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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).