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Curriculum Vitae

Anna L. Weissman 

Dr. Anna L. Weissman is a social scientist whose research examines the material and spatial dimensions of power, identity, and belonging. Her work draws on anthropology and archaeology to explore how gender, sexuality, and (national) identity are constructed, contested, and reproduced. Through publications with Oxford University Press, Routledge, and other academic platforms, she investigates the intersections of reproductive politics, domestic life, and nation-state formation, and how these mediate political subjectivities. Weissman’s scholarship offers a critical lens on the ways that everyday life and embodied experience shape and are shaped by broader regimes of governance and cultural memory.

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Archeological pedestrian survey, hunting for the 1819 Spanish fort near Sangre De Cristo Pass, Colorado 

Education

2012-2019

University of Florida

Gainesville, FL

PhD 

Political Science: International Relations (I); Comparative Politics (II); Gender Studies (III) 
with coursework in Anthropology, Gender Studies, and Museum Studies

2014

University of Florida 

Gainesville, FL

MA

Political Science 

with Graduate Certificate in Gender and Women's Studies

2010

Lake Forest College

Lake Forest, IL

BA

Magna Cum Laude, with coursework in Anthropology, Economics, History, Sociology, and Political Science

Teaching Appointments

University of Florida, Department of Political Science,

Gainesville, FL
Instructional Designer and Instructor (2012-2019)
•    Designed new 17-week courses including all pedagogical materials, student learning
outcomes, exam assessments, and weekly assignments; designed and managed course's web-based learning management system
o    Politics of Eastern Europe (CPO 3614/EUS 3930)
o    Introduction to International Relations (INR 2001)
o    Politics of World Economy (INR 2024) [graduate teaching assistant]
•    Converted traditional semester in-person INR 2001 course to abbreviated 10-week online course
offered during summer term; designed, wrote, and filmed all media content; designed and managed all course assessments and web-based learning management systems

 

Santa Fe College, Department of Behavioral Sciences, 

Gainesville, FL,
Instructional Designer and Instructor (2015-2019)
•    Designed new 16-week general education courses including all pedagogical materials, student learning outcomes, exam assessments, and weekly assignments; designed and managed courses' web-based learning management system
o    Introduction to American Politics (POS 2041)   
o    Introduction to Global Politics (INR 2001)
 

Published Works

(2020) Troubling Motherhood: Interrogations of Maternality in Global Politics, edited by Lucy B. Hall, Anna L. Weissman, and Laura J. Shepherd. Oxford University Press.
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(2020) "Motherhood and Maternality in Global Politics," with Lucy B. Hall, in Troubling Motherhood: Interrogations of Maternity in Global Politics, Oxford University Press, 1-16
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(2020) "Ideal Citizens and Family Values: The Politics of Reproductive Fitness" in Troubling Motherhood: Interrogations of Maternity in Global Politics, Oxford University Press, 103-121
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(2019) The Limits of Tolerance: LGBTQ Parenting Rights and the (Re)Production of National Identity in Europe, Doctoral Dissertation published by the University of Florida
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(2018) “Sex, Sexuality, Reproduction, and International Security,” in Routledge Handbook of
Gender and Security, edited by Caron Gentry, Laura J. Shepherd, and Laura Sjoberg. Routledge.
 
(2016) “Repronormativity and the Reproduction of the Nation-State: The State and Sexuality Collide.” Journal of GLBT Family Studies, 13:3
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(2016) with Sjoberg, Laura, “The Queer in/of International Relations.” In Oxford Bibliographies in International Relations. Ed. Patrick James. New York: Oxford University Press.
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(2016) Book Review: “Who Is Worthy of Protection? Gender-Based Asylum and US Immigration Politics.” International Feminist Journal of Politics 18:1
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(2015) Book Review: “Intelligent Compassion: Feminist Critical Methodology in Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom.” Journal of Women, Politics, and Policy 36:3
 

Awards and Grants

Doctoral Dissertation Completion award, awarded by University of Florida Graduate School, a competitive university-wide award for completion of dissertation research and writing ($20,000), 2019

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James W. Button award, awarded annually for outstanding scholarship by the University of Florida's Department of Political Science ($250), 2019

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Kenneth Sherrill Prize, awarded annually by the American Political Science Association to recognize the best doctoral dissertation proposal for empirical study of lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender (LGBT) topics in Political Science ($200), 2018

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Research Travel grants
•    Department of Political Science, University of Florida, ($350): 2013, 2014 ($300), 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018
•    Center for European Studies, University of Florida, 2012 (deferred), 2014 ($1,000)    Graduate Student Council, University of Florida, ($250), 2013

 

Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Pre-Doctoral Fellowship, funded by the Department of Education and administered by UF's Center for European Studies, this fellowship provides funding for an academic year ($27,000 total funds annually) to support lesser-taught language study and area studies, 2012 (deferred), 2013-2014, 2015-2016, 2016- 2017

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Pulaski Graduate Scholarship for Advanced Studies, 2014 ($5,000)
This competitive award is awarded annually by the American Council for Polish Culture to selected Polish American graduate student who have demonstrated exceptional academic accomplishment and service to the Polish community.

 

Graduate Assistantship,

Full tuition reimbursement and annual stipend provided by the University of Florida's Department of Political Science for four years, 2011 – 2015.
 

Training 

Winterthur Institute, April 2024, Winterthur Museum, Garden, and Library

  • 70 hours of professional development in an immersive study of the history, interpretation, and care of American decorative arts with a focus on materials, construction, and design history to interpret cultural meaning and contexts

  • Participated in 51 sessions by 23 curatorial instructors and a community of accomplished colleagues in small-group seminars in the rooms of Henry Francis du Pont’s 175-room home, conservation lab, library, and archives

 

Approaches to the Teaching the Survey Course, annual meeting of the International Studies Association, 4 April 2018, San Francisco, CA

 

Case Writing and Case Teaching, annual meeting of the International Studies Association, February 22, 2017, Baltimore, MD

 

Interpretive and Relational Research Methodologies Workshop, International Studies Association –Northeast region, November 5, 2015, Providence, RI

Conference Presentations

“Troubling Motherhood: Maternity and the State,” presented at the

annual meeting of the International Studies Association, 4-7 April 2018, San Francisco, CA

 

Chair, Roundtable: “Troubling Motherhood: Care Work and Feminist Ethics,” annual meeting of the International Studies Association, 4-7 April 2018, San Francisco, CA

 

Roundtable, “Troubling Motherhood: Interrogations of Motherhood in Global Politics,” annual meeting of the International Feminist Journal of Politics, 2-3 April 2018, San Francisco, CA

 

“Queering the Institution of Motherhood: Repronormativity and the Production of Difference,” presented at the annual meeting of the International Studies Association - Northeast region, 3-4 November 2017, Providence, RI

 

Invited Roundtable, “Researching and Teaching International Relations during Politically Disruptive Times,” annual meeting of the International Studies Association –

South region, 20-21 October 2017, Orlando, FL

 

Roundtable, “Motherhood, Intersectionality, and Global Politics,” annual meeting of the International Studies Association, 22-25 February 2017, Baltimore, MD

 

“Survey of Same-Sex Reproductive Rights in Europe and the United States: Sexuality and the State Collide,” presented at the annual meeting of the

International Feminist Journal of Politics, 19-22 May 2016, Cincinnati, OH

 

“Constructing the Body Politic Through Limitations on Reproductive Rights for Same-Sex Couples,” presented at the annual meeting of the International

Studies Association, 17-21 March 2016, Atlanta, GA

 

“Reproducing the Nation: Repronormativity and the Production of the Nation-State through Three Case Studies: Poland, Sweden, and France,” presented at the annual meeting of the International Studies Association-Northeast region, 5-7 November, 2015, Providence, RI

 

“The Female Citizen: An Oxymoron? Analyzing Women’s Identities in Newly Democratizing States through the Reproductive Rights Discourse in 1990s Poland,” presented at the annual meeting of the International Feminist Journal of Politics, 9-11 May 2014, Los Angeles, CA

 

“Tracing the Genealogy of Feminism in Poland: The Roles of History and Culture in the Development of Female Civic Identity and Participation,” presented at the annual meeting of the International Studies Association, 3-6 April 2013, San Francisco, CA

Recent Work Experience

History Colorado, Denver, CO

Associate Curator of Domestic Life (January 2024-April 2025)

  • Served as content expert internally and across 11 community museums and historic sites

  • Managed volunteers, interns, and contractors in collection- and research-related projects

  • With the Stephen H. Hart Research Center, constructed collection-based programming for high school, undergraduate, and graduate students, and the general public

  • Conducted original research, making results available to the public through collections access, outreach, exhibitions, public programming, and publications

  • Provided exhibition direction in conceptual development, research and interpretation, artifact selection, and artifact loan origination for

 

Senior Exhibit Developer (June 2023 - January 2024)

  • Lead exhibit projects and two developers through all phases of exhibit development ensuring that cross-departmental exhibit teams meet the needs of exhibit projects, producing 8 exhibits annually

  • Developed and maintained exhibit schedules, coordinating with cross-functional teams to ensure all phases, from planning to installation, adhered to project deadlines

  • Lead developer on

  • Directly supervised two developers, directing their tasks in exhibition planning and timeline management to ensure project milestones were met. I provided hands-on support and regular feedback, fostering their development in exhibit logistics, interdepartmental coordination, and stakeholder communication for successful project execution for the following exhibits:

Danielle SeeWalker: But We Have Something to Say - (Feb. 2024 – Sept. 2024)

Through the Lens: The Photography of Frank Muramoto (Oct. 2023 – Oct.2024)

Flow: On the River with John Fielder (Jan. 2024 – Jan. 2025)

Owl Club of Denver: Legacies of Excellence (May 2024 - May 2025)

 

The Historic Barker Mansion, Michigan City, IN (July 2020-April 2022)

Curatorial Fellow (July 2020-Dec 2020); Curator (Dec 2020 - April 2022)  

  • Collection Management and Curatorial Research

    • Managed $2-million-dollar historical collection, digital archive, and physical archive (decorative arts, fine arts, historic domestic items)

    • Shaped and stewarded museum's collection, and advised Board of Directors on long-term direction and intellectual emphases for the museum, its exhibits, and programming

  • Designed and implemented 1500-square-foot permanent exhibit on historic Haskell & Barker Factory, Legacy of Freight (opened December 2022)

  • Managed $4.5-million-dollar site improvements, structural repairs, and restoration projects  

 

Smithsonian National Museum of American History, Washington, D.C. (Jan 2020-June 2020)

Research Historian and Curatorial Intern [left due to Covid-19 closure of institution]

  • Exhibition team, Girlhood: It’s Complicated permanent exhibit (5,000 sq. foot gallery, June 12, 2020- January 2, 2022) and traveling exhibit (2023-2025)

  • Collection team, “New Paths to Change: Undocumented Immigrant Activism, 2000 to

Present,” with the Smithsonian Latino Center and the Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center

  • Curatorial team, African American Social Justice History

    • Designed research on acquisition history, documentation, curatorial notes, exhibits pertaining to African American history 1963-1979; developed and implemented organizational methodology of division records

    • Researcher and copyeditor/writer for the Smithsonian National Museum of American History's Center for Restorative History

 

Matheson History Museum, Gainesville, FL (Dec 2018-Aug 2019)

Interpretative Planner

  • Planned exhibit and generated theme, storyboard, and content, historical writing, interpretation, and exhibit script for temporary exhibition for “McCarthy Moment: The Johns Committee at the University of Florida (1958-59),” Feb 2020-Aug 2020

 

Panama Canal Museum Collection, Special Collections, George A. Smathers Libraries, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL (Feb 2018-Aug 2019)

Guest Curator

  • Planned exhibit and generated theme, storyboard, and content, historical writing, interpretation, and exhibit script, catalogues, and media for temporary exhibition of “Fog of War? WWII Propaganda in the Panama Canal Zone,” Spring 2020

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International Feminist Journal of Politics

Managing Editor (2012-2013)

Managed timeline of all manuscripts from initial submission review, Referee review, edits, copyediting, to publication, and coordinated processes with internationally-based Executive Board and Editors

Languages

English (native)                   

Polish (C1)

French (B2)          

Professional Membership

Society for American Archaeology (SAA)

The National Coalition of Independent Scholars (NCIS)

American Political Science Association (APSA)
International Studies Association (ISA)

References 

Dr. Benjamin Smith (Doctoral Advisor)

Professor and Department Chair

University of Florida

Department of Political Science

Box 117325, Anderson Hall

Gainesville, FL 32611

Email: bbsmith@ufl.edu  Phone: 352-273-2345

 

Dr. David Tegeder (Teaching Mentor, supervisor)

Department Chair

Santa Fe College

Social and Behavioral Sciences

Gainesville, FL

Email: david.tegeder@sfcollege.edu   Phone: 352-395-5083

 

Dr. Brent Steele (Mentor)

Francis D. Wormuth Presidential Chair and Distinguished Professor

University of Utah

Department of Political Science

201 Presidents’ Circle

Salt Lake City, UT 84112

Email: brentsteele@utah.edu   Phone: 515-745-7042

 

Dr. Mauro J. Caraccioli (Mentor)

Associate Professor, Core Faculty in the ASPECT Program

Virginia Tech

Department of Political Science

531 Major Williams Hall (0130)

Blacksburg, VA 24061

Email: mauroj@vt.edu   Phone: 540-231-5310

Get in Touch

847-890-2734

annaweissmanphd@gmail.com

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