CURRICULUM VITAE
BROOKE ACKERLY
ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR
POLITICAL SCIENCE DEPARTMENT
VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY
NASHVILLE, TN 37235-1817
615-322-6231
[email protected]
http://www.vanderbilt.edu/psci/ackerly
DEGREES EARNED
STANFORD UNIVERSITY, Stanford, CA
Ph. D. in Political Science
Dissertation: Listening to the Silent Voices:
a Feminist Political Philosophy of Social Criticism
Chair: Susan Moller Okin
June 1997
WILLIAMS COLLEGE, Williamstown, MA
Bachelor of Arts cum laude in French and in Economics with Honors
Thesis: A Multi-sector Comparative Analysis of Sources of Growth
in the Malaysian Economy
June 1988
APPOINTMENTS
Associate Professor, POLITICAL SCIENCE DEPARTMENT
PHILOSOPHY DEPARTMENT, secondary appointment
WOMEN’S AND GENDER STUDIES PROGRAM, Affiliated Faculty
VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY, Nashville, TN
2007-present
Assistant Professor, POLITICAL SCIENCE DEPARTMENT
PHILOSOPHY DEPARTMENT, secondary appointment
WOMEN’S AND GENDER STUDIES PROGRAM, Affiliated Faculty
2001-2007
Post-doctoral Research Fellow, CENTER FOR INTERNATIONAL STUDIES.
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA, Los Angeles, CA
2000 - 2001
Visiting Assistant Professor, POLITICAL SCIENCE DEPARTMENT,
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, Los Angeles, CA
1997 – 2000
PUBLICATIONS
BOOKS
With Jacqui True. Doing Feminist Research in Political and Social Science. Palgrave Macmillan. 2010
Universal Human Rights in a World of Difference. Cambridge University Press, 2008
(Reviewed in Political Theory, H-Human-Rights, Melbourne Journal of International Law, SIGNS)
Honorable mention, David Easton Award, Foundations of Political Theory
Political Theory and Feminist Social Criticism. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000
(Reviewed in Political Theory, The American Political Science Review, International Feminist Journal of
Politics, Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, NWSA Journal (National Women's Studies
Association), Feminism and Philosophy, Feminist Theory, Politeia, Journal of Interdisciplinary Gender
Studies, Journal of Intercultural Studies, The Journal of Asian Studies, Economy and Society, Australian
Journal of Political Science, Philosophy in Review).
EDITED BOOKS
Feminist Theory and Gender Studies, International Studies Compendium, Editor, 2010
For this project, I edited 50 essays and will co- edit a volume on Feminist International
Relations. The Compendium appears in print and online. The Compendium is be updated over
time. (http://www.isacompendium.com/public/about_editor)
With Maria Stern, and Jacqui True, editors. Feminist Methodologies for International Relations. Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 2006
(Reviewed in Perspectives on Politics, International Studies Review, Gender and Development, Politics and
Gender, Cooperation and Conflict.)
ARTICLES IN REFEREED JOURNALS
“Politics in the Age of Academic Irony.” Politics, Groups and Identities, forthcoming.
With Rose McDermott. "Recent Developments in Intersectionality Research: Expanding Beyond
Race and Gender." Politics & Gender 8: 1-4, 2012
“External and internal non-state actors and human rights.” Contemporary Political Theory, 11, 2: 229240, 2012
“Human rights enjoyment in theory and activism.” Human Rights Review, 12, 2: 221-239, 2011
With Miguel Cruz. “Hearing the Voice of the People: Human Rights as if People Mattered.” New
Political Science, 33, 1, 2011
With Jacqui True. “Back to the Future: Feminist Theory, Activism, and Doing Feminist Research in
an Age of Globalization.” Women’s Studies International Forum, 33, 5: 464-472, 2010
With Katy Attanasi. “Global Feminisms: Theory and Ethics for Studying Gendered Injustice.” New
Political Science 31, 4: 543-555, 2009
“Feminist Methods in International Relations.” Politics & Gender 5, 03: 409-410, 2009
“Why a Feminist Theorist Studies Methods.” Politics & Gender 5, 03: 431-436, 2009
Michael P. Vandenbergh, Brooke A. Ackerly and Fred E. Forster. “Micro-Offsets and MacroTransformation: An Inconvenient View of Climate Change Justice.” Harvard Environmental Law
Review 33, 2: 303-348, 2009
“Feminist Theory, Global Gender Justice, and the Evaluation of Grant-Making.” Philosophical Topics
37, 2 (Spring): 161-180, 2009
 Translated into Portuguese : Teoria Feminista, Justiça de Gênero Global e Avaliação da
Tomada de Concessões. International Relations and Gender Issues. In International Relations
collection and globalization. RS: Unijui for dezember 2010. Odete Maria de Oliveria (ed.)
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With Jacqui True. “Reflexivity in Practice: Power and Ethics in Feminist Research on International
Relations.” International Studies Review 10: 693-707, 2008
 Translated into Portuguese: Reflexividade em Prática: Poder e Ética na Pesquisa Feminista
das Relações Internacionais. International Relations and Gender Issues. In International Relations
collection and globalization. RS: Unijui for dezember 2010. Odete Maria de Oliveria (ed.)
With Michael P. Vandenbergh. “Climate Change Justice: The Challenge for Global Governance.”
Georgetown International Environmental Law Journal 20: 553-571, 2008
With Jacqui True. “Intersectional Analysis of International Relations: Recasting the Discipline.”
Politics and Gender, 4, 1 (March): 156-173, 2008
Michael P. Vandenbergh and Brooke A. Ackerly. “Climate Change: The Equity Problem.”
Virginia Environmental Law Journal, Vol. 26, 1: 55-76, 2008
“How does change happen? Deliberation and difficulty.” Hypatia: Journal of Feminist Philosophy, 22, 4
(Fall): 46-64, 2007
“Deliberative Democratic Theory for Building Global Civil Society: Designing a Virtual Community
of Activists.” Contemporary Political Theory. 5, 2 (May): 113-141, 2006
“John Rawls: An Introduction,” and editor, “Symposium John Rawls and the Study of Politics: Legacies of
Inquiry.” Perspectives on Politics. 4, 1 (March): 75-133, 2006. With other contributions from Simone
Chambers, Iris Marion Young, Nancy Rosenblum, Russell Muirhead, Michael Doyle, and Peter
Berkowitz
“Is Liberalism the Only Way toward Democracy? Confucianism and Democracy.” Political Theory. 3,
4 (August): 547-576, 2005
“Women’s Human Rights Activists as Cross-Cultural Theorists.” International Journal of Feminist
Politics. 3, 3: 1-36, 2001
“Testing the Tools of Development: Credit Programs, Loan Involvement, and Women’s
Empowerment.” IDS Bulletin. 26, 3 (July): 56-68, 1995
PEER REVIEWED CHAPTERS (CONTRIBUTIONS TO EDITED VOLUMES)
"The Hardest Cases of Global Injustice: The Responsibility to Inquire," in Justice, Sustainability, and
Security: Global Ethics for the 21st Century, ed. Eric Heinze: Palgrave Macmillan, forthcoming
With Jacqui True, "Methods and Methodologies, Gender and Politics, Oxford University Press, 109133, forthcoming
With Katy Attanasi, “Feminisms for now: Theory, Ethics and Politics” in Transnational Feminisms:
Theories, Identities, Representations. (Volume 1 of Transnational Feminisms series.), eds Marin, N., &
Lengel, L. New York, NY: Hampton Press, 2012
“Uncritical Theory” in Critical Theory in International Relations and Security Studies: Interviews and Reflections,
eds Shannon Brincat, Laura Lima, and João Nunes, Routledge, 140-146, 2012
“Intelligence and compassion, the tools of feminists” in Feminist International Relations: Conversations
about the Past, Present, and Future, J. Ann Tickner and Laura Sjoberg, eds. London and New York:
Routledge, 2011
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« Teoria Feminista, Justiça de Gênero Global e Avaliação da Tomada de Concessões. » International
Relations and Gender Issues. In International Relations collection and globalization. Odete Maria de
Oliveria, ed. RS: Unijui for dezember 2010
With Jacqui True, « Reflexividade em Prática: Poder e Ética na Pesquisa Feminista das Relações
Internacionais. » International Relations and Gender Issues. In International Relations collection and
globalization. Odete Maria de Oliveria, ed. RS: Unijui for dezember 2010
With Laura Sjoberg, “Feminist Theory and Gender Studies” in International Studies Compendium,
Robert Denemark, et al., eds. Blackwell, 2010.
With Ying Zhang, “Feminist Ethics in International Relations,” in International Studies Compendium,
Robert Denemark, et al., eds. Blackwell, 2010.
“Women’s organizations and global governance: the need for diversity in global civil society.” In
Global Governance / Global Government: Power and Possibility in an Evolving World System. Luis Cabrera,
ed. State University of New York Press, 2010.
“Human Rights and the Epistemology of Social Contract Theory.” In The Illusion of Consent: Essays
after Carole Pateman. Daniel O’Neill, Molly Shanley, Iris Marion Young, editors. Pennsylvania
State Press, 2008
“Feminism and Qualitative Methodologies.” Qualitative Methods in International Relations: A Pluralist
Guide, Audie Klotz, editor. Palgrave, 2008
“Networking and Collaboration for Women’s Human Rights: Activists, Scholars, and Donors.” In
Sustainable Feminisms. Sonita Sarker, ed. Advances in Gender Research Series, Marcia Segal and
Vicky Demos, editors. Elsevier/AGR, 2007
With Maria Stern and Jacqui True. “Feminist Methodologies for International Relations.” In
Feminist Methodologies for International Relations. Brooke Ackerly, Maria, Stern and Jacqui True, eds.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1-16, 2006
With Jacqui True. “Studying the Struggles and Wishes of the Age: Feminist theoretical methodology
and feminist theoretical methods.” In Feminist Methodologies for International Relations. Brooke
Ackerly, Maria Stern, and Jacqui True, eds. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 241-260,
2006
With Maria Stern and Jacqui True. “Conclusion.” With Jacqui True and Maria Stern. In Feminist
Methodologies for International Relations. Brooke Ackerly, Maria Stern, and Jacqui True, eds.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 261-263, 2006
“Women’s Human Rights Activists as Political Theorists.” Feminist politics, activism and vision: local and
global challenges, Luciana Ricciutelli, Angela Miles and Margaret McFadden, eds. London:
Zed/Inanna, 285-312, 2004
“Designing Democratic Institutions: Political or Economic?” In Designing Democratic Institutions, Ian
Shapiro and Stephen Macedo, eds. NOMOS Vol XLII. New York: New York University Press,
185-295, 2000
“Feminist Theory: Liberal.” In International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences. Paul Baltes,
Paula England, Philip Pettit, and Neil Smelser, editors. Elsevier Science Ltd., 5499-5502, 2002
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With Susan M. Okin. “Feminist Social Criticism and the International Movement for Women’s
Rights as Human Rights.” In Democracy’s Edges, Ian Shapiro and Casiano Hacker-Cordón, eds.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 134-162, 1999
“What’s in a Design? The effects of NGO choices on women’s empowerment and on family and
social institutions in Bangladesh.” In Getting Institutions Right for Women in Development. Anne Marie
Goetz, ed. London: Zed Books, 140-158, 1997
BOOK REVIEWS
“Two concepts of “concept”: a review of Politics, Gender, and Concepts: Theory and Methodology edited by
Gary Goertz and Amy Mazur,” Politics and Gender 2010
“Sarah Song’s Justice, Gender, and the Politics of Multiculturalism and Anne Phillips’s Multiculturalism
without Culture” Hypatia 2009
“Interdisciplinarity and Integration: Feminism in Human Rights and Development.” SIGNS: Journal
of Women in Cultures and Society. Review essay. 29, 1: 248-254, 2003
Democratic Theorizing from the Margins by Marla Brettschneider. Perspectives on Politics, 1 (June): 379, 2003
The Other Feminists: Activists in the Liberal Establishment by Susan M. Hartmann. Voluntas: International
Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations 13, 3 (September): 322-324, 2002
WORKING PAPERS SERIES
With Bina D’Costa. “Transnational feminism: Political strategies and theoretical resources.”
Australian National University, Department of International Relations working paper series
2005/1
With Bina D’Costa. “Transnational Feminism and the Human Rights Framework.” United Nations
Research Institute for Social Development. 2004
“Women’s Human Rights as Human Rites.” Columbia International Affairs Online
OTHER SCHOLARSHIP
“Breakthrough Evaluation: An External Rights-Based Evaluation of Grantmaking for Gender
Equality.” Global Fund for Women and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Netherlands. 2012
Human Rights and Human Welfare Roundtable
“The Right Side of the Coin: Focus on the Human Rights of People, not the Failure of
States,” August 2011 (http://www.du.edu/korbel/hrhw/roundtable/2011/panel-b/082011/ackerly-2011c.html)
“The Hearts and Minds of the citizens,” June 2011
(http://www.du.edu/korbel/hrhw/roundtable/2011/panel-b/06-2011/ackerly-2011b.html
“A Rights-Based Approach to Global Injustice,” April 2011
(http://www.du.edu/korbel/hrhw/roundtable/2011/panel-b/04-2011/ackerly-2011a.html)
WORK IN PROGRESS
BOOK
Everyday Injustice and Global Responsibility, a book of feminist political theory and global justice
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TALKS AND ARTICLES (NOT APPEARING AS PUBLISHED ELSEWHERE IN THE CV)
With Jose Miguel Cruz (former graduate student, Political Science). “Hearing the Voice of the
People: Human Rights as if People Mattered.”
With Jennifer Stuhr (former undergraduate student, Political Science). “Deliberative Democracy and
an Environmental Public.”
With Lyndi Hewitt (Hofstra University, Sociology) and Sarah VanHooser (Duke University Medical
Center). “The Research Questions of Women’s Movements: Participatory Research with
Women’s Movements.”
With Wei Li. “Confucian Feminism? A Mixed Method Approach to Confucian Feminism.”
INTERNATIONAL INVITATIONS
ESF research conference “Tracing Social Inequality in Environmentally Induced Migration”
Bielefeld, Germany, 09-13 December 2012, Invited Lecture, expenses and honorarium
“COST Programme on Climate Change and Migration: Knowledge, Law and Policy, and Theory,”
Utrecht University, 8 September 2012. Invited Lecture, expenses
“Human Rights Legal Frameworks in the Climate Change Regime” being held at Utrecht University,
Netherlands Institute of Human Rights, 6-7 September 2012, Invited Lecture, expenses and
honorarium
“Korean and Comparative Political Philosophy,” Seoul National University in Seoul, June 7-9, 2012.
Invited Lecture, expenses and honorarium
“Rights-Based Evaluation for Social Change Work” AWID Forum, Istambul, Turkey, April 19-21,
2012
Distinguished Lecture, Department of Political Science and Liu Institute for Global Issues,
University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, January 13, 2012. Invited Lecture, expenses and
honorarium
10th Anniversary of the Master of Laws in Human Rights Programme, Faculty of Law, The
University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China, March 13, 2010, Invited Lecture, expenses and
honorarium
The Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva, Switzerland, December
7, 2009. Invited Lecture, expenses and honorarium
OAK Foundation, Evaluating the Women’s Funds, Geneva, Switzerland, December 2-5, 2009.
Invited Lecture, expenses
Feminist Ethics and Research, Social Science Research Council conference on research on gender in
crisis and conflict contexts, Franschhoek, South Africa, August 17, 2009. Invited Lecture, expenses
and honorarium
Butler Lecturer on Social Responsibility, University of Victoria. April 9, 2009. Invited Lecture, expenses
and honorarium
Feminist Research Methods – An International Conference. Stockholm University, Sweden.
February 4-6, 2009 declined
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First European Conference on Politics and Gender. Queen’s University Belfast. Belfast, Northern
Ireland, January 21-23, 2009 declined
“Dangerous Dissections.” May 30, 2008. University of Oslo, Center for Mind and Nature, Global
Gender Justice Conference. Invited Lecture, expenses and honorarium
US INVITATIONS
"Environmental Security, Human Rights and Human Security," Human Rights and Human Security in
Conversation, University of Nebraska-Lincoln November 1-2, 2012. Invited Lecture, expenses and
honorarium
"Global Injustice: 'Global Justice' in a Feminist Key," Society of Analytical Feminism, October 6, 2012,
keynote and honorarium
“Human rights and social change: Theory, action, social change and evaluation.” UNICEF.
November 19, 2010. Invited Lecture, expenses and honorarium
“Intelligence and compassion, the tools of feminists,” University of Southern California, Twenty
Years of Feminist International Relations Conference, April 10, 2010. Invited Lecture, expenses and
honorarium
The People in Democratic Thought. May 14-16, 2008. Princeton University. Invited Seminar, expenses
“Justifying Universal Human Rights.” November 12, 2007. University of Colorado, Morris Lecture.
Invited Lecture, expenses and honorarium
“Global Feminism – What’s that? Scholarship for people’s lives.” Key Note address of week-long series:
Celebration of the Arts and Sciences Belmont University. February 19, 2007. Invited Lecture, expenses
and honorarium
“Global Feminist Questions.” Florida International University. October 26, 2006. Invited Lecture, expenses
and honorarium
“The role of women’s human rights discourses in the successes and challenges of women’s struggles
for justice.” Williams College. November 10, 2005. Invited Lecture, expenses and honorarium
“Universal Human Rights?” Political Theory Seminar, Political Science Department. University of
North Carolina, Chapel Hill. October 6, 2005. Invited Lecture, expenses and honorarium
“Comments on ‘Civil Society and International Organizations’ by Francesca Bignami.” International
Legal Theory Roundtable, Vanderbilt University Law School. September 17, 2005
“Seeking Gender Justice Beyond the Beijing Conference: Reflections, Dialogue, and Strategic
Action.” Moynihan Institute of Global Affairs. Syracuse University. September 16, 2005. Invited
Lecture, expenses and honorarium
“Gender and Qualitative Methodologies.” Seminar on Qualitative Political Analysis, Maxwell
School, Syracuse University. September 16, 2005. Invited Lecture, expenses and honorarium
“Feminist Curb Cutting: a methodology for the immanent study of universal human.” Political
Science Department, University of Pennsylvania. 2005. Invited Lecture, expenses and honorarium
“Immanent Universal Human rights: More Legitimate that Reasonable.” Washington University and St.
Louis University. Invited conference on Democracy and Global Justice. April 1-2, 2005. Invited Lecture,
expenses and honorarium
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“Gender Hierarchy as an Economic Resource.” Comments Inspired by Young’s “The Gendered
Cycle of Vulnerability in the Less Developed World.” Toward a Humanist Justice: A Conference
Honoring and Examining the Work of Susan Moller Okin. Stanford University, February 3-5, 2005.
Invited Lecture, expenses and honorarium
“Culture, Gender and Human Rights: A memorial essay for Susan Okin.” Presented at Gender and
Philosophy Seminar, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, April 22, 2004. Invited Lecture, expenses and
honorarium
“Learnings from Scholar-Activist Dialogue.” Pacific Institute for Women’s Health, May 24, 2001
“Women’s Rights are Human Rites: Women’s Human Rights Activists as Cross-Cultural Theorists.”
Presented at the Center for International Studies, University of Southern California, October 4, 2000
“Human Rights and Human Rites.” Political Theory Seminar. Yale University, January 25, 2000
“Asylum and Universal Human Rights.” School of Public Policy, University of California, Los Angeles,
February 8, 2000
“Listening to the Silent Voices: Deliberative Democracy in the Real World.” Thinking Gender, cosponsored by The UCLA Center for the Study of Women and the USC Center for Feminist Research.
March 7, 1997
“Measuring the Impact of Micro-credit Programs on Fertility.” Consultant. Conference hosted by
the Population Council. December 15-16, 1997
SELECTED CONFERENCE PAPERS (NOT REFLECTED IN PUBLISHED PAPERS OR WORKS
IN PROGRESS)
“Teaching Gender in International Relations.” short course of the Annual Meeting of the American
Political Science Association Seattle, WA August 31, 2011
With Wei Li. “Confucian Feminism? A Mixed Method Approach to Confucian Feminism.” Annual
meeting of the American Political Science Association Boston, MA August 29, 2008
“Where are we divided? Theory and methodology in IR.” International Studies Association, March 27,
2008. Diversified We Stand: Feminist, Formal, Quantitative, and Realist Approaches to International Politics
Multiple Perspectives on Feminist Security Studies: Where are we divided? International Studies
Association, March 27, 2008. Multiple Perspectives on Feminist Security Studies
With Sonalini Sapra. “Citizenship and citizenship: theory and activism.” International Studies
Association. San Diego, March 21, 2006. Co-authorship in the form of mentoring graduate student
“Two Common Assumptions and Their Methodological Implications for Comparative Political
Thought about International Global Norms.” Annual meeting of the American Political Science
Association Washington, DC, September 1, 2005
“Transnational Feminist human rights activism: local and global.” International Studies Association
annual meeting. Honolulu, March 2-6, 2005
“Women’s Human Rights in Perspective: Scholars, Activists, Donors.” World Social Forum. Porto
Alegre, Brazil, January 2005
“Curb Cut Analysis: A Feminist Theoretical Method for Studying Culture, Gender and Human
Rights.” Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association. Chicago, September 2-5, 2004
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“Transnational Feminism and the Human Rights Framework.” Annual Meeting of the International
Studies Association. Montreal, March 17-20, 2004
“Feminist Curb Cuts and Critical Theory for Democratic and Human Rights Theories.” Annual
Meeting of the International Studies Association. Montreal, March 17-20, 2004
“Networking for Women’s Human Rights.” World Social Forum, Mumbai, January 18, 2004
“Women’s Human Rights in Perspective: Scholars, Activists, Donors.” Sustainable Feminisms: Enacting
Theories, Envisioning Action, A Cross-border Conference. Macalester College, October 3-5, 2003.
“Critical Democratic and Human Rights Theories.” Annual Meeting of the American Political Science
Association. Philadelphia, August 28-31, 2003
“Lessons from Deliberative Democratic Theory for Building Global Civil Society.” Annual Meeting of
the American Political Science Association. Philadelphia, August 28-31, 2003
“Networking for Women’s Human Rights.” Interdisciplinary workshop for activists, donors, policymakers and academics. Biannual Meeting of the Association for Women’s Rights and Development,
Guadalajara, Mexico, October 3-6, 2002
“Human rights theory in women's human rights activism: a feminist methodological approach to
intra-cultural and cross-cultural universal human rights theory.” Annual Meeting of the American
Political Science Association. Boston, August 28-September 1, 2002
“Transnational Justice: A Feminist Development of Critical International Relations Theory.” With
Jacqui True. Annual Meeting of the International Studies Association. New Orleans, March 23, 2002
“Human Rights Practice and Grassroots Theory: Towards a Cross-Cultural Theory of Universal
Human Rights.” Annual Meeting of the International Studies Association, February 23, 2001
“Learnings from Scholar-Activists’ Dialogue.” Annual Meeting of the International Studies Association,
February 24, 2001
“Democracy as Social Criticism: Common Ground in Western and Eastern Political Thought.”
Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association. August 31 - September 3, 2000
“Our Rights are Human Rites.” Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association. September 25, 1999
Brooke Ackerly and Susan M. Okin. “Feminist Social Criticism and the International Movement for
Women’s Rights as Human Rights.” Annual Meeting of the American Philosophical Association, Pacific
Division Meeting, April 2, 1999
“Democracy Is Not a Western Concept.” Annual Meeting of the Western Political Science Association.
March 25, 1999
“The Middle of the Story: Between the Democratic Social Contract and Deliberative Democracy.”
The Sexual Contract: Ten Years Later. Center for the Study of Women, UCLA. January 28, 1998
“Designing Democratic Institutions.” Commentary on “Constitutional Design: An Oxymoron” by
Donald Horowitz. Annual Meeting of the American Society for Political and Legal Philosophy. January 56, 1998
“Militarism and National Security: The Role of Gender.” Chair/discussant for “Gender at the
National War College” by Judith Stiehm and “National Security: A Gendered Discourse” by J.
Ann Tickner. Center for the Study of Women, UCLA. November 12, 1998
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“Who’s Listening to the Silent Voices? Deliberative Democratic Theory, Feminist Social Criticism,
and Feminist Theory.” Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association. August 28-31,
1997
“Organizational Choice and Institutional Change: the Empowerment Strategies of Credit Programs
in Bangladesh.” Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association. August 28-31, 1997
“Testing the Tools of Development.” Annual Meeting of the Association for the Advancement of Policy,
Research and Development in the Third World. November 20, 1995
“Microenterprise Promotion Through Credit-Granting Schemes: Potential Implications for
Economic Development in Africa.” Berkeley-Stanford Joint Center for African Studies. May 15, 1993
CONVENED CONFERENCES, WORKSHOPS AND LECTURE SERIES
Convener, Dimensions of Risk in Early Modern British Political Thought, by Emily Nacol, manuscript
workshop, November 4-5, 2011
Convener, Human Rights without Freedom. Vanderbilt University, October 23, 2008
Convener, Environmental and Gender Justice - Linked Paths to Social Justice, Conference on activism and
scholarship for social justice in the areas of gender and environmental justice, Vanderbilt
University, 2008
Convener, Activism and Scholarship for social justice, Conference on activism and scholarship for social
justice in the areas of gender justice and reconciliation. Keynote Speaker, Bina D’Costa, Australia
National University, “NGO’s and Civil Society: Strategies on Truth and Reconciliation in Asia,”
Vanderbilt University, 2007
Convener, Workshop on activism and scholarship for women’s rights and social justice. Keynote Speaker,
Joanna Kerr, former Executive Director of the Association for Women’s Rights and
Development, “State of Global Feminisms and Women’s Movement,” Vanderbilt University,
2007
Co-convener, Contract and Domination: a public lecture and debate between Carole Pateman author of
The Sexual Contract and Charles Mills author of The Racial Contract, Vanderbilt University, 2005
Co-convener, lecture series. “The Legacy of John Rawls.” Vanderbilt University, 2004
Co-convener, workshop. “Feminist Methodologies for International Studies.” International Studies
Association Workshop International Studies Association Annual Meeting. Portland, Oregon. February
2003
Co-convener, Warren Center Fellows Conference. “Gender, Sexuality, and Political Action.”
Vanderbilt University, 2003
Convener, international meeting. “Working Together: Scholars, Activists, and Donors.” Association
for Women's Rights in Development International Forum, Guadalajara, Mexico, October 3-6, 2002
Convener, international conference. “Human Rights Activism and Networking: local, national,
regional, international.” Conference for women’s human rights activists, scholars and donors. Principle
Investigator. February 5, 2001
Section coordinator, Human rights. “Gender in International Relations: From Seeing Women and
Recognizing Gender to Transforming Policy Research.” International Conference on Gender
and IR. Craig Murphy and Ann Tickner, PIs. February, 1-4, 2001
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GRANTS AND FELLOWSHIPS
“Environmental stress and human migration in a low-lying developing nation: A comparison of coevolving natural and human landscapes in the physically and culturally diverse context of
Bangladesh,” Office of Naval Research FY2011 MURI TOPIC # 5 Coupled Human-Landscape
Interactions in Low-lying Coastal Environments, $7.5 million, in collaboration with five other
departments, led by Steven Goodbred, Earth and Environmental Sciences
2011-2014
“Methodologies for Evaluating the Achievements of Women’s Organizations,”
The Global Fund for Women, $26,000
2009-2012
“Ethics and Feminist Methods for Research on Gender and Post-Crisis,”
Social Science Research Council, $20,000
2009
“Equity Offset” with Michael Vandenbergh, Center for Nashville Studies, $9000, 1 year
2008
Institutional partnership development grant, Vanderbilt International Office
2008
“Global Feminisms Collaborative,” Center for Ethics, $248,250, 3 years
2006 - 2009
“Ecology and Spirituality,” Center for Religion and Culture, $9,000, 3 years
2005 - 2007
“Research and Representation,” Center for the Americas, $1,000, 1 year
2005 - 2006
“Religion and Economics,” Center for Religion and Culture, $2,000, 3 years
2004 - present
“A Universal and Cross-Cultural Human Rights Theory,”
Vanderbilt University Research Scholar, 2/3 salary, 1 year
2004 - 2005
“Strategic Actions: Women, Power, and Gender Norms,”
Robert Penn Warren Center for the Humanities Fellowship, $4,000, 1 year
2004 - 2005
United Nations Research Institute for Social Development.
Preparation for Beijing plus Ten, $3,000
2003
“Feminist Methodologies for International Studies,”
International Studies Association Workshop Grant, $5,000, 1 day conference
2003
“Gender, Sexuality, and Political Culture,”
Robert Penn Warren Center for the Humanities Fellowship, $4,000, 1 year
2002 - 2003
“Democracy, Human Rights, and Human Rites,” Center for International Studies,
University of Southern California. Los Angeles, CA, salary and stipend
2000 - 2001
HONORS AND AWARDS
Christian Bay Best Paper Award, New Political Science, APSA annual meeting
2010
Distinguished Service Award, Feminist Theory Gender Studies
International Studies Association
2010
Barry Prize in Ethics, Philosophy Department, Vanderbilt
2009
David Easton Award, Honorable Mention. The David Easton Award is given for a book that
broadens the horizons of contemporary political science by engaging issues of philosophical
significance in political life through any of a variety of approaches in the social sciences and
humanities.
2009
Margaret Cuninggim Women's Center Mentoring Award
2007
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Vanderbilt University Outstanding Graduate Teaching Award
2004
Huntington Library. San Marino, CA, “Victoria Woodhull
and Contemporary Feminism”
1998 - 1999
“American Political Thought: The Social Gospel Movement”
1997 - 1998
MacArthur Consortium on Democracy and Popular Empowerment Affiliation
1996 - 1997
American Association of University Women American Fellowship, salary
1996 - 1997
Stanford University Research Fellowship
1995 - 1996
Stanford University Teaching Assistantship
1993 - 1995
Stanford Center for Conflict and Negotiation Fellowship
1994
J. William Fulbright Research Fellowship. Bangladesh. “Perceptions of Intra-Family Power Relations
in Credit Program Design and Implementation”
1993
Jack Larned International Management Prize, Williams College
1988
Erastus C. Benedict First Prize in French, Williams College
1988
CONSULTANCIES
FEMINIST ETHICS AND METHODOLOGY
“Breakthrough Evaluation: An External Rights-Based Evaluation of Grantmaking for
Gender Equality.” Global Fund for Women and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the
Netherlands. 2012
Guidelines and operational plan for the ethical review board for the research sponsored by
the new Global Center for Crisis Prevention and Recovery,
United Nations Development Program and Social Science Research Council
2009
TRANSNATIONAL FEMINISM
United Nations Research Institute for Social Development, Geneva
2004
GENDER AND MICROENTERPRISE CONFERENCE CONSULTANT
Population Council, New York, NY
1997
INTERNATIONAL TRAINING AND EDUCATION CONSULTANT
Grameen Bank, Dhaka, Bangladesh
1993
ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CONSULTANT,
Save the Children Federation, Westport, CT
1992 and 1994
TEACHING
Introduction to Political Theory. Modern and contemporary political thought. Global feminist
theories and methods. Global Feminisms. Human rights. Liberalism and it Critics. Gender in the
Historical and Contemporary Social and Political Thought.
DISSERTATION COMMITTEES
Farhana Loonat, Chair
Stacy Clifford, Political Science, Chair
2012
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Sonalini Sapra, Political Science, Chair
Eleanor Fleming, Political Science, Chair
2009
2006
Ashish Koul, History
Janis Heather Lee, Graduate Department of Religion
Sandy Smith, Sociology
Damian Williams, Sociology
Lyndi Hewitt, Sociology
Sheila Katz, Sociology
Terri Spetalnick, Sociology
2010
2009
2008
2005
Carolyn Cusick, Philosophy
Zachary Vanderveen, Philosophy
2012
2009
Katherine Attanasi, Graduate Department of Religion
John Steve Cook, Graduate Department of Religion
San Young Lee, Graduate Department of Religion
Yong Chen, Graduate Department of Religion
2009
2009
2006
2005
Jennifer Hathaway, Department of Teaching and Learning
2009
VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY EXTRA-CURRICULAR TEACHING AND MENTORING
(ON-GOING)
Faculty Advisor, Mayfield
2012-present
Faculty Advisor, Liberty in North Korea, a human rights group
2011-present
Host for Teaching Visits for Vanderbilt’s junior faculty, Center for Teaching
Fall 2010
Arts & Science Mentoring program
2009 – present
Global Feminisms Collaborative, Working group of faculty and graduate students
using diverse methodologies to study questions of social justices across theoretical
perspectives, disciplines, time and geography (and to sponsor associated activities)
2006 – present
Earth and Environmental Studies Cap Stone Course which integrates social science, science and
engineering approaches to understanding major problems
2010, 2012
Faculty Sponsor, Cookies and Conversation
– undergraduate student-directed informal conversations with academic guests
2007 – 2010
Faculty Sponsor, Global Feminisms Brown Bag
2007 – 2010
– faculty and graduate students share work in progress
– informal mentor to graduate students in Sociology, Education, Philosophy,
Religion, VUCEMS
Phi Alpha Delta (Pre-Law Society), faculty advisor
2008 – 2010
Project Dialogue, faculty advisor
2008 – present
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Climate Change Research Network, Vanderbilt, Institution building. Developing
and supporting collaborative research and mentoring opportunities for graduate
students interested in climate research
2006 – present
African Gender Institute, University of Cape Town, Institution building
2006 – 2008
– Collaborating in building bibliography, course material, student exchange,
methodology for research, pedagogy
VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY EXTRA-CURRICULAR TEACHING AND MENTORING
(EVENTS)
Human Identities Special Event on Identity, Activism, and Transforming Philanthropy
2012
Commons Reading Special Event on Half the Sky
2012
“The Good Life,” The Commons
2011
“Poverty and Responsibility,” Owen School of Business
2010
“The Ethics and Pedagogy of Gender and Sexuality,” Center for Teaching
2009
“Gender and Pedagogy,” convener in collaboration with the Center for Teaching
2008
“Finding and Working with a Graduate Mentor,” Vanderbilt Center for Nashville Studies
2008
“Mentoring and Professional Networking,” Transforming Knowledges Conference,
Philosophy Department
2008
“Friend, Coach, Taskmaster? Managing Interpersonal Dynamics in Mentoring,”
Dean’s meeting on mentoring, College of Arts & Sciences
2008
Ethics and Values, Divinity and Business School, guest lecturer
2007, 2008
Environment and Values, guest lecturer
2007, 2008
Social Problems, guest lecturer on gender, environment and justice
2007, 2008
Mortar Board Raft Debate, College of Arts & Sciences
2007
VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY PUBLIC LECTURES
“Justice and the Science and Social Science of Water in Bangladesh”
2010
Battle of Seattle. Parents weekend discussion at the Belcourt Theatre
2008
Global Feminism – What’s That?
2006
Feminism and Saved by the Bell
2006
Divinity School Community Breakfast, "Women Changing the World: Hope from Two Disciplines”
with Melissa Snarr
2005
Philosophy Department Colloquium
2004
Media Fellows talk: Global Perspectives on Violence against Women
2002
Feminist Dialogue, Warren Center
2001
SERVICE
POLITICAL SCIENCE DEPARTMENT
Political Science Fourth Year Review
Political Science Graduate Committee
Political Science, Graduate Field Chair
2012
2004 – 2009, 2012-2013
2010-2012
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Political Science Second Year Review
Political Theory Curriculum Review
Political Theory Search Committee
Political Science Department Planning Committee
Political Science Department Search Committee
Political Theory Sub-Field Guide
2010
2009
2009
2008 – 2009
2003 – 2008
2001, 2006
WOMEN’S AND GENDER STUDIES
Women’s and Gender Studies Hiring Committee
Women’s and Gender Studies Steering Committee
2011 – 2012
2006 – 2007
COLLEGE OF ARTS & SCIENCE
Committee on Educational Programs
Graduate Education Committee
Dean’s Advisory Committee on Academic Reviews
Faculty Council, Secretary
Faculty Council
Office of Honor Scholarships, Campus evaluation process
UNIVERSITY
Vanderbilt International Office Research Grant Evaluation Committee
Search Committee for the Director of Religious Life, Chair
University Committee on Religious Life, Chair
University Committee on Religious Life
Writing Studio Advisory Board
Training Facilitator for Vanderbilt Visions’ faculty-student leadership pairs
Training design team for Vanderbilt Visions’ faculty-student leadership pairs
Center for Ethics, curriculum committee for faculty development seminar:
"Teaching the Hard Stuff."
Public Lecture Series: the Legacy of John Rawls
Conference on Gender, Sexuality and Political Culture, Planning Committee
Conference on Interdisciplinary Studies, Planning Committee
Center for Religion and Culture
Religion and Economics
Ecology and Spirituality in America
Robert Penn Warren Center for the Humanities
Diversity
Strategic Actions: Women, Power, and Gender Norms
Gender, Sexuality and Political Culture
2010-2013
2009-2010
2007-2008
2008 - 2009
2007- 2009, 2011-2014
2008-2012
2012
2012
2010-2013
2004 – present
2007 – 2011
2006
2006
2006
2004
2003
2003
2003 – 2007
2004 – 2007
2004
2002 – 2005
2002 – 2003
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
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EDITORIAL BOARDS
Feminist Theory and Gender Studies, ISA Compendium Project, Editor
Human Rights and Human Welfare, Editorial Board
Politics, Groups and Identities (Journal of the WPSA, Women and Politics Section)
Politics and Gender (Journal of the APSA, Women and Politics Section)
Editorial Board Member through two changes in editors
LEADERSHIP
Women and Politics, APSA Section, Program Chair
Southern Political Science Association, Political Theory, Program Chair
International Studies Association, Feminist Theory and Gender Studies,
Section Chair
International Studies Association, Feminist Theory and Gender Studies,
Program Chair
COMMITTEE SERVICE
Political Science Peer Review Committee for the Fulbright Specialist Program
APSA Committee on Departmental Services
Foundations, APSA Section, First Book Award Committee
Women and Politics, APSA Section, Okin-Young Award Committee
SPSA Marian Irish Award Committee
International Studies Association, Carl Beck Award Committee
American Political Science Association,
Women and Politics, Best paper committee
2006 - present
2006 - present
2011 - present
2003 - present
2012-2013
2013
2007-2008
2006
2011 - 2012
2010 - 2013
2009 - 2010
2009 - 2010
2009
2006 - 2008
2002
REVIEWER FOR JOURNALS, PRESSES, AND FUNDING AGENCIES
American Political Science Review, Cambridge University Press, Ethics & Global Politics, Globalizations,
International Journal of Feminist Politics, International Studies Perspectives, International Studies Review,
International Studies Quarterly, International Theory, Journal of International Women's Studies, Journal of Political
Philosophy, Journal of Politics, Melbourne Journal of Politics, National Women’s Studies Association Journal, New
York University Press, Palgrave Macmillan, Pennsylvania State Press, Perspectives on Politics, Political
Theory, Polity Press, Politics and Gender , Princeton University Press, Public Affairs Quarterly, Signs: Journal
of Women in Culture and Society, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, Theoria,
UNDP Journal of Human Development, Women in Politics
ANNUAL MEETING DISCUSSANT OR CHAIR
(I generally do one or two of these per conference in addition to presenting my own work)
American Political Science Association
International Studies Association
Western Political Science Association (I no longer attend this regularly)
Since
1997
2000
1998
OUTSIDE EXAMINER
Kara Santokie, University of Toronto
Cathy Hines, Australian National University
Audrey King, University of Colorado
2012
2010
2008
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Ladan Rahmani, University of Sydney
Suzette Mitchell, Australian National University
D. Bina D’Costa, Australian National University
2005
2005
2003
PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS
American Political Science Association
American Society for Political and Legal Philosophy
Association for Women’s Rights and Development
International Interdisciplinary Congress on Women
International Studies Association
Western Political Science Association
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