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Ph.D. Rutgers University,
2001
M.A. Rutgers University, 1997
B.A. University of Virginia, 1991 |
Jepson Hall, Room 129
University of Richmond, VA 23173
Phone (804) 287-6353
kzivi@richmond.edu |
A political scientist whose
interests lie in modern political theory and gender
studies, Karen Zivi joined the Jepson School faculty in
2006. Before her appointment at the University of
Richmond, Dr. Zivi taught and lectured first at Harvard
University, then at the University of Southern
California.
She has written
and spoken
widely on questions of
rights, identity, and
public policy, focusing specific attention on the issue
of gender and HIV/AIDS. Zivi’s
forthcoming book, Making Rights Claims,
examines the relationship
between rights claims and democratic politics in a
global perspective. Her research has
appeared in several journals, including Politics &
Gender, American Journal of Political Science, and
Feminist Studies, and
her work on rights,
compassion and AIDS appears in the newly
published collection, W Stands for
Women: How the Bush
Presidency Shaped a New Politics of
Gender. In
recent years, Zivi has been invited to present her
research on rights at UVa, UCLA, and the University of
Texas- San Antonio, and she discussed her new
research on the relationship between democratic theory
and leadership studies at the 2007 International
Leadership Association Meeting.
She has been involved in service learning approaches to
teaching for some time and teaches Justice and Civil
Society, a required course for all majors and minors. She focuses her teaching on
courses that explore political thought and gender
politics and she is developing new courses that explore
leadership and power through the lens of gender. She has
a fresh perspective on the role of leadership in the
changing modern world, one altered by the achievements
of feminism and affected by the detriments of the AIDS
epidemic.
Since coming to the university, she
has been involved with activities at the Center for
Civic Engagement, WGSS/ WILL, the Department of
Political Science and the University of Richmond Law
School. She also participated in a
year-long Teagle Seminar on the Pedagogy of Belief and
Doubt.
Courses and Syllabi
Publications
Books
Making Rights Claims, in preparation.
Peer-Review Journal Articles
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“Cultivating Character: John
Stuart Mill and the Subject of Rights,” American
Journal of Political Science, 50(1), 2006:
49-61.
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“Feminism and the Politics of
Rights: A Qualified Defense of Identity-Based Rights
Claiming,” Politics & Gender, 1(3), 2005:
377-397.
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“Contesting Motherhood in the
Age of AIDS: Maternal Ideology in the Debate over
Mandatory HIV Testing,” Feminist Studies
31(2), 2005: 347-374.
Book Chapters
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“Rights and the Politics of
Performativity,” in Precarious Politics: Critical
Encounters with Judith Butler, Sam Chambers and
Terrell Carver, eds., New York: Routledge,
forthcoming.
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“The Politics of Compassion in
the Age of AIDS,” in W Stands for Women: How the
Bush Presidency Shaped a New Politics of Gender,
Michaele Ferguson and Lori Marso, eds., Durham, NC:
Duke University Press, 2007. (Referred Volume)
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“Constituting the ‘Clean and
Proper’ Body: Convergences between Abjection and
AIDS,” in Gendered Epidemic: Representations of
Women in the Age of AIDS, Nancy Roth and Katie
Hogan, eds., New York: Routledge, 1998: 33-62.
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“Examining Pedagogy in the
Service-Learning Classroom: Reflections on
Integrating Service into the Curriculum,” in
Experiencing Citizenship: Concepts and Models for
Service Learning in Political Science, William
Hudson and Richard Battistoni, eds., Washington DC:
American Association of Higher Education, 1997:
49-67.
Selected Presentations
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“Leadership and Democracy: The
Place of Conflict and Contingency,” International
Leadership Studies Association Meeting, November
2007.
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“The Politics of Compassion in
the Age of AIDS,” Roundtable on W Stands for Women:
How the George W. Bush Presidency Shaped a New
Politics of Gender, American Political Science
Association Meeting, August, 2007.
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“The Paradox of Rights and the
Politics of Performativity,” Jepson Faculty Research
Seminar, March 2007.
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“Rights and the Politics of
Performativity,” American Political Science
Association Meeting, August 2006. (Nominated by the
Foundations of Political Theory Section of the
American Political Science Association for the
Franklin L. Burdett/ Phi Sigma Alpha Prize for Best
Paper Presented at the 2006 Annual Meeting)
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“Identity Under Attack and the
Lure of the Universal,” Roundtable on Wendy Brown’s
States of Injury, American Political Science
Association Meeting, September 2005.
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“The Politics of Compassion in
the Age of AIDS,” Women’s Caucus for Political
Science Pre-Conference, American Political Science
Association Meeting, August 2005.
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“Doing Rights,” Western
Political Science Association Meeting, March 2005.
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“Who or What Are We? The
Identity Crisis in Feminist Politics,” American
Political Science Association Meeting, September
2004.
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“The Politics of Compassion
and/ or the Rights of Women,” Western Political
Science Association Meeting, March 2004.
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“Danger and Pleasure in the Age
of AIDS,” Western Political Science Association
Meeting, March 2004.
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