M.A., Government and Politics, University of Maryland, College Park, Requirements completed December 1985.

B.A., Political Science, New College of the University of South Florida, May 1983. B.A. Thesis: "The Urban Politics of the Italian Communist Party."

Academic Positions:

Fall 2007 -- Vice President of the University and Dean of Academic Affairs, St. Lawrence University

Fall 2003 -- Professor of Government and Gender Studies, St. Lawrence University.

Fall 1996 -- Summer 2003: Associate Professor of Government and Gender Studies, St. Lawrence University

Fall 1997 – Spring 2001: Associate Dean of the First Year, St. Lawrence University.
Coordinator of Gender Studies until Spring 1997.

Fall 1991: Summer 1995 -- Dana Assistant Professor of Government and Gender Studies and Coordinator of Gender Studies, St. Lawrence University.

Fall 1990: Assistant Professor, Gender Studies and the First Year Program and Coordinator of Gender Studies, St. Lawrence University.

1988-Summer 1990: Instructor, Gender Studies and the First Year Program, St. Lawrence University.

1985-1988: Instructor, Department of Government and Politics, University of Maryland, College Park.

1982-1985 Teaching Assistant, Department of Government and Politics, University of Maryland, College Park.

Courses Taught (Fall 2002-present):

Gender Studies: Gender and Society, Gender and Feminist Theory, Gender and Science (with Karen Johnson), Senior Seminar: Feminism and the Construction of Knowledge, Sex Talk (with Traci Fordham)

Government: Research Seminar: The Politics of Welfare Reform, Research Seminar: Women and American Politics, Research Seminar: Morality, Sexuality, and Politics, Research Seminar: Youth Political Engagement, Politics of the Family, Sexual Citizenship, Feminist Contributions to Political Theory

Publications:
" International Law, Children's Rights and Queer Youth," in Genealogies of Identity: Interdisciplinary Readings on Sex and Sexuality, edited by Margaret Sonser Breen and Fiona Peters, Amsterdam: Rodopi Press, 2005.

"International Law, Children's Rights, and Queer Youth." In Sex and Sexuality, edited by Jessica Laccetti and Melanie Prapopoulis. London: Inter-Disciplinary Press, 2005 (e-Book proceedings of the First International Conference on Sex and Sexuality).

"A Faculty Development Program to Promote Engaged Classroom Dialogue," Co-authored with Kim Mooney and Traci Fordham-Hernandez, To Improve the Academy: Resources for Faculty, Instructional, and Organizational Development, Volume 23 (2004): 220-33.

"Framing an Alternative Rhetoric: How ‘Family Values’ Harms the Left." In Fundamental Differences: Feminists Challenge the Right, edited by Cynthia Burack and Jyl Josephson. Rowman and Littlefield, 2003.

"Relationship Rights for a Queer Society." In Child, Family, and State, edited by Stephen Macedo and Iris Marion Young. NOMOS Series, Vol. XLIV. New York University Press, 2003.

Queer Family Values: Debunking the Myth of the Nuclear Family. Temple University Press, 1999.

"Redefining and Building Community: The Importance of Anger," Women and Politics. Volume 15, Number 1 (1995): 32-63.

"Queer Politics in the 1990s: Identity and Issues." New Political Science. Volume 30/31 (1994): 55-76.

"The Difficulty of Leaving 'Home': Gay and Lesbian Organizing to Fight AIDS." In Mobilizing the Community: Local Politics in the Era of the Global City, edited by Robert Fisher and Joseph Kling. Sage Press (Urban Affairs Annual Review Series), 1994

"Whose Desire? Lesbian (Non)Sexuality and Television's Perpetuation of Heterosexism." Co-authored with Darlene Hantzis. In Queer Words, Queer Images: The Communication and (Re)Construction of Homosexuality, edited by Jeffrey Ringer. New York University Press, 1993.

Forthcoming:
Book Review: R. Claire Synder, Gay Marriage and Democracy, to be published in Politics and Gender.

Submissions:
"Youth, Citizenship, and Sexuality," submitted to The International Journal of Children's Rights. August 2006.

"Child, Parent(s) and State: Rethinking Feminist Conceptualizations," submitted to Politics and Gender. December 2006.

Conference Papers:
"Child, Parent(s) and State: Thoughts Toward a Feminist Reconceptualization," Presented at the Annual Meetings of American Political Science Association, August-Sept. 2006, Philadelphia, PA.

"Youth, Citizenship, and Sexuality," Presented at Investment and Citizenship: Towards a
Transdisciplinary Dialogue on Child and Youth Rights, Brock University, July 2006, St,. Catharine's, Ontario, Canada.

"Sexual Agency in Risk Society," Presented at the Annual Meetings of the Midwest Political Science Association, April 2006, Chicago, Illinois.

"Acknowledging the Sexualities of Youth: A Democratic Imperative for Educators?" Co-authored with Marta Albert. Presented at the Annual Meetings of the Western Political Science Association, March 2004, Portland, Oregon.

"Deliberative Discourse in the Political Science Classroom," Presented at the Annual Meetings of the American Political Science Association, August 2003, Philadelphia, PA.

"Youth and Morality: Toward a Democratic Politics." Presented at the Annual Meetings of the American Political Science Association, August 2001, San Francisco, CA.

"Creating an Intergenerational Community: The Challenge of Youth in Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual Life." Presented at the Annual Meetings of the American Political Science Association, September 1998, Boston, MA.

"Mobilizing Gen X: Social Movement Theory and Generational Change." 14th World Congress of Sociology, July 1998, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

"Should Lesbians be Fathers?" Presented at the Annual Meetings of the American Political Science Association. August 1996. San Francisco, California.

"Family Values: Toward a Lesbian and Gay Understanding." Presented at the Annual Meetings of the American Political Science Association. August 1995. Chicago, Illinois.

"Rearticulating `Family'" Presented at the Annual Meetings of the Western Political Science Association. March 1993. Albuquerque, New Mexico.

"Queer Politics in the 1990s: Identity or Issues?" Presented at the Annual Meetings of the American Political Science Association, August 1993, Washington, DC.

"'The Day All of the Different Parts of Me Can Come Along, We Would Have What I Would Call a Revolution': Dreams/Experiences/Politics in African-American Lesbian Poetry." Co-authored with Marta Albert. Presented at the Annual Meetings of the American Political Science Association, August 1991, Washington, DC.

"Psychoanalytic Feminism and Political Morality," presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, August, 1990, San Francisco, California.

"Self Psychology as a Challenge to the Need for Heterosexual Nuclear Families," presented at the Annual Meeting of the International Society for Political Psychology, July 1990, Washington, DC.

"Anger and Politics: Lessons from Feminism," presented at the Re-Visioning Knowledge and the Curriculum: Feminist Perspectives Conference, April 19-22, 1990, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan.

"Whose Desire? Lesbian and Gay Characters and Television's Perpetuation of Heterosexism," Co-authored with Darlene Hantzis. Presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Culture Association, March 7-10, 1990, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

"Guilt, Shame and Moral Action," presented at the Annual Meeting of the International Society of Political Psychology, July 2-5, 1988, Meadowlands Hilton.

"Liberalism and the Family," presented at the "Facing the Future Conference" for Graduate Women's Studies Students, Spring 1985, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut.

Invited Lecture/Presentation:
"Challenging the Last Vestiges of Status: Transcending Marriage and Developing Agency," Presented at the Good Families Conference, July 10-11, 2006. University of Western Ontario, London, Ontarion, Canada. Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada funded research team meeting.

"Queer Family Values," Bowdoin College, Nov. 29, 1999.

Conference Presentations:
"Author Meets Readers discussion of America's Struggle for Same-Sex Marriage, by Daniel L. Pinello," Annual Meetings of the Law and Society Association, July 6-9, 2006, Baltimore, MD.

Co-Presenter with T. Fordham, K. Mooney,& E. Regosin, “Speaking to Learn: a Vision for Dialogue-Centered Faculty Development.” Workshop presented at the Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education Annual Conference, October 2003, Denver, CO.

Co-Presenter with T. Fordham and K. Mooney, “Speaking to Learn: An Exploration of Dialogue-Centered Pedagogies.” Workshop presented at the American Association for Higher Education National Conference, March 14-16, 2003, Washington, D.C.

Roundtable Participant, “Fundamental Differences: Feminist Critiques of the Right,” Annual Meetings of the Southern Political Science Association, November 2001, Atlanta, Georgia. .

Discussant, “Negotiating Stigmas.” Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, September 1999, Atlanta, GA.

Co-Presenter with V. Schwartz, "Transcending Boundaries: The First-Year Program at St. Lawrence University," NASPA Conference, October 8-9, 1998, Providence, Rhode Island.

Co-Presenter with V. Schwartz, "Working with Faculty in Living/Learning Communities,” Presented with Virginia Schwartz. Collaboration in Action: Promoting Residentially Based Education, October 15-17, 1998, Burlington, Vermont.

Discussion group Leader, “Democracy, Power, and Pluralism.” Teaching Cultural Encounters as General Education. Co-Sponsored by St. Lawrence University and the American Association of Colleges and Universities, March 2-4, 1995, New Orleans, LA.

Discussant, "Stonewall 25: Recent Developments in Gay and Lesbian Movements and Communities." Annual Meetings of the American Political Science Association, September 1994, New York City.

Co-presenter with V. Schwartz, “We Have the Facts, The Have the Style: Teaching a Peer Education Course,” Annual Conference on Campus Violence, January 1993, Baltimore, MD.

"Sexuality: Exploring Construction as Regulation." Workshop Co-leader with Darlene Hantzis, The Conference on the Cultural Construction of Sexuality, University of Michigan, October 1991, Ann Arbor, Michigan.

Reviewer:
Journals: Sexualities, New Political Science; Publisher: Praeger Press.

External Tenure and Promotions Reviews: San Francisco State University, The University of New Hampshire.

Administrative Experience:
Fall 2004- present: Coordinator, Gender Studies

Fall 2001- 2004: Co-Director, Hewlett Oral Communication Grant. Responsibilities were primarily to co-design and run a three day faculty development workshop for 15-20 faculty members, with follow-up sessions.

Summer 1997 - Spring 2001: Associate Dean of the First-Year, St. Lawrence University.

Fall 1997 –Spring 1999: Director of Academic Advising, St. Lawrence University.

Fall 1989 – Spring 1997: Coordinator, Gender Studies, St. Lawrence University.

Grant Writing Experience:
Co-author with Kim Mooney and Traci Fordham-Hernandez, “Oral Communication and the Liberal Arts.” Submitted to the Hewlett Foundation: Liberal Arts Grants. Funded June 2001.

Primary author. "College Norms Misperception Project." Submitted to the New York State Office of Alcoholism and Substance Abuse Services. Funded June 1999.

Primary author. "Women and Scientific Literacy." Submitted to American Association of Colleges and Universities. Funded December 1996.

Consulting Experience:
Chair, External Review Committee for the First-Year Residential College Program, Bucknell University, Fall 1997.

Panel Member, First-Year Programs, Villanova University, Philadelphia, PA., June 2000.

Professional Development:
Participant, CIEE Faculty Development Seminar, "Paradigm or Paradox: Social Policy in the Netherlands." Amsterdam, Netherlands. June 2-10, 2002.

Co-Director and Participant, Women and Scientific Literacy Seminar. St. Lawrence University. Funded by a grant from the AACU. Participation included: on-campus reading group, co-teaching a course on science for high-school juniors, attending three AACU conferences of all schools receiving grants.

Coordinator and Participant, Feminist Theory Faculty Development Seminar, St. Lawrence University, Fall 1995 and Spring 1996.

Participant, Christian Johnson Endeavor Foundation January Seminar on American Pluralism, St. Lawrence University, 1996.

Participant, Cultural Encounters Faculty Development Workshop, St. Lawrence University, 1992-1995.

Institutional Service at St. Lawrence (selected):
Fall 2006: Chair and Elected Member, Professional Standards Committee

Fall 2006, Member, Middle States Working Group for Standards 11, 12, and 13.

Fall-2005 - Present: Member, University Assessment Committee

Fall 2004- Spring 2006: Member, Academic Affairs Committee

Fall 2002- 2004: Elected member, Professional Standards Committee

Fall 2001- Present: US Studies Advisory Board

Fall 2000 - Spring 2001: Member, Retention Task Force

Fall 2000 - Spring 2001: Member, Residence Life Tripartite Committee

Spring 1999 -- Fall 2000: Member, Residence Life Housing Task Force

January 1999: Member, subcommittee to redesign general education requirements.

Fall 1999 – Spring 2001: Faculty Adviser to PRIDES (People Recognizing Individuality, Diversity, and Equality of Sexuality)

Fall 1998 – Spring 2001: Member, Steering Committee, Hewlett Grant focused on diversity on campus

Fall 1997 – Spring 2001: Member, Academic Standing Committee

Fall 1991 - Spring 1997: Member, Special Hearing Board for Victims of Sexual Assault

Fall 1995 - Spring 1997: Elected Member, Faculty Council

Fall 1996 – Spring 1997: Member, Middle States Task Force: Programs, Curricula, and Faculty

Fall 1993 - Spring 1994: Member: Academic Honor Council

Fall 1990 - Spring 1992: Member, Minority Affairs Committee

Spring 1990 - Spring 1991. Co-Director, 1991 St. Lawrence University Festival of the Arts. Title: Out Art: Works by and about Lesbians, Gay Men, and Bisexuals

Fall 1989 - Spring 1991: Advocate for Victims of Sexual Assault

Summer 1989: Member, Committee to Redesign the Evaluation of Teaching

Fall 1989 - Spring 1991: Member, Residential Life Committee

External Service:
August 2005 - August 2008, member, American Political Science Association, Committee on the Status of Lesbians, Gays, Bisexuals, Transgendered in the Profession

2004-2005, President, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual Political Science Caucus

2004 Program Chair, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual Political Science Caucus, American Political Science Association Annual Meetings, August 2004, Chicago, Illinois

1996- present: Treasurer, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual Political Science Caucus

Awards and Honors:
Robert Bailey Paper Award for best paper on Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual Transgender issues presented at the 2002 APSA Meetings. Presented by the Caucus for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender Politics. Presented in 2003.

Maslow Award for service to the student body, St. Lawrence University, 1996.

Bradbury Research Grant, St. Lawrence University, Fall 1994.

Elected to ODK Leadership Honorary Society, SLU Chapter, 1994.

Emily Eaton Hepburn Award for women's leadership, St. Lawrence University, 1993.