Curriculum Vitae
Sandra Harvey, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of African American Studies
University of California, Irvine
3000 Humanities Gateway
Irvine, CA 92697
slharvey@uci.edu
EDUCATION
Ph.D. Politics, University of California, Santa Cruz, Emphasis in Feminist Studies &
History of Consciousness, 2017.
M.A., Sociology, Universidad de Chile, 2005.
B.A., Sociology, University of California, Los Angeles, 2000.
APPOINTMENTS
2018 – Present Assistant Professor, Department of African American Studies, UC
Irvine
2017-18 UC Irvine Chancellor’s ADVANCE Postdoctoral Fellow, Departments of
Criminology, Law & Society and African American Studies
REFEREED ARTICLES
Harvey, Sandra. 2016. "The HeLa Bomb and the Science of Unveiling." Special
Issue: Nothing/more: Black Studies and Feminist Technoscience. In Catalyst:
Feminism, Theory, Technoscience 2.2. Kimberly Juanita Brown & Jared Sexton, Eds.
BOOK CHAPTERS
Harvey, Sandra. “'What' s Past Is Prologue': Black Native Refusal and the Colonial
Archive.” In Otherwise Worlds: Against Settler Colonialism and Anti-Blackness. Tiffany
King, Jenelle Navarro, and Andrea Smith (eds.) Duke University Press. Under
Contract.
PUBLIC SCHOLARSHIP
Harvey, Sandra. 2018. “What Must Be Done With Sovereignty? Rejecting
Recognition and the Ruse of Participation.” Race/isms Book Forum. Public
Seminar. September 7, 2018. http://www.publicseminar.org/2018/09/what-mustbe-done-with-sovereignty/
FELLOWSHIPS, GRANTS, AND HONORS
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UC Consortium for Black Studies in California Research Grant, 2016-17.
Catalyst, Feminism, Theory, Technoscience Award, Honorable Mention, 2015.
Ford Foundation Dissertation Year Fellowship, Honorable Mention, 2015.
Graduate Fellow, UC Santa Cruz Science and Justice Research Center, 2014-2015.
Social Science Division Summer Research Funding Grant, UC, Santa Cruz, 20142016.
Eugene V. Cota-Robles Fellowship, UC, Santa Cruz, 2009-2014.
INVITED TALKS
“Agency, Unveiling, Grammar, Refusal.” Invited Talk for Black Techno Science
“Here.” University of Toronto. Sandra Harvey in conversation with Nicole Charles
& Omisoore Dryden. October 15, 2018.
“On the Aesthetics of Fugitivity: Blackness and the Threat of Health.” Invited Talk
for Bodies of Knowledge Working Group. Princeton University. November 30,
2017.
“Abakuá and the Special Period: Reflections on the Art of Belkis Ayón,
Colonialism, and the Cuban Revolution.” Invited talk for Society for
Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy Conference. October 19, 2017.
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
"Figuring, Fugitivity, and Futurity: What the Politics of Refusal in Toni Morrison's
Beloved Offers Black Feminist Science Studies." Black Portraiture{s} IV: The Color
of Silence. Harvard University. March 22, 2018.
“’Transits of Empire’ and ‘Black Fungibility’: The Co-production of Black and
Native Women Objectivities through Choctaw Sovereignty Claims.” National
Women’s Studies Association. November 17, 2017.
“Counting in the Interval of Exposure: Temporalities of Black Misery on the Streets
and in the Lab.” The 17th Berkshire Conference on the History of Women,
Genders, and Sexuality. June 1-4, 2017.
“The Settler’s Episteme: Politics of Racial Passing, Black Freedom, and Native
Sovereignty.” Western Political Science Association. April 13-15, 2017.
“’Goin to the Nation, Goin to the Terr’tor’: The Politics of Racial Passing, Black
Freedom, and Native Sovereignty.” Association of Black Sociologists. October
6-8, 2016.
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"'#ThankyouHenrietta': Reflections on Science, Justice, and the Politics of
Refusal." Gender, Bodies, and Technology. April 23, 2016.
“In the Interval of Surveillance, Contagion, and Immortality: Temporalities of
Misery and Resistance in HeLa Research.” American Studies Association
Conference, Toronto, Canada. October 9, 2015.
“Passing for Free, Passing for Sovereign: The Black Indians of the Five Civilized
Tribes, 1898-1914.” Native American and Indigenous Studies Annual Conference,
Washington D.C. June 6, 2015.
“Adrian Piper’s 'Food For the Spirit': A Queer, Black reading of Kant’s Critique of
Pure Reason.” Exploring Collaborative Contestations and Diversifying Philosophy,
Hypatia Conference, Villanova, PA. May 21, 2015.
“Critical Pedagogy in a Neoliberal Age.” Cultural Studies Association Conference,
Riverside, CA. May 23, 2015.
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
AFAM 163 “Policing Black Lives.” University of California, Irvine.
AFAM 155 “Black and Indigenous.” University of California, Irvine.
CRES 180 “Race, Gender, and Science.” University of California, Santa Cruz.
POL 105C “Modern Political Thought: Political Theories of Difference.” University
of California, Santa Cruz.
CRES 185D “Black Diasporas and Indigeneity in the Americas.” University of
California, Santa Cruz.
ADDITIONAL UNIVERSITY RESEARCH COLLABORATIONS
Research Development Fellow for Institute for Humanities Research and
Arts Division, UC, Santa Cruz, 2016-2017.
Graduate Student Researcher for the Center for Cultural Studies, UC Santa Cruz,
2014- 2016.
Member, Race, Genomics, and Media Working Group, UC Santa Cruz, 2013-2017.
Member, Research Cluster for Women of Color in Collaboration and Conflict, UC
Santa Cruz, 2009-2017.
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SERVICE TO THE DISCIPLINE
Committee Member, Race & Ethnic Diversity Committee, Society for
Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy, 2017-20.
UNIVERSITY SERVICE
Committee Member, National Endowment for the Humanities Next Generation
Humanities Ph.D., UC Santa Cruz, 2016-2017.
Student-Faculty Liaison, Critical Race and Ethnic Studies Program, UC Santa Cruz,
2011-2016.
Graduate Student Representative and Admissions Committee Member, Feminist
Studies Department, University of California, Santa Cruz, 2013-2014.
SAMPLE POLICY RESEARCH
Principle Investigator, “Evaluation of Youth Together Student Activism
Program,” Oakland, CA. Social Policy Research Associates, 2008-2009.
Interim Project Manager/Lead Researcher for Qualitative Study, “Newark
Prisoner Reentry Initiative,” U.S. Department of Labor & Social Policy Research
Associates, 2007-2009.
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