Curriculum Vitae

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LISA WADE, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of Sociology
Occidental College
1600 Campus Road
Los Angeles, CA 90041
E-mail: lwade@oxy.edu

EDUCATION

University of Wisconsin at Madison. Ph.D. 2006 in Sociology

Research Interests: The relationship between social inequality and the body, especially as sexuality becomes a marker of difference and an arena of social control.
Dissertation: “Female Genital Mutilation” in the American Imagination
Comprehensive Exams: Sociology of Gender, Political Sociology
Minor: History of Science

New York University. M.A. 1997 in Human Sexuality, Marriage, and Family Life Education

University of Amsterdam. Participant 1997 in The Institute on Sexuality, Culture and Society

University of California at Santa Barbara. B.A. 1996 in Philosophy with High Honors

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY

Assistant Professor, Occidental College (2006 to present)

Courses taught: Introduction to Sociology, Research Methods, Gender and Society, Race and Ethnicity in American Society, Debating Controversial Issues in Sexuality, and Power and Sexuality

Lecturer, University of Wisconsin-Madison (2003 to 2005)

Courses taught: Sociology of Race and Ethnicity and Sociology of Gender

Teaching Assistant, University of Wisconsin-Madison (2000 to 2006)

Courses taught: Human Sexuality, Sociology of Gender, and Marriage and Family

Adjunct Instructor, City College of San Francisco, Chabot College, Diablo Valley College, Las Positas College, and San Jose City College (1998 to 1999)

Courses taught: Human Sexuality and Health Education

GRANTS AND AWARDS

For Research:

Faculty Enrichment Grant, Occidental College (2009)
Finalist, SUNY Press Diss./First Book Prize in Women’s and Gender Studies (2008)
Grant for Interdisciplinary Studies on Health and Society, Robert Wood Johnson (2005)
Hyde Dissertation Research Award, UW-Madison Women’s Studies Research Center (2005)
Finalist, Woodrow Wilson Charlotte Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship (2005)
Vilas Travel Grant, University of Wisconsin-Madison (2004)
UW Small Grant, University of Wisconsin-Madison (2004)

For Public Sociology:

Recipient, ASA Communication and Information Technologies Public Sociology Award (2012)
Recipient, University of Minnesota Department of Sociology Public Sociology Award (2012)
Recipient, Mellon Digital Scholarship (2011)
Nomination, ASA Distinguished Contributions to Teaching Award (2010)
Nomination, PCA/ACA Award for Best Electronic Reference Cite (2010)
Recipient, The Pacific Sociological Association Early Career Teaching Award (2009)

Teaching:

Finalist, Occidental College Linda and Tod White Teaching Prize (2012)
Nomination, Donald Loftsgordon Memorial Award for Excellent Teaching (2011)
Nomination, Donald Loftsgordon Memorial Award for Excellent Teaching (2010)
Nomination, Donald Loftsgordon Memorial Award for Excellent Teaching (2009)
Recipient, University of Wisconsin-Madison Award for Excellent Teaching by a Lecturer (2005/2006)
Teaching Fellow, University of Wisconsin-Madison (2002/2003)

PUBLICATIONS

ACADEMIC REFEREED:

Wade, Lisa. In Press. The Function of Balance in U.S. News Coverage of Uncontested Issues: The Case of Female Genital Cutting. Journalism: Theory, Practice & Criticism. (link)
Wade, Lisa & Gwen Sharp. In Press. Sociological Images: Blogging as Public Sociology. Social Science Computer Review. (link)
Wade, Lisa. 2012. Learning from “Female Genital Mutilation”: Lessons from 30 Years of Academic Discourse. Ethnicities 12, 1: 26-49. (link)
Wade, Lisa & Caroline Heldman. 2012. Hooking Up and Opting Out: What Students Learn about Sex in their First Year of College. In Sex for Life: From Virginity to Viagra, How Sexuality Changes Throughout our Lives, edited by John D. DeLamater and Laura Carpenter. New York: New York University Press. (chapter, book)
Wade, Lisa. 2011. The Politics of Acculturation: Female Genital Cutting and the Challenge of Building Multicultural Democracies. Social Problems 58, 4: 518-537. (link)
Wade, Lisa. 2011. Journalism, Advocacy, and the Social Construction of Consensus. Media, Culture & Society 33, 8: 1166–1184. (link)
Wade, Lisa. 2011. The Emancipatory Promise of the Habitus: Lindy Hop, the Body, and Social Change. Ethnography 12, 2: 224-246. (link)
Heldman, Caroline & Lisa Wade. 2011. Sexualizing Sarah Palin: The Social and Political Context of the Sexual Objectification of Female Candidates. Sex Roles 65, 3-4: 156-164. (link)
Heldman, Caroline & Lisa Wade. 2010. Hook-Up Culture: Setting a New Research Agenda. Sexuality Research and Social Policy 7, 4: 323. (link)
Wade, Lisa. 2009. Defining Gendered Oppression in U.S. Newspapers: The Strategic Value of “Female Genital Mutilation.” Gender and Society 23, 3: 293-314. (link)
Wade, Lisa, Emily Kremer, & Jessica Brown. 2005. The Incidental Orgasm: The Presence of Clitoral Knowledge and the Absence of Orgasm for Women. Women & Health 42, 1: 117-138. (link)
Freese, Jeremy, Allen Li, & Lisa Wade. 2003. The Potential Relevances of Biology to Social Inquiry. Annual Review of Sociology, 29: 233-256. (link)
Wade, Lisa & John D. DeLamater. 2002. Relationship Dissolution as a Life Stage Transition: Effects on Sexual Attitudes and Behaviors. Journal of Marriage and Family, 64, 4: 898-915. (link)

TEACHING-RELATED PUBLICATIONS:

Sharp, Gwen and Lisa Wade. 2011. Land Management and the American Mustang. Contexts 10, 4: 76-77. (link)
Wade, Lisa. 2011. Banal Nationalism. Contexts 10, 3: 80-81. (link)
Sharp, Gwen & Lisa Wade. 2011. Secrets of a Feminist Icon. Contexts 10, 2: 82-83. (link)
Wade, Lisa. 2011. The Social Control of Mothers. Contexts 10, 1: 76-77. (link)
Wade, Lisa & Gwen Sharp. 2011. Selling Sex. Pp. 163-172 in Images that Injure: Pictorial Stereotypes in the Media, edited by Lester Paul and Susan Ross. Westport, CT: Praeger. (link)
Sharp, Gwen & Lisa Wade. 2011. Illustrating the Social Construction of Race and Racial Stereotypes with Images. Teaching Resources and Innovations Library for Sociology. (link)
Wade, Lisa & Gwen Sharp. 2010. Skull Face and the Self-Fulfilling Stereotype. Contexts 9, 4: 80-81. (Reprinted in Jeffrey C. Alexander, Kenneth Thompson, and Laura Edles. Forthcoming. A Contemporary Introduction to Sociology, 2nd Ed. Paradigm Publishers: Boulder, CO). (link)
Sharp, Gwen & Lisa Wade. 2010. What is Indian Art? Contexts 9, 3: 76-77. (link)
Wade, Lisa & Gwen Sharp. 2010. Flesh-Toned. Contexts 9, 2: 84-85. (link)
Wade, Lisa & Gwen Sharp. 2010. Consuming Oppression. Contexts 9, 1: 46-49. (link)
Wade, Lisa. 2008. Instructor’s Manual to Accompany Understanding Human Sexuality. New York: McGraw-Hill.
Wade, Lisa. 2007. Comparing Apples and Oranges. In The Sociology of Gender: Syllabi and Other Instructional Materials, 6th edition, edited by Betsy Lucal and Amy Blackstone. Washington, DC: American Sociological Association.
Wade, Lisa. 2007. Deodorant and Other Gendered Products. In The Sociology of Gender: Syllabi and Other Instructional Materials, 6th edition, edited by Betsy Lucal and Amy Blackstone. Washington, DC: American Sociological Association.
Wade, Lisa. 2002. Instructor’s Manual to Accompany Understanding Human Sexuality. New York: McGraw-Hill.

ACADEMIC NON-REFERREED:

Wade, Lisa. Forthcoming. Book Review of Why Women Have Sex: Understanding Sexual Motivations – from Adventure to Revenge (and Everything in Between) by Cindy Meston and David Buss. Journal of Sex Research.
Wade, Lisa. 2009. The Evolution of Feminist Thought about Female Genital Cutting. Network News: The Newsletter of Sociologists for Women in Society 26, 326-331.
Wade, Lisa. 2008. Book Review of On The Fireline: Living and Dying with Wildland Firefighters by Matthew Desmond. Teaching Sociology 36, 3: 298-300. (link)
Wade, Lisa. 2008. Book Review of The Caveman Mystique: Pop-Darwinism and the Debates over Sex, Violence, and Science by Martha McCaughey. Gender & Society 22, 2: 263-264. (link)
Wade, Lisa. 2004. Sex Education and Teenage Sexuality. Network News: The Newsletter of Sociologists for Women in Society XXI, 1: 9-12. (link)
Wade, Lisa. 2002. Book Review of Marriage in a Culture of Divorce by Karla Hackstaff. Journal of Sex and Marital Therapy 28, 5: 469-471.
Wade, Lisa. 2002. Book Review of Male Bodies: Health, Culture, and Identity by Jonathan Watson. Journal of Sex and Marital Therapy 28, 4: 368-370.

INVITED LECTURES AND ADDRESSES

Featured Speaker – International Crime, Media & Popular Culture Studies Conference (link)

“’The Girl Doesn’t Expect Anything…’: How a Media Manufactured Sexuality is Shaping Campus Sexual Culture” (Sept. 17th-19th, 2012, Indiana State University)

California State University — Northridge

“The Promise & Perils of the Hook-Up Culture” (Apr. 26^th, 2012)

University of Minnesota, Twin Cities – Sociology Research Institute

Award Recipient (Apr. 20^th, 2012)

Occidental College — Digital Scholarship Symposium

Open Scholarship Roundtable (with Amy Lyford, PhD and Shanna Lorenz, PhD) (Apr. 12^th, 2012)

University of California, Los Angeles – Couples and Sex Therapy Training Program

“Cross-Cultural Sexualities: Socio-Historical Variation in Gender, Sexual Orientation, and Sexual Scripts” (Apr. 5th, 2012)

Harvard University

“The Promise and Perils of Hook Up ‘Culture’” (Mar. 26^th, 2012)
“Sex Machines & Sex Objects: How Stereotypes Subvert Sexual Pleasure (Mar. 28^th, 2012)

Dartmouth University

“The Promise & Perils of the Hook-Up Culture” (Mar. 29^th, 2012)

Boston University

“Female Genital ‘Mutilation’ in the American Imagination” (Mar. 27^th, 2012)
“A Feminist Defense of Friendship” (Mar. 28^th, 2012)

University of Massachusetts, Amherst – Sociology Department Colloquium

“A Call to Public Sociology: Inspiration and Insights from Sociological Images” (Mar. 27^th, 2012)

Yale University – Sex Week

“Your Body Is a Wonderland: Body Image and Sexuality at Yale” (panel; Feb. 6^th, 2012)
“Friendship Matters” (Feb. 6^th, 2012)
“The Promise and Perils of Hook Up ‘Culture’” (Feb. 7^th, 2012)

Occidental College – Last Lecture Series

“A Feminist Defense of Friendship” (Dec. 1^st, 2011)

Pacific Lutheran University – Sex + Speakers Series

“The Promise and Perils of Hook Up ‘Culture’” (Oct. 25^th, 2011)
“The Emancipatory Promise of the Habitus: Lindy Hop, the Body, and Social Change” (Oct. 26^th, 2011)
“Female Genital ‘Mutilation’ in the American Imagination” (Oct. 26^th, 2011)

MTV Canada – Impact

“Lisa Wade Talks About Hook Up Culture” (first aired Sept. 26^th, 2011)

Franklin and Marshall College – Common Hour

“The Promise and Perils of Hook Up ‘Culture’” (Mar. 24^th, 2011)

Occidental College – Feminist Faculty Series

“Selling Sex, Sexual Subjectivity, and the Orgasm Gap” (Oct. 26^th, 2011)

University of California, Los Angeles – Brown Bag Lecture Series

“Female Genital ‘Mutilation’ in the American Imagination” (Oct. 15^th, 2011)

Tulane University – Newcomb College Institute Speakers Series

“The Promise and Perils of Hook Up ‘Culture’” (Sept.30^th, 2010)
“Female Genital ‘Mutilation’ in the American Imagination” (Sept.30^th, 2010)

Loyola University

“The Promise and Perils of Hook Up ‘Culture’” (Sept. 29^th, 2010)

Slippery Rock University – Women’s Studies Speaker Series

“Female Genital ‘Mutilation’ in the American Imagination” (Nov. 5^th, 2009)

California Lutheran University – Health and Social Change Lecture Series

“Female Genital ‘Mutilation’ in the American Imagination” (Oct. 21^st, 2009)

University of Southern California – Health Center Staff Education Series

“Cultural Contributions to Female Anorgasmia” (Apr. 24^th, 2009)

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

Wade, Lisa and Gwen Sharp. 2011. “Different Types of Publication Opportunities for Students.” Presented August 22^nd at the American Sociological Association Conference in Las Vegas, NV.
Wade, Lisa. 2011. “Journalism, Advocacy, and the Social Construction of Consensus.” Presented August 20^that the American Sociological Association Conference in Las Vegas, NV.
Wade, Lisa and Gwen Sharp. 2011. “Big Time Blogging: The Secrets of Sociological Images.” Presented August 20^th at the Society for the Study of Social Problems Conference in Las Vegas, NV.
Wade, Lisa. 2010. Organizer: “Stigmatizing, Refining, and Mainstreaming LGBTQ Identities.” Presided over August 16^th at the American Sociological Association Conference in Atlanta, GA.
Sharp, Gwen & Lisa Wade. 2009. “Sociological Images: Analyzing Advertisements in the Classroom.” Presented August 8^th at the American Sociological Association Conference in San Francisco, CA.
Wade, Lisa. 2009. “Should I Blog? A Discussion of the Benefits of Blogging in Academia.” Roundtable August 9^th at the American Sociological Association Conference in San Francisco, CA.
Sharp, Gwen & Lisa Wade. 2009. “Sociological Images: Analyzing Advertisements in the Classroom.” Presented April 8^th at the Pacific Sociological Association Conference in San Diego, CA.
Sharp, Gwen & Lisa Wade. 2008. “Seeing Is Believing: An Interactive Presentation on Analyzing Advertisements in the Classroom.” Poster presentation October 23^rd to 25^th at the International Society for Exploring Teaching and Learning in Las Vegas, NV.
Wade, Lisa. 2008. “Anatomy of an Outrage: Collusion and Confusion over the Medicalization of Female Genital Cutting at a U.S. Hospital.” Presented February 8^th at the Sociologists for Women in Society Winter Meeting in Las Vegas, NV.
Wade, Lisa. 2007. “Feminism or Imperialism? Understanding Feminist Conflict Over FGC.” Presented April 13^th at the Pacific Southwest Women’s Studies Conference in Los Angeles, CA.
Wade, Lisa. 2005. “The Contingency of Medical Authority over Female Genital Cutting: A Case Study in Context.” Presented October 15^th at “A Matter of Facts: Problems of Evidence in Medicine and Public Health,” a conference sponsored by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
Wade, Lisa. 2005. “Ideological Context and the Framing of Female Genital Mutilation: Discursive Contests between Doctors and Feminists in the Mass Media.” Presented in the Collective Behavior and Social Movements Roundtable August 13th at the ASA conference in Philadelphia, PA.
Wade, Lisa. 2005. “Public American Discourse about FGM and the Relevance to Transnational Eradication Efforts.” Presented April 15th at the University of Wisconsin System Women’s Studies conference in Madison, WI.
Wade, Lisa. 2005. “Framing Female Genital Mutilation: Discursive Contests between Activists and Doctors in the Mass Media.” Presented April 2nd at the Midwest Sociological Society conference in Minneapolis, MN.
Wade, Lisa & Emily C. Kremer. 2002. “Is There a Cultural Clitoridectomy?” Presented at the Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality Great Lakes/Eastern Regional Conference in Big Rapids, MI.
Wade, Lisa. 2000. “The Effect of Relationship Dissolution on Sexual Attitudes and Behaviors.” Presented at the Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality Conference in Orlando, Florida. This paper was later published in the Journal of Marriage and Family.
Wade, Lisa. 1999. “Consequences of the Early Constructions of AIDS.” Presented at Beyond Boundaries: Sexuality Across Cultures, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Wade, Lisa. 1998. “Using the AIDS Memorial Quilt to Enhance HIV/AIDS Education in Schools.” Presented at the Centers for Disease Control National Leadership Conference in Atlanta, Georgia.
Wade, Lisa. 1998. “Using the AIDS Memorial Quilt to Enhance HIV/AIDS Education in Schools.” Presented at the GLSEN Second Annual Conference: Teaching Respect For All in Oakland, CA.

PROFESSIONAL SERVICE

Board Member, Contexts Magazine
Task Force Member, SWS Taskforce on Mainstreaming Feminist Thought
Reviewer, American Journal of Sociology; Gender & Society; Social Forces; Journal of Personal Relationships; Men and Masculinities; British Journal of Sociology; Mobilization; Sociological Quarterly; Sociological Forum; Culture, Health and Sexuality; Sociology Compass; Gender, Place & Culture; and the New York University Press.

PUBLIC SOCIOLOGY

Founder and Author, with Gwen Sharp, of the blog Sociological Images: Seeing Is Believing (www.thesocietypages.org/socimages). Sociological Images is a website designed to encourage all kinds of people to exercise and develop their sociological imagination by presenting brief sociological discussions of compelling and timely imagery that spans the breadth of sociological inquiry. We receive between 500,000 and 750,000 visits per month and are followed, additionally, by over 20,000 individuals subscribed by RSS feeds, almost 15,000 via Facebook, over 6,000 on Twitter, and over 3,000 on Pinterest. We are partially syndicated at Ms. magazine and Jezebel, are regularly featured at popular websites, and are used as a source of sociological commentary by national news outlets.

Featured Contributor to Contexts magazine. For each issue, the magazine publishes a two-page illustrated essay written or co-authored by myself and Gwen Sharp. These publications are listed as Teaching-Related Publications above.

Political Blogger for The Huffington Post at www.huffingtonpost.com/lisa-wade.

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