ALICE J. KANG 511 Oldfather Hall, Lincoln, NE 68588, USA Website:

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1 ALICE J. KANG 511 Oldfather Hall, Lincoln, NE 68588, USA Website: APPOINTMENT Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science and Institute for Ethnic Studies (African and African-American Studies), University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Fall 2010-present EDUCATION Ph.D. Political Science, University of Wisconsin-Madison, August 2010 Doctoral Dissertation: Bargaining with Islam: Of Rule, Religion, and Women in Niger Dissertation Committee: Aili Mari Tripp (Chair), Michael Schatzberg, Christina Ewig, Jon Pevehouse, Asifa Quraishi M.A. Political Science, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2004 B.A. Economics with Honors, Brown University, 2000 Study abroad at the London School of Economics, BOOK MANUSCRIPT Kang, Alice. Bargaining for Women s Rights: Activism in an Aspiring Muslim Democracy. Under contract with University of Minnesota Press and currently in production. Publication in hardcover and paperback expected June PEER-REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS Kang, Alice How Civil Society Represents Women: Feminists, Catholics, and Mobilization Strategies in Africa. In Representation: The Case of Women, edited by Maria Escobar-Lemmon and Michelle Taylor-Robinson. Oxford: Oxford University Press, Kang, Alice The Effect of Gender Quota Laws on the Election of Women: Lessons from Niger. Women s Studies International Forum 41, 2: Kang, Alice Studying Oil, Islam, and Women as if Political Institutions Mattered. Politics & Gender 5, 4: (Editor reviewed) Tripp, Aili Mari and Alice Kang The Global Impact of Quotas: On the Fast Track to Female Representation. Comparative Political Studies 41, 5: Adams, Melinda and Alice Kang Women s Regional Advocacy Networks and the African Union Protocol on the Rights of Women. Politics & Gender 3, 3: WORK IN PROGRESS Kittilson, Miki, Valerie Hoekstra, Maria Escobar-Lemmon, and Alice Kang. Just the Facts? Media Coverage of Male and Female High Court Appointees in Five Democracies. Under review. Kang, Alice. Women s Mobilization and the Adoption of Gender Quota Laws. In preparation. Last updated: September 30, 2014

2 2 Kang, Alice. A Double-Edged Sword? The International Sources of Mobilization against Women s Rights. First draft written. OTHER PUBLICATIONS Kang, Alice Women, Islam, and Politics in Africa. African Politics Conference Group Newsletter, September: 8-9. Kang, Alice Book review of Democracy and the Rise of Women s Movements in Sub- Saharan Africa in Mobilization 15, 4: Tripp, Aili Mari and Alice Kang Gender Quotas: The Ascent of Women into Public Office. Americas Quarterly Spring: RESEARCH GRANTS AND FELLOWSHIPS Co-Principal Investigator. National Science Foundation Grant (SES ), Collaborative Research on Diffusing Equality: International Influences on Women s Appointment to High Courts. With Miki Kittilson, Valerie Hoekstra, and Maria Escobar-Lemmon, Principal Investigator. UNL Layman Seed Award, The Politics of Health in West Africa, (extended through 2014). $ Principal Investigator. UNL Department of Political Science Senning Fellowship. 2011, Principal Investigator. U.S. Department of Education Fulbright Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Award, Principal Investigator. University of Wisconsin-Madison Scott Kloeck-Jenson Pre-Dissertation Travel Grant, U.S. Department of Education Foreign Language Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowship. For Hausa language study , renewed RESEARCH AWARDS American Political Science Association Fellowship to participate in the Africa Workshop on Global Perspectives on Politics and Gender at the University of Dar es Salaam, Junior Scholar Award to attend the Women in Politics: Global Perspectives Workshop at the Ohio State University, University of Wisconsin-Madison Hyde Dissertation Research Award, Department of Gender and Women s Studies, American Political Science Association Women s Caucus Alice Paul Dissertation Prospectus Award for best dissertation proposal on women and politics, 2007.

3 3 CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS (SELECTED) On Collective Action and Mobilization A Double-Edged Sword? The International Causes of Women s Mobilization and Religious Countermobilization in Africa, International Studies Association, March Women s Caucus Panel: Theorizing Women s Activism, African Studies Association, November Measuring Mobilization for Human Rights, Midwest Political Science Association, April Bringing International Women s Rights Home: Issue-Specific Mobilization in Muslim and Non-Muslim Countries, American Political Science Association, September On Women and Politics in Niger Muslim Politics, Women s Rights, and Democracy: Insights from Niger, African Studies Association, November When Legal Reforms Fail: Opposing Actors, Informal Institutions and Family Law Reform in Niger, Midwest Political Science Association, April Women against Women s Rights Laws: A Case Study of Niger, American Political Science Association, August On Gender Quotas The Global Impact of Quotas: On the Fast Track to Greater Legislative Representation, with Aili Mari Tripp, Midwest Political Science Association, April On Women and the Judiciary The Rise of Women Chief Justices in Africa, with Josephine Dawuni, African Studies Association, November 2014 (accepted) Just the Facts? Cross-Regional Differences in Media Coverage of Male and Female High Court Nominees, with Maria Escobar-Lemmon, Valerie Hoekstra, and Miki Kittilson, American Political Science Association August 2014 (poster). Diffusing Equality: International Influences on Women s Appointment to High Courts, with Maria Escobar-Lemmon, Valerie Hoekstra, and Miki Kittilson, American Political Science Association, August On Political Memory The Afterlives of Dead Presidents: Remembering Thomas Sankara in Burkina Faso, African Studies Association, November On Teaching and Research Teaching about Women and Islam in U.S. Universities, National Women s Studies Association, November Doing Interviews: The Devil is in the Details, Lessons from the Field: University of Wisconsin-Madison Graduate Student Conference on Fieldwork in Africa, April INVITED TALKS Bargaining for Women s Representation: How Niger Adopted a Gender Quota, Workshop on Quotas and Democratization in Africa, University of Bergen and Chr. Michelsen Institute,

4 4 Bergen, Norway, June Women s Mobilization in Africa, Nebraska Wesleyan University, April Who Represents Women? Workshop on Identity, Gender and Representation: Empirical Analyses of Representation of Women s Interests. Texas A&M University, February TEACHING University of Nebraska-Lincoln Intro to Africa (ETHN 203) African Politics, Honors Seminar (POLS 395H) Conflict & Development in Africa (POLS/ETHN 375) Democracy & Citizenship (POLS 400) Women & Politics (POLS/WMNS 338) Core Seminar in Comparative Politics (POLS 879) Research Seminar on Comparative Politics (POLS 979) University of Wisconsin-Madison Politics of Development Women and Politics in a Global Perspective (co-taught) Dissertation Committees Member, Nkem Kalu, on China and Nigeria, Dissertation defended 2012 Member, Laura Roost, on Women s NGOs and Reconciliation, Prospectus defended Member, Jalele Defa, on Election Violence in Ghana and Kenya, Prospectus defended Member, Katherine Hunt, on International Women s Rights, Prospectus defended Member, Alex Kroeger, on Cabinet Politics in Africa, Prospectus defended Member, Nathan Munier, on Conflict Diamond Management, Prospectus defended Member, Elizabeth F. Schnieder, on the Equal Rights Amendment, Prospectus in progress Reader, Carrie Walker, on Africana Women Writers, Dissertation defended 2012 (English) Reader, Chigozirim Utah, on Corruption in Nigeria, Prospectus defended (Communications) Master s Thesis Committees Chair, Madeline Hoeffer, 2012 Reader, Alex Kroeger, 2012 Reader, James Harrold, in progress Reader, Kendra Suesz, 2011 (Anthropology) Undergraduate Honors Thesis Committees Advisor, Laura Slezak, on Malaria Eradication in Zanzibar, Tanzania, 2013 Advisor, Ruth Ann Boettner (with distinction), on the Military under Mobutu, to defend 2014 Reader, Kathleen Miller (with distinction), on International Economic Rights, defended 2013 Reader, Margo Berends (with highest distinction), on Development in Benin, to defend 2014 UCARE Mentoring Sophie Loveless, on Women on High Courts in Post-Conflict African Countries, Nate Hall, on Minority Rights in Tanzania,

5 5 Independent Study Johnathan Jackson, Qualitative Methods, Summer 2014 Kaitlyn Evanko-Douglas, Honors Thesis, Spring 2013 (UHON 499H) LaThomas Graves, Conflict and Development in Africa, Spring 2013 (POLS/ETHN 375) Alexander Kroeger, African Politics, Fall 2012 (POLS 895) Nate Hall, Research Methods, Summer 2012 (POLS 375) Jalele Defa, Election Violence in Africa, Spring 2011 (POLS 895) Teacher Training Participant, Peer Review of Teaching Project, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, DEPARTMENTAL SERVICE Political Science and Ethnic Studies Committees Ethnic Studies Executive Committee, Political Science Graduate Committee, , Political Science Executive Committee, International Relations Search Committee, Ethnic Studies Executive Committee, Political Science Graduate Committee, AAAS 40th Anniversary Planning Committee, Political Science Undergraduate Committee, Other Political Science and Ethnic Studies Service Faculty Coordinator, International Relations and Comparative Politics Brownbag, Presentation, Mobilizing for Women s Rights in Muslim and Non-Muslim Africa, E.N. Thompson Forum, February 19, Panelist, Race, Immigration, and the Transforming of a Nation: America in the 21st Century, Martin Luther King Jr. Week, January 24, Panelist, "Back to School: The Education of Girls and Women in an Era of Miss Representation," Department of Teaching, Learning, and Teacher Education, College of Education and Human Sciences, Women's and Gender Studies, October 10, Presentation, Bringing International Women s Rights Home: Issue-Specific Mobilization in Muslim and Non-Muslim Africa Department of Geography Seminar, March Presentation, Hiring Interpreters to Dr. Griffin s Qualitative Methods class, Spring Co-moderator, Critical Black Studies in a Global World, African-American and African Studies 40th Anniversary Celebration Roundtable, October Presentation, Getting Published to Political Science graduate students, August Moderator, Identity Conflict, Global Security Colloquium, April Guest lecture, Ethnic Conflict in Africa, for Instructor Leslie Martinez, Freshman Seminar: The Minority Experience (ETHN 100), February Panelist, Music as a Weapon: The Melody of Resistance in African and African American History, Ethnic Studies Colloquium, October Presenter, Finishing the Dissertation to Dr. Wals class, Fall Discussant, The Price of Inequality, Challenge of Inequality Hendricks Symposium, November 2010.

6 6 UNIVERSITY SERVICE Advisor, African Studies Association, 2014-present. Guest Lecture, Who Represents Whom in America? The SUSI Institute, Center for Global Engagement, January 17, Pre-Talk Host, E.N. Thompson Forum on World Issues, Member, E.N. Thompson Forum on World Issues, , renewed Lecture, Islam and Women s Rights in a Global Context, Nebraska Colloquium, February Faculty Affiliate, Women s and Gender Studies Program, 2010-present. PROFESSIONAL SERVICE Manuscript referee, African Development Review (journal of the African Development Bank), African Studies Review, Africa Today, American Journal of Political Science, American Political Science Review, Comparative Politics, Global Policy (a UK based international policy journal), Governance, JENdA: A Journal of Culture and African Women Studies, Journal of Women, Politics & Policy, Law, Democracy, and Development (a South African based law journal), Politics & Gender. Discussant, Midwest Political Science Association Meeting, 2012, 2013; African Studies Association Meeting, Chair or panel co-organizer, African Studies Association Meeting, 2006, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2013, Panel Selection Committee, APSA/African Politics Conference Group (APCG), 2009, Award Committee, African Politics Conference Group Best Article Award, Award Committee, APSA Women and Politics Best Paper, Award Committee, African Politics Conference Group Best Dissertation Award, Award Committee, Midwest Political Science Association Sophonisba Breckinridge Award for Best Paper on Women and Politics, Member, American Political Science Association (Section on Comparative Politics, Section on Women and Politics, Section on Qualitative and Mixed Methods), Midwest Political Science Association (Midwest Women s Caucus for Political Science), African Studies Association, African Politics Conference Group, West African Research Association. Presentations to Policymakers The Status of Women on Niger, U.S. Department of State Bureau of Intelligence and Research Seminar on Niger, Washington, DC, January Enseignements tirés sur la promotion des droits des femmes au Niger, American Cultural Center, Niamey, Niger, July Community Engagement Guest, NET s Live at the Mill as part of an interview with Julie Dash, April 5, Presenter, The U.N. and Women in Africa, Nebraska United Nations Chapter, Lincoln, January Guest, NET News story on Nebraska Women Face Partisan Gap in Politics, September 28, Board member, Asian Cultural and Community Center, Lincoln, Guest, Inside Islam, December 21, 2009.

7 7 Independent expert for applicants from Mali and Niger seeking asylum, 2007-present. FIELDWORK AND RELATED WORK EXPERIENCE Fieldwork Niger: 2006, , 2011, ; Benin: 2006, 2008; South Africa: 2015 (planned) Related Work Experience Intern, AllAfrica.com, Washington, DC, 2004 Consultant, International Foundation for Election Systems (IFES), Washington, DC, Peace Corps Volunteer (Community Health), Burkina Faso, LANGUAGES French (advanced), Hausa (basic), Zarma (basic), Mooré (basic) Stata, R