V I V I A N S H A W Curriculum Vitae August 2015 Mailing Address: The University of Texas-Austin Department of Sociology 305 E 23rd St, A1700 Austin, TX 78712-1086 Contact Information: Email: vivianshaw@utexas.edu EDUCATION Ph.D. Sociology, 2017 (Expected) Austin, TX Graduate Portfolio in Women s and Gender Studies Graduate Portfolio in Asian American Studies The University of Texas at Austin Comprehensive Exams in Theory, April 2014 Supervisors: Dr. Ben Carrington and Dr. Sharmila Rudrappa Dissertation: Human Fallout: Post-disaster citizenship in anti-nuclear and anti-racism collective action in Japan M.A. Sociology, 2012 The University of Texas at Austin Thesis: Atomic Memory: Theorizing Post-Racial Memory and Trauma in Hiroshima Graduate Certificate in Global Affairs, 2010 New York University The Center for Global Affairs, School of Continuing and Professional Studies B.A. Literary Theory and Gender Studies, 2006 New York University The Gallatin School of Individualized Study Colloquium: Sex-Gender and Representation Austin, TX New York, NY New York, NY GRANTS AND AWARDS Graduate Dean s Prestigious Fellowship Supplement, The University of Texas at Austin Graduate School, 2015 National Science Foundation Dissertation Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grants, 2015 ($12,000) Social Science Research Council Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Postdoctoral Fellowship, 2015 ($21,000) Alternate, Fulbright U.S. Student Program, 2015 Nippon Foundation Fellowship, 2015 ($44,395, tuition scholarship and stipend for Stanford University s Inter-University Center for Japanese Language Studies), declined V I V I A N S H A W Curriculum Vitae, page 1
Japanese-Language Program for Specialists in Cultural and Academic Fields award, Japan Foundation, 2014 (6-month language fellowship program in Osaka, Japan) Mitsubishi Graduate Research Fellowship, Mitsubishi Caterpillar Forklift America Inc., The University of Texas at Austin, 2014 Graduate Student Assembly Travel Grant, Graduate Student Assembly, The University of Texas at Austin, 2014. Ethnography Lab Fellowship, The University of Texas at Austin, The Department of Sociology, 2013 CLS Alumni Development Award, United States Department of State, Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, American Councils for International Education, 2013 Critical Language Scholarship in Japanese, United States Department of State, Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, American Councils for International Education, 2013, (2-month language fellowship program in Himeji, Japan) Pre-Doctoral Fellowship, The University of Texas at Austin, The Department of Sociology, 2013 Atomic Age II Symposium Scholarship, The Committee on Japanese Studies, Center for East Asian Studies, the Franke Institute for the Humanities, the Human Rights Program, and the Program on the Global Environment of the University of Chicago, and Depaul University, 2012 Graduate Student Professional Development Award, The University of Texas at Austin, College of Liberal Arts, 2011, 2012, 2013 Humanities, Arts, Science, and Technology Advanced Collaboratory (HASTAC) Scholar, 2011-2012 CEAS Graduate Student Travel Grant for East Asian Studies, The University of Texas at Austin, The Center for East Asian Studies, 2011 Intellectual Entrepreneurship Travel Grant, The University of Texas at Austin, College of Liberal Arts, Dorothy and John B. Pope Excellence Fund, 2011 Marc Chandler Global Citizenship Award, New York University, The Center for Global Affairs at the School of Continuing and Professional Studies, 2009-2010 The Dean s Award for Graduating Seniors, New York University, The Gallatin School of Individualized Study, 2006 Distinguished Research Paper Award in Japanese Studies, Franklin & Marshall College, 2002 V I V I A N S H A W Curriculum Vitae, page 2
RESEARCH AND PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE Visiting Researcher 2015-2017 Institute of Comparative Culture, Sophia University (Tokyo, Japan) Summer Graduate Fellow Summer 2015 The Bernard and Audre Rapoport Center for Human Rights and Justice Ethnography Lab Graduate Fellow The University of Texas at Austin, Department of Sociology 2014-present Graduate Research Assistant 2011-present The Connected Learning Research Network The University of Texas at Austin, Department of Radio-Television-Film Principal Investigator: Dr. S. Craig Watkins Funding: John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, Digital Media and Learning Initiative Conducted ethnographic research with Austin youth on their participation in digital, social, and mobile media technologies and environments; interviews, home visits and observations, and collection of self-reporting data. Collaborate with writing of book manuscript and other publications Coordinator of Support Services 2008-2010 New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene and The Fund for Public Health in New York, Healthy Start Brooklyn Program Developed and coordinated health education programming for Healthy Start Brooklyn an infant mortality reduction project and multiyear competitive grant federally funded by the Health Resources and Service Administration (HRSA) and administered through the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene and The Fund for Public Health. Assisted in grant application, evaluation, and research, including data systems, ethnographic studies, and annual reporting. TEACHING EXPERIENCE Teaching Certificate in First-Year Interdisciplinary Instruction, School of Undergraduate Studies, for extraordinary leadership and contributions to the UT-Austin Signature Course Teaching Assistant Program, 2013 Teaching Assistant The University of Texas at Austin, Department of Sociology The University of Texas at Austin, Center for Asian American Studies 2010-present Academic Mentor 2011 The University of Texas at Austin Athletics, Academic and Student Services Program SELECTED PROFESSIONAL AND INVITED PRESENTATIONS Shaw, Vivian. Not Real Japanese : Post-Disaster Social Crisis, Social Movements, and the rise of V I V I A N S H A W Curriculum Vitae, page 3
Nationalism after 2011. All I Need Is Love? Nation, Affect and Aversion in a Post-Imagined- Community Asia (An International Workshop). National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei, Taiwan. (forthcoming October 2015) Shaw, Vivian. Protests and Counter Protests: Differences in Anti-racism and Anti-nuclear Collective Action in Post-disaster Japan. American Sociological Association Annual Meeting 2015. Chicago, IL. (forthcoming August 2015) Shaw, Vivian. Bikini Abject: Pacific Island Nuclear Testing as a Technology of Exception. American Sociological Association Annual Meeting 2014. San Francisco, CA. (2014) Cho, Alex and Vivian Shaw. Digital Vocations: Race, Capital, and Creativity in the Information Economy. Media Sociology Preconference 2014. Oakland, CA. (forthcoming 2014). Shaw, Vivian. Energy and Identity: Women, History, and Anti-nuclear Social Movements in Japan, International Sociological Association World Congress of Sociology 2014. Yokohama, Japan. (forthcoming 2014) Watkins, S. Craig, Alex Cho, Andres Lombano-Bermudez, and Vivian Shaw. 2013. "The Digital Edge: Digital Inequalities and the Future of Learning." Invited Presentation for the MacArthur Foundation s Connected Learning Research Network Meeting. Austin, TX. Watkins, S. Craig, Alex Cho, Andres Lombano-Bermudez, and Vivian Shaw. 2013. "The Digital Edge: Digital Inequalities and the Future of Learning." Invited Presentation for the University of Texas at Austin Department of Radio-Television Film 2013-2014 Colloquium. Austin, TX. Shaw, Vivian. 2013. Peace without Race : Global Peace as a formation of post-racial ideology in Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum. Critical Ethnic Studies Association 2013 Conference. Chicago, IL. Shaw, Vivian. 2013. Trauma as Post-Race : Material Witnesses and the Racial Politics of Nuclear Trauma. Asian Studies Conference-Japan. Tokyo, Japan (Panel Organizer: 3/11 and the Atomic Age: Memory and Power from Hiroshima to Fukushima). Shaw, Vivian. 2013. Sociology of Memory: New and Classical Conceptualizations of Memory, Personal or Commodity, Public or Private? 2013 Pacific Sociological Association. Reno, NV (Panel Discussant). Shaw, Vivian. 2012. Atomic Memory: The Transnational Aesthetics of Race, Gender, and Trauma in the Museum. 2012 Pacific Sociological Association. San Diego, CA. Shaw, Vivian. 2012. Atomic Memory: The Transnational Aesthetics of Race, Gender, and Trauma in the Museum. 2012 Pacific Sociological Association. San Diego, CA. Shaw, Vivian. 2012. Remembering Hiroshima: Race, Space, and Cultural Memory in the Museum. Invited Guest Lecture for Dr. Simone Browne s Race, Culture, And Migration undergraduate seminar. Austin, TX. V I V I A N S H A W Curriculum Vitae, page 4
Shaw, Vivian. 2011. Atomic Memory: The Political Aesthetics of Race, Gender, and Trauma in the Museum. Fall 2011 Sociology Brownbag Series. Austin, TX. Shaw, Vivian. 2011. Racism, Regret, Reparations: The public apology as performed politics. 61st Annual Meeting of The Society for the Study of Social Problems. Las Vegas, NV. Shaw, Vivian. 2011. Student Forum Roundtable Session: Gender and Culture, 2011 American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, NV. (Roundtable Presider) Shaw, Vivian. 2011. Racism, Regret, Reparations: The public apology as performed politics. 39th Annual National Conference of The National Association for Ethnic Studies. Claremont, CA. Shaw, Vivian. 2010. Childbirth Classes Cycles 1-4: Demographics, Partner Support, and Clients Birth Experiences. Advisory Board Meeting for Healthy Start Brooklyn. Brooklyn, NY MANUSCRIPTS IN REVIEW OR REVISION Shaw, Vivian. The bomb that hit us was racism : Locating the global postracial at Hiroshima" (under review) MANUSCRIPTS IN PREPARATION Cho, Alex and Vivian Shaw. Digital Vocations: Race, Capital, and Creativity in the Information Economy. Cho, Alex and Vivian Shaw. Pathways and Future Orientations, in S. Craig Watkins (Ed). The Digital Edge. (chapter) Vickery, Jacqueline, Vivian Shaw, Jennifer Noble, Adam Williams, and S. Craig Watkins. The Crisis of Schooling in Edge Communities, in S. Craig Watkins (Ed). The Digital Edge. (chapter) PROFESSIONAL SERVICE Graduate Student Representative 2014-2015 Section on Asia and Asian America, American Sociological Association Editorial Board Member 2013-2014 Bernard and Audre Rapoport Center for Human Rights and Justice Working Paper Series, The University of Texas at Austin Coordinator 2011-2014 Race & Ethnicity Student and Faculty Group, Department of Sociology, The University of Texas at Austin Column Editor 2011-2013 FLOW, Department of Radio-Television-Film, The University of Texas at Austin Managing Editor 2010-2013 V I V I A N S H A W Curriculum Vitae, page 5
Intersections: Women s and Gender Studies in Review Across Disciplines, The University of Texas at Austin Referee 2011 Student Forum Advisory Board, American Sociological Association SKILLS Japanese: Advanced level in speaking; Intermediate level in reading and writing Certification: Intermediate Mid level, American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages, August 2013 Software and Programming: Adobe Photoshop, HTML, Stata V I V I A N S H A W Curriculum Vitae, page 6