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Department of Political Science
University of Minnesota
267 19th Ave. S.
Minneapolis, MN 55455
koom0003 [at] umn [dot] edu

Education
Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Political Science and the Interdisciplinary Center for the Study of Global Change, University of Minnesota (degree expected Fall 2008)
• Major fields: International Relations and Comparative Politics
• Dissertation: Between the global and the local: Women and gender as global governance

B.A. Politics with International Studies, University of Warwick, United Kingdom (2000)
• Awarded First Class Honors and the Jim Bulpitt Prize for the final year student for the best overall performance in the degrees of Politics or Politics with International Studies.

Research
• “Cultural Rights and Rights of Defiance in Northern Tanzania,” article co-authored with Anna Winterbottom and Gemma Burford (currently under review)
• “The Global Governance of Culture: International Organizations, National NGOs, Grassroots Activists, and Campaigns against Female Circumcision in East Africa,” paper accepted at the American Political Science Association Annual Conference, Boston Massachusetts (August 2008)
• “The Local Politics of Global Governance: Campaigns against FGM,” paper presented at Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, Illinois (April 3 2008)
• “Human Rights and Human Suffering: Gender, Violence and the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda,” paper prepared for International Studies Association Conference, Chicago, Illinois (March 3 2007)
• “Global Governance and Anti-FGM Campaigns” paper presented at Gender in an
International Context Workshop, University of Minnesota (April 13 2007)
• “The Politics of Human Rights Practice: Institutionalizing Women's Rights are Human Rights in International Criminal Tribunals,” paper presented at Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, Illinois (April 9 2005)
• “Women's Human Rights and the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda,” paper presented at Gender in an International Context Workshop, University of Minnesota (12 April 2005)
• “Agency, Principled Ideas and Change in International Politics: The Case of Women's Rights and the Rome Statute,” paper presented at International Studies Association Conference, Honolulu, Hawaii (March 5 2005)
• “Activism and International Politics: Women's Human Rights,” International Relations Colloquium, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities (February 2005)

Research Assistant
• The Role of American Philanthropy in Establishing International Women’s Human Rights as a Policy Field, 1985-2000, Dr Marsha Freeman, Humphrey Center, University of Minnesota (2004)
• Global Politics Multimedia Project, Professors John Freeman and Ron Krebs, Department of Political Science, University of Minnesota (2003 – 2004)
• Mixed Signals: U.S. Human Rights Policy and Latin America, Professor Kathryn Sikkink, Department of Political Science, University of Minnesota (2002)

Teaching
Primary instructor
• “Global Politics,” Department of Political Science, University of Minnesota (Summer 2008 and Fall 2008)

Teaching assistant
• “African Politics,” Department of Political Science, University of Minnesota (Spring 2005)
• “Politics of Race, Class and Ethnicity,” Department of Political Science, as above (Fall 2004 and Fall 2002)
• “Global Politics,” Department of Political Science, as above (Spring 2004, Spring 2003 and Fall 2001)
• “Power & Choice: Who Gets What, Where and When?” Department of Political Science, as above (Spring 2002)

Teacher training
• “Teaching in Higher Education” Preparing Future Faculty training program at University of Minnesota (Fall 2007)

Lectures and workshops (abbreviated)
• “Challenging Power Structures,” guest lecture for an undergraduate peace studies class at Hamline University, St. Paul (Spring 2006)
• “Human rights,” guest lectures for large undergraduate Political Science classes, University of Minnesota (April 2004 and March 2005)
• “Student movements” and “Access to higher education” workshops at Central High School in St. Paul and South High School in Minneapolis (Fall 2005 – Spring 2006)
• “Student movements,” “The civil rights movement,” and “Immigrants rights movements,” lectures, workshops and field trips at the Minnesota Internship Center, Minneapolis (Fall 2005 – Spring 2006)
• “Women’s Human Rights,” a large workshop co-facilitated with Lily Shank, International Women’s Day Celebrations, University of Minnesota (March 2005)

Instructional technology
• Instructional Technology Fellow, Department of Political Science, University of Minnesota (September 2005 – September 2007)

Awards (abbreviated)
• Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship, Graduate School, University of Minnesota (2007-8)
• Travel Fellowship, Office of International Programs, University of Minnesota (2007)
• Travel Grant, Department of Political Science, University of Minnesota (2006)
• Travel Grant, Interdisciplinary Center for the Study of Global Change, University of Minnesota (2006)
• Conference Travel Grant, International Studies Association (2005)
• Pre-Dissertation Research Fellowship, Interdisciplinary Center for the Study of Global Change (2005)
• Doctoral Research Fellowship, Interdisciplinary Center for the Study of Global Change (2004)
• Graduate School Summer Fellowships, University of Minnesota (2002, 2003, 2004, 2005)
• Conference Travel Grant, Department of Political Science, University of Minnesota (2002)
• Jim Bulpitt Prize for the final year student for the best overall performance in the degrees of Politics or Politics with International Studies, University of Warwick (2000)

References
On request

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