ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS
2019 - 2022 Postdoctoral Research Fellow, School of Political Science and International Studies, University of Queensland,
2017 - 2019 Postdoctoral Research Associate, Interdisciplinary Studies, SUNY Polytechnic Institute
2018 - 2019 Managing Editor, Theory and History of Education Monograph Series. The first volume was published in April 2019, New Directions in Research on Education Reconstruction in Challenging Circumstances.
2017- 2019 Managing Editor, Encounters in Theory and History of Education.
2016 Affiliate Researcher, Hawaii Research Center for Futures Studies
Department of Political Science, University of Hawai’i at Mānoa
2016 Visiting Graduate Researcher, The Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics
Culture Analytics Long Program, University of California Los Angeles
2010 - 2016 Ph.D., Political Science, University of Hawai’i at Mānoa (UHM), 4.0 GPA
Specializations: Political Theory, Media Studies, International Relations
Dissertation Title: Overlapping Online and Offline Spacetimes: Heterotopia, Memes, and Hashtags
Dissertation Advisor: Prof. Michael J. Shapiro
2008 - 2009 M.Sc., International Relations Theory, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), with Merit
Thesis Title: A Poststructural Analysis of the Role of Technology in International Relations through Science Fiction: Community Formation and Information Technology in the Sprawl
2003 - 2008 B.S., International Affairs, Georgia Institute of Technology (GT), with Highest Honors
PUBLICATIONS (Peer Reviewed)
Articles
2022 Co-Authored with Katharine Gelber, David Duriesmith, and Ellyse Fenton. “Gendered mundanities: gender bias in student evaluations of teaching in political science.” Australian Journal of Political Science. doi: 10.1080/10361146.2022.2043241
2020 Co-Authored with Ana Jofre, Vincent Berardi, Aisha Cornejo, Carl Bennett, and Jon Harlan. “Crowdsourcing Image Extraction and Annotation: Software Development and Case Study.” Digital Humanities Quarterly, 14.2.
2019 “Encounters in Theory and History of Education/Encuentros en Teoría e Historia de la Educación/Rencontres en Théorie et Histoire de l’Éducation.” Scholarly and Research Communication.
Book Chapters
2019 “Human/Nonhuman Assemblages in STAIR: Understanding Distributed Agency in International Relations.” Science, Technology, Art and International Relations. Ed. by J.P. Singh, Renée Marlin-Bennett and Madeline Carr. Routledge.
2015 “MemeLife.” Making Things International, Vol. 1. Ed. by Mark Salter. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 243-254.
PUBLICATIONS (Non-Peer Reviewed)
2019 “Popular Culture Matters.” Invited Contribution to the International Studies Quarterly Symposium, Popular Culture Matters. Released March 7, 2019.
2018 “Social Media and Morality: Losing Our Self Control. By Lisa S. Nelson. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2018. 230p. $99.99 cloth, $34.99 paper, and $28.00 eBook.” Perspectives on Politics.
AWARDS AND HONORS
2018 ISA - Northeast A. Leroy Bennett Award for best faculty paper for “Hashtags as Weavers: Complexity, Attention, and Spacetimes in the work of Michel Serres and William Gibson,” which was presented at the 2017 ISA - Northeast meeting.
2015 Norman Meller Award, University of Hawai’i at Mānoa
2015 International Studies Association Travel Grant Award
2014 Jorge Fernandes Memorial Award for Dissertation Completion, University of Hawai’i at Mānoa
2014 International Studies Association Travel Grant Award
2014 American Political Science Association Travel Grant Award
2013 Department of Political Science Travel Grant Award, University of Hawai’i at Mānoa
2013 Graduate Student Organization Travel Award, University of Hawai’i at Mānoa
2011 Department of Political Science Travel Grant Award, University of Hawai’i at Mānoa
GRANTS AND FELLOWSHIPS
2012-2013 Graduate Teaching Assistantship, Department of Political Science, University of Hawai’i at Mānoa
2011-2012 Graduate Teaching Assistantship, Department of Political Science, University of Hawai’i at Mānoa
2010-2011 Teaching Apprenticeship, Department of Political Science, University of Hawai’i at Mānoa
CONFERENCE ACTIVITY
Panels Organized
2017 Co-organized with Rex Troumbley, “Insurrectionary Machines: The Disruptive Politics of Anarchist Printers, Algorithms, and Artilects.” Western Political Science Association Annual Meeting, April 14. Vancouver, BC, CA.
2016 “You Can’t Be Serious: Understanding Politics through Comedy and Laughter.” American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, September 1-4. Philadelphia, PA.
2016 “The Politics of Digital Nonhumans: Algorithms, Systems, Environment, and Agency.” International Studies Association Annual Convention, March 16-19. Atlanta, GA.
2015 Co-Organized with Rex Troumbley, “Digital Politics and the Networked Eye.” International Studies Association Annual Convention, February 18-21. New Orleans, LA.
Papers Presented
2021 “Digital Weavers: Using Serres and Science Fiction to Re-Examine Hashtags and Global Politics,” Digital Intimacies #7, December 6-7, Brisbane and Online.
2021 “Gendered Mundanities: Gender bias in student evaluations of teaching in political science,” Australian Political Studies Association Annual Meeting, September 20-22, Online.
2021 “Fiction as Method: Using Melville, Mieville, and Medieval Welsh Tales to Reconceptualize The Interactions of Online and Offline Worlds,” ISA, April 6-9, Online.
2020 “Fiction as Method: Using Melville, Mieville, and Medieval Welsh Tales to Reconceptualize The Interactions of Online and Offline Worlds,” OCIS, December 7-11, Canberra, Australia and Online.
2020 “The Political Implications of Cyberspace: Understanding the Interactions of Online and Offline Worlds from Dial-up to NBN,” OCIS, December 7-11, Canberra, Australia and Online.
2020 “Digital Weavers: Hashtags, Memes, and Bots in the Work of Michel Serres and William Gibson,” Millennium, October 22-24, London, UK and Online.
2019 “What’s in a face? Examining historical trends through the faces of a mass media publication.” The Association for Computers and the Humanities, July 23-26, Pittsburgh, PA. Co-Authored with Ana Jofre, Vincent Berardi, Aisha Cornejo, Michael Reale, and Carl Bennett.
2019 “Nonhuman Aunties: Understanding the Agency of Algorithms through William Gibson’s The Peripheral.” Western Political Science Association, April 19, San Diego, CA.
2018 “Political Theory and the Temple of Code: Media Archaeology and Algorithmic Agency.” Association for Political Theory, October 18-20, Bryn Mawr and Haverford, PA.
2018 Roundtable, “Social Media, Bots, Trolls, and Cyborgs Round Table: Implications for Research.” Association of Internet Researchers, October 10-13, Montreal, Canada.
2018 “High Speed Trading Algorithms and Human Manipulations: Agency and Accountability in Complex Financial Markets.” Speed Conference at Cornell Tech, September 28-29, New York City, NY.
2018 "Political Theory and the Temple of Code: Media Archaeology and Algorithmic Agency." International Studies Association Annual Meeting, April 4. San Francisco, CA.
2018 "Algorithmic Agency: Understanding the Impact of Algorithms through William Gibson's The Peripheral." International Studies Association Annual Meeting, April 4. San Francisco, CA.
2017 "Digital Nonhuman Actors: Hashtags, Memes, and Bots in the work of Michel Serres and William Gibson." Culture Analytics Long Program Reunion Conference, Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics, UCLA. December 14. Lake Arrowhead, CA.
2017 "Digital Nonhuman Actors: Hashtags, Memes, and Bots in the work of Michel Serres and William Gibson." Popular Culture and World Politics, v.10, November 24. Newcastle, UK.
2017 "Hashtags as Weavers: Complexity, Attention, and Spacetimes in the work of Michel Serres and William Gibson." ISA-Northeast Annual Meeting, November 4. Providence, RI.
2017 “Ghost in the Machine: Algorithms as Political Agents.” Western Political Science Association Annual Meeting, April 14. Vancouver, BC, CA.
2017 Roundtable, “Understanding Science Diplomacy and its Global Challenge: Mediating the Social and the Natural.” International Studies Association Annual Convention, February 22. Baltimore, MD.
2017 “Algorithmic Agency: Twitter-bots, Attention, and Politics.” International Studies Association Annual Convention, February 24. Baltimore, MD.
2016 “High Speed Trading Algorithms and Human Manipulations—Agency and Accountability in Complex Financial Markets.” Association of Internet Researchers Annual Conference, October 5-8. Berlin, Germany.
2016 “The Political Life of Twitter-Bots: Campaigns, Conversations, and Comedy.” American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, September 1-4. Philadelphia, PA.
2016 “Memes and Hashtags—Visualizing Politics through Humor on Social Media.” Western Political Science Association Annual Meeting, March 24-26. San Diego, CA.
2016 “Algorithms as Actors: Aesthetic Subjects and Aunties in William Gibson’s The Peripheral.” International Studies Association Annual Convention, March 16-19. Atlanta, GA.
2016 “High Speed Trading Algorithms and Human Manipulations—Agency and Accountability in Complex Financial Markets.” International Studies Association Annual Convention, March 16-19. Atlanta, GA.
2015 “Hashtags as Weavers: #BlackLivesMatter, Attention, and Spacetimes in the work of Michel Serres and William Gibson.” Popular Culture and Worlds Politics 8, November 20-21. London, UK.
2015 “Internet Memes and Complexity Theory: I Can Haz Your Attenshun Plz?” Association for Political Theory Annual Meeting, October 22-24. Boulder, CO.
2015 “Why does the caged algorithm sing?” 9th Pan-European Conference on International Relations, September 23-26. Giardini-Naxos, Sicily, Italy.
2015 “Popular Culture and Language: #1984.” 9th Pan-European Conference on International Relations, September 23-26. Giardini-Naxos, Sicily, Italy.
2015 “#Multiplicity—Complexity Theory, Spacetimes, and the Transversal Overlaps of Online/Offline Realms.” International Political Sociology Doctoral Workshop, July 2-3. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
2015 “Internet Memes and Visibility: I Can Haz Your Attenshun Plz?” International Studies Association Annual Meeting, February 18-21. New Orleans, LA.
2014 “William Gibson’s Footage:Fetish:Forum and Ted Chiang’s Digients as Precursor: A study of online community formation, mediation, and disruption.” Popular Culture and World Politics 7, November 21-22. Ottawa, Ontario, CA.
2014 “Post-Arab Spring Countries and the Harlem Shake: Internet Memes and the Authoritarian Responses They Provoke.” American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, August 28-31. Washington, D.C.
2014 “The Mound and the Fountain: The role of Human/Nonhuman Assemblages in Medieval Welsh Stories.” International Congress on Medieval Studies, May 8-11. Kalamazoo, MI.
2014 “Signals in the Noise? Hashtags and Memes on Twitter.” Western Political Science Association Conference, April 16-19. Seattle, WA.
2014 “The DarkNet Rises: Cyber Villains and the Otherwise Glorious Internet.” International Studies Association Annual Convention, March 26-29. Toronto, Ontario, CA.
2014 “The Internet as a Space: Heterotopias in Melville, Mieville, and Medieval Welsh Tales.” International Studies Association Annual Convention, March 26-29. Toronto, Ontario, CA.
2012 “MemeLife: Global Assemblages for the LOLs.” Millennium Journal of International Studies Conference, October 20-22. London, UK.
2012 “The Internet Wants You! Creating Change through Techno-Nomadic Moments.” International Studies Association - South Regional Conference, October 12-14. Atlanta, GA.
2011 “Techno-Nomadic Deterritorializations: Wikileaks, Anonymous, and the State.” International Political Sociology Doctoral Workshop, October 5-6. London, UK.
Workshops
2018 Invited Participant, Popular Culture Matters! Exploring the Links between Popular Culture and World Politics, International Studies Association Annual Convention, April 3. San Francisco, CA.
Working Groups
2017 Invited Participant, Science Diplomacy and Global Change Baltimore Workshop, First meeting of the Science Diplomacy Working Group. February 21. Baltimore, MD.
2015 Invited Participant, Science, Technology, Art and International Relations (STAIR), International Studies Association Annual Convention, February 17. New Orleans, LA.
CAMPUS TALKS
2020 “Algorithmic Agency.” Food for the Mind Session, POLSIS, UQ, October 7.
2014 “The DarkNet Rises: Cybervillians and the Otherwise Glorious Internet.” Department of Political Science Colloquium, PhD Candidate Panel, University of Hawai’i at Mānoa, February 21.
2012 “Technological Zombies,” part of a University-Wide Panel “The Zombie Renaissance: Hidden Meanings of Pop-Culture Texts,” November 10.
2012 “MemeLife: Global Assemblages for the LoLs,” Department of Political Science Colloquium, Graduate Student Panel, September 28.
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
University of Queensland
Using Fictional Texts in Political Science Research (Semester 1, 2022), 3-day Masterclass (Syllabus)
Law, Policy and Governance (Semester 1 2020, Semester 1 2021), Co-taught with Prof Kath Gelber
SUNY Poly
Foundations of Global Studies (Fall 2017, Fall 2018)
Online Politics (Fall 2018)
University of Hawai’i at Mānoa
Global Politics/Comparative (Summer 2013 [Online], Spring 2012)
History of Political Thought (Spring 2013, Fall 2012, Spring 2011 [TA for Prof. Kathy Ferguson])
Introduction to Political Science (Fall 2011)
Law, Politics, and Society (Fall 2010 [TA for Prof. Jonathan Goldberg-Hiller])
Georgia Institute of Technology
Finite Mathematics (Fall 2007 - Spring 2008 [TA])
SERVICE TO PROFESSION
Reviewer for Routledge
Reviewer for Security Dialogue
Reviewer for Journal of Politics
Reviewer for Electronic Journal of Communication
Reviewer for International Political Sociology
International Studies Association—Theory Section, Communications Chair, 2015 - 2017
International Political Sociology Doctoral Workshop Assistant, August 2013
DEPARTMENTAL SERVICE
POLSIS representative to the Humanities and Social Sciences Early Career Researchers Committee, UQ, 2020-2022
Research Committee, POLSIS, UQ, 2020-2022
Facilitator for outside consulting and collaboration opportunities, POLSIS, UQ, 2019-2022
Teaching Liaison Committee, Department of Political Science, University of Hawai’i at Mānoa, 2012 - 2013
Hiring Committee, Department of Political Science, University of Hawai'i at Mānoa, 2011 - 2012
Search Committee, Department of Political Science, University of Hawai’i at Mānoa, 2011
Admissions Committee, Department of Political Science, University of Hawai’i at Mānoa, 2010 - 2011
RELATED PROFESSIONAL SKILLS
Geographical Information Systems (GIS) software, ArcGIS
R and RStudio
Microsoft Office Suite
WordPress
SquareSpace
NONACADEMIC WORK
2016 - 2019 Research and Consulting for Media Productions
2013 - 2014 Assistant to the Chair of the Department of Political Science, University of Hawai’i at Mānoa
2013 Project Assistant for the Asia Pacific Higher Education Research Partnership
2008 - 2009 Book Review Editor for the Millennium Journal of International Studies
RESEARCH AREAS AND INTERESTS
Popular Culture and World Politics
Digital Politics
Digital Media
Political Theory
Ethics
International Relations
International Relations Theory
TEACHING AREAS
Political Theory
Digital Politics
Media Studies
Ethics
Cultural Studies
Introduction to Political Science
International Relations
International Relations Theory
LANGUAGES
English — Native
Medieval Welsh — Can read with dictionary
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
American Political Science Association (2014-present)
International Studies Association (2012-present)
Association for Political Theory (2015-present)
European International Studies Association (2015)
Western Political Science Association (2014-present)
Association of Internet Researchers (2014-present)
Medieval Academy of America (2014-present)
REFERENCES
Available on request.