Graduate Students

Jacquelyn Micieli-Voutsinas

Doctoral Candidate
jamiciel@maxwell.syr.edu

Ph.D., Geography, Syracuse University, ABD
M.A., Museum Studies, Syracuse University, August 2008
C.A.S., Women’s Studies, Syracuse University, May 2007                 
M.A., American Studies, SUNY Buffalo, May 2006
B.A., Applied Music, with honors, SUNY Fredonia, May 2004

Research Interests                                               
Feminist and Visceral Geographies
Geographies of Memory and Trauma
Critical Geopolitics of Intimacy
Border Theories of Citizenship
Queer Diasporas and Cinemas
Visual and Public Cultures

Publications
Micieli-Voutsinas, J. (forthcoming, 2013). “‘Subaltern’ Remembrances: Mapping Affective Approaches to Partition Memory.” Social Transformations: A Journal of the Global South. Memory and  Postcoloniality, special issue. L. Claudio, ed. 

Micieli-Voutsinas, J. (2013). “The Partition in Memoriam: The Visual Art of Pritika Chowdhry.” Encounters: an International Journal for the Study of Culture and Society, 5(1):93-112. Memories and Violence, special issue.  A. Castillejo-Cuéllar, ed. 

Micieli-Voutsinas, J. (2010). “What the City Re-members: Towards Mapping Visceral Memory Post-9/11.”  Re-public: Re-imagining Democracy. Cities in Turmoil, special issue. September 2010.   
http://www.re-public.gr/en/?p=2788   

Micieli-Voutsinas, J. (2010). “Bodies th/at Work: Aestheticizing the National Exception.” Aether: Journal of Media Geography, 6(1): 38-54.

Micieli, J. (2009). “Queering the Aesthetics of Empire: the Invisible Politics of Visibility.” In The Minutiae of Visionaries: Experiments Toward Social Evolution, Artist Catalogue, eds. E. Eaton and T. Smelt. Rochester, New York: Evolutionary Girls Press. pp. 104-111.

Presentations
Session Organizer, “Shattered Subjects: Mapping Geographies of Trauma,” Association of American Geographers, Los Angeles, California, April 9-13, 2013

“Contrapuntal Memories? Remembering the Holocaust in a Post-9/11 World,” Association of American Geographers, New York, New York, February 14-18, 2012

Session Organizer, “‘Subaltern’ Remembrances: Mapping Alternative Approaches to Memory,” National Women’s Studies Association, Denver, Colorado, November 11-14, 2010  

 “What the City Re-members: Towards Mapping Visceral Memory Post-9/11,” National Women’s Studies Association, Denver, Colorado, November 11-14, 2010  

“Querying Geographies of Memory: Mapping the Visceral,” Association of American Geographers, Washington, D.C., April 14-18, 2010.                                                              

“Bodies (th)at Work: Visualizing Disability and Sexuality in the National Exception,” Association of American Geographers, Las Vegas, Nevada, March 22-26, 2009 

“Queering the Aesthetics of Empire: the Invisible Politics of Visibility,” Association of American Geographers,   Boston, Massachusetts, April 15-19, 2008 

“Queering the Mus(e)ic: Women’s Artistic Productions and the Possibilities of Queer Diasporic Identities,” The National Women’s Studies Association 28th Annual Conference, St. Charles, Illinois, June 28-July 1, 2007 

“Diasporic Identity and the Symbolics of the (Hindu) Nation-state: An Introduction to Deepa Mehta’s Water (2005),” Women’s Studies Residency 2007, SUNY Empire State College, April 20, 2007 

“Identity Politics and Desire in Popular Music,” 8th Annual Women's History Month Conference, Sarah Lawrence College, March 3-4, 2006 

“'Queer as Folk’? Female Singer Songwriters and the Construction of Queer Female Identity(s),” Women in the ArtsConference, College of Fine Arts & Communication and Music Department, University of Missouri-St. Louis,November 10-12, 2005 

Awards  
Memory and Memorialization Fellow, National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS), New York University and the  French Ministry of Research, 2010-2011.  

Susan Hanson Dissertation Proposal Award, Geographic Perspectives On Women (GPOW), Association of American Geographers, April 2010  

Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award, Graduate School, Syracuse University, April 2010 

Fellow, National September 11th Memorial and Museum at the World Trade Center, New York, NY, December 2009—January 2010

Todd Reynolds Award for Best Graduate Paper, Disability Specialty Group, Association of American Geographers, April 2009.

Roscoe-Martin Award, Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Syracuse University, Fall 2009 

FMS—Mellon Fellow, Future of Minority Studies Summer Institute (FMS), Cornell University, Summer 2009 

Maxwell Summer Dean’s Research Award, Department of Geography, Syracuse University, Summer 2009 & 2010 

David E. Sopher Memorial Scholarship, Department of Geography, Syracuse University, Fall 2008 

Graduate School Summer Fellowship, College of Visual and Performing Arts, Syracuse University, 2007 & 2008 

Chancellor’s Award for Student Excellence, State University of New York, Spring 2004         

Advisor 
Alison Mountz 

Committee Members 
Jennifer Hyndman; Chandra Mohanty; Tod Rutherford; and Amy Kallander