LISA D. WADE, M.A., M.S., Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of Sociology

Occidental College

1600 Campus Road

Los Angeles, CA 90041

Phone: 323-259-2900

E-mail: lwade@oxy.edu 

 

EDUCATION

                                                                                                       

University of Wisconsin at Madison                                                                         

Ph.D. August 2006 in Sociology with specializations in gender, politics, race and ethnicity, medicine sexuality, and the body.

                                                                                                                                               

New York University                                                                                                 

M.A. 1997 in Health Education: Human Sexuality, Marriage, and Family Life Education.

 

University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands                                                 

Participant 1997 in The Institute on Sexuality, Culture and Society: International School.

                                                                                                                                          

University of California at Santa Barbara                                                                  

B.A. 1996 in Philosophy with high honors.

 

TEACHING AWARDS

 

Nomination - Capstone Teaching Award, University of Wisconsin - Madison (decision pending)

Award for Excellence in Teaching by a Lecturer, University of Wisconsin - Madison (2005/2006)

Teaching Fellow, University of Wisconsin - Madison (2002/2003)

 

ACADEMIC AND RESEARCH AWARDS

 

Grant for Interdisciplinary Studies on Health and Society, Robert Wood Johnson (2005)

Hyde Dissertation Research Award, UW - Madison Women’s Studies Research Center (2005)

Finalist - Woodrow Wilson Charlotte Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship (2005)

Vilas Travel Grant, University of Wisconsin - Madison (2004)

UW Small Grant, University of Wisconsin - Madison (2004)

Award of Distinction, University of California - Santa Barbara (1996)

The Girvetz Award: Outstanding Graduating Senior, UC - Santa Barbara (1996)

The Ralph W. Church Fellowship, University of California - Santa Barbara (1995)

 

PUBLICATIONS

 

REFEREED:

 

Wade, Lisa D., Emily Kremer, & Jessica Brown.  Forthcoming. The Incidental Orgasm: The Presence of Clitoral Knowledge and the Absence of Orgasm for Women. Women and Health 42, 1.

                                                                                     

Freese, Jeremy, Allen Li, & Lisa D. Wade.  2003.  The Potential Relevances of Biology to Social Inquiry.  Annual Review of Sociology, 29.

 

Wade, Lisa D. & John D. DeLamater.  2002.  Relationship Dissolution as a Life Stage Transition: Effects on Sexual Attitudes and Behaviors.  Journal of Marriage and Family, 64, 4: 898-915.

 

PUBLICATIONS (CONTINUED)

 

OTHER:

 

Wade, Lisa D.  2004. Fact Sheet on Teen Sexuality and Sex Education.  Network News: The Newsletter of Sociologists for Women in Society XXI, 1:9-12.

 

Wade, Lisa D.  2002.  Instructor’s Manual to Accompany Understanding Human Sexuality.  New York: McGraw-Hill.

                                                                                                                          

Wade, Lisa D.  2002.  Book Review – Marriage in a Culture of Divorce by Karla Hackstaff.  Journal of Sex and Marital Therapy 28, 5:469-471.

                                                                                                                            

Wade, Lisa D.  2002.  Book Review – Male Bodies: Health, Culture, and Identity.  Journal of Sex and Marital Therapy 28, 4:368-370.

 

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

                                                                                                                     

Wade, Lisa D. 2005.  “The Contingency of Medical Authority over Female Genital Cutting: A Case Study in Context.”  Presented October 15th at “A Matter of Facts: Problems of Evidence in Medicine and Public Health,” a conference sponsored by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.

 

Wade, Lisa D. 2005. Ideological Context and the Framing of Female Genital Mutilation: Discursive Contests between Doctors and Feminists in the Mass Media.”  Presented in the Collective Behavior and Social Movements Roundtable August 13th at the ASA conference in Philadelphia.

 

Wade, Lisa D. 2005. Public American Discourse about FGM and the Relevance to Transnational Eradication Efforts.”  Presented April 15th at the University of Wisconsin System Women’s Studies conference in Madison, Wisconsin.

                                                                                                                                                 

Wade, Lisa D. 2005.“Framing Female Genital Mutilation: Discursive Contests between Activists and Doctors in the Mass Media.”  Presented April 2nd at the MSS conference in Minneapolis, MN.

                                                                                                                   

Wade, Lisa D. & Emily C. Kremer. 2002.“Is There a Cultural Clitoridectomy?”  Presented at the Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality Great Lakes/Eastern Regional Conference in Big Rapids, MI.

 

Wade, Lisa D. 2000.“The Effect of Relationship Dissolution on Sexual Attitudes and Behaviors.”  Presented at the Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality in Orlando, Florida.  This paper was later published in the Journal of Marriage and Family.

                                                                                        

Wade, Lisa D. 1999.“Consequences of the Early Constructions of AIDS.”  Presented at Beyond Boundaries: Sexuality Across Cultures, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. 

 

 

Wade, Lisa D. 1998.“Using the AIDS Memorial Quilt to Enhance HIV/AIDS Education in Schools.”  Presented at the Centers for Disease Control National Leadership Conference in Atlanta, Georgia.

 

Wade, Lisa D. 1998.“Using the AIDS Memorial Quilt to Enhance HIV/AIDS Education in Schools.”  Presented at the GLSEN Second Annual Conference: Teaching Respect For All in Oakland, California. 

 


 
PREVIOUS EMPLOYMENT

 

Lecturer, UW Madison – Summer 2003, Spring 2004, Summer 2004, Spring/Fall 2005

Three semesters of Sociology of Race and Ethnicity and three semesters of Sociology of Gender. 

 

Teaching Assistant, UW Madison – Spring 2000 to Spring 2002,Fall 2003 and Fall 2004

Human Sexuality (Spring 2000-2002) and Sociology of Gender (Fall 2003 and 2004).

                         

Research Mentor, Undergraduate Research Scholars Program – 2004/2005

Through this program I was able to offer a mentorship, one-on-one teaching, and research experience to a young woman, Claire Frenkel, who assisted me with some dissertation work.

                                                                                                                               

Course Development , San Francisco City College – 1998

For the City College of San Francisco, I developed a course titled “AIDS in America” that explored the sociological, political, and medical dimensions of AIDS.  This course was adopted by college for the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender Studies department and added to the course catalog.        

 

Instructor, Junior College – Summer 1998 through Summer 1999

Human Sexuality and Health Education at City College of San Francisco, Chabot, Diablo Valley, Las Positas, and San Jose City College.           

 

REFERENCES

 

Myra Marx Ferree (mferree@ssc.wisc.edu), Professor of Sociology and Women’s Studies, Director

of the Center for German and European Studies, University of Wisconsin – Madison

Pamela Oliver (oliver@ssc.wisc.edu), Conway-Bascom Professor of Sociology and Chair of the

Sociology Department, University of Wisconsin – Madison.

Jeremy Freese (jfreese@ssc.wisc.edu), Professor of Sociology, University of Wisconsin – Madison,

currently a Scholar in the Robert Wood Johnson Healthy Policy Program at Harvard

University.

Judith Houck (jhouck@facstaff.wisc.edu), Professor of Women’s Studies and History of Science,

University of Wisconsin - Madison.