Draft:Patrizia Longo

Patrizia Longo is an Italian American political theorist and professor. Her areas of study include political theory, women and politics, feminist theory, food politics, human rights, European politics, and immigration issues.

Education

In 1980, Longo received her B.A. in Languages (Italian, English, and German) from Scuola Superiore per Interpreti e Traduttori in Florence, Italy. Later, she received another Bachelors Degree in the Arts from the University of Pennsylvania in European History and Political Science in 1983. The following year, in 1984, Longo attained her Master's Degree in Political Science from the University of California, Berkeley and her Ph.D. in Political Science five years later in 1989 from the same institution.

At each step of her educational journey, Longo wrote and successfully defended a series of theses and dissertations:

B.A. Thesis in English from Scuola Superiore per Interpreti e Traduttori: "Ethical Implications of Euthanasia" (Chair: Jeannine Matthias (Florence, Italy)).

B.A. Thesis in German from Scuola Superiore per Interpreti e Traduttori: "Ludwig Feurbach als Mittler zwischen Hegel und Marx" (Chair: Hans Wildt (Florence, Italy)).

B.A. Thesis in Political Science from the University of Pennsylvania: "The Concept of Praxis in German Idealism and Marxism" (Chair: Mihailo Markovic).

M.A. Thesis in Political Science at University of California, Berkeley: "Marxist Methodology in Gramsci" (Chair: Paul Thomas).

Ph.D. Dissertation in Political Science at University of California, Berkeley: "The Statue of Glaucus: Rousseau's Political Quest for Authenticity" (Committee: Paul Thomas (chair), Norman Jacobson, Martin Jay).

At the University of California, Berkeley, Longo examined Political Theory, Western European Politics, and Comparative Politics.

Professional Career

Since 1991, Longo has been a faculty member at Saint Mary's College of California in Moraga, California. Before her tenure at Saint Mary's College, Longo had also taught at California State University, Hayward (now California State University, East Bay), and Columbia College, U.C. Berkeley. In addition, she is a Certified EPA Instructor to train asbestos workers in both the United States and Italy.

Languages

Longo can understand various languages to a varying capacities. Italian is her first language, having grown up in Italy. She is fluent in English and can read, write, and speak German and French. She is also capable of reading both Spanish and Latin.

Participation in Regional, National, and International Meetings

• "Theories of Justice and the Right to Food" - Annual Meeting of the Western Political Science Association, Hollywood, CA, March 27-30, 2013.
• "Community-Based Research and Food Democracy: The Urban Farmers Project at Saint Mary's College of California" - Joint Annual Meeting of AFHVS and ASFS, University of Montana, Missoula, MT, June 8-12, 2011.
• "Is Food a Commodity?" - Joint Annual Meeting of AFHVS and ASFS, University of Indiana, Bloomington, IN, June 1-4, 2010.
• "Food and Democracy - A Critique of use-value and exchange value in Aristotle and Marx" - Annual Meeting of the Western Political Science Association, San Francisco, CA, March 31 - April 4, 2010.
• “Common Tables and Democratic Solidarity” (“Informing Possibilities for the Future of Food and Agriculture”—Joint Annual Meeting of AFHVS and ASFS, May 28-31, 2009, Penn State Conference Center, State College, PA)
• “Citizenship and the Global Polity” (The Aspen Institute—Wye Faculty Seminar, Queenstown, Maryland, July 19-25, 2008)
• "From Service-Learning to Community-Based Research Courses" (APSA Teaching and Learning Annual Conference, San Jose, CA, February 22-24, 2008)
• “Gender and Empire Revisited” (“Gender Unbound” Conference at Keele University, UK, July 8-11, 2007)
• Participant at the Lasallian Social Justice Institute on “Violence and Peacemaking” (Chicago, July 22-28, 2006)
• “Gender and Empire” (2006 Annual Meeting of the Western Political Science Association, Albuquerque, NM, March 15-18, 2006).
• Participation at the National Council for Research on Women’s 2005 Annual Conference, "Power Matters: Reshaping Agendas through Women’s Leadership" (New York, June 6-8, 2005). [Over 350 scholars and activists came together at this conference to discuss the reshaping of agendas, across a number of issue areas, such as security issues, war and empire, economic rights, work discrimination, girls and leadership, gender violence, transnational networks, etc.]
• “Mentoring and Role Modeling for Women in Medicine” (Annual Conference of the Massachusetts Surgical Society, Boston, June 8-10, 2005)—co- authored and co-presented with Clifford J. Straehley, M.D.
• “Feminism and Nonviolence: A Relational Model of Citizenship” (the First Annual Gandhian Nonviolence Conference, October 8-9, 2004, Memphis, TN)
• “Nonviolence and Feminism” (The Second International Conference on New Directions in the Humanities, Monash University, Prato, Italy, July 20-23, 2004).
• “Service-Learning in the Curriculum” (Annual Conference of the Association of American Colleges and Universities, Long Beach, March 2004).
• “Leadership in Education” (Oxford Roundtable, St. Antony’s College, Oxford University, Oxford, England, August 10-15, 2003).
• “Italian Feminism: Past, Present, and Future” (Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Philadelphia, PA, August 28-31, 2003).
• “Italian Feminism/s” (2003 Annual Meeting of the Western Political Science Association, Denver, CO, March 26-29, 2003).
• “The Globalization of Care: Kant’s Cosmopolitanism and Filipina Migrant Domestic Workers.” Co-authored with Wendy Sarvasy (Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Boston, MA, August 29- September 1, 2002).
• “Cosmopolitanism and Feminism: A Democratic Partnership beyond Borders.” Co-authored with Wendy Sarvasy (Annual Meeting of the Western Political Science Association, Long Beach, CA, March 21-24, 2002)
• Discussant on the panel “Gendered Challenges to Local, National, and Transnational Democracy” (Annual Conference of the American Political Science Association, San Francisco, CA, Aug. 30-Sept. 2, 2001)
• Participant at a roundtable discussion on M. Cummings’s book, Beyond Political Correctness: Social Transformation in the United States (Annual Conference of the American Political Science Association, Washington, D.C., Aug. 31-Sept. 3, 2000
• “Women Without Borders: A Relational View of Immigration and Citizenship”
• (Approaching a New Millennium: Lessons From the Past—Prospects For the Future, Seventh Conference of the International Society for the Study of European Ideas, Bergen, Norway, August 14-18, 2000).
• “The Application of Feminist Ethics and Epistemology to the Issue of Female Immigration in the European Union” (Gendering Ethics/The Ethics of Gender Conference, Center for Interdisciplinary Gender Studies, University of Leeds, UK, June 23-25, 2000).
• “The Feminization of Immigration in Italy” (Twentieth Annual Conference of the American Association for Italian Studies, New York, April 13-15, 2000)
• “Jeans, Miniskirts, and Parity: Redefining Citizenship for the New Millennium” (Re-Thinking Citizenship: Critical Perspectives for the 21st Century, University of Leeds, UK, June 29-30, 1999)
• “Social Citizenship and Parity in Italy” (International Conference on Women Transforming the Public, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA, April 23-25, 1999)
• “Sexual Difference and Parity: The Italian Case” (Annual Meeting of the Western Political Science Association, Seattle, WA, March 25-27, 1999)
• "Feminist Epistemology for Democratic Citizenship" (Annual Meeting of the Western Political Science Association, Los Angeles, CA, March 18-21, 1998)
• "Engendering Democracy" (Annual Meeting of the Western Political Science Association, Tucson, AZ, March 13-16, 1997)
• "Feminist Identity and Citizenship" (The Cultural Turn: An Interdisciplinary Conference, UC Santa Barbara, CA, February 14-16, 1997)
• "Learning a New Dance: A Perspective on Social Change" (Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, San Francisco, CA, August 29-September 1, 1996)
• Participant at an International Roundtable on the Politics of Implementing the Bejing Commitments (San Francisco, March 16-17, 1996)
• "Reframing Our Social Reality: A Contemporary Utopia" (Annual Utopian Studies Conference, Toronto, Canada, October 19-22, 1995)
• "... and Thales Fell into a Pit: A Feminist Critique of Epistemology" (Annual Utopian Studies Conference, Toronto, Canada, November 1993)
• "Plato and the Modern Technological Myth" (Annual Utopian Studies Conference, Baltimore, November 19-23, 1992)
• "The Foundation of the Greek Polis. Apogee and Crisis" (Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Washington, D.C., August 29- September 1, 1991)
• "Rousseau and the Postmodern Syndrome" (Annual Meeting of the Western Political Science Association, Seattle, WA, March 20-23, 1991)
• "Marx's Utopia of Double Reality. A Critique" (Annual Conference on Utopian Studies, Lexington, Kentucky, November 1990)
• "Rousseau and the Problem of Squaring the Circle" (Annual Conference on Utopian Studies, Asilomar, CA, November 1989)
• "Utopia or Paradox? Rousseau's Dream of a True Democracy" (Third International Conference on Utopian Studies, Rome, Caserta, and Reggio Calabria, Italy, May 1989)

Publications

Books

• Longo, Patrizia. 2019. Justice Unbound: Voices of Justice for the 21st Century. London: Rowman & Littlefield International, Ltd.

Articles

• "Education for Social Transformation: Infusing Feminist Ethics and Critical Pedagogy into Community-Based Research. Critical Sociology. Co-authored with Cynthia Ganote.
• "Common Tables and Democratic Solidarity." Theory in Action (Vol. 6, No. 3, July 2013).
• "Whack! I've Hit the Glass Ceiling! Women's Efforts to Gain Status in Surgery.” Gender Medicine. (Vol. 5, N. 1, March 2008).Co-authored with Clifford Straehley.
• Book Review of “Breaking the Iron Wall: Decommodification and Immigrant Women's Labor in Canada," by Habiba Zaman (Journal of Women, Politics and Policy edited by Heidi Hartmann and Carol Hardy-Fanta)
• “Family Issues Affecting Women in Medicine—Particularly Women Surgeons.” The American Journal of Surgery 192 (November 2006), 695- 998. Co-authored with Clifford Straehley
• “Mentoring Women in Medicine.” Connections: The Journal of the Association of Women Surgeons 12 (2) (Spring 2006). Co-authored with Clifford Straehley
• “Engendering Surgery.” Against the Current. March 2006. Co-authored with Clifford Straehley
• “The Globalization of Care: Kant’s Cosmopolitanism and Filipina Migrant Domestic Workers.” International Feminist Journal of Politics. September 2004, Vol. 6 No. 3. Co-authored with Wendy Sarvasy.
• Book review of Citizenship Today: Global Perspectives and Practices. T. Alexander Aleinkoff and Douglas Klusmeyer, eds. Washington D.C.: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 2001. (The Canadian Journal of Political Science)
• “Revisiting the Equality/Difference Debate: Redefining Citizenship for the New Millennium” Citizenship Studies. Vol. 5, No. 3, November 2001.
• Book review of Larry Chappell, George Will. “George Will Meets Augustinian Liberalism” In The South Carolina Review . Vol. 31, No. 1, Fall 1998.
• Book review of Susan Hekman, Moral Voices Moral Selves. In Women and Politics. Vol. 19, No. 2,1998.
• "Repensando la ciudadania" ("Rethinking Citizenship"), co-authored with Laura Gioscia, Revista Uruguaya de Ciencia Politica No. 9, Montevideo, Uruguay, 1998.
• Book review of Mario Schiattone, Alle Origini del Federalismo Italiano. In Utopian Studies. Vol. 8, No. 2, December 1997.
• "Rousseau's Dream of a True Democracy: Utopia or Paradox?" In Spazialità e Temporaneità nell'Utopia, Roma: Gangemi Editore, 1992.
• The Statue of Glaucus. Rousseau's Modern Quest for Authenticity (New York, Chicago and San Francisco: Peter Lang Publishing, 1991).

Translations

• Translation from English into Italian of the EPA-EEC Manual of International Regulations for Asbestos Abatement (1990)
• Editing and translation from Italian into English of "The Problem of Democracy in Mass Society" by Umberto Cerroni (Praxis International, April 1983, Vol.3, No.1, 34-53)
• Translation from Italian into English of "Interfascicular autologous grafts in the repair of peripheral nerves: eight years experience" by Dr. Ludovico Stellini, University of Florence, Italy. British Journal of Plastic Surgery (1982) 35, 478-482.