Karen L. Shelby

Assistant Director, Women's History Museum and Educational Center, San Diego, California.
Visiting Scholar and Lecturer, Department of Political Science, University of California, San Diego.

Political Science Department, Rutgers University

Ph.D. completed, October 2004

		Dissertation:	Simone de Beauvoir's Theories of Freedom
		Committee:	Professor Mary Hawkesworth (Rutgers University), chair Professor Drucilla Cornell (Rutgers University) Professor Sonia Kruks (Oberlin College) Professor Linda Zerilli (Northwestern University)

Graduate Certificate in Women's Studies, June 1998
Ph.D. Qualifying Examinations Completed, November 1996
Master of Arts in Political Science, October 1996
Fields of Study: Women and Politics, Political Theory, and Comparative Politics

The University of Louisville

Bachelor of Arts, summa cum laude, with majors in Political Science and French, May 1993

		Honors thesis:	The Politics of French Feminism
		Thesis advisor:	Professor Mary Hawkesworth

L'Université Paul Valéry

Montpellier, France, 1991-1992

My research brings together women's political action and feminist political theory, linking politics and gender studies in regard to freedom, ethics, activism, substantive democracy and subjectivity.

• Introductions to "In France Today, One Can Kill With Impunity" and "Syria and its Captives."
  Simone de Beauvoir's Political Writings, ed. Margaret Simons, University of Illinois Press, forthcoming
• "Ethical Action and Responsibility: Simone de Beauvoir on the Algerian War."
  The Political Thinking of Simone de Beauvoir, ed. Pat Moynagh and Lori Marso, University of Illinois Press, Urbana and Chicago, 2006
• Review of Retrieving Experience: Subjectivity and Recognition in Feminist Politics by Sonia Kruks.
  Women and Politics v.25 n.3, Haworth Press, Binghamton, 2003
• "Beauvoir: la morale, l'action et la guerre d'Algérie."
  Cinquantenaire du Deuxième Sexe, ed. Christine Delphy and Sylvie Chaperon, Editions Syllepse, Paris, 2002

University of California, San Diego, Critical Gender Studies Program

• Lecturer, Ministry, Parity, Veils: The Politics of French Feminism, Fall 2006

University of California, San Diego, Department of Political Science

• Lecturer, Gender and Public Policy, Spring 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007
• Lecturer, Feminist Theory, Winter 2002; Fall 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006; Spring 2008
• Lecturer, Gender and Politics, Spring 2002; Winter 2008

San Diego State University, Department of Rhetoric and Writing Studies

• Lecturer, Composing Identities: In Search of Self, Other and Community, Fall 2006

San Diego State University, Department of Women's Studies

• Instructor, Sex, Power and Politics, Spring 2005, Summer 2005, Spring 2006

Harvard University, Committee on Degrees in Social Studies

• Teaching Assistant, Introduction to Social Studies, Fall 1998 - Spring 1999

Rutgers University, Political Science Department

• Instructor, Nature of Politics, Citizenship and Service Education (CASE) Program, Summer 1998
• Lecturer, Women and Public Policy, Spring 1997
• Instructor, Nature of Politics, Summer 1996
• Teaching Assistant, Introduction to American Government, Spring 1996
• Teaching Assistant, Nature of Politics, Fall 1995

Rutgers University, Department of English, Writing Program

• Instructor, Expository Writing, Fall 1997

University of Louisville

• Lecturer, Introduction to Comparative Politics, Summer 1994

• "Foreplay in the Garden of Eden: Seduction, Self-Knowledge and Doubled Woe,"
  Southern Polical Science Association Meeting, Atlanta, January, 2006 (with Philip Michelbach)
• "Intersubjectivity, Politics, Violence: Simone de Beauvoir and Colonialism,"
  American Polical Science Association Meeting, Chicago, September 2-5, 2004
• "Action's Inspiration: Collisions of the Particular and Universal in Beauvoir's Algerian War,"
  Western Political Science Association Meeting, Denver, March 27-30, 2003
• "Colonialism and Complicity: Beauvoir's Ethics and the Algerian War," Simone de Beauvoir Roundtable,
  American Political Science Association Meeting, Washington, D.C., August 31 - September 3, 2000
• "The Ethics of Ambiguity, Acting and Judging: Simone de Beauvoir and the Algerian War,"
  American Political Science Association Meeting, Atlanta, September 2-5, 1999 (View File [PDF])
• "'I am not a woman of action...': Simone de Beauvoir and the Algerian War,"
  Western Political Science Association Meeting, Seattle, March 25-27, 1998
• "Ethics and Politics: Simone de Beauvoir's Engagement with the Algerian War,"
  Cinquantenaire du Deuxième Sexe: Colloque International, Paris, January 19-23, 1999
• "Beauvoir and Boupacha: Ethics, Ambiguity, and the Algerian War,"
  Southern Political Science Association Meeting, Atlanta, October 28-31, 1998
• "Metaphorical Moments in Rousseau's Essay on the Origin of Languages,"
  American Political Science Association Meeting, Washington D.C., August 28-31, 1997
• "Locke and Language in the Essay Concerning Human Understanding,"
  Political Science Graduate Student Association Conference, Rutgers University, March 25, 1995

• Dissertation Fellowship, Rutgers University, 2000-2001
• Excellence Fellowship, Rutgers University, 1993-1997
• Eleanor O'Sullivan Award for the Outstanding Senior Woman in Political Science, May 1993, Department of Political Science, University of Louisville
• Phi Beta Kappa of Kentuckiana Award, 1993
• Sister Cities Scholarship for one year of study in Montpellier, France, 1991-1992
• Eleanor O'Sullivan Award for the Outstanding Junior Woman in Political Science, May 1991, Department of Political Science, University of Louisville
• National Merit Finalist, 1988

• Reviewer, Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society
• Guest Speaker, University of California, San Diego, Critical Gender Studies 87, October 3, 2005
• Participant, EMILY's List Political Opportunity Program, San Diego, CA, April 8-9, 2005
• Participant, "Women in Politics: Electing to Lead" Political Training Program, San Diego State University, San Diego, CA, March 17-19, 2005
• Invited Panel Chair, University of California, San Diego Graduate Student Conference, Spring 2004
• Coordinator, Guest Lecture co-sponsored by UCSD Political Science and Critical Gender Studies, by Michaele Ferguson, Assistant Professor, University of Colorado, Boulder, "What Can Multiculturalism Learn From Feminism?", April 23, 2003
• Panelist, Roundtable on Carole Pateman's The Sexual Contract, University of California, San Diego, March 1, 2001
• Guest Lecturer, Women's Studies, La Jolla Country Day School, February 1, 2001.
• Secretary, Graduate Women Scholars of Southern California (Scallops), Fall 2000 - Spring 2001
• Participant, "Frontiers of Women and Politics Research" Seminar for advanced graduate students, Women and Politics Institute, American University, September 2, 2000
• Reviewer, Political Research Quarterly
• Participant, "Frontiers of Women and Politics Research" Seminar for advanced graduate students, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, September 2, 1998
• Coordinator, Celebrating a Decade of Women and Politics Committee, Rutgers University, Spring 1998
• Treasurer, Graduate Student Association, Rutgers University, 1995-1996
• Steering Committee Member, Political Science Graduate Student Association, Rutgers University, 1994-1996

• Translated work by Simone de Beauvoir from French into English; substantial spoken fluency in French

• License to Freedom, General, Grant-writer, Member of El Cajon Refugee and Immigrant Women's Center Task Force, January 2005 - Fall 2006.
• Planned Parenthood of San Diego and Riverside Counties, Volunteer Reproductive Health Assistant, May 2003 - September 2003
• San Diego Public Library, North Park Branch Volunteer, March 2003 - August 2003
• Planned Parenthood of San Diego and Riverside Counties, Clinic Volunteer, March 2001 - January 2002
• Recording For the Blind and Dyslexic, Reader, May 1996 - August 1997