NICOLE SUNDAY GROVE DEPARTMENT OF POLITICAL SCIENCE UNIVERSITY OF HAWAIʻI AT MĀNOA 2424 MAILE WAY, ROOM 608 HONOLULU, HI 96822 808.956.6601 NSGROVE@HAWAII.EDU APPOINTMENTS Core Faculty, Arab Council for the Social Sciences (ACSS) Summer Institute on Critical Security Studies in the Arab Region (Beirut), July 2017, June 2018 (upcoming). Visiting Fulbright Scholar, Abu Dhabi University (UAE) and the University of Qatar, January-June 2017. Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, August 2015- Affiliate Faculty, Hawaiʻi Research Center for Futures Studies, UH Mānoa. Affiliate Faculty, International Cultural Studies Program, UH Mānoa. EDITORIAL POSITIONS Associate Editor, International Political Sociology, January 2017- EDUCATION Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University, Political Science, May 2015. Exams: Major, International Relations; Minor, Political Theory. B.A. with Honors, New York University, 2008. Major: Politics; Minor: Economics. PUBLICATIONS (forthcoming 2018) Zombie Doctors, Saw-Scaled Vipers, and Other Incipient Swarms: Reading Connolly in Dubai. In Contemporary Political Theory, Critical Exchange on William E. Connolly s Facing the Planetary: Entangled Humanism and the Politics of Swarming. (forthcoming 2018) Playing with the World: The Politics of Miniaturization in the Gulf. In Salter M. and S. Yao (eds.), How to do Popular Culture in International Relations. Routledge. Weapons of mass participation: Social media, violence entrepreneurs, and the politics of crowdfunding for war. European Journal of International Relations. December 2017. https://doi.org/10.1177/1354066117744867 Facebook Bras and #digitalharems: Fantasies of Mimesis and the Transgressions of Aliaa Elmahdy and Amina Sboui. Globalizations, Special issue on Insurrectional Politics. Vol. 12, No. 6, 2015: 943-956. Reprinted in Soguk, N. (ed.), Global Insurrectional Politics. Routledge, 2016. The Cartographic Ambiguities of HarassMap: 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. The Human Chain Is Not About Holding Hands. Journal of Critical Globalization Studies, Vol. 5, 2012: 129-131. 1
PROJECTS UNDER REVIEW Optics of Capture: Platform Desires in an Age of Intervention. Book proposal accepted, manuscript in preparation for submission to Duke UP. Towards a Beirut School of Critical Security Studies: A Manifesto. With O. Dahi, S. Abboud, W. Hazbun, C. Hindawi, and J. Mouawad. Under review, Critical Studies on Security (revise and resubmit 12/2017). IN PROGRESS Criminality, Simulation, and the Performative Politics of Policing in Dubai. Article in progress. Virtuous Control: Intellectual Security, Smart Games, and Countermeasure in the Making of a New Gulf. Article in progress. GRANTS, FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research Faculty Research Travel Award, March 2018. Arab Council for the Social Sciences (ACSS) Critical Security Studies in the Arab World Individual Research Grant, November 2017 (US$ 7036.00). Collaborator, Critical Security Studies in the Arab World Project. Funded by the Arab Council for the Social Sciences, 2016-2018. Fulbright Scholar Award, Middle East and North Africa Regional Research Program, 2016-2017 (US$ 86,312.00). American University of Beirut Center for Arab and Middle Eastern Studies (CAMES) Travel Award, April 2016. University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research Faculty Research Travel Award, March 2016. THEORY Conference Pre-Phd Paper Award, 2015. International Studies Association (ISA) THEORY Section. Best Graduate Student Paper Award, 2015. International Studies Association (ISA) Feminist Theory and Gender Studies (FTGS) Section. International Studies Association (ISA) 2016 Travel Grant. Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR) 2014 Annual Dissertation Award, Honorable Mention. American University of Beirut Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Bin Abdulaziz Al Saud 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. 2
INVITED PRESENTATIONS Invited Panelist. International Studies Association Theory Section s Distinguished Scholar Roundtable with Timothy Mitchell. International Studies Association Annual Conference (San Francisco), April 6, 2018. Invited Panelist. Author Meets Critics roundtable on William E. Connolly s Facing the Planetary: Entangled Humanism and the Politics of Swarming. Western Political Science Association Annual Meeting (San Francisco), March 31, 2018. Substrate and Saturation: Big Data, Beta Testing, and Emergent Security Ecologies in the Gulf. Invited Talk. University of Ottawa (Canada), March 7, 2018. Towards a Beirut School of Critical Security Studies. Invited panelist. Sponsored by the Villanova University Center for Arab and Islamic Studies and the Arab Council for the Social Sciences. Villanova University (Pennsylvania), November 17, 2017. Invited workshop on Militarization 2.0 s Days of Engagement: Policy, Practice, Research. Sponsored by the Militarization 2.0: Militarization s social media footprint through a gendered lens Vetenskapsrådet Framework Grant, Stockholm University (Sweden), October 25-27, 2017. Weapons of Mass Participation: Social Media, Radicalization, and the Politics of Crowdfunding for War in Iraq and Syria, Invited talk; Participatory Media and Emergent Infrastructures of Security and Surveillance in the Middle East, Invited roundtable, Lund University (Sweden), April 27, 2017. Invited workshop for the Critical Security Studies in the Arab World project, sponsored by the Arab Council for the Social Sciences (ACSS), Beirut (Lebanon), March 9, 2017. Speculative Notes for a Beirut Forum on Security Studies. Invited workshop on Critical Security Studies in the Arab World, sponsored by the Arab Council for the Social Sciences (ACSS) (Boston), November 14-15, 2016. Crowdfunding for War: Social Media, Radicalization, and the Global Organization of Violence in the Open- Source ISIS Conflict. Invited workshop on Data, People, Objects: The Security Governance and Infrastructures of Contemporary Mobilities, sponsored by the Canadian Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council. University of Quebec at Montreal (Canada), September 30-October 1, 2016. An Erotic Occupation. Invited talk, AUB Media Brown Bag Series. Co-sponsored by the Department of Media Studies and the Center for Arab and Middle Eastern Studies (CAMES), American University of Beirut (Lebanon), April 13, 2016. CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS AND COLLOQUIA Substrate and Saturation: Big Data, Beta Testing, and Emergent Security Ecologies in the Gulf. International Studies Association Annual Conference (San Francisco), April 7, 2018. Playing with the World: The Politics of Miniaturization in the Gulf. International Studies Association Annual Conference (San Francisco), April 5, 2018. Virtuous Control: Intellectual Security, Smart Games, and Countermeasure in the Making of a New Gulf. Western Political Science Association Annual Meeting (San Francisco), March 2018. Emergent Infrastructures of Security and Surveillance in the Middle East. Middle East Studies Association Annual Meeting (Washington D.C.), November 19, 2017. 3
Weapons of Mass Participation: Social media, violence entrepreneurs, and the politics of crowdfunding for war. University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa Department of Political Science Colloquium Series (Honolulu), October 6, 2017. Get Your War On: Social Media, Radicalization, and the Global Organization of Violence in the Open- Source ISIS Conflict. International Studies Association Annual Conference (Atlanta), March 19, 2016. #NSFW: Selfies and Sexual Labor in Contemporary US Military Cultures. Invited to present at the ISA Junior Scholars Symposium on Militarism and the Limits of Women s Empowerment in the Military. International Studies Association Annual Conference (Atlanta), March 16, 2016. Get Your War On: Social Media, Competitive Recruitment, and the Open-Source ISIS Conflict. Invited presentation, SUNY Plattsburgh/Ball State University/Fulbright Canada/University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa Colloquium (Honolulu), February 24, 2016. Get Your War On: Social Media, Competitive Recruitment, and the Open-Source ISIS Conflict. University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa Department of Political Science Colloquium Series (Honolulu), November 6, 2015. Invited Roundtable on Keyword: Gender. International Cultural Studies Program. University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa (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 Hawaiʻi at Mānoa Department of Political Science colloquium series (Honolulu), March 5, 2015. The Digital Cartographies of HarassMap.com. Annual International Studies Association Annual Conference (New Orleans), February 21, 2015. The (Im)Possibility of Mediating the Arab Uprisings. University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa Department of Ethnic Studies colloquium series (Honolulu), March 11, 2014. Kingdom of Games: The Digital Heterotopias of Saudi Women. University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa 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. International Studies Association Annual Conference (San Francisco), April 3, 2013. The Racialization of Labor and the Politics of Movement in the Gulf. International Studies Association Northeast Conference (Baltimore), October 3, 2009. The Racialization of Labor and the Politics of Movement in the Gulf. 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. 4
CONFERENCE PANELS CONVENED Teaching and Research and Community Panels, University of Hawaiʻi Political Science Inter-Campus Conference (Honolulu), October 15, 2016. 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. TEACHING GRADUATE COURSES, UH MĀNOA Advanced Topics in Methods: Researching Political Violence (Fall 2017). International Relations Seminar: Race, Violence and Global Politics (Fall 2016). Feminist Political Theory: Feminism After the Human. Cross-listed with the Department of Women s Studies (Spring 2016). Scope and Methods of Political Science (Fall 2015). UNDERGRADUATE COURSES, UH MĀNOA Global Politics/International Relations (Spring 2018). Media, Politics, and the Middle East (Fall 2017). Global Politics/International Relations (Fall 2016). Politics of Digital Labor (Spring 2016). Middle East Politics (Spring 2015). U.S. Policy in the Middle East (Spring 2015). Global Politics/Comparative (Spring 2015). Politics of Gender and Islam. Cross-listed with the Department of Women s Studies ((Fall 2014). Advanced Topics in Theory, Media & Method: Digital Politics and the Global South (Spring 2014). Introduction to Middle East Politics (Fall 2013). INDEPENDENT STUDIES SUPERVISED, UH MĀNOA Fall 2017: Che Silvert (UG); Zoe Vorsino (Graduate). Fall 2016: Ali Musleh (Graduate). Fall 2015: Spencer Fong (UG); Philip Reynolds (Graduate); Emily Pesicka (Graduate). ADVISING AND MENTORING SUCCESSFULLY DEFENDED DISSERTATIONS Philip Reynolds, Political Science. Doctoral Exam Committee (Fall 2015) and Dissertation Committee Member. Project title: The Ouroboros: The Effect of Irregular War on Great Powers. Defended May 11, 2017. 5
CURRENT ADVISING Amali Wedagedara, Political Science. Dissertation Committee Member (2017-). Project title: Indebtedness and Subjectivity: Microfinance Programmes in Sri Lanka. Anna Butchart, Political Science. Dissertation Committee Member (2017-). Project on international law and IUU fishing. J. Kawika Riley, Political Science. Doctoral Exam Committee (Spring 2017) and Dissertation Committee Member. Project title: When the Stars Aligned: Understanding the Peak Period of Native Hawaiian Congressional Policy Adoption, 1988-1994. Zoe Vorsino, Political Science. Doctoral Exam Committee (Fall 2016) and Dissertation Committee Member. Project title: Captured Affect: Technologically Mediated Affect in Systems of Control. Emily Pesicka, Political Science. Doctoral Exam Committee (Fall 2016) and Dissertation Committee Member. Project title: Changing Tides, Shifting Sails: How Climate Change is Transforming the U.S. Military. Ali Musleh, Political Science. Doctoral Exam Committee (Spring 2016) and Dissertation Committee Member. Project title: On the Posthuman Colony. Shane Strachan, Political Science. Dissertation Committee Member (2016-). Project title: What Global Factors Affect State Control of Religiosity? An Examination of the Communist Party of China and Its Changing Relationship with Falun Gong and Tibetan Buddhism (1949-2019). DEPARTMENT SERVICE Curriculum and Assessment Committee, Department of Political Science, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, Fall 2017-Spring 2018. Co-Chair, Curriculum and Assessment Committee, Department of Political Science, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, Fall 2016. Chair, Teaching Liaison Committee, Department of Political Science, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, Fall 2015-Spring 2016. Graduate Teaching Brown Bag Sessions Organized: Creating a Teaching Portfolio for the Academic Job Market (April 2016); Teaching Controversial Topics, with Charles Lawrence III and Michael J. Shapiro (October 2015); Maximizing Student Enrollment (September 2015). UNIVERSITY SERVICE Faculty Selection Committee for the Marshall Scholarship. University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa Scholarships and Fellowships Office, Spring 2018. Faculty Judge, Fall Undergraduate Showcase of Research and Creative Projects. University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa Honors Program, December 9, 2016. Faculty Counsel to the Dean. SUNY Plattsburgh/Ball State University/Fulbright Canada/University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa Colloquium on Confronting Terror in Canada and the United States: Domestic and International Dimensions (Honolulu), Fall 2015-Spring 2016. Written Communication Performance Standards Setting Session. University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa General Education and Assessment Offices, November 20, 2015. 6
Oral Communication Performance Standards Setting Sessions. University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa General Education and Assessment Offices, August 13-14, 2015. PROFESSIONAL SERVICE International Advisory Board, British Journal of Politics and International Relations, August 2017-Present. Faculty Judge, Mass Communications Section. United Arab Emirates 5th Annual Undergraduate Research Competition, May 8, 2017. Best Paper Prize Committee, International Studies Association (ISA) THEORY Section, 2017. PEER REVIEWING Palgrave Macmillan; Critical Studies on Security; Big Data and Society; International Feminist Journal of Politics; British Journal of Politics and International Relations; Australian Feminist Law Journal. PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT Innovative Teaching Methods Session, UH Mānoa Center for Teaching Excellence, July 11, 2017. Faculty Sponsored Study Tours (FaSST) Session, UH Mānoa Study Abroad Center, October 21, 2016. Teaching in Virtual Space Workshop, UH Mānoa Center for Teaching Excellence, September 20, 2016. Interdisciplinary Faculty Seminar on Race, Gender, and Culture. Bi-monthly interdisciplinary seminar for junior faculty at UH Mānoa led by Charles Lawrence III, Fall 2015 to Spring 2016. MEDIA INTERVIEWS AND PUBLIC OUTREACH Political science researcher studies politics of play in Middle East, wins Fulbright. Press release, University of Hawai i System News, December 13, 2017. Available at: http://www.hawaii.edu/news/2017/12/13/ grove-politics-of-play-in-middle-east-fullbright/ Podcast Interview with Can Mutlu for Security Dialogue on The Cartographic Ambiguities of Harassmap. August 2017. Available at: http://journals.sagepub.com/page/sdi/podcasts. Interview with Britta Collberg for Lund University Magazine, Frivilliga krigare mot IS en täckmantel för privat våld. April 20, 2017. Available at: http://www.lum.lu.se/frivilliga-krigare-mot-is-en-tackmantel-for-privat-vald Millennials and Digital Trends in the Middle East. Invited discussion with Juan Cole and José A. Fajardo at the Shangri La Center for Islamic Arts and Cultures (Honolulu), December 12, 2016. Invited Roundtable on Pressing Issues Facing the Muslim World Today. University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa event celebrating State of Hawaiʻi Islam Day (Honolulu), September 27, 2016. Featured on Island Connections Islam Day program and sponsored by the UH Mānoa Ethnic Studies Department, October 14, 2016. Interviewed for the Center for Tomorrow s Leaders Fellows Program on gendered representations of women in media (Honolulu), July 30, 2014. 7
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS -International Studies Association -Middle East Studies Association -Fembot Collective LANGUAGE TRAINING International Language Institute (Modern Standard Arabic I, II and Colloquial Egyptian), Cairo, Egypt, 2006. REFERENCES Jane Bennett, Professor Department of Political Science, Johns Hopkins University (410) 516-5230 janebennett@jhu.edu Mark Salter, Professor Department of Political Studies, University of Ottawa (613) 562-5800 mark.salter@uottawa.ca Waleed Hazbun, Associate Professor Associate Professor of International Relations, American University of Beirut wh20@aub.edu.lb Other references available upon request. 8