EDUCATION
PhD, 2013 Emory University, Atlanta GA Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Advisor: Rosemarie Garland-Thomson Dissertation: “ ‘After These Horrendous Crimes, that Creature Forfeits his Rights’: The Sexually Violent Offender as Exceptional Criminal.” BA, 2004 Yale University, New Haven CT Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, with distinction Advisors: Stephen Davis (Religious Studies), Vron Ware (Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies) Senior Essay: “Desireless Bodies, Performative Texts: The Construction of Modern Gendered Bodies in Histories of Celibacy and Self-Starvation.”RESEARCH INTERESTS AND TEACHING COMPETENCIES
Critical Making, Feminist and Queer Theories, Sexuality, Feminist Science and Technology Studies, Disability Studies, Cultural Studies
PUBLICATIONS
Cipolla, Cyd. “Build it Better: Tinkering in Feminist Maker Pedagogy” Women’s Studies 48, no. (2019): 261-282.
Cipolla, Cyd, David Rubin, Kristina Gupta and Angela Willey (eds). Queer Feminist Science Studies: A Reader. University of Washington Press, 2017.
Cipolla, Cyd and Kristina Gupta. “Neurogenderings and Neuroethics” in The Routledge Handbook of Neuroethics. L. Syd M. Johnson and Karen Rommelfanger, eds. NY: Routledge, 2018.
Review of Strangers in our Midst: Sexual Deviancy in Postwar Ontario by Elise Chenier, Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences 48, no. 2 (2012) 178-180.
“‘Preventative Corrections’: Psychiatric Representation and the Classification of Sexually Violent Predators,” Journal of Medical Humanities 32, no. 2 (2011): 103-113.
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS AND INVITED TALKS
“Rape, Robot: Sexuality, Consent, and the Raced-Gendering of ‘Artificial’ Bodies,” National Women’s Studies Association Annual Conference: Baltimore, MD, November 2017 (accepted).
“Build it Better: Towards a Feminist Maker Pedagogy,” National Women’s Studies Association Annual Conference: Montreal, Canada, November 2016.
Roundtable. “Queer Feminist Science Studies, Postcolonial Critique, and Decolonial Imaginaries,” National Women’s Studies Association Annual Conference: Montreal, Canada, November 2016.
“Precarity, Evidence, and the Demand for Protection,” National Women’s Studies Association Annual Conference: Madison, WI, November 2015 .
“The ‘Godzilla Defense’: Mental Illness, Mental Abnormality, and the Washington Community Protection Act of 1990.” Richardson History of Psychiatry Seminar, Weill Cornell Medical College: New York, NY, April 2015.
Roundtable: “Queer Feminist Science Studies.” National Women’s Studies Association Annual Conference: San Juan, Puerto Rico, November 2014.
“Community Protection: Controlling [Dangerous] Sexuality.” Society for Social Studies of Science (4S) Annual Meeting: San Diego,CA, October 2013.
“The Most Vile Example: Framing the Sexual Predator in the United States.” Law and Society Association Annual Conference: Boston, MA, May 2013.
Facilitating Notetaker, Use and Abuse of Neuroimaging in the Courtroom: A Multidisciplinary Consensus Conference on Ethical Issues in Neuroimaging, Emory University: Atlanta, GA, December 2012.
Roundable: “Decolonizing the Master Scientist’s Tools: Teaching Feminist Science to Feminists, Scientists, and Feminist Scientists.” National Women’s Studies Association Annual Conference. Oakland, CA, November 2012.
Roundtable: “Teaching Gender and Sexuality: Reflections and Notes from the Professor’s Desk.” Intersections: An Interdisciplinary Conference on Gender and Sexuality, Georgia Gwinnett College: Atlanta, GA, April 2012.
“Feminism and the Representation of Sexually Dangerous Persons.” National Women’s Studies Association Annual Conference. Atlanta, GA, November 2011.
“‘That Creature Forfeits His Rights!’: Metaphor and the Dehumanization of Sexual Criminals.” Re-Thinking the Monstrous: Violence and Criminality in Society. Ludwig-Maximilian University: Munich, Germany, July 2011.
“The Violent Sex Offender as Exceptional Criminal.” Research Colloquium. Goethe-University: Frankfurt, Germany, May 2011.
“Neither Criminal nor Therapeutic: the Classification of Sexually Violent Predators.” Southern Regional Conference for the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine. Auburn University: Auburn, AL, April 2011.
“Sexual Predator Statutes and Community Protection, or, When Preventive Detention Isn’t Preventive Detention.” Southeastern Women’s Studies Conference. Georgia State University: Atlanta, GA, March 2011.
“They Look Like Us: The (In)Visability of Sexual Deviance.” Queer Studies Annual Conference. University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA): Los Angeles, CA, October 2010.
“It’s Written All Over Their Faces: Links Between the ‘Immoral’ and the ‘Abnormal.’” Society for Disability Studies Conference. Temple University: Philadelphia, PA, June 2010.
APPOINTMENTS, FELLOWSHIPS, AWARDS, AND GRANTS
Dean’s Award for Excellence in Teaching, Gallatin School of Individualized Study, NYU 2022-2023
Teaching with Technology Grant, Gallatin School of Individualized Study, NYU 2016-2017
Adviser of Distinction, Gallatin School of Individualized Study, NYU 2015-2016
Visiting Fellow, Dewitt Wallace Institute of the History of Psychiatry, Weill Cornell Medical College, 2013-2018
Mellon/American Council of Learned Societies Dissertation Completion Fellowship, 2012-2013
Dissertation Fellowship, Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation, 2012-2013 (declined).
Dean’s Teaching Fellowship, Laney Graduate School, Emory University, 2012-2013 (declined).
Fellow, Neuroethics Scholars Program, Center for Ethics, Emory University, 2011-2012.
Visiting Scholar, IPP Transnational: Gender, Democracy, and Knowledge in a Transnational World; Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany; Spring – Summer 2011.
Arts and Sciences Fellowship, Laney Graduate School, Emory University, 2007-2012.
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