1980-1982. The Ohio State University, M.A. in Geography.

1977-1980. Leicester University, England, B.A. in Social Sciences.
 

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.
 

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.
 

 (under contract)  Development Geography.  Invited book for the Edward Arnold Series, 'Human Geography in the Making', series editor, Alexander Murphy. 

 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 A. 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

2002.  Victoria A. Lawson.  'Global Governmentality and Graduated Sovereignty: national belonging among poor migrants in Ecuador' forthcoming in the Scottish Geographical Journal.

2002. Richa Nagar, Victoria A. Lawson, Linda McDowell, and Susan Hanson.  'Locating Globalization: feminist (re)readings of the subjects and spaces of globalization' forthcoming in Economic Geography.

2002. Lucy Jarosz and Victoria A. Lawson. 'Mapping the Red, White and Blue: rural landscapes and class relations in America's West'  Antipode 34(1): 8-27..

2000.  Victoria A. Lawson. 'Arguments Within Geographies of Movement: the theoretical potential of migrants' stories' Progress in Human Geography 24(2): 173-189.

2000.  Victoria A. 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 A. Lawson. ‘Placing the Migrant’ Annals of the Association of American Geographers 89(1): 121-132.

1999. Victoria A. Lawson.  ‘Tailoring is a profession; Seamstressing is just work!’ Environment and Planning A  30: 209-227.

1998. Lawrence Brown, Firooza Pavri and Victoria A. Lawson. 'Gender, Migration, and the Organization of Work Under Economic Devolution: Ecuador 1982-90' International Journal of Population Geography 4: 259-274.

1998. Victoria A. 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 A. Lawson. ‘Development Models, Economic Adjustment and Occupational Composition: Ecuador 1982-1990’ International Regional Science Review 20(3): 183-209.

1995. Victoria A. 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 A. Lawson. 'Feminism, Praxis, and Human Geography' Geographical Analysis 27(4): 321-338.

1995. Lawrence A. Brown, Jennifer Mandel and Victoria A. 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 A. Lawson. 'Women in the Field' The Professional Geographer 46(1): 96-102.

1993. Thomas Klak and Victoria A. Lawson. 'Dialogue on the Americas: Issues of Representation, Comparison and Integration in Americanist Geography' Environment and Planning A 25: 1068-1070.

1993. Victoria A. 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 A. Lawson. 'Industrial Subcontracting and the Work-Welfare Relationship: A Framework for Contextual Analysis' Progress in Human Geography 16(1): 1-23.

1992. Victoria A. Lawson. 'Development in Latin America: Teaching Towards Multi-Cultural Understandings' CLAG Twentieth Anniversary Conference Benchmark Proceedings, pp. 295-301.

1992. Victoria A. 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 A. Lawson. 'Employment Versus Empowerment: A Case Study of Women's Work in Ecuador' Journal of Development Studies 27(4): 16-47.

1991. Victoria A. Lawson and Lynn A. Staeheli. 'On Critical Realism, Geography, and Arcane Sects!' The Professional Geographer 43(2): 231-233.

1990. Victoria A. 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 A. Lawson. 'An Introduction to Current Research on Latin American Cities' Economic Geography 66(4): 310-327.

1990. Victoria A. Lawson and Lynn A. Staeheli. 'Realism and the Practice of Geography' The Professional Geographer 42(1): 13-19.

1990. Victoria A. 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 A. 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 A. Lawson. 'Government Policy Biases and Ecuadorian Agricultural Change' Annals of the Association of American Geographers 78(3): 433-452.

1987. Victoria A. 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 A. 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 A. Lawson. 'Rural Destined Migration in Third World Settings: A Neglected Phenomenon?' Regional Studies 19: 415-432.

1985. Victoria A. Lawson. 'National Economic Policies, Uneven Regional Development, and Developmental Exploitative City Growth: The Case of Ecuador' Geospectrum 5: 3-5 (editorial review).
 

2002.  Matt Sparke and Victoria A. Lawson.  'Geoeconomics: Entrepreneurial Geographies of the Global-Local Nexus' forthcoming in The Handbook of Political Geography eds, John Agnew, Katharyne Mitchell and Gerard O'Tuathail, 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 Differential Urbanization: Linking Urbanization, Polarization Reversal and Counterurbanization in Developed and Less Developed Countries. Edited by H.S. Geyer and T.M. Kontuly, London: Edward Arnold, pp. 216-238. Reprinted with permission.

1993. Victoria A. 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 A. Lawson. 'Institutional, Research, and Philosophical Domains of Concern', Future Directions in Latin Americanist Geography: Research Agendas for the Nineties and Beyond. Edited by Gary Elbow. Conference of Latin Americanist Geographers, Special Publication No. 3, pp. 13-24.
 

1986. Victoria A. 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 A. 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 A. 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 A. 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 A. 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 A. 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.
 

1985. Victoria A. 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 A. 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 A. 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 A. 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.
 

2002.  Gender and International Migration in Europe, 2002, by E. Koffman, A. Phizaclea, A. Raghuram, and R. Sales.  Reviewed for Progress in Human Geography. 

1997. An Urbanizing World. Global Report on Human Settlements, 1996. by United Nations Center for Human Settlements (HABITAT). Reviewed for Choice.

1997. Feminist Dilemmas in Fieldwork. by Diane Wolf, ed. 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., by G. Psacharopoulos and H. A. Patrinos. Reviewed for Choice.

1993. Viva. Women and popular protest in Latin America. by Sarah Radcliffe and Sallie Westwood, eds. Reviewed for Environment and Planning A 26(1): 154-156.

1993. Gender and Migration in Developing Countries. by Sylvia Chant, ed. 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. Carl V. Patton, ed. Temple University Press. Reviewed for The Geographical Review.

1987. Promise of Development: Theories of Change in Latin America. by Peter Klaren and Thomas Bossert, eds. 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.
 

2002-2005.  National Science Foundation, $171,434 'Reinterpreting Geographies of Rural Poverty in the American Northwest.' co-principal investigator with Lucy Jarosz, University of Washington. 

1999-2000.  Royalty Research Grant, $32,000 'Modem Cowboys and Rednecks: Class Restructuring in the American West' with Associate Prof. 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.
 

Grants awarded by NSF to Lawson as Principal Investigator, in conjunction with PhD students, to provide twelve months of field work funding.

2001-2003.  National Science Foundation, Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant, $9,990 'Regional Economic Integration and the Changing Spaces of Politics'. With Clare Newstead. 

2000-2002.  National Science Foundation, Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant, $9,969 'Shifting Gender Relations and the Transformation of Moroccan Social Spaces'.  With Amy Freeman.

1999-2001.  National Science Foundation, Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant, $9,835 'The Geography of Financial Services Restructuring in Colombia'. With Kim Van Eyck.

1997-1998. National Science Foundation, Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant, $9,984 'Engaging the State from Peripheral Places: Emerging Citizenship Discourses in Michoacán, Mexico'. With Lise Nelson.

1994-1995. National Science Foundation, Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant $9,470 'Labor Market Formation in an Immigrant Community'. With Linda Becker.

1994-1995. National Science Foundation, Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant $8,677 'A Comparison of the Consequences of Gendered Migration in Two Regions of Indonesia'. With Rachel Silvey.

1993-1994. National Science Foundation, Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant $9,505 'New Landscapes: Political Activism and the Creation of Community Identity in the Post-Soviet City'. With James Bell.

1992-1993. National Science Foundation, Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant $8,505 'Comparative Investigation of the links between Female Household Headship and Women's Poverty in Urban Mexico'. With Patricia Chalita.

1990. National Science Foundation, Doctoral Dissertation Improvement grant $7,800 'Informal Trading in Quito, Ecuador: Economic Integration, Internal Diversity, and Life Chances'. With Suzanne Teltscher. At Ohio State University.

1985-1986. Graduate Alumni Research Award, $1,000. 'Developmental and Exploitative Tendencies in Intermediate City Development: The Case of Ecuador' -- principal investigator.

1984-1986. National Science Foundation, $9,597. 'Intermediate Cities and Developmental-Exploitative Impacts Upon Regional Growth' co-principal investigator.
 

1998-present.  Member, editorial board Annals of the Association of American Geographers.

1998-2000.  Member, editorial board Progress in Human Geography.

1992-1996. Member, editorial board The Professional Geographer.

1990. Editor of newsletter of the Latin American Specialty Group of the Association of American Geographers.

 Reviewing of articles and proposals for Annals of the AAG, Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, Environment and Planning A, Antipode, Progress in Human Geography, Economic Geography, Professional Geographer, Conference of Latin Americanist Geographers Yearbook, Yearbook of the Pacific Coast Geographers Association, National Science Foundation.
 

2002.  March.  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.  Paper presentation 'Global Governmentality, Internationalized States and Poor Migrants in Ecuador' 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'. 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.

1994, September. 'Household Strategies and the Consequences of Gendered Migration in Latin America' Annual Meeting of the Conference of Latin Americanist Geographers, Ciudad Juarez, Mexico.

1994, April. Invited participant in panel discussion, 'Should Women Count? Feminist Epistemology and Quantitative Methods in Geographic Research'. Annual Meetings of the Association of American Geographers, San Francisco, CA.

1994, April. Invited discussant in session titled 'Consequences of Gendered Migration' Annual Meetings of the Association of American Geographers, San Francisco, CA.

1994, April. Invited discussant in session titled 'Social Movements and Change in Latin America' Annual Meetings of the Association of American Geographers, San Francisco, CA.

1993, April. Invited discussant in session titled 'Women in the Field' Annual Meetings of the Association of American Geographers, Atlanta, GA.

1993, April. Invited paper in session titled 'Women Restructuring Work and Politics Across the Americas', paper titled Homework and Politics in Subcontracting Chains of Quito's Garment Industry, Annual Meetings of the Association of American Geographers, Atlanta, GA.

1992, September. Invited paper in session El Sector Informal en el Ecuador: Cuestionamientos Sobre la Realidad y la Teória, paper titled Cadenas de Contratación y Condiciones de Empleo: Una Comparasión entre dos Ramas Productivas en el Ecuador. XVII International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association, Los Angeles, CA.

1992, April. Invited discussant and chair, special sessions titled 'Dialogue on the Americas I and II', Annual Meetings of the Association of American Geographers, San Diego, CA.

1991, April. Invited participant in panel discussion, 'The Professional Development of Women Geographers: Their Employment and Research'. Annual Meetings of the Association of American Geographers, Miami, FL.

1991, April. 'Employment Relations Under Industrial Subcontracting: A Contextual Analysis' Annual Meetings of the Association of American Geographers, Miami, FL.

1991, April. 'Industrial Subcontracting in the 1980s: Formal and Informal Linkages' XVI International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association, Washington D.C.

1990, October. Invited paper, in session on Teaching Latin America: Content and Rationale, Teaching Development Issues and their Applications to Latin America. Conference of Latin Americanist Geographers National Meetings, Auburn, AL.

1990, April. Invited participant in panel on the future of Latin Americanist geography. Future Directions in Latin American Research: Reflections on Three Domains of Concern, Annual Meetings of the Association of American Geographers, Toronto, Canada.

1989, May. Employment Versus Empowerment: Empirical Observations from Ecuador, Annual Conference of Latin Americanist Geographers, Querretaro, Mexico.

1989, March. Work and Welfare in Latin American Manufacturing: Comparative Observations of Factory and Petty Production in Ecuador, Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Baltimore, MD.

1988, November. Variations in Workforce Structure across Development Milieux in Ecuador, Annual Meeting of the Regional Science Association, Toronto, Canada.

1988, April. Theoretical Explorations of Agrarian Classes, Forms of Production, and Spatial Structures in Ecuador, Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Phoenix, AZ.

1986, November. Local Variations in the Structure of Production and Selective National Policy Impacts: The Case of Ecuador, Annual Meeting of the Regional Science Association, Columbus, OH.

1986, May. National Economic Policies and Uneven Regional Development: The Case of Ecuador, Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Minneapolis, MN.

1985, April. Uneven Regional Development and Differential Intermediate City Growth: The Case of Ecuador, Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Detroit, MI.

1984, November. Intermediate Cities and Developmental Exploitative Impacts Upon Regional Development, East Lakes Division of the Association of American Geographers, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.

1984, April. Invited paper, Structural Tension, Regional Development Profiles, and International Migrants: Evidence from Venezuela, Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Washington D.C., Special Session on Migration, Regional Structure, and Development in Latin America.

1983, November. International Migration, Human Resources, and Regional Profiles: A Venezuelan Study, Annual Meeting of the Regional Science Association, Chicago, IL.

1983, April. Migrant Selectivity and Related Processes in a Regional Planning Context: The Case of Ciudad Guyana, Venezuela, Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Denver, CO.

1982, November. Invited paper, Regional Planning and Migrant Selectivity: The Case of Ciudad Guyana, Venezuela, Annual Meeting of the Regional Science Association, Pittsburgh, PA.

1982, April. Invited paper, Migration Field Shifts Over Time and Rural Development Processes in Costa Rica, Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, San Antonio, TX.
 

2002.  2002. May.  Invited participant at 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 Sovereignty: 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 'LocatingGlobalization'. 

 2001.  October.  Invited participant in Conference of 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 a dinner talk 'Reflections on a former Chair's Travels through a Geography Program'.

2000, December.  Invited colloquium, Department of Geography, Ohio State University, 'Sophisticated People Versus Rednecks: Towards a Human Geography of White Class Difference'. 

2000, December.  Invited colloquium, Department of Geography, Kent State University, Ohio, '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.’

1994, November. Invited series of lectures and research colloquium at the Department of Geography, University of Iowa. Paper titled 'Beyond the Firm: Restructuring Gender Divisions of Labor in Quito's Garment Industry under Austerity.'

1993, May. Invited colloquium in the Feminist Research Forum, paper titled 'Restructuring Informality: Women's Homework Under Structural Adjustment in Ecuador', University of Washington.

1993, April. Invited colloquium at the Department of Geography, Auburn University. 'Restructuring Informality: Industrial Change and Work in Latin America'.

1993, April. Invited colloquium at the Department of Geography, Colgate University. Homework and Politics Amongst Subcontracted Women Workers in Quito's Garment Industry'.

1993, April. Invited colloquium at the Department of Geography, Syracuse University. Re-examining "Third World Women": An investigation of gender and status amongst subcontracted workers in Quito's garment industry.

1992, November. Invited lecture for Women's Studies 300 level Research Methods Class. Undergraduate lecture on my contemporary research and its feminist dimensions.

1992, October. Invited panel discussion leader, Institute for Environmental Studies, University of Washington. Attaining a Sustainable Society.

1990, November. Invited lecture for the Urban Studies Committee, University of Colorado, Boulder. Undergraduate lecture on urbanization in developing nations and consultation with Urban Studies faculty on development of interdisciplinary program.

1990, March. Invited colloquium at the Department of Geography, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada. Industrial Subcontracting and the Work-Welfare Relationship in Latin America: Towards a Meso-Level Analysis.

1990, February. Invited colloquium at the Department of Geography, University of Colorado, Boulder. Urban Employment Patterns Under Industrial Subcontracting.

1989, December. Invited lecture in the University of Washington Lecture-Discussion Series, Democracy, Debt, and Dire Straits: Latin America at the Crossroads. Latin American Urbanization: A Local and Global Issue.

1989, October. Invited paper at the American-Bulgarian Seminar on Regional Economic Development and Environmental Management, Sofia, Bulgaria. The Transformation of Rural and Urban Economies and Rural-Urban Interactions.

1988, May. Invited colloquium, New Perspectives on Development: Social and Spatial Divisions of Labor in Ecuador, Department of Geography, University of Washington.

1988, May. Invited seminar, The Agrarian Question and the Peasantry College of Forest Resources, University of Washington.

1988, May. Invited colloquium, Social and Spatial Divisions of Labor in Ecuador: A New Perspective? Sociology Department, Demography and Ecology Colloquium Series, University of Washington.

1987, November. Invited lecture, Agricultural Production Structures and Credit Policy Impacts in Latin America, Agriculture and Forestry Seminar, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington.

1985, March. Development-Migration-Urbanization Interrelationships in Third World Settings: Serendipitous Wanderings, Department of Geography, Clark University, Worcester, Mass.

1982, October. Rural-to-Rural Migration in a Third World Setting: Conceptual Aspects and a Case Study of Costa Rica, Colloquium Series, Department of Geography, Ohio State University.
 

2002.  'Hippies and Rednecks: white racialized poverty in booming rural places'.  This paper explores the social and cultural politics of class emerging around the in-migration of middle class professionals and their interactions with, and representations of, rural working poor in rural communities. These processes are understood in the context of rural restructuring and rising inequality in the Pacific Northwest.  To be submitted to Environment and Planning D: Society and Space. 

2000-2003.  Chair of the national councilors and national councilor, Association of American Geographers, elected by the AAG membership.

2000-2003.  Member, 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.

1993.  Member, Scholar-Advisory Committee to the National Geography Education Standards Project of the NCGE.

1992-1994. Chair of the Latin American Specialty Group of the Association of Latin Americanist Geographers.

1992. Member, the Nystrom Award Committee. Committee judging the Association's national dissertation and paper prize.

1991-1992. Chair, Research Committee, Conference of Latin Americanist Geographers.

1990-1992. Director, member of board for the Conference of Latin Americanist Geographers.

1990. Member of Honors Committee, Conference of Latin Americanist Geographers.

1989. Member, Latin American Specialty Group Dissertation Awards Committee of the Association of American Geographers.
 

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.
 

2001-2004.  Member, College Council, College of Arts and Sciences,elected by the faculty of the College. Also serve as College Council Liason 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-present. Member, faculty mentoring committee for Assistant Professor Saraswati Sunyindo, Women's Studies.

1995. Member, Program Review of School of Communications for Potential Elimination.

1994. Member, Center for Demography and Ecology Fellowship Committee.

1994. Member, Program Review Committee, Romance Languages Department, ten year review.

1993. Member, Fulbright-Hays Dissertation Award Committee, Graduate School, University of Washington.

1993-1994. Member, Education Field Committee, College of Education.

1993-1994. Member, International Faculty Exchange Committee, Graduate School, University of Washington.

1993. Member, Advisory Board of the Northwest Center for Research on Women (NCROW).

1993. Member, Interdisciplinary Committee on Service Learning and Curricular Development.

1993. Member, Search Committee for Chair of the Anthropology Department.

1993. Member, Interdisciplinary Writing Program Review Committee, involving evaluation of Freshman/Sophomore writing portfolios.

1993. Member, Search Committee for new faculty member in Department of Women's Studies.

1992. Member, Marshall Scholarship Committee (also in 1990).

1992-1993. Member, Search Committee for Director, Graduate School of Library and Information Science.

1991. Member, Latin American Studies Awards Committee.

1991. Member, Foreign Language and Area Studies Grants Committee, for Jackson School for International Studies.

1991. Member, Center for Demography and Ecology Fellowship Committee.

1990. Member, Latin American Studies Executive Committee.

1990. Member, Latin America Exchange Committee. Campus wide committee to establish exchange programs with Latin American Universities.

1989. Member, Latin American Studies Curriculum Committee, University of Washington.

1988. Member, Foreign Study committee to select undergraduates to study in Mexican Universities in summer 1987, and academic year 1987-1988.

1986-1988. Member, Organization of Tropical Studies campus wide committee to select graduate students to study at the Costa Rican field station, University of Washington.
 

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.

1992. Chair, Search Committee to hire a new colleague.

1991. Member, Executive Committee.

1990-1991. Member, Faculty Hiring Committee.

1986-1990. Member, Graduate Admissions Committee.

1989. Member, Search Committee.

1989. Member, Faculty-Staff-Student Relations Committee.
 

1995-1996. Member Core Committee of the Decency Principles Project, Episcopal Cathedral, Seattle.

1994, October. Seminar on service-learning for teachers, through the Carlson Office at the University of Washington. Lectured on pedagogical challenges of integrating community service with classroom learning.

1989, May. Lectured on urbanization and economic development as a local and a global issue at the annual Global Reach Share Fair. Involved lecturing to high school teachers from King County.

1988, April. Lectured on Latin American development for the Extension Outreach Program of the University of Washington. Presentation was to teachers of the S. Kitsap County School District.

1988, August. Lecture on Latin American geography for the University of Washington Extension Summer Program for High School Teachers.

1987, October. Visited the University of Guadalajara as part of its Agreement of Cultural, Educational, and Scientific Exchange with the University of Washington. Met with Geography and Public Administration Faculty and discussed transfer of students and faculty between these departments.
 

                                  Geog 230 'Geographies of Inequality' 
                                  Geog 330 'Latin America: Landscapes of Change 
                                  Geog 430 'Reworking Development 
                                  Geog 531 'Reworking Development seminar 
                                  Geog 502 'Writing for Publication' 
                                  Geog 502 'Proposal Writing seminar' 

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 (ongoing) 
                                  Amy Freeman (ongoing) 
                                  Clare Newstead (ongoing) 
                                  Seema Hossain (ongoing) 
                                  Sarah Wright (ongoing) 

                                  MA's chaired 

                                  Annie Faulkner (1988) 
                                  Patricia Chalita (1990) 
                                  Tim Oakes (1991) 
                                  Sam Shaw (1991) 
                                  Alan Forsberg (1992) 
                                  Chuck Vavrus (1992) 
                                  Dion Mathewson (1993) 
                                  Rachel Silvey (1993) 
                                  Elizabeth Lobb (1994) 
                                  Brigit Baur (1995) 
                                  Sarah Hilbert (1995)
                                  Linda Wasson (2001) 
                                  Colleen Donovan (2001) 
                                  Maureen Hickey (2002) 
                                  Jeanine Marley (ongoing)