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Portions of Professor Woods�s resume reads as follows:
Graduate coursework in: African New World
Studies at Florida International University; Ethnic Studies at UC San Diego;
African American Studies, Anthropology, Criminology, Law & Society,
History, Social Ecology, and Women�s Studies at UC Irvine.
2000
M.S.,
School of Justice Studies, Committee on Law and the Social Sciences, Arizona
State University.
1995
B.A.,
College of Social Studies, Wesleyan University.
Honors Thesis: Multiculturalist
Thought: Education, Leadership, and Critical Consciousness
PUBLICATIONS
�Globalizing
Social Violence: Race, Gender, and the Spatial Politics of Crisis.� American
Studies, vol. 43, no. 1, Spring
2002.
�The Violence of Global Spaces: Race,
Gender, and Simultaneity.� Passages:
Interdisciplinary
Journal of Global Studies, vol. 3, num. 1, 2001.
�Successfully Housing People with
Substance Use Issues: A Review of the Relevant
Literature.� The Corporation for Supportive Housing: New York, November
2000.
�Adolescents Out of the
Mainstream: The Potential of Youth Development Programs.� Chapter in D. Besharov & K. N.
Gardiner, eds., America�s Disconnected Youth: Toward a Preventive
Strategy. Washington, DC: Child
Welfare League of America, 1999 (co-author).
�Youth Serving Organizations, Youth
Development Programming, and the Possibility of
Better Adolescent
Health.� Center for Children and
Families, Teachers College and National Center on Addiction and Substance
Abuse: New York, 1998 (co-author).
Building Bright
Futures: An Annotated Bibliography on Substance Abuse Prevention for
Families with Young
Children. National Center for Children in
Poverty/Free to Grow, Columbia University School of Public Health: New York,
1996 (co-author).
PRESENTATIONS
�Development and Slavery: Genealogies of
Violence,� Pacific Sociological Association Annual Meeting, Hollywood, CA,
April 20, 2006.
�Difference, Diaspora, Decolonization, and
Death,� Race and Diaspora: Politics, Communities, and Ideology, History &
Theory Conference, UC Irvine, January 28, 2006.
�Law�s Deathly Freedoms: Nigeria and Chiapas,�
Criminology, Law & Society Department Colloquium Series, UC Irvine, October
24, 2005.
�Seeing the Slave Through Difference.� Interrogating the African Diaspora:
African Diaspora Identities, Florida International University, Miami, FL,
August 6, 2005.
�The Freedom of Difference: Detroit and
Nigeria.� Criminology, Law &
Society Department Colloquium Series, UC Irvine, November 8, 2004.
�Detroit, Baghdad, and Afro-Asian
Connections.� American Studies
Association Annual Meeting, Hartford, CT, October 16, 2003.
�States in Crisis and Subjects of Empire.� Law & Society Association Annual
Meeting, Vancouver, BC, May 29, 2002.
�Detroit, Baghdad, and Kabul: Transnationalism
and Oil Production.� Southwestern
Labor Studies Association Annual Meeting, Los Angeles, CA, May 11, 2002.
�Subjects of Energy: Colonialism and Oil
Production.� California American
Studies Association Annual Meeting, Riverside, CA, May 5, 2002.
�Border-Crossing in the Age of the Global Prison
Industrial Complex.� Society for
the Study of Social Problems Annual Meeting, Washington, DC, August 12, 2000.
�HIV and Prisons.� Presentation to the Community Planning Board, AIDS Housing
of Washington, Seattle, WA, August 3, 2000.
�What�s Incarceration Got to Do with
Globalization?� Race, Sex, Class,
Sexual Orientation, and Gender Identities: Moving Beyond the Rhetoric. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI,
March 31-April 2, 2000.
�The Practice of Representation: What�s
Storytelling Got to Do with the State?�
National Association of African American Studies National Conference,
Houston, TX, February 21-26, 2000.
�A Changing Same: Prisons and Citizenship from
Slavery to Globalization.� Society
for the Study of Social Problems Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL, August 5-7, 1999.
�Final Frontiers: Imprisonment at the End of the
Nation-State.� Back to the
Futures: An Institute in American Studies, Donald Pease and Robyn Wiegman,
co-directors. Dartmouth College,
Hanover, NH, June 21-26, 1999.
��The Ancient Stupidity of Pouring Water on a Drowning
Man�: Imprisonment and Restricted Citizenship.� Facing the Year 2000: Constructing and Deconstructing
Boundaries. Fifth Annual
Multicultural Conference at San Antonio College, San Antonio, TX, April 14-17,
1999.
��The Ancient Stupidity of Pouring Water on a
Drowning Man�: Imprisonment and Restricted Citizenship.� Broadening Our Scope for a New
Millenium. Second Annual
Interdisciplinary Conference at the University of Southern California, Los
Angeles, CA, April 3, 1999.
�Cultivating Peer Leadership: An Evolving Model
of Health Education for Urban College Students.� Empowering the Disadvantaged: Social Justice in Public
Health. American Public Health
Association Annual Meeting, New York City, November 17-21, 1996
(co-presentation).
�Becoming Responsible Actors for Change: A
Multiculturalist HIV/AIDS Prevention Team.� (Paper presentation and workshop) ProVisions V Northeast
Regional Multicultural Conference on HIV/AIDS, Hartford, CT, June 14, 1996 (co-presentation).