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KATIE E. OLIVIERO - PhD
katie.oliviero@colorado.edu
EMPLOYMENT AND RESEARCH
Visiting Assistant Professor and ACLS Fellow: Women & Gender Studies, CU-Boulder
Present
Postdoctoral Fellow:
Emory School of Law, Vulnerability & Human Condition Initiative 2010-12
- Fields:
Law & Society, LGBTQ Studies, Immigration, Feminist Legal Theory, Race
- Mentor: Professor Martha Albertson Fineman
Book Project:
The Political Life of Vulnerability: Sociolegal Representations of Risk in 21st
Century Controversies Over Immigration, Gay Rights and Reproductive Justice.
Dissertation:
“Vulnerable Sensations: Compositions of Imperiled Citizenship, Intimacy and
Personhood in 21st Century Social Change”
- Professors Juliet Williams & Rachel C. Lee (Chairs); Leila Rupp & Douglas Kellner
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Finalist: Law, Culture & Humanities Association Julien Mezey
Dissertation Award
Research: The sociolegal culture of vulnerability. Dissertation considered the political implications
of activist opposition to liberalized immigration, reproductive justice and LGBT
legislation. Postdoctoral work explored sexual asylum, disability & feminist policies.
EDUCATION
PhD in Women’s Studies – UCLA
2010
- Specializations: Law & Society, LGBT Studies, Transnational Feminisms, Critical Race, Movements
Bachelor of Arts in Women’s Studies – Dartmouth College
2002
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Cum Laude and
High Honors
FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS
American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) New Faculty Fellows Award
2012-14
- Women and Gender Studies Program: University of Colorado, Boulder
Emory University School of Law and Graduate School
2010-2012
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Postdoctoral Fellowship: Feminism and Legal Theory Project (Professor Martha Fineman)
University of California, Los Angeles
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Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Studies Teaching Fellowship
2010
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Dissertation Year Fellowship
2009-2010
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Jean Stone Dissertation Research Fellowship
2009
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Graduate Research Mentor Fellowship
2008
- Travel Grants:
Center for the Study of Women, National Women’s Studies Association 2008, 2009
Dartmouth College
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Excellence in Women’s Studies Prize
2002
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Hannah Croasdale Award for service to women
2001
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Academic Citations in Thesis Research, Women’s History and Masculinity Studies
2000-2002
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Health Services Award for anti-violence and sexuality outreach
2001
PUBLICATIONS
-‐ 2013. “The Immigration State of Emergency: Racing and Gendering National Vulnerability in 21st
Century Deportation and Citizenship Regimes.” Forthcoming,
Feminist Formations 25:2
(August). Call for Papers: “Feminists Face States of Emergency.”
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-‐ 2013. “Yes on Proposition 8: Queer Conservatism and Racial Immorality in Same-Sex Marriage
Opposition.” In
The Marrying Kind: Same Sex Marriage in the Post-Gay Era, ed. Mary
Bernstein and Verta Taylor. Minnesota University Press.
-‐ 2011 “Sensational Nation and the Minutemen: Gendered Citizenship and Moral Vulnerabilities,”
Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 36(3): 679-706.
-‐ 2009 “Circling the Globe: International Feminisms Reconsidered, 1910 to 1975” (co-author and co-
editor Ellen C. Dubois)
, Women’s Studies International Forum Special Issue 32(1)
TEACHING
University of Colorado, Boulder – Women & Gender Studies Program and Law School
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Gender and Popular Culture
Spring 2014
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Sexuality and Law (Law School)
Fall 2013
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Gender, Sexuality and Migration
Spring 2013
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Feminist Theories
Spring 2013
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Queer Theory, Performance and Politics
Fall 2012, 2013
Emory University School of Law and Graduate School, Visiting Assistant Professor
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“Feminist Legal Theory” Emory School of Law
Fall 2011
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“Legal Regulation of Intimacy” Emory School of Law
Fall 2011
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“Feminisms, Vulnerability and Biopolitics” Gender Studies Doctoral Seminar
Spring 2011
UCLA Instructor:
“Public Intimacies: Queering Kinship, Law and Culture”
Winter 2010
-Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Studies Teaching Fellowship, UCLA
UCLA Instructor: “
Feminist Theories”
Summer 2009
- Women’s Studies Department, UCLA
UCLA Teaching Associate - Women’s Studies and History Departments
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“Introduction to Women’s Studies: Feminist Perspectives on Women in Society” 2006-2008
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“Historical Perspectives of Globalizing Feminisms: 1848-Present”
Spring 2006
Invited Guest Lectures
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“Public Intimacy in Law & Culture” (Wellesley Women’s Studies)
2011
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Interdisciplinary Dissertation Research Methodologies & Quandaries” (Emory)
2011
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“Marriage: Conserving Traditional Rites?” (UCLA)
2009
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“Images of Reproductive Justice: Sterilization & Fetal-Maternal Rights” (UCLA)
2008
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“Choreographing Protest: Immigration, ACT UP and Civil Rights” (UCLA)
2007
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“Pessaries & Prostitution: Femininity in 19th Century International Activism” (UCLA)
2006
Facilitator and Founder: “Performance Studies Graduate Writing Forum” (credited)
2008
- UCLA Theater and Performance Studies PhD Program & Center for Performance Studies
INVITED PRESENTATIONS
“Vulnerability’s Ambivalent Engagement with Transnational Feminism”
April 2012
- Emory University’s Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies Department Faculty Colloquium
“A More Vulnerable Nation: Risk & Resilience in Immigration Controversies”
January 2012
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- University of Washington, Bothell - Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences Department
“Social Movement Messaging and Vulnerability”
Fall 2011 &2010
- Barton Child Law and Policy Clinic, Emory School of Law (Atlanta, GA)
“Interdisciplinarity and Intersectionality as Methodology and Practice”
November 2010
- Graduate Institute of Liberal Arts, Emory University
“Queerly Conservative Public Intimacies: Proposition 8, Gender and Race”
- Sociologists for Women in Society Meeting (Santa Barbara, CA)
February 2010
- Invited lecture at Butler University (Indianapolis, IN)
January 2010
“Apocalypse When: Composing Risk in Proposition 8”
January 2010
- American Historical Association Annual Meeting (San Diego, CA)
“Conservative Body Politics: Staging Life in 21st Century Anti-Abortion Campaigns” August 2009
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Emerging Scholars in Performance Panel, Association for Theater in Higher Education (New York)
MANUSCRIPTS IN PROGRESS
The Political Life of Vulnerability: Sociolegal Representations of Risk in 21st Century Controversies
Over Immigration, Gay Rights and Reproductive Justice (Book Project)
“DREAMing of Difference: Immigration Activism, Participatory Citizenship & Democratic Mythology”
“Queerly Right: Wedding Activism, Polygamy & the Political Impact of Queer Performance”
“Flaying Life and Law: Precarious Personhood in 21st Century Anti-Abortion Campaigns”
“The Threshold of Vulnerability: Moral Risk and Sensationalism in Reactionary Movements”
REFEREED CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
“Uganda’s Anti-Homosexuality Bill, LGBT Asylum & Transatlantic Activism”
Nov. 2013
- National Women’s Studies Association Meeting (Cincinnati, OH)
“Vulnerability’s Ambivalent Political Life: Law, Precariousness and Biopolitics”
May 2013
- Law and Society Association Meeting, Feminist Legal Theory CRN (Boston, MA)
“Undocumented Youth and Immigration Activism: Queering American DREAMs and
Deconstructing National Exceptionalism”
March 2013
- Western Political Science Association Meeting (Los Angeles, CA)
“Vulnerability’s Ambivalent Relationship to Transnational Feminism and Biopolitics” Nov. ‘12
- National Women’s Studies Association, Law and Public Policy Interest Group
“Identifying Vulnerabilities, Materializing Identity”
Sept. ‘12
- Emory School of Law, Vulnerability and Human Condition Initiative Workshop Series
“Immigration’s Magic Mirror: DREAMs Foreclosed & Reproductive Neocolonialism” March ‘12
- Association for Law, Culture and Humanities Annual Meeting (Fort Worth, TX)
“Rhetorics of Racial Vulnerability: Young Women of Color& Reproductive Genocide” Nov. 2011
- National Women’s Studies Association Meeting (Atlanta, GA)
“Protecting the Borders of Public Morality: Nativist Sexual Norms in Parental Deportation Laws
and Birthright Citizenship Repeal Efforts”
May 2011
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- Law and Society Annual Conference (San Francisco, CA)
“’Never Forget!’: Performing Memory, Resistance and Totalitarianism”
April 2011
- “The Art of Public Memory” Conference. (UNC-Greensboro)
“A Threshold of the Vulnerable World”
March 2011
- “Masking and Manipulating Vulnerability Workshop” Emory School of Law (Atlanta)
“Ethnic Nationalisms and Gendered Life in Contemporary Conservative Movements” Nov. 2010
- Panel Organizer and Presenter, National Women’s Studies Association Conference (Denver, CO)
“The Violent Affects of Vulnerability: Moralized Protectionism in Reactionary Legal Efforts”
- Law and Society Annual Conference (Chicago, Illinois)
May 2010
“Queerly Conservative Public Intimacies: Proposition 8, Gender and Race”
- Sociologists for Women in Society Meeting (Santa Barbara, CA)
February 2010
- Invited lecture at Butler University (Indianapolis, IN)
January 2010
“Conserving Vulnerability: Affecting Victimization in Reactionary Movements”
Nov. 2009
- “Violence and Vulnerability Workshop” at Emory University (Atlanta, Georgia)
- Convened by the Institutes for Developing Nations and the Feminist and Legal Theory Project
“Sensationalized Vulnerability: Yes on Prop. 8’s Compositions of Imperiled Family”
May 2009
- Law and Society Annual Conference (Denver, CO)
“Militarized Vulnerabilities: Minutemen, Exemplary Citizenship & Moral Masculinity” Feb. 2009
- UCLA Thinking Gender Conference (Los Angeles, CA)
“Some Boundaries of Activist Body Politics – The Genocide Awareness Project”
Aug. 2008
- Performance Studies International, annual Conference (Copenhagen)
“Performing Queer Wedding Rites: Setting the Stage for Civil Rights Beyond Marriage” June 2008
- National Women’s Studies Association Conference (Ohio)
“Writing in Red Ink: The Body-Politics of British Suffrage Hunger-Striking”
April 2007
- UCLA Thinking Gender Conference (Los Angeles, CA)
Selected Fiction
Aug. 2004
- Keene State Writing Conference (NH)
RELATED PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE AND EMPLOYMENT
Conference Co-Organizer
- An Uncomfortable Conversation: Vulnerability & Identity Emory School of Law
September 2012
- “Vulnerability and Socioeconomic Justice” Emory School of Law
April 2012
- “Structuring Resilience,” Emory School of Law
December 2011
- “Beyond Rights: Vulnerability and Justice” Emory, Smith & Amherst Colleges
May 2011
- “Masking and Manipulating Vulnerability,” Emory School of Law
March 2011
- “Anxieties of Overexposure” Grad. Conference in Performance Studies, UCLA
May 2010
- “Transnational Feminisms in History” UCLA Dept. of History and Women’s Studies
May 2007
Co-Editor: Women’s Studies International Forum Special Issue. 2009. “Circling the Globe:
International Feminism Reconsidered, 1920-1975,” (co-editor Ellen C. Dubois), 32:1.
Program Development – Emory Feminism and Legal Theory Project, Atlanta, GA
Present
- Collaboratively assessing and revising program structure and objectives
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- Workshop, conference and speaker series conceptualization and development
- Advising administrative personnel and graduate student assistants
Graduate Student Researcher: UCLA Women’s Studies and History Departments
- Studied and contributed to Women’s Studies undergraduate curriculum reform
2009
- Researched same-sex education initiatives for Professor Juliet Williams
2008
- Researched sex scandal rhetoric for Professor Juliet Williams
2008
- Co-edited
Women’s Studies International Forum Special Issue for Professor Ellen C. Dubois
2007-8
- Coordinated
Transnational Feminisms conference logistics with Professor Ellen Dubois
2006
- Assisted in writing of the Women’s Studies Departmentalization Proposal
2005-06
Invited Member:
- Emory University Working Groups: Memory Studies and Vulnerability
Present
- UCLA Faculty and Graduate Working Group on Embodiment
2008-2010
Additional Publications:
- 2013. Interview: “Constructing Illegality: SB 90 and Secure Communities.”
Public Sense, Episode 5.
PRX Radio. Alex Kirkpatrick, interviewer. Available at http://www.prx.org/pieces/92052-public-
sense-episode-5-constructing-illegality-s
- 2009. “Sexuality Series: Kara Keeling”
UCLA Women’s Studies Department Newsletter
- 2008. “State of the Union: Marriage in the Shadow of Electoral Politics – Conference Comments” by
Katie Oliviero with Evangeline Heileger.
UCLA Center for the Study of Women Newsletter. Nov.
- 2006. “Notes: LA Queer Studies Conference”
UCLA Center for the Study of Women Newsletter. Nov.
Certificate of Teaching – The New Teachers Collaborative, Devens, MA
2003
- Massachusetts & New Hampshire Certifications in Secondary English Instruction
High School English Teacher: Contoocook Valley High School –Peterborough, NH
2003-05
- Courses included:
Post World War II Modern Literature;
Essay Writing; Crime and Mystery
- Faculty Curriculum Committee
Humanities Teacher: Francis W. Parker School –Devens, MA
2002-2003
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Gay Straight Alliance Faculty Mentor; Middle School Girls Soccer Coach
Gender and Sexuality Study Abroad, The Netherlands
2001
- School for International Training and the University of Amsterdam
Direct Services Provider: Sexual Harassment & Rape Prevention Program –Durham, NH
2001
Abortion and Birth Control Counselor: Feminist Health Center of Portsmouth –NH
2000
LEADERSHIP AND SERVICE
University of Colorado, Boulder
Present
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TRANSforming Gender Symposium steering committee faculty member
- Women and Gender Studies Pedagogy and Speaker Series collaborator
- Advising of Law and Communication Graduate Students’ Note and dissertation
Emory University
2010-12
Program Development – Emory Feminism and Legal Theory Project, Atlanta, GA
- Collaboratively assessing and revising program structure and objectives
- Identifying external grant sources, developing programming reflecting grantor missions
- Workshop, conference and speaker series conceptualization and development
- Advising administrative personnel and graduate student assistants
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UCLA
Graduate Admissions Committee
2010
- Evaluated prospective graduate student applications and their suitability for our curricular strengths
Conference CoChair: Grad. Conference in Performance Studies- “Anxieties of Overexposure”
2009-10
- Conceptualized theme, panels, events, plenaries, funding & marketing
(200 attendees)
Marriage Equality Volunteer
2009
- Canvassed Southern California neighborhoods opposed to same-sex marriage
Graduate Representative to the Women’s Studies Faculty Advisory Council
2008-09
- Conceptualized Faculty and Student Research Colloquium
- Solicited and communicated graduate students’ academic, financial, cultural and personal needs
Performance Studies Graduate Student Working Group – UCLA
2006-2010
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Conference and Group Coordinator
- Developed and led biweekly, cross-disciplinary, credited “Performance Studies Writing Workshop”
- Collaborated with faculty and students to develop Group’s mission, events, reading group
Conference Coordinator: Transnational Feminisms in History
2007
- Collaborated with Professor Ellen C. Dubois and co-edited with her the subsequent journal publication
Employment Leadership
- Faculty Curriculum Committee – English Department, Contoocook Valley High School
2004-2005
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Gay Straight Alliance Faculty Member, Francis W. Parker Charter School
2002-2003
- Middle School Girls Soccer Coach, Francis W. Parker Charter School
Fall 2002
Dartmouth College
Student Programming Coordinator -Women’s Resource Center, notably:
- Collaboratively created and organized “
Intersections,” a multi-media intersectional performance
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Vagina Monologues coordinator and director, 400 attendees in 2001&2002
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Take Back the Night and
Sex Series organizer and speaker
Founding Member of the Mobilize Coalition
- Promoted policies and education to foster institutional social justice and diversity & counter violence
Founding Member and Co-facilitator of the Dartmouth Women’s Council
AFFILIATIONS
- Law and Society Association - National Women’s Studies Association
- Performance Studies International - Association of Theater in Higher Education
- Faculty Affiliate, Law School and Department of Communication, CU-Boulder
- Emory Faculty Affiliate: Feminism and Legal Theory; Studies in Sexuality; Memory Working Group
REFERENCES
Professor Martha Albertson Fineman (Postdoctoral Fellowship Mentor)
Robert W. Woodruff Professor of Law
Emory University School of Law
Phone: (404) 712-2421; Fax: (404)-727-1973
Email: mlfinem@emory.edu
Professor Juliet Williams (Dissertation Chair)
Professor of Women’s Studies
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UCLA Department of Women’s Studies
Phone: (805) 886-9587; Fax: (310) 206-7700
Email: jawilliams@women.ucla.edu
Professor Rachel C. Lee (Dissertation Chair)
Professor of English and Women’s Studies
UCLA Department of English
Phone: (310) 825-7515; Fax: (310) 267-4339
Email: rlee@humnet.ucla.edu
Professor Leila J. Rupp (Committee Member)
Department of Feminist Studies
Associate Dean of the Division of Social Sciences
University of California, Santa Barbara
Phone: (805) 893-6130; Fax: (805) 893-8676
Email: lrupp@femst.ucsb.edu
Professor Ellen Carol Dubois (Mentor)
Professor of History and Women’s Studies
UCLA Department of History
Phone: (310) 207-2002 Fax: (310) 206-9630
Email: edubois@history.ucla.edu
Professor Douglas Kellner (Committee Member)
George F. Kneller Philosophy of Education Chair
UCLA Graduate School of Education and Information Studies
Phone: (310) 825-0977 Fax: (310) 206-6293
Email: kellner@ucla.edu
