nicole sunday grove www.nsgrove.com nsgrove@hawaii.edu Academic Positions Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Hawai i at Manoa. August 2015 - * Affiliate Faculty, Hawai i Research Center for Futures Studies, UH Manoa. * Affiliate Faculty, International Cultural Studies Program, UH Manoa. Lecturer, Department of Political Science, University of Hawai i at Manoa, 2014-2015. Lecturer, Department of Ethnic Studies, University of Hawai i at Manoa, 2013. Education Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University, Political Science, May 2015. Exams: Major, International Relations; Minor, Political Theory. Dissertation: Gamers Hunters Provocateurs: Digital Mediations of Violence, Gender and Faith in the Arab World. Committee: Jane Bennett (Chair), Waleed Hazbun, P.J. Brendese, Clara Han, Bernadette Wegenstein. B.A. with Honors, New York University, 2008. Major: Politics; Minor: Economics. Research Interests politics of global communication; new media and digital technologies; human security; gender and sexuality; social media; critical GIS; gaming; algorithmic geopolitics; Middle East. Publications Monograph Gamers, Hunters, Provocateurs: Digital Mediations of Violence, Gender and Race in the Middle East. Under review. Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles Facebook Bras and #digitalharems: Fantasies of Mimesis and the Transgressions of Aliaa Elmahdy and Amina Sboui. Forthcoming in Globalizations, 2015. The Cartographic Ambiguities of HarassMap.com: Crowdmapping Security and Sexual Violence in Egypt. Security Dialogue, Special issue on Questioning security devices: Performativity, resistance, politics. Vol. 46, No. 4, 2015: 345-364. Peer-Reviewed Essays The Human Chain Is Not About Holding Hands. Journal of Critical Globalization Studies, Vol. 5, 2012, Imperialism, Finance, #Occupy.
Current Projects Get Your War On: Social Media, Competitive Recruitment, and the Open-Source ISIS Conflict. Article in progress. This article contextualizes ISIS s recruitment efforts and social media campaigns within a global milieu of recruitment for modes of non-state violent organizing, with an emphasis on US domestic militias, private contractors, and American partisans. #NSFW: Selfies and Sexual Labor in Contemporary US Military Cultures. Article in progress. This article explores the mobilization of patriotic female sexuality on image-based social networking platforms, and how these sites serve as important contact points between pornographic and US military cultures in the form of support and service for and by armed services personnel. Political Infections and Geopolitical Hygiene: The Epidemiological Modeling of Social Media as a U.S. Counterinsurgency Strategy. Article in progress. This article considers how public data generated in the Middle East on open forums is being used by U.S. intelligence communities for human social, cultural and behavioral modeling. In particular, I am interested in how the use of epidemiological modeling software to track the spread of particular ideas through digital media is modulating discourses from those of democracy, freedom, and equality in the Middle East toward discourses on global health security. Teaching Graduate Courses - Feminism After the Human (Spring 2016, UH Manoa [POLS/WS615]) - Scope and Methods of Political Science (Fall 2015, UH Manoa [POLS600]) Undergraduate Courses - Politics of Digital Labor (Spring 2016, UH Manoa [POLS341]) - Middle East Politics (Spring 2015, UH Manoa [POLS307f]) - U.S. Policy in the Middle East (Spring 2015, UH Manoa [POLS322]) - Global Politics (Spring 2015, UH Manoa [POLS305]) - Politics of Gender and Islam (Fall 2014, UH Manoa [POLS/WS384]) - Advanced Topics in Theory, Media and Method: Digital Politics in the Global South (Spring 2014, UH Manoa [POLS366]) - Introduction to Middle East Politics (Fall 2013, UH Manoa [ES455b]) Teaching Assistantships - Introduction to International Studies, Head Teaching Assistant for Siba Grovogui (Fall 2010, JHU [AS.190.225]) - Middle East Politics and History, Teaching Assistant for Waleed Hazbun (Fall 2009, JHU [AS. 190.311]) Invited Guest Lectures - Feminist Theory Graduate Seminar, Discussion of Terrorist Assemblages by Jasbir Puar (Spring 2014, UH Manoa [WS615]) - Middle East Politics, Lecture on Islam and politics (Spring 2014, UH Manoa [ES455b]) - Middle East Politics, Lecture on Edward Said and Orientalism (Spring 2013, UH Manoa [ES455b]) - The Politics of Migration, Lecture on technologies of border control in Israel (Intersession 2011, JHU [AS.191.201]) - Introduction to Comparative Politics, Lecture on Islam and democracy (Spring 2010, JHU [AS. 190.229]) - Advanced Readings in Middle East Politics and History, Lectures on Islam and democracy and media geographies in the MENA region (Spring 2008, JHU [AS.190.311]) Conference Presentations and Colloquia (upcoming) The ISIS Propaganda Machine in Context: The Politics of Recruitment on Social Media and the New Open Source Warfare. Presenting at the Annual International Studies Association Conference (Atlanta), March 19, 2016.
(upcoming) #NSFW: Selfies and Sexual Labor in Contemporary US Military Cultures. Presenting at the ISA Junior Scholars Symposium on Militarism and the Limits of Women s Empowerment in the Military. Annual International Studies Association Conference (Atlanta), March 16, 2016. (upcoming) Get Your War On: Social Media, Recruitment, and the Open-Source ISIS Conflict. Presenting at the SUNY Plattsburgh/Ball State University/Fulbright Canada/University of Hawai i at Manoa Colloquium (Honolulu), February 24, 2016. Get Your War On: Social Media, Competitive Recruitment, and the Open-Source ISIS Conflict. University of Hawai i at Manoa Department of Political Science Colloquium Series (Honolulu), November 6, 2015. Roundtable on Keyword: Gender. International Cultural Studies Program, University of Hawai i at Manoa (Honolulu), November 4, 2015. Theory of the Young-Girl at War: The Selfie and New Visual Cultures of Sexual Nationalism. Western Political Science Association Annual Conference (Las Vegas), April 3, 2015. Emerging Issues in LGBT Politics. Panel Discussant. Western Political Science Association Annual Conference (Las Vegas), April 2, 2015. The Cartographic Ambiguities of HarassMap: Crowdmapping Security and Sexual Violence in Egypt. University of Hawai i at Manoa Department of Political Science colloquium series (Honolulu), March 5, 2015. The Digital Cartographies of HarassMap.com. Annual International Studies Association Conference (New Orleans), February 21, 2015. The (Im)Possibility of Mediating the Arab Uprisings. University of Hawai i at Manoa Department of Ethnic Studies colloquium series (Honolulu), March 11, 2014. Kingdom of Games: The Digital Heterotopias of Saudi Women. University of Hawai i at Manoa Department of Women s Studies colloquium series (Honolulu), January 31, 2014. Kingdom of Games: The Digital Heterotopias of Saudi Women. CASAR Conference in Transnational America Studies, American University of Beirut (Lebanon), January 8, 2014. The Winter of Empire s Discontent: Rethinking Human Security in Tunisia and Egypt. Annual International Studies Association Conference (San Francisco), April 3, 2013. Guest Workers and the Politics of Movement in the UAE. International Studies Association Northeast Conference (Baltimore), October 3, 2009. From Slavery to Servitude: Racial Hierarchies, Immigration and the Politics of Movement in the Arab World. Racism, Immigration and Citizenship Conference at Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore), May 1, 2009. Space, Power and Identity in the United Arab Emirates. International Studies Association Northeast Conference (Baltimore), October 4, 2008. Conference Panels Convened (upcoming) Interfacing the International: Games, Crowds, and the New Politics of Participation. Annual International Studies Association Conference (Atlanta), March 19, 2016. Digital Technologies and Spaces of Control in Global Politics. Annual International Studies Association Conference (Toronto), March 28, 2014.
Grants, Fellowships and Awards THEORY Conference Pre-Phd Paper Award, 2015. THEORY section of the International Studies Association (ISA). International Studies Association (ISA) 2016 Travel Grant. Best Graduate Student Paper Award, 2015. Feminist Theory and Gender Studies (FTGS) section of the International Studies Association (ISA). Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR) 2014 Annual Dissertation Award. Honorable Mention. Awarded July 2015. American University of Beirut s Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Bin Abdulaziz Alsaud Center for American Studies and Research (CASAR) Travel Award, January 2014. International Studies Association 2013 Travel Grant, April 2013. Johns Hopkins University Department of Political Science Travel Award, Spring 2010. Johns Hopkins International Relations Fellowship, 2008-2014. Fellowships Under Review (submitted September 2015) New York University Abu Dhabi Institute Research Fellowship in the Humanities, 2016-2017. (submitted August 2015, passed first round of peer review) Fulbright Middle East and North Africa Regional Research Program, 2016-2017. Dissertation Committees Philip Reynolds, Political Science. Committee Member. Emily Pesicka, Political Science. Committee Member. Christina Akanoa, Political Science. Committee Member. Department Service Teaching Liaison Committee, Department of Political Science, University of Hawai i at Manoa. Fall 2015/Spring 2016. Independent Studies Supervised Fall 2015: Spencer Fong (UG, UH Manoa); Philip Reynolds (Graduate, UH Manoa); Emily Pesicka (Graduate, UH Manoa) University Service Written Communication Performance Standards Setting Session. University of Hawai i at Manoa General Education and Assessment Offices, November 20, 2015. Oral Communication Performance Standards Setting Sessions. University of Hawai i at Manoa General Education and Assessment Offices, August 13-14, 2015. Faculty Counsel to the Dean. SUNY Plattsburgh/Ball State University/Fulbright Canada/University of Hawai i at Manoa Colloquium on Confronting Terror in Canada and the United States: Domestic and International Dimensions. (Honolulu, February 24-26, 2016). Professional Service Peer Reviewing Palgrave Macmillan
Community Outreach Interviewed for the Center for Tomorrow s Leaders Fellows Program on gendered representations of women in media. Honolulu, HI. July 30, 2014. Professional Memberships International Studies Association, Member Middle East Studies Association, Member Fembot Collective, Member Languages Arabic, reading and speaking (intermediate); Spanish and French (basic knowledge) Additional Language Training International Language Institute (Modern Standard Arabic and Colloquial Egyptian), Cairo, Egypt, 2006. References Jane Bennett, Professor Department of Political Science, Johns Hopkins University (410) 516-5230 janebennett@jhu.edu Waleed Hazbun, Associate Professor Director, Center for Arab and Middle East Studies (CAMES) Associate Professor of International Relations Department of Political Science and Public Administration American University of Beirut wh20@aub.edu.lb Jonathan Goldberg-Hiller, Professor Department of Political Science, University of Hawai i at Manoa (808) 956-8563 hiller@hawaii.edu Kathy Ferguson, Professor Department of Political Science, University of Hawai i at Manoa (808) 956-6933 kferguso@hawaii.edu