Christine Labuski

• Gender and Sexualities
• Medical/Cultural Anthropology
• Feminist Science Studies

• PhD, The University of Texas at Austin, Anthropology (Women and Gender Studies portfolio)
• MA, The University of Texas at Austin, Anthropology
• MS, The University of Massachusetts Medical School-Graduate School of Nursing, Nursing.
• BS, Fitchburg State College, Nursing

• Director, Gender, Bodies & Technology (conference and initiative at VT)
• Member, Society for Social Studies of Science
• Member, American Anthropological Association
• Member, National Women’s Studies Association

• William E. Snizek Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching, Department of Sociology, 2015
• American Summer/Short-Term Research Publication Grant, American Association of University Women, 2015
• Claire Goldberg Moses award for the theoretical innovation, Feminist Studies, 2014

Books

It Hurts Down There: The Bodily Imaginaries of Female Genital Pain (SUNY Press, 2015).

The World of Walmart: Discounting the American Dream (with Nicholas Copeland) (Routledge, 2012).

Journal Articles

Labuski, Christine and Nick Copeland. “From Affective Shareholding to OUR Walmart: Organizing Labor in a Post-Union World.” nano: New American Notes Online, Issue 8 (December).

Labuski, Christine and Colton Keo-Meier.  The (Mis)Measure of Trans.  Transgender Studies Quarterly, 2(1): 13-33.

Labuski, Christine. 2013. Vulnerable Vulvas: Female Genital Integrity in Health and Dis-ease. Feminist Studies. 

Meier, Stacey, Seth Pardo, Christine Labuski and Julia Babcock. 2013. Measures of Clinical Health among Female-to-Male Transgender Persons as a Function of Sexual Orientation. Archives of Sexual Behavior.

• “(Wo)Men Working: Gender, Labor, and Vulnerability in the Bakken Oil Fields.” American Association of University Women. American Summer/Short-Term Research Publication Grant, $6000
• “(Wo)Men Working: Gender, Labor, and Extraction in the Bakken Oil Fields.” Institute for the Study of Culture and the Environment (ISCE). Summer Scholars Program; $13, 694
• “Airing Concerns: A Data-Driven Approach to Autonomous Vehicle Technology Ethics. Co-sponsored with the Institute for Critical Technology and Applied Sciences (ICTAS). Co-PI. $40,000.