Ashley E. Gorham 3440 Market Street, Suite 300 19104-3363 (781) 264-0485 agorham@sas.upenn.edu Education Expected May 2017 Ph.D., Political Science Dissertation: Information and Democracy: A Critical Reappraisal for the Internet Age. May 2015 December 2011 May 2008 M.A., Political Science 1 st field: Political Theory 2 nd field: Comparative Politics M.A., Government and Politics B.A., Politics (High Honors) Publications 2017 The Glory of Anonymous (Work in progress) 2016 Big Data and Democracy: Facts and Values PS: Political Science and Politics (In publication) 2016 The Political Meaning of Hacktivism. Limn 8. http://limn.it/thepolitical-meaning-of-hacktivism/. 2015 Does Information Want to be Free? Hacktivism and the Democratization of Information. The Journal of International Relations, Peace Studies and Development 1, no. 1. http://scholarworks.arcadia.edu/agsjournal/vol1/iss1/7. Academic Awards and Fellowships 2016-2017 Dissertation Research Fellowship 2015-2016 School of Arts and Sciences Dean s Award for Distinguished Teaching by a Graduate Student 2015-2016 Feirson Family Fellow 1
2014 President Gutmann Leadership Award 2009-2010 Government and Politics Graduate Fellowship 2008 John D. Lewis Memorial Prize 2008 Comfort Starr Prize Presentations February 2017 November 2016 September 2016 September 2016 March 2016 February 2015 November 2015 The Audacity of Anonymous Duke University Graduate Conference in Political Theory Freedom in Communicative Capitalism: The Case of Anonymous Crisis of Collectivity: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives in Political Theory Northwestern University Graduate Conference in Political Theory The Audacity of Anonymous (Poster) Great Transformations: Political Science and the Big Questions of Our Time Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association Digital Media, Networks, and Political Communication (DiMeNet) Research Group, Sandra González-Bailón Audacity: Democracy s Lost Virtue The National Capital Area Political Science Association Graduate Student Political Theory Conference The Catholic University of America, Washington D.C. PSCI182: Contemporary Political Thought, Nancy Hirschmann Information and Democracy: An Ambivalent Relationship Annual Meeting of the Northeastern Political Science Association Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 2
October 2015 October 2015 December 2014 August 2014 April 2014 February 2011 April 2011 Teaching Experience Fall 2015 Spring 2015 The Well-Informed Citizen: A Critique The Democracy, Citizenship, and Constitutionalism Graduate Workshop: Economics, Information and Democracy Big Data: Facts and Values MZES Conference, The Empiricist s Challenge: Asking Meaningful Questions in Political Science in the Age of Big Data University of Mannheim, Germany COMM213: Social Media and Social Life, Sandra González-Bailón Does Information Want to be Free? Hacktivism and the Democratization of Information (Poster) Politics After the Digital Revolution Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association Washington D.C. Does Information Want to be Free? Hacktivism and the Democratization of Information AGS Annual Graduate Student Conference Cyber-Developments in International Relations: Impacts on an Evolving World American Graduate School in Paris, France Understanding the Evil of Stalin. Georgetown University Graduate Student Conference Georgetown University Stalin: An Arendtian Interpretation. Annual Conference of the Midwest Political Science Association Chicago, Illinois PSCI181: Modern Political Thought, Ellen Kennedy PSCI182: Contemporary Political Thought, Nancy Hirschmann 3
Fall 2014 Spring 2013 Fall 2012 Spring 2012 Fall 2011 Spring 2011 Fall 2010 PSCI183: American Political Thought, Anne Norton Instructor PSCI181 601: Modern Political Thought PSCI181: Modern Political Thought, Anne Norton CPSP 119N: College Park Scholars First-Year Colloquium II, CPSP239N: Individual Practicum: International Studies, James Glass GVPT 241: The Study of Political Philosophy, Fred Alford CPSP118N: College Park Scholars First-Year Colloquium I, GVPT 200s: International Political Relations, Richard Boyd GVPT 241: The Study of Political Philosophy, Ian Ward CPSP 119N: College Park Scholars First-Year Colloquium II, CPSP239N: Individual Practicum: International Studies, James Glass GVPT 241: The Study of Political Philosophy, CPSP118N: College Park Scholars First-Year Colloquium I, GVPT 200s: International Political Relations, Richard Boyd GVPT 241: The Study of Political Philosophy, Fred Alford Service 2016-2017 Coordinator for the Guest Speaker Series in Political Theory 4
2016 Graduate Student Organization Co-Chair 2015-2016 Planning Committee Political Science Department s Graduate Student Conference State, Economy, and Inequality, February 19 2014-2015 Planning Committee Biocode: Performing Transgression after New Media, April 9-11 2010-2012 Political Theory Subfield Representative 2007 Student Senate 2006-2007 Judicial Board Other Professional Activities 2017 AALAC Workshop on Data Ethics Pomona College Claremont, CA February 10-11 2016 Hackademia: Empirical Studies in Computing Cultures Leuphana University Lüneburg, Germany August 28-September 2 2016 Commerce and Character Jack Miller Center Summer Institute August 2-12 2015 Summer Doctoral Programme at the Oxford Internet Institute The University of Oxford, July 6-17 Oxford, England July 6-17 2014- Member of the Media Activism Research Collective (MARC) 5