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VICTORIA A. LAWSON

 

 

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Education

Employment

Awards and Honors

Bibiliography

Research Activities

Professional Service

Teaching
 

 

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Curriculum Vitae

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

2009-2011. 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

2012.  Solomon Katz, Distinguished Lectureship in the Humanities, University of Washington

2011-2012.  Fellow, Simpson Center Society of Scholars, University of Washington

2010.  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

2013.  Progress Handbook of Human Geography.  R. Lee (lead editor), Castree, N. Lawson, V., Paasi, A., Philo, C., Roberts, S., Radcliffe, S., and Withers, C., (Eds.)  London:Sage.

2011. Atkinson, S, Lawson, V. and Wiles, J. Guest editors of a special issue of Social and Cultural Geography titled ‘Care of the body: spaces of practice. Papers by S. Atkinson, S. Bowlby, E. Hall, M. Green and V. Lawson and J. Wiles. Volume 12 (6): 563-622.

2010.  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

2013. Victoria Lawson and Sarah Elwood.  Encountering Poverty: Space, class and poverty politics.  Antipode In press.

2013.  Sarah Elwood and Victoria Lawson.  Who’s Crisis? Spatial Imaginaries of Class, Poverty and Vulnerability.  Environment and Planning A 45(1), 103-108.

2012. Solís, P., Adams, J., Duram, L., Hume, S., Kuslikis, A., Lawson, V., Miyares, I., Padgett, D., Ramírez, A. .Diverse Experiences in Diversity at the Geogrpahy Department Scale. Accepted The Professional Geographer.

2012. Kobayashi, A, Lawson, V., Sanders, R. The Whitening of the Public University: The Context for Diversifying Geography. Accepted The Professional Geographer.

2012. Victoria Lawson with the Middle Class Poverty Politics Research Group. De-centering Poverty Studies: middle class alliances and the social construction of poverty.  In press. Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography.

2011. Atkinson, S., Lawson, V. and Wiles, J. Editorial Introduction. Care of the body: spaces of practice. Social and Cultural Geography. 12(6): 563-572.

2011. Maia Green and Victoria Lawson. Displacing Care. Social and Cultural Geography. 12(6): 639-654.

2010. Victoria Lawson. 'Reshaping Economic Geography? Producing spaces of inclusive development.' Economic Geography 86(4): 351-360.

2010. Victoria Lawson. 'Composing our Careers: Susan Hanson's Contributions to Geography and Geographers' Gender Place and Culture 17(1): 49-54.

2010.  Victoria Lawson, Lucy Jarosz and Anne Bonds.  ‘Dumping grounds and unseen grounds: placing race, ethnicity and poverty in the American Northwest’, Annals of the Association of American Geographers 100(3) 655-677.

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.

2009.  Victoria Lawson and Asuncion St. Clair.  ‘Poverty and Global Environmental Change’ IHDP Update, 2: 35-39.

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

2013. Asun St. Clair and Victoria Lawson.  From Poverty to Prosperity: Addressing Growth, Equity and Ethics in a Changing Environment’ in O’Brien, K., Sygna, L. and Wolf, J. (Eds.) A Changing Environment for Human Security: New Agendas for Research, Policy and Action.  London: Earthscan.

2012. Victoria Lawson. Poverty, policy and uncaring social theory. In Atobrah, D (Ed.). Social Policy and Care. In press.

 2012.  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.

2010. David Barker, Anne Bonds, Jennifer Devine, Lucy Jarosz, Victoria Lawson, Lise Nelson, Pete Nelson. Rural Restructuring. Seattle Geographies and Geographers. M.Brown and R. Morill (editors). University of Washington Press.

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

2012. Victoria Lawson. 'Review Essay: Profits, Populism and Patriarchy'.  Antipode, 44 (2)

2010. 'Review Essay: Betrayal and Responsibility in Tania Li's "The Will to Improve". Annals of the Association of American Geographers.

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

2013. (with Kim England) ‘A Crisis of Care and a Crisis of Borders: a politics of the global intimate’ in preparation for submission to Progress in Human Geography.

RESEARCH ACTIVITIES

Research Grants at the University of Washington

2013-2018. National Science Foundation, $500,000 ‘Research Coordination Network on Relational Poverty’ co-PI with Sarah Elwood.  A five year research networking project involving teams of scholars from six countries.

2009-2010. National Science Foundation, $18,964 ‘Reframing Poverty Politics: What role for the middle classes’ Planning visit to collaborate on larger project with a team of Argentinean colleagues.

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: 

2009-2011. National Science Foundation, Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant, ''. With Rebecca Burnett.

2009-2011. National Science Foundation, Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant, $11,964 ''Suppressed Voices, Transitional Lives, Children's Strategies Negotiating Neoliberal Globalization in Peru'. With Dena Aufseeser.

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.

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, Gender Place and Culture, Progress in Human Geography, National Science Foundation.

Presentations at Professional Meetings (Since 1995)

2013.  April.  Paper titled ‘Encountering Poverty: Space, class and poverty politics’ co-presented with Sarah Elwood at the AAG annual meetings in Los Angeles, CA.

2011. April. Invited to present the Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography annual lecture at the AAG annual meetings in Seattle. Lecture titled ‘De-centering Poverty Studies: middle class alliances and the social construction of poverty’.

2010. April. Invited panelist in author meets the critics session ‘Poverty Capital: Freedom, prosperity and financial services’ a review essay on Ananya Roy’s book Poverty Capital.  AAG annual meetings in Washington DC.

2010. April. Invited paper ‘Understanding the rapid spatial reorganization of society’ presented in the launch session for the NAS book Strategic Directions in the Geographical Sciences.  AAG annual meetings in Washington DC.

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, Kalamazoo, 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)

2013.  March.  Invited speaker at colloquium ‘A Crisis of Care and a Crisis of Borders: A politics of the global intimate’, Department of Geography, University of Toronto, Canada.

 

2012.  Invited speaker at the conference ‘Gender, Equality and Capitalism’ my paper titled ‘A transnational politics of care: caring citizenship and inclusion’, March 4-6th, University of Oregon

2012.  Invited speaker at conference on Globalization and Cultures of Survival.  Paper titled ‘Caring Development?   A critique of the 2009 World Development Report’, Institute of African Studies, University of Ghana, Legon, Ghana.

2011.  Invited speaker at the Middle Classes Study Group.  ‘Decentering Poverty Studies: middle class alliances and the social construction of poverty’.  Instituto de Desarollo Economico y Social, Buenos Aires, Argentina.

2011.  Panelist at ‘An Afternoon with Gro Harlem Bruntland ‘What Makes a Nation and its Economy Healthy’, September, 26th, Fairmont Olympic Hotel, Seattle.

2010. May. Invited presenter ‘Reframing Poverty: what role for the middle classes?’ paper delivered at the Scientific Committee meeting of CROP, Bergen, Norway.

2010. May. Public roundtable presenter ‘Poor thinking: challenging dominant poverty research narratives’, Bergen Resource Center for International Development.

2010. February. Moderator and introductory remarks in panel ‘Next City: Human Rights.  Global Cities.  Catastrophe.  Public event organized by University of Washington Alumni Association.

2010.  January.  Colloquium, Department of Sociology. ‘Critical Global Poverty Studies: Reframing Poverty’, University of Bergen, Norway.

2009.  October.  Invited paper ‘Poverty, policy and uncaring social theory’ at Social Policy and Care: Global and Local Dimensions Workshop, Institute for African Studies, University of Ghana, Legon, Ghana.

2009.  June.  Invited paper ‘Global Poverty: addressing social and environmental responsibility’ at University of Washington and University of Bergen Celebration of 30 years of collaboration. Bergen, Norway.

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.  June.  Invited participant in a National Science Foundation-sponsored workshop, "A Science of Broadening Participation", held at the National Science Foundation, June 23-24th.

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)

2013. March. External reviewer for Geography Department at the University of Indiana.

2010-2011. Member of the AAG Local Arrangements Committee for the Seattle AAG meetings

2009-2012. Member, Aligned Advisory Board, Association of American Geographers.

2010. January. External reviewer for Geography Department at the University of Kentucky.

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. 

International Professional Service

2010. May. Member, Scientific Committee of the Critical Poverty Research Program. The Scientific Committee (SC) is the governing body of CROP and provides guidance in all aspects of the Programme. It is composed of recognized academic authorities in the field of poverty research, appointed by the University of Bergen and the ISSC. They are appointed on the background on academic achievements and to represent geographical regions and disciplines.  The SC formulates the overall scientific goals of the Programme, as well as organizing the coordination of research efforts.

Conference Organization

2013.  April.  Co-organizer of special paper session titled ‘Space, Social Difference and Middle Class Poverty Politics’ with Sarah Elwood.  Organized for the AAG annual meetings in LA, California.

2010. September. Organizer and chair of Research Workshop titled 'Reframing poverty: What role for the middle classes?'. Eighteen participants from Argentina and the United States. Buenos Aires, Argentina.

2010. April. Organizer and chair of Progress in Human Geography Lecture by Eric Sheppard ‘Trade, Globalization and the Question of Development’ AAG annual meetings in Washington DC.

2010. January. Co-organized and chaired (with Asuncion St. Clair) Research Collaboration Workshop ‘Reframing Poverty: what role for the middle classes?’ Solstrand, Norway.  This event included research teams from Norway, South Africa, Argentina and the US to further develop our comparative project.

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)

2012-2014.  Member of the Honors Council, Honors Program, University of Washington

2011. Member of promotion committee for Priti Ramamurthy

2011. Member, Global Health Minor Advisory Committee

2011. Member, Landolt Committee, Graduate School, UW

2009-2010. Member, Executive Committee of the West Coast Poverty Center.

2009. Member of Interdisciplinary Education Discussion Group, Graduate School.

2009. Chair of Search Committee for Chair of Womens Studies Department.

2007.  Chair of 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)

2012-2013.  Member executive committee.

2011-2013. Chair of the Diversity and Climate Committee. 

2011. Acting Chair of Department for winter quarter.

2011. Chair of Lucy Jarosz Promotion Committee.

2010-2011. Chair of Sarah Elwood Promotion Committee.

2010. Organizer of Retirement event for Bill Beyers.

2009-2010. Member of Graduate Policy Committee.

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 331 'Geographies of Care and Responsibility
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 (2010); Dominic Corva (2010); Juan Pablo Galvis (2011)
Dena Aufseeser (2012); Rebecca Burnett (2013); Amy Piedalue (ongoing)
Magie Ramírez (ongoing); Mónica Farías (ongoing); Kristy Copeland (ongoing)

MA's chaired:

Annie Faulkner (1988); Patricia Chalita Price (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); Amy Piedalue (2010)
Magie Ramirez (2011); Mónica Farías (2011); Natalie White (2012); Yolanda Valencia (ongoing)

 

 

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