Author’s CV

d.  Book and Software Reviews

• “The Gendered Bodies of Cyberspace.” Book review of The Domain-Matrix,Nattering on the Net, Wired_Women, and Net Chick. Feminist Collections: A Quarterly of Women’s Studies Resources 19(1), Fall 1997: pp. 21-24.
• “Souping Up Your Web Site.”  Feature-length software review of Corel Web.Graphics Suite (v1.2), AimTech Jamba (v1.1.25), and Symantec Visual Café (v1.0).  ComputorEdge 15 (15), April 11, 1997: pp. 32+.
• Software review of CorelDraw 7 Suite.  ComputorEdge 14(51), December 20, 1996: p. 66.
• Software reviews of DocuMagix HotPage (v1.0) and ProCD Select Phone Deluxe 1997.  ComputorEdge 14(38), September 20, 1996: pp. 60+.

Conference Papers

• “Cybering the State:  Jurisdictional Quandaries in the Borderless Space of the Internet.”  Third Pan-European International Relations Conference and Joint Meeting with the International Studies Association.  Vienna, Austria, 16-19 September, 1998.  (co-authored with Nikki Saco.)
• “Colonizing Cyberspace:  ‘National Security’ and the Internet.”  Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association.  Chicago, IL.  31 August-3 September, 1995.
• “Burying the Cuban Cadaver in the Peaceful Fields of the New World Order, or, The U.S. Construction of the Cuban Security Problematic.”  Annual Meeting of the International Studies Association.  Acapulco, Mexico.  23-27 March, 1993.   (co-authored with Jutta Weldes.)
• “Poststructuralist Feminist Approaches to the Study of Gender and Sexuality:  Avenues for Future Media Research.”  Annual Meeting of the International Communication Association.  Miami, FL.  21-25 May, 1992.
• “Voices from the Distance:  Radio Martí and the (Pen)Insular Construction of Cuban Identity.”  Annual Meeting of the International Communication Association.  Miami, FL.  21-25 May, 1992.

Other Professional Activities

a. Scholarly journals

• Reviewer, NWSA Journal (Publication of the National Women’s Studies Association), Summer 1998.

b. Conferences, workshops, and seminar presentations

• Guest Author (via tele-conference) for Q-and-A session on Cybering Democracy. For the senior seminar in “Critical Approaches to Power,” Whitman College. Walla Walla, WA. 19 November, 2003.
• Guest Presenter, “@Netting the Body.” For the graduate seminar in “Approaches to Knowledge and Truth: Ways of Knowing” (George Spangler and Raymond Duvall, Professors). University of Minnesota. Minneapolis, MN. 5 May, 2000.
• Discussant, “Culture and Historical Change” Panel 3.  Third Pan-European International Relations Conference and Joint Meeting with the International Studies Association.  Vienna, Austria, 16-19 September, 1998.
• Guest Presenter, “Troubling Images:  On the Politics of Film and ‘Film Talk’ on the Internet.”  For the graduate seminar in “Communication and Modern Cultural Theory” (Mike Budd, Professor).  Florida Atlantic University.  Boca Raton, FL.  7 November, 1995.
• Paper Contributor and Participant, Workshop on “Culture and the Production of Insecurity.”  Sponsored by the Midwest Consortium for International Security Studies (MCISS) (organized by Raymond Duvall, Jutta Weldes and Mark Laffey).  University of Minnesota.  Minneapolis, MN.  27-29 October, 1995.
• Paper Contributor and Participant, Workshop on “Culture and the Production of Insecurity.”  Sponsored by the Department of Political Science and the University Research Council of Kent State University (organized by Jutta Weldes).  Kent, OH.  28-30 April, 1995.
• Guest Presenter, “Feminist Film Criticism: The Piano and the Female Gaze.” (14KB). For the Minnesota Humanities Commission’s Teacher Institute.  Seminar on “Screening Society:  Film as Art and Culture.”  Chaska, MN.  13-18 November, 1994.
• Paper Contributor and Participant, Workshop on “Culture and the Production of Insecurity.”  Sponsored by the Committee on International Peace and Security of the Social Science Research Counsel (SSRC) and the MacArthur Interdisciplinary Program on Peace and International Cooperation (organized by Jutta Weldes and Hugh Gusterson).  University of Minnesota.  Minneapolis, MN.  28-30 October, 1994.
• Invited Discussant, Third GRIP (Group for Research into the Institutionalization and Professionalization of Knowledge-Production) conference, “Knowledges:  Production, Distribution, Revision.”  Sponsored by the University of Minnesota and GRIP.  Minneapolis, MN.  14-17 April, 1994.
• Paper Discussant and Participant, Workshop on “Norms and International Security.”  Sponsored by the Social Science Research Counsel (SSRC) and the MacArthur Interdisciplinary Program on Peace and International Cooperation (organized by Peter Katzenstein).  University of Minnesota.  Minneapolis, MN.  13-16 January, 1994.

Fellowships and Honors

• Top-three paper in the Competitive Papers Section of the Political Communication Division of the Annual Meeting of the International Communication Association (Miami, FL, 21-25 May, 1992) for “Voices from the Distance:  Radio Martí and the (Pen)Insular Construction of Cuban Identity.”
• Harold B. Leonard Memorial Film Study Fellowship ($12,000):  held at the University of Minnesota, 1991-92.
• American Political Science Association Latino Minority Fellowship ($6,000):  held at the University of Minnesota, 1987-88.
• University of Minnesota Wolfsberg Fellowship ($3,900), 1987-88.
• Florida Atlantic University Minority Graduate Fellowship ($1,500), Spring 1987.
• English Speaking Union Scholarship to the Oxford University International Graduate Summer Study Program (in “British Literature, History, and Society:  1870-Present,” Exeter College):  held as a Florida Atlantic University graduate student, Summer 1986.

Job History

a. Information Technology

• Manager-Member (IT Division) of Saco Media LLC, a managed services provider offering businesses network administration services, IT consulting, web and graphics design, digital photography and voiceover production: 2009 – present
• Manager of Information Systems (for a law firm in downtown Fort Lauderdale, Florida): July 1999 – June 2009

b. Teaching

Adjunct Professor (courses designed and taught):

Florida Atlantic University (Davie Campus), Division of Social Science: Spring 2000.
• Media, Technology, and Society

Macalester College, Political Science:  Fall 1994.
• Race, Ethnicity, and Politics

Instructor (courses designed and taught):

University of Minnesota, Political Science:  Summer 1993, Winter 1994, and Summer 1994.
•  Introduction to Political Analysis

Florida Atlantic University, English:  Fall 1986-Spring 1987.
•  Freshman English Composition

Teaching Assistant:

University of Minnesota, Institute of International Studies, International Relations Undergraduate Program:  Fall 1992 and  Fall 1993.
•  Approaches to International Relations Theory

University of Minnesota, Political Science:  Fall 1988-Winter 1993.
•  The Politics of Ethnic Communities
•  World Politics
•  The International System
•  American Political Thought
•  American Social Policy

Florida Atlantic University, Communication:  Spring 1986-Spring 1987.
•  Communication Theory
•  Criticism and Communication

c. Other academic appointments

International Relations Advisor.  University of Minnesota, Institute of International Studies, International Relations Undergraduate Program.  Program Director: Prof. Kinley Brauer.  Acting Program Director: Prof. Michael Metcalf: Winter 1994-Spring 1995.

Assistant to the Director of the MacArthur Interdisciplinary Program on Peace and International Cooperation.  University of Minnesota.  Acting Program Director:  Prof. Raymond Duvall, Political Science:  Fall 1992-Spring 1993.

Political Science Advisor.  University of Minnesota, Political Science, Undergraduate Program.  Program Directors: Prof. Charles Backstrom and Prof. August Nimtz: Winter 1990-Winter 1991.

Research Assistant to Prof. Jacqueline Zita.  University of Minnesota, Women’s Studies:  Winter and Spring 1988.

Comprehensive Research Statement

Fields of Interest:

Political Theory, International Relations, Media and Cultural Studies, Gender Studies

Research Profile:

The work I do explores the construction and differential empowerment of subjects in multiple sites, including domestic politics, international relations, and popular culture. The common theme running through my research on cyberspace, U.S./Cuban relations, gender and sovereignty, and the politics of the media is how certain identities and practices have become possible and intelligible in each of these venues and what other identities and practices have been excluded. In short, I am interested in the study of what are fundamentally political processes for making meanings. Looking back on my earlier projects, I now realize that I have always been interested, as well, in studying how space figures into these processes. Whether in terms of the island of Cuba as “distant, lost homeland” in the construction of Cuban exile identity or in terms of the notions of “Christendom” and “the New World” as shapers of sixteenth-century sovereignty and European identity, the meaningful construction of a particular kind of space has been central to the political processes of subject formation and political agency that I have analyzed. I now focus on the space of politics and the politics of space in a more self-conscious fashion, exploring how space itself can contribute to social change. In my current work, I analyze cyberspace as a new kind of produced social space and analyze the challenges and possibilities it engenders, particularly for democratic participation, for international security, and for redefinitions of the state and civil society.