Curriculum Vitae
VIVIAN SWAYNE
901 McClung Tower Knoxville, TN 37996 | gbd874@vols.utk.edu | vivianswayne.com
EDUCATION
2024 (anticipated), PhD|The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Department of Sociology
Criminology|Women, Gender, and Sexuality|Social Theory
2020, MA|The University of Tennessee, Department of Sociology
2016BA|The University of Tennessee, Department of Sociology
CURRENT POSITIONS
2019-present|Graduate Teaching Associate, The University of Tennessee, Department of Sociology
2022-present|Project Manager of “Abolition Now: Digital Archive” for Michelle Brown, Department of Sociology
2019-present|Newsletter Editor, American Sociological Association Section on Sex and Gender
PUBLICATIONS
Swayne, V. (2023). “Queer Pleasure: Sexual Liberation and Abolition Within and Against State Violence.” Annual Review of Interdisciplinary Justice Research Vol. 12, pp. 55-80 https://www.cijs.ca/volume-12
Swayne, V. (2023) "Working Through the Past: Punishment, Accountability, and Transformation Within Self and Structure", Dahms, H.F. (Ed.) Planetary Sociology (Current Perspectives in Social Theory, Vol. 40), Emerald Publishing Limited, Bingley, pp. 157-172. https://doi.org/10.1108/S0278-120420230000040010
MANUSCRIPTS UNDER REVIEW
Swayne, V. and Wall, T. “‘I Think I Was Raped by Police Officers’: Body Cavity Searches as Normalization of State Rape.”
Draft available.
Brown, M., Martinez, K. and Swayne, V. “The Legal Violence of Police Calls for Service: Toward New Community Safety Infrastructure.” Draft available.
PUBLISHED DATA SETS
Brown, M. and Swayne, V. (2024, anticipated prototype). “Abolition Now: Digital Archive”
Desjarlais-DeKlerk, K., Brooks, T.R., Johnson, M., Koski, S., Rainey, E., & Swayne, V. (2023). “Fluid Homes: Navigating Gender, Sexuality, and Housing Insecurity Discourses on Social Media.” California Institute of Integral Studies. Proquest Digital Commons.
COURSES TAUGHT
Introduction to Sociology
Social Problems and Social Justice
Criminal Justice
Social Inequalities
Gender in Society
PRESENTATIONS AT PROFESSIONAL MEETINGS
October 2023|“Policing Murals Worldwide: Racialized Memorialization, Insurgent Critique, and Transnational Constructions of Solidarity”
Mid-South Sociological Association, New Orleans (Virtual Presentation)
November 2022|“The Legal Violence of Calling the Police: Abolition as Emergency Response” & “ Deadly Serious: The Visual Humor of the Body Cavity Search”
American Society of Criminology Annual Meeting, Atlanta, GA
April 2021|“Queering abolition: Finding queer pleasure, joy, beauty, and sexual liberation in police and prison abolition in spite state sexual violence”
Queertopia (Virtual Conference)
April 2021|“The 911 Call as a Horizon of Abolition”
Imagining Abolition: Beyond Prisons, Wars, and Borders (Virtual Conference)
May 2020|“Police Calls for Service”
The Law and Society Association Annual Meeting (Virtual Conference)
May 2019|“State Rape: Consent, Power, and The Body Cavity Search”
The Law and Society Association Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C.
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
Summer 2023|Human Sexuality Fellow
California Institute for Integral Studies
2022-2023|Research Assistant for “Southern Queer Identity Arts Based Research Study” for Leia Cain
Department of Educational Psychology and Counseling
2017-2023|Residential Counselor and Education Specialist
Helen Ross McNabb Center
June 2023|Cultural Organizing 101: Train the Trainers
Highlander Education and Research Center
2023|CIRTL Associate Level of Certification
Center for the Integration of Research Teaching and Learning
2023|Introduction to Online Teaching Certificate
Online Learning & Academic Programs and Teaching & Innovation
2022|Cultural Organizing 101
Highlander Education and Research Center
2022|Trauma Informed Community De-Escalation Training
HEART
2020-2021|Research Assistant for Tyler Wall
Department of Sociology
2019-2020|Solidarity in Action Workshop Series
Highlander Education and Research Center
2019|“Policing Rage in the Urban Age of Crisis and Extremes”
Antipode Foundation International Workshop
2019|“The Obscene Made Lawful: A Genealogy of the ‘Body Cavity Search”
Summer Graduate Research Assistantship Fund, $3600
2017|“KARM: What Makes An Emergency Shelter?”
The Amplifier, East Tennessee Peace and Justice Center
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
May 2023|“How to Develop A Successful Major Area Paper”
Presentation for Department of Sociology Colloquium
April 2023|“Police Power in Knoxville, TN”
Public Presentation for Healing East Tennessee Alternative Response Team (HEART)
2022-2023|Group Leader for Mentoring and Peer Connection Groups
College of Arts and Sciences
2023|Sociology Space Re-visioning Committee
Department of Sociology
2020|Volunteer Coordinator
Sleeves4Needs
2019|Advisor
Students for Sensible Drug Policy, University of Tennessee Chapter
2017|Managing Editor
The Amplifier, East Tennessee Peace & Justice Center
2014-2016|Executive Board Member
Sexual Empowerment and Awareness at Tennessee (SEAT)
AWARDS
May 2016|Outstanding Graduate
The University of Tennessee, Department of Sociology
PUBLIC SOCIOLOGY AND CREATIVE WORK
2024 (anticipated)|Graphic Note Taking, Community Safety
Appalachian Justice Research Center
2023|Cultural Workers Against the Death Penalty
Donkeysaddle Projects
August 2023|Graphic Note Taking, Cultural Organizing
CO 101: TTT, Highlander Education and Research Center
August 2023|Black August Political Education and Collective Art Project Mini Series
Kairos Center, Donkeysaddle Projects, & Highlander Education and Research Center
August 2023|First Friday Showcase
Hexagon Brewing Co.
December 2022|First Friday Showcase
South Press Coffee
March 2021-August 2022|Resident Artist
Knoxbox Karaoke
August 2021-December 2021|Resident Artist
South Press Coffee
February 2021-September 2021|Resident Artist
Sondr Consulting
Spring 2020|Painting Instructor
SPARK ArtAbled