2004 – present

University of California Los Angeles – PhD Candidate in Women’s Studies, completion expected Spring 2010

Dissertation Title:  Personifying Bodies and Embodying Persons:  Metaphor, Metonym, Mythology and Meaning in Legal Personhood before 1900

 Dissertation Committee:

Christine Littleton, Chair (Law School)Douglas Kellner (Philosophy or Education)Juliet Williams (Women’s Studies)

Judith Butler,  (Rhetoric, UC Berkeley)

2007

University of California Los Angeles – M.A. in Women’s Studies

2001 – 2004

Harvard Law School - J.D.

1999 – 2001

University of Pittsburgh – Graduate Work in Philosophy

1995 – 1999

University of Pittsburgh - B.A. in English Literature and Philosophy, summa cum laude

2009

UCLA Dissertation Year Fellowship

2009

UCLA Women’s Studies Program QGE Travel Award

2008

UCLA Women’s Studies Department Twin Pines Award

2008

National Academies Ford Foundation Dissertation Fellowship

2008

UCLA Women’s Studies Program QGE Travel Award

2007

Graduate Research Mentorship Award

2007

Graduate Summer Research Mentorship Award

2006

Williams Institute Fellowship

2006

UCLA Women’s Studies Program QGE Travel Award

2005

Graduate Summer Research Mentorship Award

2005

UCLA Center for the Study of Women Travel Grant

2004

Eugene Cota-Robles Fellowship

2001

University of Pittsburgh Tamara Horowitz Graduate Student Paper Prize

1999 – 2001

K. Leroy Irvis Fellowship

1995 – 1999

Helen Faison Scholarship

Forthcoming 2009

Sex Discrimination in a Nutshell, with Christine Littleton ( under contract, West Publishing).

2008

Toward a Critical Legal Pedagogy:  Using Herbert Marcuse to Examine and Reform Legal Education, [Doug Kellner’s Marcuse’s Challenge to Education (Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group)].

2006

Fumbling Toward a Critical Legal Pedagogy and Practice, Policy Futures in Education, Volume 4, No. 1 (2006).

2005

Engendering Sex:  Birth Certificates Biology and the Body in Anglo American Law, Cardozo Journal of Law and Gender, Volume 12, No. 1 (2005).

2009

Graduate Teaching Fellow:  UCLA Department of Women’s Studies

Course Taught:  Introduction to Women’s Studies

2009

Lecturer:  University of Oregon, Women and Gender Studies Program

Course Taught:  Legal Approaches to the Body

2008

Graduate Teaching Fellow:  UCLA University Undergraduate Education Initiatives – Sex Cluster

Course Taught:  Bodies of Law, Bodies in Law

2007

Graduate Teaching Fellow:  UCLA University Undergraduate Education Initiatives – Sex Cluster

Course Taught:  Legal Approaches to the Body

2007

Lecturer:  California State University Long Beach – Women’s Studies Department

Course Taught:  Women in Global Perspectives

2006 - present

Graduate Research Assistant:  UCLA Department of Women’s Studies

Research Assistant to Professor Christine Littleton

2006 - 2007

Graduate Teaching Associate:  UCLA University Undergraduate Education Initiatives

Teaching Assistant for the Sex Cluster

2005 - 2006

Graduate Teaching Assistant:  UCLA Women’s Studies Program

Teaching Assistant for Introduction to Women’s Studies 10

2004

Research Assistant:  Harvard Law School

Research Assistant to Randall Kennedy

2004

Research Assistant:  Harvard Radcliffe Institute

Research Assistant to Eileen McDonagh

2008

(Dis)Embodying the Person, (Dis)Entangling the Body:  The Rise of the Corporate Person from 1787 to 1850, presented at the Organization of American Historians (Seattle, WA).

2007

Desire Unbound:  The Difficulties of Doing Desire in Law, presented at the Association for the Study of Law, Culture and the Humanities (Washington, D.C.).

2006

Desiring the Impossible:  Dichotomous Sex, Desire and the Legal Subject in Feminist Legal Theory, presented at UC Riverside’s Interdisciplinary Graduate Student Conference Sex Matters:  Sexuality Across Disciplines (Riverside, CA ).

2006

Toward a Twenty-First Century Self:  Uncovering the(Dis)Coverings of the Post-Modern Self through Transnational Multiracial Identity, keynote speech presented at the University of Oregon’s Women of Color Conference (Eugene, OR).

2005

Desiring the Impossible:  Dichotomous Sex, Desire and the Legal Subject in Feminist Legal Theory, presented at Emory University’s Difficult Conversations, (Atlanta, GA).

2005

Constructing Voices:  Narrative, Precedent and Pleasing the Court, (with Camille Walsh), presented at the Sixth Annual Graduate Symposium on Women’s and Gender History (Urbana, IL).

2005

Engendering Sex: Birth Certificates, Biology and the Body in Anglo American Law, presented at the Symposium for Intersex Education, Activism and Law, Cardozo Law School (NY, NY).

2009

“Doing Desire in Law:  Desiring Unbound”

2009

“Our Amphibious Law:  Deconstructing the Common Law/Civil Law Binary”

2009

UCLA Department of Women’s Studies Admission’s Committee

Graduate Student Representative

2005 - 2006

DLA Piper Rudnick Cary Gray Los Angeles, CA                                                                                Senior Researcher - Provided assistance on various real estate litigation matters in preparation for trial.  Performed manual and electronic document review, legal research and writing on a part time basis.

2001 - 2004

Harvard  Women’s Law Journal, Cambridge, MA  

Student Article Editor – Selected and reviewed articles by students and administered the student articles competition.

Primary Editor – Reviewed articles by national and international legal scholars for content, accuracy and form.

Summer 2003

Buchanan Ingersoll, PC Pittsburgh, PA                                                                                    

Summer Associate - Wrote legal memoranda on questions of law in various areas and prepared seminars in Bankruptcy, Construction Litigation and Workplace Privacy/Employee Terminations.

Summer 2002

Reed Smith, LLP  Pittsburgh, PA                                                                                    

Summer Associate - Wrote legal memoranda on questions of law in various areas and prepared seminars in Bankruptcy, Construction Litigation and Workplace Privacy/Employee Terminations.