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CV:

ALYSSA CALDER HULME

linkedin.com/in/alyssacalderhulme/

Aug 27, 2024

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RESEARCH INTERESTS

  • Socialization of Gender Roles at the Intersection of Religion and Labor

  • Organizational Sociology (Macro) and Market Application

  • Ambition, Deviance, Intersectionality

  • Interdisciplinary, Mixed Methods

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EDUCATION

The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL

Master of Arts in Social Science, Graduate Certificate of Gender and Sexuality Studies, 2024

THESIS: “Religion and Gendered Organizational Structures in the New Economy: Sexism in Silicon Slopes,” supervised by Dr. Kimberly Hoang

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The University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT

Graduate Certificate in Gender Studies, 2023

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Brigham Young University, Provo, UT

Bachelor of Arts in English

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AWARDS 

  • DAB Diversity Award, University of Chicago, $100 Awarded for an innovative approach to research and working with marginalized populations, 2024

  • Center for the Study Of Gender and Sexuality Research Grant, University of Chicago $400 Awarded 2023

  • IU Travel Grant, Indiana University, Bloomington Graduate School, $1,000 Awarded 2023

  • Dean’s Opportunity Scholarship, Division of Social Science, University of Chicago, $65,000 Full tuition, awarded for academic perseverance and promise, 2023

  • Social Science Promise and Merit Scholarship, Division of Social Science, University of Chicago, $9,500 Awarded based on my academic merit, 2023

  • Phoenix Research Scholarship, Division of Social Science, University of Chicag, $20,000 Awarded based on past accomplishments and academic and professional promise, 2023

  • ShePodcasts Live Conference Research Scholarship $500 Awarded for contributions to scholar-activism and public education, 2023

  • Listen Notes Top 10% of All Global Podcasts, Women of Ambition Podcast awarded 2023

  • Listen Notes Top 10% of All Global Podcasts, Women of Ambition Podcast awarded 2022

  • Listen Notes Top 10% of All Global Podcasts, Women of Ambition Podcast awarded 2021

  • Edwin M. and Dessie W. Thomas Scholarship Award Academic Excellence Award, $250

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RESEARCH EXPERIENCE

California Institute of Integral Studies, San Francisco, California

Graduate Research Fellow,  June 2024 - Present

  • Sorted through 985 posts on Reddit, identifying 270 posts on the subject of children of polyamorous family formations

  • Coded 270 posts into three cohorts to analyze perceptions of children of polyamorous families v. outsider perspectives

  • Used queer methodological approach to reconceptualize the family and what we learn about current parenting norms

  • Co-write journal-length article for publications with research team of four

The University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois

Graduate Researcher, Master of Arts in Social Science, 2023-2024

  • Created mixed-method independent research project on the intersection of religion, business, and gender

  • Interviewed 100 subjects over 150 hours in 6 months, in-person and virtually

  • Conducted 147 hours of ethnographic fieldwork across 10 sites and 5 states

  • Used feminist methodologies and relational ethnography to map changes in gender performance and relationships

  • Using grounded theory, wrote 50-page article for publication

The University of Utah, Sociology Department, Salt Lake City, Utah

Graduate Researcher, Sociology Research Methods, Spring 2022-Summer 2023

  • Independent researcher investigating the methods and metrics of measuring ambition in past sociological research

  • Applied Social Role Theory to previous sociological research on ambition to identify negligence

  • Examined 285 sociological publications from the last 20 years

  • Discovered research gap, gender data gap, and inherent bias: out of the 7 articles that meet the impact standards, all measured ambition with agentic roles. Only 2 exclusively examined women; the same 2 are the only ones to include communal roles in metrics (childcare, empathy). 3 explicitly analyzed data from women; 0 accounted for people who do not conform to traditional gender roles

Women of Ambition Podcast, Heber City, Utah

Researcher/Host, top 10% of all 2.9M podcasts, 2021 to present, 30 countries, 5-star rating, January 2021 - Present

  • Conduct interviews with guests, exploring the nexus of the sociological imagination and biographical history

  • Complete journalistic, qualitative research to contextualize individual experiences within social systems

  • Disseminate knowledge about larger trends of women’s social suppression and their rejection of social expectations

  • Researched additional topics, including social psychology, nurturing ambition, religious shame, aspirational shame, mental load, social inequality, gender roles, the significance of role models and mentorship, anomie, and malaise

Santa Monica Productions, Inc., Santa Monica, California

Researcher/Writer, December 2010 - September 2011

  • Researched women’s socialized gender roles for original reality TV show inspired by focus group testing

  • Designed rigged experiments to film to provoke discussions of sexism and gender bias

  • Wrote about gender roles, women’s perspectives on sex, intimacy, career, finance, the social pressures of being a     mother and wife, body image, diet, and fitness trends

  • Wrote copy and assisted in on-set production

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ACADEMIC PAPERS & PUBLICATIONS

Submitted Manuscripts

Calder-Hulme, A. (under peer review with Sociology Compass Journal). “Ambition Beyond Androcentrism: The Case for Using Communal Metrics in Sociology.”

Manuscripts in Preparation

Calder-Hulme, A. (in preparation). “4D Emotional Chess: Comparative Analysis of Self-Reported Childhood Experiences in Non-Normative (queer) Family Structures versus Eyewitness and Outsider Testimonies on Social Media.”

Calder-Hulme, A. (in preparation). “Sexism in Silicon Slopes: Religion and Gendered Organizational Structures in the New Economy.”

Calder-Hulme, A. (in preparation). “No Man’s Land: Navigating Identity and the Social Consequences of Transversing Gender Roles.”

Calder-Hulme, A. (in preparation). “The Indestructible Bones of Indigeneity: Encoded Resurgence and Stories of Survival.”

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CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

Calder-Hulme, A. “Religion and Gendered Organizational Structures in the New Economy: Sexism in Silicon Slopes” will be presented at Elevate: Partnering with Women in Business Conference, Provo, UT (Nov 2024).

Calder-Hulme, A. “Sexism in Silicon Slopes: Religion and Gendered Organizational Structures in the New Economy” will be presented at the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion Conference, Pittsburg, PA (Oct 2024).

Calder-Hulme, A. “Religion and Gendered Organizational Structures in the New Economy: Perspectives from Mormon Culture” presented at the Annual American Sociological Association, Montreal, Canada (Aug 2024).

Calder-Hulme, A. “Charting the Impact of Religion on Women’s Economic Vulnerability in the Twenty-first Century: Perspectives from Mormon Culture” presented at the Annual Association for the Sociology of Religion, Montreal, Canada (Aug 2024).

Calder-Hulme, A. “Religion and Gendered Organizational Structures in the New Economy: Sexism in Silicon Slopes” presented at the Annual Association for the Sociology of Religion, Montreal, Canada (Aug 2024).

Calder-Hulme, A. “Religion and Gendered Organizational Structures in the New Economy: Sexism in Silicon Slopes” presented at the Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality, Chicago, IL (June 2024).

Calder-Hulme, A. “Charting the Impact of Religion on Women's Economic Vulnerability in the Twenty-first Century: Sexism in Silicon Slopes” presented at The University of Chicago Interdisciplinary Graduate Conference, Chicago, IL (May 2024).

Calder-Hulme, A. “Unexplored Ambition: The Failure and Holes in the Gender Data Gap” presented at The University of Chicago Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality, Chicago, IL (Nov 2023).

Calder-Hulme, A. “Unexplored Ambition: The Failure and Holes in the Gender Data Gap” presented at the International Association of Maternal Action + Scholarship, Chicago, IL (March 2023).

Calder-Hulme, A. “Unexplored Ambition: The Failure and Holes in the Gender Data Gap” presented at the Sociologist for Women in Society Conference: Sexualities and Migrations in the Context of Global Justice, New Orleans, LA (January 2023).

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CONFERENCE PANELS

Calder-Hulme, A. Society for the Scientific Study of Religion, will be on book panel for “Diné dóó Gáamalii: Navajo Latter-day Saint Experiences in the Twentieth Century” By Farina King at the Mormon Social Science Association Annual Meeting, Pittsburgh, PA (Oct 2024). 

Calder-Hulme, A. “4D Emotional Chess: Comparative Analysis of Self-Reported Childhood Experiences in Non-Normative (queer) Family Structures versus Eyewitness and Outsider Testimonies on Social Media” will be presented at the Sexuality Scholars Virtual Symposium (Sept 2024).

Calder-Hulme, A. “Religion and Identity” American Sociological Association Refereed Roundtable Session Presider Montreal, Canada (Aug 2024).

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PUBLIC TALKS â€‹

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TEACHING EXPERIENCE

The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL

Teaching Assistant – Coding & Analyzing Qualitative Data using MAXQDA, March 2024- June 2024

  • Grade coding memo homework assignments

  • Manage communications between student and professor

  • Hold weekly office hours to assist students with software and course content questions

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PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

MAXQDA Certification 2024

The Collaborative Institutional Training Initiative (CITI Program) Certification 2022

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PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS 

Member, Association for the Sociology of Religion, 2024

Member, Society for the Scientific Study of Religion, 2024

Member, Mormon Social Science Association, 2024

Member, American Sociological Association, 2022

Member, International Association of Maternal Action + Scholarship, 2022

Member, Sociologists for Women in Sociology, 2022​

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