Adriana Sisko
104 ELAM PARK
LEXINGTON, KY 40503
609-915-1114
EDUCATION
· Ph.D. candidate, The University of Kentucky, Lexington (2013 – present, anticipated graduation 2018)
· Middlebury Language School Intensive French Program, Middlebury (Summer 2016)
· B.A. in Women’s & Gender Studies and English, The College of New Jersey, Ewing (2009 – 2013)
PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS
Visiting lecturer:
Feminist & Gender Studies Program, Colorado College
· History of Sex: Modernity, Spring 2017.
GRANTS AND FELLOWSHIPS
· 2016, Bonnie J. Cox Graduate Research Award, Gender & Women’s Studies Department, University of Kentucky (1,000$)
HONORS AND AWARDS
· 2012, Award of Honorable Mention, NJ WGS Undergraduate Research Colloquium, 2012
· 2009 – 2010, American Federation of Teachers Scholarship
PRESENTATIONS AT ACADEMIC CONFERENCES AND EVENTS
· “Queer History: What You Never Knew and How to Use It” The Midwest Bisexual, Lesbian, Gay, Transgender, and Ally College Conference, Purdue University
· “’Going All the Way’: Erotic and Affective Legitimacy”
o National Women's Studies Association Annual Conference, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 13 November 2015
o Science, Technology & Gender: Challenges & Opportunities, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario,10 August 2014
· “Dude Looks Like a Lady,” Northeast Regional Honors Council Conference, Baltimore, MD, 14 April 2012
“Camp Cake and Post-human Robots,” NJ Women’s and Gender Studies Consortium, 8th
Annual Undergraduate Research Colloquium, Rider University, Lawrence, NJ, 13 April 2012
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Instructor of record:
Gender & Women’s Studies Department, University of Kentucky
· ‘Sex and Power’, Fall 2015.
· ‘Gender and Popular Culture, Spring 2016.
Teaching assistant:
Gender & Women’s Studies Department, University of Kentucky
· ‘Sex and Power’, Spring 2015, assisted Dr. Jonathan Coleman
· ‘Gender and Popular Culture’, Fall 2014, assisted Dr. Chamara Kwakye
· ‘Sex and Power’, Spring 2014, assisted Dr. Janice Oaks
· ‘Gender and Popular Culture’, Fall 2013, assisted Dr. Carol Mason
COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT
Volunteer, Lexington Gay Straight Alliance (Fall 2015 – present)
RELEVANT RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
Oral History Center Student Assistant for the Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History at the
University of Kentucky (Fall 2015 – present).
Responsibilities: Digitizing oral history interviews, indexing metadata including interview summaries, topical keywords, Library of Congress subject-headings using the OHMS Oral History Metadata Synchronizer.
· Data chair for the queer history mobile app Quist. (May 2015—May 2016).
Responsibilities: Recruitment of volunteers for data assistance, any needed background historical research for data entries. Edit events database for historical accuracy, scholarly sourcing, correct terminology, and spelling/grammar.
· Content intern for the queer history mobile app Quist. (January 2015—May 2015).
Responsibilities: edit events database for historical accuracy, scholarly sourcing, correct terminology, and spelling/grammar.