Academic Positions Carolyn E. Holmes Curriculum Vita E-mail: carolyneholmes@gmail.com Homepage: http://carolyneholmes.wix.com/home 2015-2016 Visiting Assistant Professor of Political Science, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, Pennsylvania Summer 2015 Visiting Assistant Professor of International Relations, Webster University, Accra, Ghana Education: Ph.D.,, Bloomington 2007-2015 Department of Political Science Primary Field: Comparative Politics Secondary Field: Political Philosophy Minor: African Studies Dissertation Title: The Black and White Rainbow: Reconciliation, Opposition and Nation- Building in Democratic South Africa Abstract: South Africa is hailed as a success story in the field of transitional justice because of its largely peaceful transition away from apartheid. However, racialized conflict and negative racial attributions are now as significant, if not more so, than they were at the beginning of the transition. I argue that reconciliation and opposition are, in fact, intimately connected, and yet held in tension. Sustainable democracy is linked to the creation of communities of belonging that transcend the divides of the past and elide simplistic good/bad or perpetrator/victim narratives. Consequently, such communities help form a unified sense of peoplehood and create cross-cutting alliances that can sustain institutionalized democratic competition. The research draws from 12 months of immersive fieldwork in South Africa, including interview transcripts, newspaper coverage and ethnographic observations. B.A., Honors, DePauw University, Greencastle, IN 2002-2006 Political Science and African History Honors Thesis: Exploring the Disconnect: AIDS in South Africa in an Age of Information Research Interests: State Legitimacy; Southern Africa; Post-Conflict Reconciliation; Nationalism; Gender and Race Theories; Political Ethnography and Qualitative Methods; Nation Building 1
Peer Reviewed Publications: Forthcoming. Rich, Timothy S. and Carolyn E. Holmes. Winning Isn t Everything: Public Perceptions of Losers and Non-Voters in South Africa. Acta Politica. Holmes, Carolyn E. 2015. Marikana in Translation: Print Nationalism and Event Coverage in South Africa s Multilingual Press. African Affairs. 114(455): 271-294 Available: http://afraf.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2015/03/03/afraf.adv001.full.pdf+html Shoup, Brian D. and Carolyn E. Holmes. 2014. Recrafting the National Imaginary and the New Vanguardism. Democratization. 21(5): 958-978. Available: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/13510347.2013.777431#.u_4berywlto Holmes, Carolyn E. and Brian D. Shoup. 2013. Framing the Democratic Narrative: Local and National Voting Patterns in South Africa. Commonwealth and Comparative Politics 51(1): 56-75. Available: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/14662043.2013.752177#.u_4bjrywlto Book Chapters: Sawyer, Amos, Lauren M. MacLean and Carolyn E. Holmes. 2014. African Politics and the Future of Democracy. In Africa, edited by Maria Grotz-Ngate and Patrick O Meara, Bloomington: Press. 250-274. Invited Publications: Holmes, Carolyn E. 2015. The Qualitative Data Repository: The Opportunities and Challenges of Sharing Qualitative Field Data. African Politics Conference Group Newsletter 11(1): 10-11. Available: http://africanpoliticsgroup.org/wp/wpcontent/uploads/2015/03/apcg_newsletter11_1.pdf Holmes, Carolyn E. 2012. United in Diversity or Divided in Difference: Belonging and Opposition in Democratic South Africa. Southern African Peace and Security Studies 1(2): 4-19. Available: http://saccps.org/journal1-2.html Publications Under Review: Holmes, Carolyn E. and Melanie Loehwing Icons of the Old Regime: Challenging South African Public Memory Strategies in #RhodesMustFall. Banerjee, Vasabjit and Carolyn E. Holmes, Measuring Social Capital at the Intersection of Individuals and Society. 2
Grants, Fellowships and Awards: Carleton T. Hodge Prize for Excellence in African Studies, African Studies Program, 2014 Institute for International Education and Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Dissertation Fellowship for Overseas Study, 2012-2013 Institute for Qualitative and Multi-method Research Scholar, IQMR Consortium, June 13-24, 2011 Fulbright-Hays Graduate Program Abroad, Advanced Zulu Language, University of KwaZulu- Natal, Pietermaritzburg, Summer 2008 Dean s First Year Fellowship,, Bloomington, 2007-2008 Conference Participation: Presenter. We don t do politics. We are Activists : The Rejection of the Political and the Culture of South African Democracy Annual Meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, Illinois, April 2015. Presenter. Icons of the old regime: Negotiating collective memory through apartheid-era statuary in post-apartheid South Africa. Annual Meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, Illinois, April 2015. Discussant. Symbolism and Ideologies Panel, Annual Meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, Illinois, 2015. Presenter. Whence the Rainbow Nation : Democratic South Africa and the Body Politic in Debate. Annual Meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, Illinois, April 2014. Presenter. Marikana in Translation: Print Nationalism and Event Coverage in South Africa s Multilingual Press. Annual Meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, Illinois, April 2014. Presenter, Divided We Stand? Belonging in Democratic South Africa, Southern African Association for Political Studies, Port Elizabeth, Eastern Cape, August 2012. Presenter, Verified Virgins and Promised Purity: Abstinence Ceremonies and the Creation of Community and Value in the United States and South Africa, International Journal of Feminist Politics Annual Conference, Bloemfontein, Free State, August 2012. Presenter, Re-Crafting the National Imaginary and the New Vanguardism. Annual Meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, Illinois, April 2012. 3
Presenter, Framing the Democratic Narrative: Local and National Voting Patterns in South Africa, Annual Meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, IL 2011. Discussant, Nations and Nationalisms in the Modern World Panel, Annual Meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, IL 2010. Presenter, The Creation of Africa in Western Metaphor, Annual Meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, IL 2009 Discussant, Fight Against HIV/AIDS in Africa panel. Annual Meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, IL 2009 Courses Taught Comparative Politics, Undergraduate Course, POLS 205, Fall 2015, Bucknell University, Lewisburg PA (2 sections) Third World Politics, Undergraduate Course, POLS 211, Fall 2015, Bucknell University, Lewisburg PA Theory and Practice of Nationalism, Masters-level Course, INTL-5860, Summer 2015, Webster University, Accra, Ghana Research Methods, Masters-level Course, INTL-5100, Summer 2015, Webster University, Accra, Ghana The Politics of Gender and Sexuality, Undergraduate course, POLS Y-353, Summer 2014,, Bloomington Assistant Instructor to Dr. Judy Failer, Introduction to Political Theory, POLS Y-105, Fall 2011,, Bloomington Assistant Instructor to Dr. Bill Scheuerman, Introduction to Political Theory, POLS Y-105, Fall 2008,, Bloomington Other Academic/Research Experience: Lateral Coder and Country Expert for Southern Africa, V-Dem: Varieties of Democracy Project, Winter-Spring 2014 Research Assistant to Dr. Jean Robinson, Summer 2010-May 2012, June 2013-May 2015 Comparative Politics Editorial Assistant, Perspectives on Politics, a journal of the American Political Science Association, 2008-2010 4
Service: President of the Political Science Graduate Student Association, 2009-2010 Recipient, Political Science Graduate Student Association Leadership Award 2009-2010 Graduate Student Representative, Diversity Committee 2008-2009 Research Skills: Languages: isizulu - Advanced Written and Spoken Proficiency 8 semesters of classes and 12+ months of immersion experience Afrikaans - Intermediate Written and Spoken Proficiency 4 semesters of private tutoring, and 7+ months immersion experience Spanish - Intermediate Written and Spoken Proficiency 10 semesters of classes French - Basic Written and Spoken Proficiency 4 semesters of classes Data Analysis: Statistical Methods- OLS, MLE Programs: Stata, Excel Qualitative Methods and Field Ethics Training Programs: Atlas.ti Methodological Expertise: Interview Methods, Ethnography, Open-ended survey, Ordinary language interviewing, Discourse analysis 5
Professional References: Dr. Lauren Maclean Dr. Jean Robinson Associate Professor of Political Science Professor of Political Science Bloomington, IN 47405 Bloomington, IN 47405 812-855-6308 812-855-6308 Email: macleanl@indiana.edu Email: robinso@indiana.edu Dr. Alex Lichtenstein Associate Professor of History Bloomington, IN 47405 812-855-7581 Email: lichtens@indiana.edu If soliciting letters of reference, please contact: Chris McCann Department of Political Science Bloomington, IN 47405 812-855-6308 Email: cmccann@indiana.edu 6