KATHLEEN TIPLER Department of Political Science University of Oklahoma 600 Parrington Oval, Norman, OK 73109 ktipler@ou.edu ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS Assistant Professor, 2015 present. Department of Political Science, University of Oklahoma. Visiting Assistant Professor, 2014 2015. Department of Politics and International Affairs, Wake Forest University. EDUCATION Arthur Vining Davis Foundations Postdoctoral Fellow, July 2011- June 2014. Center for the Study of American Democracy, Kenyon College. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Ph.D., Political Science, May 2012. Pomona College. B.A., History, with Distinction, May 2002. INTERESTS Law: American constitutional politics; legal mobilization; legal consciousness; philosophy of law. Theory: democratic theory; theories of representation; liberalism; American political thought. PUBLICATIONS and WORKS in PROGRESS Book manuscript: Absent Voices: Courts as Democratic Representatives. Articles: The Contours of Presidential Immunity. Forthcoming June 2019. Presidential Studies Quarterly. 49(2). Reflexivity, Participatory Art, and the Failures of Monist Representation. With Christina Chang. 2017. Space and Polity 21 (1): 75-91. Republished as a chapter in Digesting the Public Sphere, ed. Sarah Marusek. 2017. Routledge. The Obama Administration s Non-Defense of DOMA and Executive Duty to Represent. 2013. Maryland Law Review. 73 (1): 287-312. Other publications: Review: Politics Against Domination by Ian Shapiro. 2017. Political Science Quarterly. 132(2): 356-358. Review: Counting the Many: Origins and Limits of Supermajority Rule by Melissa Schwartzberg. 2015. Contemporary Political Theory. 15 (1): e5-e7.
Tipler/ Curriculum Vitae 2 (5) INS v. Chadha in American Governance. 2016. Macmillan Reference USA. Eds. Schechter, Birkland, Graber, Lutz, Patrick, and Vontz. Peer reviewed. U.S. v. Morrison in American Governance. 2016. Macmillan Reference USA. Eds. Schechter, Birkland, Graber, Lutz, Patrick, and Vontz. Peer reviewed. Article-length manuscripts in progress: Rights Education and Undocumented Immigrants. With Alice Gates. Under review after revise and resubmit. How Direct Democracy Might Legitimize Controversial Decisions: An Experiment with Confederate War Memorial Removals. With Tyler Johnson and Tyler Camarillo. Under review. Backlash!: Consensus, Conflict, and the Backlash Narrative in New Right Politics. Article manuscript in progress. "The Marriage Contract and the Promising Citizen." Article manuscript in progress. CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS Paper, The Contours of Presidential Immunity, Democratic Legitimacy, and the Separation of Powers. Lincoln Symposium, Philadelphia, PA, August 2018. (Invited presentation.) Paper, Absent Voices: Democratic Politics, the American Judiciary, and Access to Courts. Western Political Science Association Annual Meeting, San Francisco, March 2018. Paper, Backlash as Narrative. Association for Political Theory Conference, Ann Arbor, October 2017. Paper, Reflexivity, Democracy, and the Courts, Western Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Vancouver, April 2017. Paper, Reflexive Transformations: Confronting Contingency and Complexity, with Jack Amoureux, Western Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Vancouver, April 2017. Paper, A Critical Exploration of Rights Education with Unauthorized Immigrants in the U.S. Presented by Alice Gates. International Society of Public Law (ICON-S) Annual Meeting, Berlin, June 2016. Paper, Crises of Monist Representation in Politics and Art. With Christina Chang. Midwest Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, April 2016. Paper, Reflexive Public Spaces and Social Practice Art. With Christina Chang. Western Political Science Association Annual Meeting, San Diego, March 2016. Paper, Deported with Dignity: Undocumented Immigrants and the Limits of Legal Consciousness. With Alice Gates. Western Political Science Association Annual Meeting, San Diego, March 2016. Paper accepted, Backlash as Narrative. Southern Political Science Association Annual Meeting, San Juan, January 2016. Paper, Should State Attorneys General Defend Unconstitutional Laws? Attorneys General as Political Representatives. Western Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, March 2015. Paper (with Alice Gates), Deported with Dignity: Risks of Top-Down Rights Education, Western Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Hollywood, CA, March 2013. Paper, Executive Non-defense, DOMA, and the Constitutional Duty to Represent, the Maryland Discussion Group on Constitutionalism: Executive Power, University of Maryland School of Law, February 2013. (Invited presentation.) Paper, A Judgment-Based Model of Democratic Institutions, Western Political Science Association Annual Meeting, San Antonio, TX, April 2011. Paper, Reflexive Representation: A Democratic Interpretation of the Supreme Court, Midwest Political
Tipler/ Curriculum Vitae 3 (5) Science Association Annual Conference, Chicago, IL, April 2010. Paper, Citizens, the Court, and Reflexive Representation, Western Political Science Association Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA, April 2010. Paper, The Court as Representative: The Court, Representation, and Temporality, Midwest Political Science Association Annual Conference, Chicago, IL, April 2009. FELLOWSHIPS and AWARDS OU Humanities Forum Book Manuscript Development Workshop, 2018. Institute for Human Flourishing Course Development Grant, 2017. Risser Innovative Teaching Fellows Grant, 2017. John Adams Summer Legal Scholars Award (undergraduate collaboration), Summer 2014. Rackham One-Term Dissertation Fellowship, Winter 2011. Rackham Research Collaboration Grant with Julia Paley, Summer-Fall 2010. Alfred Meyer Family Summer Research Grant, Summer 2010. Rackham Research Collaboration Grant with Mariah Zeisberg, Summer 2008. Departmental Fellowship, University of Michigan, 2005-6. John H. Kemble Senior Thesis Award in History, Pomona College, 2002. CLASSES TAUGHT American Constitutional Law I: Governance (University of Oklahoma, undergraduate) Law, Politics, and Society (University of Oklahoma, undergraduate) Sexuality, Gender, and the Law (University of Oklahoma, undergraduate) Justice, Liberty, and the Good Society (University of Oklahoma, undergraduate) The Idea of a Liberal Society (University of Oklahoma, undergraduate) Survey of the Discipline (University of Oklahoma, graduate) Identity and American Political Thought (University of Oklahoma, graduate independent study) American Federal Government (University of Oklahoma, undergraduate) American Government and Politics (Wake Forest University, undergraduate) American Constitutional Law I: Federalism & Separation of Powers (Wake Forest, undergraduate) American Constitutional Law II: Civil Rights and Civil Liberties (Wake Forest, undergraduate) Quest for Justice I and II (Kenyon College, two-semester seminar in political theory, undergraduate) Introduction to Political Theory (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, undergraduate) SERVICE Departmental and University Service Member, Ewing Award Committee, University of Oklahoma, 2015-present. Member, Graduate Studies Committee, University of Oklahoma, 2015-present. Member, American Politics Field Committee, University of Oklahoma, 2015-present. Member, Political Science Scholarship Committee, 2018-present. Member, Institute of Constitutional Heritage s Society of Fellows Selection Committee, 2018-present. Dissertation Committee Member, Jordan Jones (University of Oklahoma, Political Science, 2017- present), Elahe Khalili Samani (University of Oklahoma, Mathematics, 2017-2018). Moderator, Fascism, America, and Human Rights Symposium, University of Oklahoma, November 2018. Practice judge, Mock Trial for University of Oklahoma College of Law, January 2018.
Tipler/ Curriculum Vitae 4 (5) Member, Provost Dissertation Award Nomination Committee, January 2018. Lunch N Learn Guest Speaker, University of Oklahoma, March 30, 2017 and March 30, 2016. Panel organizer, Citizens Shaping the Constitution: with Ellen Gerber and Janet Joyner, Wake Forest University, Constitution Day, September 2014. Conference co-organizer, The Politics of Economic Inequality, The Biennial Conference of Kenyon College s Center for the Study of American Democracy, Gambier, OH, April 9-11, 2014. Panel organizer and discussant, Immigration and Immigration Reform, Kenyon College, February 2014. Panel organizer and discussant, Same-Sex Marriage and the Court: Implications of United States v. Windsor and Hollingsworth v. Perry, Kenyon College, December 2013. Lecture and discussion co-organizer, Global Women s Health Initiatives: A Conversation with Lois Quam, Kenyon College, October 2013. Member, Women s and Gender Studies Advisory Board, Kenyon College, 2012-2014. Member, Kenyon Community Development Fund Committee, Kenyon College, 2012-2013. Member, Hatcher Prize Committee, Kenyon College, Spring 2013. Conference co-organizer, Should America Promote Democracy Abroad? The Biennial Conference of Kenyon College s Center for the Study of American Democracy, Gambier, OH, April 12-14, 2012. Panel organizer and chair, Occupy Wall Street and the Tea Party, Kenyon College, January 2012. Professional Service Manuscript Reviewer, Law & Society Review, American Political Science Review, Politics. Textbook Reviewer, American Government: Power and Purpose, 13 th and By the People, 2 nd. Discussant, Doing Democracy, Association for Political Theory Annual Meeting, Haverford/ Bryn Mawr, October 2018. Chair, The Quest for Justice in the Justice System. Western Political Science Association Annual Meeting, San Francisco, March 2018. Chair, Autonomy, Dignity, and Liberal Theory. Western Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Vancouver, April 2017. Discussant, Hannah Arendt and the Political Realists. Midwest Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, April 2016. Discussant and chair, The Courts, the Media and Public Opinion, Western Political Science Association Annual Meeting, San Diego, March 2016. Chair, Disobedience, Revolution and Zealotry, Western Political Science Association Annual Meeting, San Diego, March 2016. Discussant, Welfare, Resentment, and the Construction of the Democratic Citizen, Western Political Science Association Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA, April 2010. Discussant, Politics Beyond the Limits of Reason Alone, Midwest Political Science Association Annual National Conference, Chicago, IL, April 2009. Invited Talks Guest speaker, When Fundamental Values Conflict: Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado. Constitutional Studies Student Association, University of Oklahoma, March 2018. Panelist, Fascism. Informed Citizen Discussion Group, University of Oklahoma, April 2017. Panelist, President-Elect Trump, the Constitution, and the Supreme Court. University of Oklahoma, December 2016. Panelist, DeepSouth screening, Human Rights Watch Film Festival, Kenyon College, 2014. Panelist, Equality for All: The Declaration of Independence and Martin Luther King, Jr., Kenyon College, January 2014. Guest speaker, United States v. Windsor, seminar, Kenyon College, November 2013.
Tipler/ Curriculum Vitae 5 (5) PROFESSIONAL SEMINARS and TRAINING Participant, Reacting to the Past, Annual Institute at Barnard College for training in leading complex student simulations, June 8-11, 2017. 12-week New Faculty Seminar Series, University of Oklahoma, Fall 2015. Workshop participant, Liberty and Enterprise: The American Founding and the Birth of the Modern Commercial Republic, Summer Institute for Junior Faculty sponsored by the Jack Miller Center and the University of Virginia s Center for American Democracy and Constitutionalism, July 9-18, 2013. Workshop participant, "Assessing the U.S. Constitution: Twenty-First-Century Responses to Eighteenth- Century Assumptions, Interdisciplinary Summer Workshop for Junior Faculty, Institute for Constitutional Studies and Stanford Constitutional Law Center, July 2012. Seminar participant, Kenyon College Interdisciplinary Summer Faculty Seminar, The Meaning and Significance of Connection to Place, Gambier, OH, May 2012.