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Curriculum Vitae

Kristi Brownfield
Curriculum Vitae

Northern State University
1200 S. Jay St.
Aberdeen, SD 57401
Phone: 605-626-7797
Education
Southern Illinois University Carbondale, Sociology, Doctor of Philosophy, August 2015.

Dissertation: Veni, Vidi, Vids: Transforming cultural narratives through the art of audiovisual storytelling
Chair: Rachel Whaley
Committee: Jyostna Kapur, J.P. Reed, Aaron Veenstra, Chris Wienke

Southern Illinois University Carbondale, Sociology, Master of Arts, May 2009.

Master of Arts Research Paper: Games and Gamers: Adult Female Gamers and Identity Display.
Advisor: Jennifer Dunn.

Eastern Illinois University, Sociology, Bachelor of Arts, May 2006.

Eastern Illinois University, English, Bachelor of Arts, December 2001.

Columbia College, Film, 1998 – 1999.

Areas of Expertise
Popular Culture, Online Phenomenon, Race/Class/Gender, Social Psychology, New Media Research Methods, Identity, Deviance

Manuscripts in Progress and Under Review

“It’s Only Fun When It Hurts”: The Acceptance of Narratives of Sexualized Violence in Fandom; in progress with potential submission to Social Psychology Quarterly or Transformative Works and Cultures.

“Contrasting sex and gender”; under review with the Encyclopedia of Women and Crime.

Publications
Brownfield, Kristi and Courtney A. Waid-Lindberg. 2017. “Frontier Justice: Examining Representations of Modern Rural Policing on Television.” Annual Review of Interdisciplinary Justice Research 6(1):168-98.

Waid-Lindberg, Courtney A., Daryl J. Kosiak, and Kristi Brownfield. “The Representation of Prison Subculture Models in Mid-20th Century Hollywood Film.”The Annual Review of Interdisciplinary Justice Research 5 (2016): 125-51.

Brownfield, Kristi. 2014. “Cosplay and Fandom.” Pp. 149-51 in Encyclopedia of Social Deviance, Vol. 3, edited by C. J. Forsyth and H. Copes. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications, Inc.

Awards

First Place in the Carl J. Couch Internet Research Award for 2011: “Shots to the canon: The emergence of interpretation in online fanvid discourse.”

Invited Talks

“Online Qualitative Methods.” Invited Guest Lecture: Sociology 514: Qualitative Sociology. Southern Illinois University-Carbondale. March 2012.

Selected Conference Papers and Presentations

“Grindhouse and Girl Gangs: The Globalization of Women’s Violence in Fringe Films.” Kristi Brownfield, Greg DePies, Courtney Waid-Lindberg. Society for the Study of Social Problems Annual Meeting. August 2016.

“White Dudes Boinking: The Intersections of Race and Masculinity in Fanvids,” Kristi Brownfield. Midwest Sociological Society/North-Central Sociological Association Annual Meeting. March 2016.

“”It’s Only Fun When It Hurts”: The Acceptance of Narratives of Sexualized Violence in Fandom,” Kristi Brownfield. Midwest Sociological Society Annual Meeting. March 2015.

“The Story of Sterek: Vhelton, EW, and the Emergence of Fan Discourse in and by Corporate Media Culture,” Kristi Brownfield. Midwest Sociological Society Annual Meeting. March 2013.

Session Organizer: Games, Gaming, and Gamers. Midwest Sociological Society Annual Meeting. March 2012.

“Shots to the canon: The emergence of interpretation in online fanvid discourse,” Kristi Brownfield. Internet Research 12.0. October 2011.

Session Organizer: Games, Gaming, and Gamers. Midwest Sociological Society Annual Meeting. March 2011.

“When The Man Comes Around: Terror, Sexualization, and the Zombie-pocalypse in Film,” Kristi Brownfield. Midwest Sociological Society Annual Meeting. March 2011.

“Gaming Girls: How Social Gaming Creates a Core Identity for Adult Female Gamers,” Kristi Brownfield. International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry. May 2010.

“Serving Two Masters: Intersecting Incentives in the Blogosphere,” Aaron S. Veenstra, Kristi Brownfield, Andrea Howie, Xudong Liu, Jingyi Luo, Wenjing Xie. New Media Theory: How Far Have We Traveled? April 2010.

“Coloring outside the lines: how media fans make sense of race and sexuality in fanfiction,” Kristi Brownfield. Midwest Sociological Society Annual Meeting. April 2010.

“Dangerous Games, Dangerous Gamers,” Kristi Brownfield. Midwest Sociological Society Annual Meeting. April 2010.

“Urban Women Workers and 2004 Floods in Dhaka, Bangladesh,” Katie Zaman, Kathryn Ward, William Lovekamp, and Kristi Brownfield. Rural Sociological Society Annual Meeting. August 2009.

“Five steps to being a fandom star: using fanworks to create online social capital in fan communities,” Kristi Brownfield. Midwest Sociological Society Annual Meeting. April 2009.

“Women urban workers and 2004 floods in Dhaka, Bangladesh,” Kathryn Ward, William Lovekamp, Kazi Rafiq Islam, Rabbany Suzon, Katie Zaman, Kristi Brownfield. American Sociological Association Annual Meeting. August 2008.

Teaching Experience
Northern State University
Assistant Professor, Sociology Department, Fall 2015-current
Sociology 100: Introduction to Sociology (face-to-face and online)
Sociology 260: Popular Culture and Society
Sociology 350: Race and Ethnicity
Sociology 403: Sociological Theory
Sociology 483: Sociology of Gender Roles
Sociology 492: Popular Culture and Society

Hendrix College
Instructor, Sociology and Anthropology Department, Fall 2014-Spring 2015
Sociology 110: Introduction to Sociology
Sociology 255: Gender in Film and Television
Sociology 270: Race and Ethnicity

Southern Illinois University-Carbondale
Graduate Instructor, Sociology Department, Spring 2010-Spring 2014
Sociology 108: Introduction to Sociology
Sociology 215: Race/Ethnic Relations in the United States
Sociology 223: Women and Men in Society
Sociology 302: Social Problems
Sociology 306i: Popular Culture in Sociology
Sociology 321: Society and the Individual
Sociology 350: Sociology of Leisure

Graduate Teaching Assistant: Kathryn Ward, Summer 2008-Fall 2009
Sociology 215: Race/Ethnic Relations in the United States
Sociology 223: Women and Men in Society
Sociology 437: Sociology of Globalization and Development

Past Research Experience
Graduate Research Assistant: Kelsy Kretschmer, Summer 2014
Research on media coverage of social movements
Data gathering and coding

Graduate Research Assistant: Kathryn Ward, Fall 2007-Spring 2008
Research on women workers in Bangladesh
Extensive use of NVIVO qualitative software and SPSS quantitative software for analyses

Graduate Research Assistant: Peter Storkerson, Fall 2007
Assistant Editor for Design Research Quarterly

Service
Northern State University
Departmental Service
Sociology Marketing Director, 2015

Hendrix College
Departmental Service
Sociology Department Website: 2014-2015

Southern Illinois University
Departmental Service
Alpha Kappa Delta President: 2011-2012.
Sociology Department Graduate Studies Committee: 2011-2012.
Sociology Department Webmaster: 2010-2012.
Sociology Department Peer Mentor Coordinator: 2010-2011.
Sociology Department Instructional and Research Resources Committee: 2010-2013.
Graduate Student Sociology Club: Secretary/Treasurer, 2009-2010.

University Service
Graduate and Professional Student Council Sociology Representative, 2008-2009.
Graduate Technology Enhancement Grant Committee, 2007-2012.
College of Liberal Arts Council, 2012-2013.

Professional Affiliations
Alpha Kappa Delta International Sociology Honor Society
American Sociological Society

Association of Internet Researchers
Midwest Sociological Society
Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction
Society for the Study of Social Problems

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