WENDY LYNN CHAPKIS
Professor Women & Gender Studies Professor of Sociology University of Southern Maine 96 Falmouth St., P.O. Box 9300 Portland, ME 04104 (207) 780-4757 [email protected]
EDUCATION:
Ph.D. Sociology (with Women's Studies notation), University of California at Santa Cruz
MA Sociology, University of California at Santa Cruz
BA Politics/Sociology (honors), University of California at Santa Cruz
Certificate from Universiteit van Amsterdam, the Netherlands
FOREIGN LANGUAGE COMPETENCE:
Dutch (reading and speaking) French (reading and speaking)
ACADEMIC EMPLOYMENT:
2016 – 2019 Faculty Scholar, Jean Byers Sampson Center for Diversity in Maine
2003 - present Graduate Faculty of the University of Maine, Interdisciplinary Doctor of Philosophy Program
2019 – present Chair, Sociology, University of Southern Maine
2009 - 2013 Director, Women and Gender Studies, University of Southern Maine (USM)
2005 - 2008 Chair of Department of Sociology, USM
2002 - 2003 Director of Women & Gender Studies, USM
2008 - present Professor of Sociology and Women & Gender Studies, USM
1999- 2008 Associate Professor of Sociology and Women & Gender Studies, USM.
1995- 1999 Assistant Professor of Sociology and Women & Gender Studies USM.
1994-1995 Lecturer, University of California at Santa Cruz.
1990-1993 Instructor, University of California at Santa Cruz.
1986-1989 Teaching Assistant, University of California at Santa Cruz.
Teaching:
University of Southern Maine:
Sociology Introduction to Sociology (SOC 100) Critical Thinking About Social Issues (SOC 210) Qualitative Research Methods (SOC 301) Sociology of the Body (SOC 365) Sociology of the Family (SOC 330) Sociology of Sexuality (SOC 380) Internship (SOC 395) Contemporary Dutch Society - University of Nijmegen (SOC 399)
Women & Gender Studies Introduction to Women’s Studies (WST 130) Women, Knowledge and Power (WST 280) Politics of Difference (WST 380) Senior Seminar (WST 400) Internship (WST 485) Thesis (WST 486) Capstone (WST 496)
Social Justice Pop Up courses: “Topics in Social Justice: Social Justice Summit” seminar (.5 credits; 20 students enrolled) October 2018. “Topics in Social Justice: Harm Reduction as Social Policy,” (.5 credits; 20 students enrolled) March 2018.
University of California at Santa Cruz:
Oakes College Core Course: Values and Change in a Diverse Society Merrill College Core Course: Social Change in the Third World Women’s Studies Topics Course: Queer Cultures Women’s Studies Topics Course: Hill/Thomas Hearings on Sexual Harassment Politics Topics Course: Lesbian and Gay Politics Introduction to Sociology
Dissertation Committee:
Dorothy Foote (Interdisciplinary Graduate Program), University of Maine, Orono
Jessica Nathanson (Department of Sociology), State University of New York at Buffalo
Danielle Giffort (Department of Sociology), University of Illinois, Chicago
Alex Thompson (Department of Sociology), University of Colorado, Boulder
Administration:
University of Southern Maine: 2019 – present Chair, Sociology 2009 - 2013 Director, Women and Gender Studies 2005 - 2008 Chair, Department of Sociology 2005 - 2010 Steering Committee of the Sampson Center for Diversity in Maine 2003 - 2010 Faculty Professional Development Committee (promotion and tenure) 2001 - 2003 Director of Women’s Studies, USM 1998 - 2003 Sampson Center for Diversity in Maine, LGBT Collection Programming Committee (1998-2001 Chair) 1997 - 2013 Planning Committee for Master’s Program in Women & Gender Studies 1997 - 2000 Faculty Professional Development and Committee (promotion and tenure) 1996 - 2001 Women & Gender Studies Programming Committee (Chair: 2010- 2013; 1997-1998; 2000-01) 1996 - present Sociology Department Personnel Committee 1996 - 2009 AFUM (faculty union) Executive Council (Treasurer 2004-2005)
University of California at Santa Cruz: 1989 -1 993 Women's Center Policy Board 1992 - 1993 Graduate representative to planning committee Graduate Focus in Feminist Studies 1988 - 1990 Grant writer for the Feminist Studies Research Cluster (FRA)
FELLOWSHIPS, GRANTS, AWARDS AND HONORS:
2020 – 2021 Purdue University Travel Grant for research in the Virginia Kelly Karnes Archives and Special Collections
2016 – 2019 Faculty Scholar, Jean Byers Sampson Center for Diversity in Maine LGBTQ+ Collection
2019 Selected as Grand Marshall for Pride Portland
2019 Bob Crewe Foundation grant: $1,500 for completion of documentary film on Maine gay bars.
2018 – 2019 UMS Reinvestment Fund: $7,000 student research assistant Querying the Past: Maine LGBTQ Oral History Project
2016 – 2017 Title III funding: $5,000 research assistantships with the Querying the Past Project.
2016 American Sociological Association Senior Scholar Award, Alcohol, Drugs and Tobacco Section
2010 Selected one of Portland, Maine’s 200 Most Influential People, Portland Phoenix
2006 USM MacPherson Award for Outstanding Feminist Faculty
2005 USM Faculty Senate Research Grant
2003 - 2004 $24,000 Fellowship from the Marijuana Policy Project for research on medical marijuana policy in California and Maine
2000 - 2001 Outstanding Teacher/Scholar Award; College of Arts and Sciences, USM
2000 - 2001 Outstanding Faculty Involvement Award; Student Life, USM
1998 Outstanding Book Award from the Organization for Communication, Language and Gender for Live Sex Acts (Routledge 1997)
1998 C. Wright Mills Book Award Finalist, Society for the Study of Social Problems for Live Sex Acts
1997 Outstanding Scholarly Book Award from the American Foundation for Gender Medicine and Science for Live Sex Acts
1993 - 1994 Fulbright Dissertation Fellowship to the Netherlands (Universiteit van Amsterdam)
1993 Regents Fellowship, University of California
1992 Proclamation from the Santa Cruz County Board of Supervisors for "outstanding social, cultural and political service to the community"
1990 - 1991 Recipient of teaching and graduate research fellowship in the Oakes College/Cultural Studies Associates Program
COMMUNITY SERVICE:
2020 – present Decriminalize Maine, Board of Directors 2019 – present Equality Community Center organizational advisory committee. 2019 – present Immigrant, Refugee, and Asylum-seeker LGBTQ support committee. 2017 - 2018 Mentor, Sister Makings Portland (organization pairing local women with recent immigrant women) 2015 - 2016 Mentor, Catholic Charities Refugee Resettlement Project 2011 – 2014 Board member of grant-making organization Maine Initiatives 2011 – present Advisory Board member of the national Americans for Safe Access 2009-2010 “Planting Parkside,” neighborhood engagement project 2003 - present USM-Parkside Community Collaboration Planning Group 2000 - 2002 Advisor HIV prevention sex worker outreach, Maine Department of Public Health 1997 - 2000 Portland Women’s Film/Video Festival, Portland Planning Committee 1993 Resource Development coordinator, “Women's Cancer, Advocacy, Resources and Education - WomenCARE" Santa Cruz 1991 - 1995 Board of Directors, Bulkhead Gallery (non-profit cultural center), Santa Cruz 1990 - 1993 Producer/Co-host “Radio Q” (monthly lesbian/gay public affairs program on NPR Radio Affiliate for the California Central Coast, KUSP) 1989 Lesbian and Gay Film Festival (Program Chair), Santa Cruz 1987 - 1989 Resource Development Committee, the AIDS Project, Santa Cruz.
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE:
2020 – 2021 Drugs and Society Distinguished Article Award Committee, American Sociological Association 2017 and 2018 Writing instructor for USM Faculty Writing Seminar, “Story Telling in the Social Sciences” and “Writing Yourself into the Narrative” 2015 – 2016 Graduate Student Paper Awards Committee; Alcohol, Drugs and Tobacco Section, American Sociological Association 2013 – 2015 Chair, Drugs and Alcohol Section, American Sociological Association 2011- 2015 Editorial Board, Contexts (Journal of the American Sociological Association) 2011 – 2012 Vice President, Society for the Study of Social Problems 2007 - 2008 Elections Committee (Chair), Society for the Study of Social Problems 2003 - 2006 Editorial and Publications Committee, Society for the Study of Social Problems 2004 - present National Advisory Board for Transformations (journal of the New Jersey Project on Inclusive Scholarship, Curriculum, and Teaching) 2002 - 2005 Governing Council of the Sexualities Section, American Sociological Association 2002 - 2004 Award Committee (chair), Sexualities Section, American Sociological Association 2001 - 2002 Simon-Gagnon Scholarly Award Committee, Sexualities Section; American Sociological Association, 1999 - 2002 Editorial Board, Journal of Lesbian Studies (Haworth Press) 1996 - present Manuscript reviewer: Journal of Contemporary Ethnography; Qualitative Sociology; Social Problems; Gender & Society; American Sociological Review; Gender, Place and Culture; Hypatia; Journal of Homosexuality; Violence Against Women; Harm Reduction Journal. Oxford University Press; Zed Books; Routledge; Rutgers; Duke; University of Kentucky; Palgrave MacMilliam; University of California Press.
PUBLICATIONS:
Books:
Dying to Get High: marijuana and medicine, (2008) New York University Press (co-authored with Richard J. Webb).
Live Sex Acts: women performing erotic labor, (1997) Routledge (UK edition, Cassell 1997)
Beauty Secrets: women and the politics of appearance, (1986) South End Press (Dutch edition, Uitgeverij Sara, Amsterdam, 1986; German edition, Orlanda Frauenverlag, Berlin,1986; Norwegian edition, Ida Forlag, Oslo, 1987; UK edition, Women's Press, London, 1988)
Edited Volumes:
Of Common Cloth: women in the global textile industry, co-edited with Cynthia Enloe, IPS/TNI Press, Washington and Amsterdam
Loaded Questions: women in the military, IPS/TNI Press, Washington and Amsterdam
Chapters in Books:
Chapkis, Wendy. (forthcoming). “Growing pains: marijuana legalization in Maine,” in the Routledge Handbook of Interdisciplinary Cannabis Research. Edited by Domic Corva and Joshuan Meisel. New York: Routledge.
Chapkis, Wendy. 2018. “Performing without a Net? Safer-Sex in Porn” in Sex Matters: The Sexuality and Society Reader (5th Edition), edited by Mindy Stombler et al. New York: Norton & Company. 693-702.
“Cannabis, Consciousness, and Healing” in Drugs and the American Dream (2012). Patricia Adler et al (eds). Wiley-Blackwell.
“Sex Workers” in New Sexualities Studies, 2nd edition (2011) Steven Seidman, et al (eds), Routledge.
“Patients, ‘Potheads,’ and Dying to Get High” in Sociology: Exploring the Architecture of Everyday Life (2010), David Newman and Jodi O’Brien, Pine Forge Press.
"Soft Glove, Punishing Fist: The Trafficking Victims’ Protection Act" in Regulating Sex: the Politics of Intimacy and Identity (2005), Elizabeth Bernstein and Laurie Schaffner (eds.) Routledge.
"The Meaning of Sex," (reprinted from Live Sex Acts) in Readings in Sexuality, Gender and Society (2002), Arlene Stein and Christine Williams (eds.), Blackwell Publishers.
"Power and Control in the Commercial Sex Trade," in Sex for Sale: Prostitution, Pornography and the Sex Industry (2000), Ron Weitzer (ed.), Routledge.
“The Ugly Dyke," in Looking Queer (1998), Dawn Atkins (ed.), Haworth Press.
"Changing Landscapes," (reprinted from Beauty Secrets) in Women, Images and Reality: a Multicultural Anthology (1995) Amy Kesselman (ed.), Mayfield.
"Explicit Instruction, talking sex in the classroom," in Tilting the Tower (1994) Linda Garber (ed.), Routledge.
"Skin Deep," (reprinted from Beauty Secrets) in Living with Contradictions: Controversies in Feminist Social Ethics (1994), Alison Jaggar (ed.), Westview.
"Sexuality and Militarism," in Women and the Military System (1988), Eva Issakson (ed.), St. Martin's Press.
Journal Articles:
“From Harm Reinforcement to Harm Reduction,” Deviant Behavior, Spring 2020.
“Commentary: Response to Weitzer ‘Resistance to sex work stigma,” Sexualities. Fall 2018, Vol. 21 (5-6), 743-746.
“Terms of Surrender: marijuana legalization in the United States,” Contexts, vol. 14, no.4, Fall 2015.
“The Trouble with Mary Jane’s Gender: gender politics in the marijuana policy reform movement,” special issue on “Current Perspectives on Marijuana and Society,” Humboldt Journal of Social Relations, no. 35, Summer 2013: 76-93.
“Productive Tensions: Ethnographic Engagement, Complexity and Contradiction,” special issue of the Journal of Contemporary Ethnography on "methodological complexity,” October 2010 vol. 39 no. 5: 483-497.
“Cannabis, Consciousness and Healing,” Contemporary Justice Review, vol. 10, no. 4 December 2007: 443-460.
“Mother’s Milk and the Muffin Man: Grassroots Innovations in Medical Marijuana Delivery Systems,” co-authored with Dr. Richard Webb, Journal of Ethnicity and Substance Abuse; Special Issue on Cannabis, vol. 4, no. 3/4 December 2005: 183-204.
"Trafficking, Migration, and the Law: Protecting Innocents, Punishing Immigrants," Gender & Society, vol. 17, No. 6, December 2003: 923-937.
""Biology and Politics," Harvard Gay and Lesbian Review, vol. IV, No.1, Winter 1997.
"Difference and the 'Right to Discriminate’," Critical Sociology, vol. 20, No. 3, 1995.
Encyclopedia Entries:
“Sexual Slavery,” in the Encyclopedia of Gender and Sexuality Studies, Nancy Naples (ed.), Wiley Blackwell, 2016.
"Lesbians and Sex Workers," in Lesbian Histories and Cultures, Bonnie Zimmerman (ed.), Garland Press, 2000.
Selected Book Reviews and Review Essays:
Review of The Feminist Porn Book, Tristan Taormino et al (eds), in The Women’s Review of Books, November/December 2014.
Review of On the Move for Love: Migrant Entertainers and the U.S. Military in South Korea by Sealing Cheng, in Rights Work, fall 2011.
Review of Pleasure Consuming Medicine: the Queer Politics of Drugs by Kane Race, in Contemporary Sociology, July 2010, vol. 39, no. 4.
Review of Female Desires: Same Sex Relations and Transgender Practices Across Cultures, Evelyn Blackwood and Saskia Wieringa (eds.), Contemporary Sociology, vol.31, no.2, 2002.
"The Future of Feminism,"(review essay) Tikkun, January 2000.
"Future Business" (review essay New Sexual Agendas, Lynne Segal, ed.), Sexuality and Culture, Vol. 2, 1999.
"Naked Truths," (review of Highways and Dancehalls, Diana Atkinson), Women’s Review of Books, July 1997.
"Paying for Pleasure," (review of Social Text #37: Special Issue on Sex Work, Anne McClintock, ed.), Women’s Review of Books, April 1995.
"Not the Whole Truth" (review of Backstreets: Prostitution, Money and Love, Hoigard and Finstad), Women's Review of Books, April 1993.
"Mixed Messages" (review of Intimate Wilderness, Judith Barrington,ed.), Women's Review of Books, November 1991.
"A Philosophy of Pessimism" (review of Femininity and Domination, Sandra Lee Bartky), Women's Review of Books, March 1991.
PLENARY AND KEYNOTE SPEECHES:
“Destablizing Cisgender” (Plenary address, with Dr. Hugh English) at Talking Bodies 4th biennial, international and interdisciplinary conference, University of Chester, UK, April 2019.
“From Harm Reinforcement to Harm Reduction (Keynote address) at Southern Maine Harm Reduction Conference, University of New England, October 2018.
“What the Psychedelic Community Should Learn from Marijuana Legalization” (Plenary speaker), Northeastern University (Boston Entheogenic Network Conference), September 2017.
“The Trouble with Mary Jane’s Gender,” Plenary Address, Re-imaging Sex Reimaging Gender Summer Institute, Durham University, Durham, England, June 2014.
“The Future of Medical Marijuana,” Plenary Address, Americans for Safe Access National Medical Cannabis Conference, Washington DC, February 2013.
“Community-based Non-Profit Medical Cannabis Provision,” Plenary Address, Maine Medical Cannabis Policy Conference, Portland, Maine, June 2010.
“Protecting Innocents, Punishing Immigrants: trafficking and migration.” Keynote Address for the International Conference on Gendered Exchanges: Global Perspectives on Sex, Work, Militarisation, University of Bristol (UK), June 2004.
"The Angry Feminist, the Ugly Dyke and Other Useful Stereotypes," Keynote Address for the National Organization for Women State-wide Annual Conference, Orono, Maine, October 2003.
"Beyond the Sex Wars," Plenary Speaker for the University of Ohio Women’s Studies 25th Anniversary Conference, Cincinnati, Ohio, April 2000.
"Feminist Futures: beyond the sex wars," Keynote Address at the South Central Women’s Studies Association annual conference, Tulane University, March 1999.
"Feminism, Sexuality and Commodity Culture," Plenary Speaker for the National Women’s Studies Association Annual Conference, Oswego, NY, June 1998.
"Visibility in a State of Hate," Keynote Address at the 4th Annual Northeastern Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender Student Conference, February 1998.
"The Impact of Multicultural Scholarship on Higher Education" Plenary Speaker at the NSF "Inclusive and Interdisciplinary National Conference," Portland, October 1997.
"A Queer Look at the ‘Ugly Dyke’: Lesbians and Body Image," Keynote Address for the Lesbian Health Project of Southern Maine conference on lesbian health and sexuality, May 1997.
"Women and Body Image", Keynote Address for the Mabel Wadesworth Women's Health Conference, Orono, Maine, October 1992.
"Skin Deep: reflections on the politics of appearance", Keynote Address at Newcomb College, Annual Women's Forum, New Orleans, LA., November 1989
CONFERENCE PAPERS:
“Harm Reinforcement Strategies,” Society for the Study of Social Problems, Philadelphia, August 2019.
“Queer Bodies/Querying the Past,” with USM undergraduate Johnna Ossie, at Talking Bodies (4th biennial, international and interdisciplinary conference), University of Chester, England. April 2019.
“Marijuana Legalization: Lessons from Maine,” Society for the Study of Social Problems, Montreal, August 2017.
“Medical Marijuana in the Age of Legalization,” International Psychedelic Science Conference, Oakland, April 2017.
“Gender Trouble in the Cisgender Body,” National Women’s Studies Association Conference, Montreal, November 2016.
“Destablizing the Cisgender Body,” International Trans Studies Conference, Tucson, September 2016.
“Managing HIV Outbreaks in the US Adult Film Industry,” American Sociological Association, Chicago, August 2015.
“Marijuana Legalization in Maine,” Society for the Study of Social Problems, Chicago, August 2015.
“Cisgender/Transgender: Am I That Name?” Society for the Study of Social Problems, San Francisco, August 2014.
“Critical and Activist Scholarship,” Society for the Study of Social Problems, San Francisco, August 2014.
“The Trans-literate and Trans-inclusive University Classroom,” Maine Women’s Studies Consortium Conference, Augusta, ME, March 2014.
“Legalization and Medicalization in Drug Policy Reform,” American Sociological Association, New York, August 2013.
“Popular Culture and Stoner Stereotyping: Race, Class, and Gender,” Society for the Study of Social Problems, New York, August 2013.
“Author Meets Critic: Dominatrix by Danielle Lindemann,” Eastern Sociological Association, Boston, March 2013.
“Medical Marijuana: So Yesterday,” Society for the Study of Social Problems, Denver, August 2012.
“Gender and Drug Policy Reform,” Women’s Visionary Congress Annual Conference, IONS Institute, Petaluma, CA, July 2012.
“Author Meets Critic: Strip Club by Kim Price-Glynn,” Eastern Sociological Association, New York, February 2012.
“Cultures of Pleasure: desire, discipline, and care,” Society for the Study of Social Problems, Las Vegas NV, August 2011.
“Consciousness and the College Classroom,” Society for the Anthropology of Consciousness, Portland OR, March 2011.
"Lesbians and Sex Workers,” at the CLAGS CUNY “Lesbians in the 70s conference”, New York, October 2010.
“The Trouble with Mary Jane’s Gender,” Society for the Study of Social Problems, Atlanta GA, August 2010.
Author Meets Critics session on the book Temporarily Yours: Intimacy, Authenticity, and the Commerce of Sex (by Elizabeth Bernstein) with Arlene Stein, Steven Epstein and Nicola Beisel, American Sociological Association, San Francisco CA, August 2009.
"Engaged Observation: when research is not 'value neutral'", Pacific Sociological Association; San Diego CA, April 2009.
"Why 'Medical Marijuana Collective' Doesn't Mean You Just Come and Collect: the challenges of cooperative cultivation and distribution," Society for the Study of Social Problems, San Francisco CA, August 2009.
"Altered Consciousness: a Therapeutic ‘Side Effect’?" Society for the Anthropology of Consciousness; Portland, OR, April 2009.
"Psychoactive Drugs and Healing," 4th International Conference on Holistic Health and Medicine; Lexington KY, September 2008.
“Cannabis and Community Control,” Society for the Study of Social Problems, Boston, Massachusetts; August 2008.
“Gendering Bodies,” (Presidential Session) Pacific Sociological Association, Portland, Oregon; April 2008.
“Farm or Pharm: Marijuana as Medicine,” Pacific Sociological Association, Portland, Oregon; April 2008 .
“Sexual Citizenship in Transnational America,” American Studies Association, Oakland, California; October 2006.
“Medical Marijuana: a Crude Botanical in a World of Pure Pharmaceuticals,” American Sociology Association, Montreal; August 2006.
“Anti-Trafficking Policies and the Religious Right,” Society for the Study of Social Problems, Montreal; August 2006.
“Wo/Men’s Alliance for Medical Marijuana: model provider organization,” American Sociological Association (Regional Spotlight Session), San Francisco, August 2004.
“Culture, Consciousness, and Community,” Society for the Study of Social Problems, August 2004.
“Myth Smashing Ethnography: WAMM,” Pacific Sociological Association, San Francisco, April 2004.
"Trafficking, Migration and the Law," American Sociological Association, Atlanta, August 2003.
"Compassionate Politics: Community and Cannabis Use in the Wo/Men’s Alliance for Medical Marijuana," Society for the Study of Social Problems, Atlanta, August 2003.
"Sex Trafficking," Pacific Sociological Association (Presidential Session), Vancouver, Canada, April 2002
"Trafficking in Women," International Conference on Sexuality and the State, Onati, Spain, June 2000.
"User’s Guide to Academic Politics for Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgendered Faculty," Pacific Sociological Association, San Diego, March 2000.
"Ethnographic Research: Subject to Question," Couch/Stone Symposium on Contemporary Ethnography, University of South Florida, January 2000.
"Fictions of Identity: the use of novels in sociology and women’s studies classes," New Jersey Project on Inclusive Scholarship, Curriculum and Teaching, College of Saint Elizabeth (NJ), October 1998.
"Teaching Critical Thinking," (with Doug Anderson and Susan McWilliams), American Sociology Association, San Francisco, August 1998.
"The Right to Discriminate," Organization for the Study of Communication, Language and Gender, Portland, October 1998.
"Sex and Sensibility: author meets critic with Arlene Stein," Pacific Sociological Association, San Francisco, April 1998.
"Gender Transgression and Civil Rights," International Conference on Gender Performativity, University of Helsinki, October 1997.
"Prostitution as Emotional Labor," International Conference on Prostitution, California State University at Northridge March 1997.
"What’s Love Got To Do With It: the emotional labor of sex," Amherst, Rethinking Marxism Conference, University of Massachusetts December 1996.
"Emotional Labor of Sex", Maine Women’s Studies Conference, University College of Bangor November 1996.
"Ridiculous Subjects: the question of discrediting research," Society for the Study of Social Problems, Washington D.C., August 1996.
"Prostitution and Human Rights," Nordic Prostitution Conference, Helsinki, Finland, May 1995.
"The Gay Gene: civil rights and 'natural difference'," Society for the Study of Social Problems, Los Angeles, August 1994.
"Biology and Gay Rights," International Conference on Organizing Sexuality, University of Amsterdam, June 1994.
"The Post Modern Prostitute: when sex workers run AIDS organizations", (co presented with Dr. Nancy Stoller), American Sociological Association, August 1993.
Author Meets Critic panelist with Lillian Faderman (Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers), Society for the Study of Social Problems, Pittsburgh, August 1992.
"Explicit Instruction: talking sex in the classroom", Lesbian and Gay Studies Conference, University of California at Santa Cruz, February 1991.
SCHOLARLY PAPERS PRESENTED IN NON-CONFERENCE SETTINGS:
“Trouble in Paradise: lessons in gender, race, and class inequality,” California Institute of Integral Studies (Women and Psychedelics Forum), November 2018.
“HIV/AIDS and safer-sex in the adult film industry,” University of Southern Maine (Social Justice Summit), March 2018.
“Implementation of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act,” University of New England, Feb. 2016.
“Prostitution Policy in the United States,” Durham University Law School, England; June 2014.
“Gendered Dimensions of Contemporary Cannabis Politics and Culture,” Seattle University, WA, May 2014.
“Intersectionality,” Women and Gender Studies, Brooklyn College, Brooklyn NY, March 2012.
“Why Marijuana is Illegal,” Public lecture at Maine Marijuana Reform Conference, Augusta, Maine, November 2011.
“Medicine, Marijuana and the State: the Medical Marijuana Debates,” Sociology Colloquium, George State University, February 2010.
“Feminist Prostitution Politics and Trafficking in Women,” Women Studies, Portland State University, Portland OR, June 2009.
"Drug Policy Reform and the Medical Use of Marijuana," Public lecture sponsored by Students for a Sensible Drug Policy, University of California at San Diego CA, April 2009.
"Medical Marijuana as Social Movement," Sociology by the Bay lecture series, San Francisco State University, January 2009.
"The Medical Uses of Cannabis," Humanities in Psychiatry, New York University Medical Center NY, December 2008.
"The Challenges of Creating Community," Socialist and Marxist Studies lecture series, University of Maine Orono ME, November 2008.
"Medical Marijuana as a Social Issue," Graduate Student/Faculty colloquia, Department of Sociology, University of California at Santa Cruz CA, October 2008.
"The Politics of Commercial Sex," The Center for Cultural Studies/Feminism & Pornography Research Group, University of California at Santa Cruz CA, October 2008.
“The Anti-Prostitution Pledge,” Summit on Human Trafficking , Global Fund for Women and Open Society Institute, New York, May 2006.
“Implementation of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act,” League of Women Voters’ Forum on International Trafficking in Women, University of Massachusetts Boston, April 2005.
“Anti-Trafficking and the Conservative Agenda,” Symposium on Sex Trafficking, Public Policy, and the Media, New York University, November 2004.
“Ethnography and Politics: the Wo/Men’s Alliance for Medical Marijuana,” Sociology Colloquium Series, University of California at Santa Cruz, February 2004.
"Trafficking in Women," Samuel Fund for Social Science Lecture Series, Sarah Lawrence College, November 2003.
"Trafficking, Migration and the Law," Law School Symposium on Trafficking in Women, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, February 2003.
"Feminism and Prostitution," Colby College, October 2002.
"A Feminist Argument for the Decriminalization of Prostitution," Sociology Colloquium Series, University of California at Santa Cruz,, May 2002.
"Trafficking, Migration and the Law," Sociology Faculty Research Colloquium, University of California at Santa Barbara, April 2002.
"Anti Trafficking Legislation and Contemporary Feminist Debates on Prostitution," Cultural Studies Colloquium Series, University of California at Santa Cruz, February 2002.
"Turning Pros into Cons: the Criminalization of Prostitution," Seattle University, May 2001.
"An Argument for the Decriminalization of Commercial Sex," Public Affairs Symposium, Dickinson College, PA., February 2001.
"Sexuality, Feminism and the Future," University of Prince Edward Island, March 2000.
"Feminism an d Sexuality," University of Maine, Farmington, December 1999.
"Speaking of Sex: research on prostitution," Tufts University, May 1999.
"Thinking Sex/Sex Work," Colby College, November 1998.
"Prostitution Politics," University of New Hampshire, November 1998.
"Rethinking ‘Women’s Work," Women Work Symposium USM (LAC), October 1998.
"The State of Hate: Civil Rights and Wrongs," Missouri University, April 1998.
"Working It: Sex as Work," Wayne State University, January 1998.
"Studying Sex: the Researcher and the Prostitute," Univ. of California at Santa Cruz, March 1997.
"Prostitution and the AIDS Epidemic," University of Maine, Orono, October 1996.
"Trafficking in Women and Migratory Prostitution," Center for Cultural Studies, University of California at Santa Cruz, March 1995.
"Anti Prostitution Discourse and the Question of Consent," Christina Institute for Women’s Studies, University of Helsinki, July 1994.
"Prostitution Debates and Consent Theory," University of California at San Diego, March 1993.
"Freaks, Fairies and Fat Ladies: a Right to Discriminate?" George Mason University, April 1993.
"Feminism and the Politics of Prostitution", Sonoma State University, March 1993.
"Body Pleasures and Punishments", Earlham College, Richmond, IN., October 1991.
"Images of Women in the Media", Modesto College, CA, March 1991.
"Suggestive Language: Prostitution, Pornography and Feminist Discourse", Williams College, April 1989.
Podcasts and radio programming (in collaboration with Casey Georgi, MECA, and Rachel Spigel, USM):
“Querying the Past Radio,” 2018. 6 half-hour radio programs on “Coming Out,” “Bar Scene,” “Religion,” “Gender,” “Careers,” and “HIV/AIDS,” (airing on WMPG in June and July) making use of material from the “Querying the Past LGBTQ Oral History Project.”
Documentary film (in collaboration with film maker Betsy Carson):
“Bar Stories” and “Enter Through the Door Yard: Maine Gay Bars,” in collaboration with film maker Betsy Carson; compilation of material from short-filmed interviews with members of the Southern Maine LGBTQ community talking about the role of gay bars in the creation of queer community. Screened at One Longfellow (June 2018); Portland Museum of Art (September 2018); Portland Public Library (June 2019).
VISITING SCHOLAR:
2014 Visiting Scholar, Durham University, England; Center for Sex, Gender, and Sexualities, Research Master Class on methodologies; Law School seminar on prostitution policy (June).
2010 Visiting Scholar, Sociology, University of Maine Orono
2001-02 Visiting Research Associate; Women’s Studies, University of California Santa Cruz.
2000 Visiting Scholar (graduate/faculty intensive seminar on feminist theories of prostitution) Women’s Studies, University of Cincinnati