| CURRICULUM
VITAE
PRESENT POSITION -
Professor of Geography, Deputy Executive Officer,
Psychology Environmental Psychology Program
City University of New York
Graduate School and University Center
365 Fifth Avenue
New York, New York 10016
(212) 817 8728 (o)
(212) 817 3361 (fax)
ckatz@gc.cuny.edu
EDUCATION
1986 Ph.D. Graduate School of Geography. Clark University.
1979 M.A. Graduate School of Geography. Clark University.
1975 A.B. Geography. Clark University.
PROFESSIONAL POSITIONS
1999- Deputy Executive Officer, Psychology Program.
The Graduate School and
Present University Center, The City University of
New York.
1996-99 Chair, Environmental Psychology Program.
The Graduate School and University Center, The City
University of New York.
Professor, Environmental Psychology Program. The
Graduate School and
Present University Center, The City University of
New York. (Assistant Professor, 1987-94; Associate
Professor 1994-99)
1993 Visiting Eliel Saarinen Professor, Urban and
Regional Planning, Helsinki University of Technology.
1992-93 Visiting Associate Professor, Department
of Geography, Rutgers University.
1991-92 Adjunct Assistant Professor, Urban Planning,
Columbia University.
1987-94 Associate Director, Center for Human Environments.
The Graduate School and University Center, The City
University of New York.
PROFESSIONAL POSITIONS (Continued)
1987-93 Co-Director, Children's Environments Research
Group. The Graduate School and University Center,
The City University of New York.
1979 Visiting Lecturer, Khartoum University, Sudan.
Department of Geography.
HONORS
2003-04 Fellow,
Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University.
2002- Visiting Scholar,
Santa Fe Institute for the Arts.
2001- Antipode Lecture,
Meetings of the Institute of British Geographers/Royal
Geographical Society.
2000 - Women’s
Studies Scholar in Residence, West Virginia
University.
1998- Royal Scottish
Geographical Society Lecture, Universities
of Edinburgh, Glasgow and St. Andrews.
1992- Who's Who of
American Women, 18th and 19th Editions.
1992-93 Fellow,
Center for the Critical Analysis of Contemporary Culture,
Rutgers University.
1991- Institute of
British Geographers. Young Research Scholar.
1988 - Association
of American Geographers. Nystrom Award Finalist.
1987 Association of American
Geographers. Environmental Perception Specialty
Group, Dissertation Award.
1986-87 National Research
Service Post-Doctoral Fellowship, National
Institute of Mental Health.
GRANTS
2002-03 Faculty Research Award, Professional Staff
Congress of the City University of New York.”
Retheorizing Childhood.” ($4186).
2002-03 University Faculty Development Program. Grant
to hold series of Colloquia, “Producing a Future:
Art and Globalization.” ($7920)
1996-97 University Faculty Development Program. Grant
to hold a Colloquium, “New York City: ‘A
Region at Risk.’?” ($3900).
1995-96 Faculty Research Award, Professional Staff
Congress of the City University of New York. Eroding
Ecologies of Childhood--Sudan and New York. ($5500).
1992 Aaron Diamond Foundation. Participatory Redesign
of Schoolyards in New York City. ($15,000).
1989 Aaron Diamond Foundation. Schoolyard Improvement
in New York City. ($60,000).
1982-83 American Association of University Women.
Educational Foundation Fellowship. ($7500).
1980-81 National Science Foundation. Dissertation
Fellowship. ($7500).
PUBLICATIONS
Books
Disintegrating Developments: Global Economic Restructuring
and Children’s Everyday Lives. University of
Minnesota Press. (Forthcoming 2004).
Life’s Work: Social Reproduction and the Transnational
Imaginery. Edited with S. Marston and K. Mitchell.
Blackwell. (Forthcoming 2004).
Globalización, Transformaciones Urbanas, Precarización
Social y Discriminación De Genéro. La
Cuesta, La Laguna: Nueva Grafica, S.A.L.. 2000. With
Neil Smith.
Full Circles: Geographies of Women Over the Life
Course. London and New York: Routledge. 1993. Edited
with Janice Monk.
Interviews
“Jokainen on Merkitty: Ilta Cindi Katzin Kanssa”
(An interview conducted by A. Haila) Tiede & Edistys
(Science and Progress) 4/93 (1993):314-319.
“Creating Safe Space and the Materiality of
the Margins” (An interview conducted by V. DelCasino,
M. Dorn, and C. Gallaher) disClosure: A Journal of
Social Theory, No. 6 (1997):37-55.
Articles and Book Chapters
“Feminist Geographies.” Feminist Theory.
(Invited review) (Forthcoming 2004).
“Social Formations: Thinking about Society,
Identity, Power and Resistance.” In S. Holloway,
S. Rice and G. Valentine (Eds.), Key Concepts in Geography.
Sage Publications. (2003).
“Stuck in Place: Children and the Globalization
of Social Reproduction.” In R. J. Johnston,
P. J. Taylor, and M. J. Watts (Eds.), Geographies
of Global Change: Remapping the World. 2nd Edition.
Blackwell. (2002): 248-259.
“The State Goes Home: Local Hypervigilance
and the Global Retreat from Social Reproduction.”
Social Justice. 28(3) (2001): 47-56.
“Vagabond Capitalism and the Necessity of Social
Reproduction.” Antipode 33(4) (2001): 708-727.
[Reprinted in S. Aronowitz and H. Gautney (Eds.) Implicating
Empire: Globalization and Resistance in the 21st Century
World Order. New York: Basic Books. (2002).
“Disciplining Interdisciplinarity.” Feminist
Studies 27(3) (2001): 519-25.
“On the Grounds of Globalization: A Topography
for Feminist Political Engagement.” SIGNS: Journal
of Women in Culture and Society 26(4) (2001): 1213-1234.
“Hiding the Target: Social Reproduction in
the Privatized Urban Environment.” In C. Minca
(Ed.), Postmodern Geography: Theory and Praxis. Oxford:
Blackwell. (2001): 93-110.
Articles and Book Chapters
“Fueling War: A Political-Ecology of Deforestation
in Sudan.” In V. Broch-Due and R.A. Schroeder
(Eds.), Producing Nature and Poverty in Africa. Nordiska
Afrikainstitutet and Transaction Press. (2000): 321-39.
“Excavating the Hidden City of Social Reproduction.”
City and Society, Annual Review 1998. (1999):37-46.
“Political and Intellectual Passions: Engagements
with David Harvey’s Justice, Nature and the
Geography of Difference.” Annals of the Association
of American Geographers. 88(4) (1998): 706-23. Forum
editor.
“Whose Nature, Whose Culture? Private Productions
of Space and the Preservation of Nature.” In
B. Braun and N. Castree (Eds.), Remaking Reality:
Nature at the End of the Millenium. Routledge (1998):
46-63.
“Lost and Found in the Posts: Addressing Critical
Human Geography.” Environment and Planning D:
Society and Space. 16(3) (1998): 257-278. (Editorial).
“In the Place of the Letter: An Epistolary
Exchange.” In S.H. Aiken, A. Brigham, S.A. Marston,
and P. Waterstone (eds.), Making Worlds: Gender, Metaphor,
Materiality. University of Arizona Press (1997): 161-202.
With Angelika Bammer, Minrose Gwin, and Elizabeth
Meese.
“On the Backs of Children: Children and Work
in Africa.” Anthropology of Work Review. 17(1
& 2) (1996): 3-8.
“Towards Minor Theory.” Environment and
Planning D: Society and Space. 14 (1996): 487-499.
“The Expeditions of Conjurors: Ethnography,
Power, and Pretense.” In D.L. Wolf (Ed.), Feminist
Dilemmas in Field Research. Westview Press (1996):
170-184.
“Major/Minor: Theory, Nature, and Politics.”
Annals of the Association of American Geographers.
85(1) (1995): 164-168.
Articles and Book Chapters
“The Textures of Global Change: Eroding Ecologies
of Childhood, New York and Sudan.” Childhood:
A Global Journal of Child Research. 2(4) (1994): 103-110.
[Reprinted as “Disintegrating Developments:
Global Economic Restructuring and the Eroding Ecologies
of Youth” in T. Skelton and G. Valentine (Eds.)
Cool Places: Geographies of Youth Cultures Routledge
(1998): 130-144.]
“Spaces of Possibility/Spaces of Change: The
Personal Geography of Ellen Rothenberg.” In
J. Branson (Ed.), Ellen Rothenberg. Medford, MA: Tufts
University Art Gallery (1994): 41-52.
“Non-Masculinist Planning.” In T. Haarni
(Ed.), Ihmisten Kaupunki? Urbaani Muutos ja Suunnittelun
Haasteet (Cities for People? Urban Change and Challenges
to Planning). Helsinki: National Research and Development
Centre for Welfare and Health/Centre for Urban and
Regional Studies (1994): 59-67.
“Playing the Field: Questions of Fieldwork
in Geography.” Professional Geographer. 46(1)
(1994): 67-72.
“Under the Falling Sky: Apocalyptic Environmentalism
and the Production of Nature.” In A. Callari,
C. Biewener, and S. Cullenberg (Eds.), Marxism in
the Postmodern Age: Confronting the New World Order.
Guilford (1994): 274-80.
“Grounding Metaphors: Towards a Spatialized
Politics.” In Michael Keith and Steve Pile (Eds.),
Place and Politics of Identity. Routledge (1993):
67-83. With Neil Smith. [Translated in Korean Critical
Review 30 (1998): 58-82.]
“Reflections While Reading City of Quartz by
Mike Davis.” Antipode. 25(2) (1993): 159-63.
“Growing Girls/Closing Circles: Limits on the
Spaces of Knowing in Rural Sudan and United States
Cities.” In C. Katz and J. Monk (Eds.), Full
Circles: Geographies of Women over the Life Course.
London: Routledge. (1993): 88-106. [Reprinted with
new epilogue in D.L. Hodgson (Ed.) Gendered Modernities:
Ethnographic Perspectives St. Martins Press (2001).]
“All the World is Staged: Intellectuals and
the Projects of Ethnography.” Environment and
Planning D: Society and Space. 10(5) (1992): 495-510.
Articles and Book Chapters
“L.A. Intifada: Interview with Mike Davis.”
Social Text. 33 (1992): 19-34. With Neil Smith.
“International Student Design Competition of
Two Community Elementary Schoolyards.” Children's
Environments. 9(2) (1992):65-82. With Roger Hart,
Selim Iltus, Maria Rosario Mora.
“Sow What You Know: The Struggle for Social
Reproduction in Rural Sudan.” Annals of the
Association of American Geographers. 81(3) (1991):
488-514. [Reprinted in S. Daniels and R. Lee (Eds.)
Exploring Human Geography. London: Edward Arnold (1996):
44-61; and in C. Hamnett (Ed.) Social Geography. London:
Edward Arnold (1996): 255-271.]
“In the Nature of Things: The Environment and
Everyday Life.” Transactions Institute of British
Geographers. 16(3) (1991): 259-71. With Andrew Kirby.
“An Agricultural Project Comes to Town: Consequences
of an Encounter.” Social Text 28 (1991): 31-38.
“Herders, Gatherers and Foragers: The Emerging
Botanies of Children in Rural Sudan.” Children's
Environments Quarterly. 6(1) (1989): 46-53.
“Children and the Environment: Work, Play and
Learning in Rural Sudan.” Children's Environments
Quarterly. 3(4) (1986): 43-51.
“A Methodology for the Study of Children's
Environmental Knowledge in Other Cultures.”
Monadnock. 57(1983): 35-43.
“Children and Development.” Network for
Environment and Development. 3(1983): 1-3.
“The Least Developed and the Rest.” In
L. Berry and R.W. Kates (Eds.), Making the Most of
the Least: Alternative Ways to Development. New York:
Holmes and Meier Publishers. (1980): 47-73. With David
J. Campbell.
“The Hydrologic Cycle and the Wisdom of the
Child.” Geographical Review. 67(1977): 51-62.
[Reprinted in Children's Environments Quarterly. 4(2)
(1987): 3-10.] With Robert W. Kates.
Reports and Monographs
The Participatory Design of Two Community Elementary
Schoolyards in Harlem P.S. 185 and P.S. 208. New York:
Children's Environments Research Group, the City University
of New York, 1990. With Roger Hart.
Methodology for the Assessment of the Social Impact
of Rural Energy Projects in Zimbabwe. Stockholm: Beijer
Institute, 1984. With Kirsten Johnson.
The Social Context of Reforestation: Socio-Economic
and Cultural Profile of Project Area with Recommendations
for a Program of Forestry Extension. NY: CARE, 1984.
Prospects for New and Renewable Energy Sources in
Developing Countries. Stockholm: Beijer Institute,
1983. With Kirsten Johnson.
The Benefits of Government Health and Safety Regulations.
Cambridge, MA: M.I.T., Center for Policy Alternatives,
1981. With N. Ashford et al.
African Overview: Training Course for Environmental
Investigation. Worcester, Massachusetts: Clark University
Program in International Development and Social Change,
1978. With Leonard Berry; Richard Ford; & Hilary
Lambert Renwick.
Atlas of the Least Developed Nations: Groups and
Characteristics. Worcester, Massachusetts: Clark University
Program in International Development and Social Change,
1975. With David J. Campbell.
Book Reviews
Stuart Aitken, Geographies of Young People: the Morally
Contested Spaces of Identity and Sarah L. Holloway
& Gill Valentine (eds), Children’s Geographies:
Playing, Living, Learning. Children, Youth and Environments
1(2) (2003). With Caitlin Cahill.
Vibeke Vågenes, Women of the Interior, Men
of the Exterior: The Gender Order of Hadendowa Nomads,
Red Sea Hills, Sudan. Norsk Geografisk Tidsskrift-Norwegian
Journal of Geography 54:(1) (2000):46-47.
Gillian Rose, Feminism and Geography: the Limits
of Geographical Knowledge. Ecumene. 4(2) 1997):227-230.
Book Reviews
John M. Findlay, Magic Lands: Western Cityscapes
and American Culture After 1940. The Design Book Review.
35/36 (1995): 67-69.
elix Driver and Gillian Rose (eds.), Nature and Science:
Essays in the History of Geographical Knowledge. Professional
Geographer. 45(3) (1993): 368-69.
Alexander Wilson, The Culture of Nature: North American
Landscape from Disney to the Exxon Valdez. Voice Literary
Supplement. April 1992: 20.
Rachel Kaplan and Stephen Kaplan, The Experience
of Nature. Journal of Nervous and Behavioral Disorders.
179 (1991): 704.
Fatima Mahmoud, The Sudanese Bourgeoisie. MERIP Reports.
135(1985): 30.
Claude Meillassoux, Maidens Meal and Money: Capitalism
and the Domestic Community. Antipode. 15(1) (1983):
42-45.
CONFERENCES
Organizer
1997 New York City, “A Region at Risk”:
Responding to the Third Regional Plan. The City University
of New York.
1992 Metaphor and Materiality: The Politics of Space
and Nature. Rutgers University.
1990 Schoolyards. The City University of New York.
1976 Environment and Development in Eastern and Southern
Africa. Clark University.
Keynote and Plenary Addresses
2003 “Lost and Found: The Imagined Geographies
of American Studies.” Dartmouth Summer Institute
on the Futures of American Studies. Dartmouth College.
2002 “Excesses of Globalization: Social Reproduction,
Security, and Terror.” Twentieth Anniversary
Lecture, Kritische Geographie. Vienna, Austria.
Keynote and Plenary Addresses
2002 “The Terrors of Globalization: Rewriting
Security, Re-imagining Social Justice.” Cultural
and Global Perspectives on Terrorism Conference, University
of Minnesota, Duluth.
2001 “Topographies, Counter Topographies, and
the Development of Internationalist Feminisms.”
National Women’s Studies Association Conference.
Minneapolis.
2001 “Vagabond Capitalism and the Necessity
for Social Reproduction.” Antipode Lecture,
Annual Meetings of the Institute of British Geographers/Royal
Geographic Society. Plymouth, England.
2000 “Social Reproduction, Justice and the
Global Economy.” Minnesota-Stanford-Wisconsin
MacArthur Consortium Summer Workshop on Social Justice
and the Global Economy, Minneapolis, Minnesota.
1999 “Disintegrating Developments: Excavating
Historical Geographies of Change in Rural Sudan and
New York City.” Societat Catalana de Geografia,
Institut D’Estudis Catalans, Barcelona, Spain.
1999 “On the Grounds of Globalization: Topographies
for Political Engagement.” Global Gender Politics:
A Cross Disciplinary Conversation, sponsored by Florida
International University.
1999 “The Politics of Knowledge: The Struggle
for an Emancipatory Geography.” Keynote Address,
‘Mapping the Millennium,” Third Annual
Western Geography Graduate Student Conference. University
of Washington.
1996 “Power, Space and Terror: Social Reproduction
and the Public Environment.” Keynote Address,
Fifth Annual Eastern Geography Graduate Student Conference,
University of Kentucky.
1990 “Access to the Outdoor Environment: A
Crisis for Children in the City.” Keynote Address,
Schoolyards Conference, New York City.
Presentations
2003 “The State Goes Home: Children, Social
Reproduction and the Terrors of Hypervigilance.”
Presidential Panel, Annual Meetings of the American
Association of Anthropologists, Chicago, Illinois
19-23 November.
2003 “The Terrors of Hypervigilance: Security
and the Compromised Spaces of Suburban Childhood.”
Meetings of the American Studies Association, Hartford,
Connecticut. 16-19 October.
2003 “The Detritus of Neo-Liberalism and the
Politics of Social Reproduction” Joint Meetings
of the Canadian Anthropology Association and the Society
for the Anthropology of North America, Halifax, Nova
Scotia. 8-11 May.
2002 “Little Terrors: Children, Social Reproduction,
and the Public Environment in New York City.”
International Symposium on Urban Realms in the United
States, Heidelberg, Germany. 13-17 November.
2002 “People’s Geographies of and after
September 11th” International Conference of
Critical Geography. Békéscsaba, Hungary.
25-30 June.
2002 “Stuck in Place: Children and the Globalization
of Social Reproduction.” Geographies of Work
Workshop, University of Minnesota. 3-4 May.
2002 “Social Reproduction and the Transnational
Imaginary,” (Organizer and Discussant). Annual
Meetings of the Association of American Geographers,
Los Angeles, California. 20-24 March.
2002 “Excesses of Public Space.” Politics
of Public Space, Graduate Center, City University
of New York. Feb.28- March 1
2001 “Mind the Gap: Local Hypervigilance of
Children and the Global Retreat from Social Reproduction.”
Annual Meetings of the Association of American Geographers.
New York, New York, February 27-March 3.
2000 “People’s Geography and Social Reproduction
in the City.” Association for Economic and Social
Analysis, Amherst, Massachusetts, 21-24 September.
2000 “Globalization and the War on Social Reproduction.”
International Critical Geography Conference. Taegu,
Korea, 9-13 August.
Presentations
2000 “The Aesthetics of ‘Geo-Dramas’:
Children’s Play with Everyday Objects in Rural
Sudan.” Annual Meetings of the Association of
Youth Museums. Baltimore, Maryland, 10-14 May.
1999 “Power, Space and Terror: The Hidden City
of Social Reproduction.” International Conference
on Postmodern Geographical Praxis. Venice, Italy,
10-11 June.
1999 “Social Reproduction in an Expanded Field:
Globalization and Everyday Life.” Annual Meetings
of the Association of American Geographers. Honolulu,
Hawaii, 24-27 March.
1998 “Hype, Icon, Exclusion: Teenagers Investigate
Times Square.” Annual Meetings of the American
Association of Anthropologists. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
2-6 December. (with Caitlin Cahill).
1998 “War, Poverty and Deforestation in Sudan.”
Annual Meetings of the African Studies Association.
Chicago, Illinois, October 29-November 1.
1998 “The Politics of Knowledge: The Struggle
for an Emancipatory Geography.” Annual Meetings
of the Association of American Geographers. Boston,
Massachusetts, 25-29 March.
1998 “On the Grounds of Globalization: A Topography
for Political Engagement.” Gender and Globalization
Conference, University of California, Berkeley. 12-15
March.
1997 “Castles in the Sand: Shifting Terrains
of Learning, Knowledge and Power in Rural Sudan.”
Annual Meetings of the American Association of Anthropologists.
Washington, D.C. 19-23 November.
1997 “Whose Nature, Whose Culture?: Private
Productions of Space and the ‘Preservation’
of Nature.” Inaugural International Conference
of Critical Geography. Vancouver, British Columbia,
10-13 August.
Presentations
1997 “The Grounds of Knowledge: Negotiating
Environmental Intervention in the Production and Reproduction
of Everyday Life in Rural Sudan.” Workshop on
The Politics of Poverty and Environmental Interventions,
Nordiska Afrikainstitutet. Stockholm, 22-26 May.
1997 “War, Poverty and Deforestation.”
Annual Meetings of the Association of American Geographers.
Fort Worth, Texas, 1-6 April.
1996 “Home Made Preserve: Private Productions
of Space and the ‘Preservation’ of Nature.”
Annual Meetings of the American Anthropological Association.
San Francisco, California, 20-24 November.
1995 “Ravaged Cities, Plundered Childhoods.”
Building Identities: Gender Perspectives on Children
and Urban Space, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 11-13
April.
1995 “Power, Space and Terror: Social Reproduction
and the Public Environment.” Landscape Architecture,
Social Ideology and the Politics of Place Conference,
Harvard University, Graduate School of Design, Cambridge,
Massachusetts, 17-18 March.
1995 “Towards Minor Theory.” Annual Meetings,
Association of American Geographers, Chicago, Illinois,
15-17 March.
1994 “Seditious Eruptions: Historical Geographies
of Displaced Knowledge.” Annual Meetings, American
Anthropological Association. Atlanta, Georgia, November
30-December 4.
1994 “Geography and Gender in the Contemporary
Socio-Spatial Formation.” Lugar, Formacao Sociospacial,
Mundo, National Association of Post-Graduates in Geography,
University of Sao Paulo, Brazil, 8-10 September.
1994 “Kid Nation: Towards a Transnational Politics
of Childhood.” Children and Nationalism, Norwegian
Centre for Child Research, University of Trondheim,
Trondheim, Norway, 13-16 May.
1994 “The Bones of Received Knowledge: Disruptions
in the Construction of Subjectivity under Conditions
of Global Economic Restructuring.” Altering
the Atlas, Program in Comparative Literature, State
University of New York, Buffalo, 22-23 April.
1993 “Displacements in Social Science.”
Making Worlds: Metaphor and Materiality in Feminist
Texts, Southwest Institute for Research on Women with
sponsorship of Rockefeller Foundation, University
of Arizona, Tucson, 13-16 October.
1993 “The Textures of Global Change: Geographies
of Children's Everyday Life in New York and Sudan.”
Children and the Environment, Norwegian Centre for
Child Research and Childwatch International, University
of Trondheim, Trondheim, Norway, 13-16 May.
1993 “Playing the Field: Questions of Fieldwork
in Geography.” Annual Meetings, Association
of American Geographers. Atlanta, Georgia, 7-10 April.
1993 “Retreat from the City: The Grounds of
Production, Virtual Communities, and Everyday Life.”
Ecology of the Artificial, Storefront for Art and
Architecture, Dia Center for the Arts, New York, April
25.
1992 “Under the Falling Sky: Apocalyptic Environmental
Visions and the Production of Nature.” Association
for Economic and Social Analysis, Amherst, 12-14 November.
1992 “Schooling and Skilling: How Working Class
Kids Don't Get Working Class Jobs.” International
Geographical Congress, Washington, D.C., 9-13 August.
1992 “You Can't Drive a Chevy: Urban Youth
and the Practices of Resistance.” Conference
of the International Sociological Association: Research
Group 21, Urban and Regional Change, Los Angeles,
23-25 April.
1992 “Henri Lefebvre and the Production of
Space.” Annual Meetings, Association of American
Geographers. San Diego, California, 18-21 April.
1992 “Author Meets Critic: Mike Davis, The
City of Quartz.” Annual Meetings, Association
of American Geographers. San Diego, California, 18-21
April.
1992 “Grounding Metaphors: Towards a Spatialized
Politics.” Annual Meetings Institute of British
Geographers. Swansea, U.K., 7-9 January (with Neil
Smith).
1991 “Woman on the Edge of Space: Feminist
Theory and the Construction of Geographic Knowledge.”
Annual Meetings, Association of American Geographers.
Miami, Florida, April 13-17 (with Sallie Marston).
1991 “Critical Ecology.” Annual Meetings,
Association of American Geographers. Miami, Florida,
13-17 April.
1991 “All the World is Staged: Intellectuals
and the Projects of Ethnography.” Annual Meetings,
Institute of British Geographers, Sheffield, U.K.,
3-5 January.
1990 “In the Nature of Things: The Environment
and Everyday Life.” Annual Meetings, Association
of American Geographers, Toronto, 19-22 April (with
Andrew Kirby).
1990 “Modes of Social Regulation: Contradictions,
Ruptures and Interventions.” Annual Meetings,
Association of American Geographers, Toronto, 19-22
April.
1989 “The Edge of Hegemony? Everyday Cultural
Practices of Resistance and Reproduction among Youth
in New York City.” Association for Economic
and Social Analysis, Amherst, November 30-December
2.
1989 “You Can't Drive a Chevy Through a Post-Fordist
Landscape: The Contradictions and Consequences of
State Regulation of Social Reproduction.” Annual
Meetings, Association of American Geographers, Baltimore,
March.
1989 “'Life in Hell:' Hazards as if Context
Mattered.” Annual Meetings, Association of American
Geographers. Baltimore, March.
1988 “Children's Environmental Learning, Knowledge
and Interactions Under Conditions of Socio-Economic
Transformation: The Possibilities of Change.”
Annual Meetings, Association of American Geographers,
Phoenix, April.
1985 “The Contexts of Environmental Learning
and the Resilience of Environmental Knowledge.”
Annual Meetings, Association of American Geographers,
Detroit, April.
1984 “Forests for the Trees/Forests for the
People: A Cultural-Ecological Approach to Reforestation.”
Annual Meetings, Association of American Geographers.
Washington, D.C., April.
1983 “Children's Learning/Children's Labor:
The Implications of Agricultural Change.” Annual
Meetings, African Studies Association, Boston, December.
1983 “A Methodology for the Study of Children's
Environmental Knowledge in Other Cultures.”
Annual Meetings, Association of American Geographers,
Denver, April.
1979 “The Social Context of Peasant Children's
Environmental Knowledge.” Annual Meetings, Association
of American Geographers. Philadelphia, April (with
Kirsten Johnson).
1977 “Human-Environment Relations: An Alternative
Perspective.” Annual Meetings, New England-St.
Lawrence Valley Geographical Association, Worcester,
March (with Paul Susman and Philip O'Keefe).
1976 “The Hydrologic Cycle and the Wisdom of
the Child.” Annual Meetings, American Association
for the Advancement of Science, Boston, February (with
Robert W. Kates).
1975 “The Least Developed Nations Grouped and
Compared.” Conference on Alternatives in Development.
Racine, Wisconsin, October (with David J. Campbell).
1975 “Social Activity Space in the Nineteenth
Century: A Case Study from Danvers, Massachusetts.”
Annual Meetings, Eastern Historical Geography Association,
Sturbridge, Massachusetts, October.
INVITED LECTURES (Since
1987)
2003 Syracuse University (Global Affairs Institute,
Maxwell School)
Cornell University (Department of English)
Georgia State University (Department of Geography)
University of Georgia (Department of Geography)
2002 University of Toronto (Connaught Center for
American Studies).
San Francisco State University (Art History).
Okanagan University (Social Sciences).
2001 Dartmouth College (Department of Geography)
Queen Mary and Westfield College, University of London
(Geography Department)
University of Maine (Women’s Studies)
2000 University of British Columbia (Green College
Series on Nature, Culture and Colonialism)
The Johns Hopkins University (Program for Studies
of Women, Gender & Sexuality and the Department
of Geography and Environmental Engineering)
Bucknell University (Department of Geography)
Lund University, Sweden (Department of Social and
Economic Geography)
West Virginia University (Center for Women’s
Studies and Regional Research Institute)
West Virginia University, Parkersburg (Committee
for Social Justice)
1999 Universidad de la Laguna, Tenerife, Spain (Department
of Geography)
Universidad Autonoma de Barcelona (Department of
Geography)
1998 Temple University (Department of Geography)
University of Minnesota, Duluth (Departments of Geography
and Women?s Studies)
University of Edinburgh (Royal Scottish Geographical
Society Lecture)
University of Glasgow (Royal Scottish Geographical
Society Lecture)
University of St. Andrews (Royal Scottish Geographical
Society Lecture)
University of California, Berkeley (Departments of
Geography and Women’s Studies)
University of Arizona (Department of Women’s
Studies)
Universidad Autonoma de Mexico (Department of Geography)
1996 Rutgers University (Departments of Anthropology
and Geography)
Universidad de Girona, Spain (Department of Geography)
University of Arizona (Department of Geography)
1995 University of Khartoum (Department of Geography)
University of Washington (Department of Geography)
1994 University of Hawai'i, Manoa (Department of
Geography)
Syracuse University (Department of Geography)
University of Delaware (Department of Geography)
University of Georgia (Department of Geography and
the Humanities Center)
University of Sao Paulo (Department of Geography)
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
(Departments of Geography, Urban Affairs and Planning,
and Women's Studies)
1993 University of Colorado, Boulder (Department
of Geography)
University of Helsinki (Department of Social Policy
and Department of Geography)
St. Petersburg State University, Russia (Department
of Geography)
Odense University, Denmark (Humanities Research Center)
Lund University, Sweden (National Swedish Institute
for Building Research)
Helsinki University of Technology (Centre for Urban
and Regional Studies)
Joensuu University, Finland (Department of Geography)
1992 University College London (Department of Geography)
Yale University (School of Architecture)
Hampshire College (Social Science Division)
City University of New York Graduate School (Women's
Studies Program)
Pennsylvania State University (Department of Geography)
1991 Columbia University (Program in Urban and Regional
Planning)
1990 University of California, Berkeley (Graduate
School of Design)
Rutgers University (Departments of Geography and
Urban Planning)
1988 University of Arizona (Department of Geography)
1987 Hunter College (Department of Geography)
Bucknell University (Department of Geography)
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2003 Invited Participant, Norwegian Centre for Child
Research, Seminar on Childhood, Agency, Culture and
Society, Norwegian University for Science and Technology,
Trondheim.
2002 Professor, The Oslo Summer School in Comparative
Social Studies. Seminar on Vagabond Capitalism, Social
Reproduction and the Politics of Scale.
2002 Invited Participant, Ford Foundation Sponsored
Workshop on Global and Local Knowledge After September
11th, Center for Place, Culture, Politics. Graduate
Center, City University of New York.
2001 Invited Participant, Ford Foundation Sponsored
Workshop on Critical Ethnographies of Globalization,
University of California, Berkeley.
1999 Invited Participant, People’s Geography
Project Inaugural Meeting. (New York City)
1998 Invited Participant, National Science Foundation
Sponsored Workshop on Geography of Young People and
Young People’s Geographies held at San Diego
State University.
1996 Consultant, Roosevelt Park Community Coalition
1990-93 Consultant, Chinatown Neighborhood History
Project.
1990 Consultant, Children's Television Workshop.
1987 Research Consultant, New York City Board of
Education, School and Business Alliance.
1986-88 UNICEF Representative, International Association
for the Child's Right to Play.
1986-87 Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, Environmental
Psychology Program, The City University of New York.
1983-87 Research Associate, Center for Human Environments.
The City University of New York.
1983-84 Research Consultant, CARE. Project on Reforestation
in Refugee Areas, Eastern Sudan.
1975, Instructor, Graduate School of Geography and
Program in International
1978-83 Development, Clark University.
1981-82 Research Associate, Center for Technology,
Environment, and Development (CENTED). Clark University.
1980 Research Assistant, Massachusetts Institute
of Technology. MIT Center for Policy Alternatives.
1980 Research Assistant, Boston College. Social Welfare
Research Institute.
1975-79 Research Associate. Graduate School of Geography
and Center for Technology, Environment and Development
(CENTED). Clark University.
1977-78 Instructor, Program in International Development
and Social Change. Clark University. Project on Environment
and Development in Eastern and Southern Africa.
1975-76 Co-Principal Investigator, Elm Park Center
for Early Childhood Education.
Editorial
1998-2003 Editor, Journal of Social and Cultural
Geography
1996-2000 Associate Editor, Annals of the Association
of American Geographers.
1992-98 Book Review Editor, Gender, Place and Culture.
1989-92 Editor, Children's Environments Quarterly.
1986-89 Associate Editor, Children's Environments
Quarterly.
Editorial Boards
The Canadian Geographer 2002-
Children’s Geographies 2002-
Research in Geographic Education 1998 -
Environment and Planning, D: Society and Space 1992
-
Gender, Place and Culture 1992 - 2003
Antipode 1992 - 1999
Social Text 1991 -Professional Geographer 1991 -
1994.
Capitalism Nature Socialism 1990 - 98
University
2002- Interdisciplinary Studies Advisory Committee
2002- Advisory Board, Rockefeller Human Security
Advisory Committee. Graduate Center of the City University
of New York.
1999 Advisory Board, Women’s Studies. Graduate
Center of the City University of New York.
1999 Advisory Board, Center for Place Culture and
Politics. Graduate Center of the City University of
New York.
1998-2001 Committee for the Protection of Human Subjects,
Graduate Center of the City University of New York.
1998 Fulbright/IIE Campus Interview Committee, Graduate
School and University Center of the City University
of New York.
1997- Affirmative Action Committee, Graduate School
and University Center of the City University of New
York.
1996-99 New Visions in Education Selection Committee.
The City University of New York.
1996-98 Carolyn Heilbrun Dissertation Award Committee,
Women’s Studies Program, Graduate School and
University Center of the City University of New York.
1996-98 University Committee on Research Awards,
Interdisciplinary Studies Panel, Professional Staff
Congress/City University of New York.
1987 - Cultural Studies Committee, The City University
of New York.
Organizational
2003 National Science Foundation, Graduate Fellowships
Panel.
2001 Nominations Committee of the Association of
American Geographers.
2000-03 Publications Committee of the Association
of American Geographers.
2000-01 Local Arrangements Committee for the Annual
Meetings of the Association of American Geographers
2000 Program Committee for the Annual Meetings of
the Association of American Geographers
1993-96 Secretary-Treasurer, Urban Geography Specialty
Group, Association of American Geographers.
1993-95 Delegate of Association of American Geographers
to American Council of Learned Societies Conference
Committee on Advocacy in the Classroom.
1991-92 Nominating Committee, Urban Geography Specialty
Group, Association of American Geographers.
1990 Member, Study Group on Historical Geography
of Global Environmental Change, International Geographical
Union.
1990-92 Chair, Cultural Ecology Specialty Group,
Association of American Geographers
1988-91 Chair, Children's Network, Environmental
Design Research Association.
1988-91 Member, Phoenix Group, Association of American
Geographers.
1988-90 Treasurer and Newsletter Editor, Geographic
Perspectives on Women Specialty Group, Association
of American Geographers.
1988-89 Advisory Board, Environmental Education Advisory
Council.
1987-91 Advisory Board, Mario Salvadori Center on
the Built Environment.
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
Association of American Geographers
Sudan Studies Association
Institute of British Geographers
American Association of University Women
American Studies Association
American Anthropological Association
LANGUAGES
•Colloquial Arabic
•French
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