CHELSEA MARY ELISE JOHNSON
C U R R I C U L U M V I T A E
Department of Sociology
851 Downey Way
Hazel Stanley Hall 314
Los Angeles, CA 90089-1059
chelseamej@gmail.com
EDUCATION
Ph.D. student in Sociology In Progress
University of Southern California Los Angeles, CA
Faculty Advisors: Dr. Michael Messner & Dr. Elaine Bell Kaplan
B.A. in Sociology, Summa Cum Laude with College and Departmental Honors May 2012
Spelman College Atlanta, GA
Minor: Writing, Emphasis on Multi-Media, Research and Professional Writing
AREAS OF ACADEMIC INTEREST
Race, gender, and class; sociology of the body; sex and gender; sport
FELLOWSHIPS & AWARDS
August 2014 Louise Kerckhoff Prize for best graduate student paper in Gender Studies
University of Southern California, Gender Studies Program
July 2014 Graduate Studies Enhancement Grant
Social Science Research Council (SSRC)
April 2014 Del Amo Foundation Research Award in support of Travel to Spain
USC Del Amo Foundation
February 2014 Travel Award in support of participation in the 7th Annual Summer School on Black Europe in Amsterdam, Netherlands
The University of Southern California Graduate School in partnership with The University of Southern California Department of Sociology
October 2013 First Place Award, Paper Competition
National Black Graduate Student Association (NBGSA) Western Regional Conference
University of Southern California, Gould School of Law
August 2013 Graduate Student Travel Award to travel to SSSP in New York, NY
University of Southern California, Department of Sociology
June 2013 Summer 2013 Academic Professional Development Award
University of Southern California Enhancing Diversity in Graduate Education (EDGE) program sponsored by the National Science Foundation (NSF)
April 2013 Honorable Mention
Ford Foundation Pre-doctoral Fellowship Program
Nov. 2012 Graduate Diversity Award
North American Society for the Sociology of Sport (NASSS)
Sept. 2012 Graduate Student Travel Award to travel to NASSS in New Orleans, LA
University of Southern California, Department of Sociology
2012-2017 Provost Fellowship
University of Southern California, The Graduate School
May 2012 Best Senior Thesis
Spelman College, Department of Sociology and Anthropology
April 2012 Phi Beta Kappa Honor Society
Spelman College, Epsilon of Georgia Chapter
April 2012 Alpha Kappa Delta International Sociology Honor Society
Morehouse College, Xi Chapter
April 2012 First Place Presentation in Sociology Session
Spelman College Research Day
2011-2012 Institute for Recruitment of Teachers (IRT) Associate
Phillips Academy
2011-2012 National Institutes of Mental Health Career Opportunities in Research (NIMH-COR) funded fellow
Morehouse College
2010-2012 United Negro College Fund/Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship
Mellon Foundation
2008-2012 Dean’s List Award, Fall 2008, Spring 2009, Fall 2009, Spring 2010, Fall 2010, Spring 2011, Fall 2011, Spring 2012
Spelman College
2008-2012 Presidential Scholarship
Spelman College
PUBLICATIONS
Johnson, Chelsea. 2012. “Identity, Role, and Self-Representation: The Spelman Experience and Performing for a Gender-Specific Audience.” Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship Journal.
Wood, Tara, Margaret Price and Chelsea Johnson. 2012. “Disability Studies, WPA-CompPile Research Bibliographies, No. 19.” WPA-CompPile Research Bibliographies. (http://comppile.org/wpa/bibliographies/Bib19/DisabilityStudies.pdf).
MANUSCRIPTS IN PREPARATION
Johnson, Chelsea. “’Just because I dance like a ho, I’m not a ho’: Cheerleading at the intersection of race, class, and gender.” Under review at Sociology of Sport Journal
Johnson, Chelsea. “Strands of thought, strands of work: The politics and economics of the black beauty industry.” In preparation for Gender & Society
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Fall 2014 Teaching Assistant- Sociology, Human Behavior, and Health
University of Southern California Department of Sociology
Spring 2014 Teaching Assistant—Introduction to Sociology
University of Southern California Department of Sociology
Fall 2013 Teaching Assistant—Social Problems
University of Southern California Department of Sociology
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
August 2014 “Strands of Thought, Strands of Work: The Politics and Economics of the Black Beauty Industry.” Paper presented at the Section on Racial and Ethnic Minorities Roundtable Session at the American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA.
August 2014 “Cheerleading at the Intersection of Race, Class an Gender.” Paper presented at the Open Referred Roundtables Session at the American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA.
October 2013 “Cheerleading at the Intersection of Race, Class and Gender.” Paper presented at the National Black Graduate Student Association (NBGSA) Western Regional Conference, Los Angeles, CA.
October 2013 “Graduate Opportunities.” Invited graduate student panelist at the National Black Graduate Student Association Western Regional Conference, Los Angeles, CA.
Nov. 2012 “Feminism Race and Role: Cheerleading in Place.” Paper presented for the Session on African American Experiences at the North American Society for the Sociology of Sport (NASSS) Conference, New Orleans, LA.
April 2012 “Identity, Role, and Self-Representation: The Spelman Experience and Performing for a Gender-Specific Audience.” Paper presented for the Sociology Session at Spelman College Research Day, Atlanta, GA.
March 2012 “Two Good Girdles and a White Dress.” Panelist at the Toni Cade Bambara Scholar Activism Conference, Spelman College, Atlanta, GA.
Nov. 2011 “Identity, Role, and Self-Representation: The Spelman Experience and Performing for a Gender-Specific Audience.” Paper presented for the Race and Gender Session at the Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship Southeastern Regional Conference. Duke University, Raleigh, NC.
Nov. 2011 “Out from the Margins: Challenging Heteronormativity in Black Greek Culture.” Poster presented at the Annual Biomedical Research Conference for Minority Students (ABRCMS), St. Louis, MO.
October 2011 “Establishing Your Identity as an Undergraduate Fellow Scholar.” Invited undergraduate session panelist at the United Negro College Fund Mellon Programs Conference, Atlanta, GA.
August 2011 “Out from the Margins: Challenging Heteronormativity in Black Greek Culture.” Paper presented for the Program for Arts and Humanities Development (PHD) session at the Ohio State Summer Research Opportunities Program Research Symposium, Columbus, OH.
August 2011 “Out from the Margins: Challenging Heteronormativity in Black Greek Culture.” Poster presented at the Ohio State Summer Research Opportunities Program Research Symposium, Columbus, OH.
April 2010 “The Ethnographer’s Research Experience.” Multimedia presentation for the Sociology and English Session at Spelman College Research Day, Atlanta, GA.
RESEARCH & ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE
Summer 2014 7th Annual Summer School on Black Europe
Center of Study and Investigation for Global Dialogues
Amsterdam, Netherlands
Summer 2013 “Race, Class and the Millennial Woman”
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Elaine Bell Kaplan
2011-2012 Research Assistant, “Disability in Writing”
Spelman College, Department of English
Principal Investigator: Dr. Margaret Price
2010-2012 Research Assistant, “‘Most Teachers Take off for Using African American English’: Perceptions of Fairness and Failure in Classroom Writing Assessment at an HBCU”
Spelman College, Department of English
Principal Investigator: Dr. Zandra Jordan
Summer 2011 Student Researcher, Ohio State Summer Research Opportunities Program
The Ohio State University, Department of African and African American Studies
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Simone Drake
Fall 2010 Study abroad at the University of Cape Town in Cape Town, South Africa
Sociology and Film and Media Studies Departments
2009-2012 Academic Tutor, Spelman College Comprehensive Writing Program
ACADEMIC & PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
August 2014 Panel Presider, “Gender, Sexuality and Sport”
Society for the Study of Social Problems (SSSP) Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA
Fall 2013 Conference Planning Committee: “Trailblazers: Increasing Diversity in Higher Education”
National Black Graduate Student Association Western Regional Conference
University of Southern California Gould School of Law
August 2013 Panel Presider, “Critical Dialogue: Contesting Gender Representation”
Society for the Study of Social Problems (SSSP) Annual Meeting, New York, NY
Aug 2013 Panel Presider, “Sport, Leisure, and the Body”
Society for the Study of Social Problems (SSSP) Annual Meeting, New York, NY
April 2013 Facilitator for Black Graduate Recognition Night
University of Southern California, Black Graduate Student Network
2012-2013 Planning Committee Member & Panel Coordinator: “Sex Workers: The Impact of Curb Campaigns”
From Prosecution to Empowerment: Fighting Trafficking and Promoting the Rights of Migrants”
University of Southern California
Nov. 2012 Session Moderator, “Media: Gendered Constructions”
North American Society for the Sociology of Sport (NASSS) Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA
March 2012 Invited panelist, “Research Opportunities for Undergraduate Sociology Majors”
Spelman College, Department of Sociology and Anthropology
Spring 2012 Planning Committee, Toni Cade Bambara Scholar Activism Conference
Spelman College, Comparative Women’s Studies Department
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
October 2013 Teaching and Learning Fellow, Alpha Kappa Delta International Sociology Honor Society
Mid-South Sociological Association
Summer 2013 Fellow, National Science Foundation (NSF)/ Enhancing Diversity in Graduate Education (EDGE) Summer Institute
University of Southern California, The Graduate School
2012-2013 Contributor, Graduate Student Publishing Workshop
University of Southern California, Department of Sociology
Fall 2012 USC Academic and Professional Development Workshop Series
University of Southern California, The Graduate School
2011-2012 Trainee, Career Opportunities in Research
National Institutes of Mental Health (NIMH), Morehouse College
Summer 2011 Program for the Arts and Humanities Development (PHD), Summer Research Opportunities Program (SROP)
The Ohio State University
Summer 2010 United Negro College Fund (UNCF)/ Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship (MMUF) Summer Institute
Emory University
LEADERSHIP POSITIONS
2013-2014 Co-President of Black Graduate Student Network
University of Southern California, Center for Black Culture and Student Affairs
2012-2013 Vice President and 1st Year Cohort Representative of Graduate Students in Sociology
University of Southern California, Department of Sociology
2012-2013 Senator for the Department of Sociology
University of Southern California Graduate Student Government
2012-2013 Events Co-Chair for Black Graduate Student Network
University of Southern California, Center for Black Culture and Student Affairs
2011-2012 Vice President of Sociological Anthropological Sisterhood: Scholar Activists for Reshaping Attitudes at Spelman (SASSAFRAS)
Spelman College, Department of Sociology and Anthropology
POPULAR MEDIA/PUBLIC SOCIOLOGY
Interviewee-- Urist, Jacoba. February 24, 2014. “Wellesley ‘Sleepwalker’ Uproar: Have Women’s Colleges Outlived Their Purpose?” The Daily Beast. http://www.thedailybeast.com/witw/articles/2014/02/24/wellesley-sleepwalker-uproar-have-women-s-colleges-outlived-their-purpose.html
ASSOCIATIONS & SOCIETIES
American Sociological Association (ASA)
Sociologists for Women In Society (SWS)
Association of Black Sociologists (ABS)
Society for the Study of Social Problems (SSSP)
National Alumnae Association of Spelman College, Los Angeles Chapter (NAASC-LA)
National Black Graduate Student Association (NBGSA)
RESEARCH SKILLS
Interviewing, ethnographic research, SPSS
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