Sara Lacy Rushing Last updated: April 2015

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1 Sara Lacy Rushing Last updated: April 2015 Department of Political Science Mailing Address: Wilson Hall P.O. Box Bozeman, MT Montana State University Bozeman, MT Associate Professor of Political Science, Montana State University Present Education PhD University of California, Berkeley. Political Science MA University of California, Berkeley. Political Science BA Mount Holyoke College. Politics Magna Cum Laude. Research and Teaching Areas Political Theory (Ancient, Modern and Contemporary; Western and Comparative; Democratic Theory); Feminist Theory; Virtue Ethics; Media and Politics; Constitutional Law and Legal theory. Prizes and Distinctions Betty Coffey Award, Montana State University In recognition of outstanding achievement in incorporating women s perspectives into the curriculum or developing academic programs that contribute to the elimination of persistent barriers to women s success at MSU. $500 Phi Kappa Phi, Contemporary Political Theory 2011 Annual Prize for best article published in the journal in 2010 (for Preparing for Politics: Judith Butler s Ethical Dispositions, Vol. 9 No. 3, August 2010) College of Letters and Science 2011 Outstanding Teaching Award. $ Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor, University of California at Berkeley, Phi Beta Kappa, Mount Holyoke College, Mary Lyon Scholar, Mount Holyoke College, Sarah Williston Scholar, Mount Holyoke College, Publications Edited Volumes: Bevir, M., Hargis, J., Rushing, S. (2007). Histories of Postmodernism. New York: Routledge. Book Chapters:

2 Rushing, S. Butler s Ethical Appeal: Being, Feeling and Acting Responsible. In Butler and Ethics, Moya Lloyd ed., (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2015). Rushing, S. What is Confucian Humility? In Virtue Ethics and Confucianism, Stephen Angle and Michael Slote, eds. (New York: Routledge, 2013). Gutterman, D. and Rushing, S. (2008). Sovereignty and Suffering: Towards an Ethics of Grief in a Post-9/11 World. In Judith Butler s Precarious Politics: Critical Encounters. Carver, T. and Chambers, S. (Eds.) New York: Routledge. Bevir, M., Hargis, J., Rushing, S. (2007). Introduction. In Histories of Postmodernism. Bevir, M., Hargis, J., Rushing, S. (Eds.) New York: Routledge. Rushing, S. (2007). Longing for a Certain Kind of Future : Drucilla Cornell, Sexual Difference and the Imaginary Domain. In Histories of Postmodernism, Bevir, M., Hargis, J., Rushing, S. (Eds.) New York: Routledge. Articles: Rushing, S. (2015) Humility, Autonomy and Birth as a Site of Politics. Politics & Gender. Rushing, S. (2013). Comparative Humilities: Christian, Confucian and Contemporary Conceptions of a Political Virtue. Polity 45: 2 (April 2013), Kevane, B. and Rushing, S. (2012). Homeland Insecurity: Ilan Stavans, On Borrowed Words, and the Emergent Latino-Jewish Literature. Studies in American Culture, 35.1 (October, 2012). Rushing, S. Preparing for Politics: Judith Butler s Ethical Dispositions. Contemporary Political Theory, Vol. 9 No. 3, August Rushing, S. and Austin, E. (2008). Conflict and Community: Butler s Precarious Life and Land Use Public Hearings. Administrative Theory and Praxis, Vol. 30 No. 2, p Book Reviews and Review Essays: Rushing, S. (2015) Book Review. Civility, Legality and Justice in America. Austin Sarat, ed. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2014). In Perspectives on Politics. Rushing, S. (2014). Book Review. Worldly Ethics: Democratic Politics and Care for the World. By Ella Myers (Duke University Press, 2013). In Perspectives on Politics. Rushing, S. (forthcoming October 2014). Book Review. Caring Democracy: Markets, Equality and Justice. By Joan C. Tronto (NYU Press, 2013). In Studies in American Culture. Rushing, S. (2003). Book Review. Supreme Court Justices in the Post-Bork Era. By Joyce Baugh. In The Law & Politics Book Review, Vol. 13 No. 7. Papers in Preparation or Under Review: Rushing, S. How We Die: Humility, Health Care and Hospice.

3 What s Left of Empowerment After Neo-liberalism? Rushing, S., Smith, J., Honea, J., Shanahan, L., Letiecq, B. Relational Autonomy: Enhancing gender diversity by facilitating women s autonomy through institutionally supported work-life integration. Smith, J., Rushing, S., Handly, I., Belou, R., Burroughs, B., Shanahan, L., Young, L. Academic Freedom: The importance of autonomy support in improving the experience of American women in academia. Research Grants and Awards Letters and Science Research Enhancement Award, Montana State University, Spring To support travel to the annual meeting of the Western Political Science Association. Los Angeles, CA, March 28 30, $1, Letters and Science Research Enhancement Award, Montana State University, Fall To support travel to the annual meeting of the Association for Political Theory. Notre Dame University, South Bend, Indiana, October 14 16, $ Montana State University Provost s Faculty Development Award. To support a course buy-out for the fall of $5,000 Letters and Science Research Enhancement Award, Montana State University, Spring To support travel to the annual meeting of the Pacific Division of the American Philosophical Association. San Diego, CA, April 20 23, $1, National Endowment for the Humanities Travel Grant, Spring To support travel to the Fourth International Society for the Comparative Studies of Chinese and Western Philosophy Constructive Engagement Conference: Confucianism and Virtue Ethics. Peking University. Beijing, China. May 14 16, $1,000 Letters and Science Research Enhancement Award, Montana State University, Spring To support travel to the annual meeting of the Western Political Science Association, San Francisco, CA, April 1 3, $1,108 Scholarship & Creativity Grant for the Advancement of the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, Montana State University, FY Humility as a Critical Political Virtue. $8,776 Humanities Montana Major Grant to fund a June 2009 symposium entitled, A Cross-Cultural Conversation: Aristotle, Confucius and Virtue Ethics and public lecture entitled, Ethics East & West: The Challenge and Promise of Dialogue. $4,000 Montana NSF EPSCoR Grant to fund a June 2009 symposium entitled, A Cross-Cultural Conversation: Aristotle, Confucius and Virtue Ethics and public lecture entitled, Ethics East & West: The Challenge and Promise of Dialogue. $3,000 Instructional Innovation Grant, Montana State University. Awarded April 2009 to fund project entitled Political and Ethical Socialization and Academic Values: An Exploratory Study of Montana State University Students. $1,724

4 National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminar. Traditions into Dialogue: Confucianism and Contemporary Virtue Ethics. July 7 August 15, Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut. $4,200 Conference Participation Conferences and Panels Organized (Public and Professional) Organizer and Speaker, The Politics of Virtue: The Unintended Consequences of Legislating Morality. A community presentation at Bozeman s Story Mansion, October 11, 2011, funded by KUSM PBS, presented in conjunction with the airing of Ken Burn s documentary, Prohibition. Symposium Organizer, A Cross-Cultural Conversation: Aristotle, Confucius and Virtue Ethics. A three day meeting bringing philosophers from around the United States to Bozeman, Montana, to exchange papers-in-progress and discuss the pedagogy of comparative philosophy and political theory. Bozeman, Montana, June 17 21, Organizer and Moderator, Ethics East & West: The Challenge and Promise of Dialogue. A public lecture given by three visiting philosophers followed by a community discussion. Bozeman Public Library, Bozeman, Montana, June 19, Co-organizer. Panel entitled Histories of Postmodernism, for the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association. Chicago, Illinois, August Co-organizer. Conference entitled Historicizing Postmodernism, funded by the Doreen B. Townsend Center for the Humanities, the U.C. Berkeley Department of Political Science, and the Berkeley Center for British Studies. Berkeley, California, September 11 12, Papers Presented How We Die: Humility, Health Care and Hospice. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Association for Political Theory, Vanderbilt University, October 10 12, Nashville, TN. How Bodies Matter: Affect, Autonomy and Solidarity. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Western Political Science Association, March 28 30, Los Angeles, CA. Get Me Out of Here!: Humility, Autonomy and Birth. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Association for Political Theory, October 14 16, Notre Dame University, South Bend, IN. Tradition and Hermeneutical Humility in Confucius and Gadamer. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Pacific Division of the American Philosophical Association, April 20 23, 2011, San Diego, CA. Comparative Humilities: Christian versus Confucian Conceptions of a Political Virtue. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Association for Political Theory. Reed College, Portland, Oregon. October 21 23, What is Confucian Humility? Paper presented at The Fourth International Society for the Comparative Studies of Chinese and Western Philosophy Constructive Engagement Conference: Confucianism and Virtue Ethics. Peking University. Beijing, China. May 14 16, What is Confucian Humility? Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Western Political Science

5 Teaching Association. San Francisco, California, April 1 3, Humble Revolutions?: Tradition and Dissent in Gadamer and Confucius. Paper presented at symposium entitled A Cross-Cultural Conversation: Aristotle, Confucius and Virtue Ethics. Bozeman, Montana, June 17 20, The (Virtue?) Ethical Turn: Judith Butler s Generosity. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association. Boston, Massachusetts, August 28 31, Generosity, Humility and Patience: Judith Butler s Ethical Theory. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Western Political Science Association. San Diego, California, March 20 23, Postmodernism as Legend and Legacy: First the tools and then the toolbox. Paper prepared for presentation at conference entitled Historicizing Postmodernism. Berkeley, California, September 11 12, Progenitors of Postmodernism: Traditions and Trajectories. Paper prepared for delivery on the panel Current Approaches to Postmodern Political Thought at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, August Rights, Identities, and the Political Potentials of Poststructuralism. Paper prepared for delivery on the panel Epistemic Considerations of Rights, Identities and the State at the Annual Conference of the Law and Society Association. Vancouver, British Columbia, May 30 June 1, Assistant Professor, Montana State University, Bozeman 2008 Present - Courses offered: Classical Political Thought, Fall 2008, 2009, 2010, 2013 Modern Political Thought, Spring 2008, 2009, 2011, 2012, 2014 Contemporary Political Theory, Spring 2009, 2011, 2013 Politics & Virtue, Spring 2012, 2014 Constitutional Law, Fall 2008, 2010 Media and Politics, Spring 2008, Fall 2009, 2011 Politics, Virtue & Leadership, Spring 2014 (One time special offering to support Montana State University s Year of Engaged Leadership initiative). - Academic Student Clubs for which I serve as the Faculty Advisor: Political Theory Consortium 2010 Present - Other: TEAL Project Member, Spring 2013 (Teaching Enhanced Active Learning Classroom). Wye Faculty Fellow, Aspen Institute seminar on Citizenship in the American and Global Polity, July 20 26, Visiting Assistant Professor, Linfield College, McMinnville, Oregon

6 Montana State University Leadership and Service Co-Director, NSF-ADVANCE Project TRACS (a five year, $3.2 million dollar institutional transformation initiative, focused on broadening participation of women in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) and social and behavioral sciences (SBS).) Appointed Member, President s Commission on the Status of University Women, Present MSU Family Advocate, Chair, NSF-ADVANCE Grant Work-Life Integration Subcommittee, 2011 Chair, Women s Faculty Caucus Steering Committee, Montana State University Interim Steering Committee, Women in Science and Engineering (WISE), MSU Women s Faculty Caucus Mentor Award Committee Women s and Gender Studies Committee, Montana State University Present Faculty Advisor for the Political Theory Consortium, an ASMSU Student Club Present Colloquium Organizer, Dept. of Political Science Faculty Research Presentations, 2009 Present Bobcat Student-Athlete Mentor Graduate Committee: Jennifer Hill, Doctoral Candidate in the Department of American Studies. Dissertation Project: Childbirth in Montana, Graduate Committee: Megan Higgins, Masters of Public Administration Candidate in the Department of Political Science. Graduate Faculty Representative, Oral Examinations for Ben Bolduc, Chemistry. 11/12/09 Graduate Committee: Lauren Hawthorne, Master s Candidate in the Department of Psychology. Professional Activities and Service Member, American Political Science Association Okin-Young Award Committee, Selected winner based on best paper published in feminist theory the previous year. Invited Panelist, The People Speak. Commentary for the MSU College Democrats in conjunction with the airing of Howard Zinn s film. April Panel Chair and Discussant, Critical Theory, at the annual meeting of the Western Political Science Association in Los Angeles, CA. March 30, Invited Speaker, Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Division of Nutrition, Physical Activity and Obesity Prevention, 2011 Montana Site visit. Bozeman, Montana, October 26, Presented talk entitled Humility and Autonomy in Birth and Beyond.

7 Reviewer. Comparative Philosophy (2013) Reviewer. Polity (2013) Reviewer. Canadian Journal of Political Science (2012) Reviewer. Politics & Gender (2012) Speaker, MSU Leadership Topics lunch. With Dr. Brian Duff. Can You Really Ban Smoking on Campus? Supported by the MSU Leadership Institute, the Department of Political Science, and KUSM PBS, presented in conjunction with the airing of Ken Burn s documentary, Prohibition. October 10, Member, the Western Political Science Association Committee on the Status of Women in the Profession Member, the Western Political Science Association Betty Nesvold Award Committee, to select the top paper on women and politics presented at the annual meeting of the WPSA. 2010, 2011 Moderator, Today s Scientific Leaders: Ways of Doing Science. Panel held on May 5, 2010, for the 4 th Annual NSF ADVANCEnetwork Conference. The Museum of the Rockies, Bozeman, Montana. Workshop Presenter, with Paul LaChapelle, Ethics in the Workplace. A presentation made to the professional and elected officials of Gallatin County, April 25, Chair, , Law and the Humanities Working Group. An interdisciplinary faculty and student forum funded by the Doreen B. Townsend Center for the Humanities at UC Berkeley. Editor, , Critical Sense. A journal of political and cultural theory published twice annually by graduate students at Berkeley. Professional Memberships American Political Science Association Western Political Science Association Association for Political Theory International Society for the Comparative Study of Chinese and Western Philosophy Popular/American Culture Association in the South Academic References Professor Linda Young, Department of Political Science, Montana State University ( ) Wilson Hall, PO Box , Bozeman, MT lmyoung@montana.edu Professor Leah Schmalzbauer, Department of Sociology, Montana State University ( ) Wilson Hall, Bozeman, MT schmalzb@montana.edu Professor Mark Bevir, Department of Political Science, UC Berkeley ( ) 210 Barrows Hall, Berkeley, CA mbevir@berkeley.edu

8 Professor David Gutterman, Department of Politics, Willamette University ( ) 900 State Street, Salem, OR