Carly Thomsen

Ph.D. Year 2014

Specialization

Genders and Sexualities

Education

Ph.D., Feminist Studies, University of California Santa Barbara

MA, Women’s Studies, University of Arizona
B.A., Rhetoric and Women’s Studies, St. Cloud State University

Research

Feminist, queer and crip theory, activism and social movements, critical sexuality studies, bodies, health and reproduction, rurality, place, and space, and food politics.

For more information, please see website.

cthomsen@middlebury.edu

Website:

http://www.carlythomsen.com/

Courses

Teaching Experience: Instructor of Record

Activisms: Theorizing Resistance and Building Skills for Social Justice

Gender in Contemporary Society

Introduction to LGBTQ Studies

New Sexuality Studies: Queering Research Methods

The Politics of Reproduction: Sex, Abortion, Motherhood

Queer Theory: Space, Bodies, and Time

Women and Work

Teaching Experience: Graduate Teaching Assistant

Women, Representation, and Culture

Women, Society, and Culture

Additional Teaching Experience

As part of my Graduate Assistantship at the University of Arizona’s Southwest Institute for Research on Women (2007-2009), I designed and taught a weekly course entitled “Race, Gender, and Resistance” to youth aged 13-17 who were court-mandated to attend the class as part of their drug treatment program.

Teaching Awards

The Myra Sadker Foundation, Teacher Award and Grant, “Beyond Internships Versus Intellectualism: Incorporating Women’s Studies Concepts Into Social Justice Internship Programs”

Excellence in Teaching Award and Named University Wide Teaching Associate, an honor given to one UCSB Teaching Associate annually

Outstanding Teaching Associate Award, Residence Hall Association, UCSB

Summer Teaching Competition Winner, Department of Feminist Studies, UCSB

For a more detailed list of courses I have taught and awards I have received, please see my CV posted on my website.
Publications

Thomsen, Carly. 2013. “From Refusing Stigmatization to Celebration: New Directions for ReproductiveJustice Activism.” Feminist Studies

      39 (1):149-158.

Thomsen, Carly. Forthcoming. “In Plain(s) Sight: Rural LGBTQ Women and the Politics of Visibility.”Queering the Countryside: New

      Directions in Rural Queer Studies. Mary Gray and Colin Johnson, Eds.

Thomsen, Carly. Forthcoming. “Sexualities.” The Oxford Handbook of Feminist Theory. Lisa Disch and Mary Hawkesworth, Eds. Oxford:

      Oxford University Press. With Leila Rupp.

Thomsen, Carly. In process of revising and resubmitting. “The Politics of Narrative, Narrative as Politic:Rethinking Reproductive Justice

      Frameworks through the South Dakota Abortion Story.” Feminist Formations.

Thomsen, Carly. Under Review. “The Post-Raciality and Post-Spatiality of Calls for LGBTQ andDisability Visibility.”

Thomsen, Carly. Under Review. “The Fetish of Visibility: Malcolm X, Sex Work, and Gay Rights.”With Heather Berg.

Thomsen, Carly. 2007. “Roe v. Wade.” Oxford Encyclopedia of Women in World History. Oxford:  Oxford University Press.

Other Writing

Thomsen, Carly. 2013. “Not Down With CPCs?: What Feminists can Learn from the Reproductive Justice Activism at UCSB.” Feminist

      Majority Foundation blog at www.feministcampus.org/blog. Sept 17.

Thomsen, Carly. 2008. “The Prism Project: Supporting LGBTQ Youth.” Community Research News. Southwest Institute for Research on

      Women. Tucson: University of Arizona. Vol. 7.

LaDuke, Winona, John Shimek, Carly Thomsen, Mike Triplett. 2006. “White Earth Anishinaabe Nation Sustainable Energy Plan.” White

      Earth, Minnesota: White Earth Land Recovery Project.

Manuscripts in Progress

“Queer Theory, Identity Politics, and Reproductive Justice Activism”