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CURRICULUM VITAE
Kathy E. Ferguson
Born: Anderson, Indiana
Department of Political Science & November 16, 1950
Women's Studies Program ph: (808) 956-6933
University of Hawai`i fax: (808) 956-6877
640E Saunders Hall
kferguso@hawaii.edu
Honolulu, Hawai`i 96822
Education
Ph.D., University of Minnesota, Fall 1976. Major - Political Science; Supporting Program -
Philosophy and History.
B.A., with Highest Honors, Purdue University, June, 1972. Major - Political Science.
Honors and Awards
“Okin-Young Award” for best journal article on feminist theory from the Foundations for
Political Theory section of the American Political Science Association, 2009.
Hung Wo and Elizabeth Lau Ching award for Faculty Service to the Community, University
of Hawai`i, 2004.
Regents’ Medal for Excellence in Teaching, University of Hawai`i, October, 2003.
"Distinguished Alumna of the Year" Award from the Department of Political Science,
University of Minnesota, 1994.
"Betty Nesvold Award" from the Western Political Science Association for the best paper
on women and politics, 1990.
"Breckenridge Award" for the best paper on women and politics at the Midwest Political
Science Association Meeting, 1983.
Phi Beta Kappa Pi Sigma Alpha (Political Science Honorary)
Phi Kappa Phi Pi Gamma Mu (Social Science Honorary)
Staff Appointments
Fall, 1992 - present - Professor of Political Science and Women's Studies, University of
Hawai`i at Manoa
July 1, 2005 - July 1, 2006 – sabbatical year
July 1, 2001 - June 30, 2005 - Director, Women's Studies Program
May-June, 2000 – Visiting Professor, Peace and Development Studies, University of
Goteborg, Goteborg, Sweden
Fall, 1998 - Fall, 1999 - sabbatical year
Spring, 1999 - Fulbright Scholar and Teacher, Gender Studies Program, Ben Gurion
University, Israel
June, 1994 - June, 1997 - Chair, Department of Political Science,
Fall, 1991 - Fall, 1992 - sabbatical year
Fall, 1987 - Fall, 1992 - Associate Professor of Political Science and Women's Studies
June, 1991 - Summer Institute for Semiotics and Structural Studies (ISISS), University of
Hawai'i at Manoa
1985-1987 - Visiting Professor, Department of Political Science and Women's Studies,
University of Hawai'i at Manoa
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Fall, 1976 - Spring, 1985 - Professor of Political Science, Siena College, Albany, New York
May, 1985 - Visiting Professor - Institute for Advanced Studies, Vienna, Austria
1983-1985 - Department Head, Department of Political Science, Siena College
1984-1985 - Coordinator, Women and Minority Studies, Siena College
1982-1983 - sabbatical year; Visiting Scholar, Department of Political Science, Columbia
University
1979-1985 - Adjunct Professor, Department of Political Science and Women's Studies
Program, State University of New York at Albany
Other Professional Training and Positions
August, 1996 - Certification from the Academy of Orton-Gillingham Practitioners to teach
dyslexic learners to read, write and spell. Subsequent training in Project Read and Wilson methods.
August, 1996 - present -Tutor for dyslexic adults and children.
May 2009 – present – consultant to the Adult Literacy Program, Anderson Indiana, tutor
training program.
Fellowships and Grants
2005-2006 – Research Relations Fund Award, $3,300, for travel to the Emma Goldman
Archive, Oakland, California.
April, 2001 – July, 2005 – Principal Investigator, “Gender and Globalization in Asia and the
Pacific,” a 4 year Rockefeller Foundation Grant to the Women’s Studies Program, $250,000.
June, 2001- June 2005 – Principal Investigator for UH, “Thinking Historically: A
Statewide Approach to the Professional Development of American History Teachers in Hawai`i,” a
4 year grant from the U.S. Department of Education, in collaboration with the Hawai`i Department
of Education, $74,580.
Fall, 2002 – 2005 – “Faculty Ambassadors Program,” an annual grant from the Chief
Financial Officer, University of Hawai`i. $10,000 per year. Since Fall, 2005, the Faculty
Ambassadors Program has been funded through the GEARUP program.
March, 2002 – UH Diversity and Equity Grant for Mini-Conference, “Teaching
Introduction to Women’s Studies,” for faculty from all UH campuses. $1500.00
Spring, 1999 - Fulbright Fellowship to teach and conduct research at Ben Gurion
University, Beer Sheva, Israel. Project: Women, Politics and the Military. $46,000.
Spring, 1997 - UH Research Relations grant. Project: Authority and Citizenship in Emma
Goldman. $4,000.
1994-1995 - National Endowment for the Humanities Grant, through the UH Office of
Research Relations. Project: Theory Returns Lecture Series, featuring 15 graduates of our Ph.D.
program in political theory. Offered to the department and the university community.
Spring, 1994 - Office of Women's Research Grant. Project: Writing a text for "Introduction
to Women's Studies." Co-researcher: Carolyn DiPalma, Department of Political Science.
Spring, 1991 - Social Science Research Institute, Associate Researcher. Topic: Militarism in
Hawai`i. Co-researcher: Phyllis Turnbull, Department of Political Science.
Spring, 1991 - Office of Women's Research Grant. Project: "Rethinking the Military in
Hawai`i," a pamphlet for the general community. Co-researcher: Phyllis Turnbull, Department of
Political Science.
Fall, 1990 - Research Relations grant. Project: The Man Question: Visions of Subjectivity
in Feminist Theory.
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Spring, 1989 - Social Science Research Institute, Associate Researcher. Topic: Feminism
and Militarism.
July 26-August 8, 1987 - Social Science Research Council. Workshop on International
Peace and Security, Center for the Advanced Study of the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford
University.
1984 - National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminar: Interpretation and
Genealogy in Political Theory.
1979 - National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Stipend. Project: Existentialism
and Anarchism: A Possible Synthesis.
1980 - Siena College Summer Research Grant. Project: The Bureaucratization of the Polity.
January, 1980 - Siena College Intersession Research Grant. Project: Bureaucracy and Public
Life.
Publications
Refereed Books
Gender and Globalization in Asia and the Pacific co-edited with Monique Mironesco,
(Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2008).
Oh, Say, Can You See? The Semiotics of the Military in Hawai`i, with Phyllis Turnbull
(Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1999).
Kibbutz Journal: Reflections on Gender, Race and Militarism in Israel (Pasadena, CA:
Trilogy Books, 1995).
The Man Question: Visions of Subjectivity in Feminist Theory (Berkeley: University of
California Press, 1993).
The Feminist Case against Bureaucracy (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1984).
This book is being translated into Korean and published by Daeyoung Moonhwa International,
forthcoming 2010. Sections of it are being translated into German and included in Birgit Riegraf,
Ursula Müller and Sylvia Wilz, eds., Gender and Organization, (published by VS-Verlag für
Sozialwissenschaften in the series “Geschlecht und Gesellschaft” (Gender and Society). Other
sections are being reproduced in Robert Graham, ed., Anarchism: A Documentary History of
Libertarian Ideas, Vol 2: The Anarchist Current (1939-2006) (Montreal: Black Rose Books,
forthcoming).
Self, Society, and Womankind: The Dialectic of Liberation (Westbury, CT: Greenwood
Press, 1980).
Other Books
A Resource Guide on Dyslexia for People in Hawai‘i (Honolulu, HI: Hawai‘i Branch of the
International Dyslexia Association, 2008).
Essays in Refereed Edited Volumes
“Introduction” and “Conclusion,” with Monique Mironesco, in Gender and Globalization in
Asia and the Pacific, pp. 1-14 & 335-358.
“Gender, Globalization, and Militarism: An Interview with Cynthia Enloe,” with Gwyn
Kirk and Monique Mironesco, in Gender and Globalization in Asia and the Pacific, pp. 275- 293.
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“Theorizing Dyslexia with Connolly and Haraway,” in The New Pluralism: William
Connolly and the Contemporary Global Condition, David Campbell and Morton Schoolman, eds.
(Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2008): 275-295.
"Religion, Faith, and Politics,” in Feminist Interpretations of Emma Goldman, Penny Weiss
and Loretta Kensinger, eds., (Pennsylvania State University Press: 2007): 91-109.
“Clearing Ground and Making Connections: Modernism, Postmodernism, Feminism,” with
Carolyn DiPalma, Handbook of Gender and Women’s Studies, Kathy Davis, Mary Edwards, and
Judith Lorber, eds. (London: Sage Publications: 2006): 127-145.
"E.G.: Emma Goldman, For Example," in Feminism and the Final Foucault, Karen Vintges
and Dianna Taylor, eds., (University of Illinois Press: 2004), pp. 28-40.
“Globalizing Militaries,” with Phyllis Turnbull, in Rethinking Globalism, Manfred Steger,
ed. (NY: Rowman and Littlefield: 2004), pp. 79-94.
"Postmodernism, Feminism, and Organizational Ethics: Letting Difference Be," in Women's
Studies and Business Ethics, Andrea Larson and R. Edward Freeman, eds. (Oxford: Oxford
University Press, 1997), pp. 80-91.
"Gender Identity in Star Trek" with Gilad Ashkenazi and Wendy Schultz, in Political
Science Fiction, David Hassler and Clyde Wilcox, eds. (Columbia, SC: University of South
Carolina Press, 1997), pp. 214-233.
"From a Kibbutz Journal" in Challenging Boundaries: Global Flows, Territorial Identities,
Michael J. Shapiro and Hayward Alker, Jr., eds. (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press,
1996), pp. 435-454.
"Writing Kibbutz Journal: Borders, Voices, and the Traffic In Between," in Talking Gender:
Public Images, Personal Journeys, and Political Critiques, Jean Fox O'Barr and Nancy Hewitt, eds.
(Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 1996), pp. 84-105.
"Women, Feminism and Development," in Women, International Development and
Politics: The Bureaucratic Mire, Kathleen Staudt, ed. (Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press,
1990), pp. 291-303.
"Subject-centredness in Feminist Discourse," in The Political Interests of Gender, Kathleen
Jones and Anna Jonasdottier, eds. (London: Sage Publications, 1988), pp. 66-78.
"Male-Ordered Politics: Feminism and Political Science" in
Idioms of Inquiry, Terence Ball, ed. (Albany, NY: S.U.N.Y. Press, 1987), pp. 209-229.
"Ontological Dualisms and the Dilemma of Revolutionary Action," in Dissent and
Affirmation: Essays in Honor of Mulford O. Sibley, Art Kalleberg, J. Donald Moon, and Dan Sabia,
eds. (Bowling Green, Ohio: Bowling Green University Press, 1983), pp. 80-94.
Articles in Professional Journals
“Anarchist Counterpublics,” New Political Science 32:2 (forthcoming June 2010).
“Gender and Genre in Emma Goldman,” Signs (forthcoming).
“Bush in Drag: Sarah Palin and Endless War,” Borderlands 8: 3 (December, 2009)
.
“The Sublime Object of Militarism,” special issue of New Political Science, "The
Changing Face of Political Ideologies in the Global Age." Manfred Steger, Ed. (forthcoming
December 2009).
“Discourses of Danger: Locating Emma Goldman,” Political Theory 36: 5 (October 2008):
735-761.
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“Theorizing Shiny Things: Archival Labors,” Theory & Event 11: 4 (2008) (electronic
journal).
“American Portable Sovereignty,” with Phyllis Turnbull, Peace and Policy 9 (2004): 31-46.
This essay is also included in America & the World: The Double Bind, Majid Tehranian and Kevin
P. Clements, eds. (Transaction Publishers, 2005), 37-59.
“This Species Which Is Not One: Identity Practices in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine,”
Strategies 15.2 (fall, 2002): 181-195. A revised version of this essay was reprinted in Terrell Carver
and Sam Chambers, eds., Judith Butler’s Precarious Politics (London: Routledge, 2008): 1173-
187.
“The U.S. Response as Armed Struggle,” with Neal Milner and Sankaran Krishna, Theory
& Event 5.4 (2001) (an electronic journal)
“Rethinking Militarism and Gender with Cynthia Enloe,” (a review essay) Theory & Event
5.4 (2001) (an electronic journal).
"Women and Grassroots Organizing," Women and Politics, vol. 22, no. 1 (2001): 97-112
(an invited review essay).
"Blurring Centers and Resisting Peripheries: The U.S. Military in Hawai`i," with Phyllis
Turnbull, Hagar: International Social Science Review, vol. 1, no. 1 (2000): 144-167.
"Military Presence/Missionary Past: The Historical Construction of Masculine Order and
Feminine Hawai`i," with Phyllis Turnbull, Social Process in Hawai'i, vol. 38 (1997): 94-107.
"Feminist Thinking on Women and Power," Asian Women, vol. 2 (Spring, 1996): 1-16 (an
invited essay).
"Narratives of History, Nature and Death at the National Memorial Cemetery of the
Pacific," with Phyllis Turnbull, Frontiers: A Journal of Women's Studies, vol. XVI, no. 2/3 (1996):
1-23.
"On Bringing More Theory, More Voices and More Politics to the Study of Organization,"
Organization: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Organization, Theory and Society, vol. 1 (1994):
81-99.
"Interpretation and Genealogy in Feminism," Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and
Society, vol. 16 (Winter, 1991): 322-339. (Also published in German as "Politischer Feminismus
und Dekonstruktionstheorien," Das Arqument: Zeitschrift fur Philosophie und
Sozialwissenschaften, vol. 34 (November/December 1992): 873-885.
"Knowledge, Politics and Persons in Feminist Theory," Political Theory, vol. 17 (May,
1989): 302-314 (an invited review essay).
"Work, Text, and Act in Discourses on Organization," Women and Politics, vol. 7 (Summer,
1987): 1-21.
"Bureaucracy and Public Life: The Feminization of the Polity," Administration and Society,
vol. 15 (November 1983): 295-322. Also published in Italian as "La femmlnilizzazione del
politico," Volonta, vol 37 (gennalo-marzo, 1983): 13-39; and in French as "Bureaucraties et vie
publique: la feminisation de l'appareil politique," in Femmes: Pouvoir, Politique, Bureaucratic
(Lyons, France: irl/atelier de creation libertaire, 1984): 91-134; and in German as "Burokratie und
offentliches Leken: die Feminisierung des Gemeinwesens," Burokratie als Schicksal? in Leviathan,
Stanley Diamond, Wolf-Dieter Narr, and Rolf Homan, eds. (Sonderheft 6/1985): 54-75. Reprinted
in Feminism and Philosophy: Theory, Reinterpretation and Application, Rosemarie Tong and
Nancy Tuana, eds. (Westview Press, 1994).
"Feminism and Bureaucratic Discourse," New Political Science, vol. 11 (Spring, 1983): 53-
73.
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"Toward a New Anarchism," Contemporary Crises, vol. 7 (1983): 39-57.
"St. Max Revisited: A Reevaluation of Max Stirner," Idealistic Studies, vol. 12 (September,
1982): 276-292.
"Class Consciousness and the Marxist Dialectic: The Elusive Synthesis," The Review of
Politics, 42 (October, 1980): 504-532. This article was translated into Chinese and published in the
Journal of Shanghai Administration Institute vol 9, no 4 (2008).
Dictionaries and Encyclopedias
“Feminist Movement,” George Kurian, editor-in-chief, International Encyclopedia of
Social Science (Sage) (forthcoming).
"Emma Goldman," Gary L. Anderson and Kathryn G. Herr, eds., Encyclopedia of Social
Justice vol II (Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 2007): 625-627.
“Genealogy,” “Interpretation,” “hermeneutics,” and “hierarchical models of decisionmaking”
in Routledge Encyclopedia of Feminist Theories, Lorraine Code, ed. (NY: Routledge,
1999).
"Patriarchy," in Women's Studies Encyclopedia Project, Helen Tierney, ed. (Westbury, CT:
Greenwood Press, 1989), pp. 265-267.
"Military Land Use in Hawai`i," with Phyllis Turnbull, in An Encyclopedia of War and
Ethics, Donald Wells, ed. (Westport, CT.: Greenwood Press, 1996), pp. 193-195.
Working Papers
Gender and Globalization in Asia and the Pacific, Vol 1 (Fall 2003), Vol 2 (Spring 2005),
Vol 3 (Summer 2005) and Vol 4 (Spring 2007). Co-editor with Monique Mironesco, Occasional
Papers Series, Women’s Studies Program, UH Manoa.
Research in Progress
Goldman: Political Thinking in the Streets, a book manuscript under contract with a series
on Twentieth Century Political Thinkers being published by Rowman and Littlefield, Jean Bethke
Elshtain and Kenneth Deutsch, eds.
“Becoming Anarchism, Feminism, Indigeneity,” received a revise and resubmit from
Affinities.
The Teaching Parent: Homeschooling as a Political Movement, a book manuscript.
2 nd edition, with new introduction and conclusion, The Feminist Case against Bureaucracy
(Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press, originally published 1984).
What Happens to Militaries as the World Globalizes? With Phyllis Turnbull. A book
manuscript invited for a series on globalization with Oxford University Press, Manfred Steger, ed.
Other Editorial Work
Politics/Power/Culture: Postmodernity and Feminist Political Theory, a special issue of
differences, vol. 3 (Spring, 1991). Co-Editor with Kirstie McClure, Department of Political
Science, UCLA.
Fall, 1999 – fall, 2002– book review editor for Theory & Event.
Other Published Work
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“Homeland in Hawai`i,” with Phyllis Turnbull, in shock and awe: war on words, Bregje
Van Eekelen, et al, eds. Feminisms and Global War Project, New Pacific Press (2004): 80-81.
"Rethinking the Military in Hawai'i," with Mehmed Ali and Phyllis Turnbull (Office of
Women's Research, 1991). Reprinted in Hawai`i: Return to Nationhood, Ulla Hasager and
Jonathan Friedman, eds. Document 75. International Work Group for Indigenous Affairs
(Copenhagen, 1994),
"Discursive Politics," Restructuring for Ethnic Peace: A Public Debate at the University of
Hawai`i, Majid Tehranian, ed. (Honolulu: Spark M. Matsunaga Institute for Peace, 1991), pp. 23-
27.
"Thinking about the Military: Some Feminist Questions," with Ann Biggerstaff, Christy
Stafford, Suzanne Vares, and Doris Young, Voices, vol. 3 (Spring/Fall, 1989): 8-9.
"Women/ Studies: Present Richness, Future Dangers," Thought & Action, vol. IV (Fall
1988): 29-32.
Book Reviews since 1990
The Ticking Tenure Clock by Blaire French (Albany: SUNY Press, 1998) for The American
Political Science Review (March 2000): 172.
States of Injury: Power and Freedom in Late Modernity by Wendy Brown (Princeton, NJ:
Princeton University Press, 1995), Power in Struggle: Feminism, Sexuality and the State by Davina
Cooper (NY: New York University Press, 1995), and The Woman of Reason: Feminism,
Humanism, and Political Thought by Karen Green (NY: Continuum, 1995) for Signs: Journal of
Women in Culture and Society 22 4 (Summer, 1997): 1037 – 1040.
An American Feminist in Palestine: The Intifada Years by Sherna Berger Gluck
(Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press, 1994) for Women and Politics 18 4 (1997): 98-99.
Gender and Bureaucracy by Mike Savage and Anne Witz, eds. (Oxford and Cambridge,
MA: Blackwell Publishers, 1992) for Contemporary Sociology (1995).
Sexual Difference: A Theory of Social-Symbolic Practice by the Milan Women's Bookstore
Collective (Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press, 1990) for Humanity and Society, 16
(1992): 571-573.
Power Trips and Other Journeys: Essays in Feminism as Civic Discourse by Jean Bethke
Elshtain (Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press, 1990) for The Journal of Politics 54 (May,
1992): 611-612.
Teaching Experience
At the University of Hawai`i:
Graduate Seminars:
Anarchism
Scope and Methods of Political Science
Feminist Theory
Feminist Research Methods
Writing Women and War
The Politics of Otherness and Difference
Public Administration Theory
History of Political Thought: Ancient (co-taught with Manfred Henningsen)
History of Political Thought: Modern (co-taught with Manfred Henningsen)
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Undergraduate:
Feminist Theory
History of Political Philosophy
Political Theory in Star Trek
Women and Politics
Public Administration and Organization Theory
Introduction to Women's Studies
Women, War and the Military
Introduction to Political Science
Administration and Society
Women, Men, War, Peace: Lessons for Hawai`i (a Learning Community with Phyllis
Turnbull, Department of Political Science)
Feminist Theory and Literary Criticism (a Learning Community with Valerie Wayne,
Department of English)
Alternatives to Bureaucracy
Social Studies for Teachers (with faculty from Anthropology, Economics, Geography and
History)
At Ben Gurion University, Israel: Women, War and the Military
Women and Politics
At the Summer Institute for Semiotics and Structural Studies: Genealogy and Gender.
At Siena College:
Introduction to Political Theory
Selected Topics in Political Theory: Sex, Race & Bureaucracy
Selected Topics in Political Theory: Bureaucracy, Power and Freedom
Selected Topics in Political Theory: The Concept of Freedom in Rosa Luxemburg, Emma
Goldman, and Simone de Beauvoir
"Quality of Life" Issues in Contemporary Political Thought
Revolution and Political Change
Women and Politics
Soviet Government and Politics
Comparative Government and Politics
American Government
At the Institute for Advanced Studies, Vienna, Austria: Graduate Seminar: Feminism and
Bureaucracy
At the State University of New York at Albany:
History of Political Thought
Women, Politics and Power
Feminist Social and Political Thought
At the University of Minnesota:
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Political Ideologies
The Politics of Non-State Institutions
Feminism and Radical Ideologies
Organizing Conferences
March 15, 2006 – Co-chair with Mary Hawkesworth, Rutgers University, of the annual
meeting of the Feminist Political Theory research group, to be held at the annual meeting of the
Western Political Science Association in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
March 1, 2005 – organized and chaired a conference on Sexual Violence and Militarism,
co-sponsored by the Women’s Studies Program, the Korean Studies Center, and the College of
Social Sciences, at the Korean Studies Auditorium, UH Manoa.
February 1-4, 2005 – organized a conference on Gender, Globalization, and Militarism at
UH Manoa. Co-sponsored by the Women’s Studies Program, the College of Social Sciences and
the Rockefeller Foundation.
April 22-24, 2004 – organized and conducted a conference on Gender and Globalization in
Asia and the Pacific at UH Manoa and the Prince Kuhio Hotel in Waikiki. Sponsored by the
Women’s Studies Program and the Rockefeller Foundation.
March 1, 2002 – organized and conducted a mini-conference on “Teaching Introduction to
Women’s Studies,” for all instructors of Women’s Studies 151 in the University of Hawai`i system,
held at UH Manoa.
October 1, 1994 - With Carolyn DiPalma, organized and conducted a mini-conference on
"Teaching Introduction to Women's Studies" for all teachers of that course in the University of
Hawai`i system, held at the University of Hawai`i at Manoa campus.
Professional Conferences and Lectures since 1990 (U.S.)
Served as chair and discussant on two panels: “Exploring Resistance II: The Practices of
Everyday Resistance,” and “The Future of the Image, Past Imaginations, and the Present ‘War on
Terror’” at the International Studies Association annual meeting, New York City, February 15-18,
2009. Invited participant in a planning meeting on gender and security organized by Carol Cohn,
Director, Boston Consortium on Gender, Security and Human Rights, and Jennifer Klot, Senior
Adviser on Gender and Security, Social Science Research Council.
Invited speaker on “Bush in Drag: John McCain, Sarah Palin, and Endless War,” at Siena
College, Albany, New York, and at Union College, Schnectady, New York, October 22-23, 2008.
Also served as discussant on panel on feminism and militarism at the State University of New York
at Albany.
Presented a paper entitled “Bush in Drag: John McCain, Sarah Palin, and Endless War,”
Association for Political Theory annual conference, Middletown, Connecticut, October 9-12, 2008.
Presented a paper on “Militarism as Ideology” and spoke on a roundtable “Theory and
Event Salon” at the American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Boston, MA, August
28-31, 2008.
Participant in a roundtable discussion, “Theory & Event Salon,” Cultural Studies
Association Annual Meeting, New York City, May 22-24, 2008.
Presented a paper entitled “Becoming Anarchism, Feminism, Indigeneity” at an all-day
workshop on Anarchism, Feminism, and Indigenism, International Studies Association Annual
Meeting, San Francisco, CA, March 25, 2008. Also served as discussant on a panel.
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Presented a paper entitled “Emma Goldman’s Women,” Western Political Science
Association annual meeting, San Diego, CA, March 19-22, 2008. Also served as a discussant on a
panel.
Presented a paper entitled “Theorizing Shiny Things: Feminist Archival Labors” at the
American Political Science Association annual meeting, August 30-September 2, 2007.
Invited speaker on “Reading Feminism and the Abyss of Freedom” at the Feminist Political
Theory annual meeting, Las Vegas, Nevada, March 7, 2007.
Chaired a panel entitled “Vulnerability and Agency on the Fringes of the State,” Western
Political Science Association annual meeting, Las Vegas, Nevada, March 8 – 11, 2007.
Presented a paper entitled “Emma Goldman’s World” at the Association for Political
Theory Conference, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, November 3-4, 2006.
Invited speaker on “Discourses of Danger: Constituting Emma Goldman” in the
Interdisciplinary Seminars in Political and Moral Thought at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore,
Maryland, November 2, 2006.
Presented a paper entitled “The Securitization of Hawai`i” (with Phyllis Turnbull) at the
Feminism and War Conference, Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York, October 19-21, 2006.
Presented a paper entitled “Gender and Genre in Emma Goldman” and participated in a
round table entitled “American Fascism Rising? Reflections on Ideology and Strategies of
Resistance” at the American Political Science Association annual meeting, Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania, August 31 – September 4, 2006.
Invited guest at a conference on U.S. military bases at Brown University, Providence,
Rhode Island, August 24, 2006.
Invited speaker at a panel entitled “The Feminist Case against Bureaucracy Twenty Years
Later,” at the American Educational Research Association annual meeting, San Francisco,
California, April 7-8, 2006.
Presented a paper entitled “The Securitization of Hawai`i” (with Phyllis Turnbull) at the
Western Political Science Association annual meeting, Albuquerque, New Mexico, March 16-18,
2006.
Invited speaker, with Cynthia Enloe, on “Gender, Globalization, and Militarism” at Siena
College, Albany, New York, October 18, 2005.
Invited speaker on “Gender, Globalization, and Militarism” at Bates College, Lewiston,
Maine, October 11, 2005; and Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine, October 4, 2005.
Presented a paper entitled “Anarchist Public Space” at the American Political Science
Association annual meeting, Washington, D.C., Sept 1 – 4, 2005, and served as discussant on
another panel.
Presented a paper with Carolyn DiPalma entitled “Thinking Past a Modern/Postmodern
Impasse in Feminism: Strategic Essentialism; Irony and Counterpoint; and Local/Global
Negotiations,” at the Western Political Science Association Annual Meeting, March 17-19, 2005, in
Oakland, California. Served as discussant on another panel and as discussant at the pre-conference
meeting of the Feminist Political Theory group on March 16, 2005.
Presented a paper with Phyllis Turnbull entitled “The Securitization of Hawai`i” at the
International Studies Association Annual Meeting, Honolulu, Hawai`i, March, 2005.
Presented a paper entitled “Emma Goldman’s Political Thinking” at the Association for
Political Theory Annual Conference, Colorado Springs, Colorado, October 28-30, 2004. Served as
discussant on another panel.
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Presented a paper entitled “Disappointing Bodies: Receiving Emma Goldman” at the
American Political Science Association annual meeting, Chicago, Illinois, September 2-5, 2004.
Presented a paper with Phyllis Turnbull entitled “Portable Sovereignty, National
Internationalism, and the Peaceful Arms Trade: The Bush Doctrine in Foreign Policy,” at the
Western Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Portland, Oregon, March 11 – 14, 2004.
Presented a paper entitled “A Present Absence: Emma Goldman on Race” at the same
meeting.
Presented a paper entitled “How to Do Things with Connolly and Haraway: Theorizing
Dyslexia,” at the University of California at Berkeley, February 26, 2004.
Presented a paper entitled “Connolly, Haraway, and the Tasks of Politics,” at the American
Political Science Association annual meeting, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, August 27-31, 2003.
Organized and led a full day workshop on the military in Hawai`i for the Center for Asia-
Pacific Exchange, Honolulu, Hawai`i, August, 2003.
Presented a paper entitled “Strategies of Dissent in Emma Goldman,” at the Pacific Coast
Branch of the American Historical Association, annual meeting, Honolulu, Hawai`i, July 31-
August 3, 2003.
Presented a paper with Carolyn DiPalma entitled “What Are We Doing When We Do
Feminist Scholarship? Some Thoughts on Method,” at the Western Political Science Association
Annual Meeting, Denver, Colorado, March 26-29, 2003.
Presented a paper entitled “The Bush Doctrine in Foreign Policy,” at Pennsylvania State
University, College Park, Pennsylvania, March 7, 2003.
Presented a paper with Phyllis Turnbull entitled “Globalizing Militaries,” at a dialogic
conference on “Ideological Dimensions of Globalization,” Globalization Research Center,
University of Hawai`i, Honolulu, Hawai`i, December 8 – 12, 2002.
Gave a talk with Phyllis Turnbull on “Reclaiming Hawai`i’s Discursive Spaces” at the
Conference on Myths, Terrorism, and Justice, University of Hawai`i, November 5-8, 2002.
Presented a paper with Gail Tamaribuchi (University of Hawai`i College of Education) and
June Ching (Hawai`i Department of Education), “Teachers as Thinkers,” at the National Network
for Educational Renewal annual meeting, Parsippany, New Jersey, October 23-26, 2002.
Presented a paper entitled “E.G.: Emma Goldman, For Example,” at the American Political
Science Association annual meeting, Boston, Massachusetts, August 29–September 1, 2002.
Presented a paper entitled “Emma Goldman in Her Time and Ours,” at the National
Women’s Studies Association annual Meeting, Las Vegas, Nevada, June 12-16, 2002.
Presented a paper entitled “This Species Which Is Not One: Identity Practices in Star Trek:
Deep Space Nine,” at the Western Political Science Association annual meeting, Long Beach,
California, March 20-24, 2002.
Invited speaker for the 30 th Anniversary of the Department of Women’s Studies, University
of South Florida, Tampa, Florida, March 1, 2002. Topic: “Gender, Race, and Militarism: Are We
All Israelis Now?”
Participant in discussions of graduate education in Women’s Studies at a conference on
“The Future of the Ph.D. in Women’s Studies,” Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, October 11 –
19, 2001.
Participant in a roundtable discussion entitled “Feminist Methods” on methodology at the
American Political Science Association annual meeting, August 29-September 1, 2001.
Discussant on two panels at the Western Political Science Association annual meeting, Los
Vegas, Nevada, March 14 – 18, 2001.
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Participant in a roundtable discussion “Academic Parents with Dyslexic Children,”
International Dyslexia Association annual meeting, Washington, D.C., November 8 – 11, 2000.
Discussant on two panels at the American Political Science Association annual meeting,
Washington, D.C., August-September, 2000.
Presented a paper entitled “Gender, Race, and Militarism in Hawai`i” at the National
Women’s Studies Association annual meting, Boston, Massachusetts, June 14 – 16, 2000.
Conducted a 2 day workshop on “Political Theory in Star Trek” at the International Space
University 1998 Summer Session, Cleveland, Ohio, August, 1998.
Presented a paper entitled “Religion, Faith and Politics in Emma Goldman,” to the
Department of Political Science, University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina,
November, 1998; and at the Western Political Science Association annual meeting, March 1997.
Conducted a workshop on "Writing against Violence: Textual Strategies" at Frontline
Feminisms: Women, War and Resistance, a conference bringing together academics and activists,
University of California at Riverside, Riverside, California, Jan 16-18, 1997.
Discussant on two panels, "Inequality and Politics: Political Theory/Queer Theory," and
"Everyday Inequality: Its Psychopathology and Politics," at the American Political Science
Association annual meeting, San Francisco, California, August 29-September 1, 1996.
Presented a paper, with Phyllis Turnbull, entitled "Traffic in Tropical Bodies" at the
Feminist Political Theory Conference, Berkeley, California, March 13, 1996.
Discussant on a panel on "The Politics of Masculinity" at the Western Political Science
Association annual meeting, San Francisco, March 14-17, 1996.~
Presented a paper, with Phyllis Turnbull, entitled "The Semiotics of Sacrifice and Security”
at the Western Political Science Association annual meeting, Portland, Oregon, March 16-18, 1995.
Participated in a roundtable discussion on "Liberal Feminism at Century's End" at the
American Political Science Association annual meeting, Chicago, Illinois, August 31-September 3,
1995.
Presented a paper entitled "Writing against Violence: Textual Strategies" at a conference on
Women, War and Peace: The Vision and the Strategies, Jerusalem, Israel, Dec 27-30, 1994.
Presented a paper entitled "Writing Kibbutz Journal: Voices, Borders, and the Traffic In
Between," at a conference entitled "Constructions and Confrontations: Changing Representations
of Women and Feminism, East and West," at the University of Hawai`i at Manoa and the East West
Center, Honolulu, Hawai`i, September 19-23, 1994.
Presented a paper, with Phyllis Turnbull, entitled "Narratives of History, Nature and Death
at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific," at the American Political Science Association
annual meeting, New York, September 1-4, 1994.
Participated in a round table discussion on "Pluralism" at the Western Political Science
Association annual meeting, Albuquerque, New Mexico, March 10-12, 1994.
Invited speaker for the Lecture Series "Representations and Realities: Constructing
Women's Lives," Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, February 1, 1994.
Presented a paper entitled "Kibbutz Journal: Reflections on Gender, Race and Militarism in
Israel," at the American Political Science Association annual meeting, Washington, D.C., Sept 1-5,
1993.
Presented a paper entitled "Mobile Subjectivities: Class and Gender Identities in 'Roger and
Me'" at the American Political Science Association annual meeting, Chicago, Illinois, Sept 2-6,
1992.
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Presented a paper (co-authored with Gilad Ashkenazi) entitled "Gender Identity in Star
Trek" at the Popular Culture Association annual meeting, Louisville, Kentucky, March 19-22,
1992.
Invited speaker for the GTE Lectureship Series "Lessons from Challenger," State University
of New York at Binghamton, April 18, 1991.
Keynote speaker in the third annual Ruffin Lecture Series, entitled "Women's Studies and
Business Ethics," at the Olson School of Business Ethics, Darden School of Management,
University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, November 29-December 2, 1990.
Presented a paper on "Women and Organizational Discourse" at the American Society for
Public Administration, Hawai`i Chapter, annual meeting, Honolulu, Hawai`i, October 7-10, 199O.
Discussant on a panel on "Authority, Authenticity and the Construction of Subjectivity: The
Theory and Practice of Postmodernist Feminism," at the American Political Science Association
annual meeting, San Francisco, August 30-September 2, 1990.
Discussant on a panel on "Hannah Arendt: Political Action and Democratic Participation" at
the same conference.
Presented a paper entitled "Subjectivity and Counter-Subjectivity in Feminist Theory" at the
Social Science Symposium on "Ideology: The Turn to Practice," at the University of Tulsa, Tulsa,
Oklahoma, April 20-21, 1990.
Professional Conferences and Lectures since 1990 (International)
Presented two papers, “Thinking with and about Capitalism and Christianity, American
Style,” and “How To Do Things with The Poverty of American Politics,” at the American Political
Science Association annual meeting, Toronto, Canada, September 2 – 6, 2009.
Presented a paper entitled “An Anarchist Sensorium” at a conference entitled “A Return to
the Senses: Political Theory and the Sensorium,” Trent University, Ontario, Canada. May 7-8,
2009.
Served as chair and discussant on a panel entitled “Anarchism and Popular Culture,”
Western Political Science Association annual meeting, Vancouver, Canada, March 18-21, 2009.
Also attended the Feminist Theory Pre-Conference all day workshop.
Invited speaker at the Conference on Feminist Philosophy, Ho Chi Minh National Political
Academy, Hanoi, Vietnam, January 2 – 8, 2008.
Participant in panel discussion on global higher education at the Conference on the Future
of Higher Education in Southeast Asia, Siem Riep, Cambodia, January 11, 2008.
Invited speaker at the inaugural conference of the Resistance Studies Network, University
of Goteborg, Sweden, June 6-8, 2007.
Invited speaker for Women’s History Month, Simone de Beauvoir Institute, Cordordia
University, Montreal, March 11, 2002. Topic: “Gender, Race and Militarism: Are We All Israelis
Now?”
Presented a paper entitled “Global Practices of Security and Resistance” at the Martial
Ecologies conference, Dan Caesarea, Israel, May, 2001.
Presented a paper entitled “Power and Subjectivity in Feminist Theory” to the International
Women’s Network (IWN), Jerusalem, Israel, May 23, 1999.
Presented a paper entitled “Emma Goldman as a Political Thinker” to KAPPA, a feminist
group in Tel Aviv, Israel, May 9, 1999.
Presented a paper entitled “Gender, Race and Militarism” at Ben Gurion University, Beer
Sheva, Israel, March 17, 1999; at Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel, April 15, 1999; at Hebrew
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University, Jerusalem, Israel, April 29, 1999; at the University of Haifa, May 6, 1999; to New
Profile, a feminist peace group in Tel Aviv, Israel, June 17, 1999.
Presented a paper entitled “Grammar and Rhetoric of Power: Reading the Fort DeRussy
Army Museum” and participated in workshops for student writers at Jyvaskala University,
Jyvaskala, Finland, April 22 – 23, 1999.
Presented a paper entitled “Writing against Violence: Textual Strategies” at a conference on
Women, War, and Peace: The Vision and the Strategies, Jerusalem, Israel, December 27 – 30,
1994.
Presented a paper entitled "Discourses of Necessity and Regret: Gender, Race and
Militarism in Israel," at the International Studies Association annual meeting, Acapulco, Mexico,
March 22-28, 1993.
Co-author (with Mehmed Ali and Phyllis Turnbull, assisted by Joelle Mulford) of a paper
entitled "Gender, Land and Power: Reading the Military in Hawai'i," presented at the International
Political Science Association meetings, Buenos Aires, Argentina, July 20-25, 1991.
Related Professional Experience since 1990
Member of the Editorial Boards of Resistance Studies Magazine, an international electronic
journal from University of Goteborg, Sweden, 2007-present; Asian Women, published by
Sookmyung Women's University, Seoul, Korea, 1995 – present; Borderlands, an international
electronic journal, 2001-present; Frontiers: A Journal of Women's Studies, Fall, 1990 – present;
Women and Politics, 1986-2003; Theory & Event, 2002-present; Commonwealth, 2009 – present.
Member of the Feminist Political Theory group, associated with the Western Political
Science Association, 1996 - present.
Member of the feminist theory reading group, University of Hawai'i, 1986 - 1992.
Reviewer for the following journals, presses, and organizations: Political Theory; The
American Political Science Review; The American Journal of Political Science; The Review of
Politics; The Journal of Politics; Women in Politics; Signs; Public Administration Review;
Academy of Management Review; Frontiers; Polity; Sociological Perspectives; Routledge Press;
University of Illinois Press; Stanford University Press; University of South Carolina Press; Holt,
Rinehart and Winston; Macmillan and Co.; Temple University Press; Harper and Row; Greenwood
Press; Johns Hopkins Press; University of Pennsylvania Press; American Educational Research
Association; National Endowment for the Humanities, National Science Foundation.
Relevant Political and Community Experience since 1990
Picket Captain, Bachman Hall Gate, University of Hawai`i Professional Assembly strike,
April, 2001.
Member of the Board of Directors, University of Hawai`i Professional Assembly (faculty
union), 1990 – 1991, and 2002-2004.
Board of Directors of the International Cultural Studies Certificate, University of Hawai`i
and the East West Center, 1999 – 2004.
Member of the Board of Directors, Hawai'i International Dyslexia Association, 1997 -
present. Writer for the HIDA newsletter.
Organizer of The Not-So-Great UH Bake Sale and Teach-In, Bachman Hall Lawn, October
11, 1995; and the Death of Education March to the state capitol, October 31, 1995; and the Keep
Hope Alive march to the state capitol, January 15, 1996.
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1990.
Member of the Board of Directors, Kokua Food Cooperative, Honolulu, Hawai'i, 1985-
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