Sophie Sapp Moore Cultural Studies Graduate Group University of California, Davis One Shields Ave Davis, CA 956168518 415.613.4558 [email protected] ________________________________________________________________________ EDUCATION PhD in Cultural Studies, Designated Emphasis in Critical Theory, expected 2018 University of California, Davis Dissertation title: "Another world is possible: Agroecological relations, peasant politics, and remaking rural development in central Haiti" Advisors: Diana Davis (chair), Tobias Warner, Bettina Ng'weno PhD in Comparative Literature, Completed two years towards PhD, 20092011 University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon M.A. in Comparative Literature, 2008 San Francisco State University, San Francisco, California M.A. Thesis Title : “ Food Fight: Consuming Power and Cannibalistic Gastronomy in Greenaway and Chamoiseau” Advisors: Ellen Peel (chair), Dane Johnson B.A. in French, 2002 Reed College, Portland, Oregon Educational Methodological Center for Russian Language and Literature, St. Petersburg, Russia, 2008 Fiveweek exchange in the study of Russian language and culture. Center for University Programs Abroad, Paris, France, 20002001 Oneyear exchange in the study of French culture and literature. TEACHING AND RESEARCH INTERESTS Postcolonial, Atlantic, and Caribbean Studies Political Ecology and Environmental History Science and Technology Studies Critical Anthropology and Cultural Studies Rural Development and Agrarian Studies Literary and Critical Theory LANGUAGES English: Native speaker. French: Fluent speaking, writing, and reading ability. Haitian Creole: High intermediate speaking, reading, and writing ability. Russian: Intermediate reading, writing, and speaking ability. Spanish: Intermediate conversation and reading ability. RESEARCH AND TRAVEL EXPERIENCE Dissertation fieldwork in Papaye, Haiti, July 2015April 2016 Preliminary fieldwork in Papaye, Haiti, Winter 2015 Graduate Student Researcher, Mellon Research Initiative in Environments and Societies, University of California, Davis, 20132014 Preliminary fieldwork in Papaye, PortauPrince, and Jacmel, Haiti, Summer 2013 Preliminary fieldwork in PortauPrince and Cap Haitien, Haiti, Summer 2012 Legal research assistant, Lloreda Camacho & Co. law firm, Bogotá, Colombia, Winter 2003 SELECT WORK AND VOLUNTEER EXPERIENCE Coordinator for UC Davis, Stanford Environmental Humanities Project : 2014present Volunteer (hours vary) Contact person for planning and promotion of public environmental humanities events. Project Consultant, ADAPT Haiti, UC Davis: 2014present Volunteer (hours vary) with occasional paid work Expert consultant on culture, history, and politics in rural Haiti. Interpretation and translation services between English, French, and Haitian Creole. Coordinator, Left Coast Political Ecology Working Group, UC System, Portland State University, and University of British Columbia: May 2013present Volunteer (hours vary) Founding member and organizer for interdisciplinary graduate student working group in political ecology at UC Davis; coordination with multicampus organizers for working group events. Partner, Haiti Communitère, PortauPrince, Haiti: September 2012present Volunteer (hours vary) General volunteer at Haiti Communitère NGO base in PortauPrince. Tasks include base maintenance, community outreach, community meeting participation. 2 Farmer’s Market Vendor, San Francisco Bay Area : November 2008July 2015 Paid (820 hours per week) Set up and breakdown of farmer's market stall, customer service, vending of products, consumer education and outreach. Boccalone Salumeria (September 2014 – July 2015) Capay Organic Farms (August 2011 – June 2013 and May 2010 – August 2010) Rancho Gordo New World Specialty Foods (November 2008 – August 2009) UC Haiti Initiative, Davis campus: 2011present Volunteer (hours vary) Coordination of campus events, community outreach, online mentoring of Haitian university students. Codirector, Critical Studies in Food and Society research cluster, UC Davis: 20122013 Volunteer (~2 hours per week) Administrative tasks, planning, promotion, and coordination of campus events, interdisciplinary social science and humanities research. TEACHING EXPERIENCE Teaching Assistant , University of California, Davis: 2011present African American and African Studies, F2014 AAS 18, Introduction to Caribbean Studies, Professor Bettina Ng'weno Humanities Program, reader and grader, S2013 HUM 2B, Cultural History of the Blues, Professor Julia Simon American Studies Program: discussion leader, W2013, S2014, S2015 AMS 55, Food in American Culture, Professor Charlotte Biltekoff English Department: discussion leader, F2012 ENL 110B, Introduction to Critical Theory, Instructor Dr. Laura Hudson Department of French and Italian: sole instructor, F2011S2012 FR 1 and FR 2, Introductory French, Supervisor Professor Eric Russell Graduate Teaching Fellow , University of Oregon: 20092011 Comparative Literature, apprentice instructor and discussion leader COLT 211, Comparative World Cinema, Apprentice Instructor to Instructor Max Rayneard, W2011 COLT 103, Introduction to Visual Culture, Professor Michael Allan, S2011 COLT 101, Introduction to Comparative Literature, Professor Leah Middlebrook, F2010 German Literature (in translation) GER 222, Voices of Dissent: The Holocaust and its Representations, Instructor Matthias Vogel, F2009 GER 221, Postwar German Literature, Professor Susan Anderson, W2010 3 GER 223, Germany and Multiculturalism, Instructor Matthias Vogel, S2010 Tutor 826 Valencia Literacy Center, all subjects (ages K12), San Francisco, California: 2006 2008 French for adults (independent), Portland, Oregon: 20032004 French language and literature, Reed College, Portland, Oregon: 20012002 INVITED LECTURES AND PRESENTATIONS "Decolonization and Relational Ontologies" Left Coast Political Ecology Workshop, 7 May 2015 “Labor in the Food System” AMS 55: Food in American Culture, 23 February 2013 “Jamaican Resistance and The Harder They Come ” COLT 212: Comparative World Cinema, 31 January 2011 “Food and Frenchness in Delicatessen ” University of Oregon NOMAD speaker series, 26 January 2011 CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS Cultural Studies Association Annual Conference, Riverside, California, May 2015. "Cultivating Possible Worlds: Radical Agroecologists and the Politics of Rural Development in Central Haiti" Association of American Geographers Annual Conference, Chicago, Illinois, April 2015. "Pigs and poison: Ecological Relations and Ontological Politics in Rural Haiti" Dimensions of Political Ecology Conference, Lexington, Kentucky, February 2015. "Organize or die: Farm school Pedagogy and the Political Ecology of the Agroecological Transition in Rural Haiti" Critical Geography Conference, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, November 2014. "Outside Geographies: Autonomous Rural Space and Black Environmental Politics in Haiti" Cultural Studies Association Annual Conference, Salt Lake City, Utah, May 2014. "Organize or Die: Natural Disaster and Cosmopolitical Ecology in Rural Haiti” American Society for Environmental History Annual Conference, San Francisco, California, March 2014. "Organize or Die: Radical Environmentality and the Haitian Revolution" 4 Radical Caribbeans Conference, Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana, October 2013. “Radical Environmentality: The Haitian Revolution and Territories of Resistance” Cultural Studies Association Annual Conference, Chicago, Illinois, May 2013. “Developing Resistance: Radical Environmentality and the Haitian Ecology of Survival” Food Justice Conference Graduate Student Symposium, University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon, February 2011. “Soul Power: Black Nationalism and Feeding the Body Politic” American Comparative Literature Association Annual Conference, New Orleans, Louisiana, April 2010. “Ecological Cannibalism: Nourishing Martinican Identity in Patrick Chamoiseau's Chronique des sept misères ” Equinoxes Conference: “Architectures,” Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, March 2008. “Detective Spaces: Impossible Architecture in Georges Perec’s La vie mode d’emploi ” American Comparative Literature Association Annual Conference, Puebla, Mexico, April 2006. “The Communist Body in Disciplinary Society: Foucault and The Foundation Pit ” PUBLICATIONS Book Review: Table Settings: The Material Culture and Social Context of Dining, AD 17001900 ( Food, Culture & Society 16(3), September 2013) Encyclopedia entry: “HaitianAmerican Food” Oxford Encyclopedia of Food and Drink in America (2012) “Detective Spaces: Impossible Architecture in Georges Perec’s La vie mode d’emploi ” (2008) <http://www.brown.edu/Research/Equinoxes/journal/Issue%2011/Eqx11_Sapp.html> AWARDS InterAmerican Foundation Grassroots Development Fellowship (20152016) UC President's Global Food Initiative Fellowship (2014) HArCS Dean’s Summer Fellowship, University of California, Davis (2013) Mellon Research Initiative in Environments and Societies Summer Fellowship, University of California, Davis (2013) 5 Cultural Studies Graduate Group Summer Research Fellowship, University of California, Davis (2012, 2013, 2014, 2015) Beall Recruitment Award, University of Oregon (20102011) Beall Educational Opportunity Award, University of Oregon (2010) Graduate Distinguished Achievement Award, San Francisco State University (2008) SERVICE Member, UC Davis Left Coast Political Ecology Working Group (2014present) Member, MultiCampus Research Group on Food and the Body, UC system (20112012) Mentor, NOMAD , University of Oregon undergraduate Comparative Literature Journal (20092011) Coeditor/vicepresident, Portals , San Francisco State University Comparative Literature Graduate Student Journal (20062007) Submissions Reader, Portals, San Francisco State University Comparative Literature Graduate Student Journal (20052006) Member, San Francisco State University Comparative Literature Student Association (20052008) PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS American Anthropological Association (since 2014) American Society for Environmental History (since 2013) Cultural Studies Association (since 2011) Haitian Studies Association (since 2012) Association of American Geographers (since 2012) American Comparative Literature Association (since 2005) Caribbean Studies Association (since 2009) Modern Language Association (since 2005) REFERENCES Diana Davis , Associate Professor, Department of History, University of California, Davis [email protected] 6 Robert Irwin , Professor and Chair, Graduate Group in Cultural Studies, University of California, Davis [email protected] Bettina Ng'weno , Associate Professor, Department of African American and African Studies, University of California, Davis [email protected] Julia Simon , Professor and Chair, Department of French and Italian, University of California, Davis [email protected] Steven Temple , Professor Emeritus, Department of Plant Sciences, University of California, Davis [email protected] Tobias Warner , Assistant Professor of French, University of California, Davis [email protected] Michael Ziser , Associate Professor, Department of English, University of California, Davis [email protected] 7
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