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Wendy M. Christensen 8128 Sewell Social Sciences 1180 Observatory Drive Madison, WI 53706, (608) 244-2668 wchriste@ssc.wisc.edu www.ssc.wisc.edu/~wchriste EDUCATION: 2009 (expected) Ph.D. (in progress) University of Wisconsin–Madison, Sociology Dissertation: Mobilizing Military Motherhood: Negotiating Support, Activism and Politics in the U.S. War on Terrorism (Chair: Myra Marx Ferree) Specialty Areas: Sociology of Gender, Sociology of Culture Minor Concentration: Mass communications M.S., Sociology University of Wisconsin–Madison Thesis: “The Cowboy of the World:” Gendering Iraq War Debate B.A., Sociology with Honors (Magna Cum Laude) State University of New York at Stony Brook–Stony Brook, NY 2004 2002 RESEARCH INTERESTS: Sociology of gender, war and the military, discourse analysis, news media, internet technology and communications, cultural sociology and feminist theory PUBLICATIONS: Christensen, Wendy M. and Myra Marx Ferree “The Cowboy of the World?: Gendering Iraq War Debate.” Forthcoming, 2008, Qualitative Sociology Christensen, Wendy M., Review of Rampage: The Social Roots of School Shootings by Katherine Newman. Qualitative Sociology, August 2005, 28:3 Christensen, Wendy M. “Columbine” in Men & Masculinities: A Social, Cultural, and Historical Encyclopedia, 2004, edited by Michael S. Kimmel and Amy Aronson, ABC-CLIO, Incorporated ARTICLES IN PROGRESS: “The Online World as Problematic: Doing Feminist Internet Research” “Pierre Bourdieu and Dorothy Smith” (with Mustafa Emirbayer) FELLOWSHIPS & AWARDS: Winter 2007 Department of Sociology Dissertation Research Award 6/12/08 1 of 4 Fall 2007 Spring 2007 Travel fellowship, International Institute, UW–Madison DAAD fellowship, Center for German and European Studies Collaborative Research Seminar “War, Peace and the Birth of a United Europe, 1648-2003” (UW–Madison and University of Minnesota–Twin Cities) DAAD fellowship, Center for German and European Studies Collaborative Research Seminar: “Gender, Genre and Political Transformations: Interdisciplinary Perspectives” (UW–Madison and University of Minnesota–Twin Cities) Fall 2005 SELECT CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS: 2008 “The Gendered Homefront: U.S. Military Mothers and the Work of Separating the War from the Warrior” American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, Boston, MA. “The Online World as Problematic: Bringing Institutional Ethnography to the Internet” Society for the Study of Social Problems 2008 Annual Meeting, Boston, MA. “The Online World as Problematic: Feminist Internet Methodology,” Midwest Sociological Society annual conference, and the Midwest Sociologists for Women in Society Conference, Chicago, IL. “Military Mothers Online: Negotiating Support, Activism and Politics in the U.S. War on Terrorism” Christina Conference on Women’s Studies and the European Gender and ICT Symposium, University of Helsinki, Finland “Our Families, Your Freedom: Constructing Military Motherhood in the U.S. War on Terrorism” Gender and Political Transformations, Center for German and European Studies, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN and at “Maternalisms and War” panel at the Feminism and War Conference, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY. “The Cowboy of the World: Gendering Iraq War Discourse” in “Gender & Sexuality in the Global U.S. Military Empire” panel at the American Sociological Association, Philadelphia, PA and at Midwestern Sociological Society annual conference, Minneapolis MN. 2008 2007 2007 2006 2005 SELECT EMPLOYMENT: 2004-present Communications Program Assistant and Webmaster: The Office of the Dean of Division of International Studies and the International Institute at the University of Wisconsin–Madison Primary duties include: web design, technology management, research on international education and technology, coordinating division-wide projects including the dean’s review, yearly reports, and the Distinguished International Visitor Series. 2 of 4 6/12/08 2006 Assistant to the editors: Global Feminism, Myra Marx Ferree and Aili Mari Tripp, New York University Press, 2006 Primary duties included: Completing and verifying references and footnotes, contacting authors for editing, working with New York University Press to format the final the text for printing. Project Assistant: Professors Myra Marx Ferree and Aili Mari Tripp, Transnational Feminisms Research Circle of the International Institute University of Wisconsin– Madison Researched and designed a database-driven website of resources for global feminist research and activism. Research Assistant: Wisconsin Longitudinal Study, Professor Jane Piliavin, Department of Sociology, University of Wisconsin–Madison Devised coding scheme for archival data, supervised undergraduate coders and reliability checks. 2004 2003 TEACHING EXPERIENCE: Teaching Assistant: Spring 2003, Fall 2003 Survey of Sociology, University of Wisconsin–Madison Developed syllabus, facilitated in-class activities, and created assignments and evaluated work to guide students through the process of meeting UW–Madison’s writing requirement. Sociology of Gender, University of Wisconsin–Madison Global Sociology, State University of New York–Stony Brook Introduction to Sociology, State University of New York–Stony Brook Fall 2002 Fall 2001 Spring 2001 PROFESSIONAL SERVICE: Reviewer Gender & Society, Qualitative Sociology, Social Problems, and Race, Class & Gender Roundtable Panels, 4th Annual Student Roundtable: Emerging Scholarship in Sociology, SWS/ABS 2008 Summer Meetings in Boston Panel, Showcasing Feminist Research at UW–Madison, Midwest Sociological Society annual conference, and the 2007 Midwest Sociologists for Women in Society Conference, Chicago, IL Elected Positions Sociologists for Women in Society, Student Representative (2008-09) Chair, SWS Student Concerns Committee (2008-09) Member, SWS Executive Council (2008-09) Organizer 6/12/08 3 of 4 Member Student Concerns Committee, Committee on Academic Justice, Career Development Committee (Sociologists for Women in Society) Instruction and Curriculum Committee (Department of Sociology, UW– Madison) Contributor Sociological Images: Seeing is Believing (a blog for use in sociology and related classes), linked through Contexts and the American Sociological Association (2007-present) PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS: American Sociological Association Sociologists for Women in Society Society for the Study of Social Problems Midwest Sociological Society REFERENCES: Professor Myra Marx Ferree (Major Advisor) Department of Sociology, UW–Madison (608) 263-5204 mferree@ssc.wisc.edu Professor Cameron Macdonald Department of Sociology, UW–Madison (608) 261-1031 cmacdon@ssc.wisc.edu Professor Pamela Oliver Department of Sociology, UW–Madison (608) 262-6829 oliver@ssc.wisc.edu Professor Mustafa Emirbayer Department of Sociology, UW–Madison (608) 262-4419 emirbaye@ssc.wisc.edu Professor Aili Mari Tripp Department of Political Science, Women’s Studies, UW–Madison tripp@polisci.wisc.edu 6/12/08 4 of 4