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CARYL NUÑEZ
SkypeID: carylnunez

EDUCATION
Ph. D. Political Science, expected 2015
University of Connecticut

Dissertation: “Perverse Returns: Decolonizing Myths of 
International Development, Law and Human Rights”


Feminist Studies Graduate Certificate, 2013
Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program
University of Connecticut

M.A. Political Science, 2013
Department of Political Science
University of Connecticut

B.A. Political Science, Double Major in Human Rights, 2011
Department of Political Science
University of Dayton   

Ralph Bunche Summer Institute 
American Political Science Association, 2010
Department of Political Science
Duke University
           
PUBLICATION
“Feminist Theories of Experience” in The Encyclopedia of Gender and 
Sexuality Studies (Wiley-Blackwell Publishers, Forthcoming 2015)

UNDER REVIEW
The Limits of Tolerance in Pursuit of LGBT Rights: The Case of 
Turkey”  Co-authored with Zehra K. Arat

WORKS IN PROGRESS
“The Refugee ‘Monster’ Doesn’t Stand a Chance: Privacy, Protection, and the Pursuit of Heteronationalism in LGBT Asylum”

“The Troubled Waters of Power Play: Debating Feminist Pedagogies and ‘Intersectionality as Praxis’” Co-authored with LaToya Eaves

“The Living Archive of Liborismo: Haitian-Dominican Resistance, Solidarities and Transformative Imaginaries”

WORK EXPERIENCE

Teaching Positions
Providence College, Contemporary Political Theory - Fall 2014
University of Connecticut- Storrs, Black Political Thought - Fall 2014
University of Connecticut- Storrs, Sexualities, Activism and Globalization(W) 
           Fall 2014 & Spring 2015
University of Connecticut-Hartford, Introduction to Comparative Politics - Spring 2014
University of Connecticut- Storrs, Gender and Globalization- Fall 2013 & Spring 2014
University of Dayton (Office of Multicultural Affairs)- Diversity and Inclusion 
Workshop Fall 2010

Graduate Teaching Assistant, University of Connecticut
POLS 3042: Theory of Human Rights, Political Science 2014
POLS 2998W: Transnational Amerika, Political Science 2014    
POLS 3000: Africa in a Global Perspective, Political Science, 2013
WGSS 1124: Gender and Globalization, Women, Gender and 
Sexuality Studies 2012- 2013
POLS 3407: Modern Political Theory, Political Science  2013    
POLS 2222:  Development in Africa,  Political Science 2012      
POLS 1102: Comparative Politics, Political Science 2011-2012

Research Positions
Research Assistant, Asian America: A Primary Source Reader. 
           Eds. Cathy Schlund- Vials,K. Scott Wong, and Jason Oliver Chang. 
           Yale University Press, Forthcoming 2015
Research Assistant, Disability, Human Rights, and the Limits of 
            Humanitarianism. Eds. Cathy Schlund-Vials and Michael Gill. 
           Ashgate Press 2014
Research Assistant, Asian and Asian American Studies Institute, 
           Univ. of Connecticut 2013
Archival Researcher, National Archives of Santo Domingo, 
           Dominican Republic 2013
Graduate Assistant, Humanities House Living-Learning Community, 
           Univ. of Connecticut 2013
Research Intern, Women’s Empowerment and Family Center, Kumba, 
           Cameroon 2011
Field Researcher, Maji Zuwa’s Determined to Develop NGO, 
           Sangilo, Malawi 2010
Research Assistant, Decade of Peace: The Dayton Peace Accords, 
          Univ. of Dayton, Political Science Department 2009

Relevant Experience
Research Writing Tutor, Brainfuse Writing Lab, 
New York, NY 2013-2014
Proposal Reviewer, UN Women and Gender Equality Fund, 
New York, NY 2012
Summer Academic Advisor, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, 
Univ. of Connecticut 2012

CONFERENCE, INVITED LECTURES, AND FORUM PARTICIPATION

Paper Presentations
“Decolonizing Knowledge and Being: Asylum and the Colonizing Forces of Dissident Sexuality”. Abolitionist/Decolonial Politics at the Western Political Science Association, Las Vegas, NV 2015

Liborismo, Comarcas y Resistencia: Seeking Justice through a Spiritualized Community”. National Women’s Studies Association, San Juan, PR 2014

Violence, Tolerance and Recognition: Approaches to the LGBTI rights in Turkey”. American Political Science Association Annual Conference, Washington, DC 2014

“Memory, Resistance and Afro-Latin Becomings from Liborismo and Beyond”. Negritud: Afrolatin American Studies Conference, Universidad de Cartagena, Colombia 2014

“Sustainable Feminist Formations: Holistic Approaches of Intellectual/ Personal/ Spiritual/ Political”. Southern Connecticut State University Women’s Studies Annual Conference, New Haven, CT 2014

Bodies and Heteronationalism: Narratives of Privacy and Protection in Asylum”. Annual African Studies Conference, Baltimore, MD 2013

 “Recalling the Past with Present Fears: Dominican Remembrance, Roots and Resistance”. Annual Modern Languages Graduate Conference, University of Connecticut 2013

 “Empowerment as the Logic for Saving Women’s Bodies: A Capitalist and Imperial Project”.  International Studies Association Annual Convention, San Francisco, CA 2013

“The Refugee ‘Monster’ Doesn’t Stand a Chance: Privacy, Protection, and the Pursuit of Heteronationalism”. International Studies Association Annual Convention, San Francisco, CA 2013

Invited Lectures
“Resistance and Social Change: Methods of the Oppressed”, SOCI 1501W: Race, Class and Gender. University of Connecticut 2013

 “Culture, Context, and (dis)Comfort”, UCONN Empowers team to Cameroon, University of Connecticut 2013

 “Race, Sexuality, Gender and the War on Terror”, WGSS 1124: Gender and Globalization, University of Connecticut 2012

 “Gender, Human Rights, and the UN: Critical Perspectives”, WGSS 1124: Gender and Globalization, University of Connecticut 2012

“Spiritual Formation and the Higher Power of Your Understanding”, Unitarian Universalist Society of New Britain, CT 2012

Forum Participant
Race, Nation and Empire: Reading Women’s Lives in the African Diaspora. National Women’s Studies Association Annual Conference, San Juan, PR 2014

Las Migraciones Afroantillanas Y Sus Afectos. Negritud: Afrolatin American Studies Conference, Universidad de Cartagena, Colombia 2014

COMPACT for Faculty Diversity, The Annual Institute on Teaching and Mentoring, Alliance for Graduate Education and the Professoriate, Atlanta, GA 2014

Imaginary Lines Caught in the Webs of Privacy, Property, and Blackness. National Women’s Studies Association Annual Conference, Cincinnati, OH 2013

Mini-conference for Women of Color. American Political Science Association Annual Conference, Chicago, IL 2013

Identity, Hispañola and the African Past. Tinker Field Research Results, University of Connecticut 2013
Decolonizing Feminist Theory and Gender Studies: Feminist, Post-Colonial, and Queer Intervention. International Studies Association Annual Convention, San Francisco, CA 2013

COMPACT for Faculty Diversity, The Annual Institute on Teaching and Mentoring, Alliance for Graduate Education and Professoriate, Orlando, FL 2012               

Lenses on Invisibility: Feminist Methods of Memory, Haunting, Representation, and Deconstructing Narratives. New England Women’s Studies Association Conference, Biddeford, ME 2012        

PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
Member-at-Large, Human Rights Section, 
American Political Science Association 2014

Secretary, Women’s Caucus, 
Northeastern Political Science Association 2014-2016

Interview, The Significance of Negritud Movement Today, 
La Univ. de Cartagena Radio 2014

UConn Connects Facilitator, First Year Programs 
and Learning Communities 2014

Graduate Student Representative, 
Feminist Studies Graduate Certificate, 2013-2014

Senator, Graduate Students of Color 
Graduate Student Senate 2011-2012

FELLOWSHIPS, SCHOLARSHIPS AND GRANTS
Multicultural Fellowship Scholar, The Graduate School, 
Univ. of Connecticut 2011-2015

Institute of Latino/a, Caribbean, and Latin American Studies 
Pre-Doctoral Fellow, Univ, of Connecticut 2013

Predoctoral Fellowship, The Graduate School, 
Univ. of Connecticut 2014

Travel Grant, Annual Compact for Faculty Diversity: 
Institute on Teaching and Mentoring,
  The Graduate School, Univ. of Connecticut 2014

Summer Research Fellow, Women’s, Gender 
and Sexuality Studies Program, Univ. of Connecticut 2013

Pre-Doctoral Fund Award, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, 
Univ. of Connecticut 2013

Tinker Research Grant in Latin America and the Caribbean, 
Institute of Latina/o, Caribbean, and Latin American Studies  
Univ. of Connecticut 2013

Travel Grant, Mini-Conference for Women of Color 
 Political Science, American Political Science Association 2013

Research Grant to Kumba, Cameroon, 
Center for Social Concern, Univ. of Dayton 2011

Dean’s Fund for Excellence Award, Field Research 
Sangilo, Malawi, Univ. of Dayton 2010

Travel Grant, Ralph Bunche Summer Institute, 
American Political Science Association 2010

Full Scholarship, Division of Student Development 
and the Office of Multicultural Affairs, Univ.of Dayton 2008-2010

First Generation University Minority 
Student Scholarship, Univ. of Dayton 2009


AWARDS AND RECOGNITION

Doctoral Travel Award, The Graduate School, 
Univ. of Connecticut 2014

Graduate Travel Funding Award, International Studies 
Association Annual Convention 2013

Award for Academic Achievement, Office of Multicultural Affairs, 
Univ. of Dayton 2011  

Central Ohioans for Peace Award, 1st Place Winner, 
UN Peace Essay Competition 2008


PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
Current
American Political Science Association- since 2012, Member-at- large, Human Rights Section
National Conference of Black Political Scientists- since 2014
National Women’s Studies Association- since 2013
National Center for Faculty Development and Diversity- since 2013
Negritud: Afro-Latin American Studies Association- since 2013
Northeastern Political Science Association- since 2014, Secretary, Women’s Caucus
Western Political Science Association- since 2014

Past
African Studies Association 2013-2014
American Studies Association 2013- 2014

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