Curriculum Vitae
Monica J. Casper, Ph.D.
Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs and Inclusion
Professor of Gender and Women’s Studies
Professor of Public Health
Affiliated Faculty in Sociology and Africana Studies
Co-Founder, UA Consortium on Gender-Based Violence
University of Arizona
mjcasper@email.arizona.edu, www.monicajcasper.com
EDUCATION
B.A.
Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow
1988, Sociology, University of Chicago
1995, Sociology, University of California, San Francisco
1995-1996, Center for Biomedical Ethics, Stanford University
KEY LEADERSHIP ROLES
Co-Founder, UA Consortium on Gender-Based Violence, 2017
Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs and Inclusion, UA College of Social and Behavioral Sciences,
2015-present
Chair, SBS Diversity and Inclusion Committee, 2016-present
Chair, SBS Global/Transnational Advisory Board, 2015-present
Head, Department of Gender and Women’s Studies, University of Arizona, 2012-2015
Publisher and Editor, Trivia: Voices of Feminism, 2011-present
Managing Co-Editor and Co-Owner, The Feminist Wire, 2010-present
Director, School of Humanities, Arts and Cultural Studies, New College of Interdisciplinary Arts
and Sciences, Arizona State University, 2008-2011
Director, Women’s and Gender Studies Program, Vanderbilt University, 2004-2008
Executive Director, Intersex Society of North America, Seattle, WA, 2003
PUBLICATIONS
Books
The Body: Social and Cultural Dissections, with Lisa Jean Moore. London: Routledge, 2014.
Missing Bodies: The Politics of Visibility, with Lisa Jean Moore. New York: NYU Press, 2009.
The Making of the Unborn Patient: A Social Anatomy of Fetal Surgery. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers
University Press, 1998. [Winner of the 1998 C. Wright Mills Award]
Carroll L. Estes, James H. Swan & Associates [Monica J. Casper], The Long Term Care Crisis: Elders
Trapped in the No-Care Zone. Newbury Park, CA: Sage, 1992.
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Edited Books
Critical Trauma Studies: Violence, Conflict, and Memory in Everyday Life, with Eric Wertheimer. New
York: NYU Press, 2016.
Corpus: An Interdisciplinary Reader on Bodies and Knowledge, with Paisley Currah. New York: Palgrave
Macmillan, 2011.
Synthetic Planet: Chemical Politics and the Hazards of Modern Life. New York, NY: Routledge, 2003.
Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles
Mel Ferrara and Monica J. Casper, “Genital Alteration and Intersex: A Critical Analysis.” Current
Sexual Health Reports, March 2018, 1-6.
“But Is It Sociology?” Engaging Science, Technology and Society, 2, 2016.
“When Cities Fail, Babies Die.” Metropolitics, February 2, 2016.
Darnell L. Moore and Monica J. Casper, “Love in the Time of Racism.” Ada: A Journal of Gender,
New Media, and Technology, 5, 2014.
“Abject(ified) Reproduction,” Hysteria, 3, 2014.
“A Ruin of Elephants,” Oppositional Conversations, 2, 2014.
“Biopolitics of Infant Mortality,” Anthropologies, 17, 2013.
William Paul Simmons and Monica J. Casper, “Culpability, Social Triage, and Structural Violence in
the Aftermath of Katrina.” Perspectives on Politics, 10(3), 2012.
Daniel R. Morrison and Monica J. Casper, “Intersections of Disability Studies and Critical Trauma
Studies: A Provocation.” Disability Studies Quarterly, April 2012.
Monica J. Casper and Lisa Jean Moore, “Dirty Work and Deadly Agents: A (Dis)Embodied
Weapons Treaty and the Illusion of Safety.” Women’s Studies Quarterly, 39(1/2), 2011.
Monica J. Casper and Daniel R. Morrison, “Medical Sociology and Technology: Critical
Engagements,” Journal of Health and Social Behavior 51(1), Supplement, 2010, S120-S132.
Laura M. Carpenter and Monica J. Casper, “A Tale of Two Technologies: HPV Vaccination, Male
Circumcision, and Sexual Health,” Gender and Society 23(6), 2009, 790-816.
Laura M. Carpenter and Monica J. Casper, “Global Intimacies: Innovating the HPV Vaccine for
Women’s Health,” Women’s Studies Quarterly, 37(1/2), 2009, 80-100.
Monica J. Casper and Laura M. Carpenter, “Sex, Drugs, and Politics: The HPV Vaccine for Cervical
Cancer,” Sociology of Health and Illness, 30(6), 2008, 886-899.
Vivian Christensen and Monica J. Casper, “Hormone Mimics and Disrupted Bodies: Social Worlds
Analysis of a Scientific Controversy,” Sociological Perspectives, 43(4), Supplement, 2000, S93S120.
“Negotiations, Work Objects, and the Unborn Patient: The Interactional Scaffolding of Fetal
Surgery,” Symbolic Interaction, 21(4), 1998, 379-399.
Monica J. Casper and Adele E. Clarke, "Making the Pap Smear into the "Right Tool" for the Job:
Cervical Cancer Screening, 1940-1995," Social Studies of Science, 28(2), 1998, 255-290.
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Barbara A. Koenig, Henry T. Greely, Laura M. McConnell, Heather L. Silverberg, Thomas A.
Raffin, and the Members of the Breast Cancer Working Group of the Stanford Program in
Genomics, Ethics, and Society [Monica J. Casper], “Genetic Testing for BRCA1 and BRCA2:
Recommendations of the Stanford Program in Genomics, Ethics, and Society,” Journal of
Women’s Health, 7(5), 1998, 531-545.
"Feminist Politics and Fetal Surgery: Adventures of a Research Cowgirl on the Reproductive
Frontier." Feminist Studies 23(2), 1997, 233-262.
Monica J. Casper and Barbara Koenig, "Introduction: Reconfiguring Nature and Culture:
Intersections of Medical Anthropology and Technoscience Studies," Medical Anthropology
Quarterly, 10(4), 1996, 523-536.
Adele E. Clarke and Monica J. Casper, "From Simple Technology to Complex Arena: Classification
of Pap Smears, 1917-1990," Medical Anthropology Quarterly, 10(4), 1996, 601-623.
Monica J. Casper and Marc Berg, "Introduction: Constructivist Perspectives on Medical Work:
Medical Practices and Science and Technology Studies," Science, Technology, and Human Values,
20(4), 1995, 395-407.
Monica J. Casper and Lisa Jean Moore, "Inscribing Bodies, Inscribing the Future: Gender, Sex, and
Reproduction in Outer Space," Sociological Perspectives, 38(2), 1995, 311-333.
"At the Margins of Humanity: Fetal Positions in Science and Medicine," Science, Technology and Human
Values, 19(3), 1994, 307-323.
"Reframing and Grounding Nonhuman Agency: What Makes a Fetus an Agent?" American Behavioral
Scientist, 37(6), 1994, 839-856.
Edited Journal Issues
Diana Mincyte, Monica J. Casper, and CL Cole, Editors. 2009. “Bodies of Nature: Politics of
Wilderness, Recreation, and Technology,” Special Issue of Journal of Sport and Social Issues,
33(3), 2009.
Diana Mincyte, Monica J. Casper, and CL Cole, Editors. “Sports, Environmentalism, Land Use, and
Urban Development,” Special Issue of Journal of Sport and Social Issues, 33(2), 2009.
Guest Editor, “Ethnography and Disability Studies,” Special Issue of Journal of Contemporary
Ethnography, 34:2, 2005.
Barbara Koenig and Monica J. Casper, Guest Editors, “Reconfiguring Nature and Culture:
Intersections of Medical Anthropology and Technoscience Studies,” Special Issue of Medical
Anthropology Quarterly, 10(4), 1996.
Marc Berg and Monica J. Casper, Guest Editors. “Constructivist Perspectives on Medical Work:
Medical Practices and Science and Technology Studies,” Special Issue of Science, Technology, and
Human Values, 20(4), 1995.
Book Chapters
“Excess Gains and Losses: Maternal Obesity, Infant Mortality, and Biopolitics of Blame,” in Eileen
P. Anderson-Fye and Alexandra Brewis (eds.), Fat Planet: Obesity, Culture, and Symbolic Body
Capital. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press/School for Advanced Research
Press, 2017.
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Daniel R. Morrison and Monica J. Casper, “Gender, Violence, and Brain Injury In and Out Of the
NFL: What Counts as Harm?” in David J. Leonard, Kimberly George, and Wade Davis
(eds.), Football, Culture, and Power. New York: Routledge, 2016.
“No Justice for Trayvon: White Women in the Jury Box,” in Kevin Alexander Gray, Jeffrey St. Clair,
and JoAnn Wypijewski (eds.), Killing Trayvons: An Anthology of American Violence. CounterPunch,
2014.
Monica J. Casper and William Paul Simmons, “Calculated Losses: Infant Mortality and Women’s
(Dis)Empowerment,” in Margunn Bjørnholt and Alisa McKay (eds.), Counting on Marilyn
Waring: New Advances in Feminist Economics. Demeter Press, 2014.
“Abduction or Kidnapping of Children,” in Robert E. Emery and J. Geoffrey Golson (eds.),
Cultural Sociology of Divorce: An Encyclopedia. Sage Publications, 2013.
Heather Laine Talley and Monica J. Casper, “Intersex and Aging: A (Cautionary) Research Agenda
for the 21st Century,” in Tarynn M. Witten and A. Evan Eyler (eds.), Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and
Transgender Aging: Challenges for Research, Practice, and Policy. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University
Press, 2012.
Heather Laine Talley and Monica J. Casper, “Oprah Goes to Africa: Philanthropic Consumption and
Political (Dis)Engagement,” in Trystan T. Cotten and Kimberly Springer (eds.), Stories of Oprah:
The Oprahfication of American Culture. University Press of Mississippi, 2009.
Monica J. Casper and Lisa Jean Moore, “It Takes Balls: Lance Armstrong and the Triumph of
American Masculinity,” in Michael S. Kimmel and Michael A. Mesner (eds.), Men’s Lives. 8th
Edition. Allyn and Bacon, 2009.
Monica J. Casper and Heather Laine Talley, “Feminist Disability Studies,” in George Ritzer (ed.), The
Encyclopedia of Sociology. Blackwell, 2007. [Revised for 2016 edition.]
“Chemical Weapons ‘Dispersal’? The Mundane Politics of Air Monitoring,” in Monica J. Casper
(ed.), Synthetic Planet: Chemical Politics and the Hazards of Modern Life. New York: Routledge,
2003.
“Working On (and Around) the Unborn Patient: Negotiating Social Order in a Fetal Treatment
Unit,” in Amy S. Wharton (ed.), Working in America: Continuity, Conflict, and Change. New York:
McGraw-Hill, 2002.
“The Case of the Disappearing Moms: Fetal Surgery and Women’s Health,” in Kathryn Strother
Ratcliff (ed.), Women and Health: Power, Technology, Inequality, and Conflict in a Gendered World.
Boston: Allyn and Bacon, 2001.
“Fetus: Feminist Perspectives,” in Cheris Kramarae and Dale Spender (eds.), The Routledge
International Encyclopedia of Women: Global Women’s Issues and Knowledge. New York: Routledge,
2001.
Monica J. Casper and Lisa Jean Moore, "Women in Space," in Cheris Kramarae and Dale Spender
(eds.), The Routledge International Encyclopedia of Women: Global Women’s Issues and Knowledge (New
York: Routledge, 2001).
"Operation to the Rescue: Feminist Encounters with Fetal Surgery," pp. 101-112 in Lynn Morgan
and Meredith Michaels (eds.), Fetal Subjects, Feminist Positions. Philadelphia: University of
Pennsylvania Press, 1999.
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"Working On and Around Human Fetuses: The Contested Domain of Fetal Surgery," pp. 28-52 in
Marc Berg and Annemarie Mol (eds.), Differences in Medicine: Unraveling Practices, Techniques, and
Bodies. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1998.
"Fetal Cyborgs and Technomoms on the Reproductive Frontier: Which Way to the Carnival?" pp.
183-202 in Chris Hables Gray, Heidi J. Figueroa-Sarriera, and Steven Mentor (eds.), The Cyborg
Handbook. New York: Routledge, 1995.
Adele E. Clarke and Monica J. Casper, “Cervical Cancer,” in Boston Women's Health Book
Collective (ed.), Our Bodies, Ourselves for the New Century. New York: Simon and Schuster Inc.,
1992, 1998, 2005.
Books in Progress
Babylost: An Infant Mortality Alphabet Book
Archiving the Elephant: Ruin and Redemption for Beasts Like Us
Book Reviews
“The Dynamic Dyad.” Review of Sarah S. Richardson, Sex Itself: The Search for Male and Female in the
Human Genome (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2013), in Women’s Review of Books, 2014.
Review of Sara Dubow, Ourselves Unborn: A History of the Fetus in Modern America (Oxford University
Press, 2011), in Bulletin of the History of Medicine, Fall 2012.
“Rewriting Normal.” Review of Thea Hillman, Intersex (For Lack of a Better Word) (San Francisco:
Manic D Press, 2008) and Katrina Karkazis, Fixing Sex: Intersex, Medical Authority, and Lived
Experience (Durham: Duke University Press, 2008), in Women’s Review of Books, 26(2),
March/April, 2009.
Review of Cynthia R. Daniels, Exposing Men: The Science and Politics of Male Reproduction (Oxford:
Oxford University Press, 2006), in American Journal of Sociology, 113(3). 2007.
Review of Peter Glasner and Harry Rothman, Splicing Life? The New Genetics and Society (Aldershot:
Ashgate, 2004), in Contemporary Sociology, 34(5): 508-510, 2005.
Review of Linda L. Layne, Motherhood Lost: A Feminist Account of Pregnancy Loss in America (New York:
Routledge, 2003), in American Journal of Sociology, 110(4): 1506-1509, 2005.
Review of Rachel Roth, Making Women Pay: The Hidden Costs of Fetal Rights (Ithaca: Cornell
University Press, 2000), in Contemporary Sociology, 30(4): 408-409, 2001.
Review of Stefan Timmermans, Sudden Death and The Myth of CPR (Philadelphia: Temple University
Press, 1999), in Social Forces, 79(2): 797-798, 2000.
Review of Helena Ragoné, Surrogate Motherhood: Conception in the Heart (Boulder: Westview Press,
1994), in Feminism and Psychology, 10(3): 385-387, 2000.
Review of Bruno Latour, Pandora’s Hope: Essays on the Reality of Science Studies (Cambridge: Harvard
University Press, 1999), in Contemporary Sociology, 29(5): 754-756, 2000.
Review of Carol Heimer and Lisa Staffen, For the Sake of the Children: The Social Organization of
Responsibility in the Hospital and Home (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998), in American
Journal of Sociology, 105(1): 317-319, 1999.
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Review of Isabelle Baszanger, Inventing Pain Medicine: From the Laboratory to the Clinic (New Brunswick,
NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1998), in Contemporary Sociology, 28(2): 229-230, 1999.
Review of Carole Joffe, Doctors of Conscience: The Struggle to Provide Abortion Before and After Roe v. Wade
(Boston: Beacon Press, 1995), in Gender and Society, 11(6): 826-827, 1997.
Film Reviews
“Highway of Tears: A Review,” The Feminist Wire, May 7, 2015.
“Drunk on a Plane: Or, Why I Loved Flight,” The Feminist Wire, February 23, 2013.
Heather Laine Talley and Monica J. Casper, “A Response to the Motion Picture Talladega Nights: The
Ballad of Ricky Bobby,” Journal of Sport and Social Issues, 31(4): 434-439, 2007.
“Knockout Women: A Review of Karyn Kusama’s Girlfight,” Journal of Sport and Social Issues, 25(1):
104-110, 2001.
Public Scholarship
“Gassing Migrants is Immoral and Illegal,” Arizona Daily Star, November 28, 2018.
“Survivors Who Disclose Need Empathy, Not Judgment,” with Edna Meza Aguirre, Arizona Daily
Star, November 8, 2017.
“An Open Letter to University Presidents, Provosts, and Governing Boards, with Adela C. Licona,
The Feminist Wire, February 1, 2017.
“Why We Need Mother’s Day, All Year Long,” College of Social and Behavioral Sciences, May 8,
2016.
“An Interview with Sherry Payne: Nurse, Childbirth Educator, Womanist,” The Feminist Wire,
January 5, 2015.
“Black Lives Matter/Black Life Matters: A Conversation with Patrisse Cullors and Darnell L.
Moore,” The Feminist Wire, December 1, 2014.
“Rotten to the Core: The NFL and Domestic Violence,” with David J. Leonard, The Feminist Wire,
September 8, 2014.
“The Color of Infant Mortality,” The Feminist Wire, September 3, 2014.
“Feminists We Love: Carol Anshaw,” The Feminist Wire, May 16, 2014.
“Marge Piercy: On Feminism, Politics, and Writing,” TRIVIA: Voices of Feminism, Issue 16, Spring
2014.
“Expectations: Intimate Feminisms Embodied,” with Erin Durban-Albrecht, The Feminist Wire, May
9, 2014.
“Women, Men, Horses, and the Wild, Wild West: An Interview with Deanne Stillman,” The Feminist
Wire, March 5, 2014.
“Feminists We Love: Amy Wheeler,” The Feminist Wire, August 31, 2013.
“No Justice for Trayvon: White Women in the Jury Box,” The Feminist Wire, July 17, 2013.
“Feminists We Love: Sandra Fluke,” The Feminist Wire, July 5, 2013.
“Myths of Progress and Cartographies of Hate,” with Darnell L. Moore, The Feminist Wire, May 30,
2013.
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“Choosing Our Own Lives: Two 40-Something Feminists Reflect on Roe,” with Aishah Shahidah
Simmons, The Feminist Wire, January 22, 2013.
“What We Aren’t Talking About When We Talk About Gun Control,” The Feminist Wire, January 18,
2013.
“Out of the Shadows: A Conversation with Evelyn C. White,” The Feminist Wire, November 1, 2012.
“Because Women Matter,” The Feminist Wire, October 23, 2012.
“My Father’s Daughter,” The Feminist Wire, June 17, 2012.
“One Tough Mother,” The Feminist Wire, May 13, 2012.
“When Injured Brains Speak,” with Daniel R. Morrison, The Feminist Wire, May 12, 2012.
“HerStory #10: Georgia O’Keeffe,” A Project of Chick History, March 4, 2012. To listen:
http://herstoryproject.blogspot.com/2012/03/herstory-10-georgia-okeeffe-by-monica.html
“The Hunger Games” with Mason Casper-Milam, The Feminist Wire, February 1, 2012.
“The Intimacy of Mentoring,” The Feminist Wire, December 23, 2011.
“Locating Paule Marshall,” The Feminist Wire, November 25, 2011.
"Hypothetical Women, Real Violence” with Wanda Kolomyjec, The Feminist Wire, November 7,
2011.
“Begatting and Begetting: The Issue(s) of Men" with Lisa Jean Moore, The Feminist Wire, September
30, 2011.
"Revolt of the Little Grey Cells," The Feminist Wire, August 26, 2011.
"Sex, Parenting and Feminism," The Feminist Wire, July 25, 2011.
"'We Don't Just Litigate and Leave': A Conversation with NAPW," The Feminist Wire, June 27, 2011.
"Bad Boys, Bad Boys, Whatcha Gonna Do?" with William Paul Simmons, The Feminist Wire, June 6,
2011.
"The United States of Incarceration" with LaToyyia Knight-Gonzales, The Feminist Wire, May 11,
2011.
"Reproductive Tourism," The Feminist Wire, April 13, 2011.
“Not Your Mother’s Breast Milk,” The Feminist Wire, March 20, 2011.
“Our Reproductive Dystopia: Or, WTF?” The Feminist Wire, March 2, 2011.
“Less Is Not More,” The Feminist Wire, February 11, 2011.
“Does Traumatic Brain Injury Have a Gender?” with Daniel R. Morrison, The Feminist Wire,
February 2, 2011.
“Tucson Tragedy: Naming the Unspeakable,” The Feminist Wire, January 8, 2011.
“Reproductive Rights in Black and White,” The Feminist Wire, January 4, 2011.
“Fetal Surgery Then and Now,” Conscience: The Newsjournal of Catholic Opinion, 28(3): 24-27, Autumn
2007.
“The Public Spew,” for Celebrity 101: Intellectuals Take On Hollywood Gossip, www.sexliteracy.org,
December 2006.
“Dear Nicole” and “The Conversation Would Go Like This,” for Celebrity 101: Intellectuals Take On
Hollywood Gossip, www.sexliteracy.org, November 2006.
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“Genital Fixations: What’s Wrong with Treating Intersex in the Womb?” with Courtney Muse,
American Sexuality Magazine, March 2006.
“Constructing Fetal Citizens” with Lynn M. Morgan, Anthropology News, December 2004.
“Fetus shouldn’t rob woman of personhood” with Lynn M. Morgan, Springfield Republican, May 2,
2004.
“Pro-life government decision is unfair to American families,” Seattle Post-Intelligencer, November 26,
2003.
“Chemical Weapons: Incineration Island,” Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, 58(2): 17-19, March/April,
2002.
Creative Writing
“A Constellation (in my left breast).” Moonsick Magazine, Issue 17, 2016.
“Lucky Girl.” TRIVIA: Voices of Feminism, Issue 17, Winter 2016.
“How to Read a CV.” Moonsick Magazine, Issue 8, 2016.
“Toward a Theory and Praxis of Sustainable Feminism.” TRIVIA: Voices of Feminism, Issue 16,
Spring 2014.
“Oculus,” Mojave River Review, Winter 2014. [Nominated for Best of the Net and a Pushcart Prize.]
“Women. Horse. Mountain.” TRIVIA: Voices of Feminism, Issue 15, Fall 2013.
“Postpartum,” Vine Leaves Literary Journal, Issue 3, July 2012.
[Selected for the “Best of 2012” print edition.]
“Weightless,” The Linnet’s Wings, Spring 2012.
“Tangled Up in Blue,” Slow Trains, Spring 2011.
“Danish Folk Tale,” Spilling Ink Review, Issue 4, 2011.
“Panic: A Book Review in the Form of Autoethnography,” Canyon Voices, Fall 2010.
“The Edible Parts,” TRIVIA: Voices of Feminism, Issue 7/8, 2008.
“Deer in the Headlights,” Special Edition Florida Review Chapbook, June 2005.
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS / INVITED LECTURES AND TALKS
“Putting Sexual Assault in Context: Moving from the Individual to the Movement.” Invited keynote
at #MeToo Moves Forward: Coming Together to Reclaim Our Voices and Power, Tucson
Convention Center, Tucson, Arizona, June 24, 2018.
“Hybrid Ethnography: Observing Humans and Elephants in (Un)Natural Spaces.” Presented at
meetings of the Pacific Sociological Association, Long Beach, California, March 28, 2018.
“What Does Elephant Trauma Have To Do With Humans?” Invited presentation, Faculty Lecture
Series, University of Arizona Prison Initiative, Arizona State Prison Complex, Tucson,
Arizona, March 16, 2018.
“Researching Trauma in Humans and Nonhumans: Social and Ethical Issues,” NSCS Ethics
Lecture, Department of Neuroscience, University of Arizona, October 26, 2017.
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“What Is Trauma?" Invited keynote presentation, Blurring the Boundaries: Trauma and Healing
Justice Symposium, American Friends Service Committee/YWCA, Tucson, Arizona, May
31, 2017.
“Babylost: An Infant Mortality Alphabet Book,” Author Meets Critics Session, Pacific Sociological
Association, Portland, Oregon, April 7, 2017.
“Intersectional Perspectives on Violence Against Women and Girls.” Diversity Matters Workshop,
Office of Diversity and Inclusion, University of Arizona Health Sciences, November 29, 2016.
“On Rage, Hope, and Movement.” Opening Plenary, The Fearless Conference, University of
Arizona, October 21, 2016.
“Pedagogies of Trauma in the Neoliberal University.” Critical Librarianship and Pedagogies
Symposium, University of Arizona, February 26, 2016.
“The Quiet Politics of Infant Mortality: Race, Survival, and Reproductive Justice.” Women’s and
Gender Studies, Texas A&M University, February 23, 2016.
“Social Dimensions of Reproductive Health.” Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology Grand
Rounds, Arizona Health Sciences Center, University of Arizona, October 21, 2015.
“Elephant Tales: A Lesson in Trauma.” Honors College SmartTalk, October 21, 2015.
“The Gift Economy in Feminist Publishing: Lessons from the Field.” Presented at Publishing
Feminisms: A Symposium, Banff Centre for the Arts, Banff, Alberta, May 19, 2015.
“Feminist Publishing Praxis.” Panelist and organizer, Publishing Feminisms: A Symposium, Banff
Centre for the Arts, Banff, Alberta, May 18, 2015.
“New Media Activism.” Panelist, New Articulation/New Translations: Feminist Research Activism
conference, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, March 26, 2015.
“Subject to Loss: Puerto Rican Infant Death in Transnational Context.” Presented at meetings of the
National Women’s Studies Association, San Juan, Puerto Rico, November 14, 2014.
“Bodies of Evidence: Locating the Missing Body in Health Disparities Research.” Invited
presentation at the Humanities, Medicine, and Wellness Conference, College of Humanities,
University of Arizona, February 27, 2014.
“Mediating Feminisms: The Feminist Wire Editors and Writers Roundtable.” Invited presentation at
Scripps College, Claremont, CA, February 13, 2014.
“Living In Our Bodies.” Invited presentation in the Convergences Program, “The Body:
(Dis)Integrations and Interventions,” Department of English, University of Arizona,
September 6, 2013.
“Lynching the Elephant: On Animality, Trauma, and the Racialized Spectacle.” Presented at the
Somatechnics International Conference, Linkoping, Sweden, June 17, 2013.
“The Infant Mortality Rate as Portable Abacus.” Invited talk in the School of Sociology Brownbag
Series, University of Arizona, March 8, 2013.
“Mediating Feminisms: Politics of Online Publishing.” Invited talk at the Deep Dish Lunchtime
Lectures, Institute for LGBT Studies, University of Arizona, March 7, 2013.
“Phantom Babies and Spectral Women: Infant Mortality, Maternal/Child Health, and Women’s
Empowerment.” Presented at meetings of the American Anthropological Association, New
Orleans, LA, November 20, 2010.
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“Practicing Activism: A Conversation with Lynn Paltrow.” Invited discussant for panel organized by
the Committee on Anthropology and Reproduction, American Anthropological Association,
New Orleans, LA, November 20, 2010.
“Trauma and Human Rights.” Invited presentation for Human Rights in China: Seminar on MultiDisciplinary Human Rights Research from China. Organized by the Norwegian Centre for
Human Rights and the Raoul Wallenberg Institute for Human Rights and Humanitarian Law,
Oslo, Norway, November 3, 2010.
“Phantom Babies and Spectral Women: Infant Mortality, Maternal/Child Health, and Women’s
Empowerment.” Invited presentation in the Centre for STS Studies, Aarhus University,
Aarhus, Denmark, October 29, 2010.
“Accounting for Death: Unraveling the Infant Mortality Rate.” Invited presentation in the
Department of Science and Technology Studies, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, April 26,
2010.
“On Babies, Bodies, and Pregnant Women: What’s Wrong with Maternal/Infant Health?” Annual
Mary Edwards Lecture, Purchase College, SUNY, Purchase, NY, April 22, 2010.
“What’s Wrong with Infant Mortality? From ‘Objective’ Measure to Social Suffering,” with William
Paul Simmons. Presented at meetings of the International Studies Association, New Orleans,
LA, February 17-20, 2010.
“Firestorm: Gendered Politics of a Weapons Treaty,” with Lisa Jean Moore. Presented at meetings
of the American Sociological Association, San Francisco, CA, August 8-11, 2009.
“Calculated Losses: Infant Mortality as a Reproductive Technology.” Spring Lecture, sponsored by
the ASU Program in Human and Social Dimensions of Science and Technology, Tempe, AZ,
April 28, 2009.
“Pharmaceutical Bodies: Politics of the HPV Vaccine for Cervical Cancer.” Invited presentation at
the conference “Bringing the Body Back In,” Sociologists for Women in Society/University of
Arizona, Tucson, AZ, April 3, 2009.
“Socio-Political Context, Marketing, and Social Messages of the HPV Vaccine.” Invited presentation
at “HPV Forum,” University of Arizona College of Public Health, Tucson, AZ, April 1, 2009.
“Phantom Babies: The Quiet Politics of Infant Mortality.” Invited lecture at Kaohsiung Medical
University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, March 14, 2009.
“Teaching Gender, Health, and Medicine: Revealing Bodies in Biopolitical Worlds.” Invited lecture
at Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, March 14, 2009.
“Pharmaceutical Bodies: Politics of the HPV Vaccine for Cervical Cancer.” Invited presentation in
the College of Public Health, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, March 12, 2009.
“Body Politics: Private Tales of a Public Feminist.” Invited presentation as Green Honors Lecturer,
Women’s Studies Program and Institute on Women and Gender, Texas Christian University,
Fort Worth, TX, January 14, 2009.
“Phantom Babies: The Quiet Politics of Infant Mortality.” Invited presentation in Department of
Women’s Studies, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, March 4, 2008.
“The Writing Cure: A Family, A Kidnapping, and Healing Through Memoir.” Presented at the
panel Writing Out of Trauma: Joining the Personal, Social, and Pedagogical, at meetings of the
Society for the Arts in Healthcare, Nashville, TN, April 11-14, 2007.
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“Persistent Risk: Race and the Politics of Infant Mortality.” Presented at meetings of the Eastern
Sociological Society, Philadelphia, PA, March 16-18, 2007.
Author Meets Critics Session: Jackie Orr, Panic Diaries. Invited presentation at meetings of the
Eastern Sociological Society, Philadelphia, PA, March 16-18, 2007.
“Disembodied Knowledge and the Hidden Politics of Infant Mortality.” Presented at the Feminist
Epistemologies, Methodologies, and Science (FEMMSS) Conference, “Knowledge That
Matters,” Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, February 8-10, 2007.
“Ignoring Millions of Women, Millions of Children: How the Debate About Abortion and Maternity
Care Ignores Issues of Pregnancy Loss and Infant Mortality.” Invited panel presentation for
the National Summit to Ensure the Health and Humanity of Pregnant and Birthing Women,
Atlanta, GA, January 18-21, 2007.
“Calculated Losses: Demography and the Hidden Politics of Infant Mortality.” Presented at
meetings of the Society for Social Studies of Science, November 1-5, 2006, Vancouver, B.C.
(Canada).
“Unborn Citizens and Forgotten Babies: Fetal Politics in Bush Country.” Invited presentation for
the Thematic Session, “A Great Divide: Abortion and American Political Culture,” at meetings
of the American Sociological Association, Montreal, Quebec (Canada), August 11-14, 2006.
“Reproductive Rights at Risk: Revisiting Roe v. Wade.” Women’s and Gender Studies Program,
Vanderbilt University, January 19, 2006.
“Fluid Disruptions: The Politics of Breast Milk Biomonitoring.” Presented at meetings of the
National Women’s Studies Association, Orlando, FL, June 9-12, 2005.
“A Tale of Two Technologies: Local and Global Politics of Sterilization.” Presented at the
conference Reproductive Disruptions: Childlessness, Adoption, and Other Reproductive
Complexities, organized by the Adoption, Infertility, and Gender Study Group, Institute for
Research on Women and Gender, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, May 19-22, 2005.
“Hierarchies of Contraception: Local and Global Politics of Women’s Sterilization.” Presented at the
conference Women and Power, organized by the Women’s Studies Program, Middle
Tennessee State University, Murfreesboro, TN, March 3-5, 2005.
“Body Politics: Looking at Science, Technology, and Medicine Through a Feminist Lens.” Invited
presentation for the “Thinking Out of the Lunch Box” Series, Vanderbilt University/Nashville
Public Library, Nashville, TN, March 2, 2005.
“Deer in the Headlights: On Bambi, Motherhood, and Feminism in the Bush Years.” Invited
presentation at the Robert Penn Warren Center for the Humanities, Women’s and Gender
Studies Seminar, Vanderbilt University, February 2, 2005.
“Bombs, Bodies, and Borders: Public Health, Chemical Weapons, and the Quest for Security.”
Invited presentation for the series Cultural Explorations on Medical Frontiers, University of
Washington, Seattle, WA, January 5, 2004.
“Babies, Bodies, and Medicine: Linking Women’s Health and Intersex Issues.” Invited presentation
in Women Studies, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, May 9, 2003.
“A Shifting Paradigm: Patient-Centered Care for Intersex.” Invited presentation at the University of
Washington Medical School, Seattle, WA, April 28, 2003.
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“Controlling and Preventing Life: Global Politics of Quinacrine Sterilization.” Invited presentation
for the session “Sustaining Life” at meetings of the American Anthropological Association,
New Orleans, LA, November 2002.
“Tiny Bombs: Quinacrine, National Security, and the Global Politics of Population Control.”
Invited presentation for the Women’s Studies Speakers’ Series, CUNY Graduate Center, New
York, NY, May 4, 2001.
“‘A Sordid Story of Chemical Sterilization’: Quinacrine, (Inter)National Security, and the Politics of
Population Control.” Invited presentation in the Women’s Studies Department, University of
Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, April 30, 2001.
“Embodied Warfare: Tiny Bombs, Reproductive Politics, and the ‘New’ World Order.” Invited
presentation for the workshop Technosocial Bodies and the Politics of Reproduction,
organized by the Science, Technology, Information, and Medicine Program at the University of
Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, April 27, 2001.
“Science and Technology Studies: Old Questions and New Directions.” Discussant at meetings of
the Pacific Sociological Association, San Francisco, CA, March 2001.
“Bombs, Bodies, and Borders: A Feminist Cartography of Chemical Technologies.” Invited
presentation at the conference New Technologies of Gender, organized by the Feminist
Studies Research Unit, University of California, Santa Cruz, October 20-21, 2000.
“Rethinking Global Security: On Ethnographic and Cinematic Studies of U.S. Chemical Stockpiles.”
Presented at meetings of the Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction, Washington, D.C.,
August 2000.
“The Making of the Unborn Patient.” Invited panel presentation as the C. Wright Mills Award
winner, Society for the Study of Social Problems, Washington, D.C., August 2000.
“Fetal Surgery as a Women’s Health Issue.” Invited presentation at the BC Centre of Excellence for
Women’s Health, Vancouver, British Columbia (Canada), June 2000.
“Learning the Qualitative Craft: Mentoring and Method in the Work of Virginia Olesen.” Presented
at meetings of the Society for Applied Anthropology, San Francisco, CA, March 2000.
“The Making of the Unborn Patient.” Invited presentation and guest faculty member at the
conference Fetal Surgery and the Moral Presence of the Fetus, Vanderbilt University,
Nashville, TN, March 2000.
“Representations and Meanings of Fetal Surgery.” Invited presentation at the Medical Humanities
Seminar, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA, October 1999.
“Politics of the Fetus.” Invited presentation at the Women’s Health Lecture Series, Sonoma State
University, September 1999.
“Up In Arms: A Community Responds to Chemical Weapons Incineration.” Presented at meetings
of the American Sociological Association, Chicago, IL, August 1999.
“Nerve Gas in the Neighborhood: Community Responses to Global Chemical Weapons Activities.”
Presented at meetings of the Society for the Study of Social Problems, Chicago, IL, August
1999.
“Chemical Weapons and Quinacrine: A Conversation About Nations, Chemicals, and Bodies.”
Invited presentation in the History of Consciousness Department, UCSC, April 1999.
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“The Making of the Unborn Patient: Fetal Surgery as a Social/Ethical Problem.” Invited
presentation at the Centre for Applied Ethics, University of British Columbia, Vancouver,
Canada, November 1998.
“Toxic Bodies: Theorizing Health and Illness in a Chemical World,” with Vivian Christensen.
Presented at meetings of the Society for Social Studies of Science, Halifax, Nova Scotia
(Canada), October 1998.
“Our Environment, Ourselves: A Sociology of Environmental Health,” with Vivian Christensen. Invited
talk in the Sociology Department Colloquium Series, UCSC, October 1998.
“Interactionist Approaches to Cultural Studies of Science, Technology, and Medicine.” Discussant
and organizer at meetings of the American Sociological Association, San Francisco, CA,
August 1998.
“Theorizing the Unborn: The Cultural Politics of Fetal Surgery.” Invited presentation at Knox
College, Galesburg, IL, May 1998.
“Creating and Contesting the Hormone Disruption Thesis: Emergent Social Worlds in the
Environmental Health Arena,” with Vivian Christensen. Presented at meetings of the Pacific
Sociological Association, San Francisco, CA, April 1998.
“Perspectives on Pregnancy and Reproduction.” Discussant at meetings of the Pacific Sociological
Association, San Francisco, CA, April 1998.
“Our Environment, Ourselves: Hormone Disruptors and the Fragile Fetus,” with Vivian
Christensen. Presented at meetings of the Society for Social Studies of Science, Tucson, AZ,
October 1997.
"Research Trials in Fetal Surgery: The Human Subjects Approval Process as a Place Where Science
Happens.” Invited presentation at the Technology and Society Research Seminar, Stanford
University, Palo Alto, CA, May 1997.
“Gender and the Body.” Discussant at meetings of the Pacific Sociological Association, San Diego,
CA, April 1997.
“Culturing the Fetus: Work and Politics in Fetal Surgery.” Invited talk at the Center for Cultural Studies,
UCSC, January 1997.
“Ethnography as Bifurcated Surveillance: Some Challenges of 'Studying Up' in Technoscience."
Presented at meetings of the American Anthropological Association, San Francisco, CA,
November 1996.
"'Heroic Moms' on the Reproductive Frontier: Maternal Practices in Fetal Surgery." Presented at
meetings of the Society for Social Studies of Science, Charlottesville, VA, October 1995.
"Working on Human Fetuses: Health Policy Issues in Fetal Surgery." Presented at meetings of the
Society for the Study of Social Problems, Washington, DC, August 1995.
"Is That A Rocket in Your Pocket?: Sexual Politics and Identity in Outer Space," with Lisa Jean
Moore. Presented at meetings of the Society for Social Studies of Science, New Orleans, LA,
October 1994.
"On Fetuses, Genes, and 'Human' Nature: Theory and Politics in the Age of Fetal Treatment."
Presented at meetings of the Society for the Study of Social Problems, Los Angeles, CA,
August 1994.
"Lust in Space: Sexuality and Gender on the Final Frontier," with Lisa Jean Moore. Presented at
meetings of the American Sociological Association, Los Angeles, CA, August 1994.
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"Constructions of 'Human' in Experimental Fetal Surgery: Reframing and Grounding 'Non-Human'
Agency." Invited presentation at the conference Non-Human Agency: A Contradiction in Terms?,
University of Surrey, Guildford, UK, September 1993.
"Notes on Fetal Agency and Personhood: Constructions of Humanity in Experimental Fetal
Surgery." Invited presentation at the Department of Science Dynamics, University of
Amsterdam, and the Department of Health Ethics and Philosophy, University of Limburg,
The Netherlands, September 1993.
"Working Around the Fetus: Fetal Surgery as a Contested Domain." Presented at meetings of the
Society for Social Studies of Science, West Lafayette, IN, October 1993.
"Inscribing the Future: Sex and Reproduction in Outer Space," with Lisa Jean Moore. Presented at
meetings of the California Sociological Association, Berkeley, CA, 1993.
“Bioscience Constructs the Fetus: A Sociology of Fetal Treatment and Research.” Presented at
meetings of the Pacific Sociological Association, Portland, OR, 1993.
“Boundaries, Work Objects, and Boundary Objects in Fetal Surgery.” Presented at meetings of the
California Sociological Association, San Diego, CA, 1992.
"The Women’s Health Movement: Where Has It Moved?,” with Deborah Barrett. Roundtable
session at meetings of the American Sociological Association, Pittsburgh, PA, August 1992.
“Making the Wrong Tool for the Job the Right One: Pap Smear Screening, 1940-1990,” with Adele
E. Clarke. Presented at meetings of the American Sociological Association, Pittsburgh, PA,
August 1992.
"Reproductive Rights in Post-Roe Society: Grassroots Activism and Policy Issues," with Anne
Gordon. Invited presentation at the Institute for Health Policy Studies, University of
California, San Francisco, 1992.
"Making the Wrong Tool for the Job the Right One: Pap Smear Screening, 1940-1990," with Adele
E. Clarke. Presented at meetings of the Society for Social Studies of Science, Cambridge, MA,
November 1991.
"From Simple Technology to Complex Arena: Classification of Pap Smears, 1917-1990," with
Adele E. Clarke. Presented at meetings of the International Society for History, Philosophy,
and Social Studies of Biology, Evanston, IL, 1991.
SELECTED GRANTS AND FELLOWSHIPS
Confluencenter, University of Arizona, Director’s Fund, for “Black Life Matters Conference” ($2,000)
Project:Connect Summer Youth Programming Competition, UC Humanities Research Institute with
funding from the MacArthur Foundation, for “LoveMaps for Middle School: Nurturing Digital
Activism for Social Justice” ($9,621), 2013
Arizona Humanities Council, for “New Approaches to Trauma: Bridging Theory and Practice” ($5000),
2010
Robert Penn Warren Center for the Humanities, “New Directions in Trauma Studies,” 2008-09 (declined)
Center for Ethics, Vanderbilt University, “Justice Studies: What It Is and What It Could Be” ($15,000),
Summer 2007
Center for Ethics, Vanderbilt University, “Global Feminisms Collaborative” ($2000), 2007-08; ($1500),
2006-07
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UC Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation Research Grant ($13,586), 2001-03 (portion returned)
Academic Senate Committee on Research Grant ($2,000), UCSC, 2000-01
Social Science Division Research Grant ($5,360), UCSC, 2000-01
Academic Senate Committee on Research Grant ($1,500), UCSC, 1999-2000
UC Pacific Rim Research Program ($15,000), 1999-2000
NSF New Investigator Research Award ($50,000), 1998-99; ($12,000 supplement) 1999-2000
COURSES TAUGHT
Undergraduate:
Black Life Matters
Body and Society
Contemporary American Society
Cultural Politics of Reproduction
Deviance and Conformity
Disability and Society
Ecosystem and Community Health
Gender, Race, Justice, and the Environment
Politics of Women’s Health
Poverty, Social Justice, and Global Health
Sociology of Gender
Sociology of Health and Medicine
Sociology of Science and Technology
Sociology of Sex
Sociology of Sex and Reproduction
Symbolic Interactionism
Vital Signs: Cultural Politics of Blood
Women’s and Gender Studies Senior Seminar
Graduate:
Biopolitics and Biopower
Critical Trauma Studies
Culture/Knowledge/Power: Foundations
Environmental Justice, Body Politics, and Human
Rights
Feminist Theories II
Field Research/Qualitative Methods
Genders/Races/Sciences/Technologies
Medical Sociology
Science, Technology, and Medicine
Gender and Sexuality: Feminist Approaches
Gender and Pedagogy
Community:
Men in Tights/Women Who Fight: Gender, Race,
and Superheroes
Reimagining Human Futures with Octavia Butler
EDITORIAL/REFEREE SERVICE
Co-Editor and Co-Founder, University of Arizona Press Book Series, “The Feminist Wire: Mediating
Feminisms, Race, and Social Justice” (2015-present)
Editorial Board, Contexts (2014-present)
Publisher and Editor, Trivia: Voices of Feminism (2011-present)
Managing Co-Editor and Co-Owner, The Feminist Wire (2010-present)
Co-Founder and Co-Editor, NYU Press Book Series, “Biopolitics: Medicine, Technoscience, and Health in
the 21st Century” (2008-present)
Assistant Editor, Journal of Sport and Social Issues (2001-present)
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Deputy Editor for Health Studies, Journal of Contemporary Ethnography (1999-present)
Journals: Bulletin of the History of Medicine; Catalyst: Feminism, Theory, Technoscience; Communication and
Critical/Cultural Studies; Cultural Anthropology; Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry; Gender and Society; GLQ: A
Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies; Journal of Contemporary Ethnography; Journal of Health Politics, Policy and
Law; Journal of Sport and Social Issues; Medical Anthropology Quarterly; Science, Technology, and Human Values;
Sexuality Research and Social Policy: Journal of NSRC; Signs; Social Problems; Social Studies of Science; Society and
Animals; Sociology of Health and Illness; Theory and Event; Western Humanities Review
Publishers: Duke University Press; MIT Press; New York University Press; Routledge; Rutgers University
Press; SUNY Press; Temple University Press; University of California Press; University of Illinois
Press; University of Minnesota Press; University of North Carolina Press; Vanderbilt University Press
Foundations/Organizations: National Science Foundation; American Association for the Advancement of
Science (National Park Service Canon Scholars Program); Humanities and Social Sciences Federation
of Canada; Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO); Social Sciences and Humanities
Research Council of Canada
SELECTED AWARDS AND HONORS
Distinguished Book Award, Sex and Gender Section, ASA, 1999
C. Wright Mills Award, Society for the Study of Social Problems, 1998
Roberta G. Simmons Outstanding Dissertation Award, Medical Sociology Section, ASA, 1996
SELECTED UNIVERSITY AND COLLEGE SERVICE
Chair, SBS Diversity and Inclusion Committee, 2016-present
Chair, SBS Global/Transnational Advisory Board, 2015-present
Member, Diversity Coordinating Council, University of Arizona, 2016-present
Faculty Fellow, Women’s Resource Center, 2015-2017
Convener and Chair, “Black Life Matters” (conference), University of Arizona, January 15-17, 2015
Member, Committee on Conciliation, University of Arizona, 2014-15
Member, Heads Up Steering Committee, Office of the Provost, University of Arizona, 2013-2015
Chair, Director Search Committee, School of Middle Eastern and North African Studies, 2014-2015
Ad hoc committee to review/reshape Classics, appointed by the UA Provost, 2014
Chair, Anti-Racism Task Force, Gender and Women’s Studies, University of Arizona, 2012-2013
Chair, Admission and Funding Committee, MA Program in Social Justice and Human Rights, New College,
ASU, 2011-2012
Member, ASU Commission on the Status of Women, 2011-2012
Convener and Chair, Local Arrangements Committee, “New Approaches to Trauma: Bridging Theory and
Practice” (conference), ASU, October 7-9, 2010
Founder and Chair, Veterans Affairs Committee, New College of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences, ASU,
2009-2011
Committee on Undergraduate Interdisciplinary Studies, Vanderbilt University, 2006-2008
Internal Advisory Board, Center for Biomedical Ethics and Society, Vanderbilt University, 2006-2008
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Advisory Board, Center for Ethics, College of Arts and Science, Vanderbilt University, 2006-2008
Advisory Board, Career Advancement and Professional Development (CAPD) Program for Women,
Minority, and LGBT Faculty, Vanderbilt University, 2004-2008
Member, The Gender Collective, Program in African American and Diaspora Studies, Vanderbilt
University, 2004-2008.
Advisory Board, Center for Medicine, Health, and Society, Vanderbilt University, 2004-2008
Graduate Program Committee, Sociology Department, Vanderbilt University, 2004-2008
Faculty Council, College of Arts and Science, Vanderbilt University, 2006-2008
Executive Committee, Robert Penn Warren Center for the Humanities, Vanderbilt University, 2005-2007
Graduate Scholars Awards Committee, Center for the Americas, Vanderbilt University, 2004-2007
Vanderbilt Visions Committee, College of Arts and Science, Vanderbilt University, 2005-2006
Chair, Chancellor’s Task Force on Campus Safety and Security, Vanderbilt University, 2005-2006
Advisory Board, Writing Studio, Vanderbilt University, 2005-2006
Chair, Social Science Division Committee on Health Sciences Initiative, UCSC, 2001-2002
COMMUNITY OUTREACH AND SERVICE
Member, Advisory Board, Tucson’s January 8th Memorial (2018-present)
Member, Board of Directors, Tucson’s January 8th Memorial (2017-2018)
Member, Board of Directors, WOMB: Watching Over Mothers and Babies Foundation (2015-2017)
Member, Board of Directors, Planned Parenthood of Arizona (2012-2013)
National Advisory Board, Institute for Children’s Environmental Health (2004-2009)
Member, Collaborative on Health and the Environment (2002-2007)
Member, Nashville CABLE (2004-2007)
Board of Directors, Institute for Children’s Environmental Health (2002-2004)
Consultant, Breast Cancer Action, San Francisco (1995)
Board of Directors, Coalition for the Medical Rights of Women, San Francisco (1991-1993)
MEDIA
Interview on gender-based violence, KXCI, “Broad Perspectives,” June 17, 2018.
Interview on trauma and resilience, American Beauty Project and Podcast, May 3, 2018
Interview on gender-based violence, UA School of Journalism, November 29, 2017.
Interview on superheroes in popular culture, Women’s Health, January 5, 2016.
Interview on Arizona abortion law, The Daily Wildcat, June 2, 2015.
Interview on the Black Life Matters conference, KXCI, January 12, 2015.
Interview on HIV/AIDS and Truvada, Scottsdale Chronicle, September 20, 2012.
Interview on fetal surgery for Sanjay Gupta’s show, CNN, October 20, 2008.
Interview on single women and motherhood, The Tennessean, January 12, 2006
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Interview on gender and environmental politics, Plenty Magazine, December 29, 2005
Interview on ethics of fetal surgery, Los Angeles Times, August 16, 2005
Interview on reality TV and cultural views of women’s sexuality, Houston Chronicle, May 2, 2005
Interview on transgender and intersex issues, Chronicle of Higher Education, May 30, 2003.
Interview on transgender and intersex issues, Vanity Fair, May 27, 2003.
Interview on conflicts between academic work and family life, Chronicle of Higher Education, May 22, 2003.
Interview on intersex issues, World of Wonder/TechTV, May 6, 2003.
Interview for film on activism, “Voice Activated!,” Gay City Health Project, Seattle, WA, March 28, 2003.
Interview on intersex issues, The Tablet, February 24, 2003.
Interview on intersex issues, Girlfriends, February 18, 2003.
Interview on intersex issues and fetal politics, GenderTalk Radio, February 17, 2003.
Interview on intersex movement and new directions, New York Times, January 2003.
Interview on balancing academic work with mothering, Chronicle of Higher Education, November 2003.
Interview on stem cell research, City on a Hill Press, May 17, 2001.
Interview on fetal surgery, WebMD, March 7, 2001.
Interview on environmental health research, Santa Cruz Sentinel, March 15, 2000.
Interview on fetal surgery, Cleveland Plain Dealer, November 17, 1999.
Interview on fetal surgery and reproductive politics, Chronicle of Higher Education, July 12, 1999.
Interview on fetal surgery, Wall Street Journal, April 18, 1999.
Interview on fetal surgery, “The Fanny Kiefer Show,” KCNW (radio), Vancouver, BC,
November 1998.
Interview on fetal surgery, Santa Cruz Sentinel, August 24, 1998.
Interview on fetal surgery, Le Monde, January 17, 1996.
Interview on miscarriage, Santa Cruz Sentinel, November 10, 1996.
Interview on fetal surgery for The Cyborg Cometh (documentary), Channel Four Production/UK, 1994.