 5