NAME: EDUCATION Institution

FULL CURRICULUM VITAE
I. NAME: Sara Giordano
II. EDUCATION
A. Institution
Emory University
Gettysburg College
Years Attended
2001-2008
Degree
Ph.D.
Major Field
Neuroscience
1997-2001
B.S.
Mathematics, Physics
B. Title of Dissertation
“On the functional organization of plantarflexion muscles”
III. ACADEMIC AND PROFESSIONAL POSITIONS AND RANKS HELD
Institution
San Diego State University
Emory University
Centers for Disease Control
and Prevention (CDC)
Emory University
Title/Rank
Assistant Professor
Date
August 2011Present
Postdoctoral Fellow August 2010June 2011
Consultant, Ethics
May 2008July 2010
Teaching Assistant August 2002December 2002
Department/Division
Women’s Studies
Women’s Studies
Office of Public Health
Genomics
Neuroscience
IV. TEACHING EFFECTIVENESS
Courses taught:
Women’s Studies 382: Gender, Science and Technology, San Diego State University
Fall 2011, Spring 2012, Fall 2012
Women’s Studies 582: Feminist Science Studies, San Diego State University
Spring 2012
Engineering Life and Ethical Practices, Graduate Seminar, Emory University
Spring 2011
Guest Lectures:
Methods of Inquiry in Women’s Studies (WMNST 602), San Diego State University
March 20, 2012, “Feminist science studies”
Special topic: Regenerative Medicine (BIOL 342), San Diego State Unviersity
September 22, 2011, “Feminist bioethics and stem cells”
Body Politics (WMNST 608), San Diego State University
September 21, 2011, “Vole research on the monogamy gene”
Race, Gender, and Sexuality in Science (WGST 231), Carleton College
February 17, 2011, “Gay gene research”
Lesbian/Gay/Queer Studies (WS365), Emory University
April 9, 2008, “Eugenics and Gay Gene Research”
Teaching Assistant:
Emory University
Cellular Neuroscience (Graduate level), Fall 2002
Graduate Student Committees:
M.A. Thesis committees (Chair):
Kari Szakal (in progress), Women’s Studies
M.A. Thesis committees (2nd Reader):
Kristine Palma (in progress), Women’s Studies
M.A. Exam committees:
Hillary Flocke (Spring 2012), Women’s Studies
V. PROFESSIONAL GROWTH
Articles in Refereed Journals
Giordano, S. (under review). Scientific reforms, feminist interventions, and the politics of
knowing: an auto-ethnography of a feminist neuroscientist. Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist
Philosophy.
Giordano, S.B., Segal, R.L., Abelew, T.A. (2009). Differences in end-point force trajectories
elicited by electrical stimulation of individual human calf muscles. Journal of Applied
Biomechanics. 25(4):330-9.
Giordano, S.B., Segal, R.L. (2006). Leg muscles differ in spatial activation patterns with
differing levels of voluntary plantarflexion activity in humans. Cells Tissues Organs.
184(1):42-51.
Siviy, S.M., Love, N.J., DeCicco, B.M., Giordano, S.B., Seifert, T.L. (2003). The relative
playfulness of juvenile Lewis and Fischer-344 rats. Physiology and Behavior. 80(2-3):385-94.
Chapters in Books
Willey, A. and Giordano, S.B. (2011). ‘Why Do Voles Fall in Love?’: Sexual Dimorphism and
Monogamy Gene Research. Jill Fisher (ed.) Gender and the Science of Difference: Cultural
Politics of Contemporary Science and Medicine. Rutgers University Press, New Brunswick, NJ.
Conferences Papers and Presentations
Giordano, S.B. (November 2012). Exploring critical scientific literacy through active
participation in the classroom. Oral presentation at the National Women’s Studies Association
Conference, Oakland, California.
Giordano, S.B. (May 2012). Building Community from the Bottom-up or Top-down:
Definitions of Democracy in Synthetic Biology. Oral presentation at the Feminist
Epistemologies, Methodologies, Metaphysics, and Science Studies 4th Conference, University
Park, Pennsylvania.
Giordano, S.B. (November 2011). Teaching emerging feminist practices in ethics and science.
Oral presentation at the National Women’s Studies Association Conference, Atlanta, Georgia.
Giordano, S.B. (June 2011). A novel approach to ethics: Building ethical approaches for
synthetic biology through interdisciplinary classrooms. Poster presentation at the SB 5.0: The
Fifth International Conference on Synthetic Biology, Stanford University, California.
Giordano, S.B. (March 2011). Synthetic biology: Can we engineer a more democratic science?
Oral presentation at the Southeastern Women’s Studies Association Conference, Atlanta,
Georgia.
Giordano, S.B., Rowell, J., Dowling, N., Gwinn, M., Barrett, D. (November 2010) Consent for
genetic research at CDC: Storage and future use of specimens. Oral presentation at the
American Public Health Association 138th Annual Meeting, Denver, Colorado.
Rowell, J., Giordano, S.B., Gwinn, M. , Dowling, N. (November 2010) Public health
infrastructure: A valuable resource for human genetic epidemiology. Poster presentation at the
American Public Health Association 138th Annual Meeting, Denver, Colorado.
Giordano, S.B., Rowell, J., Dowling, N., Gwinn, M. (November 2009) Returning genetic
research results to participants: public health research in the age of personal genomics. Oral
presentation at the National Society for Genetic Counselors 28th Conference, Atlanta, GA.
Giordano, S.B., Rowell, J., Dowling, N., Gwinn, M. (July 2009) Returning genetic research
results to participants: public health research in the age of personal genomics. Oral presentation
at the 13th Genetics and Ethics in the 21st Century Meeting, Breckenridge, CO.
Giordano, S.B. (March 2009). Automating difference: A feminist analysis of soft biometrics.
Oral presentation at the Feminist Epistemologies, Methodologies, Metaphysics, and Science
Studies 3rd Conference, Columbia, SC.
Willey, A. and Schindelheim (Giordano), S. (February 2007). Addicted to Love: Science,
Media and the Discourse of Attachment. Paper presented at the Feminist Epistemologies,
Methodologies, Metaphysics, and Science Studies 2nd Conference, Tempe, AZ.
Giordano, S.B., Abelew, T.A., Burgess, A.R., Segal, R.L. (November 2005). Comparing
stimulation protocols to elicit fatigue in the lateral gastrocnemius muscle. Poster presented at the
Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, Washington, D.C.
Segal, R.L., Giordano, S.B., Grier, R.N. (November 2005). Relationship of leg muscle activity
during eccentric versus concentric contractions. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the
Society for Neuroscience, Washington, D.C.
Giordano, S.B., Makar, M.S., Burgess, A.R., Abelew, T.A., Segal, R.L. (October 2005).
End-Point force trajectories produced by selected calf muscles due to electrical stimulation.
Poster presented at the Workshop on Investigation of Human Muscle Function In Vivo.
Nashville, TN.
Giordano, S.B., Marquardt, K., Nelson, N., Rush, S., Simoneaux, S., Song, A.W., Segal, R.L.
(November 2003). Variance of magnetic resonance imaging T2 Times among tasks. Poster
presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, New Orleans.
Segal, R.L., Poeppelman, A., Ward, M., Giordano, S.B. (November 2003). Correlation of
magnetic resonance imaging T2 Times with electromyographic activity. Poster presented at the
Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, New Orleans.
Funded Research Grants
San Diego State University Grants Program (UGP) Award. “Decoding Race and Gender in
Biometric Technologies.” January 2012 – May 2013, $9883.
The National Academies Keck Futures Initiative (NAKFI) Grant. “Developing a Bench-side
Ethics and Community-Based Participatory Research Training Program in Synthetic Biology.”
PI: Deboleena Roy and Co-PIs: Ichiro Matsumura, Sara Giordano, Arri Eisen, Laura Dress.
2011-2012, $75,000.
Funded Training Grants
National Institutes of Health (NIH) Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award
(NRSA), Pre-doctoral Grant awarded by National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke
(NINDS). “Adaptation of leg muscle activity in humans.” January 2005 – December 2007.
Invited Lectures
Carleton College, Social Justice and Science Colloquium. “Synthetic Biology: Can we engineer a
more democratic science?” Feb 18, 2011.
Participation in Professional Associations
Member, National Women’s Studies Association, 2011-present.
Member, Society for Neuroscience, 2002-2006.
Additional Professional Training
The Kennedy Institute of Ethics at Georgetown University, Washington, DC
Intensive Bioethics Course, June 2009
Ethics and Servant Leadership Internship, Emory University
Summer 2008
Center for Teaching and Learning Programs, San Diego State University:
How the University Grants Program Can Help You Plant the Seeds, Sept 21, 2011
Teaching, Learning, and Creating A More Sustainable Future, March 16, 2012
Connecting Your Course and Your Students to the 2012 Common Reading Rachael
Carson’s Silent Spring, April 18, 2012
Other
Phi Beta Kappa Honor Society, member (inducted 2001)
VI. SERVICE FOR THE UNIVERSITY AND THE COMMUNITY
University Service
Faculty-in-Residence, Maya and Olmeca Residence Halls, August 2012-present
Common Experience faculty planning committee, 2012-present
SafeZones, Trained ally, Fall 2011-present
Department Service
Member, Women’s Studies Department Colloquium Committee, 2012-present.
Community Service
Member, Racism and Health Workgroup, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention,
September 2008-2011 (Recording Secretary, 2009)
Member, Public Health Ethics Committee, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, May
2008-2011
Participant, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) 2009 Novel Influenza A (H1N1)
response team, Spring 2009
Facilitator, Transforming Community Project, Community Dialogues on Racism, Emory
University, Spring and Summer 2008
Invited panelist “Whose Vagina Monologues?: A Forum for Feminist Critiques of V-day”,
February 6, 2008
Professional Service
Reviewer, Public Health Genomics, 2009
Reviewer, Journal of Neurophysiology, 2007