Academic positions

Indiana University at Bloomington

Assistant Professor, Department of Communication and Culture

Affiliate Faculty, Gender Studies Department

Adjunct Faculty, American Studies Program

July 2004-present

Education

University of California at San Diego

C. Phil. in Communication, 2001

Ph.D. in Communication, 2004

§ Dissertation title: Coming of Age in a Digital Era: Youth Queering Technologies in Small Town, USA. Dissertation committee: Susan Leigh Star and Olga Vásquez (co-chairs), Geoffry Bowker, Steve Epstein, and Leah Lievrouw

San Francisco State University

M. A. in Anthropology, 1999

§ Thesis title: Narratives of Youth Identities: Queer Voices, Queer Lives. Thesis advisors: John P. DeCecco (Psychology) and Gilbert Herdt (Anthropology)

University of California at Davis

B. A. in Anthropology and Native American Studies (double major), 1992

§ Senior project title: “Making Our Way”: Contemporary Roles of Alaskan Native Single Mothers in Subsistence Economies. Project advisors: David Risling (Native American Studies) and William Davis (Anthropology)

Research and teaching interests

The social theory and ethnography of gender and sexuality; the intersections of new media and cultural identity production; the sociology of youth and public culture; qualitative methodologies, particularly ethnography online and in non-urban settings; the pedagogy of research ethics and its relationship to the construction of scientific knowledge and practice.

Awards, fellowships, and grants

2007-08 Indiana University College Arts and Humanities Institute Faculty Fellowship Award (full leave for Spring 2008)
2007-08 Community Outreach and Partnerships in Service-Learning (COPSL) Faculty Fellow ($1,000)
2006 Indiana University New Frontiers Grants in the Arts and Humanities award for support of the “Homeland Insecurities: Sexuality, Citizenship, and Empire: An interdisciplinary, international conference” scheduled for November 2007; co-applicants: Suzanna Walters, Jean Robinson, Heidi Ross and Maria Bucur ($20,000)
2006 Indiana University Campus Writing Program Summer Writing-Teaching Grant ($1500)
2006 Indiana University Department of Communication and Culture Travel Fund Award ($750)
2005-2006 Indiana University Summer Faculty fellowship from OVPR award and IUB National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Stipend nomination ($8,000)
2005 Indiana University Multidisciplinary Ventures and Seminar Fund award for support of the “Homeland Insecurities: Sexuality, Citizenship, and Empire” 2005-06 lecture series; co-applicants: Suzanna Walters, Jean Robinson, Heidi Ross and Maria Bucur ($5,000)
2004-2005 Indiana University College of Arts and Sciences Summer Faculty Fellowship award ($8,000)
2003-2004 Social Science Research Council—Sexuality Research Fellowship; advisor: Joshua Gamson ($28,000, plus $6,000 administered by institution and advisor)
2003 National Association of Student Anthropologists Travel Award ($100)
2002-2003 UC San Diego Department of Communication Dissertation Fellowship ($4,000)
2002-2003 Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies (CLAGS) “Honorable Mention” Research Award
2001-2002 GLAAD Center for the Study of Media and Society Dissertation Fellowship Award ($5,000)
2000-2001 UC San Diego Department of Communication “Teaching Excellence Award” ($100)
1997 Haworth Press “Young Scholar's Grant” recipient for the completion of In Your Face: Stories from the Lives of Queer Youth ($1,000)
1997 Chosen as “One of 30 Leaders Under Thirty Impacting Gay and Lesbian Lives” by the national gay and lesbian magazine, The Advocate, in their cover story, July
1997 Honored as the “LYRIC Champion: Volunteer of the Year” awarded by Northern California youth agency, Lavender Youth Recreation and Information Center (LYRIC)
1995 Second Place, Southwestern Anthropological Association Paper Award
1991-1992 UC Davis Presidential Undergraduate Research Fellowship ($3,000)
1991-1992 UC Davis Women's Resources and Research Center Research Grant, ($1,000)

Publications

Books

Out in the Country: Youth, Media, and the Queering of Rural America. (in progress).

Queering the Countryside: Cartographies of Rural Sexual Desire in the United States co-edited volume with Colin Johnson (in progress).

1999 In Your Face: Stories from the Lives of Queer Youth. New York: Haworth Press.

Articles, book chapters, and reviews

Review of “Business Not Politics: The Making of the Gay Market” by Katherine Sender (accepted to International Journal of Communication June 2007).

“From Websites to Wal-Mart: Youth, Identity Work, and the Queering of Boundary Publics in Small Town, USA” (accepted to American Studies May 2007).

“Queer Nation is Dead/Long Live Queer Nation’: The Politics and Poetics of Social Movement and Media Representation” (accepted to Critical Studies in Media Communication pending revisions).

2007 “Face Value” Contexts Volume 6(2), Spring.

2005 “Lesbians and the Internet” co-authored with Mary Bryson, in the Youth, Education, and Sexualities: An International Encyclopedia. J.T. Sears, ed. Greenwood Press.

2004 “Finding pride and the struggle for freedom to assemble: The case of queer youth in U.S. schools” in G. Goodman and K. Carey (eds.) Critical Multicultural Conversations. Hampton Press.

2003 “The Plasticity of Vulnerability: Research with a Stigmatized Community” Anthropology News Volume 44(8), November.

Invited talks

2007 “From queer objects to sexual subjects: rethinking queer visibility in cinema.” Presented at the Kinsey Institute in Bloomington, January 26.

2007 “What is New Queer Cinema?” Panel presentation in conjunction with the Departments of Communication and Culture and Gender Studies at the 4^th Annual PRIDE Film Festival in Bloomington, January 25.

2006 “School’s Out! GSAs in the Press.” Presented as part of the “Leroy F. Aarons Summer Institute on Sexual Orientation Issues in the News” at the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC) 89th Annual Convention. The AEJMC Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Interest Group and the Annenberg School for Communication sponsor the Institute in San Francisco, California August 2-5.

2006 “‘You can’t do that!’ The ethics and pragmatics of ethnographic approaches to new media research.” Presented at Rob Kling Center for Social Informatics Colloquium, Indiana University, Bloomington, February 17.

2004 “Multi-sited work over the Internet: What kind of ethnography happens online?” Presented to the NSF-funded Science, Technology Studies symposium, “Studying Up—the Problems and Prospects of Multi-Sited Ethnography,” UC Berkeley, Gene Rochlin, convener, February 1-3.

2003 “On methods: Pondering the “newness” of new media studies in a not-so-run-of-the-mill ethnography” Invited paper for the New Research for New Media: Innovative Research Methods Symposium, September 9, UMN.

Conference presentations

2007 “Outwit, outlast, outplay: The politics and poetics of studying rural youth sexuality in this day and age” Special Session paper presentation for the 102^nd American Sociological Association Annual Conference, August 11-14.

2007 “Discovering Self on The Discovery Channel: Trans Youth” Invited session (GLBT Interest Group) paper presentation for the 57^th International Communication Association Annual Conference, May 24-28.

2006 “Too old to get close: The politics, pressures, and pleasures of fieldwork on youth sexuality in the U.S.” Invited panel (SANA Section) at the 105^th American Anthropological Association Annual Meetings, November 15- November 19.

2006 “You Can’t Do That!: The Ethics and Pragmatics of Ethnographic Approaches To New Media Research.” Paper presentation for The 2nd International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry, May 4-May 6.

2005 “Bringing the past [back] into the present: Exploring the present tense of history in queer lives—Part 1, Part 2, and roundtable” Invited panel (SOLGA Section) double session and roundtable co-chair, co-organizer, and discussant at the 104^th American Anthropological Association Annual Meetings, November 30- December 4.

2005 “From Websites to Wal-Mart: Identity work and the productive fragility of boundary publics” Paper presentation for the American Studies Association Annual Meeting, November 3-6.

2005 “’It was like seeing me for the first time’”: Young rural women engaging genres of queer realness” Invited session (Feminist Scholarship Division) paper presentation for the 55^th International Communication Association Annual Conference, May.

2005 “Passing class: Trans youth negotiating ‘realness’ in the rural United States.” Paper presentation for the invited panel, Sexual Subjectivities, the State, and Queer Discourses at Trans/Positions: Transnational, Transgender, Transdisciplinary, Transcultural A Conference on Feminist Inquiry in Transit held at Purdue University, April 7-9.

2003 “Do no harm? Ad-hoc ethics and the Institutional Review Board process or “Well, whatever you do, don’t let them call you from home!” Invited panel of the 102^nd American Anthropological Association Annual Meetings, November.

2001 “Looking for love in all the wrong places: Methodological notes on studies of sexual practice and online communities.” Invited panel of the 100^th American Anthropological Association Annual Meetings, November.

2000 “Troubling engagements: Queer youth, specters of pedophilia, and the politics of engaged queer anthropology.” Invited panel of the 99^th American Anthropological Association Annual Meetings, November.

1999 “Smearing queer meaning: Exploring queer diasporas in contemporary contexts.” Co-chair and presenter. Invited panel of the 98^th American Anthropological Association Annual Meetings, November.

1999 “Virtually queer: Identities online.” Invited session (GLBT Interest Group); paper presentation for the 49^th International Communication Association Annual Conference, May.

1998 “Queer youth presence on the Internet.” Paper presentation for the Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies Conference, Queer Globalization/Local Homosexualities, CUNY, NYC April 29-May 3.

1995 “Queer realities: Putting theory to the test: The use of oral history as methodology in queer theory.” Paper presentation for the 5^th Annual National Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Graduate Student Conference, USC, March 23-26.

1995 “Virtual culture: Surfing for collective identity and the (trans)locality of culture on the Internet.” Paper presentation for the Southwestern Anthropological Association Annual Meetings, San Francisco, CA, April 6-8.

Professional service

Membership in scholarly communities

American Anthropological Association (AAA)

AAA sections: Society of Lesbian and Gay Anthropologists (SOLGA); Association of Feminist Anthropology; Society for the Anthropology of North America (SANA)

International Communication Association (ICA)

ICA sections: ICA GLBT Studies Interest Group

Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR)
American Studies Association
American Sociological Association (ASA)

ASA sections: Communication and Information Technologies Section of the ASA (CITASA); Science, Knowledge, and Technology; Sexualities

Editorial boards and peer reviewing

Member of the editorial board, The Journal of Homosexuality 2004 to present
Manuscript Reviewer: Sexuality Research and Social Policy, 2007-present
Manuscript Reviewer: Current Anthropology, 2006-present
Manuscript Reviewer: Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, 2006-present
Manuscript Reviewer: New Media and Society, 2003-present
Manuscript Reviewer: International Communication Association GLBT Studies Studies Interest Group, 2000-present

Other professional and community service

Co-chair, Society of Lesbian and Gay Anthropologists (SOLGA), a section of the American Anthropological Association, elected in 2005 for 2006-2008 appointment
Grant reviewer, AAA Race and Human Variation Project, 2005
Steering committee member: Bloomington PRIDE GLBT Film Festival, 2004-present
Interviewed on BloomingOUT public radio program regarding LGBT studies available on the IU campus and in CMCL, December 6, 2005
Soc.support.youth.gay-lesbian-bi USENET Newsgroup: co-founder, co-moderator, 1994-2004

Participation in university academic programs

Affiliate Faculty Member, Gender Studies Department, Indiana University
Adjunct Faculty Member, American Studies Program, Indiana University

Departmental service experience

Colloquium and Lecture Series Committee, Fall 2004-present
Equipment, Technology, and Space Committee, Fall 2006
Merit-Salary Committee, 2005-06
MA Exam Committee, 2006-07
Brown bag presentation on Job Talks for CMCL, September 9, 2005
Reader for the C122 Interpersonal Communication Ethnography prize, 2004-05
Graduate student travel grant award review committee, 2004-05

Campus service experience

Program in Leadership, Ethics, and Social Action (LESA) Faculty Advisory Board member, nominated Fall 2006 to serve 2006-2009
Bloomington Faculty Council Fringe Benefits Committee (FBC), Spring 2005-present

§ Gender Studies representative to the Hiring Committee for COAS academic advisor (covering Gender Studies, African-American and African Diaspora Studies, and the Latino Studies program), Summer 2006

§ Chair of the FBC subcommittee on socially responsible investment options, 2005-06

Media Services Advisory Group, 2004-present
Co-organizer of the “Homeland Insecurities: Sexuality, Citizenship, and Empire” lecture series in coordination with Suzanna Walters, Gender Studies, 2005-06
Steering committee for the Gender Studies 2006-07 international conference on “Homeland Insecurities, Sexuality, Citizenship, and Empire,” 2005-06
Gender Studies ad-hoc committee to draft merit-salary policy and committee structure, Fall 2005
Reader for the Barbara Gray undergraduate Student Paper competition in Gender Studies, Fall 2005
Gender Studies Department retreat participant, Summer 2005
Faculty Marshall for the IU COAS Graduation Commencement Ceremonies, Spring 2005
Faculty and Staff for Student Excellence (FASE) Mentoring program, 2004-05
UCSD Chancellor's Advisory Committee on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Issues: Co-chair, 1999-2001
UCSD Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Resource Office Advisory Board: student representative, 2000-01

Teaching experience and student mentoring

Course taught

§ (Fall 2007) C334/G302, Queering Sexuality and Gender in the Media; C620, Ethnographic Approaches to New Media Research

§ (Fall 2006) C203, Gender, Sexuality and the Media: Introduction to Queer Representations in U.S. Popular Cinema; C334, Communication, Culture, and Community: Community-based media production of the 4th Annual Bloomington PRIDE Film Festival

§ (Spring 2006) C203, Gender, Sexuality and the Media: Introduction to Queer Representations in U.S. Popular Cinema [new course]; C203/HON299, Honor’s section of C203; C620, Ethnographic Approaches to New Media Research [new graduate course]

§ (Fall 2005) C445, Media, Culture, and Politics: Media, Social Movements, and the Politics of Representing Dissent [new course]; C334, Queering Sexuality and Gender in the Media; C382, service-learning undergraduate internship experience producing the Bloomington PRIDE Film Festival [new course and model for departmental-wide stand alone service-learning course]

§ (Spring 2005) C337, New Media and Society; C334, Queering Sexuality and Gender in the Media

§ (Fall 2004) C337, New Media and Society [new course]; C334, Queering Sexuality and Gender in the Media [new course]

§ Visiting Lecturer, Louisville, Kentucky, Spring 2003: University of Louisville, Women's Studies Department: Gender and Public Dialogue

§ Lecturer, San Diego, California, 2000-01: UCSD Warren Writing Program: Society and the Individual; Embodying Sex, Gender, Class and Race: The Rhetoric of Performativity

§ Co-lecturer, San Francisco, California, 9/95-5/96: SFSU Construction of the “culture” concept and its impact on the notions of ethnicity, gender, economy, and space/geography. The course explored the notion of culture as an object of analysis from the vantage points of the four co-disciplines of anthropology.

§ Instructor, San Francisco, California, 5/96-9/96: SFSU HIV, Queer Youth and the Cyberworld. Weekly eight hour computer training seminars demonstrating the uses of various multi-media software applications and the Internet for Communities United Against Violence (CUAV), Health Initiatives For Youth (HIFY) an HIV/AIDS youth information and educational center in collaboration with SFSU. The participants were twenty “at risk” or HIV+ youth ranging in ages from 16 to 25.

Student mentorship

Master’s qualifying exam or plan of study reader:

§ Katarzyna (Kasia) Chmielewska

§ Jeremiah Donavan

§ Inna Kouper (School of Library and Information Sciences)

§ Dionne McKastle

§ Korryn D. Mozisek

Dissertation committee member: