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1 CURRICULUM VITAE Deboleena Roy, Phd Droy2@Emory.Edu 550 CURRICULUM VITAE Deboleena Roy, PhD [email protected] 550 Asbury Circle, Candler Library Suite 128-I Atlanta, GA 30322 404-727-0304 http://wgss.emory.edu/home/people/faculty/deboleena_roy.html http://sjsci.tumblr.com/ Academic Appointments 2015 Associate Faculty Graduate Division of Biological and Biomedical Sciences Emory University 2014 – 2015 Senior Faculty Research Fellow, Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry, Emory University 2011 – 2014 Director of Graduate Studies, Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Emory University 2010 - present Senior Faculty Fellow, Center for Ethics, Emory University 2008 – 2009 Faculty Research Fellow, Michelle R. Clayman Institute for Gender Research, Stanford University 2008 Associate Professor of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and Neuroscience and Behavioral Biology, Emory University 2008 Associate Professor, Department of Women’s Studies, San Diego State University (tenure and promotion May 2008) 2002 – 2003 Visiting Scholar, Brown University, Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women 2002 – 2008 Assistant Professor, Department of Women’s Studies, SDSU Education 2001 Ph.D., Reproductive Neuroendocrinology and Molecular Biology Institute of Medical Sciences, University of Toronto. Thesis: The Effects of Estrogen, Androgens and Melatonin on Gonadotropin-Releasing Hormone (GnRH) Regulation in Hypothalamic GT1-7 Neuronal Cells. 1 1996 M.Sc., Biology Department of Biology, McMaster University. Thesis: In vitro sensitivity of murine fibrosarcoma cells to photodynamic therapy, UV light and gamma rays. 1993 B.Sc., Microbiology, Specialist Program, Minor in South Asian Studies, University of Toronto. Scholarly Activity and Teaching Experience 2016 May QEP Faculty Development Workshop 2016 April “Tactical Materialisms: Feminism, Science, BioArt”, Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry Interdisciplinary Research Seminar, Emory 2016 March NeuroGenderings IV Conference Co-organizer 2015 – 2016 Working Group on Race and Racism in Biomedicine, Member 2012 – present Editorial Board, Catalyst: Feminism, Theory, Technoscience 2011 – present Piedmont Project Fellow, Emory Sustainability Initiative 2010 – present NeuroGenderings Network, Core Member 2009 – present Courses developed and taught: 1) Introduction to Studies in Sexualities (undergrad) 2) Gender, Science, and Technological Bodies (Freshman Seminar) 3) Making Differences: Race and Gender in Scientific Research (grad seminar) 4) Sex, Gender, and the Brain (Neuroscience and Behavioral Biology undergrad) 5) Techno-Animal Cosmopolitics (grad seminar) 6) Posthumanist Ethics and Aesthetics (Philosophy and WGSS grad course, co-taught) 7) Engineering Life and Ethical Practices (Graduate Division of Biomedical and Biological Sciences, WGSS, Philosophy, and Bioethics grad seminar) 8) Feminist Science and Technology Studies (grad seminar) 9) Feminist STS: Race and Postcolonial Studies (grad seminar) 2002 – 2008 Assistant Professor, Department of Women’s Studies, SDSU 2 Courses developed and taught: 1) Women’s Sexuality and the Body (300 level, GE) 2) Sex, Power, and Politics (300 level, GE) 3) Gender, Science, Technology (300 level, Natural Sciences GE) 4) Feminist Science Studies (upper division/graduate course), 5) Gender, Race, and Class (upper division/graduate course) 6) Gender, Culture, and Representation (Graduate Seminar) 2005 Invited scholar, Nextwave of Gender and Technoscience Seminar. University of California Humanities Research Institute, Irvine. 2002 – 2003 Postdoctoral Fellowship, Brown University. “Theories of Embodiment” seminar, Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women (offer declined). 1998-1999 Teaching Assistant, Molecular Microbiology. Department of Medical Genetics and Microbiology, University of Toronto. 1996 Teaching Assistant, Cellular Biology. Department of Biology, McMaster University. 1995 Teaching Assistant, Biology. Department of Biology, McMaster University. 1994 Teaching Assistant, Medical Microbiology. Department of Biology, University of Toronto. Articles Published in Peer Reviewed Journals Roy, Deboleena. 2016. Neuroscience and Feminist Theory: A New Directions Essay. Signs: Journal of Women and Culture in Society 41(3): 531-552. Roy, Deboleena. 2012. Neuroethics, Gender, and the Response to Difference. Neuroethics 5: 217-230. Roy, Deboleena. 2012. Neurocultural Feedback Loops. Social Text: Periscope (Spring 2012). http://www.socialtextjournal.org/periscope/2012/04/neurocultural-feedback- loops.php Roy, Deboleena. 2010. Lipstick and Power: Ethics, Aesthetics, and Exactly Who’s Being Duped? The American Journal of Bioethics Neuroscience 1(1): 68-70. Roy, Deboleena. 2008. Asking different questions: Feminist practices for the natural sciences. Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy 23 (4): 134-157. 3 Roy, Deboleena. 2008. Should feminists clone? And if so, how? Notes from an implicated modest witness. Australian Feminist Studies 23 (56): 225-247. Roy, Deboleena. 2007. Somatic matters: Becoming molecular in molecular biology. Special Issue: Feminisms’ Others. Rhizomes: Cultural Studies in Emerging Knowledge 14 (Summer). http://www.rhizomes.net/issue14/roy/roy.html. Roy, Deboleena. 2006. Matters of the biological body: Developing a feminist methodology in science. Special Issue: Genre, Science et Reserche. Cahiers du Mage (Marche du Travail, Genre et Sociétés) 9: 169-180. Roy, Deboleena. 2004. Feminist theory in science: Working towards a practical transformation. Special Issue: Feminist Science Studies. Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy 19 (1): 255-279. J.M.A. Gillespie, D. Roy, H. Cui, D.D. Belsham. 2004. Repression of gonadotropin- releasing hormone (GnRH) gene expression by melatonin may involve transcription factors COUP-TF1 and C/EBP beta binding at the GnRH enhancer. Neuroendocrinology 79: 63-72. J.M. Gillespie, B.P. Chan, D. Roy, F. Cai, D.D. Belsham. 2003. Expression of circadian rhythm genes in GnRH-secreting GT1-7 neurons. Endocrinology 144: 5285-5292. Deboleena Roy and Denise D. Belsham. 2002. Melatonin receptor activation regulates gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH) gene expression and secretion in GT1-7 GnRH neurons: Signal transduction mechanisms. Journal of Biological Chemistry, 277:251- 258. Deboleena Roy, Nadia Angelini, Hiroki Fujieda, Greg M. Brown and Denise D. Belsham. 2001. Cyclical regulation of GnRH gene expression in GT1-7 GnRH-secreting neurons by melatonin. Endocrinology 142: 4711-4720. Deboleena Roy, Nadia L. Angelini, and Denise D. Belsham. 1999. Estrogen directly represses gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH) gene expression in estrogen receptor- (ER-)- and ER-expressing GT1-7 GnRH neurons. Endocrinology 140: 5045-5053. Denise D. Belsham, Andreas Evangelou, Deboleena Roy, Duk Vin Le and Theodore J. Brown. 1998. Regulation of gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH) gene expression by 5-dihydrotestosterone in GnRH-secreting GT1-7 hypothalamic neurons. Endocrinology 139: 1108-1114. Peer- Reviewed Book Chapters 4 Roy, Deboleena. NeuroMatter. In MacMillan Interdisciplinary Handbook: Gender/Matter ed. by Stacy Alaimo. New York: Palgrave MacMillan. (Accepted with minor revisions; forthcoming) Banu Subramaniam, Laura Foster, Sandra Harding, Deboleena Roy, and Kim TallBear. 2016. Feminism, Postcolonialism, Technoscience. In The Handbook of Science and Technology Studies, 4th edition ed. by Clark A. Miller, Ulrike Felt, Ray Fouché, and Laurel Smith-Doerr. Cambridge: MIT Press (In press). Deboleena Roy and Banu Subramaniam. 2016. Matter in the Shadows: Feminist New Materialism and the Practices of Colonialism. In Mattering: Feminism, Science and Materialism ed. by Victoria Pitts-Taylor. New York: NYU Press (In press). Roy, Deboleena. 2016. Science Studies. In Handbook of Feminist Theory ed. by Lisa Disch and Mary Hawkesworth. New York: Oxford University Press, 832-851. Roy, Deboleena. 2014. Developing a New Political Ecology: Neuroscience, Feminism, and the Case of the Estrogen Receptor. In Gendered Neurocultures: Feminist and Queer Perspectives on Current Brain Discourses ed. by Sigrid Schmitz and Grit Höppner. Vienna: Zaglossus Press, 203-222. Roy, Deboleena. 2013. Asking Different Questions: Feminist Practices for the Natural Sciences. In Women, Science, and Technology: A Reader in Feminist Science Studies, 3rd Edition ed. by Mary Wyer, Mary Barbercheck, Donna Cookmeyer, Hatice Ozturk, and Marta Wayne. New York: Routledge, 223-241. Roy, Deboleena. 2012. Cosmopolitics and the Brain: The Co-Becoming of Practices in Feminism and Neuroscience. In Neurofeminism: Issues at the Intersection of Feminist Theory and Cognitive Science ed. by Robyn Bluhm, Anne Jaap Jacobson and Heidi Maibom. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 175-192. Roy, Deboleena. 2011. Feminist Approaches to Inquiry in the Natural Sciences: Practices for the Lab. In The Handbook of Feminist Research: Theory and Praxis ed. by Sharlene Hesse-Biber. London: Sage Publications, 313-330. Book Reviews Stephanie Koziej, Anna Kurowicka, Kevin McPherson, Lily Oster, Caroline Warren, Samia Vasa, and Deboleena Roy. 2016. “Mo(u)rning Glories.” Review of Ghost Stories for Darwin (2014) by Banu Subramaniam. (Submitted for Review) Roy, Deboleena. 2007. Science has no sex: The life of Marie Zakrzewska, M.D. by Arleen Marcia Tuchman. New England Quarterly 80 (3): 514-516. 5 Articles in Conference Proceedings Roy, Deboleena. 2016. What it Means to be Non-human: Feminism, Science and Molecular Politics. “Humanities Futures” Franklin Humanities Institute, Duke University. Available from http://humanitiesfutures.org/papers/means-non-human-
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