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EDUCATION
1982-1986. The Ohio
State University,
Ph.D. in Geography.
Thesis title: 'National Economic Policies, Local Variations in Structure of
Production, and Uneven Regional Development'.
1980-1982. The Ohio
State University,
M.A. in
Geography.
1977-1980. Leicester
University, England,
B.A. in Social
Sciences.
EMPLOYMENT
2009-2012.
Professor II, Department of Sociology, University of Bergen.
1996-present. Professor, Department of Geography, University of Washington.
1997-2000. Chair, Department of Geography, University of Washington.
1993-present. Adjunct Faculty, Women's Studies Department, University of Washington.
1991-1996. Associate Professor, Department of Geography, University of Washington.
1988-present. Faculty Associate in the Center for Studies of
Demography and Ecology, Department of Sociology, University of Washington.
1986-1991. Assistant Professor, Department of Geography, University of Washington.
AWARDS AND HONORS
2009. Honorable mention
for Marsha Landolt Distinguished Graduate Mentor
Award.
2004-2005. President of the Association of American
Geographers. Elected by the membership.
2002. Undergraduate Association Teaching Award for
excellence in undergraduate teaching in the Department of Geography, University of Washington.
2000-2003. Thomas L. and Margo G. Wyckoff Endowed
Faculty Fellowship.
1996. University
of Washington
Distinguished Teacher Award.
1996. Undergraduate Association Teaching Award for
excellence in undergraduate teaching in the Department of Geography, University of Washington.
1995. Undergraduate Association Teaching Award for
excellence in undergraduate teaching in the Department of Geography, University of Washington.
1995. Edward E. Carlson and Public Service Office,
Campus-Community Partnership Award for contributions to the Oral Histories
Project.
1994. Undergraduate Association Teaching Award for
excellence in undergraduate teaching in the Department of Geography, University of Washington.
1992. Selected as a participant in the U.S.-Korea Seminar on
Local Outcomes and Policy Implications of Economic Restructuring. One of
twelve participants selected nation-wide to participate in this National
Science Foundation funded conference. The conference was co-sponsored by
the NSF and the Korean Regional Science Association.
1992. Dudley Seers Memorial Prize, awarded by the Journal of Development Studies for
one of the best two articles to appear in Volume 27 of the journal. Awarded
for the article 'Employment Versus Empowerment: A Case Study of Women's
Work in Ecuador',
co-authored with Anne Faulkner.
1992. Social Sciences Faculty Scholar Award, Graduate School,
University of
Washington. Awarded
in a College wide competition for a project titled 'Restructuring
Informality: Industrial Change and Work in Latin
America', three months of release from teaching and research
support, $18,900.
1989. Selected as a Delegate to the American-Bulgarian
Seminar on Regional Economic Development and Geographical Aspects of
Environmental Management. One of ten delegates selected nation-wide for a
two week seminar held at various locations in Bulgaria. Co-sponsored by the
National Science Foundation and the Bulgarian Academy
of Sciences.
1988. Undergraduate Association Teaching Award for
excellence in undergraduate teaching in the Department of Geography, University of Washington.
1988. Participant in the Association of American Geographers
Research Career Seminar for young scholars, Phoenix, Arizona.
Selected from a nationwide pool of recent geography Ph.D's.
1985-1986. Presidential Fellowship: twelve months of
consecutive dissertation support, awarded in a University wide competition,
Ohio State University.
1985. Huntington Memorial Award to recognize
outstanding graduate student achievements, Department of Geography, Ohio State University.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Books and Edited Volumes
2009. Strategic
Directions for the Geographical Sciences. (V. Lawson, committee member) Forthcoming,
Washington DC: National Academy Press.
2007. Victoria Lawson. Making Development
Geography. Invited
book for the Arnold Series, Human
Geography in the Making, series editor, Alexander
Murphy.
2007. Victoria Lawson. Guest editor of
forum section in the Annals of the
Association of American Geographers, titled ‘Geographies of
Fear and Hope’ 97(2).
1996. Sarah Hilbert and Victoria Lawson. Global Change and Urbanization in Latin America. Washington DC:
AAG/CCG2 Project 'Developing Active Learning Modules on the Human
Dimensions of Global Change'.
1993. Victoria Lawson and Thomas Klak.
Guest editors of a special issue of Environment
and Planning A titled 'Dialogue on the Americas:
Convergence or Divergence in Concepts, Methods, and Urban Industrial
Trends'. Papers by M. Hays-Mitchell, T. Klak, P.
Ward and R. Barff. Volume 25.
1990. Thomas Klak and
Victoria Lawson. Guest-editors of a special issue of Economic Geography titled
'Production and Reproduction in Latin America:
Concepts, Linkages, and Empirical Trends'. Papers by T. Klak
and V. Lawson, V. Lawson and T. Klak, R. Bromley,
A. Gilbert, J. Scarpaci, and B. Higgins. October
issue.
Journal Articles
with Peer Review
2009. Victoria Lawson. 'Composing our Careers: Susan
Hanson's Contributions to Geography and Geographers' Gender Place and Culture,
forthcoming.
2009. Victoria Lawson, Lucy Jarosz
and Anne Bonds. ‘Dumping grounds and unseen grounds: placing race,
ethnicity and poverty in the American Northwest’ in press, Annals of the Association of American Geographers.
2009. Lee, R., Castree, N.,
Lawson, V., Paasi, A., Radcliffe, S., and
Withers, C. 'Progress in Human Geography?' Progress in Human Geography, 33 (1), 3-6.
2009. Victoria Lawson. ‘Instead of radical
geography, how about caring geography?’ Antipode, 41 (1), 210-213.
2008. Victoria Lawson, Lucy Jarosz
and Anne Bonds. ‘Building economies from the bottom-up: (mis)representations of poverty in the American
Northwest’ Social and Cultural
Geography, 9
(7), 737-753.
2007. Victoria Lawson. ‘Introduction:
Geographies of Fear and Hope’ Annals
of the Association of American Geographers 97(2): 335-337.
2007. Victoria Lawson. ‘Geographies of
Care and Responsibility’ Annals of
the Association of American Geographers 97(1), 1-11.
2005. Victoria Lawson. 'Hopeful Geographies: imagining
ethical alternatives' Singapore
Journal of Tropical Geography, 26(1), 36-38.
2002. Victoria Lawson. 'Global Governmentality and Graduated Sovereignty: national
belonging among poor migrants in Ecuador'
Scottish Geographical Journal 118(3):
235-255.
2002. Richa Nagar, Victoria
Lawson, Linda McDowell and Susan Hanson. 'Locating Globalization:
Feminist (re)readings of the subjects and spaces of globalization' Economic Geography 78(3):
257-284. Reprinted in Marina Della Giusta, Uma
Kambhampati and Robert Wade (eds.). 2005. Critical
Perspectives on Globalization. Cheltenham, UK:
Edward Elgar Publishing.
2002. Lucy Jarosz and
Victoria Lawson. 'Sophisticated People Versus Rednecks: economic
restructuring and class difference in America's West' Antipode 34(1): 8-27.
2000. Victoria Lawson. 'Arguments Within
Geographies of Movement: the theoretical potential of migrants' stories' Progress in Human Geography 24(2):
173-189.
1999. Victoria Lawson. 'Questions of Migration
and Belonging: understandings of migration under neoliberalism
in Ecuador' International Journal of Population Geography 5:
261-276.
1999. Rachel Silvey and
Victoria Lawson. ‘Placing the Migrant’ Annals of the Association of American Geographers 89(1):
121-132.
1999. Victoria Lawson. ‘Tailoring is a
profession; Seamstressing is just work!’ Environment and Planning A 30: 209-227.
1998. Lawrence
Brown, Firooza Pavri
and Victoria Lawson. 'Gender, Migration, and the Organization of Work Under
Economic Devolution: Ecuador
1982-90' International Journal of
Population Geography 4:
259-274.
1998. Victoria Lawson. ‘Hierarchical Households and
Gendered Migration in Latin America:
Feminist extensions to migration research’ Progress in Human Geography 22(1): 39-53.
1997. Lawrence
Brown, Jennifer Mandel and Victoria Lawson. ‘Development Models, Economic
Adjustment and Occupational Composition: Ecuador 1982-1990’ International Regional Science Review
20(3): 183-209.
1995. Victoria Lawson. 'The Politics of Difference:
Examining the Quantitative/Qualitative Dualism in Post-Structuralist
Feminist Research' The Professional
Geographer 47(4): 449-457.
1995. Victoria Lawson. 'Beyond the Firm: Restructuring
Gender Divisions of Labor in Quito's
Garment Industry Under Austerity' Environment
and Planning D: Society and Space 13(4): 415-444.
1995. Lynn A. Staeheli and
Victoria Lawson. 'Feminism, Praxis, and Human Geography' Geographical Analysis 27(4):
321-338.
1995. Lawrence
A. Brown, Jennifer Mandel and Victoria Lawson. ‘The Uprooting of People,
Migration, and Labor Force Experiences: Ecuador 1982 and 1990’ Journal Fuer Entwicklungspolitik 11(3):
331-348.
1994. Lynn A. Staeheli and
Victoria Lawson. 'Women in the Field' The
Professional Geographer 46(1): 96-102.
1993. Thomas Klak and
Victoria Lawson. 'Dialogue on the Americas: Issues of
Representation, Comparison and Integration in Americanist
Geography' Environment and Planning
A 25: 1068-1070.
1993. Victoria Lawson and Thomas Klak.
'An Argument for Critical and Comparative Research on the Urban Economic Geography
of the Americas'
Environment and Planning A 25:
1071-1084.
1992. Victoria Lawson. 'Industrial Subcontracting and
the Work-Welfare Relationship: A Framework for Contextual Analysis' Progress in Human Geography
16(1): 1-23.
1992. Victoria Lawson. 'Development in Latin America: Teaching Towards Multi-Cultural
Understandings' CLAG Twentieth
Anniversary Conference Benchmark Proceedings, pp.
295-301.
1992. Victoria Lawson. 'Flexibility and Contingency in
Third World Industrialization', review essay on Industrialization,
Economic Development, and the Regional Question in the Third
World by Michael Storper in Economic Geography 68(2):
205-208.
1991. Anne H. Faulkner and Victoria Lawson.
'Employment Versus Empowerment: A Case Study of Women's Work in Ecuador' Journal of Development Studies
27(4): 16-47.
1991. Victoria Lawson and Lynn A. Staeheli.
'On Critical Realism, Geography, and Arcane Sects!' The Professional Geographer
43(2): 231-233.
1990. Victoria Lawson and Thomas Klak.
'Conceptual Linkages in the Study of Production and Reproduction in Latin
American Cities' Economic Geography
66(4): 305-309.
1990. Thomas Klak and
Victoria Lawson. 'An Introduction to Current Research on Latin American
Cities' Economic Geography
66(4): 310-327.
1990. Victoria Lawson and Lynn A. Staeheli.
'Realism and the Practice of Geography' The Professional Geographer 42(1): 13-19.
1990. Victoria Lawson. 'The Transformation of Work in
Latin America: Theoretical and Empirical Examinations in Ecuador' World Development 18(5):
641-658.
1989. Lawrence
A. Brown and Victoria Lawson. 'Polarization Reversal, Migration Related
Shifts in Human Resource Profiles, and Spatial Growth Policies: A
Venezuelan Study' International
Regional Science Review 12(2): 165-188.
1988. Victoria Lawson. 'Government Policy Biases and
Ecuadorian Agricultural Change' Annals
of the Association of American Geographers 78(3):
433-452.
1987. Victoria Lawson and Lawrence A. Brown. 'Structural Tension,
Migration, and Development: A Case Study of Venezuela' The Professional Geographer
39(1): 179-188.
1985. Lawrence
A. Brown and Victoria Lawson. 'Migration in Third World Settings, Uneven
Development, and Conventional Modeling: A Case Study of Costa Rica'
Annals of the Association of American
Geographers 75: 29-47.
1985. Lawrence
A. Brown and Victoria Lawson. 'Rural Destined Migration in Third World Settings: A Neglected Phenomenon?' Regional Studies 19:
415-432.
1985. Victoria Lawson. 'National Economic Policies,
Uneven Regional Development, and Developmental Exploitative City Growth:
The Case of Ecuador' Geospectrum 5: 3-5 (editorial review).
Book Chapters
2009. Victoria Lawson, Lucy Jarosz,
Meredith Reitman and Anne Bonds. 'Rural
Gentrification and Economic Restructuring in the Changing American
Northwest'. Forthcoming in M. Phillips, ed. Gentrification of the Countryside..
2004. Victoria Lawson. 'Global Governmentality and Graduated Sovereignty: National
belonging among migrants in Ecuador'
in J. O'Laughlin, L. Staeheli,
and E. Greenberg, eds. Globalization and its Outcomes.
New York: Guilford. Reprinted from Scottish Geographical Journal
118(3): 235-255.
2004. Maureen Hickey and Victoria Lawson.
'Beyond Science? Human Geography, Interpretation and Critique' in N. Castree, A. Rogers and D. Sherman, eds. Questioning Geography. Oxford: Blackwell.
2004. Kim England and Victoria Lawson.
'Feminist Analyses of Work: Rethinking the boundaries, gendering and
spatiality of work' forthcoming in J. Seager and
L. Nelson, eds. Companion to
Feminist Geography. Oxford: Blackwell.
2002. Matt Sparke and Victoria Lawson. 'Geoeconomics:
Entrepreneurial Geographies of the Global-Local Nexus' forthcoming in J.
Agnew, K. Mitchell, and G. O'Tuathail, eds. The Handbook of Political Geography.
Oxford:
Blackwell.
1996. Lawrence
A. Brown and Victoria Lawson. 'Polarization Reversal, Migration Related
Shifts in Human Resource Profiles, and Spatial Growth Policies: A
Venezuelan Study' chapter 6 in H. S. Geyer and T.M. Kontuly,
eds. Differential Urbanization:
Linking Urbanization, Polarization Reversal and Counterurbanization
in Developed and Less Developed Countries. London: Edward Arnold, pp. 216-238.
Reprinted with permission.
1993. Victoria Lawson. 'Methodological Concerns in the
Analysis of the Localized Impacts of Global Economic Change'. Proceedings of the Korea-U.S.A. Joint Seminar on
Scientific Methodology for the Regional Environment. pp.
240-257.
1992. Victoria Lawson. 'Institutional, Research, and
Philosophical Domains of Concern' in G. Elbow, ed. Future Directions in Latin Americanist
Geography: Research Agendas for the Nineties and Beyond. Conference of Latin Americanist Geographers, Special Publication No. 3, pp.
13-24.
Assorted Short Articles and Columns
2007. Co-author of the Diversity Task Force
Report to the Council of the Association of American Geographers (with Joe
Darden, Inez Miyares, Lawrence Estaville,
Ray Sumner, Patricia Solis, Todd Rogers, Catherine Souch)
2007. ‘Making the Case for Geography’ webpage
article appearing on the Healthy Departments Page of the Association of
American Geographers website (aag.org), with Alexander Murphy.
2004-2005. Presidential Columns, AAG Newsletter. July 2004 -
June 2005.
2004. 'Geospatial Technologies Working for Environmental
and Social Justice' Directions
Magazine, June 7, 2004.
2003. 'Opportunities for Geographers at the National
Science Foundation' AAG Newsletter
38 (11), December Issue.
Discussion Papers Not Published Elsewhere (Editorial
Review)
1986. Victoria Lawson. 'National Economic Policies,
Local Variations in Structure of Production, and Uneven Regional
Development: The Case of Ecuador', Studies
on the Interrelationships Between Development and Migration in Third World
Settings, Discussion Paper Series, #33, pp. i-163. Department of
Geography, Ohio
State University.
Also Ph.D. Dissertation, Department of Geography, Ohio State
University.
1985. Daniel Wagner, Victoria Lawson, Jorge A. Brea, and Lawrence Brown. 'NSF Supported Study on
the Interrelationships between Development, Urbanization, and Migration in Ecuador 1970 and 1980 Round Data', Studies on the Interrelationships Between
Development and Migration in Third World
Settings, Discussion Paper Series, #30, pp. i-300. Department of
Geography, Ohio
State University.
1984. Victoria Lawson. 'Intermediate Cities and
Developmental, Exploitative Impacts Upon Regional Development, A Research
Proposal', Studies on the
Interrelationships Between Development and Migration in Third World
Settings, Discussion Paper Series, #19, pp. i-21. Department of
Geography, Ohio
State University.
1984. Lawrence
A. Brown and Victoria Lawson. 'The Rural-Urban Interface in Third World
Settings: A Discussion of Current Issues', Prepared for USAID Initiative on
Rural-Urban Linkages, Washington
D.C. Also in Studies on the Interrelationships Between
Development and Migration in Third World Settings, Discussion Paper Series,
#17, pp. i-14.
Department of Geography, Ohio
State University.
1982. Victoria Lawson. 'Rural-to-Rural Migration in a
Third World Setting: Conceptual Aspects and a Case Study of Costa Rica', Studies on the Interrelationships Between
Development and Migration in Third World Settings, Discussion Paper Series,
#5, pp. i-47.
Department of Geography, Ohio
State University.
1982. E. Helen Berry, Lawrence
A. Brown, Rita Schneider, Darrick Danta, Victoria Lawson and Frank Stetzer. 'Data Resources for NSF Supported Study on the
Interrelationships Between Development and Migration in Latin America', Studies on the Interrelationships Between
Development and Migration in Third World Settings, Discussion Paper Series, #2, pp i-250. Department of
Geography, Ohio
State University.
Discussion Papers Published Elsewhere (Editorial
Review)
1985. Victoria Lawson and Lawrence A. Brown. 'Structural Tension,
Migration, and Development: A Case Study of Venezuela', Studies on the Interrelationships Between
Development and Migration in Third World Settings, Discussion Paper Series,
#24, pp. i-19. Department of Geography, Ohio State
University.
1984. Lawrence
A. Brown and Victoria Lawson. 'Migration, Planned Growth, and Human
Resource Variations Within Third World Urban Systems: A Venezuelan Study', Studies on the Interrelationships Between
Development and Migration in Third World Settings, Discussion Paper Series,
#20, pp. i-28. Department of Geography, Ohio State
University.
1983. Lawrence
A. Brown and Victoria Lawson. 'Rural Destined Migration in Third World
Settings: A Neglected Phenomenon?', Studies
on the Interrelationships Between Development and Migration in Third World
Settings, Discussion Paper Series, #14, pp. i-34.
Department of Geography, Ohio
State University.
1983. Lawrence
A. Brown and Victoria Lawson. 'Migration in Third World Settings, Uneven
Development, and Conventional Modeling: A Case Study of Costa Rica', Studies on the Interrelationships Between
Development and Migration in Third World Settings, Discussion Paper Series,
#12, pp. i-36. Department of Geography, Ohio State
University.
Book Reviews in Refereed Journals
2009. 'Review Essay: Betrayal and Responsibility in
Tania Li's "The Will to Improve". Annals of the Association of
American Geographers, submitted.
2002. Gender and International Migration in Europe, by E. Koffman,
A. Phizaclea, A. Raghuram,
and R. Sales. Reviewed for Progress
in Human Geography 26(3): 419-420.
1997. An Urbanizing World. Global Report on Human
Settlements, by United Nations
Center for Human
Settlements (HABITAT). Reviewed for Choice.
1997. Feminist Dilemmas in Fieldwork, ed. Diane
Wolf. Reviewed for The Professional
Geographer. 49(1): 162.
1997. Modern Feminist Thought. From Second Wave to
Post-Feminism, by I. Whelehan. Reviewed for Gender, Place and Culture. 4(2): 255-256.
1995. Space, Place and Gender, by Doreen
Massey. Reviewed for The
Professional Geographer 47(4): 479-480.
1995. Indigenous People and Poverty in Latin America: an empirical analysis, ed. G. Psacharopoulos and H. A. Patrinos.
Reviewed for Choice.
1993. Viva. Women and popular protest in Latin
America, eds. Sarah Radcliffe and Sallie Westwood. Reviewed for Environment and Planning A 26(1):
154-156.
1993. Gender and Migration in Developing Countries,
ed. Sylvia Chant. Reviewed for the Annals
of the Association of American Geographers 84(1):
137-139.
1993. Empowerment: The politics of an alternative
development, by John Friedmann. Reviewed for Progress in Human Geography.
1992. Reply to Storper on
'Flexibility and Contingency in Third World
Industrialization', Economic
Geography 68(4): 449-451.
1990. The Location of Jobs in a Developing
Metropolis, by Kyu Sik
Lee. Reviewed for Economic Geography.
1988. Spontaneous Shelter: International
Perspectives and Prospects, ed. Carl V. Patton. Temple University
Press. Reviewed for The Geographical
Review.
1987. Promise of Development: Theories of Change in
Latin America, eds. Peter Klaren and Thomas Bossert. Westview Press. Reviewed for Annals of Regional Science Vol XXI, No. 3: 147-149.
1987. The Geography of Third World Cities, by
Stella Lowder. Barnes and Noble. Reviewed for The Professional Geographer
40(1): 127.
Work in Progress
2009. Victoria Lawson and Maia Green. ‘Care
ethics, the state and welfare policy’ manuscript in process for Gender, Place and Culture.
RESEARCH ACTIVITIES
Research Grants at the University of Washington
2002-2007. National Science Foundation, $171,434
'Reinterpreting Geographies of Rural Poverty in the American Northwest'
co-principal investigator with Lucy Jarosz,
University of Washington. Involves field-work in three communities in
the American Northwest.
1999-2000. Royalty
Research Grant, $32,000 'Modem Cowboys and Rednecks: Class Restructuring in
the American West' with Lucy Jarosz, Department
of Geography, University
of Washington.
1995-1998. National Science Foundation, $102,742
‘Household Relations and Gendered Migration in Latin America’, Lawson’s
portion of a collaborative project in which NSF awarded a total of $299,000
to Lawson, Prof. R. Bilsborrow, University of
North Carolina and Prof. A. Morrison, Tulane University.
1994-1995. Royalty Research Fund, University of Washington,
$21,900 'Household Strategies, Gender Relations and the Consequences of
Women's Migration'. Twelve months of research funding to develop a major
grant proposal.
1993-1996. Ford Foundation, $75,000 'Interdisciplinary
Graduate Student Practicum for the SSRC International Predissertation
Fellowship Grant Competition.' Funding with Ellis Goldberg, Political
Science to run a graduate seminar series on methodology and proposal
writing.
1992. Graduate
School, University of Washington.
'Restructuring Informality: Industrial Change and Work in Latin
America', $18,000 Faculty Scholar Award to the College of Arts
and Sciences, for Winter 1993.
1990-1993. National Science Foundation, $65,000 'Urban
Employment Patterns Under Industrial Subcontracting: A Proposal for
Theoretical and Empirical Work in Ecuador'. Involves six months
of field work in Ecuador
-- principal investigator.
1990. Latin American Studies Interdisciplinary award
from the Provost's Office. One month of summer support to develop an
interdisciplinary faculty research seminar and undergraduate course.
1989. Graduate School Research Fund Award, $6,076
'Work and Welfare in Latin American Manufacturing: A Case Study of Ecuador'
-- principal investigator.
1987. Department of Education Foreign Travel Grant,
$1,200. Awarded for field study in Ecuador in summer 1987.
1987. Graduate
School Research Fund
Award, $4,300. 'State-Producer Interactions and Policy Outcomes in Less
Developed Settings' -- principal investigator.
National Science Foundation Doctoral
Dissertation Grants
Grants awarded by NSF to Lawson as Principal
Investigator, in conjunction with PhD students, to provide twelve months of
field work funding.
2001-2003. National
Science Foundation, Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant, $9,990
'Regional Economic Integration and the Changing Spaces of Politics'. With
Clare Newstead.
2000 - 2001. National Science Foundation,
Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant, $9,690 'Shifting Gender Relations
and the Transformation of Moroccan Social Spaces'. With Amy Freeman.
1999-2001. National Science
Foundation, Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant, $9,835 'The Geography
of Financial Services Restructuring in Colombia'. With Kim Van Eyck.
1997-1998. National Science Foundation, Doctoral
Dissertation Improvement Grant, $9,984 'Engaging the State from Peripheral
Places: Emerging Citizenship Discourses in Michoacán, Mexico'.
With Lise Nelson.
1994-1995. National Science Foundation, Doctoral
Dissertation Improvement Grant $9,470 'Labor Market Formation in an
Immigrant Community'. With Linda Becker.
1994-1995. National Science Foundation, Doctoral
Dissertation Improvement Grant $8,677 'A Comparison of the Consequences of
Gendered Migration in Two Regions of Indonesia'. With Rachel Silvey.
1993-1994. National Science Foundation, Doctoral Dissertation
Improvement Grant $9,505 'New Landscapes: Political Activism and the
Creation of Community Identity in the Post-Soviet City'.
With James Bell.
1992-1993. National Science Foundation, Doctoral
Dissertation Improvement Grant $8,505 'Comparative Investigation of the
links between Female Household Headship and Women's Poverty in Urban
Mexico'. With Patricia Chalita.
1990. National Science Foundation, Doctoral
Dissertation Improvement grant $7,800 'Informal Trading in Quito, Ecuador:
Economic Integration, Internal Diversity, and Life Chances'. With Suzanne Teltscher.
At Ohio
State University
1985-1986. Graduate Alumni Research Award, $1,000.
'Developmental and Exploitative Tendencies in Intermediate City
Development: The Case of Ecuador' -- principal investigator.
1984-1986. National Science Foundation, $9,597. 'Intermediate Cities and
Developmental-Exploitative Impacts Upon Regional Growth' co-principal
investigator.
Editorial Responsibilities
2007-2012. North American editor, Progress in Human Geography.
2002-present. Member, editorial board Economic Geography.
1998-2006. Member,
editorial board Annals of the
Association of American Geographers.
1998-2000. Member, editorial board Progress in Human Geography.
Reviewing of articles and proposals for Annals of the AAG, Environment and Planning D:
Society and Space, Environment and Planning A, Antipode, Economic
Geography, Professional Geographer, Conference of Latin Americanist
Geographers Yearbook, Yearbook of the Pacific Coast
Geographers Association, National Science Foundation.
Presentations at Professional Meetings (Since 1995)
2009. March. Invited panelist ‘The Virgin Appears in La
Maldita Vecindad’ media
geography panel.
2008. April. Invited panelist ‘Author
meets the critics: Tania Murray Li, The Will to Improve’, National
meetings, Association of American Geographers, Boston.
2007. April. Invited paper ‘Feminist Care
Ethics: on care and responsibility in geography’ in session titled Radical
Geographies and Normative Political Theory: embracing the normative?
National meetings, Association of American Geographers, San Francisco.
2006. November. Paper titled ‘White
Americans won’t do those jobs: cultural constructions of White and Latino
poverty in the American Northwest’. Presented at Race/Ethnicity and
Place III Conference, San Marcos,
Texas.
2006. September. Invited participant in
three sessions at the Association of Pacific Coast Geographers Meeting,
Eugene OR. Presented in a ‘Grants and Grant-making’ Panel, a panel on
‘Healthy Departments’ and was invited discussant for a paper session on
‘Poverty and Homelessness in the U.S.’
2006. May. Invited discussant for panel
‘Migration Studies: looking back, looking forwards’ at the Moving Americans
Conference, University of Washington, Seattle.
2006. March. AAG Presidential Address
‘Geographies of Care and Responsibility’ Annual Meeting of the Association
of American Geographers, Chicago.
2005. June. Presentation on the state of
the AAG and U.S. Geography, Conference of Canadian Geographers, Waterloo, OT.
2005. January. ‘Geographies of White and
Latino Poverty in the American Northwest’ at International Critical
Geography Conference, Mexico City.
2004. September. 'Geographies of White and
Latino Poverty in the American Northwest' at APCG, San Luis Obispo, CA.
2004. August. Discussant for panel entitled
'Transnational Migration and Gender'. Annual Meetings of the International
Geographical Union, Glasgow,
Scotland.
2003. October. Invited paper 'Feminist
analyses of Work' at East Lakes/West Lakes AAG meeting, Kalamzoo, MI.
2003. October. 'Migration and Neoliberalism in Ecuador'
NESTVAL AAG meetings, New Britain,
CT, also served as discussant
for panel on the future of NESTVAL.
2003. March. Invited participant in a
panel titled 'Get a Job!'. Annual Meetings
of the Association of American Geographers, New Orleans.
2002. March. Invited participant in a
paper session. Paper titled 'Global Governmentality
and Graduated Sovereignty: neo-liberalism, poverty and migration in Ecuador'.
Annual Meetings of the Association of American Geographers, Los Angeles.
2002. March. Invited participant in a
panel titled 'Tips for First Year Faculty'. Annual Meetings of the
Association of American Geographers, Los
Angeles.
2001. March. Invited participant in a
panel session titled 'Geographies of Latin America: Problems, Progress, Prospects'. Annual Meetings of the Association of
American Geographers, New York.
2000, November. Presented a paper titled 'Global Governmentality, Internationalized
States and Poor Migrants in Ecuador' at the 5th International Metropolis
Conference, Vancouver, BC.
2000, April. Presented a paper titled 'Making
Sense of Neoliberal Modernization: Migration,
Gender and Work in Quito, Ecuador' at the Annual Meetings of the
Association of American Geographers, Pittsburgh,
PA.
1999, May. Invited participant in conference
titled 'Neoliberalism and Structural Adjustment
in Latin America and Africa: A Blessing or
a Curse?'. Co-authored paper with Kim Van
Eyck titled 'Experiences of Urban-Bound Migration in Ecuador: women and men making a living in Quito, Ecuador',
Indiana University,
Bloomington, IN.
1999, March. Presented a paper titled 'Arguments
within the Geographies of Movement? Deconstructing the migrant as a modern
subject' as the Progress in Human Geography Lecture at the Annual Meetings
of the Association of American Geographers, Honolulu, HI.
1998, November. Coauthored paper with Lucy Jarosz titled 'Mapping the Red, White and Blue'.
American Studies Meetings, Seattle,
WA.
1998, April. Presented a paper titled 'Migrants
on Development: empirical investigations of migrant narratives of
modernization in Quito,
Ecuador'.
Annual Meetings of the Association of American Geographers, Boston, MA.
1997, April. Invited presenter in the Presidential
Plenary Session titled ‘Change, Continuity and Discourse: The challenge to
and from Geography’ with a paper titled ‘Placing the Migrant’. Annual
Meetings of the Association of American Geographers, Fort Worth, TX.
1996, April. Invited presenter in session titled ‘Theoretical
Developments in Latin Americanist Geography’ with
a paper titled ‘Hierarchical Households and Gendered Migration in Latin America: A Research Agenda’. Annual Meetings of
the Association of American Geographers, Charlotte, NC.
1995, March. Invited discussant in session titled
'Feminist Empowerment and Praxis'. Annual Meetings of the Association of
American Geographers, Chicago,
IL.
Keynote and Invited Presentations (Since 1995)
2008. November 'Rethinking Global Poverty: Tracing Uncare in Theory and Policy' invited colloquium, Syracuse University,
the Maxwell School, Gender and Globalization
Series.
2008. September 'Spaces of Care: poverty, policy and
uncaring social theory' invited paper at Spaces of Care Workshop, Durham University, Sept 10-11th.
2008. April. ‘Dumping Grounds and Unseen
Grounds: Placing poverty, race and ethnicity in the American Northwest’
invited colloquium, Department of Geography, University of Edinburgh.
2008. February. ‘Dumping Grounds and
Unseen Grounds: Placing poverty, race and ethnicity in the American
Northwest’ invited colloquium, West Coast
Poverty Center,
University of
Washington (with Lucy
Jarosz).
2008. February. ‘Dumping Grounds and
Unseen Grounds: Placing poverty, race and ethnicity in the American
Northwest’ invited colloquium, Department of Geography, University of Washington
(with Lucy Jarosz).
2008. January. ‘Dumping Grounds and Unseen
Grounds: Placing poverty, race and ethnicity in the American Northwest’
speaker at faculty seminar, Department of Geography, Dartmouth University.
2008. January. ‘Dumping Grounds and Unseen
Grounds: Placing poverty, race and ethnicity in the American Northwest’
invited colloquium, Department of Geography, University of Oregon.
2007. September. Invited participant in
three sessions at the Association of Pacific Coast Geographers Meeting,
Eugene OR. Presented in a ‘Grants and Grant-making’ Panel; panel on
‘Healthy Departments’; and discussant for a session on ‘Poverty and
Homelessness in the U.S.’
2006. June. Invited keynote speaker and
faculty presenter for the Summer Institute in Economic Geography, University of Wisconsin,
Madison.
Keynote talk entitled ‘Feminist Inclusions for Economic Geography’.
2006. May. ‘Geographies of Care and Responsibility’
invited to lecture in the Humanities
Center, University of Washington.
2006. April. ‘Geographies of Care and
Responsibility’ invited as Ralph Brown Day Lecturer, Department of
Geography, University
of Minnesota.
2005. December. ‘Justice, Governance and
the Limits to Care’ invited as Miller Lecturer (with Lynn Staeheli), Department of Geography, Pennsylvania State University.
2005. June. ‘Presentation on Diversity in
Geography’ at the AAG Healthy Departments Workshop, Portland ME.
2004-2005. Keynote / Plenary Addresses at AAG
Conferences from September 2004 to September 2005. Washington DC
(Race/Ethnicity and Place Conference at Howard University); Sioux Falls, SD
(Great Plains / Rocky Mountains Division); Oshkosh, WI (West Lakes
Division); Athens, OH (East Lakes Division); Villanova, PA (Middle States
Division); Nagadoches, TX (Southwestern
Division); Biloxi, MS (Southeastern Division).
2005. May. Invited speaker at the World University
Network's Development Studies Conference at the University of Oslo, Norway.
2005. April. Keynote speaker at California
State University,
Fullerton's
'All Points on the Compas' Conference. Paper
entitled 'The Geographical Advantage in Development Studies'.
2005. April. Served as President at the Annual Meeting
of the Association of American Geographers, Denver, CO.
2005. April. Invited speaker at the Department of
Geography, University of Colorado, Boulder. Presentation entitled
'The Geographical Advantage in Development Studies.'
2004. November. Invited speaker at the Department of
Geography, University
of Southern Mississippi.
Presentation entitled 'Geographies of Race / Ethnicity and Poverty in the
American Northwest.'
2004. November. Invited speaker at the Department of
Geography, University of Texas, Austin. Presentation entitled
'The Geographical Advantage in Development Studies.'
2003. September. Speaker at Presidential Reception and
representative of the AAG at the Association of Pacific Coast Geographers'
Annual Meeting at Portland State University, Portland, OR.
2003. May. Keynote speaker at Delaware Valley
Geographic Association dinner; delivered 'A feminist critique of
globalization research' at the Department of Geography, Kutztown University, PA.
2003. February. Department of Geography colloquium, 'A
Feminist Critique of Globalization', at the University of Washington.
2003. January. Two invited talks at the University of Idaho. For the Women's Center, 'A
Feminist Critique of Globalization'; for the Department of Geography,
'Globalization, Neoliberal Reform and National
Identity in Ecuador'.
2002. May. Invited participant at the Symposium of the
World University Network on Neo-liberalism. Bristol University, UK.
2002. April. Invited participant in Conference on
Globalization and Democracy, sponsored by the Institute for Behavioral
Studies, University of Colorado, Boulder.
Research paper titled 'Global Governmentality and
Graduated Sovereignity: neo-liberalism, poverty
and migration in Ecuador'.
2002. March. Invited colloquium, College of Behavioral Sciences, State
University of California, San Bernadino.
Research paper titled 'Global Governmentality and
Graduated Sovereignty: neo-liberalism, poverty and migration in Ecuador'.
2001. October. Invited colloquium,
Department of Geography, University
of Colorado, Boulder. Research paper titled
'Locating Globalization'.
2001. October. Invited participant in
Conference on Geographies of Global Economic Change. Paper titled
'Locating Globalization: Feminist (re)readings of the subjects and spaces
of globalization'. Clark University, Worcester,
MA.
2001. April. Invited speaker to the Global
Affairs Program, Maxwell School, Syracuse University. Research paper
titled 'Global Governmentality, Internationalized States
and Poor Migrants in Ecuador'.
2001. April. Ellen Churchill Semple
Day Speaker at the Department of Geography, University of Kentucky.
Research paper 'Sophisticated People versus Rednecks: economic restructuring
and class difference in American's West' and dinner talk 'Reflections on a
former Chair's Travels through a Geography Program'.
2000. December. Invited colloquium, Department
of Geography, Kent State
University, Ohio.
'Sophisticated People Versus Rednecks: Towards a Human Geography of White
Class Difference'.
2000. December. Invited colloquium, Department
of Geography, Ohio
State University.
'Sophisticated People Versus Rednecks: Towards a Human Geography of White
Class Difference'.
2000. April. Invited presenter at a workshop
titled 'DiverCity', responding to Leonie Sandercock's Dreaming Cosmopolis.
Workshop organized by College of Architecture and Urban Planning, University of Washington.
2000. April. Commentator in series titled
'Borderlands of Globality: Transnational Spaces
and Struggles' for paper by Jennifer Hyndman, Department of Geography, University
of Washington.
2000. May. Invited participant in workshop on
Critical Asian Development and Social Movements. Critical Asian Studies Program,
University of
Washington.
1999. May. Invited participant in a conference
on 'Neoliberalism and Structural Adjustment in
Latin America and Africa: A Blessing or a
Curse?'. Paper titled 'Experiences of
Urban-Bound Migration in Ecuador:
women and men making a living in Quito
in the eighties and nineties'. Indiana
University, Bloomington.
1997. September. Keynote Speaker at 1997 Freshman
Convocation, University
of Washington.
1997. April. Invited colloquium in the Department of
Geography, University
of Minnesota. Paper
titled ‘Tailoring is a Profession, Seamstressing
is Work: reworking labor market segmentation under austerity in Quito’.
1997. February. Invited colloquium in the Department
of Geography, University
of Washington. Paper
titled ‘Tailoring is a Profession, Seamstressing
is Just Work’.
1996. January. Invited colloquium at the Newcomb College
for Research on Women, Tulane
University. Paper
titled ‘Gender Relations, Household Strategies, and the Consequences of
Migration in Ecuador.’
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
National Positions and Committees (since 1995)
2008-2009. Member,
Strategic Directions for the Geographical Sciences Study Committee, National Academy of Sciences.
2007-2009. Member, National Academy of Sciences
Standing Committee on the Geographical Sciences.
2007-2009. Member, Enhancing Diversity Committee,
Association of American Geographers.
2004-2008. Chair, AAG
Healthy Departments Committee.
2005-2006. Past
President, Association of American Geographers.
2004-2005. President,
Association of American Geographers.
2004-2006. Member, AAG
Diversity Task Force.
2003-2004. Vice
President, Association of American Geographers.
2003-2006. AAG
Executive Committee.
2000-2003. Chair of the
national councilors and national councilor, Association of American
Geographers, elected by the AAG membership.
2000-2003. Chair,
Glenda Laws Awards Committee, Association of American Geographers.
2000-2003. Member,
Endowment Trust Committee, Association of American Geographers.
1998-1999. Member,
Screening Panel for the International Predissertation
Fellowship Competition, Social Science Research Council.
1995-1997. Member, Review Panel for Research Grants,
National Science Foundation, Geography and Regional Science Program.
1996. Chair, Nominating Committee, Association of
American Geographers.
1992-1995. Chair, Research Grants Committee,
Association of American Geographers.
1993-1995. Member, Publications Committee,
Association of American Geographers.
Conference Organization
2009. Organized
and chaired the Progress in Human Geography Lecture at the Annual AAG
meetings in Las Vegas, Mona Domosh presented: ”The
World was Never Flat: Early Global Encounters and the Messiness of Empire’.
2007. Co-convener of World Universities Network
Conference on Critical, Global Poverty Studies at the University of Bergen,
involves an interdisciplinary and international group of poverty scholars.
2005. April. Organizer of Presidential
Plenary sessions at the Denver AAG Annual Meeting. Two panels: 'Geographies
of Fear and Hope I: economies, politics and peace' with speakers Vine Deloria (emeritus, University of Colorado), Patricia
Nelson Limerick (University of Colorado), Sarah Radcliffe (Cambridge
University), and Matthew Sparke (University of
Washington); and 'Geographies of Fear and Hope II: environments, socities and sustainability' with speakers Jennifer
Hyndman (Simon Fraser University), Brian Klinkenberg
(University of British Columbia), Steve Schneider (Stanford University),
Gilbert F. White (University of Colorado), and Jennifer R. Wolch (University of Southern California).
2004. June. Organizer of 'AAG Healthy
Departments Workshop' bringing together 35 participants from across the nation
to build strong departments and strong leadership in Geography.
2000, April. Co-organizer of two special sessions of
'New Migrations in the Global Economy' at the Pittsburgh AAG
meetings.
1998, April. Co-organizer of special session for
the Boston AAG meetings 'Reworking Development through Migrant
Narratives'.
1994, April. Organizer and discussant of special
session for the San Francisco AAG meetings, 'Gendered Consequences of
Migration'.
1993, April. Organizer and chair of two special sessions
for the Atlanta AAG meetings, 'Women Restructuring Work and Politics' and
'Local Outcomes of Economic Restructuring for Women's Work Across the
Americas'.
1992, April. Organizer and chair of two special
sessions titled 'Dialogue on the Americas I and II'. Annual
Meetings of the Association of American Geographers, San Diego, California.
1991, April. Organizer and chair of special session.
'From Global Political-Economy to Social Reproduction in Place: Cities,
State, and Society in Latin America'. Annual
Meetings of the Association of American Geographers, Miami, Florida.
1989, July. Organizer, Association of American
Geographers' Phoenix Group Summer Retreat. This retreat brought together
junior and senior scholars in geography to discuss and resolve issues
pertaining to research career development in our discipline.
1989. Co-organizer, chair, and discussant in three
Latin American Development sessions, i) Industry
and Labor in Latin America, ii) The State in Urban Development in Latin
America, and iii) Brazilian Development, at the 1989 national Association
of American Geographers meetings, Baltimore, MD.
1988. Organizer, special session 'The Interface of the
State, Forms of Production, and Development Outcomes in Developing
Nations', at the Association of American Geographers Annual Meetings in
Phoenix in April 1988.
1984, November. Chair of Session, 'Urban and Regional
Systems Policy' at East Lakes Division of the Association of American
Geographers Meeting, Waterloo, Ontario.
University Service (since 1995)
2007. Chaired search committee for chair of
Anthropology Department.
2006. Member, Global Affairs Advisory Committee,
Provost’s Office.
2005. Member, Search Committee for the Dean of the College of Architecture and Urban Planning.
2003-2005. Member,
governing committee of the Stice Feminist Scholar
in Social Justice.
2001-2004. Member,
College Council, College
of Arts and Sciences,elected by the faculty of the College.
Also served as College Council Liaison to the Faculty Senate.
2000. Chair, Search Committee for the Chair of
the UW Department of American Ethnic Studies.
2000. Member, Brotman
Award Selection Committee.
1998-2000. Member,
Board of Directors, Teaching Academy University
of Washington.
1998-2000. Member, UW Honors
Program Advisory Board.
1999. Member, Distinguished Teaching Award Selection
Committee.
1996-1997. Member, Provost Search Committee.
1995-1996. Member, Presidential Task Force on
International Studies.
1994-1996. Member, Executive Committee Latin American
Studies Program.
1995-1998. Member, Special Committee on Faculty Women,
Faculty Senate, University
of Washington.
1995. Faculty Mentor
for Assistant Professor Guadalupe Friaz, American
Ethnic Studies.
1993-1999. Member, faculty mentoring committee for
Assistant Professor Saraswati Sunyindo,
Women's Studies.
1995. Member, Program Review of School of Communications
for Potential
Departmental Service (since 1995)
2007. Served on three promotion committees for
geography colleagues.
2006-2007. Member
executive committee.
2006. Served on three promotion committees for
geography colleagues.
2005-2006. Member of
faculty search committee for a GIS colleague.
2001-2002. Member of
executive committee, elected by faculty in the Geography Department.
2000. Chair, Departmental Strategic Planning
Committee.
1997-2000. Department
Chair.
1996. Chair, Departmental Ten Year Review Committee
and principal author of Departmental Self-Study Report.
1996-1997. Associate Chair, Department of
Geography.
1993-1995. Chair, Curriculum Committee.
1993-1995. Undergraduate Program Coordinator.
TEACHING
Courses Taught
Geog 230 'Geographies of Global
Inequality'
Geog 330 'Latin America: Landscapes of Change'
Geog 430 'Critical Development Geography and Latin American Change'
Honors Class ‘Care and Responsibility in a Global Frame’
Geog 531 'Reworking Development seminar'
Geog 502 'Writing for Publication'
Geog 502 'Proposal Writing seminar'
Geog 533 ‘Geographies of Care and Responsibility’
Geog 542 ‘Reframing Poverty’
Graduate Supervision
PhD's chaired:
Suzanne Teltscher (1992)
Patricia Price (1996)
James Bell (1996)
Linda Becker (1997)
Rachel Silvey (1997)
Lise Nelson (2000)
Wonho Lee (2000)
Kim Van Eyck (2002)
Clare Newstead (2004)
Sarah Wright (2004)
Amy Freeman (2004)
Anne Bonds (2008)
Maureen Hickey (ongoing)
Dominic Corva (ongoing)
Juan Galvis (ongoing)
Rebecca Burnett (ongoing)
Dena Aufseeser (ongoing)
MA's chaired:
Annie Faulkner (1988)
Patricia Chalita (1990)
Tim Oakes (1991)
Sam Shaw (1991)
Alan Forsberg (1992)
Chuck Vavrus (1992)
Dion Mathewson (1993)
Rachel Silvey (1993)
Elizabeth Lobb (1994)
Brigit Baur (1995)
Sarah Hilbert (1995)
Linda Wasson (2001)
Colleen Donovan (2001)
Maureen Hickey (2002)
Rebecca Burnett (2007)
Juan Galvis (2007)
Heather Rule Day (2007)
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