Christine A. Kelly
Department of Political Science
William Paterson University
300 Pompton Road
Wayne NJ 07470
Kellyc@wpunj.edu (h) 973-509-8805
Education
Rutgers University 1989-1996
Ph.D. in Political Theory
Minor Fields: American Politics and Women and Politics
Dissertation Title: “Tangled Up in Red, White and Blue: New Social
Movements in America”
Douglass College, Rutgers University 1983-1987
B.A. in Political Science and Women’s Studies
Teaching Experience
· Associate Professor 2000-present
Department of Political Science, William Paterson University, Wayne, NJ
· Assistant Professor 1999-2000
Political Science and Women’s Studies
Department of Political Science, Univ. of Northern Colorado
· Visiting Assistant Professor 1996-1999
Department of Politics, Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, MA
· Instructor/Teaching Assistant 1992-1996
Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ
· Teaching Fields
§ Political Theory
§ American Politics and Government
§ Social Movements
§ Civic Engagement
§ Mass Media and Culture, Aesthetics and Politics
§ Labor, Welfare and Education Policy
§ Democratic Theory, Feminist Theory, Critical Theory
· Courses in Theory
§ Ancient and Medieval Political Thought
§ Modern Political Thought
§ Contemporary Democratic Theory
§ Fundamentals of Politics (five semesters)
§ Invitation to Feminist Theory
§ Conservative Political Thought (seminar)
§ Civic Engagement: Theory and Practice
§ Politics, Literature and the Arts
§ Ideologies of the Right
§ Politics and Culture
· Courses in American Politics
§ American Government
§ Politics and the Media
§ Labor, Labor Markets and the Welfare State
§ (Graduate Program)
§ Politics of Labor Movements
§ Politics of US Education
§ Civic Engagement: Theory and Practice
§ Citizens, The State and Global Politics
§ (Graduate Program)
§ Student Protest and the American University (seminar)
§ American Presidency
§ American Race Relations
§ Parties, Interest Groups and Social Movements
· Courses in Women's Studies
§ Politics and Sex
§ Women in Contemporary Society
§ Introduction to Women’s Studies
§ Contemporary Women’s Movements: Theory and Practice
§ Invitation to Feminist Theory
Professional Activity, Honors and Awards
Editorial Boards:
Editorial Board, Labor and Social Policy, Blackwell Publishers 2004-
Editorial Board, Provocations: Political Theory and Contemporary Issues Book Series,
University Press of Kentucky 2002-
Editorial Board, New Political Science Journal, Carfax/Routledge Inc. 2002-
American Political Science Association
American Political Science Association (APSA), member 1992-present
APSA-Chair, New Political Science (NPS) Section 2005-2007
APSA-Carey McWilliams Career Award Committee (Presidential Appointment) 2005
"For a journalist who makes a significant contribution to the understanding of politics"
Awardee: Seymour Hersh, New Yorker Magazine
APSA- Chair, Michael Harrington Book Award Committee, New Political Science 2005
APSA- Labor Project, Founding Chair 2005
APSA- Chair, Christian Bay Award Committee, New Political Science (NPS) 2004
APSA- New Political Science, Executive Board 2003-present
APSA- Centennial Program Chair, NPS 2003
APSA- Charles A. McCoy Lifetime Achievement Award Committee (NPS) 2002
APSA - Christian Bay Award Committee, NPS 2000
APSA- Winner Christian Bay Best Section Paper, NPS 1999
Paper Title: “Whatever Happened to Women’s Liberation?: Feminist Legacies of 1968”
APSA- Michael Harrington Book Award Committee, NPS 1998
University Appointments and Awards
Director, American Democracy Project-William Paterson University 2003-present
§ Developed and coordinated a university-wide committee system of faculty and staff to assist in creation of a curricular and community based service- learning program.
§ Developed a "Community Partners" plan in coordination with local community organizations. Program assessment with Community Partners remains ongoing.
§ Designed and directed a university-wide civic engagement program (Civic Engagement Across the Curriculum (CEAC)/`seek.) comprised of academic courses with an experiential learning component linked to various community non-profits, schools and public agencies in the Greater Paterson area.
§ Identified, recruited and trained faculty from all five colleges for participation in CEAC /`seek/.
§ Developed a three-year course projection and community partner development plan for purposes of grant support material.
Woman of Vision Award, 2006
Women's History Month Award for Service, Women's Center,
William Paterson University
Advisory Board, Women’s Center, William Paterson University 2002-
Urban Studies Committee, College of Humanities and Social Science 2002-present
Faculty Grant Awards
Mount Holyoke College, Faculty Provost Office 1996, 1998
Teaching Assistantship 1993-1996
Department of Political Science, Rutgers University
John C. Enk Dissertation Fellowship in American Politics 1993-1994
Graduate School, Rutgers University
Graduate Fellows Award 1989-1990
Graduate School, Rutgers University
Publications
BOOKS:
Chimes of Freedom: Student Protest and the Changing American University (under contract, Rowman & Littlefield,, anticipated date of publication: Dec 2007)
Tangled Up in Red White & Blue: New Social Movements in America, (Rowman & Littlefield, 2001)
ARTICLES, BOOK CHAPTERS & BOOK REVIEWS:
(All refereed, unless otherwise noted.)
Book Chapter, " How Dinesh Gets Over: The Unmeritorious Scholarship of Dinesh D'Souza" in The Logos Reader, University Press of Kentucky, December 2005.
“U.S. Student Movements: An Encyclopedia Article”, Encyclopedia of U.S. Social Movements, (M.E. Sharpe,) January 2005.
“The Unmeritorious Scholarship of: Dinesh D’Souza: How Dinesh Gets Over”, Critical double book review essay, LOGOS, Winter 2003.
Book Chapter “Radical and Pragmatic: United Students Against Sweatshops” , book chapter, Turtles to Teamsters: Contemporary Left Movements (Rowman & Littlefield, 2002) co-authored with Joel Lefkowitz
“Muckraking in the Low-Wage World: Barbara Ehrenreich’s Nickel & Dimed”, Critical book review essay New Politics., December 2001.
“No Sweat: Student Activism, Labor, and the Global Economy” New Politics, (Vol 28, 2001)
“Whatever Happened to Women’s Liberation?: Feminist Legacies of 1968” New Political Science Journal, Cambridge, MA, June 2000
“No Map, No Compass, No Dime:The Roots of Feminist Identity Politics.” Peace Review, San Francisco, California. December 1997
“Independence in the House: An Interview with Congressman Bernie Sanders,” in Il Passagio (Rome), June 1994. (no-refereed)
“Politics and Culture After the Cold War,” in Il Passagio (Rome), Fall 1993. (Eliot Katz, co-author) (non-refereed)
“Possibilities for U.S. Politics and Culture in the 1990’s,” in Le Temps de CeRises (Paris), June 1993. (Eliot Katz, co-author)
CONFERENCE PAPERS and PRESENTATIONS:
Chair, "C. Wright Mills and 'The Power Elite' Fifty Years Later", Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Philadelphia, PA, Sept., 2006.
Discussant, "Education Policy, Citizenship and American Development", Annual Meeting of the Ameircan Political Science Association, Philadelphia, PA, Sept. 2006.
"Movements, the State and Empire: Why The State Really Matters to Social Movements in the Era of Globalization" Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Washington DC, Sept, 2005, (Paper)
"The Role of Student Movements in Fighting Corporatization of U.S. Campuses", presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Chicago, Ill, Sept, 2004. (Paper)
“The Role of Students in the Campaign for Free Higher Education”, presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Philadelphia, PA, August 2003. (Presentation)
“Down with Neutrality: The Power of Solidarity in Social Movement Studies”, presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Boston, Massachusetts, August, 2002. (Paper)
“Class and Student Activism: United Students Against Sweatshops”, presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Washington, D.C., September 2000. (Paper)
“Whatever Happened to Women’s Liberation?: Feminist Legacies of 1968,” presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Association, Boston, Massachusetts, September 1998. (Paper)
“New Social Movements and Traditional Politics” co-authored with Susan Craig, presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, San Francisco, California, September 1996. (Paper)
“Morning Glory, Evening Shade: The Legacy of Abbie Hoffman,” presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Washington, D.C., September 1993. (Paper)
“Expanding the Public Sphere: Women and New Social Movements,” presented at the Annual Conference of the Institute for Research on Women: “Celebrating Our Work: Women in the Public Sphere,” New Brunswick, New Jersey, May 1993. (Paper)
“Dis’-Unity and the New Student Movement: A Critique of New Social Movement Theory and Practice,” presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Chicago, Illinois, September 1992. (Paper)
MEDIA APPEARENCES: (most arranged by WPU, Dept of Marketing and Public Relations)
Broadcast
CN8, Democracy Works with Steve Adabato, October 2005.
CBS News Productions, A&E, Biography: Abbie Hoffman, on-camera interview; also supplied fim footage. Spring 2005.
CN8, One on One with Steve Adubato, October 17th 2004.
CSPAN, 9/01/03, repeat airing, Moderator, Q&A with John J. Sweeney, President AFL-CIO. Taped at the American Political Science Association, Philadelphia, August 30, 2003.
News 12 New Jersey, Evening Edition, April, 2004 (Civic Engagement)
News 12 New Jersey, Afternoon Edition, April 24th, 2004 (War Protests)
News 12 New Jersey, Lee Leonard Show, March 23rd, 2003 (Women’s History Month)
WFLA Florida, 3/24/03 Jeff Fischer, (War Protests)
XM Satellite Radio, 3/24/03, Stephen Gregory, (War Protests)
WJGR Jacksonville Florida, 3/24/03, Andy Jackson, (War Protests)
WSAR Massachussets, Kim Henshaw, 3/30/03 (War Protests)
WRUF Gainesville Florida, 3/24/03 (War Protests)
Chronicle of Higher Education, “Thousands of Students Walk out of Classes” 3/05/03, Jeff Young.
National Journal “The G.O.P.’s Big Move on Campus” Martin Davis and Craig Colgan, 3/16/03
Star Ledger, “Lipstick Feminism”, Mary Yanni, February, 2002
Related Experience
Outside Item Writer 1994-2000
Educational Testing Service ,Princeton, N.J.
--Advanced Placement Test in Government and Politics and SAT Verbal Section
Research Associate 1990-1992
Professor Benjamin Barber,
Walt Whitman Chair, Department of Political Science Rutgers University
An Aristocracy of Everyone: The Politics of Education (New York : Ballantine, 1992)
Archive Coordinator 1990-present
Abbie Hoffman Archive Project
Abbie Hoffman Activist Foundation
New York, N.Y.
Editorial Board 1990-1995
Monthly Review Press: Feminist Library Series
New York, N.Y.
Steering Committee 1990-1993
Political Science Graduate Student Association
Rutgers University.
Assistant to the Vice President 1987-1989
People for the American Way
New York, N.Y.
References
Letters Available Upon Request
Prof. Joan Cocks, Department of Politics, Mount Holyoke College
Prof. Stephen Eric Bronner- Department of Political Science, Rutgers University
The Late Prof. W. Carey McWilliams ( 1936- 2005)
Prof. Cynthia Daniels
Prof. Benjamin Barber, Department of Political Science, University of Maryland
Prof. Frances Fox Piven - Department of Political Science, CUNY—Graduate Center, NY