Nina Hagel DEPARTMENT OF POLITICS BATES COLLEGE Pettengill Hall, Lewiston, ME 04240 nhagel@bates.edu (207) 786-8215 ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS Bates College Assistant Professor of Politics, August 2019- Mellon Diversity and Faculty Renewal Postdoctoral Fellow in Politics, August 2018-July 2019 C3 Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in Politics, August 2016-July 2018 EDUCATION University of California, Berkeley Ph.D. in Political Science, August 2016 MA in Political Science, May 2009 Dissertation: Appeals to Authenticity: Discourses on the True Self and the Politics of Identity Construction Committee: Wendy Brown (chair), Sarah Song, Shannon Stimson, and Hans Sluga Subfields: Contemporary Political Theory, History of Political Thought, Comparative Politics Johns Hopkins University B.A. in Political Science, minor in the Writing Seminars, June 2006 Graduated Phi Beta Kappa with Departmental and University Honors PUBLICATIONS Alternative Authenticities: Thinking Transgender Without Essence, Theory & Event, Vol. 20, No. 3 (July 2017) Winner of the Susan Okin-Iris Young Award, American Political Science Association Truth, the Self, and Political Critique: Authenticity and radical politics in 1960s America, Polity, Vol. 49, No. 2 (April 2017) REVIEW ESSAYS AND REFERENCE ARTICLES On Shame and Shamelessness: Jill Locke s Democracy and the Death of Shame, Theory & Event, Vol. 20, No. 4 (Oct 2017) Authority, entry in Sage Encyclopedia of Political Theory, Ed. Mark Bevir (2010) MANUSCRIPTS IN PREPARATION Book Manuscript: Appeals to Authenticity: Sentiment and Subjectivity in Political Claims Making Authenticity in the Age of Post-Truth and Right Populism (in preparation) 1
FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS 2018 Susan Okin-Iris Young Award for the best article in feminist political theory, American Political Science Association 2018 Faculty Development Grant, Bates College 2017 Learning Associates Grant, Bates College 2016 Mark Rozance Memorial Dissertation Award, UC Berkeley 2016 Finalist, Society of Fellows, University of Chicago (Interview Declined) 2014 Finalist, Charlotte W. Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship 2013 Summer Language Training Grant, Department of Political Science, UC Berkeley 2013-2014 Dissertation Fellowship, Department of Political Science, UC Berkeley 2012-2013 Dean s Normative Time Fellowship, Graduate Division, UC Berkeley 2011 Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor Award, UC Berkeley 2010 Graduate Division Summer Grant, UC Berkeley 2009-2010 Regent s Intern Humanities Fellowship, Graduate Division, UC Berkeley 2009 Fellow, Rhetoric and Public Culture Summer Institute, Northwestern University 2009 Graduate Division Summer Grant, UC Berkeley 2008-2009 Regent s Intern Humanities Fellowship, Graduate Division, UC Berkeley 2006 Julius Turner Award for best senior thesis, Johns Hopkins University 2006 Phi Beta Kappa, Johns Hopkins University INVITED TALKS Truth, the Self, and Political Critique: Appeals to Authenticity in 1960s America Georgetown University Political Theory Speaker Series, Washington, DC, November 2017 CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS Papers Presented What s the harm in selling out? Authenticity and political notions of harm Conference on Philosophy and Social Science, Prague, Czech Republic, May 2018 Association for Political Theory, Philadelphia, PA, October 2018 Authenticity in the Age of Post-Truth and Right Populism, Western Political Science Association, San Francisco, CA, March 2018 Association for Political Theory, Ann Arbor, MI, October 2017 Authenticity, Right Populism, and Telling it Like it is American Political Science Association, San Francisco, CA, September 2017 Alternative Authenticities: Thinking Transgender Without Essence Conference on Philosophy and Social Science, Prague, Czech Republic, May 2017 Creating Connections Consortium Summit, Williamstown, MA, April 2017 Western Political Science Association, Vancouver, BC, April 2017 Telling it Like it Is: Authenticity in Civil-Rights Era Black Freedom Struggles Association for Political Theory, Columbus, OH, October 2016 American Political Science Association, Philadelphia, PA, September 2016 2
The True Self in the Sixties: A Retrospective on the Postwar Discourse on Authenticity Western Political Science Association, Las Vegas, NV, April 2015 Truth, the Self, and Political Critique: The New Left and Appeals to Authenticity Association for Political Theory, Madison, WI, October 2014 Disassembling the Self: Foucault s Critique of Authenticity Western Political Science Association, Seattle, WA, April 2014 UC Berkeley Political Theory Workshop, Berkeley, CA, April 2014 Truth and the Legal Subject: Foucault s Critique of the Subject Association for the Study of Law, Culture and the Humanities, Charlottesville, March 2014 Everything Becomes Factitious: Inauthenticity and Artificiality in Rousseau, Columbia University French Graduate Student Conference, New York, NY, February 2014 Productive Fictions: Revisiting Foucault s Critique of Authenticity. GCSC Conference, W(h)ither Identity? Giessen, Germany, January 2014 Inauthenticity as Inevitable/Impossible: Foucault on Power and the Self, American Political Science Association, Chicago, IL, August 2013 Becoming Alien to Oneself: The Problem of Inauthenticity in Rousseau. Western Political Science Association, Hollywood, CA, March 2013 Association for the Study of Law, Culture and the Humanities, London, UK, March 2013 Ethics, Historicism and the Work of Alisdair MacIntyre. UC Berkeley Political Theory Workshop, Berkeley, CA, November 2011 Discussant Postures of Citizenship American Political Science Association, Boston, MA, September 2018 This Text Which is Not One: Canon Formation and Feminist Interpretation Western Political Science Association, San Francisco, CA, April 2018 Democracy and the Death of Shame, by Jill Locke, Author Meets Critics Western Political Science Association, San Francisco, CA, April 2018 Cultural Formations of Neoliberalism American Political Science Association, Philadelphia PA, September 2016 Political and Moral Vision in the Thought of Sir Francis Bacon UC Berkeley Political Theory Workshop, Berkeley, CA, February 2012 Leo Strauss s Political Critique of Max Weber s Positivism UC Berkeley Political Theory Workshop, Berkeley, CA, September 2010 3
Panels Organized Foucault and Varieties of Subjectivation, Western Political Science Association, April 2014 Subjectivity as a Site of Politics, Western Political Science Association, March 2013 RESEARCH EXPERIENCE Research Assistant for Wendy Brown, January 2012 May 2016 Visiting Scholar, Religion and Politics Cluster of Excellence, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Fall 2013 Research Assistant for Mark Bevir, January 2010 - October 2011 TEACHING EXPERIENCE Lecturer, Bates College Western Political Thought Political Freedom The Politics of Authenticity Graduate Student Instructor, University of California, Berkeley The Politics of Authenticity (Primary Instructor) Nineteenth Century Political Philosophy (Acting Instructor) What is Political Freedom? Modern Political Theory Theories of Justice Classical Theories of Political Economy Supervisor, Undergraduate Independent Studies, University of California, Berkeley Heyes and the Normalized Body, Independent Study, Spring 2015 Rawls Contra Nozick, Independent Study, Spring 2011 Nietzsche s Amor Fati, Independent Study, Spring 2011 Professional Development in Teaching Certificate in Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, UC Berkeley, Spring 2015 AREAS OF TEACHING EXPERTISE History of Western Political Thought (Ancient, Early Modern and Renaissance, Modern) Contemporary Political Theory (Democratic Theory, Poststructuralism, and Identity Politics) Feminist and Queer Theory Classical Theories of Political Economy ACADEMIC SERVICE Service to the Profession Mentor, Mentoring Committee, Association for Political Theory, 2018 Member, Committee on Diversity and Inclusion, Association for Political Theory, 2016-present Member, Committee on Chairs and Discussants, Association for Political Theory, 2018 4
Member, Program Committee, Association for Political Theory, 2018 Manuscript reviewer for American Political Thought Service to Bates College Examiner for Senior Honors Theses in Politics and English Co-organizer, Conference on Gender in the Global South, Winter 2018 Coordinator, Bates, Bowdoin, Colby Faculty of Color Gathering, Fall 2017-present Coordinator, Faculty reading group on identity politics, Fall 2016 Service to UC Berkeley Coordinator, UC Berkeley Political Theory Workshop, Fall 2010 Fall 2012 Member, Women in Political Science, UC Berkeley, Fall 2008 Spring 2016 LANGUAGES German (conversation and reading) REFERENCES Wendy Brown Shannon Stimson Department of Political Science Department of Government University of California Berkeley Georgetown University Berkeley, CA 94704 Washington, DC 20057 510-642-4685 202-687-6130 wlbrown@berkeley.edu ss3491@georgetown.edu Sarah Song Stephen Engel Boalt Law School Department of Politics University of California Berkeley Bates College Berkeley, CA 94704 Lewiston, ME 04240 510-643-5637 207-786-8209 ssong@law.berkeley.edu sengel@bates.edu 5