Ashley E. Gorham
Contact
University of Pennsylvania (781)264-0485
Stiteler Hall
S. 37th St., Room 217
Philadelphia, PA 19104
Education
Expected May 2018 Ph.D., Political Science
Dissertation: “Information and Democracy: A Critical Reappraisal for the Internet Age.”
May 2015 M.A., Political Science
1st field: Political Theory
2nd field: Comparative Politics
University of Pennsylvania
December 2011 M.A., Government and Politics
University of Maryland
May 2008 B.A., Politics (High Honors)
Oberlin College
Publications
2017 “The Glory of Anonymous” (Work in progress)
2017 “Big Data and Democracy: Facts and Values” PS: Political Science and Politics (In publication)
2017 “The Political Meaning of Hacktivism.” Limn 8. http://limn.it/the-political-meaning-of-hacktivism/.
2015 “Does Information Want to be Free? Hacktivism and the
Democratization of Information.” The Journal of International Relations, Peace Studies and Development 1, no. 1. http://scholarworks.arcadia.edu/agsjournal/vol1/iss1/7.
Academic Awards and Fellowships
2017-2018 Penn Program on Democracy, Constitutionalism, and Citizenship Graduate Fellowship
University of Pennsylvania
2016-2017 Dissertation Research Fellowship
University of Pennsylvania
2015-2016 School of Arts and Sciences Dean’s Award for Distinguished Teaching by a Graduate Student
University of Pennsylvania
2015-2016 Feirson Family Fellow
University of Pennsylvania
2014 President Gutmann Leadership Award
University of Pennsylvania
2009-2010 Government and Politics Graduate Fellowship
University of Maryland
2008 John D. Lewis Memorial Prize
Oberlin College
2008 Comfort Starr Prize
Oberlin College
Presentations
2017 “The Audacity of Anonymous”
Duke University Graduate Conference in Political Theory
2016 “Freedom in Communicative Capitalism: The Case of Anonymous”
Crisis of Collectivity: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives in Political Theory
Northwestern University Graduate Conference in Political Theory
2016 “The Audacity of Anonymous” (Poster)
Great Transformations: Political Science and the Big Questions of Our Time
Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association
Philadelphia, PA
2016 Guest Lecture
Digital Media, Networks, and Political Communication (DiMeNet) Research Group, Sandra González-Bailón
University of Pennsylvania
2016 “Audacity: Democracy’s Lost Virtue”
The National Capital Area Political Science Association
Graduate Student Political Theory Conference
The Catholic University of America, Washington D.C.
2015 Guest Lecture
PSCI182: Contemporary Political Thought, Nancy Hirschmann
University of Pennsylvania
2015 “Information and Democracy: An Ambivalent Relationship”
Annual Meeting of the Northeastern Political Science Association
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
2015 “The Well-Informed Citizen: A Critique”
The Democracy, Citizenship, and Constitutionalism Graduate Workshop: “Economics, Information and Democracy”
University of Pennsylvania
2015 “Big Data: Facts and Values”
MZES Conference, The Empiricist’s Challenge: Asking Meaningful Questions in Political Science in the Age of Big Data
University of Mannheim, Germany
2014 Guest Lecture
COMM213: Social Media and Social Life,
Sandra González-Bailón
University of Pennsylvania
2014 “Does Information Want to be Free? Hacktivism and the
Democratization of Information” (Poster)
Politics After the Digital Revolution
Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association
Washington D.C.
2014 “Does Information Want to be Free? Hacktivism and the Democratization of Information”
AGS Annual Graduate Student Conference
Cyber-Developments in International Relations: Impacts on an Evolving World
American Graduate School in Paris, France
2011 “Understanding the Evil of Stalin.”
Georgetown University Graduate Student Conference
Georgetown University
2011 “Stalin: An Arendtian Interpretation.”
Annual Conference of the Midwest Political Science Association
Chicago, Illinois
Teaching Experience
2015 Teaching Assistant
University of Pennsylvania
PSCI181: Modern Political Thought, Ellen Kennedy
2015 Teaching Assistant
University of Pennsylvania
PSCI182: Contemporary Political Thought, Nancy Hirschmann
2014 Teaching Assistant
University of Pennsylvania
PSCI183: American Political Thought, Anne Norton
2013 Instructor
University of Pennsylvania
PSCI181 601: Modern Political Thought
2012 Teaching Assistant
University of Pennsylvania
PSCI181: Modern Political Thought, Anne Norton
2012 Teaching Assistant
University of Maryland
CPSP 119N: College Park Scholars First-Year Colloquium II, James Glass
CPSP239N: Individual Practicum: International Studies, James Glass
GVPT 241: The Study of Political Philosophy, Fred Alford
2011 Teaching Assistant
University of Maryland
CPSP118N: College Park Scholars First-Year Colloquium I, James Glass
GVPT 200s: International Political Relations, Richard Boyd
GVPT 241: The Study of Political Philosophy, Ian Ward
2011 Teaching Assistant
University of Maryland
CPSP 119N: College Park Scholars First-Year Colloquium II, James Glass
CPSP239N: Individual Practicum: International Studies, James Glass
GVPT 241: The Study of Political Philosophy, James Glass
2010 Teaching Assistant
University of Maryland
CPSP118N: College Park Scholars First-Year Colloquium I, James Glass
GVPT 200s: International Political Relations, Richard Boyd
GVPT 241: The Study of Political Philosophy, Fred Alford
Service
2016-2017 Coordinator for the Guest Speaker Series in Political Theory
University of Pennsylvania
2016 Graduate Student Organization Co-Chair
University of Pennsylvania
2015-2016 Planning Committee
Political Science Department’s Graduate Student Conference
State, Economy, and Inequality
University of Pennsylvania
2014-2015 Planning Committee
Biocode: Performing Transgression after New Media
University of Pennsylvania
2010-2012 Political Theory Subfield Representative
University of Maryland
2007 Student Senate
Oberlin College
2006-2007 Judicial Board
Oberlin College
Other Professional Activities
2017 AALAC Workshop on Data Ethics
Pomona College
Claremont, CA
2016 Hackademia: Empirical Studies in Computing Cultures
Leuphana University
Lüneburg, Germany
2016 Commerce and Character
Jack Miller Center Summer Institute
Philadelphia, PA
2015 Summer Doctoral Programme at the Oxford Internet Institute
The University of Oxford
Oxford, England
2014- Member of the Media Activism Research Collective (MARC)
University of Pennsylvania
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