Kristen Abatsis McHenry
Curriculum Vitae
Department of Women’s and Gender Studies
Larts 328, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
285 Old Westport Road
Dartmouth, MA 02747
kmchenry@umassd.edu kristen.abatsis.mchenry@gmail.com
EDUCATION
Ph.D. Political Science, University of Massachusetts Amherst, 2013
M.A. Women’s Studies, Georgia State University, 2002
B.A. Women’s Studies, Ithaca College, 2000
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2016-2020 Assistant Professor, Comparative Women’s Studies, Spelman College
2009-2016; Lecturer, Women’s and Gender Studies Department, University of
2020-2021 Massachusetts Dartmouth
PUBLICATIONS
Peer Reviewed Books
n.d. Don’t frack your mother: women’s health and activism. Feminist Technoscience Series, University of Washington Press, Seattle, WA. (under contract)
2015 The Green Solution to Breast Cancer: The Promise of Prevention. Santa Barbara, California: Praeger.
Peer Reviewed Journal Articles
2021 “Getting Fracked: Gender Politics in the Fracking Debates,” Signs: Journal of Women and Culture in Society 47 (1), pp. 191-207 .
2020 Caretta, Martina and Abatsis McHenry, Kristen. “Pipelining Appalachia. A perspective on the everyday lived experiences of rural communities at the frontline of energy distribution networks development.” Energy Research & Social Science 63, pp.101403.
2017 “Fracking Women’s Bodies: The impact of hydraulic fracturing on women in Pennsylvania”. International Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics. 10(2), pp. 77-94.
2017 “Lab Meeting: How do Black Lives Matter in Teaching, Lab Practices, and Research?” Convened by Anne Pollock and Deboleena Roy. ‘Black women in breast cancer research: from margin to center.’ Catalyst: Feminism, Theory, Technoscience. 3(1), pp. 1-38.
2015 Breast Cancer Activism in the United States and the Politics of Genes. International Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics Vol. 8, No. 1, pp. 182-200.
Peer Reviewed Book Chapters
2015 Abatsis McHenry, Kristen, Schultz, Denise. “Skinny Jeans, Perfection, and Competition in Motherhood.” In Intensive Mothering: The Cultural Contradictions of Modern Motherhood, Linda Ennis Editor. Demeter Press.
2012 “Women’s Work: Global Trends and Demographics of Wealth and Employment.” In Handbook of the Philosophical Foundations of Business Ethics, C. Luetge Editor, Netherlands: Springer.
2011 “Mothers are Women.” In 21st Century Motherhood Movement, A. O’Reilly Editor, York University: Demeter Press.
Book Reviews
2013 Review of L. O’Brein Hallstein and Andrea O’Reilly, Academic Motherhood in a Post-Second Wave Context: Challenges, Strategies and Possibilities. In Journal of the Motherhood Initiative, 4.1, 232.
2011 Review of Andrea O’Reilly, Feminist Mothering. In Journal of the Motherhood Initiative, 2.1, 307.
In Preparation
“Men have breasts too!:cripping and queering the pinkification of breast cancer”
Encyclopedia Entries
2011 Cancer, Environmental Factors. In The Multimedia Encyclopedia of Women in Today’s World. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.
2011 ISHA. In The Multimedia Encyclopedia of Women in Today’s World. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
FELLOWSHIPS & AWARDS
2018 Gordon-Zeto Center for Global Education, Curriculum Internationalization Grant, Spelman College.
2017 Faculty Development Grant, Provost’s Office, Spelman College.
2013 Travel Grant, Office of Faculty Development, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, National Women’s Studies Association Conference.
2012 Travel Grant, Conference National Women’s Studies Association Conference.
2012 Provost’s Award for Scholarly and Creative Activities, University of Massachusetts, Boston.
2011 Travel Grant, Conference Breast Cancer Brocher Foundation.
2010 Faculty Participant, IBIS/Davis Educational Grant, Blended Learning, University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth.
INVITED TALKS
2018 “Don’t Frack Your Mother: Gender Politics in the Fracking Debate.” Sociology, Environmental Science and Study of Women and Gender Departments, Smith College.
CONFERENCE ACTIVITY
Panels Organized
2015 “Gender, Environment, and the Politics of Debility,” National Women’s Studies Association conference,Milwaukee, WI.
2015 “Gender and Civic Political Participation,” New England Political Science Association Meeting, New Haven, CT.
Papers Presented
2020 “Men have breasts too!: the impact of pink ribbon breast cancer advocacy on men’s breast cancer experiences.” Roundtable: Future of Feminist Disability Studies NeMLA, Boston, MA.
2017 “How do Black Lives Matter in Biomedical Research.” National Women’s Studies Association Conference, Baltimore, MD, November 8-11.
2017 “Pink Drill Bits: A feminist analysis of fracking and breast cancer advocacy.” 4S: Society for Social Studies of Science, Boston, MA, August 30-Sept. 2.
2017 “Brigham, mentorship and the boundaries of political science.” Law as Constitutive: Reflections on Contributions of John Brigham to Sociolegal Studies, New England Political Science Association, April 20-23.
2015 “Precarious Truths: Listening to Women’s Voices in the Fracking Debates.” National Women’s Studies Association, Milwaukee, WI, November 12-15.
2015 “Fracking Women’s Bodies: The impact of hydraulic fracturing on women in Pennsylvania.” American Political Science Association, Biopolicy panel, San Francisco, CA, September 3-6.
2015 “BPA, Cancer, and Reproductive Health.” New England Political Science Association, New Haven, CT, April 24-25.
2015 “Fracking Women’s Bodies.” New England Political Science Association, New Haven, CT, April 24-25.
2015 “Fracking Women’s Bodies.” Third Annual Capital District Feminist Studies Conference, Albany, NY, January 30.
2014 “Environmental Breast Cancer Activism in the United States and the Politics of Genes.” American Political Science Association, Washington, D.C., August 30-31.
2014 “Working to Ban BPA: Demanding Policies for Protection.” Creating Justice: Interrogating Reproduction and Health Policies Panel, National Women’s Studies Association Feminist Transgressions Conference, San Juan, Puerto Rico, November 13-16.
2014 “Feminism and Facebook.” Integrating Technology into the Classroom Workshop, American Political Science Association Teaching and Learning, Philadelphia, PA, February 7-9.
2013 “Breast Cancer and Environmental Justice.” South Eastern National Women’s Studies Association, Greensboro, North Carolina, April 18-20.
2012 “Online Social Networking: Constructions of Feminism and Motherhood.” Motherhood Studies Unbound: Negotiating and (Re)Imagining Our Disciplinary Future, National Women’s Studies Association, Oakland, CA, November 8-11.
2011 “The Environmental Breast Cancer Movement and the Politics of BRCA.” Gene Research and Medical Practices Social Sciences Conference, Brocher Foundation, Geneva, Switzerland, December 15-16.
2010 “You’re not….Oh. You’re pregnant.” Being and Thinking as an Academic Mother, Association for Research on Mothering and the Simone de Beauvoir Institute, Concordia University, April 8.
2008 “Feminist Theory, Breast Cancer, and Transnational Activism.” 20th Conference on Women and Gender: Transnational Feminism, Community Activism, and the Politics of Empowerment, University of Connecticut, February 29 & March 1.
2008 “The Greening of Women’s Bodies: Links between population, reproduction, and environment.” New England Political Science Conference, April 25-26.
2008 “The Greening of Women’s Bodies: Links between population, reproduction, and environment.” June Baker Higgins Gender Studies Conference, Central Connecticut State University, April 20.
Discussant
2021 American Political Science Association, Seattle, WA, September 30-October 3.
2017 National Women’s Studies Association Annual Conference, Baltimore, MD, November 8-11.
2017 “State and Local Policymaking,” New England Political Science Association, Providence, RI, April 20-23.
2015 “Gender and Civic Political Participation,” New England Political Science Association, New Haven, CT.
CAMPUS TALKS
2017 “The Politics of Pink Ribbons: An examination of Breast Cancer Activism in the United States.” Social Justice Scholars, Spelman College, March 30.
2017 “The Politics of Pink Ribbons: An examination of Breast Cancer Activism in the United States.” Celebration of Faculty Achievements, AUC Robert W. Woodruff Library, Atlanta, GA. March 20
2017 Invited, “Women Water Protectors: The Feminist Politics of Fracking” Women’s Research and Resource Center’s Toni Cade Bambara speaker event, Spelman College, March 17.
2016 “Pink Ribbon Politics.” Center for Women, Gender, & Sexuality, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth.
2013 “Think Pink: Breast Cancer Awareness.” Center for Women, Gender, & Sexuality University of Massachusetts Dartmouth.
2013 “Breast Cancer Activism.” Center for Women, Gender, & Sexuality, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth.
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Spelman College, 2016-2020
Women’s Health Disparities
Gender, Health, in Cross-Cultural Perspectives
Introduction to Comparative Women’s Studies
University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth, 2009-2021
Health and Society
Race, Gender, Biomedicine
Women, Families and Global Health
Gender Health Disparities
Politics of Public Health
Disposable Women
Global Women’s Health Politics
Sex Workers, Nannies, and Maids
Introduction to Women’s Studies
Introduction to Feminist Theory
Feminist Research Methods
International Women’s Human Rights
Ecofeminism Theory and Practice
Special Topics: Women’s Health and Environment
Special Topics: Women in International Politics
Global Perspectives of Women
University of Massachusetts, Boston, 2008-2011
Women and Society
Global Perspectives of Women
University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 2007-2008
Writing for Political Science (2007-2008)
Feminist Political Theory (2008)
RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
2000-2002 Research Assistant, Women’s Studies Institute, Georgia State University.
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
Peer Review, 2008-2021
Energy Research and Social Science
International Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics
Journal of Feminist Scholarship
Catalyst: Feminism, Theory, Technoscience
Journal of Women, Politics & Policy
Intersections
National Women’s Studies Association
To Profession
Conference Planning Committee, New England Political Science Association, New Haven, CT, 2015
Interview Transcript Donation, Schlesinger Library, History of Women at Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study,Harvard University, 2013
To Department
Health & Society Curriculum committee, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, 2021
Social Justice Mentor, Spelman College, 2016-2020.
Women’s Studies Steering Committee, Spelman College, 2016-2020.
Health Council, Spelman College, 2018-2020.
Honors Program Committee Member, Spelman College, 2018-2019.
Undergraduate Research Day Committee, Spelman College, 2018-2019.
“Breast Cancer & Pink Ribbons.” Talk Delta Sigma Theta Sorority Women’s Research and Resource Center, Spelman College, 2017
Portfolio Assessment Committee, Women’s and Gender Studies, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, 2014-2015
Women’s and Gender Studies Advisor, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, 2013-2015
Assessment Committee, Women’s and Gender Studies, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, 2013-2014
“Differentiated Learning.” Talk Office of Faculty Development, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, 2014
“Teaching Millennials.” Talk Office of Faculty Development, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, 2012, 2013
Coordinator Online Course Redesign Women’s and Gender Studies, Assessment Committee, Women’s and Gender Studies, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, 2013
Creator of Online Course, Disposable Women, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, 2013
Participant in Office of Faculty Development Differentiated Learning, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, 2013.
Office of Faculty Development, Curriculum Development of Teaching and Learning Project, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, 2013
Office of Faculty Development, Enhanced Writing Initiative, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, 2012
Creator of Online Course, Global Women’s Health Politics and Activism, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, 2012
Creator of Online Learning Module, Writing for Women’s Studies, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, 2011
Horizons Scholar Mentor, Research on Minority Health Disparity, University of Massachusetts Boston, 2010-2012
PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS
American Political Science Association, 2013-present
Society for Social Studies of Science (4S) 2017-present
Race in Biomedicine Working Group, 2016-2020
National Women’s Studies Association, 2012-present
Feminists Against Academic Discrimination, 2012-2013
REFERENCES
Beverly Guy-Sheftall, Director Women’s Research & Resource Center, Chair Comparative Women’s Studies, Anna Julia Cooper Professor of Women’s Studies
Spelman College
350 Spelman Lane, Atlanta, GA.
bsheftall@aol.com / bsheftall@spelman.edu / 678-358-4452 / 404-270-5624.
Wendy Simonds, Professor Sociology, Director Graduate Studies-Gerontology Institute
Georgia State University
949 Langdale Hall, Atlanta, GA
wsimonds@gsu.edu / 404-413-6512.
Johnella Butler, Professor of Comparative Women’s Studies
Spelman College
350 Spelman Lane, Atlanta, GA
JEButler@spelman.edu / 404-719-3917
Kristen Abatsis McHenry PhD 