Joseph Mann, Ph.D.

Feminist & LGBTQ Studies Scholar
Africanist & Gender Historian

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EDUCATION

2015-2017

University of California, Santa Barbara

Santa Barbara, California, USA

Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.)
Feminist Studies
Chair: Leila Rupp, Ph.D.

Committee: Eileen Boris, Ph.D. and Stephan Miescher, Ph.D.

Dissertation: "Making a Scene":
                        Race, Class, and Sexuality in Cape Town

2013-2015

University of California, Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara, California, USA

Master of Arts (M.A.)

Feminist Studies

Chair: Leila Rupp, Ph.D.

Committee: Eileen Boris, Ph.D. and Stephan Miescher, Ph.D.

Thesis: "No Effort, No Entry":
               Vestimentary Systems in "Africa's Gay Capital"

2008-2012

University of Kentucky

Lexington, Kentucky, USA

Bachelor of the Arts (B.A.)

Gender and Women's Studies

Magna Cum Laude with Departmental Honors

Bachelor of the Arts (B.A.)

Psychology

Magna Cum Laude

SELECTED EXPERIENCE

Spring 2018 - Present

Bluegrass Community and Technical College
Instructor of Women's and Gender Studies

Women's and Gender Studies in the Social Sciences

Introduces Women's and Gender Studies from a social science perspective. Historicizes the field and surveys work on enduring issues of power and privilege in society. Encourages finding ways to talk about marginalized experience, have conversations, and improve lives using social science methods.

Fall 2019 - Present

Midway University
Instructor of Gender

Introduction to Gender Studies; Women's Issues

Introduces Gender and Women's studies for a social science perspective using cross-cultural and interdisciplinary approaches. Analyzes relations of power marked by gender and how these relate to other social distinctions and processes.

Summer 2017

University of California, Santa Barbara
Teaching Fellow in Feminist Studies

Sex, Love, and Romance
Explores sex, love, and romance, desire, intimate relationships, and the policing of sexuality in transnational perspective. Examines the social construction of sexuality, how sexuality is experienced and given meaning, and how that meaning can change as people and their partners move through space and time.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Book

Joseph Mann, Africa's Gay Capital: Liberating Masculinity in Cape Town (Albany: SUNY Press, 2020).

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Peer-Reviewed Article

Joseph Mann, "'No Effort, No Entry': Fashioning Ubuntu and Becoming Queer in Cape Town," Sexualities 21(4): November 2017.

AWARDS AND HONORS

SELECTED LECTURES AND PRESENTATIONS

November 2017

"Kwanele, Kwanele": Free(ing) Gender in Cape Town

Individual Presenter

National Women's Studies Association
November 17, 2017
Baltimore, Maryland, USA

Performing Ubuntu and Becoming Queer in Cape Town

Discussant

African Studies Association
November 18, 2017
Chicago, Illinois, USA

Gender, Sex, Authority in New African Publics

Panel Chair

African Studies Association
November 18, 2017
Chicago, Illinois, USA