Simon Addison is a Visiting Scholar at the center and Marie Curie Research Fellow at the University of Manchester, UK. A geographer and humanitarian practitioner with ten years experience in the fields of humanitarian relief and protection, Simon's research seeks to develop a critical understanding of conflict-related humanitarian crises through the use of theoretical tools derived from critical theory, historical geographical materialism, post-colonialism and political ecology. He completed his doctoral work in Geography at the University of Oxford, where until recently he worked as the Senior Research Officer and Policy Programme Manager for the Refugee Studies Centre. Simon's current project, entitled 'the space of crisis' seeks to develop a theoretical framework for better understanding the spatiality of complex humanitarian emergencies through a comparative analysis of situations in Uganda, Congo, Darfur and Sri Lanka.

Email: saddison1@gc.cuny.edu




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Ashley Dawson is associate professor of English at the City University of New York’s Graduate Center and at the College of Staten Island/CUNY. He is the author of Mongrel Nation: Diasporic Culture and the Making of Postcolonial Britain (Michigan, 2007) and co-editor of three essay collections: Democracy, the State, and the Struggle for Global Justice (Routledge, 2009); Dangerous Professors: Academic Freedom and the National Security Campus (Michigan, 2009); and Exceptional State: Contemporary U.S. Culture and the New Imperialism (Duke, 2007). He is also a member of the Social Text editorial collective. He blogs at ashleyjdawson.com.

Email: adawson@gc.cuny.edu




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Bertie Ferdman is a theatre artist, curator, scholar, and teacher. She is a founder and co-artistic director of Ex.Pgirl, a dance-theatre company, with whom she created Ablution, Waving Hello, 10 Plates, and Paris Syndrome. Bertie is a PhD candidate in Theatre at CUNY Graduate Center, where she will defend her dissertation in the Spring of 2010. Titled "Contemporary Site-Specific Theatre in New York City: Performance, the City, and Spatial Politics," this work develops an interdisciplinary dialogue between urban theory and theatre studies in order to look at the relationship between site-specific theatre and city space. Bertie initiated and co-curated the first two International Site-Specific Symposium in the US, in 2006 and 2009, at the Martin E. Segal Theatre Center, which focused on Space, Theatrical Intervention, & Innovation.

Email: bertie.ferdman@gmail.com




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Fiona Jeffriesis a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Center for Place Culture and Politics at the City University of New York Graduate Center. Her current research explores the circulation of social struggles against the political use of fear in contested spaces of production, consumption and differentiation. Her published work includes essays on feminist politics, representation and gender violence, contemporary urban social movements and the role of communication practices in the production of alternative globalizations.

Email: fjeffries@gc.cuny.edu

Selected Publications:

• “Asking we Walk”. In Kevin Howely (ed.) Community Globalization and Communicative Democracy: Community Media in the 21st Century. Forthcoming Fall, 2009. London: Sage.
• “Cartographies of anti-Fear, Lexicons of Refusal amidst the New Enclosures”. (2008) In Rita Wong and Jo-Anne Lee (eds.) Active Geographies, Embodied Chronologies: Women and Struggle on the Left Coast. Vancouver: Line Books.
• “Organizing on the “factory on wheels”: the Bus Riders Union and anti-racist feminism for the 21st Century.” (2007) Canadian Woman Studies (Special Issue on Feminist Activisms) Vol. 25, No. 3,4: 127-132.
  

Scott Larson is a Ph.D. candidate in Geography (Earth and Environmental Sciences) at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York and a Graduate Teaching Fellow in Urban Affairs and Planning at Hunter College. His dissertation, Building Like Moses With Jacobs in Mind, is a critical exploration of the relationship between the legacies of Robert Moses and Jane Jacobs and development politics in the Bloomberg Administration. Other current projects include co-editing a volume of essays on social movements and the concept of the right to the city and research on alternative forms of urbanism.

Email: slarson@gc.cuny.edu

Selected Publications:

• "Gay Space in Havana," in Javier Corrales and Mario Pecheny (eds). The Comparative Politics of GLBT Movements in Latin America: A Reader. Forthcoming Spring, 2010. University of Pittsburgh Press: Pittsburgh.
• "Whose City is it Anyway? Jane Jacobs vs. Robert Moses and Contemporary Redevelopment Politics in New York City" (2009), Berkeley Planning Journal, Vol. 22.
  

Jung Joon Lee is a Ph.D. candidate in Art History at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. Her dissertation assesses the degree to which the nation-building of the postcolonial state of South Korea has been articulated through and influenced by photography. Her current project looks at visual experiences of urban social movements and suggests that perceptual and experiential changes of photographic practices in South Korea have altered the ways in which the public experiences social movements since the late 1990s. She has co-curated the exhibition, Deadpan: Photography, History, Politics at the James Gallery, CUNY Graduate Center in 2008.

Email: joonlee7@gmail.com

Selected Publications:

• “The National Museum as Palimpsest: Postcolonial Politics and the National Museum of Korea.” In The Nation Exhibited, edited by Simon Knell, et al. London & New York: Routledge, forthcoming in August 2010.
  
• “Dress Codes: Looking at Globalization through Photography and Video.” CAMERATa, vol. 4 (Dec. 2009): 50-55.
  
• “On Immediacy and Responsibility,” Deadpan: Photography, History, Politics, Exh. cat. New York: The James Gallery, CUNY Graduate Center, 2008.
  

Jenna Loyd is a postdoctoral fellow at the Center for Place, Culture and Politics. She is a scholar-activist whose work centers on the political geographies of violence and health. She approaches questions of racism, body politics, and the urban environment through theorizing how structural and state violence are embedded and represented in the landscape. Her first book manuscript, Freedom's Body, traces health activism of the Black freedom, women's and antiwar movements in Los Angeles during the 1960s and 1970s. Walls Cages Cities Homes is a feminist, antiracist project that examines: 1) how US regimes of mass incarceration and immigration create racially differentiated political economies, and 2) how antiviolence and immigrant justice movements are working to create economies for living. She is co-editing a collection, Beyond Walls and Cages, that will analyze the connections between militarization, mass incarceration, and migration policies to enable bridges between antiviolence and immigrant justice movements.

Email: jloyd@gc.cuny.edu

Selected Publications:

• “On Forgetting that War Kills: The Politics of Exposure and Critical Geographies of Violence” (accepted, under revision). Political Geography.
  
• “‘Peace Is Our Only Shelter’: Questioning Domesticities of Militarization and White Privilege.” (forthcoming). Antipode special issue on the military-industrial complex.
  
• “Beyond Walls and Cages: Bridging Immigrant Justice and Anti-Prison Organizing in the United States” (forthcoming). For special issue on migration and incarceration in Social Justice (with Andrew Burridge and Matt Mitchelson).
  
• “‘A Microscopic Insurgent’: Militarization, Health, and Critical Geographies of Violence.” Annals of the Association of American Geographers special issue on Geographies of Peace and Conflict. 2009 99(5): 863-873.
  
• “‘War Is Not Healthy for Children and Other Living Things.’” (forthcoming). Environment and Planning D: Society and Space.
  
• “La Gran Marcha: Anti-Racism and Immigrants Rights in Southern California.” Acme. 2007 6(1): 1-35. (with Andrew Burridge).
  

Nikolina Nedeljkov is a Ph.D. candidate in the English program at the City University of New York, Graduate Center. She teaches writing at Baruch College. In her dissertation "Creation Is Resistance: Incighte of the Turn of the Millennium Transatlantic Liquid Culture in the Remix," she explores resistance to oppression through creation in contemporary liquid culture. At the Center for Place, Culture and Politics she looks at the problem of radical urban alterity at the age of global defacement.

Email: nikolina.nedeljkov@gmail.com

Selected Publications:

• H is For Hiperlink". experimental literary journal, issue 02, winter 2009/10.
  
• “Liquid Identities.” Ben Frymer, Matt Carlin, John Broughton and Lalitha Vasudevan (eds.) – Cultural Studies, Education, and Youth (Lexington Books, in press).
  

Marjorie Rosen is the author, most recently, of the book, Boom Town: How Wal*Mart Transformed an All-American Town into an International Community, a journalistic study of how multiculturalism and diversity have come to small-town America, as seen through the prism of Bentonville, Ar, hometown of Wal-Mart. Author of three other books, including Popcorn Venus: Women, Movies & the American Dream, the first sociological study of the image and impact of women in film, Rosen is a former editor at the New York Times Magazine and senior writer at People, and she has written for publications as varied as The New York Times, The Los Angles Times, Playboy, Ms., Good Housekeeping, Glamour, and New York. She is a tenured associate professor of journalism at Lehman College-CUNY.

Email: marjorie.rosen@lehman.cuny.edu

Selected Publications:

• Boom Town: How Wal*Mart Transformed an All-American Town into an International Community (Chicago Review Press, October, 2009).
  

Tatiana Schor, research scholar at CPCP, is a Brazilian born in São Paulo based in Manaus, Amazonas. Bachelor in Economics with a masters degree in Human Geography and PhD in Environmental Science all at the University of São Paulo. Her PhD dissertation, about climate change and the production of science in the Amazon, was prized best dissertation in 2006 by the Brazilian Association of Research and Graduation in Environment and Society. The dissertation has become a book “Science and Technology in the Brazilian Amazon” published in Brazil in 2008. She is now Associate Professor at the Geography Department at the Federal University of Amazonas in Manaus. Executive director of the Center for City Studies (NEPECAB) in the Brazilian Amazon and coordinates a Research Line on the Urban Network along the rivers Solimões-Amazonas focusing on urbanization, urban networks, productive chains of forestry products, social movements, society and nature. Her main interests have been on radical critique of the automobile, of science under international climate change agendas and urbanization in the western section of the Brazilian Amazonia.

Email: tschor@ufam.edu.br

Selected Publications:

• "Ciência e Tecnologia: o caso do Experimento de Grande Escala da Biosfera-Atmosfera na Amazônia (LBA)." São Paulo: Annablume/Fapesp, 2008.
• "Da rabeta ao 4x4: a expansão da modernidade (e de seu colapso) na fronteira norte do Brasil." Ciência & Ambiente / Universidade Federal de Santa Maria UFSM – v.1, n. 1 (jul.1990) Semestral n. 37 (jul/dez 2008).
• "Espacialidades urbanas como urbanização da sociedade: as cidades e os rios na Amazônia Brasileira." Co-Author: J.A. Oliveira. In: Mácio Piñon de Oliveira; Maria Célia Nunes Coelho e Aureanice de Mello Corrêa. (Org.). O Brasil, A América Latina e o Mundo: espacialidades contemporâneas. Rio de Janeiro: Lamparina; FAPERJ e ANPEGE, 2008, v. II, p. 165-186.
  

Karen Strassler is a professor of anthropology at Queens College-CUNY whose research focuses on images, visuality, and media in postcolonial Indonesia. Her forthcoming book, Refracted Visions: Popular Photography and Indonesian National Modernity (Duke UP, 2010), examines how everyday photographic practices have shaped the ways people in urban Java come to see themselves as Indonesians. Her current research project explores media and political communication in post-Reformasi Indonesia, a period characterized by political democratization and an explosion of decentralized media technologies such as the internet, digital cameras, and cell phones. The proliferation of media circuits by which knowledge and images travel encourages popular engagement in the making of history, the practice of politics, and the re-visioning of the nation. Yet it also yields a public sphere plagued by persistent doubts about the authenticity, authority, and credibility of evidence and by anxieties about circulations that escape conventional forms of regulation. The project aims to trace the contours of Indonesia's political imaginaries in the aftermath of authoritarian rule as well as to illuminate the uncertain nature of evidence and authority

Email: kstrassl@umich.edu

Selected Publications:

• "The Face of Money: Crisis, Currency, and Remediation in Post-Suharto Indonesia" Cultural Anthropology 24(1), February 2009.
• "Reformasi Through Our Eyes: Children as Witnesses of History in Post-Suharto Indonesia," in Visual Anthropology Review, 22(2), September 2006: 53-70.
• "Gendered Visibilities and the Dream of Transparency: The Chinese Indonesian Rape Debate in Post-Suharto Indonesia," in Gender and History, 16(4) 2004: 689-725.
  

Mary N. Taylor is a postdoctoral fellow at the Center for Place Culture and Politics. She received her PhD in anthropology from the Graduate Center of the City University of New York and teaches at Hunter College and the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art. Her research focuses on the sites, technologies and politics of civic cultivation, cultural management and heritage governance, the relationship of ethics and aesthetics, nationalism and cultural differentiation, and social movements in socialist and postsocialist Europe. She is currently revising her dissertation on folk dance revival and civic cultivation in Hungary into a book manuscript, and is working on an edited volume entitled “Talking Culture”: Political Mobilizations of Culture at the Turn of the Millennium.

Email: mta0003@hunter.cuny.edu

Selected Publications:

• Forthcoming 2010: “Folk Critique, Antiliberalism, and ‘the Stolen Regime Change’ in Contemporary Hungary”. Bajo el Volcan-Revista del Posgrado de Sociologia del Instituto de Sciencias Socialies Benemerita Universidad Autonomia de Puebla.
  
• 2009: ‘Critical perspectives on the persistence of ‘culture talk’ in the making of Europe,’ Focaal, European Journal of Anthropology, special section editor, no. 55.
  
• 2009: "Intangible Heritage Governance, Cultural Diversity, Ethnonationalism," Focaal, European Journal of Anthropology, no. 55.
  
• 2008: “Does Folk Dancing Make Hungarians? Táncház, Folk Dance as Mother Tongue, and Folk National Cultivation”. Journal of Hungarian Studies 22(1-2)9-28.