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Education

Ph.D., Political Science, Pennsylvania State University, 2003

M.A., Political Science, Pennsylvania State University, 1999

B.A., Political Science, University of California, Irvine, Cum Laude, 1997

Academic

Appointments

Post-Doctoral Fellow, Center for Humanistic Inquiry, Emory University, 2006-2007

Visiting Assistant Professor, Tulane University, 2003-2006

Instructor, Penn State University, 2002-2003

Teaching Assistant, Penn State University, 1997-2001

Publications

The Politics of Responsibility, under contract with the University of Illinois Press.

“Fear, Radical Democracy, and Theoretical Methadone.” Polity 38.2 (April 2006).

“The Buoyancy of Failure: Fighting Nature in New Orleans” with Chris Russill, Space and Culture 9.1 (February 2006).

“Postliberal Agency in Marx's Brumaire.” Rethinking Marxism 17.3 (July 2005).

“Who Responds to Global Poverty?” (review essay). Social Theory & Practice 31.1 (January 2005).

“Mediating Crisis” (review essay). New Political Science 26.1 (March 2005).

In Progress

& Under Review

"Factories, Farms, and Other Metaphors of Globalization," (under review).

"A Crisis of Agency in the Agency of Crisis: Towards a Social Autopsy of New Orleans," with Chris Russill (in progress).

Eating Anxiety: A Consumer's Guide to Globalist Dining (in progress).

Fellowships,

Grants, & Awards

Student Body Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching, Tulane College: 2006

Artinian Award for Professional Development, Southern Political Science Association: 2006

University Graduate Assistant Outstanding Teaching Award, Penn State: 2003

Weiss Graduate Fellowship for Interdisciplinary Research, Penn State: 1997-98, 2001-2002 (tuition waiver and graduate stipend for two academic years)

Research and Graduate Studies Office Dissertation Improvement Grant, Penn State: 2002 (tuition waiver and graduate stipend for one semester)

American Political Science Association Advanced Graduate Student Travel Award: 2002

Research and Graduate Studies Office Travel Grants, Penn State: 1999, 2000, 2002, 2003

Department of Political Science Travel Grants, Penn State: 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003

Social Thought Graduate Fellowship, Penn State: 1997-98 (declined in favor of Weiss)

Order of Merit, University of California, Irvine: 1997

Conference Presentations

& Invited Lectures

“Factories, Farms, and Other Metaphors of Globalization," to be presented at the American Political Science Association, Philadelphia, Aug-Sep 2006.

"A Crisis of Agency in the Agency of Crisis: Towards a Social Autopsy of New Orleans,” Southern Political Science Association, Atlanta, January 2006.

“Managing Katrina, or, A Crisis of Agency in the Agency of Crisis,” talk at the Comparative Literature Luncheon, Penn State University, 5 December 2005.

“Limits of Liberal Responsibility,” APSA, Chicago, September 2004.

“Humility and Responsibility After Liberalism,” Marxism and the World Stage, UMass Amherst, November 2003.

“Fear, Postmodern Democracy, and Theoretical Methadone,” APSA, Philadelphia, August 2003.

“Humility and Responsibility After Liberalism, or, My Role in the Death of Amadou Diallo,” Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, April 2003.

“E-Capitalism and Possibilities for Postliberal Agency,” APSA, Boston, September 2002.

“Brother, Can You Change a Spare? Agency of the Theorist in the Brumaire,” Conference for the Study of Political Thought, Tulane University, New Orleans, April 2002.

“Postmodernism’s Return to Class Conflict,” APSA, San Francisco, September 2001.

“Materialization, Agency, and Effective Marxism,” Northeastern Political Science Association, Albany, November 2000.

“On Matters of Marx: Materialization and Agency in a Dynamic Ontology,” APSA, Atlanta, September 1999.

Other Conference

Participation

Chair and Discussant, "Political Action," APSA, Philadelphia, September 2006.

Discussant, “Justice, Power, Democracy: Toward a Normative Vision of Global Equality,” APSA, Chicago, September 2004.

Chair, “The Reception of American Political Science in Europe and Asia,” Conference for the Study of Political Thought, Tulane University, New Orleans, January 2004.

Chair, “Why Rights? Whose Rights?” Marxism and the World Stage, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, November 2003.

Chair, “Subject to Empire,” Conference for the Study of Globalization and the Americas, Penn State University, February 2003.

Organizer, “The Political Subjects of Capitalism,” APSA, Boston, September 2002.

Department &

University Service

Participant, Seminar on Historical Change and Social Theory, Tulane University, 2004-2006

Graduate Representative, Political Science Undergraduate Studies Committee, 2001-2002

Co-Chair, Graduate and Fixed-Term Employees Organization, 2000-2002

Co-President, Graduate Association of Political Science, 2000-2001

Adult Literacy Tutor, Mid-State Literacy Council, 2000-2001

Treasurer, Graduate and Fixed-Term Employees Organization, 1999-2000

References