Selected Presentations & Appearances
Talk at workshop; took part in meeting of collaborators about further grant submission.
Outreach & Engaged Scholarship
Primary Theme: Brain & Society
Physical activity and exercise have emerged as important factors associated with lower risks of cognitive decline in normal aging and neurodegenerative disease. Recent advances are providing clinical evidence for the efficacy of exercise in preserving brain function in humans and devising novel therapeutic strategies that include exercise for treating neurological conditions. However, despite evidence for sex differences in the effects of exercise on cognition and brain physiology, few studies have focused on the molecular and cellular mechanisms through which exercise differentially affects the male and female brain, and few exercise therapies have optimized programs for men and for women.
Service to the Profession
Papers Refereed ; International Feminist Journal of Politics, Focaal American Ethnologist Journal of Southeast Asian Studies International Feminist Journal of Politics Middle East Journal; JMEWS; others
Service to Duke
Social Science representative
Elected representative from Trinity.
Committee to evaluate range of certificates at Duke.
Helped organize annual queer theory lectures.
Elected representative for Social Science.
LGBT Faculty and Staff Task Force, 2007–2016;
Board member, Duke Human Rights Center, 2010-present;
Provost Standing Diversity Committee 2012-13;
Editorial Board, Social Science Magazine, 2008-2012;
Faculty Standing Diversity Committee, 2008 – 2014;
Global Health Arts & Science committee, 2008-2009;
Tenure committee, History Department, 2007
Duke University Scholarly Events Organizing
Organizer, “Counting Justice: The Social Matter of Statistics,” 2016-2017;
Panel Organizer, “Infrastructure of Global Cities”, Global Cities Conference, 2015;
Co-Organizer, “Science Studies as Area Studies” Lecture Series 2013-2014;
Organizer, Annual Queer Theory Lecture, 2010-2013; 2015-present;
Feminist Theory Workshop facilitator, 2010, 2011, 2014;
Organizer, Profiles in Sexuality Research Lecture Series, 2008-2012;
Organizer, Transnational Sexuality Studies Lecture Series, 2008-2009;
Panel Organizer, Franklin Humanities Institute, 2006, 2009; 2010;
Affiliated Faculty, Spaces of Freedom Seminar, 2006-07;
Organizer, Lectures in Sexuality Studies, 2006-2012;
Co-organizer, Conference on Ethnoporn, 2007
Academic & Administrative Activities
Social Science representative, Executive Committee of the Arts & Sciences Council, 2016-18;
Duke University Press Executive Advisory Board 2013-2018;
Dept Representative, Arts & Sciences Council, 2013-2015, 2011;
Provost Standing Diversity Committee 2012-13;
Editorial Board, Social Science Magazine, 2008-2012;
Faculty Standing Diversity Committee, 2008 – 2014;
Global Health Arts & Science committee, 2008-2009;
Tenure committee, History Department, 2007
Scholarly Events Organizing
Co-organizer, Transgender Studies & the Humanities, 2016-2017
Organizer, “Counting Justice: The Social Matter of Statistics,” 2016-2017;
Panel Organizer, “Infrastructure of Global Cities”, Global Cities Conference, 2015;
Co-Organizer, “Science Studies as Area Studies” Lecture Series 2013-2014;
Organizer, Annual Queer Theory Lecture, 2010-2013; 2015-present;
Feminist Theory Workshop facilitator, 2010, 2011, 2014, 2018
Organizer, Profiles in Sexuality Research Lecture Series, 2008-2012;
Organizer, Transnational Sexuality Studies Lecture Series, 2008-2009;
Panel Organizer, Franklin Humanities Institute, 2006, 2009; 2010;
Affiliated Faculty, Spaces of Freedom Seminar, 2006-07;
Organizer, Annual Queer Theory Lecture, 2006-2012; Co-organizer, 2015- present
Lectures in Sexuality Studies, 2006-2012;
Co-organizer, Conference on Ethnoporn, 2007