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Curriculum Vitae Ginna Husting

Department of Sociology
Boise State University
1910 University Drive
Boise, Idaho   83725
Phone:  208 426-3406
ghusting@boisestate.edu

ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS

  • 2018 Professor, Sociology, Boise State University
  • 2005-2017 Associate Professor, Sociology, Boise State University
  • Spring 2012 Visiting Professor, University Study Abroad Consortium, Donostia, Spain
  • 1999-2005 Assistant Professor, Sociology, Boise State University
  • 1998-1999 Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Illinois Wesleyan University

ADMINISTRATIVE DUTIES

  • 2011-Present   Director, Gender Studies Program, Boise State University
  • 2006-2008       Chair, Cultural and Ethnic Diversity Board, Boise State

EDUCATION

  • 1998    Ph.D., Sociology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  • 1985        B.A.,  Sociology with Honors, Eckerd College, St. Petersburg, Florida

COURSES TAUGHT

  • Feminist Sociological Theory
  • Environmental Sociology
  • Social Psychology of Gender
  • Science/Technology/Race/Gender
  • Sociology of Ritual
  • Urban Sociology
  • Social Psychology
  • Sociological Theory
  • Social Change and Globalization
  • Research Methods
  • Social Inequality
  • Introduction to Sociology
  • Consumerism
  • Sociology of Work
  • Sociology of Ritual
  • Social Problems
  • Introduction to Sociology
  • Deviance
  • Sexualities in American Society
  • Gender & Documentary Film
  • Sociology of Food
  • Sociology of Globalization
  • Documentary Film and Representations of Society
  • Race, Gender, Nation: Nanook of the North & Postcolonial
  • Participatory Song, Dance and Social Movements

AWARDS, HONORS, GRANTS

  • Visiting Lectureship, EHU/University of the Basque Country/San Sebastian, 2019
  • Beverly Miller Endowment Legacy Fund for Gender Studies program, Boise State. $499,000
  • Arts and Humanities Institute Grant for creation of Intersections Interdisciplinary Research Cluster, Boise State 2012 ($1250)
  • Faculty Partner Award Nominee for commitment to academic excellence, caring, citizenship, fairness, respect, responsibility, and trustworthiness, Boise State 2008
  • State of Idaho Brightest Star Award: Exemplary Volunteer Service and Ethic of Service 2008
  • Founders’ Leadership Society Awards Finalist: Teaching and Service, Boise State 2007-2008
  • Faculty-in-Residence, Civic Leadership Residential College, Boise State 2007-2008
  • Service Learning Faculty Fellow, Boise State 2007
  • Top Ten Faculty Award, Boise State 2006, 2001
  • Faculty Award for the Enhancement of Second-Language Learner Success, Boise State 2005
  • Woman of the Year Recognition, Women’s History Month, 2005
  • Service-Learning Grant for integrating community service into course content, 2002
  • Nominee, Students of Boise State University Faculty of the Year Award 2002

PUBLICATIONS

  • 2018  “Governing with Feeling: Conspiracy Theories, Contempt, and Affective Governance.” Chapter 11 in Taking Conspiracy Theories Seriously. (UK: Rowman and Little).
  • 2018  “Media Marginalization of Racial Minorities: ‘Conspiracy Theorists’ in U.S. Ghettos and on the ‘Arab Street,’” with Martin Orr. Chapter 5 in Conspiracy Theories and the People Who Believe Them, ed. by Joseph Uscinski. (Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.)
  • 2015 Husting, G. “The Flayed and Exquisite Self of Travelers: Managing Face and Emotion in Strange Places.” Symbolic Interaction 38:2:213-234.
  • 2015 Husting, G.  Review of Conspiracy Theory in America by Lance deHaven-Smith. Contemporary Sociology 44 (2): 191-193.
  • 2014 Nadelson, L., C. Jorcyk, D. Yang, M. Jarratt Smith, S. Matson,  K. Cornell, and V. Husting. “I just don’t trust them: the development and validation of an assessment instrument to measure trust in science and scientists.” School Science and Mathematics 114, 2:76-86.
  • 2013 Husting, G. “Neutralizing Protest: The Construction of War, Chaos, and National Identity through US Television News on Abortion-Related Protest, 1991.” In Readings on the Rhetoric of Social Protest, 3rd Edition. Charles E. Morris III and Stephen Howard Browne. State College, PA Strata Publishing.
  • 2007 Husting, G. and M. Orr. “Dangerous Machinery:  ‘Conspiracy Theorist’ as Transpersonal Strategy of Exclusion.”  Symbolic Interaction 30, 2: 127-50, with Martin Orr.
  • 2006 Husting, G. “Neutralizing the Public Sphere:  War, Chaos, and the Construction of National Identity through U.S. Television News on Abortion-Related Protest,
  • 1991.” Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies 3, 2: 162-180.
  • 2005 Husting, G. and L. King. “Francophobia, Anti-Americanism:  Narratives of the Trans-Atlantic Other in French and U.S. News on Abortion-Related Issues.” Cultural Studies-Critical Methodologies 5, 2: 447-471, with Leslie King, Sociology, Smith College.
  • 2003 King, L. and G. Husting.  “Importing Rescue:  The Cross-National Diffusion of Anti-Abortion Protest Tactics.” Mobilization 8, 3: 297-312, with Leslie King.
  • 1999 Husting, G. “When a War is Not a War:  the War in the Gulf and the War on Abortion in 1991.”  The Sociological Quarterly 40, 1: 159-178.
  • 1993 Husting, G. “Up by Her Garter Straps:  Deconstructing Working Girl.”  Studies in Symbolic Interaction 15: 16-26.

Under Review

“The Fix is In: ‘Conspiracy Theories,’ Sports, and Power.” With Matthew Dentith and Martin Orr.

MANUSCRIPTS IN PROGRESS

  • Coloniality, Affective Structures, and Women’s Voices: Mini Aodla Freeman and Inuit Memoir (using indigenous memoir to highlight forms of structural violence, public emotion, and feminist alternatives)
  • Nanook and the Undead: Cultural Representations and the Afterlife of Racialized & Gendered Colonial Emotionality in the 21st Century
  • Wonder, Contempt, Natality: Hannah Arendt, Political Action, and Conspiracy Panic.

PRESENTATIONS & WORKSHOPS

  • 2021 “Lies, Trust, and Conspiracy: Capitalism, Worldlessness & Arendt” Presented at the annual conference of the Sociological Association of Ireland, June 2021.
  • “Unreality, Conspiracy Theorists, and the Causes of Disordered World-Making.” Presented at the University College Dublin Conference on the Philosophy of Conspiracy Theories, July 2021.
  • 2020 “Poetics, Politics and Praxis of the Resilience, Grit and Persistence Narrative.” With Sharon Paterson (first author); accepted for deferred annual meeting of the National Women’s Studies Association Meetings, tentatively scheduled for November 2021.
  • 2019 “Participatory Musicking and Social Justice: Tools for Praxis and Transformation in Classroom and Community.” Workshop presented at the annual meeting of the National Women’s Studies Association Conference, San Francisco, 2019.  Organized with Kristina Boerger  (Music, Augsburg University) and Christine King (Urban Bush Women).
  • 2019. “Collaborative Pedagogies: Teaching Toward Justice in WGS.” (Organizer & presenter) Session at the annual meeting of the National Women’s Studies Association Conference, San Francisco, 2019. With Lauren Lacey (English, Edgewood College) and Lisa King (Philosophy and Women’s Studies, Edgewood College).
  • 2019 “The Banality of Evil and the Power of Emotions: Hannah Arendt, Eichmann, and What We Can Learn Now.” Presented at the Faculty of Education, Philosophy and Anthropology, University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU) at Donostia-San Sebastian, March 2019.
  • 2018  “Sociological Worlding in Apocalyptic Times.”  Presented at the annual meeting of the National Women’s Studies Association, Atlanta.
  • “Wonder and Contempt: How Emotion Works to Structure Racialization.” Presented

    in Thematic Session “The Vindictive Turn: Empowering and Mobilizing Racial Contempt in the Neoliberal Era.” Annual meeting of the American Sociological Association, Philadelphia.
  • 2017 “Coloniality, Affective Structures, and Counter/Auto-Ethnography: Living with Qallunaat, Listening to Mini Aodla Freeman.” Presented at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association. “Intersections of Oppression and Resistance: Arendtian Plurality and Power.” Presented with Lisa King at the Annual meeting of the National Women’s Studies Association, Baltimore.
  • 2016  “Vocabularies of Motive and ‘Conspiracy Theorists’,” with Martin Orr. Presented at the annual meeting of the Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction, Seattle, Washington. “Conspiracy Baiting in the War on Terror,” with Martin Orr, accepted for presentation at the annual meeting of the International Sociological Association, Vienna, Austria.
  • “Conspiracy Theory Theories: A Sociology of Knowledge Account,” with Martin Orr,  presented at the annual meeting of the Pacific Sociological Association, Oakland, California. 2015  “The Fix is In: ‘Conspiracy Theories’ in Sports,” with Martin Orr, presented at the annual meeting of the Pacific Sociological Association, Long Beach, California.
  • “From U.S. Ghettos to the ‘Arab Street’: Race and the ‘Conspiracy Theorist,’” with Martin Orr, presented at the Conspiracy Theory Conference, University of Miami, Florida.
  • “Contempt as Discursive Violence: A Feminist Sociological Analysis.” Presented at the  annual meeting of the American Sociological Association, Chicago.
  • 2014 “Governing with Feeling: the Problem with Feminist Appropriations of Contempt.” Presented at the annual meeting of the National Women’s Studies Association, San Juan.
  • 2013 “Contempt, Incivility and Feminist World-Making.” Presented at the annual meeting of Feminisms and Rhetorics, Stanford University.
  • “Governing with Feeling: Conspiracy Theory Discourse, Hannah Arendt, and Affective Cultural Politics.” Presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association, New York.
  • 2012 “The Flayed, Exquisite Self of Tourists: Managing Face and Emotions in Strange Places.” Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction, Denver.
  • 2011 “Nurturing and Occluding Wonder in News Discourse.” Presented at the Annual American Sociological Association meetings, Las Vegas. “Wolves, Hybridity, Monstrosity: Race, Gender, and Nature in the New West.” Presented at “Rethinking The Monstrous: Violence and Criminality in Society,” Munich.
  • 2008  “Monsters and Prodigal Sons: Masculinity, Identity, and Change in the Discourse on Wolves in the American West.”  Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society for the Study of Social Problems, Boston.
  • “Obesity, Contagion, and Control in U.S. Popular Media, 1998-2007.”  Presented with three undergraduate students at the Annual Meeting of the Pacific Sociological Association, Portland, Oregon.
  • 2007  “Critical Hagiographies:  Virginia Woolf and Performance Narratives.”  Presented at the Third International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry, Urbana, Illinois.
  • 2006  “Bodies, Images, Texts: Political Tools for Critiquing Torture.”  Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Center for Research and Socio-Cultural Change, Oxford University. “Conspiracy Theorists, Vocabularies of Motive, and Cultural Power.”  Presented at the Annual Meeting of American Sociological Association, Montreal.
  • 2005  “Conspiracy-Baiting as Ritual of Pollution in the U.S. Public Discourse,” with Martin Orr.  Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction, Philadelphia.
  • 2002  “The ‘French’ Abortion Pill and ‘American’ Protesters: News Media Articulations of Nationalism and Abortion in France and the U.S.,” with Leslie King.  Presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association, Chicago. “Importing Rescue: Opportunity Structure and Anti-Abortion Protests in France.” With Leslie King. Presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association, Chicago.
  • “Mediating Protest: News Representations of Abortion Related Activism in an Age of Anti-Abortion Violence,” with Monica Hopkins (undergraduate).  Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Pacific Sociological Association, Vancouver. 2001
  • “Mediating Protest:  News Representations of Abortion-Related Activism in an Age of Pro-Life Violence.”  Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Western Social Science Association, Reno, Nevada.
  • “Hannah Arendt, The Rise of the Social, and U.S. TV News Representations of Abortion-Related Protest.”  Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Pacific Sociological Association, San Francisco.
  • 2000  “Abortion and Nationalism in France and the U.S.”  Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Pacific Sociological Association, San Diego.
  • “Constructing the Post-Feminist Citizen:  G.I. Jane, Citizen Ruth, and Political Engagement.”  Presented at the Society for Symbolic Interaction 2000 Couch/Stone Symposium, Saint Petersburg, Florida.
  • 1999   “From American-Style Operation Rescue to French Commandos:  Direct Action Tactics in Anti-Abortion Movements in the U.S. and France.” With Leslie King.  Presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association, Chicago.
  • 1998  “Visualizing Abortion:  U.S. Nightly News Coverage of the War over Abortion in 1991.” Presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association, San  Francisco.
  • “When a War is not a War:  the Gulf War and the War on Abortion in 1991.” Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Pacific Sociological Association, San Francisco.
  • “Broadcast News on the War over Abortion.”  Presented at Violence Incorporated, the Annual Cultural Studies Symposium, Manhattan, Kansas.
  • 1997  “When a War is not a War:  the Gulf War and the War on Abortion in 1991.”  Presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association, Toronto.
  • 1995  “Leaping to Confusion:  News Constructions of Protest, Protesters, and Abortion.” Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction, Los Angeles.
  • 1994  “Nightly News Coverage of The National Right to Life March from 1990.”  Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Midwest Sociological Society, St. Louis.
  • 1991  “Up by Her Garter Straps:  Deconstructing Working Girl.”  Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction, Cincinnati, Ohio.
  • 1990  “Converging Cognitive Conceptualizations:  Durkheim and Garfinkel on Cognition and Reality.”  Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Midwest Sociological Society, Chicago.
  • “When Women Talk:  Gender and Interruptions in Conversation.”  Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Midwest Sociological Society, Chicago.
  • “The Making of a Small Social Group.”  With L. Detman and D. McConkey.  Presented at the Annual Symposium of the Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction, St. Petersburg, Florida.

SERVICE

2020-2021

Leadership Team, College of Arts & Sciences Finishing Foundations/ General Education Committee; Discussant, Tournée Film Festival, Boise State

2019-2020

Finishing Foundations/General Education Committee; Participation in Planning for: Payette School; School of Cultural and Social Transformation; Data Science Cluster; OneHealth; Environmental Studies; Discussant, Tournée Film Festival, Boise State

2018-2019

Pro Bono Consulting Work, Champaign County YMCA Women of Color Leadership Programs

2017-2018

Keynote Speaker, College of Southern Idaho’s annual Social Science and Humanities Symposium Liberal Arts Think Tank, Boise State University

Dean Evaluation Committee, College of Arts and Sciences, Boise State University

College Curriculum Committee, Boise State University

Planning Committee, General Education Program, Boise State University

2015-2016

Member, Cultural and Ethnic Diversity Board Invited Panelist, Sun Valley Center for the Arts’ “Role Play” BIG IDEA series, Session Moderator, annual meeting of the National Women’s Studies Association, Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Co-advisor, Gender Studies organization

2014-2015

Session Moderator, annual meeting of the National Women’s Studies Association meeting, Puerto Rico

2012-2013

Cultural and Ethnic Diversity Board

McNair Faculty Mentor

Guest Lecture, Basque Culinary Center, San Sebastian, Spain

2011-2012

College Curriculum Committee

Director, Gender Studies Program

Advisor for Intermountain Social Research Lab

McNair Faculty Mentor

Member, Cultural and Ethnic Diversity Board

Creator and Chair, Intersections Interdisciplinary Research Cluster

2009-2010

Organizer, Haiti Teach-In, Boise State Cultural and Ethnic Diversity Board, Boise State; Gender Studies Advisory Board, Boise State; McNair Scholars Advisor, Boise State

Chair, Session “Sexual Selves” for the annual meeting of the Society for the Philosophy of Sex and Love, Urbana, Illinois

2007-2008

Faculty in Residence, Civic Leadership Residential College, Boise State; Session Organizer, Pacific Sociological Association Meeting;

2006-2007

Organizer, Queer ID Conference and Film Festival, Boise, Idaho; Freshman Reading Program Workshop; “Paul Farmer, AIDS, and Cross-National Perspectives: From Mountains Beyond Mountains; Boise State Faculty Advisor, Organization for Gender Education and Equality; Reviewer, Social Problems, Journal of Criminal Justice

2005-2006

Chair, Cultural and Ethnic Diversity Board, Boise State; Organizer, Queer ID  Conference and Film Festival, Boise, Idaho; M.A. Committees: Departments of Communication, Business Administration, Criminal Justice; Boise State Faculty Advisor, Organization for Gender Education and Equality, Boise State; Reviewer, Social Problems, Journal of Criminal Justice; Facilitator, Diversity and Tolerance Resident Assistant Training, Boise State

2003-2004

BSU College of Social Sciences Tenure and Promotion Committee Co-Chair, “Queer as Film” First Annual Boise State GLBT Film Festival Chair, Organizing Committee, Second Annual Gay/Lesbian/Bisexual/Transgender Issues Conference, BSU Cultural And Ethnic Diversity Board, BSU Member, Undergraduate Research Initiative Board, BSU M.A. Committee, Department of Communications M.A. Committee, Department of History

2002-2003

BSU College of Social Sciences Tenure and Promotion Committee Organizer, three paper sessions at the Annual Meeting of the Pacific Sociological Association, Vancouver Chair, Organizing Committee “Democracy, Equality, Justice: Idaho Cultural and Ethnic Diversity Board, BSU Undergraduate Research Initiative Board, BSU Gay/Lesbian/Bisexual/Transgender Issues Conference, BSU Diversity Training with Gaylord Walls

2001-2002

College of Social Sciences Tenure and Promotion Committee Chair, Organizing Committee “Democracy, Equality, Justice: Idaho    Gay/Lesbian/Bisexual/Transgender Issues Conference, BSU Cultural and Ethnic Diversity Board, BSU Undergraduate Research Initiative Board, BSU Associate Editor, The Sociological Quarterly Organizer, Session for Pacific Sociological Association M.A. Committee, Department of History M.A. Committee, Department of Communications

2000-2001

Cultural and Ethnic Diversity Board, BSU Undergraduate Research Initiative Board, BSU Faculty Research Grant Awards, College of Social Sciences, BSU Committee Member Midwest Sociological Society’s Committee on Women in the Profession Sociology Department Adjunct Concerns Committee

1999-2000

Midwest Sociological Society’s Committee on Women in the Profession Anti-Racism Training with Victor Lewis, Boise State University Sociology Department Adjunct Concerns Committee

1998-1999

Reviewer, Symbolic Interaction Midwest Sociological Society’s Committee on Women in the Profession

1997-2000

Reviewer, The Sociological Quarterly

1995

Member, Search Committee for Director of Women’s Studies Program, Universityof Illinois at Urbana-Champaign