PATRIZIA LONGO

Office: GV 215 Residence:

Department of Politics 3 Lincolnshire Court
Saint Mary's College Lafayette, CA 94549
Moraga, CA 94575 [USA] Tel. (925) 285-6010
Tel. (925) 631-4140 e-mail: plongo@stmarys-ca.edu
Fax (925) 376-2411 Fax (925) 935-0717

CURRICULUM VITAE

(Updated June 2014)

Formal Education

1989 Ph.D. Political Science University of California, Berkeley

1984 M.A. Political Science University of California,

Berkeley

1983 B.A. Political Science University of Pennsylvania,

European History Philadelphia

1980 B.A. Languages Scuola Superiore

[Italian, English, per Interpreti e
German] Traduttori, Florence (Italy)

Theses

Ph.D. Dissertation: "The Statue of Glaucus. Rousseau's Political Quest for Authenticity"
Committee: Paul Thomas (chair), Norman Jacobson, Martin Jay (UC
Berkeley)
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M.A. Thesis: "Marxist Methodology in Gramsci"

Chair: Paul Thomas (UC Berkeley)

B.A. Thesis: "The Concept of Praxis in German Idealism and Marxism"

Chair: Mihailo Markovic (University of Pennsylvania)

B.A. Thesis: "Ludwig Feurbach als Mittler zwischen Hegel und Marx"
[German] Chair: Hans Wildt (Florence, Italy)

B.A. Thesis: "Ethical Implications of Euthanasia"

[English] Chair: Jeannine Matthias (Florence, Italy)

Ph.D. Examination Fields

Political Theory
Western European Politics
Comparative Politics

Teaching and Research Interests

Political Theory
Women and Politics
Feminist Theory
Food Politics
Human Rights
European Politics/Immigration Issues

Academic Distinctions, Grants, and Fellowships

2006-08 Learn-and-Serve Grant from Princeton University

2005 Women’s Studies Alumnae Faculty of the Year Award

2003 Oxford Round Table (August 10-15, 2003) on women’s rights and
gender discrimination in education and the workplace (by
invitation/nomination only)
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May 2003 Dean Thomas Earl Brown Faculty Award

2001 NEH Grant to participate at a Summer Seminar at Columbia University's

School of International and Public Affairs in New York entitled
"Supranationalism: The Ethics of Global Governance" (June 4-July 13)
[Directed by Dr. Tony Lang, the Carnegie Council on Ethics and
International Affairs]

1996 NEH Grant to participate at a Summer Seminar in Sociology at Boston

University: "Morality and Society" (June 8-August 3)
[Director: Dr. Alan Wolfe]

1993 NEH Grant to participate at a Summer Institute in Philosophy at UC

Berkeley: "Knowledge, Teaching, and Wisdom" (June 21-July 31)
[Directors: Dr. Keith Lehrer and Nicholas Smith]

1992 Honored by the Dean of the School of Liberal Arts at St Mary's College for
distinction in academic and professional career in the academic year 1991-
1992 (Seventh Annual Reception, November 11, 1992)

1990 Nomination for the "Leo Strauss Award" for the best dissertation in Political
Theory

1986 UC Berkeley Award for "Outstanding Teaching"

1985 "Distinction" in Ph.D. Examination in Political Theory

(Committee Members: Norman Jacobson, Hannah Pitkin, Paul Thomas)

1983 Braden Fellowship for graduate school at UCB

1983 Magna cum Laude (University of Pennsylvania)

1982 Dean's List (University of Pennsylvania)

1981 Dean's List (Rider College, New Jersey)

1980 Summa cum Laude for German Thesis in Philosophy (Florence, Italy)

1979 Summa cum Laude for English Thesis on Euthanasia (Florence, Italy)

Teaching and Research Experience

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1991- Saint Mary's College of Moraga, CA

Department of Politics:
Introduction to Political Thought
Modern Political Thought
Food Politics
Gender Politics
Politics and Race
Women and Peace
Learning Communities Course: “Art and Politics” (fall 2005)
Human Rights, Globalization and Resistance
The Enlightenment
Theories of Justice
Engendering Citizenship and Democracy
Independent Study on Women in South Africa
Independent Study on Cosmopolitan Citizenship
Independent Study on Women in Prison
Independent Study on Inequality in Education
Independent Studies in Contemporary Feminist Theory
Independent Study on Hannah Arendt
Independent Study on U.S. Immigration
Independent Study on Food Politics
Independent Study on Animal Rights
Sponsor of several student internships

Collegiate Seminar:
Greek Thought
Roman, Christian Thought
The Renaissance and the Enlightenment
19th- and 20th-Century Thought

Department of Modern Languages:

Italian 1, 2, 3 and 4
Italian History from 1945 to the Present (taught in the Summer
Program in Rome)
Independent Studies in the History of Italian Cinema
Independent Studies in Italian Contemporary Literature
Independent Study in Italian Neorealism in Cinema

Program in Women's Studies:

Introduction to Women's Studies
Capstone Course: “Women and War”

January Term Travel Courses:

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"The Classics: A Trip to Greece, Sicily, and Rome"

"The Italian Renaissance: A Trip to Northern Italy and Tuscany"

Fall 1991 Department of Political Science

California State University, Hayward:
Early Modern Political Thought

Summer 1991 Columbia College, Moffett Field, CA

Philosophy 320: "Authority and Resistance: From Plato to Marx"

Fall 1990 Guest Lecturer for a course in Greek Tragedy and Classical Political
Philosophy (PS 112A) at U.C. Berkeley

1990 Certified EPA Instructor to train asbestos workers in the United

States and Italy

1987-89 Instructor of Italian

Department of Italian, U.C. Berkeley:
Italian 1, Italian 2, Italian 3, and Italian 4

1984-87 Teaching Assistant in Political Theory:

PS 4 (History of Political Thought)

Professor Paul Thomas

PS 112A (Ancient and Medieval Political Thought)

Professor Paul Thomas

PS 112B (Political Thought from Machiavelli to Marx)

Professor Paul Thomas

PS 112C (Modern and Contemporary Political Thought)

Professor Michael Rogin

1984- Translator/Interpreter in Italian for American Translators International

(Stanford, CA)

1983 Assistant for Mihailo Markovic and Richard Bernstein, editors of

Praxis International: editing and translation of a paper by Umberto
Cerroni for the April 1983 issue (Vol.3, No.1)

1982-3 Reasearch Assistant for Professor Emeritus Jerre Mangione

(Department of English, University of Pennsylvania)
(Research on Italian Immigration to America)
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1981-3 Part-time Instructor of Italian, Translator, and Interpreter for The

Berlitz School of Languages (Jenkintown, Pennsylvania)

Professional Service and Associations

2011- Faculty representative of SMC Slow Food Chapter

2009- Member of the Agriculture, Food and Human Values

Society (AFHVS) and of the Association for the Study of Food and
Society (ASFS)

2009- Member of Slow Food USA

March 2007 Lecture on community-based learning at Notre Dame University

November 2005 Sabbatical presentation: “Through a ‘gender lens’: Invasive

procedures and masculine metaphors in surgery and foreign policy"

2005-08 Faculty Representative of the School of Liberal Arts on the

College Academic Senate

November 2002 Lecture to the Jewish Community Center in Walnut Creek: “Is a
Kinder, Peaceful World Possible?”

Fall 2001 Participant in a Teach-In organized by the Politics Department

discussing September 11, 2001 and terrorism

2001-2002 Program Chair, “Ecological and Transformational Politics”

(American Political Science Association) for the 88 th Annual Meeting
of the American Political Science Association, Boston, MA, Aug. 28-
31, 2002)

1999-2001 Western Political Science Association Committee on the Status of

Women in the Profession

1999-2002 Faculty Representative of the School of Liberal Arts on the College

Academic Senate

1999-2002 Member of the SMC Women’s Studies Executive Board

Fall 1999 Moderator at a Roundtable Discussion on the Politics of Race

at Saint Mary’s College (guest speaker: David Shipler)
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April 12, 1999 Lecture on “The History of Italian Feminism” at the Museo
Italo-Americano in San Francisco

October 12, 1998 Participant on the discussion panel “President Clinton and the Politics
of Impeachment” (hosted by the Department of Politics)

1996- Co-ordinator of the Bay Area Women in Political Science (BAWPS)

March 1996 Workshop on "Integrating Race and Ethnicity into the Political
Science Curriculum" (Cathedral Hill Hotel, San Francisco)

1995- Member of Editorial Advisory Board for the Collegiate Press for the
evaluation of The New World of Politics

1995-96 Parliamentarian for the Academic Senate (Chair: Ron Isetti)

September 1995 Participant in a forum on the teaching of Italian language and culture
at the Italian Consulate in San Francisco

1995- Reviewer for Women and Politics

Member of AAUW and Member of AAUP

1994- Reviewer for Journal of Utopian Studies

1994- Contributor to political commentaries for the Contra Costa Times

1993-97 Member of the Advisory Board for the Women's Studies Program at
Saint Mary's College

Summer 1994 Participant at the Irvine Grant Workshop "Teaching and Learning in a
Multicultural Context" (May 26-28)

Spring 1993 Participant at the annual Saint Mary's College Retreat on the
Russian River: "The Collegiate Seminar Curriculum and Diversity"

June 1992 Participant at the Irvine Grant Workshop on Multiculturalism at St

Mary's College (June 1-4)

Fall 1992 Participant at a workshop sponsored by the Great Books Foundation

(Oakland, CA)

Respondent on a panel with Michael Lerner (editor of Tikkun)

discussing the "Politics of Meaning"
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Spring 1992 Participant at the annual Saint Mary's College Retreat on the
Russian River: "Gender Issues in the Collegiate Seminar" (March
1992)

November 1992 Participant in the Alemany Forum on Religion: "A Discussion of John
Paul II's Centesimus Annus"

January 1992 Judge on the Newman Essay Contest in Greek Thought

1989-1991 Bay Area Convenor for the Conference for the Study of Political
Thought (CSPT)

1990- Member of the Women's Caucus of the American Political Science

Association

1989-1992 Member of the Society of Utopian Studies

1989- Member of the American Political Science Association

1989- Member of the Western Political Science Association

1989-92 Member of the Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology

1989- Member of the Bay Area Women in Political Science

Active Participation at Regional, National, and International Meetings

"Theories of Justice and the Right to Food"-- Annual Meeting of the Western Political
Science Association, Hollywood, CA, March 27-30, 2013.

"Community-Based Research and Food Democracy: The Urban Farmers Project at Saint
Mary's College of California"--Joint Annual Meeting of AFHVS and ASFS, University of
Montana, Missoula, MT, June 8-12, 2011.

“Is Food a Commodity?”— Joint Annual Meeting of AFHVS and ASFS, University of
Indiana, Bloomington, IN, June 1-4, 2010.

“Food and Democracy—A Critique of use-value and exchange value in Aristotle and
Marx”—Annual Meeting of the Western Political Science Association, San Francisco, CA,
March 31-April 4, 2010.

“Common Tables and Democratic Solidarity” (“Informing Possibilities for the Future of
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Food and Agriculture”—Joint Annual Meeting of AFHVS and ASFS, May 28-31, 2009,
Penn State Conference Center, State College, PA)

“Citizenship and the Global Polity” (The Aspen Institute—Wye Faculty Seminar,
Queenstown, Maryland, July 19-25, 2008)

"From Service-Learning to Community-Based Research Courses" (APSA Teaching and

Learning Annual Conference, San Jose, CA, February 22-24, 2008)

“Gender and Empire Revisited” (“Gender Unbound” Conference at Keele University, UK,
July 8-11, 2007)

Participant at the Lasallian Social Justice Institute on “Violence and Peacemaking”

(Chicago, July 22-28, 2006)

“Gender and Empire” (2006 Annual Meeting of the Western Political Science Association,
Albuquerque, NM, March 15-18, 2006).

Participation at the National Council for Research on Women’s 2005 Annual Conference,
"Power Matters: Reshaping Agendas through Women’s Leadership" (New York, June 6-8,
2005). [Over 350 scholars and activists came together at this conference to discuss the
reshaping of agendas, across a number of issue areas, such as security issues, war and
empire, economic rights, work discrimination, girls and leadership, gender violence,
transnational networks, etc.]

“Mentoring and Role Modeling for Women in Medicine” (Annual Conference of the
Massachusetts Surgical Society, Boston, June 8-10, 2005)—co-authored and co-
presented with Clifford J. Straehley, M.D.

“Feminism and Nonviolence: A Relational Model of Citizenship” (the First Annual

Gandhian Nonviolence Conference, October 8-9, 2004, Memphis, TN)

“Nonviolence and Feminism” (The Second International Conference on New Directions in

the Humanities, Monash University, Prato, Italy, July 20-23, 2004).

“Service-Learning in the Curriculum” (Annual Conference of the Association of American

Colleges and Universities, Long Beach, March 2004).

“Leadership in Education” (Oxford Roundtable, St. Antony’s College, Oxford University,

Oxford, England, August 10-15, 2003).

“Italian Feminism: Past, Present, and Future” (Annual Meeting of the American Political
Science Association, Philadelphia, PA, August 28-31, 2003).
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“Italian Feminism/s” (2003 Annual Meeting of the Western Political Science Association,
Denver, CO, March 26-29, 2003).

“The Globalization of Care: Kant’s Cosmopolitanism and Filipina Migrant Domestic

Workers.” Co-authored with Wendy Sarvasy (Annual Meeting of the American Political
Science Association, Boston, MA, August 29-September 1, 2002).

“Cosmopolitanism and Feminism: A Democratic Partnership beyond Borders.” Co-

authored with Wendy Sarvasy (Annual Meeting of the Western Political Science
Association, Long Beach, CA, March 21-24, 2002)

Discussant on the panel “Gendered Challenges to Local, National, and Transnational

Democracy” (Annual Conference of the American Political Science Association, San
Francisco, CA, Aug. 30-Sept. 2, 2001)

Participant at a roundtable discussion on M. Cummings’s book, Beyond Political

Correctness: Social Transformation in the United States (Annual Conference of the
American Political Science Association, Washington, D.C., Aug. 31-Sept. 3, 2000

“Women Without Borders: A Relational View of Immigration and Citizenship”

(Approaching a New Millennium: Lessons From the Past—Prospects For the Future,
Seventh Conference of the International Society for the Study of European Ideas, Bergen,
Norway, August14-18, 2000).

“The Application of Feminist Ethics and Epistemology to the Issue of Female Immigration
in the European Union” (Gendering Ethics/The Ethics of Gender Conference, Center for
Interdisciplinary Gender Studies, University of Leeds, UK, June 23-25, 2000).

“The Feminization of Immigration in Italy” (Twentieth Annual Conference of the American

Association for Italian Studies, New York, April 13-15, 2000)

“Jeans, Miniskirts, and Parity: Redefining Citizenship for the New Millennium” (Re-
Thinking Citizenship: Critical Perspectives for the 21st Century, University of Leeds, UK,
June 29-30, 1999)

“Social Citizenship and Parity in Italy” (International Conference on Women Transforming

the Public, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA, April 23-25, 1999)

“Sexual Difference and Parity: The Italian Case” (Annual Meeting of the Western Political
Science Association, Seattle, WA, March 25-27, 1999)

"Feminist Epistemology for Democratic Citizenship" (Annual Meeting of the Western

Political Science Association, Los Angeles, CA, March 18-21, 1998)
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"Engendering Democracy" (Annual Meeting of the Western Political Science Association,

Tucson, AZ, March 13-16, 1997)

"Feminist Identity and Citizenship" (The Cultural Turn: An Interdisciplinary Conference,

UC Santa Barbara, CA, February 14-16, 1997)

"Learning a New Dance: A Perspective on Social Change" (Annual Meeting of the

American Political Science Association, San Francisco, CA, August 29-September 1,
1996)

Participant at an International Roundtable on the Politics of Implementing the Bejing

Commitments (San Francisco, March 16-17, 1996)

"Reframing Our Social Reality: A Contemporary Utopia" (Annual Utopian Studies

Conference, Toronto, Canada, October 19-22, 1995)

"... and Thales Fell into a Pit: A Feminist Critique of Epistemology" (Annual Utopian
Studies Conference, Toronto, Canada, November 1993)

"Plato and the Modern Technological Myth" (Annual Utopian Studies Conference,
Baltimore, November 19-23, 1992)

"The Foundation of the Greek Polis. Apogee and Crisis" (Annual Meeting of the American
Political Science Association, Washington, D.C., August 29-September 1, 1991)

"Rousseau and the Postmodern Syndrome" (Annual Meeting of the Western Political
Science Association, Seattle, WA, March 20-23, 1991)

"Marx's Utopia of Double Reality. A Critique" (Annual Conference on Utopian Studies,

Lexington, Kentucky, November 1990)

"Rousseau and the Problem of Squaring the Circle" (Annual Conference on Utopian
Studies, Asilomar, CA, November 1989)

"Utopia or Paradox? Rousseau's Dream of a True Democracy" (Third International

Conference on Utopian Studies, Rome, Caserta, and Reggio Calabria, Italy, May 1989)

Publications

"Education for Social Transformation: Infusing Feminist Ethics and Critical Pedagogy
into Community-Based Research." Forthcoming in Critical Sociology. Co-authored with
Cynthia Ganote.
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"Common Tables and Democratic Solidarity." Theory in Action (Vol. 6, No. 3, July 2013).

"Whack! I've Hit the Glass Ceiling! Women's Efforts to Gain Status in Surgery.” Gender
Medicine. (Vol. 5, N. 1, March 2008).Co-authored with Clifford Straehley.

Book Review of “Breaking the Iron Wall: Decommodification and Immigrant Women's
Labor in Canada," by Habiba Zaman (Journal of Women, Politics and Policy edited by
Heidi Hartmann and Carol Hardy-Fanta)

“Family Issues Affecting Women in Medicine—Particularly Women Surgeons.” The

American Journal of Surgery 192 (November 2006), 695-998. Co-authored with Clifford
Straehley

“Mentoring Women in Medicine.” Connections: The Journal of the Association of Women

Surgeons 12 (2) (Spring 2006). Co-authored with Clifford Straehley

“Engendering Surgery.” Against the Current. March 2006. Co-authored with Clifford
Straehley

“The Globalization of Care: Kant’s Cosmopolitanism and Filipina Migrant Domestic

Workers.” International Feminist Journal of Politics. September 2004, Vol. 6 No. 3. Co-
authored with Wendy Sarvasy.

Book review of Citizenship Today: Global Perspectives and Practices. T. Alexander

Aleinkoff and Douglas Klusmeyer, eds. Washington D.C.: Carnegie Endowment for
International Peace, 2001. (The Canadian Journal of Political Science)

“Revisiting the Equality/Difference Debate: Redefining Citizenship for the New Millennium”
Citizenship Studies. Vol. 5, No. 3, November 2001.

Book review of Larry Chappell, George Will. “George Will Meets Augustinian Liberalism”
In The South Carolina Review . Vol. 31, No. 1, Fall 1998.

Book review of Susan Hekman, Moral Voices Moral Selves. In Women and Politics. Vol.
19, No. 2,1998.

"Repensando la ciudadania" ("Rethinking Citizenship"), co-authored with Laura Gioscia,

Revista Uruguaya de Ciencia Politica No. 9, Montevideo, Uruguay, 1998.

Book review of Mario Schiattone, Alle Origini del Federalismo Italiano. In Utopian Studies.
Vol. 8, No. 2, December 1997.

"Rousseau's Dream of a True Democracy: Utopia or Paradox?"

In Spazialità e Temporaneità nell'Utopia, Roma: Gangemi Editore, 1992.
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The Statue of Glaucus. Rousseau's Modern Quest for Authenticity (New York, Chicago
and San Francisco: Peter Lang Publishing, 1991).

Translation from English into Italian of the EPA-EEC Manual of International Regulations
for Asbestos Abatement (1990)

Editing and translation from Italian into English of "The Problem of Democracy in Mass
Society" by Umberto Cerroni (Praxis International, April 1983, Vol.3, No.1, 34-53)

Translation from Italian into English of "Interfascicular autologous grafts in the repair of
peripheral nerves: eight years experience" by Dr. Ludovico Stellini, University of Florence,
Italy. British Journal of Plastic Surgery (1982) 35, 478-482.

Language Ability

Italian (mother language)

English (fluent: reading, writing, and speaking)
German (reading, writing, and speaking)
French (reading, writing, and speaking)
Spanish (reading)
Latin (reading)

Academic References

Dr. Paul Thomas

Department of Political Science
University of California
Berkeley, CA 94720
(510)642-4681

Dr. Joel Rosenthal, Director

Carnegie Council on Ethics and International Affairs
170 East 64 Street
New York, NY 10021-7496
(212)838-4120
jrosenthal@cceia.org

Dr. Mary Hawkesworth

Professor of Political Science
Rutgers University
New Brunswick, NJ 08901
mhawkes@rci.rutgers.edu
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Dr. Jane Bayes

Institute of Gender Globalization and Democracy
California State University, Northridge
Northridge, CA 91330-8254
(310) 459-7151
jbayes@csun.edu

Dr. Wendy Sarvasy

Department of Political Science
California State University, Hayward
Hayward, CA 94545
(510)881-3000
wsarvasy@csuhayward.edu