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
Diana Martin Innovation Award
Changing Classroom Cultures
Bluegrass Community and Technical College
March 2019
Gender and Social Justice: Global Research and Intersectionality Award
University of California, Santa Barbara
August 2015 - September 2017
Feminist Studies
Dissertation Fellowship
University of California, Santa Barbara
March 2014 - September 2017
Regents Fellowship
University of California, Santa Barbara
August 2013 - September 2017
Kate Black Award for
Activism and Scholarship
University of Kentucky
May 2012
Women's and Philanthropy Award
University of Kentucky
May 2011
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