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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
2009-2011. 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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