Kristi Brownfield
Curriculum Vitae – PDF Version of CV
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.
Publications
Aamlid, Cindy and Kristi Brownfield. 2019. “We Are Not Different: We Just Sit: A Case Study of the Lives Experiences of Five College Students in Wheelchairs.” Journal of Ethnographic and Qualitative Research 13(3):155-68.
Brownfield, Kristi. 2019. “Contrasting Sex and Gender.” in The Encyclopedia of Women and Crime, edited by F. P. Bernat and K. Frailing: Wiley.
Brownfield, Kristi. 2017. “Hacked: A Radical Approach to Hacker Culture and Crime by Kevin Steinmetz.” American Journal of Sociology 123(3).
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
2020 NSU 2020 Outstanding Early Career Faculty Award
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 and Guest Lectures
“The Power of Storytelling to Create Community.” Invited Session, 2020 ASPIRE Conference: Igniting the Fire. September 2020.
“The Power of Stories.” Invited WolfTalk. Northern State University. August 2020.
“NSU LBGTQI Ally Training,” with Karyl Meister. Invited Guest Lecture: BADM 462: Diversity in Management. Northern State University. February 2020.
“Online Qualitative Methods.” Invited Guest Lecture: Sociology 514: Qualitative Sociology. Southern Illinois University-Carbondale. March 2012.
Selected Conference Papers and Presentations
“Toward Sustaining Women in Academia: Understanding their Invisible Labor.” Panel Discussant. Midwest Sociological Society Annual Meeting. April 2020.**
“Hegemonic Masculinity, Disability, and Restorative Violence within Video Games.” Kristi Brownfield. Midwest Sociological Society Annual Meeting. April 2020.**
“Surviving the Gig Economy: Adjuncting in Higher Education.” Session Presider. Midwest Sociological Society Annual Meeting. April 2020.**
“A/B/O, Sentinels, and Sex Pollen: Narratives of Consent in Fanfiction.” Kristi Brownfield and Courtney Waid-Lindberg. Great Plains Sociological Association Annual Meeting. November 2019.
“Concern Trolling: The Nature of Digitized Public Discourse Encompassing Police-Citizen Interactions.” Kristi Brownfield and Courtney Waid-Lindberg. Digitizing Justice: Law, Crime, and Order in an Online World. May 2019.
“Heal Plz: Representations of Ability and Able-Bodiedness in Video Games.” Kristi Brownfield. Midwest Sociological Society Annual Meeting. April 2019. [Session Presider]
“Television’s Representation of Autism Spectrum Disorder.” Kristi Brownfield and Courtney Waid-Lindberg. Accessing Justice: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Access, Justice, Law, and Order. May 2018.
“Violence, Villainy, and Vigilantism: The Positioning of Restorative Violence in Genre Television.” Kristi Brownfield, Courtney Waid-Lindberg. American Society of Criminology’s Annual Meeting. November 2017.
“Roundtable: Social Reactions to Crime and Victimization: The Benefits and Challenges of Analyzing Twitter Data.” Panel Discussant. American Society of Criminology’s Annual Meeting. November 2017.
“Thinking about Assessment in a Programmatic Way.” Cindy Aamlid, Kristi Brownfield, Courtney Waid-Lindberg. Great Plains Sociological Association Annual Meeting. October 2017.
“Frontier Justice: Examining Representations of Masculinity of Modern Rural Policing on Television.” Kristi Brownfield, Courtney Waid-Lindberg. Midwest Sociological Society Annual Meeting/Couch-Stone Symposium. March 2017 [Session Presider].
“The Representation of Military Masculinity in Comedic Film.” Kristi Brownfield. Great Plains Sociological Association Annual Meeting. October 2016 [Session Presider].
“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.
**Indicates conferences that were cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic
Teaching Experience
Northern State University
Assistant Professor, Sociology Department, Fall 2015-current
Sociology 100: Introduction to Sociology (face-to-face and online)
Interdisciplinary Learning 190: Dystopian Societies
Interdisciplinary Learning 190: Technology and Society (online)
Sociology 260: Popular Culture and Society
Sociology 261: Human Sexuality
Sociology 281: Socio-Cultural Theory (face-to-face and online)
Sociology 350: Race and Ethnicity
Sociology 402: Social Deviance
Sociology 403: Sociological Theory
Sociology 459: Sociology of Death and Dying
Sociology 483: Sociology of Gender Roles
Sociology 492: Popular Culture and Society
Sociology 489: Capstone
Sociology 591: Graduate Independent Study (Social Deviance)
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-present
Assessment Officer for Sociology, 2016-present
Departmental Hiring Committees: Criminal Justice, Sociology, Criminal Justice (AY2020)
University Service
Lions Club Advisor, 2015-2017
Diversity Action Committee, 2018-present
NSU Social Science representative for the BOR General Education Assessment goal #5 revisions, 2018
Participated in the BOR Assessment Summit for Social Sciences General Education Goal #5, 2019
NSU representative for the BOR Social Science Discipline Council
Academic Technology Advisory Committee, 2018-present
MJ Facilities Committee Chair, 2018
CAS Internship Committee, 2018-present
CAS Teaching Subcommittee, 2019-present
Center for Teaching and Learning Taskforce Committee, 2019
Center for Excellent in Teaching and Learning Committee, 2020-2021
Campus In-service Ally training, 2019 and 2020
Assessment Committee, 2019-present
Strategic Planning Teaching Pillar Team, 2020-present
HLC Accreditation 4-Year Review Assurance Argument Criterion 3 Committee Co-Chair, 2020-2021
Center for Excellent in Teaching and Learning Search Committee, 2020
Committee Member for Honors Theses and Graduate Committees
Service to the Profession
Volunteer Session Organizer, Midwest Sociological Society annual meeting, 2018
Volunteer Session Organizer, Midwest Sociological Society annual meeting, 2019
Volunteer Session Organizer, Midwest Sociological Society annual meeting, 2020**
Midwest Sociological Society Committee for Women in the Profession, 2019-2021
New Media Coordinator, Great Plains Sociological Society, 2018-present
Member of the Audit and Ethics Committee, Great Plains Sociological Association
Book Review Editor, Great Plains Sociologist
Served as Program Chair for the Great Plains Sociological Association’s annual meeting in 2018
President-Elect of Great Plains Sociological Association, Term: 2021-2022
Hendrix College
Departmental Service
Sociology Department Webmaster: 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
- Communication and Information Technologies Section
- Culture Section
- Social Psychology Section
Association of Internet Researchers
Midwest Sociological Society
Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction
Society for the Study of Social Problems
- Crime and Juvenile Delinquency Section
- Social Problems Theory Section
Great Plains Sociological Association