1 DRUSCILLA L. SCRIBNER Department of Political Science, University of Wisconsin Oshkosh 800 Algoma Blvd., Oshkosh, WI 54901-8673 (920) 424-0924 scribned@uwosh.edu ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS December 2011 Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Wisconsin Oshkosh, 2005- present EDUCATION Ph.D. Political Science, University of California San Diego 2004 M.Sc. Development Studies, London School of Economics 1994 B.A. Economics, University of California Santa Cruz 1992 B.A. Psychology, University of California Santa Cruz 1992 DOCTORAL DISSERTATION Limiting Presidential Power: Supreme Court Executive Relations in Argentina and Chile Dissertation Committee: Paul Drake (Chair), Gary Cox, Matthew Shugart, Harry Hirsch, and Carlos Waisman. University of California San Diego. TEACHING AND RESEARCH INTERESTS Comparative Politics, Gender and Politics, Comparative Law, Latin American Politics, Judicial Politics, Development, African Politics HONORS AND GRANTS College of Letters and Science, UWO Global Education Award 2011 Carrie Chapman Catt Prize for Research on Women and Politics 2010 National Science Foundation RUI/Collaborative Research 2009-2012 Small Grant (Grant Mentoring Project Mentor) UWO 2010 Small Grant (Grant Mentoring Project Mentee) UWO 2008 Small Grant (Scholarship of Teaching and Learning) UWO 2007 Small Grant (Short travel/research to support collaborative research) UWO 2007 Small Grant (Student/Faculty Collaborative Research) UWO 2006 Fulbright Dissertation Fellowship 2000-01 Boren Dissertation Fellowship 2000-01 Tinker Foundation Field Research Grant 1999 High Pass on Comparative Politics Comprehensive Ph.D. examination 1998 Distinction on Political Theory Comprehensive Ph.D. examination 1998 Teaching Assistance Excellence Award, UCSD 1997 Political Science Department Fellowship, UCSD 1996 College Honors Stevenson College, UCSC 1992 Highest Honors in the Major - Department of Economics, UCSC 1992 Honors in the Major - Department of Psychology, UCSC 1992
2 REFEREED JOURNAL ARTICLES The Judicialization of (Separation of Powers) Politics: Lessons from Chile Journal of Politics in Latin America, Vol. 2, No. 3 (2010): 71-97. Constitutionalizing Difference: A Comparative Analysis of Gender Provisions in Botswana and South Africa with Priscilla A. Lambert, Politics & Gender, Vol. 6 (2010): 37 61. A Politics of Difference versus a Politics of Equality: Do Constitutions Matter? with Priscilla A. Lambert, Comparative Politics, Vol. 41, No.3 (2009): 337-357. The Political Dynamics of Vehicle Emissions: A Constitutional Tale of Public Policy in Santiago Journal of Latin American Urban Studies, Vol. 8 (2007): 1-16. REFEREED CHAPTERS Distributing Political Power: The Chilean Constitutional Tribunal in Post-Authoritarian Chile (1990-2005) in Consequential Courts: New Judicial Roles in Global Perspective, Diana Kapiszewski, Gordon Silverstein, and Robert A. Kagan, Eds. Cambridge University Press (forthcoming). Courts, Power and Rights in Argentina and Chile in Courts in Latin America, Gretchen Helmke and Julio Ríos-Figueroa, Eds. New York: Cambridge University Press (2011). BOOK REVIEWS Judging Policy: Courts & Policy Reform in Democratic Brazil by Matthew Taylor in Bulletin of Latin American Research, Vol. 29 No, 2 (2010). Courts Under Constraints: Judges, Generals and Presidents in Argentina by Gretchen Helmke in Latin American Politics & Society. Vol. 49, No. 4 (2007). MANUSCRIPTS Women s Rights Litigation, Venue Choice and the Inter-American System (refereed chapter manuscript under review). The Domestic Politics of Supranational Human Rights Adjudication (with Tracy Slagter, refereed article manuscript under revision). EXTERNALLY FUNDED RESEARCH $312,412 National Science Foundation: Division of Social and Economic Sciences: RUI Collaborative Research: Gender and Constitutions A Comparative Analysis of the Effect of Gender Provisions 2009-2012 (No. 0920998-Scribner, $138,970 and No. 0920990- Lambert, $173,442). CONFERENCE PAPERS & INVITED PRESENTATIONS (2005-2011) Constitutional Provisions and Strategies for Achieving Gender Rights: Do Gender Provisions Make a Difference? with Priscilla Lambert. Prepared for Delivery at the Annual Meeting of the International Studies Association - Midwest, November 11-13, 2011, St. Louis, Missouri.
3 Strategic Litigation at the Inter-American Court Paper prepared for delivery at the 2011 Meeting of the International Political Science Association (RC 09: Comparative Judicial Studies Section). University of California at Irvine. July 21-23, 2011. Law, Politics, and Women s Equality: or Why Public Law Matters for Women delivered at the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh Women s Center. October 18, 2010. Constitutionalizing Gender Difference: Implications for the Southern Cone with Priscilla Lambert. Paper delivered at the Gender equality Policies Mini-Conference associated with the American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Washington DC. September 1, 2010. Constitutionalizing Gender Difference: Implications for Women s Rights Advocacy in the Southern Cone. Paper prepared for delivery at Laws Locations: Textures of Legality in Developing and Transitional Societies University of Wisconsin Law School, April 23-25, 2010. Domestic Institutions and Supranational Human Rights Adjudication: the ECHR and the IACHR Compared with Tracy Slagter. Paper prepared for delivery at the American Political Science Association Meeting, Toronto, Canada September 3-7, 2009. The Impact of Constitutional Provisions for Gender Equality: A Comparative Analysis with Priscilla Lambert. Paper prepared for delivery at the Law and Society Association Meeting, Denver, Colorado. May 28-31, 2009. Of Regional Court Systems: Europe and Latin America Round Table. Presentation given with Tracy Slagter at the Law and Society Association Meeting, Denver, Colorado. May 28-31, 2009. Courts, Power and Rights in Argentina and Chile Paper prepared for delivery at the Judicial Politics in Latin America Conference at CIDE, Mexico City, March 4-8, 2009. The Contribution of the Chilean Tribunal Constitucional to the Separation of Powers: Law vs. Decrees controversies and the relevance of irrelevant courts for democracy Invited presentation at The Dilemmas of Judicial Power: A Sawyer Seminar at the University of California, Berkeley (2007-2008) and November 2008 (previous draft presented February 2008). Gender Matters: A Case Study Analysis of Constitutional Provisions in Botswana and South Africa with Priscilla Lambert. Paper prepared for delivery at the American Political Science Association Meeting, Boston MA August 28-31, 2008. Gender Matters: A Case Study Analysis of Constitutional Provisions with Priscilla Lambert. Paper prepared for delivery at the Western Political Science Association Meeting, San Diego, California, March 20-22, 2008. Gender and Constitutions: Implications for Women's Empowerment with Priscilla Lambert. Paper prepared for delivery at the American Political Science Association Meeting, Chicago, Illinois ~ August 30 - September 2, 2007. Legislative Delegation and Presidential Power Constitutional Limits and Judicial Response in Chile and Argentina Prepared for delivery at the 65 th Annual Conference of the Midwest Political Science Association, Palmer House Hilton, Chicago, April 12-15, 2007.
4 A Politics of Equality vs. a Politics of Difference: Do Constitutions Matter? with Priscilla Lambert. Paper prepared for delivery at the Western Political Science Association Meeting, Riviera Hotel, Las Vegas, Nevada, March 8-10, 2007. The Dichotomous Dependent Variable ~ What s Gained, What s Lost: A Case Study of Supreme Court Decision-Making in Argentina Prepared for delivery at the 2006 Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, August 31 - September 4, 2006. Anticipating the Consequences of Court Rulings: The Politics of Presidential Decrees in Chile Prepared for delivery at the 64 th Annual Conference of the Midwest Political Science Association, Palmer House Hilton, Chicago, April 20-23 2006. Enforcing the Bounds of Presidential Power: The Contribution of the Chilean Tribunal Constitucional to Democratic Governance Prepared for delivery at the 2006 Meeting of the Latin American Studies Association, San Juan, Puerto Rico March 15-18, 2006. Political isolation and institutional stability implications for judicial decision-making on the Chilean Supreme Court Prepared for delivery at the 63 th Annual Conference of the Midwest Political Science Association, Palmer House Hilton, Chicago, April 7-9 2005. COURSES REGULARLY TAUGHT Introduction to Comparative Politics; Politics of Development; Latin American Politics; Latin America and International Relations; Women and Politics; and Comparative Constitutionalism/Law SPECIAL TOPICS AND PERIODIC COURSES African Politics; Global Rights and Remedies; Political Film; Senior Capstone Seminar; Honors Introduction to Comparative Politics; Comparative Genocide and Human Rights (Study Abroad Berlin); Rise and Fall of Fascism (Study-Abroad Madrid/Berlin); and Independent Study (various content) PROFESSIONAL SERVICE AND OTHER EXPERIENCE Member: American Political Science Association, Latin America Studies Association, Mid- West Political Science Association, Western Political Science Association, Law and Society Association. Reviewer: Journal of Politics, Comparative Political Studies, National Science Foundation, International Journal of Human Rights, Law and Society Review, Citizenship Studies, UWO-Oshkosh Scholar. Department of Political Science Committees: Recruitment Committee (2005-6, 2006-7, 2010-11, Chair of the IR search committee 2007), Curriculum Committee (2007-08; 2009-10); Budget Committee (2005-11), Library Liaison (2005-06), Grievance Committee (2006-07), PSSA and Pi Sigma Alpha faculty representative (2006-2010), Assistant Chair (2011-2012) College/University Service: International Studies Committee (2006-ongoing); Women Studies Steering Committee (2007-ongoing); COLS Program Review Committee (2008-2010); COLS Interdisciplinary Studies Committee, Chair (2010-2012); Latin American Area Studies Minor Coordinator (2008-2012); APGES (2010-2012); Fair Trade (2010-2011). Foreign Experience: Fieldwork: South America (1995-1996, 1999, 2000-2001, 2011). Lived, studied and worked in: Chile (1995-1996), England (1993-1994), Taiwan (1992-1993)
5 and Guatemala (1992, 1998). Traveled extensively in: Southeast Asia (1993), Europe and North Africa (1987, 1990, 1994), Central America (1992). Foreign Language: Spanish Fluency