Curriculum Vitae

last update 8/8/24

Academic Positions

2024-present

  • Associate Teaching Professor

  • Director, Humanities Program, UC San Diego

2021-2024

  • Assistant Teaching Professor

  • Director, Humanities Program, UC San Diego

2017-2021

  • Continuing Lecturer and Academic Coordinator

  • Associate Director, Humanities Program, UC San Diego

2010-2017

  • Lecturer and Academic Coordinator

  • Associate Director, Humanities Program, UC San Diego

2009-2012

  • Lecturer, Political Science Department, UC San Diego

Education

2010   PhD in Political Science, UC San Diego

  • Dissertation: “Relational Representation: Nongovernmental Actors in Global Politics” (Chair, Tracy B. Strong)

2004   MA in Political Science, UC San Diego

2000   BA in Political Science, UCLA

Scholarly Activity

I. Publications

  • “Relational Representation: An agency-based approach to global justice,” Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy, Vol 16, No 2, 233-248. 2013. (DOI: 10.1080/13698230.2012.757915)

  • Humanities Program Writing Handbook, 1st ed, Custom Courseware Services. 2017. (ISBN: 9780100729582)

  • Book Review of Albert Camus and the Political Philosophy of the Absurd and Rethinking the Politics of Absurdity by Matthew H Bowker, Perspective on Politics, Vol 13, No 1, 177-179. 2015. (DOI: 10.1017/S1537592714003430)

II. Conference Presentations

  • “The Constitutive Capacity of Representation: Generating the Commonwealth in Hobbes” 

    • Southwestern Political Science Association. Las Vegas, NV. 2008

    • Midwest Political Science Association. Chicago, IL. 2008

  • “Before the Appeal to Heaven: Prerogative, Law, and Rebellion in Locke’s Political Theory” 

    • Western Political Science Association. Vancouver, BC. 2009

    • Midwest Political Science Association. Chicago, IL. 2009

  • “Nongovernmental Forms of Representation,” Association for Political Theory. College Station, TX. 2009

  • “Acting in Global Politics: Legitimating Nongovernmental Representation,” Midwest Political Science Association. Chicago, IL. 2010

  • “Arriving at Shared Understandings of Justice Through Relational Representation,” New Frontiers in Global Justice: A Conference with Amartya Sen. La Jolla, CA. 2011

  • “Relational Representation: Acknowledging and Engaging Agency,” Western Political Science Association. Los Angeles, CA. 2013

  • “Beyond Duty: The Politics of Gratitude” (w/ Adam Gomez)

    • Midwest Political Science Association. Chicago, IL. 2013

    • Association for Political Theory. Nashville, TN. 2013

  • “The Responsibility to Save Bodies: Camus and Global Activism” 

    • Western Political Science Association. Seattle, WA. 2014

    • Association for Political Theory. Boulder, CO. 2015

  • “The Humanities: Identifying With and Beyond the Western Canon,” UC Writing Conference. Irvine, CA. 2017

  • “Love and Justice, or How to Keep a ‘Beautiful Orange Fruit’ From ‘Shriveling Up’” (w/ Kailey Giordano), Learning/Teaching for Justice Conference. La Jolla, CA. 2021

  • “Power of Place: On George Orwell and Robert Macfarlane in the Mines,” Association for Core Texts and Curriculum Conference. South Bend, IN. 2022

  • “Love and Justice: Reading Poetry in Community” (w/ Kailey Giordano), National Council of Teachers of English Conference. Anaheim, CA. 2022

  • “When Life Is a Game: Agency and the Game in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight,” Association for Core Texts and Curriculum Conference. Dallas, TX. 2023

  • “Poetry in the Landscape: Simon Armitage and the Stanza Stone Trail.” Association for Core Texts and Curriculum Conference. Memphis, TN. 2024

III. Invited Lectures and Talks

  • Invited Lecture. “Paul Farmer: Values in Global Health.” Public Health 664, San Diego State University, 2022

  • Invited Lecture. “Moral Clarity in Global Health.” Public Health 664, San Diego State University, 2023

  • Invited Talk. “Why I Teach Walt Whitman.” Humanities Teaching Conversations, UC San Diego, 2023

  • Invited Keynote. “Exercising Your Imagination: On the Poetry of Seamus Heaney.” Phi Beta Kappa, Sigma Chapter, La Jolla, CA, 2023

Teaching Experience

Humanities, UC San Diego

  • Humanities 1 — Foundations of Western Civilization: Israel & Greece

  • Humanities 2 — Rome, Christianity, & the Middle Ages

  • Humanities 3 — Renaissance, Reformation, & Early Modern Europe

  • Humanities 4 — Enlightenment, Romanticism, Revolution

  • Humanities 5 — Modern Culture (1848-Present)

  • Humanities 119 — Special Topics in the Humanities (see LTEN 128GS)

  • Humanities 100 — Advanced Topics in the Humanities

  • Humanities 200 — Seminar in Humanities

  • Global Seminar: Revelle in Edinburgh

    • Humanities 4GS — Enlightenment, Romanticism, Revolution

    • Literatures in English 128GS — Contemporary British Poetry (formerly 130GS)

  • Revelle 87 — Freshman Seminar (various topics)

Lecturer, Political Science. UC San Diego

  • Poli Sci 110B — Sovereigns, Subjects, & the Modern State (Machiavelli to Rousseau)

  • Poli Sci 110DA — Political Thought in the 20th Century

  • Poli Sci 110H — Democracy & Its Critics

  • Poli Sci 138D — Social Movements & Global Activism

Honors and Awards

  • Fellow at Center on Global Justice, UC San Diego, 2011-2016

  • Revelle College Outstanding Teaching Award, 2015

  • Honorary Member. UC San Diego Sheila Ryan Chapter of the National Residence Hall Honorary, 2015

  • Award. Non-Senate Faculty Professional Development Award, UC San Diego, 2019

  • Barbara & Paul Saltman Distinguished Teaching Award, Non-Senate Members, UC San Diego, 2019

  • Revelle College Outstanding Teaching Award, 2020

  • Honorary Member. Phi Beta Kappa, Sigma Chapter, 2023

  • Revelle College Faculty Fellows, 2023

  • Award. Dependent Care & Travel Grant, UC San Diego Policy and Family Programs, 2023

professional & University Service

  • For a full list, please contact me (alyon@ucsd.edu)

Membership

*Photo credit: Bernard Jaubert, "Human Representation"