Service
I do lots of service. This is a peculiar category of work that the UW defines as work I do with or for my colleagues or community that do not directly result in publication. I think that is what the UW thinks. From my point of view, a more accurate definition of "service" should include the things that the UW asks me to do to share in the responsibilities of managing the institution, and exclude the things I choose to do for my peers as part of a larger research agenda or for my city as part of a larger policy agenda. For example, I am on the editorial board of the Journal of Latin American Urban Studies, and I convened an international workshop at Oxford University on how to use new media communication tools to help solve social problems in developing countries. I also organized a public lecture by Naomi Klein, which was attended by over 500 people from around the city and later rebroadcast on public and community radio stations across the country (you can view the lecture in RealVideo on the Communication Department website). I have helped to organize a small workshop for UW faculty interested in qualitative research methods. I consider these things important parts of my research agenda, but they are formally classfied as service activities. I also serve my department by working on a number of faculty committees and supervising a dozen graduate and undergraduate student research projects.