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Christine A. Kelly

226 North Fullerton Avenue

Montclair, NJ07042

(h) 973-509-8805

Education

RutgersUniversity1989-1996

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”

DouglassCollege, RutgersUniversity1983-1987

B.A. in Political Science and Women’s Studies

Teaching Experience

  • Professor 2000-present

Department of Political Science, William Paterson University, Wayne, NJ

  • Visiting Lecturer, Center for European Studies, University of Paris 8 Spring 2008
  • 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, MountHolyokeCollege, South Hadley, MA

  • Teaching Fields
  • Political Theory
  • American Politics and Government
  • Civic Engagement
  • Social Movements
  • Mass Media and Culture
  • Democratic Theory, Feminist Theory, American Political Thought
  • Education, Labor and Welfare Policy
  • Courses in Theory
  • Ancient and Medieval Political Theory
  • Modern Political Theory
  • American Political Thought
  • Contemporary Democratic Theory
  • Conservative Political Thought (seminar)
  • Invitation to Feminist Theory
  • Civic Engagement: Theory and Practice
  • Fundamentals of Politics
  • Ideologies of the Right
  • Politics, Literature and the Arts

Cont’d.

  • Courses in American Politics
  • American Government
  • Social Movements & Political Change
  • Politics and the Media
  • Labor, Labor Markets and the Welfare State (Graduate)
  • Politics of Labor Movements
  • Politics of US Education
  • Civic Engagement: Theory and Practice
  • Citizens, The State and Global Politics (Graduate )
  • AmericanPresidency
  • 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 2005-07;2007-09

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 2005

APSA- Labor Project, Founding Chair 2005

APSA- Chair, ChristianBay Award Committee, 2004

APSA- New Political Science, Journal Executive Board 2003-present

APSA- Centennial Year Program Chair, New Political Science 2003

APSA- Charles A. McCoy Lifetime Achievement Award Committee (NPS) 2002

APSA -Christian Bay Award Committee, NPS 2000

APSA-ChristianBay Award for 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 based and community 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,

WilliamPatersonUniversity

Advisory Board, Women’s Center, William Paterson University 2002-

Faculty Grant Awards

Mount Holyoke College, Faculty Provost Office 1996, 1998

Teaching Assistantship 1993-1996

Department of Political Science, RutgersUniversity

John C. Enk Dissertation Fellowship in American Politics 1993-1994

GraduateSchool, RutgersUniversity

Graduate Fellows Award 1989-1990

GraduateSchool, RutgersUniversity

Publications

BOOKS:

Chimes of Freedom: Student Protest and the Changing American University (under contract, Rowman & Littlefield,, anticipated date of publication, Spring 2011)

Tangled Up in Red White & Blue: New Social Movements in America, (Rowman & Littlefield, 2001)

ARTICLES, BOOK CHAPTERS & BOOK REVIEWS:

Book Chapter “The Materialist Principle Unbound: Socialist History and the Reconstruction of a Movement” in Rational Radicalism (Landham, MD: Lexington Books), December 2010.

“If Not Now When?: How Student Protest Can Help Save US Higher Education”, in : Logos: a journal of modern society, Fall 2008.

Book Chapter, " How Dinesh Gets Over: The Unmeritorious Scholarship of Dinesh D'Souza" in The Logos Reader, eds. Stephen Eric Bronner and Michael Thompson, 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”, 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: a jounal of politics and culture, 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. (non-referee)

“Politics and Culture After the Cold War,” in Il Passagio (Rome), Fall 1993. (Eliot Katz, co-author) (non-referee)

“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:

“The GATS Asteroid: Higher Education, Labor and Academic Freedom--A Call for Research and Action”, Labor Project. Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Boston MA, Sept. 2008.

Discussant, “Media Coverage and Iraq War”, Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Boston MA, Sept. 2008.

“May ’68: French Legacies, US Limits” , Centre d’Enseignement et de Recherches sur Societe, Paris France, May 2008.

“Youth Protest and Diversity in Higher Education”, Expanding Inclusion in Higher Education Conference, Ford Foundation & Howard Samuels Center for Public Policy, New York, April 11, 2008.

Chair, "Forty Years of Challenge: Critical Issues Then & Now" An anniversary panel including Cornel West, Margaret Levi and Francis Fox Piven. Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, ChicagoIl, 2007

Discussant, "What is New Political Science?" . Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, ChicagoIl, 2007

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, WashingtonDC, 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 Science 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

WCBS New Radio, The Youth Vote, November 2008

Air America, NYC, The Youth Vote, November 2008

CN8, One on One with Steve Adabato, (The Youth Vote), May,2008

CN8, Democracy Works with Steve Adabato, October 2005.

CBS News Productions, A&E, Biography: Abbie Hoffman, on-camera interview, 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, 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 JacksonvilleFlorida, 3/24/03, Andy Jackson, (War Protests)

WSAR Massachussets, Kim Henshaw, 3/30/03 (War Protests)

WRUF GainesvilleFlorida, 3/24/03 (War Protests)

PRINT

Bergen Record, The youth vote, October 2008

The Herald Tribune, The youth vote, October 2008

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 ScienceRutgersUniversity

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

RutgersUniversity.

Assistant to the Vice President 1987-1989

People for the American Way

New York, N.Y.

References

Letters Available Upon Request

Geoge Mehaffy, Executive Director, American Democracy Project (AASCU)

Prof. Joan Cocks, Department of Politics, Mount Holyoke College

Prof. Stephen Eric Bronner- Department of Political Science, RutgersUniversity

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