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EMILY BRISSETTE Department of Sociology (510) 845-5772 University of California, Berkeley [email protected] 410 Barrows Hall, Berkeley, CA 94720-1980 EDUCATION (PHD) UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY, Sociology (Expected: 2013) Dissertation: “State Imaginaries and the Movements against the Vietnam
and Iraq Wars.”
Committee: Michael Burawoy (Chair), Laura Enriquez, Raka Ray, Wendy Brown (Political Theory)
Exam Fields: Social Theory, Political Sociology, and Gender MA UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY, Sociology (2006) Thesis: “Particularizing Ideology, Interpellating Subjects: Bush Administration Justifications for the Iraq War.” BA UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE, Sociology (2001) Summa Cum Laude, with Honors in Major; Minor in Women’s Studies
PROVIDENCE COLLEGE (1997-1998)
RESEARCH AND TEACHING INTERESTS Political Sociology Social Movements Gender Religion War and Militarism Social Theory Methods DISSERTATION ABSTRACT My dissertation examines the qualitatively different kinds of politics that are enabled by different state imaginaries—the widespread assumptions about the nature of the state and its relation to civil society that circulate within a given era. I excavate and reconstruct the state imaginaries during the eras of the Vietnam and Iraq Wars by examining the shared assumptions across presidential addresses, popular media, and social movement discourses. Using the theories of Gramsci and Habermas as languages to make those assumptions legible, I argue that the dominant state imaginary during the years of the Vietnam War was of a mobilizing, educative state in a relation of mutuality with civil society while the dominant imaginary during the years of the more recent Iraq War was of a colonizing state, threatening the social and cultural reproduction of civil society through its predation. I then examine the effects of these two very different state imaginaries on the configuration, style, and tactics of war resistance in the two eras, through case studies of the draft resistance and counter-recruitment movements.
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PUBLICATIONS forthcoming. “Prefiguring the Realm of Freedom at Occupy Oakland.” Rethinking Marxism BOOK CHAPTER forthcoming. “Beyond the Brand: Occupy Oakland’s Refusal of Neoliberal Rationality” in The Powers of a Crowd: Riots, Mobs, and Public Protest in the 21st Century, edited by Kevin A. Wisniewski. MANUSCRIPTS UNDER REVIEW AND IN PROGRESS UNDER REVIEW “State Imaginaries and Subjectivities in US War Resistance.” Public Culture IN PROGRESS “Envisioning a World Without War: The Utopian Moment in US War Resistance.” “Child Predator or Overbearing Nanny: Gendering State (and Civil Society) in American Political Discourse.” PUBLIC SOCIOLOGY 2012. (with Mike King). “Overcoming Internal Pacification” in We Are Many: Reflections on Movement Strategy from Occupation to Liberation, edited by Kate Khatib, Margaret Killjoy, and Mike McGuire. Oakland: AK Press. 2011. “For the Fracture of Good Order: On “Violence” at Occupy Oakland.” CounterPunch, November 4. Available online at: http://www.counterpunch.org/2011/11/04/for-the-fracture-of-good-order/ FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS 2011 Fall Research Grant, Department of Sociology, UC Berkeley. 2011 Summer Fellowship, Department of Sociology, UC Berkeley. 2010 Antonio Gramsci Fellowship, Department of Sociology, UC Berkeley. 2008-2009 National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship. 2007 Dean’s Normative Time Fellowship, UC Berkeley. 2004-2006 National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship. 2002-2004 Regents Intern Fellowship, UC Berkeley. 2001 Phi Beta Kappa, Inducted, University of New Hampshire. 2000 John G. Winant Fellowship, University of New Hampshire. 2000 Class of 1931 Alumni Memorial Merit Scholarship, University of New
Hampshire. 2000 Frederick Smyth Book Fund Award, University of New Hampshire. 1997-1998 Liberal Arts Honors Program Scholarship, Providence College. 1997 National Merit Scholarship.
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TEACHING EXPERIENCE INSTRUCTOR Gender and War, a senior research seminar, UC Berkeley (Spring 2012) As instructor for this course, I developed the syllabus and assignments, facilitated weekly class discussion, supervised students’ empirical research projects, provided detailed written feedback on all assignments, and met with students in office hours. The enrollment for the class was 17. GRADUATE STUDENT INSTRUCTOR Introduction to Peace and Conflict Studies with Darren Zook, UC Berkeley (Fall 2012) Evaluation of Evidence (Research Methods)
with Szonja Ivester, UC Berkeley (Summer 2012) with Heather Haveman, UC Berkeley (Fall 2010) with Irene Bloemraad, UC Berkeley (Spring 2009) with Kristin Luker, UC Berkeley (Spring 2006)
Introduction to Sociology
with Stephen Vaisey, UC Berkeley (Spring 2010) with Raka Ray, UC Berkeley (Fall 2004)
Sociology of Religion with Dawne Moon, UC Berkeley (Spring 2007)
Political Sociology with Laura Enriquez, UC Berkeley (Fall 2006)
As a graduate student instructor (GSI), I led two discussion sections, twice weekly, of 20-25 students each. In addition to facilitating discussion, I developed small assignments, met with students in office hours, graded all student work, and wrote letters of recommendation. GUEST LECTURES 2012. “Lineages of Disruption: East Bay Social Justice Struggles from the Oakland General Strike to Occupy” Political Sociology (Instructor Laleh Behbehanian), UC Berkeley. 2010. “Identification and Disconnection: State Imaginaries in the Movements against the Vietnam and Iraq Wars.” Political Sociology (Professor Laura Enriquez), UC Berkeley.
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CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS (2012). “Child Predator or Overbearing Nanny: Gendering State (and Civil Society) in American Political Discourse.” Accepted paper, Feminists Face the State: A Berkeley Symposium on Politics, State Power and Gender, UC Berkeley. 2012. “Envisioning a World Without War: The Utopian Moment in US War Resistance.” American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, Denver. 2012. “From Disruption to Defense: Tactical Change in US War Resistance.” Participatory Democracy and Social Justice Struggles: From Port Huron to #Occupy, UCLA. 2011. “From Mobilization to Colonization: State Imaginaries in the US Draft Resistance and Counter-Recruitment Movements.” Political Sociology Panel on Cultural Dimensions of Armed Conflict, American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, Las Vegas. 2011. “Imagining the Colonizing State: Defensive Insularity in the US Counter-Recruitment Movement.” States of Emergency: A Conference in Honor of Peter Evans, UC Berkeley. 2011. “The State of Common Sense: State Imaginaries and Social Change in US War Resistance.” Social Theory Forum: Italian Social Theory from Gramsci to Agamben, University of Massachusetts, Boston. 2010. “State Imaginaries and the Decline of the Anti-Iraq War Movement.” Sociological Research Symposium, UC Berkeley. 2010. “‘Permanent War and Empire’: Antiwar Constructions of Empire and the State.” Pacific Sociological Association, Oakland. PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT SERVICE Graduate Mentor, Senior Honors Seminar, with Victoria Bonnell, UC Berkeley, 2010-2011. Member of Editorial Collective, Berkeley Journal of Sociology, 2003-2004 Conference Organizer, Berkeley Journal of Sociology Annual Conference. March 2004. Journal and Conference Theme: “Rethinking Gender” AFFILIATION American Sociological Association (Sections: Political Sociology; Collective Behavior & Social Movements; Peace, War & Social Conflict)
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REFERENCES Michael Burawoy (Chair) Laura Enriquez 410 Barrows Hall 410 Barrows Hall UC Berkeley UC Berkeley Berkeley, CA 94720-1980 Berkeley, CA 94720-1980 (510) 643-1958 (510) 642-4766 [email protected] [email protected] Raka Ray 410 Barrows Hall UC Berkeley Berkeley, CA 94720-1980 (510) 642-4575 [email protected]