Last updated 10/8/2014 Box 353550, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195

Last updated 10/8/2014
Curriculum Vitae
MATTHEW SPARKE
Box 353550, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195
tel. (206) 543-5194 e-mail: sparke@u.washington .edu
I. Education
Undergraduate
The University of Oxford, Hertford College
Congratulatory First, B.A. Hons. in Geography, 1989
Graduate
The University of British Columbia
M.A. in Geography, 1991
The University of Oxford, Hertford College
The Oxford M.A., 1994
The University of British Columbia,
Ph.D. in Geography, 1996
II. Professional Positions
1996—2001
2000—2001
2001—2006
2006—2012
2006—today
2009—today
2010—2013
2011—2013
2013—today
Assistant Professor, Department of Geography and Jackson School of
International Studies, University of Washington, Seattle
Visiting Senior Member, Saint Peters College, University of Oxford
Associate Professor, Department of Geography and Jackson School
of International Studies, University of Washington, Seattle
Member of the Theory and Criticism Faculty, University of
Washington Department of Comparative Literature
Full Professor, Department of Geography and Jackson School of
International Studies, University of Washington, Seattle
Adjunct Professor, University of Washington, Department of Global
Health.
Director of UW Global Health Undergraduate Program
Graduate Program Coordinator, Department of Geography
Director of Integrated Social Sciences
III. Publications
Books
1. 2005, In the Space of Theory: Postfoundational Geographies of the Nation-State,
Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
2. 2013, Introducing Globalization: Ties, Tensions and Uneven Integration, Oxford:
Blackwell.
Articles in refereed journals
3. 2012, co-authored with Dimitar Anguelov, “H1N1, Globalization and the
Epidemiology of Inequality,” Health & Place, 18 (2012) 726–736.
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4. 2009, “On denationalization as neoliberalization: Biopolitics, class interest and the
incompleteness of citizenship,” Political Power and Social Theory, v. 20: 287 – 300.
5. 2008, “Political Geographies of Globalization (3): Resistance,” Progress in Human
Geography, 32 (1): 1 – 18.
6. 2007, "Geopolitical Fear, Geoeconomic Hope and the Responsibilities of
Geography," Annals of the Association of American Geographers 97 (2): 338 – 349.
Reprinted in 2011 in Geopolitica: Revista de Geografie Politica, GeoPolitica si
GeoStrategie, Anul VIII – Nr 36 – 37. Also reprinted in Klaus Dodds, ed.
Geopolitics, Sage: London.
7. 2007, “Everywhere but always somewhere: Critical geographies of the Global
South,” The Global South, 1(1): 117 – 126.
8. 2006, “A Neoliberal Nexus: Citizenship, Security and the Future of the Border,”
Political Geography, 25 (2) 2006: 151 – 180.
9. 2006, “Political Geographies of Globalization: (2) Governance,” Progress in Human
Geography 30, 2 (2006): 1 - 16.
10. 2005, with Elizabeth Brown, Dominic Corva, Heather Day, Caroline Faria,Tony
Sparks, and Kirsten Varg “The World Social Forum and the Lessons for Economic
Geography,” Economic Geogr74aphy, 81 (4) 359 - 380.
11. 2004, “Political Geographies of Globalization: (1) Dominance,” Progress in Human
Geography, 28,6 777–794.
12. 2004, with James Sidaway, Tim Bunnell and Carl Grundy-Warr, “Triangulating the
Borderless World: Geographies of Power in the Indonesia-Malaysia-Singapore
Growth Triangle " Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, NS 29 485–
498. Also republished online as Globalization and World Cities Research Network
(GaWC) Bulletin 135 at http://www.lboro.ac.uk/gawc/rb/rb135.html
13. 2003, “American Empire and Globalisation: Postcolonial Speculations on
Neocolonial Enframing,” Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography, 24, 3, pages
373 - 389.
14. 2003, with Sue Roberts and Anna Secord, “Neoliberal Geopolitics,” Antipode, 35,
5: pages 886 – 897.
15. 2002, “Between Post-Colonialism and Cross-Border Regionalism,” Space and
Polity, 6 (2), pages 203-213.
16. 2000, “Excavating the future in Cascadia: Geoeconomics and the imagined
geographies of a cross-border region,” BC Studies, 127, Autumn, pages 5 - 44.
17. 2000, “Chunnel Visions: Unpacking the Anticipatory Geographies of an AngloEuropean borderland,” Journal of Borderland Studies, XV,1, pages 2 – 34.
18. 2000 with Noel Castree, “Professional Geography and the Corporatization of the
University: Experiences, Evaluations and Engagements” in Antipode, 32, 3, 2000:
pages, 222-229.
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19. 1998, “From Geopolitics to Geoeconomics: Transnational State Effects In the
Borderlands,” Geopolitics, 3, 2, pages 61 – 97.
20. 1998, “A Map that Roared and an Original Atlas: Canada, Cartography and the
Narration of Nation,” Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 88, 3,
pages 464 - 495. Excerpted in 2011 in The Map Reader: Theories of Mapping
Practice and Cartographic Representation, edited by Martin Dodge, Rob Kitchin,
Chris Perkins, Oxford: Wiley, pages 430 – 440.
21. 1996, “Negotiating National Action: Free Trade, Constitutional Debate and the
Gendered Geopolitics of Canada” Political Geography, 15, (6/7), pages 615 - 639.
22. 1995, “Between Demythologising and Deconstructing the Map: Shawnadithit’s
New-found-land and the Alienation of Canada” Cartographica, 32 (1), pages 1 - 21.
Reprinted in 2010 in Classics in Cartography: Reflections on Influential Articles
from Cartographica, edited by Martin Dodge, New York: Wiley.
23. 1995, “Writing on Patriarchal Missiles: The Chauvinism of the Gulf War and the
Limits of Critique,” Environment and Planning A, 26 (7), pages 1061 - 1089.
24. 1994, “A Prism for Contemporary Capitalism: Temporary Work as Displaced Labor
as Value,” Antipode 26 (4), pages 295 - 321.
25. 1994, “Escaping the herbarium: A critique of Gunnar Olsson’s ‘Chiasm of thoughtand-action’,” Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 12 (2), 1994, pages
207 - 220.
26. 1994, “The return of the same in geography: A reply to Olsson,” Environment and
Planning D: Society and Space, 12 (2), pages 226 - 228.
Articles in books
27. Forthcoming, “Globalization,” an entry for The International Encyclopedia of
Geography: People, the Earth, Environment, and Technology, edited by Douglas
Richardson et al, forthcoming from Wiley.
28. 2014, “Health,” in Roger Lee et al, eds. Handbook of Human Geography, Thousand
Oaks: Sage, pages 684 – 708.
29. 2013, “From Global Dispossession to Local Repossession: Towards a Worldly
Cultural Geography of Occupy Activism,” in Nuala Johnson, Jamie Winders and
Richard Schein, Handbook of Cultural Geography, Oxford: Blackwell-Wiley.
30. 2012, with Tim Bunnell, James Sidaway and Carl Grundy-Warr, “Geographies of
power in the Indonesia-Malaysia-Singapore growth triangle,” in Derudder, B.,
Hoyler, M., Taylor, P. J. and Witlox, F. (eds) International Handbook of
Globalization and World Cities. Edward Elgar, pages 465 – 475.
31. 2011, "Global Geographies," in Michael Brown and Richard Morrill, eds. Seattle
Geographies, Seattle: University of Washington Press, pages 48 – 70.
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32. 2010, “The Look of Surveillance Returns,” in Classics in Cartography: Reflections
on Influential Articles from Cartographica, edited by Martin Dodge, New York:
Wiley, pages 373 – 386.
33. 2009, “Unpacking economism and remapping the terrain of global health,” in Adrian
Kay and Owain Williams, editors, Global Health Governance: Transformations,
Challenges and Opportunities Amidst Globalization, New York: Palgrave
Macmillan: 131 – 159.
34. 2009, entries on “American Empire,” “borders,” “borderlands,” “boundary,”
“flows,” “geopolitics,” “globalization,” “glocalization,” “nation,” “nationalism,”
“nation-state,” “outsourcing,” “Pax Americana,” “terms of trade,” “trade,” and
“World Trade Organization” for the 5th edition of the Dictionary of Human
Geography, edited by Derek Gregory, Ron Johnston, Geraldine Pratt, Michael
Watts, and Sarah Whatmore, Oxford: Blackwell.
35. 2008, “Fast capitalism/slow terror: Cushy cosmopolitanism and its extraordinary
others,” in Marieke de Goede and Louise Amoore, eds. Risk and the War on Terror,
New York: Routledge: 133 – 157.
36. 2004, "Passports into Credit Cards: On the Borders and Spaces of Neoliberal
Citizenship," in Joel Migdal ed. Boundaries and Belonging, Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 251 - 283.
37. 2004, “Nature and Tradition at the Border: Landscaping the End of the Nation
State,” in Nezar AlSayyad ed. The End of Tradition? New York: Routledge, 87 –
115.
38. 2003, with Victoria Lawson “Entrepreneurial Political Geographies of the GlobalLocal Nexus,” in John Agnew, Katharyne Mitchell and Gerard O Tuathail, eds., A
Companion to Political Geography, Oxford: Blackwell, pages 315 - 334.
39. 2003, with Carolina Reid and Clare Newstead, “The Cultural Geography of Scale” in
Kay Anderson, Mona Domosh, Steve Pile and Nigel Thrift, The Handbook of
Cultural Geography, London: Sage, pages 485 - 497.
40. 2002, “Not a State, but a State of Mind: Cascading Cascadias and the GeoEconomics of Cross-Border Regionalism,” in Markus Perkmann and Ngai-Ling
Sum, eds, Globalisation, Regionalisation and Cross-border Regions, New York:
Palgrave Publishers, pages 212 - 240.
41. 1999, “The Space of the Times: Teaching Geographic Accountability with
Newspapers,” in S. Knowlton and B. Barefoot, eds., Using National Newspapers in
the College Classroom: Resources to Improve Teaching and Learning, University of
South Carolina, First Year Experience Center, Monograph Series, #28, pages 95-96.
42. 1999, Dictionary definitions of “Episteme,” “Epistemology,” “Epistemic Violence,”
“Situated Knowledges,” “Positionality,” and “Critical Theory,” in Linda McDowell
and Joanne Sharp, eds. A Feminist Glossary for Geographers, London: Arnold,
pages: 44-45; 73-76; 206-207; and, 214-215.
43. 1998, “Mapped Bodies and Disembodied Maps: (Dis)placing Cartographic Struggle
in Colonial Canada,” in Places Through the Body, eds. Heidi J. Nast and Steve Pile,
New York: Routledge, pages 305 - 336.
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44. 1998, “Outsides Inside Patriotism: The Oklahoma Bombing and the Displacement of
Heartland Geopolitics” in Critical Geopolitics: A Reader, eds. Simon Dalby and
Gerard O. Tuathail, London: Routledge, 1998, pages 198 – 223.
45. 1997, with Donald Alper, “Canada and the World,” in Introducing Canada: Content
Backgrounders, Strategies, and Resources for Educators, eds. William W. Joyce and
Richard Beach, Washington D.C: National Consortium for Social Studies, pages 61 74.
46. 1996, “Displacing the Field in Fieldwork: Masculinity, Metaphor and Space” in
BodySpace: Destabilizing Geographies of Gender and Sexuality, ed. Nancy Duncan
(New York: Routledge), pages 212-233.
47. 1992 with David Ley, “Postgraduate Studies in Canada,” in The Student’s
Companion to Geography Eds. Alistair Rogers, Heather Viles and Andrew Goudie
(Oxford: Blackwell) pages 349 - 353.
Editorials and book review essays
48. 2014, “Introducing Globalization,” contribution to a book review symposium
comprised of four reviews of Matthew Sparke, Introducing Globalization: Ties,
Tensions and Uneven Integration, Oxford: Wiley, Antipode,
http://antipodefoundation.org/2014/04/08/book-review-symposium-matthewsparkes-introducing-globalization-ties-tensions-and-uneven-integration/
49. 2012, “Debtscapes, double-agents and development: Reflections on Poverty
Capital,” editor’s essay introducing a review symposium I organized at the 2010
AAG meetings and published in Antipode, 44 (2): 517 – 522.
50. 2012, “Ethnography, Affect, Geography, and Unemployment,” Annals of the
Association of American Geographers, 102 (2): 510 – 515.
51. 2009, “Triangulating Globalization,” an essay review of S. Sassen, Territory,
Authority, Rights: From Medieval to Global Assemblages, Princeton: Princeton
University Press, Journal of Historical Geography, 35: 376–381.
52. 2008, “Articulating bio-graphy and geo-graphy otherwise: Reflections on Playing
with Fire,” Social and Cultural Geography 9, 2: 220 - 224.
53. 2008, “Persistent Critique, Productive Tension and Critical Collaboration,” a
response to a special issue of five review essays on Matthew Sparke, In the Space of
Theory: Postfoundational Geographies of the Nation-State, Minneapolis: University
of Minnesota Press in Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 2008, 26:
169 – 188.
54. 2007, “Acknowledging Responsibility For Space,” an essay review of For Space by
Doreen Massey, London: Sage, 2005, Progress in Human Geography 31 (3): 7 -15.
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55. 2005 Kris Olds and James Sidaway, “White Death,” Environment and Planning D:
Society and Space, 23, 475 – 479. Republished in Fundamentals in Geography,
edited by Derek Gregory and Noel Castree, London: Sage, 2012, pp: 439 - 444.
56. 2000, “Networking Globalization: A Tapestry of Introductions,” an essay review of
Jan Aart Scholte, Globalization: A Critical Introduction, New York: Palgrave, 2000;
David Held, Anthony McGrew, David Goldblatt and Jonathan Perraton, Global
Transformations: Politics, Economics and Culture, Stanford: Stanford University
Press, 1999; and Robin Cohen and Paul Kennedy, Global Sociology, London:
Macmillan, 2000, Global Networks, 1 (2), 2001, pages 171-179.
57. 2000, “Graphing the geo in geopolitical: Critical Geopolitics and the re-visioning of
responsibility,” an essay review of Critical Geopolitics: Writing Global Space,
Gerard O. Tuathail, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1996, Political
Geography, 19, 2000: pages 373 - 380.
58. 1997, “Between Spinning and Graphing the Geo,” an essay review of Postmodern
Cities and Spaces, Eds. Sophie Watson and Katherine Gibson, Cambridge, MA:
Blackwell, 1995. pp vii & 269, Environment and Planning A, v. 29, pages 179-190.
59. 1994, “White Mythologies and Anemic Geographies,” Environment and Planning
D: Society and Space, 12 (1), pages 105 - 123.
Book reviews
60. A review of Mona Atia, Building a House in Heaven: Pious Neoliberalism and
Islamic Charity in Egypt, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota press, 2013,
Antipode.
61. A review of G. Spivak, Other Asias, Oxford: Blackwell, 2008, Cultural
Geographies, 18, 1: 134-135.
62. A review of D. Conway and N. Heynen (Eds.) Globalization’s Contradictions:
Geographies of Discipline, Destruction & Transformation, New York: Routledge,
2007, Annals of the Association of American Geographers. 97, 4 December 2007,
pages 802 – 804.
63. A review of Reading Economic Geography edited by Trevor J. Barnes, Jamie Peck,
Eric Sheppard and Adam Tickell, Oxford: Blackwell, 2004, in the Annals of the
Association of American Geographers, 2005: 95, 3: 710-711.
64. A review of Unholy trinity: The IMF, World Bank and WTO by Peet, R., Borne, B.,
Davis, M., Fehrer, K. Feinstein, M., Feldman, S.Khan, S. R., Labban, M. McArdle,
K., Marcano, C., Meierotto, Niles, D., Ponniah, T., Schmidt, M.C., Schwarz, G.,
Shagwert, J., Staton, M.P., and Stratton, S., 2003: London: Zed Books, forthcoming
in Progress in Human Geography.
65. A review of How Much Do National Borders Matter?, by John
Helliwell.Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution Press, 1998, in Growth and
Change, Spring 2000 v31 i2 pages 332-4.
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66. A review of Free Trade: Neither Free Nor About Trade, Christopher D. Merrett,
Montréal: Black Rose Books, 1996, The Canadian Geographer, 41, 2,1998, pages
216 - 217.
67. A review of Continental Trading Blocs: The Growth of Regionalism in the Global
Economy, Eds. Richard Gibb and Wieslaw Michalak, New York: Wiley, 1994.
pages. xix-212, Environment and Planning A, 28, 1, pages 186 - 189.
68. A review of Mexico and the North American Free Trade Agreement: Who Will
Benefit? Eds. Victor Bulmer-Thomas, Nikki Craske and Mónica Serrano (London:
Macmillan, 1994), Journal of Far Eastern Business, 1, 3, pages 148 - 149.
Other publications
69. 2011 “Seattle’s Cascadia Connections,” an introduction to the region for
geographers prepared for the AAG Newsletter, March issue.
70. 2010 “Global Seattle,” an introduction to the city for geographers prepared for the
AAG Newsletter, December issue, also published online at
http://www.aag.org/cs/news_detail?pressrelease.id=174
71. 2010 “National Identity case study: How is globalization transforming the borders of
national identity?” In Solem, M., Klein, P., Muñiz-Solari, O., and Ray, W., eds.,
AAG Center for Global Geography Education. Published on the website of the
Association of American Geographers at
http://globalgeography.aag.org/NationalIdentity1e/CaseStudy4_Singapore_Sep10/in
dex.html
72. 2008 “2020 Mis-mapping,” Vreng (Norway) July: 18 - 24.
73. 2008 "Mapping Global Mountains Beyond Local Mountains: Globalization and Paul
Farmer’s Reframing of Care," originally prepared as teaching notes for when Tracy
Kidder's, Mountains Beyond Mountains was set as a Common Book for the
University of Washington, http://faculty.washington.edu/sparke/MBM.pdf
74. 2001 “From Globaloney to Anti-Globalization to Where?” published on the website
of the CISB http://www.cisb.org/
75. 2000 “Les régions transnationales: Cascadia et Transmanche” Horizons 3, 2, 18-19,
the magazine of the Policy Research Secretariat of the Canadian Government.
76. 2000 “Geoeconomy, cross-border regions and the end of democracy,” published on
the website of Le Revue Française de Géoéconomie
www.geoeconomie.org/english/mediatheque/default.htm
77. 1999 “Beyond Boosterism: PNWER’s ‘Eco-Opportunities’ In An Age of Global
Interdependency,” a position paper written for PNWER (The Pacific North West
Economic Region public-private partnership grouping) as part of its 1999
reevaluation of regional policy.
78. 1998 “Cascadia and the end of the nation-state: Interrogating the bases of
transborder boosterism,” posted on the Inaugaral International Critical Geography
Meeting’s website at http://www.geog.ubc.ca/iiccg/papers/sparke_m.html
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79. 1998 “Emergent transnational regions in the context of NAFTA: The case of
Cascadia,” in LASN, the Latin American Studies Newsletter.
80. 1997 “The political geography of Timothy McVeigh” in the Political Geography
Speciality Group Newsletter, 17, 2, 1997.
81. 1997 “Geography and Geopolitics,” in The New York Times College Program Series
‘Expect the World’ (New York: The New York Times, 1997), pages 13 - 14.
82. 1990 “A report and commentary on the 1990 Annual Meetings of the American
Association of Geographers in Toronto,” in Canadian Women and Geography
Speciality Group, Newsletter 13.
83. 1990 “Geography: A brief introduction,” in The Graduate, November.
Interviews
84. 2013, Matthew Sparke, 2013, "The world is not flat," interview for CN Politics
http://cnpolitics.org/2013/10/matthew-sparke/
85. 2012, "Globalization Discourse, Geoeconomics, Neoliberalization and
Philanthrocapitalism," an interview for Exploring Geopolitics,
http://www.exploringgeopolitics.org/index.htm
86. 2009, “On globalization and American geopolitics,” TV interview for Moral Politics
show with Bill Alford, broadcast on ScanTV channel 77 in Western Washington,
and streamed online at http://www.scantv.org/, 2009.
87. 2008, “A empire,” radio interview in Italian and English on Radio Ondarossa in
Rome at 87.9 FM at and streamed at http://www.ondarossa.info/
88. 2001 "Maps" radio interview with Marcie Sillman on KUOW's The Beat, October
1st.
89. 2000, “The Invisible Handcuffing of Democracy” interviewed by Kuldip Dhiman
and published in a Spectrum Sunday magazine special of The Tribune, Chandigarh,
India, April 23rd.
IV. Research Grants and Awards
2013
“Climate Change, Global Health, Vulnerability and Resilience: Towards
an Area Studies of Risk,” co-PI with Celia Lowe for joint Mellon grant
funded at $40,000 to organize research sharing and education
development workshops, including an international symposium in 2014
at the University of Washington.
2012
“Biological Futures in a Globalized World,” selected for a second
year as an awardee and researcher for a joint initiative of the Fred
Hutchinson Cancer Research Center and the University of
Washington
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2011
“Biological Futures in a Globalized World,” selected as an awardee and
researcher for a joint initiative of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research
Center and the University of Washington
2010
AAG-CGGE Asian-network collaboration award for workshops in
Singapore
2009
Society of Scholars award from the Simpson Center, UW.
2008
Danz course design award from the Simpson Center for a course on
‘Justice and Global Health,’ taught Spring 2009 with Janelle Taylor, UW
Anthropology.
2008
Course design award from the Simpson Center for a special reading
seminar on Mike Davis for Fall 2008.
2007
Principal Investigator, Royalty Research Fund UW, “Comparing
Approaches to Global Education through Study Abroad,” $13,300
granted.
2007
Co-PI with Sarah Elwood, College of Arts and Sciences Learning in the
Major Award, “Mapping Global Studies into Geography: A Proposal to
Improve Learning in the Major,” $10,000 granted.
2007
Course designer for Dept of Education Title VI, International Studies
Center award, “New Course Proposal – From Pax Romana, to Pax
Americana to EU Multilateralism,” $2,000 granted.
2000-2006
Principal Investigator, National Science Foundation CAREER Award,
“Globalization and the transnational development of civil society,”
$233,880 granted, plus an additional $37,000 granted to the project as
matching funds from the University of Washington.
2006
Grant of $3000 from Undergraduate Education, UW to create experiential
learning opportunities related to teaching the common book Mountains
Beyond Mountains.
2006
Application to join faculty group working to develop teaching notes on
Mountains Beyond Mountains, next year’s common book for all
incoming undergraduates. $1,000 stipend given.
2005
Principal Investigator, Marc Lindenberg Center International Mobility
grant to assist graduate students from U.W, to attend the 4th International
Critical Geography Conference in Mexico City. With an additional
match of support from Geography, three students attended as a result.
2004-2005
Consultant for a Simpson Center award to Mark Patterson for an
Associate Professor Initiative project, “From the Day Before to the Day
After the Everyday,” $11,500 granted.
2003
Principal Investigator, Marc Lindenberg Center International Mobility
grant to assist graduate and undergraduate students from U.W, to attend
and conduct research at the third annual World Social Forum in Porto
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Alegre, Brazil. With a match from Geography, seven students attended
as a result.
2002-2004
Collaborator on 'Scholarly Panel' for EU Research Grant, 'EXLINEA:
The external boundaries of the EU in transition' $1,280,000 Euros
(approx. $1.25M) granted.
2002-2003
Collaborator with James Sidaway PI, National University of Singapore
research award, "Accumulation, Regionalisation and Sovereignty: The
Singapore-Johore-Riau Growth Triangle," $8,100 granted.
2000-2003
Co-author with Katharyne Mitchell, DOE Title VI, National Resource
Center and FLAS applications for Canadian Studies, $730,182 funded,
plus $162,000 in FLAS funding.
2000
Co-applicant with Vicky Lawson, Schwartz International Endowment
Fund, “An exchange between the University of Washington and St Peters
College, the University of Oxford,” enabled Matthew Sparke to take-up a
fellowship at St Peter’s College Oxford in 2000-2001 and facilitated the
visit to UW of Dr. Eric Swyngedouw (a visit co-sponsored by European
Union Studies). $5,150 granted.
2000
Co-applicant with Nikhil Singh, Humanities Center, University of
Washington, “American Area Studies Summer Workshop,” $4,800
funded.
2000
Co-applicant with Nikhil Singh, President’s Fund for Conversations on
the Future, University of Washington, “American Area Studies Summer
Workshop,” $9,000 funded.
1999-2001
Co-PI, DAAK (Stiftung Deutsch - Amerikanisches Akademisches Konzil)
TransCoop Award, “Comparing Contexts for Trans-Border Networking
in Europe and North America,” DM60,000 (about $35,000) granted to PI
and Berlin-based colleague.
1999-2000
Principal Investigator, Royalty Research Fund: Scholar Award,
University of Washington, “Transnationalism and the cultural geography
of borderlands,” $18,555 granted.
1999-2000
Recipient, Humanities Center Award, University of Washington,
Teaching Relief in order to prepare and teach a seminar on
“Cosmopolitics in Question: The Borders of Culture and the Culture of
Borders,” $5,500 granted.
1999-2000
Principal Investigator, EU Studies Center Faculty Development Award
for a project entitled “Trans-border Policy-Making Developments in the
EU,” $4,458 granted.
1999-2000
Recipient, Arts and Sciences Exchange Program Award for an exchange
between the University of Washington and the University of the Panjab
in Chandigarh, India. The award enabled Matthew Sparke to take up a
position as ‘scholar in residence’ at Chandigarh in 1999, while also
facilitating the visit to Seattle of Dr. Sanjay Chaturverdi in the Spring of
2000. $3,980 granted.
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1997-1998
Principal Investigator, Canadian Embassy Research Grant, “Cascadia
and Continental Integration: Border Attrition or Transnational Regional
Formation?” US$6,900, granted.
1997-9
Principal Investigator, National Science Foundation: Geography and
Regional Science Program, “Governance and the geography of
interdependency in emerging transnational regions,” US$65,785, granted.
1998-9
Recipient, University of Washington, Junior Faculty Development
Award, $3,000.
1997-9
Co-Participant, Ford Foundation ‘Crossing Borders’ Initiative, for a
collaborative project on revitalizing area studies at the University of
Washington, $50,000 granted.
1998-9
Principal Investigator, National Science Foundation: Geography and
Regional Science Program, Undergraduate Research Experiences Grant,
“Tourism in emerging transnational regions,” US$4,774 granted.
V. Invited Lectures and Presentations
2014 “Philanthropy, Market Foster-Care, and the New Washington Consensus,”
presented at Queen Mary College, University of London.
2014 “Redlining Global Health: Clinical Enclaves and the limits of the logic of
investment,” presented at the Counter-Vitalities workshop at Yale University.
2014 “Philanthropy, Market Foster-Care, and the New Washington Consensus,”
presented at the Orfalea Center for Global and International Studies, University
of California, Santa Barbara.
2014 “Resilience, Reaction and Resistance Amidst Rising Inequality,” talk for the
Common Good Café at the University Temple Methodist Church in Seattle.
2014 “Philanthropy, Market Foster-Care, and the New Washington Consensus,”
presented at the Balsillie School of International Affairs in Waterloo, Canada.
2014 “Globalization, Geopolitics and Geoeconomics,” presented in the School of
International Studies at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India.
2014 “Philanthropy, Market Foster Care, and the New Washington Consensus,”
jointly presented with Katharyne Mitchell in the Department of International
Relations at South Asian University, New Delhi, India.
2014 “Globalization and the new entanglements of geopolitics with geoeconomics,”
presented in a seminar chaired by Professor Nimmi Kurian at the Center for
Policy Research in New Delhi, India.
2014 “Philanthropy, Market Foster Care, and the New Washington Consensus,”
jointly presented with Katharyne Mitchell in the Department of Political
Science, Panjab University, Chandigarh, India.
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2014 “Globalization, Geopolitics and Geoeconomics,” presented at the Indian Council
of Social Science Research at Panjab University, Chandigarh, India.
2013 “Market Philanthropy and the Triple Movement,” a talk co-presented with
Katharyne Mitchell to the Departments of Anthropology and Geography and
the Development Research Group at the University of Toronto.
2013 “Biological Citizenship and the Inequalities of Biocapital,” seminar contribution
in the Development Research Group at the University of Toronto.
2013 “Introducing Globalization,” a new book talk at Left Bank Books in Seattle.
2013 “Philanthrocapitalism, Global Health and the New Washington Consensus,”
presented at the School of Population and Public Health, University of British
Columbia, Vancouver, Canada.
2013 “One World, Many Debates, and the Challenges of Introducing
Globalization,” author keynote for the Wiley faculty Network, recorded
February 13, at http://wfn.wiley.com/pg/event_calendar/view/233497
2013 “Remapping the Moral Maps of Global Health: A Response to Claire
Wendland,” in the Rabinowitz Symposium organized by the Program on
Values at the University of Washington.
2013 “It Takes a University: Introducing Globalization and our Local-Global
Landscape,” talk for book launch of Introducing Globalization in the Jackson
School of International Studies at the University of Washington.
2012 “Global health science in local context: How does biological research reflect
geographical influence?” presented to the Science and Technology Studies
research cluster in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at the National
University of Singapore.
2012 “Globalization and global health,” presented as the inaugural tea-talk at
Angsana residential college at the National University of Singapore.
2012 “Integrating global studies into health education: Challenges & innovations
in a US university,” presented at a workshop on global studies at the
National University of Singapore.
2012 “Global ties and local enclosures: Reflections on global health territory,” presented
at the University of Bristol at a conference on Globalizing Geographies of
Higher Education sponsored by the Worldwide University Network.
2012 “From Flatness to Mountains Beyond Mountains: Navigating the Global Teaching
Turn with Area Studies Expertise,” faculty research group talk for the Jackson
School of International Studies.
2012 “Occupy the street: Narratives of Radical Restructuring and Reform in the Occupy
Movement,” commentary in a panel for a symposium organized by UW libraries
under the title: Taking it to the Street: Public Voices and Political Discourse.
2012 “Entwined lives and enclaved medicine: Globalization and the targets-turnedterritories of Global Health,” colloquium for the Department of Geography,
Queen Mary College, University of London.
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2012 “From micro to molar body-counting: The ties that bind,” a seminar on the limits
of biological citizenship and the articulations of biocapital for the Department of
Geography, Queen Mary College, University of London.
2012 “Reflections on Biological Futures and Curriculum,” contribution to a Mellonsponsored workshop on the Medical Humanities at the University of North
Carolina, Chapel Hill.
2011 “Comparing global cities as centers of biological research,” contribution to a
seminar series on Biological Futures in a Globalized World,
http://depts.washington.edu/uwch/news/2011/10/%E2%80%9Cbiologicalfutures-globalized-world%E2%80%9D-addresses-challenges-posed-explosionbiological
2011 “Love and other cross-border drugs: What do Canada-US ties tell us about
citizenship and the Occupy movement?” presentation given as part of the Fluid
Culture project at the invitation of the University of Buffalo Humanities Institute,
SUNY Buffalo, New York.
2011 “Why is geography critical?” seminar with the Department of Geography, SUNY
Buffalo, New York.
2011 “Entwined lives and enclaved medicine: Globalization and the targets-turnedterritories of Global Health,” colloquium for the Department of Geography,
University of Washington.
2011 “Mapping the Future of Global Health: The Promise and the Problems of GeoVisualization for Seeing and Closing Global Health Gaps,” presentation to the
Institute of Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME).
2011 “Contemplating Cascadia and Questions ‘Beyond the Border’,” presentation to the
Border Policy Research Group at the Canada America Studies Center, Western
Washington University, Bellingham.
2011 “Entwined lives and enclaved medicine: Globalization and the targets-turnedterritories of Global Health,” presentation given at the invitation of the Institute
for Advanced Studies, University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia.
2011 “Biocapital, Biopolitics and Geopolitics: Remapping Health Citizenship in an
Interdependent World,” presented to a workshop on Global Health and the
Humanities, at the Institute for Advanced Studies, University of Western
Australia, Perth, Australia.
2011 “Entwined lives and enclaved medicine: Globalization and the targets-turnedterritories of Global Health,” presented to the Department of Geography,
University of Newcastle, Australia.
2011 “Territory, Empire, and Global Biopolitics,” a joint seminar with Stuart Elden with
the Political Economy and Space research group at the National University of
Singapore.
2010 “Imaginative Geographies of Global Health,” presented to the Department of
Geography, University of Victoria, Canada.
2010 “Imaginative Geographies of Global Health,” presented to the Department of
Geography, California State University Long Beach.
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2010 “Global Seattle: The City, Citizenship and the Meaning of World Class,” seminar
presentation for the Jackson School at the University of Washington.
2010 “Mapping the future of global health,” seminar presentation at the National
University of Singapore.
2010 “Aid Enclaving and the Emergent Geoeconomics of Global Health,” presented in a
Department of Geography seminar at the University of Hawaii at Manao.
2010 “Haiti: Geographies of Blame, Histories of Structural Violence and Futures of
Debt” presented at Seattle Town Hall in an event on the Haitian earthquake
response with Jim McDermott, Sandra Aguila, Steve Gloyd, James Bible, Herve
Junior Bijou, Sarah Wilhelm, and Jesse Hagopian.
2010 “Haiti, Catastrophe and Global Cities,” presented as part of a Department of
Geography and UW Alumni Association Event on Global Cities, Human Rights
and Catastrophe.
2009 “Swine flu and inequality,” presentation to an ESRC-funded workshop on
Biosecurity and Swine Flu, at the University of Keele, UK.
2009 “U B Critical: 1984, Hope and the Challenge of Making Geography Critical,”
presented as part of fifty years celebrations of UBC geography in Vancouver,
Canada.
2009 “Imaginative Geographies of Global Health,” presentation to the Simpson Center
Society of Scholars, UW.
2009 “The Aid Enclave: Mapping an Emerging Geography of Global Health,” presented
as a lecture in the Global Health Department, MPH Global Health Seminar
Series, at UW
2009 “American biopower and neoliberal geographies of blame,” presented at the
Reconsidering American Power conference organized by the Center for
International Studies at the University of Chicago.
2009 “Another dog that didn’t bark and structural violence,” a commentary on ‘False
and Fruitless’ by Angelina Godoy at a conference on Global Justice in the 21st
century at the University of Washington.
2009 “Emerging geographies of global health,” presented at the Department of
Geography, University of Durham, UK.
2009 “Rethinking public scholarship in the neoliberal university,” a contribution to a
seminar discussion at the Department of Geography, University of Durham, UK.
2009 “What went wrong,” a contribution to a social science link faculty panel
discussion on the Economic Crisis at the University of Washington.
2009 “Putting the ‘bio’ back into biopolitics: Reflections on the changing geography of
health citizenship amidst globalization,” presented at the University of Victoria,
Canada
2009 “Unpacking economism and remapping the terrain of global health,” presented in
the Department of Geography, University of Wisconsin.
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2009 “Market Failure: Assessing the Implications for Global Health,” presented to the
Global Health Department, MPH seminar series, UW.
2009 “On the challenges of not-representing neoliberalism in teaching on globalization,”
presented in the Department of Geography, University of Wisconsin.
2008 “Unpacking economism and remapping the terrain of global health,” keynote talk
for the Finnish Geographers ‘Geography Days’ meetings entitled Paikallinen
globalaali yhteiskunta – local global society at the University of Tampere,
Finland.
2008 “Triangulating the Borders of the Borderless World: From fastlane fantasies to the
fatal force of fencing,” opening lecture for the Finnish Geography graduate
school intensive course on Re-Grounding Globalization at the University of
Tampere, Finland.
2008 Commentaries on the graduate student papers of Joni Vainikka, Mikko Joronen,
Evgania Prokhorova, and Peter Ehrström at the Finnish Geography graduate
school intensive course on Re-Grounding Globalization at the University of
Tampere, Finland.
2008 “Unpacking economism and remapping the terrain of global health,” presented in
the Department of Geography, University of Minnesota.
2008 “Unpacking economism and remapping the terrain of global health,” presented in
the Department of Epidemiology, University of North Carolina.
2008 “From religion and resurrection to reworkings of resistance,” presented at Duke
University.
2008 “Triangulating the Political Geographies of Globalization,” presented at Dartmouth
College, Hanover, New Hampshire.
2008 “Reviewing In the Space Theory,” seminar for Geography Department graduate
students at the University of North Carolina.
2008 “Study abroad and the varied meanings of global education,” presented as an
evening lecture at the University of Washington Rome Center, Rome, Italy.
2007 “Resistance and the Global South,” a research seminar led by invitation at Portland
State University, Oregon.
2007 “Imagining the Spaces of Global Health,” presented at Portland State University,
Oregon.
2007 “Imagining the Spaces of Global Health,” presented to the University of
Washington, Faculty Auxiliary Association.
2007 “Global Education: A Response,” presented as part of a symposium organized by
the University of Washington Graduate School.
2007 “The World is Not Flat: From Bad Geographies of Globalization to Mountains
Beyond Mountains” presented in the Department of International Relations,
Florida International University, Miami sponsored as part of the Ruth K. &
Shepard Broad Educational Series.
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2007 “Better Brand or Better World? Global Education and the Future of the
University,” presented at the University of Washington as part of a workshop in
the Reclaiming Childhood series, comments were provided on the talk by Eva
Cherniavsky
2007 “Imagining the Spaces of Global Health: From Bad Geographies to Mountains
Beyond Mountains,” an A.W. Mellon Sawyer sponsored presentation at the John
Hope Franklin Humanities Center, Duke University for their series, Human
Being, Human Diversity and Human Welfare: A Cross-Disciplinary and CrossCultural Study in Culture, Science and Medicine
2007 Organized and presented at the UW Provost Teaching Workshop on ‘Globalizing
Your Teaching without Leaving Seattle’.
2007 “Between Hard Borders and Soft Borders,” workshop commentary on Immigration
Reform at the Beyond Borders: Perspectives on U.S. Immigration conference
organized by undergraduate students at the University of Washington.
2006 “The World is Not Flat: From Bad Geographies of Globalization to Mountains
Beyond Mountains” presented in the Munk Center for International Studies at
the University of Toronto as part of the F. Ross Johnson Distinguished Speaker
Series.
2006 “The World is Not Flat: Or What Thomas Friedman Still Needs To Learn About
the Political Geography of Globalization” presented in Department of
Geography, University of California, Berkeley.
2006 “The World is Not Flat: Or What Thomas Friedman Still Needs To Learn About
the Political Geography of Globalization” presented in Department of
Geography, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada.
2006 “The World is Not Flat: Or What Thomas Friedman Still Needs To Learn About
the Political Geography of Globalization” presented in Department of
Geography, University of Colorado, Boulder.
2006 “Even on an Executive Jet: Neoliberal Citizenship and its Extraordinary Others”
presented in Department of Geography, University of California, Berkeley.
2005 “Research, Global Education and Diversity,” a presentation to the Regents of the
University of Washington at the invitation of President Mark Emmert.
2005 “A Neoliberal Nexus: Citizenship, Security and the Future of the Border,” invited
presentation to the ‘Homeland In-Security’ conference at the University of
Oregon, Eugene.
2005 "Scale switching and the geography of fictional realities," co-presented with Mark
Patterson at the Simpson Center at the University of Washington in an event
highlighting work funded by the Associate Professor initiative.
2005 “Fair Trade and Globalization” debate with other faculty organized by Students for
Fair Trade at University of Washington, Seattle.
2003 "Empire's Geography: On the Misunderestimation of America's Place in
Globalization," presented at the graduate center of the City University of New
York, New York in a conference sponsored by the Ford foundation.
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2003 "Empire's Geography: Between the Geopolitics and Geoeconomics of America's
New World Order," presented in the Committee on Social Theory's Annual
Spring Lecture Series "Locating Globalization" at the University of Kentucky.
2003 "Researching cross-border regions," talk for UW academy students.
2002 "From Borderlands to Gated Communities: Hybrid Landscapes of Privilege and
Prohibition in a Selectively Borderless World," presented as a keynote lecture at
the IASTE (International Association for the Study of Traditional Environments)
conference in Hong Kong.
2002 "Reflections on globalization and pedagogy" presented at a roundtable discussion
at the American Studies conference at the University of Washington on 'Crisis
and Dissent: Redefining American Boundaries'.
2002 "Has the globalization bubble burst? From the hype to the downturn" presented
as one of the Jackson School's public lectures and broadcast on KCTS9.
2002 "Teaching Globalization" presented to the South East Asian Studies workshop at
University of Washington with Title VI program evaluators.
2002 "What is Globalization?" presented to the Hubert Humphrey fellows workshop at
Rosemary Lodge, Lake Crescent.
2002 "Is Free Trade Constitutional?" presented in the Law School at the University of
Washington.
2002 "Teaching Globalization: From the Empire of Inevitability to Where?" presented at
the Department of Anthropology, The University of Washington.
2002 "Cascadia and the Land-Scaping of Cross-Border Regionalization: or, Appadurai
in Space," presented at the Department of Geography, The National University
of Singapore.
2002 "Transformative vs. Accomodationist Fair Trade," presented at the Beyond the
Boycott conference organized by the Labor Studies Ceneter, University of
Washington.
2002 "Thinking about teaching about globality," presented at the Department of
Geography, The University of Arizona, Tucson.
2001 "Introduction" for a two day workshop on cross-border regionalization coorganized with James Scott and held at the University of Washington and the
University of British Columbia.
2001 "Who belongs at the New World Border?" keynote presentation to a US, Mexico,
Canada, 3 Nations Conference on Border Regions and Bioregions at Western
Washington University in Bellingham.
2001 "Maps" contribution to a symposium on cartography, art and politics at the Richard
Hugo House arts center in Seattle.
2001 “Transnationalism at the border: outlining the research horizons,” presented in
the ‘Borders’ series of theESRC Research Program on Transnational
Communities at the University of Oxford.
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2001 Reterritorializing Locality in Globality,” presented at the department of
Geography, Queen Mary college, University of London.
2001 “Reterritorializing Locality in Globality,” presented at the department of
Geography, University of Bristol.
2000 “From Geopolitics to Geoeconomics at the Border: Cross-Border Regionalism in
the Context of Entrepreneurial Governance,” presented as the Forschungskolleg
at the Institut für Regionalentwicklung und Strukturplanung, Erkner by Berlin,
Germany.
2000 “Globalization and American Area Studies,” a presentation at the American Area
Studies symposium at the University of Washington.
2000 “Geoeconomics: The influence of ‘borderless world’ discourse in local
development,” presented at the Jackson School Student Association panel on
Borders and Belonging at the University of Washington.
2000 “Preparing to submit an NSF CAREER award proposal,” presented to Social
Science Faculty of the University of Washington in a series organized by the
Dean’s office on proposal preparation advice.
2000 “Disappearing borders?” presented with Carolina Katz at a community outreach
function for the Department of Geography at the University of Washington.
2000 “Theorising transnationalism at the start of the millennium,” presented at the
University of Oxford, School of Geography.
2000 “Making Geo-Political Sense of the Battle in Seattle,” paper presented at an
International Studies Public Seminar on ‘Seattle and the World’ at the University
of Washington.
2000 “Transnationalism and the University” an introduction and contribution to a
special colloquium on the same topic with Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak at the
University of Washington.
2000 “Globalization and You” a contribution to a roundtable workshop on Pedagogy
and the New International Feminism at the University of Washington.
2000 “An Introduction to Cascadia as Construction,” presented to visitors to the EU
Studies Center at the University of Washington.
1999 “Making Geopolitical Sense of the Battle in Seattle: The WTO and Globalization,”
presented at the Centre for the Study of Geopolitics, Panjab University,
Chandigarh, India.
1999 “The US, the EU, the WTO and the future of democracy,” televised (PBS/NBC)
presentation at the University of Washington on a panel moderated by Barry
Mitzman, with Michael Dunn (US Undersecretary for Agriculture), David Byrne
(EU Agriculture Minister), and Willard Workman (Vice President, US Chamber
of Commerce).
1999 “Looking for alternatives to laissez-faire globalization,” speech presented at the
Seattle Rotary Club ahead of WTO Seattle meetings.
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1999 “Local Cultural-Geographies of Globalization; or, Appadurai in Space,” presented
at the colloquium of the Department of Anthropology at the University of
Washington.
1999 “Global/Local: Putting Globalization In Its Place(s),” keynote address for the
conference Globalization and Local Responses: Teaching About the World of the
21st Century, organized by the Jackson School Outreach Programs for K-12
Washington State teachers.
1999 “Thoughts on teaching ‘internationally’,” presentation to teachers preparing for
teaching in the John Stanford International School, Seattle.
1999 “NAFTA and the entrenchment of neoliberalism,” presented to the Public Policy
and International Affairs (PPIA) Summer Program at the University of
Washington.
1999 “Glocalization in Context: Comparing the Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia Growth
Triangle with Cascadia,” presented to the Roosevelt Teachers summer workshop
at the University of Washington.
1999 “Cross-Border Regionalism in the Context of Free Trade: EU and North American
Parallels, Contrasts and Connections,” presented at the conference on ‘USEuropean Interactions’, at the University of Washington.
1999 “Excavating the Future in Cascadia: ‘Glocalization’ and the imagined geographies
of a cross-border region,” presented as the Green College ‘Critical Issues in
Development’ lecture at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver.
1998 “Visions of Cascadia: Environmentalism and Globalization at the Border,”
presented at the City University of New York (CUNY), Graduate School, New
York City.
1998 “Transnational networking and the predicament of public policy making in the
context of neoliberalism,” presented to the Public Policy and International
Affairs (PPIA) Summer Program at the University of Washington, Seattle.
1998 “Hybrid Mappings of Newfoundland: Captain Cook, Shawnadithit and the QuasiObject in Question,” delivered at the Science and the Map conference at the
University of Washington, Seattle.
1998 “Trading Freedom: NAFTA and the entrenchment of neoliberalism,” delivered at
the Teach-In on Democracy and the Global Economy at the University of
Washington, Seattle.
1998 “Cascadia as palimpsest: Investigating the graphing of a transnational geo,”
delivered in the Geography department at the University of Kentucky.
1998 “Excavating the future in Cascadia: From deterritorialization to the geography of a
transborder region,” delivered in the Geography department at the University of
California Los Angeles.
1998 “Cascadia as palimpsest: Investigating the graphing of a transnational geo,”
delivered in the Geography department at Simon Fraser University, Vancouver,
Canada.
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1997 “Squaring the circuit of Cascadian capital; or, four conflicting geographies of a
cross-border region,” delivered at the School of Geography, the University of
Oxford.
1997 “Deterritorialization and reterritorialization in Cascadia: The emerging geography
of a cross-border region,” delivered at the University of Western Washington,
Bellingham.
1997 “Outsides inside patriotism: The Oklahoma bombing and the displacement of
Heartland geopolitics,” delivered at the Department of Geography at the
University of California, Berkeley.
1997 “Fieldwork as Situated Knowledge,” a seminar presentation in the Department of
Geography at the University of California, Berkeley.
1997 “Transborder regions and the entrenchment of neoliberalism” delivered to the
Public Policy and International Affairs (PPIA) Summer Program at the
University of Washington, Seattle.
1997 “Canada and the World” delivered at the ‘Teaching Canada’ conference at the
University of Western Washington in Bellingham.
1997 “Cascadia: Trade Routes or Trade Roots?” delivered at the ‘A World of Trade
Routes Conference for K-20 Educators’ at the University of Washington.
1996 “The state in transnational frame,” a discussion of keynote presentations by Roger
Rouse and Nina Glick-Schiller at a conference entitled ‘Rethinking
Americanization: Migration, Ethnicity, and Citzenship in the Twenty-First
Century,’ at the University of California, San Diego in La Jolla.
1996 “Cascadia at the Crossroads: Transnationalism and the Limits of the Cross-Border
State,” delivered at the symposium entitled ‘On Brotherly Terms: CanadianAmerican Relations West of the Rockies,’ delivered at the University of
Washington in Seattle.
1996 “Cascadia and Globalization,” delivered at the University of Western Washington
in Bellingham.
1996 “Three conflicting geographies of Cascadia,” delivered as part of the Henry M.
Jackson School and CIBER school of Business Administration’s, ‘International
Updates: Trends and Transitions in Your World’ series in Seattle.
1995 “Read Up On It And Listen To It: Literature and Music in Canada,” presentation to
the summer Canadian Studies educators’ seminar in Seattle.
1994 “Negotiating National Action: Feminist Critique and Compromise in Multiple
Canadian Publics,” delivered as a guest lecture in the international series “Space,
Place and Gender” sponsored by the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public
Affairs and the Department of Geography at the University of Syracuse, N.Y.
1994 “Displacing the field in fieldwork: Reflections on ethnographic research and
gender,” delivered as a guest lecture in the course “Methodology and Proposal
Writing” sponsored by the Ford Foundation and organised by Professor Victoria
Lawson at the University of Washington, Seattle.
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1994 “Trading Freedom, Producing Space: The Geopolitics of North American Free
Trade,” delivered at a departmental colloquium at the Department of Geography,
University of Washington, Seattle.
1993 “From Whose Beginnings? Nations and Disseminations in an Historical Atlas of
Canada,” delivered at a departmental colloquium at the University of British
Columbia Department of Geography in Vancouver.
VI. Professional Meetings
2014 “The Case for an Online Degree Program: Integrated Social Sciences at UW”
presented at Oxford Internet Institute, ICA preconference on Innovation in
Higher Education at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Seattle.
2014 “Developing an Online Degree Program and a Comparison with MOOCs,”
presented at Oxford Internet Institute, ICA preconference on Innovation in
Higher Education at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Seattle.
2014 “Between the Democratization and Financialization of Global Education:
Reflecting Critically on Teaching Globalization with a MOOC in Neoliberal
Times,” presented at the Western Political Science Association meetings in
Seattle.
2014 “Climate Change, Global Health and Inequalities in Risk,” concluding
comments for a symposium sponsored by the Mellon foundation and coorganized with Celia Lowe at the University of Washington.
2014 “Assembling a cyborg teaching machine: outsights on developing an online
degree,” presented at the Association of American Geographers meetings in
Tampa.
2014 “Development, Security and Aid,” reviewer comments on Jamey Essex’s book
Development, Security and Aid: Geopolitics and Geoeconomics at the US
Agency for International Development, Georgia: University of Georgia Press,
2013, presented at the Association of American Geographers meetings in
Tampa.
2014 “Building a House in Heaven,” reviewer comments on Mona Atia’s book
Building a House in Heaven” Pious Neoliberalism and Islamic Charity in
Egypt, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2014, presented at the
Association of American Geographers meetings in Tampa.
2014 “On The Double Vision of Geopolitics and Geoeconomics: Connecting
Contradictory Geostrategic Discourses To The Contradictions Of Uneven
Global Development,” presented at the International Studies Association
meetings in Toronto.
2013 “Globalization and Response-ability,” presented at the Nordic Geographers’
meeting in Reykjavik, Iceland.
2013 “Global Health, Philanthrocapitalism and the New Washington Consensus,”
presented at the Association of American Geographers in Los Angeles.
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2013 “Theorizing the frontier: Commentary on the papers of Erin Collins, Jennifer
Tucker and Michael Dwyer,” at the Association of American Geographers in
Los Angeles.
2012 “Biocapital, Biopolitics and the Bootstrap Geopolitics of Puerto Rico’s
Promotion as BioIsland,” presented at the American Studies annual
conference in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
2012 “Global Health Undergraduates: Who are they? What do they want to study? And
what are their trajectories?” presentation at the Association of Pacific Rim
Universities (APRU) Global Health Workshop at the University of Southern
California, Los Angeles.
2012 “Entwined lives and enclaved medicine: Globalization and the targets-turnedterritories of Global Health,” presented at the International Studies Association
meetings in San Diego.
2011 “Developing an interdisciplinary undergraduate degree program: Lessons from the
University of Washington’s Global Health Minor,” Consortium of Universities
for Global Health, Montreal, Canada.
2011 “Entwined lives and enclaved medicine,” at the International Critical Geography
Conference at Goethe University in Frankfurt, Germany.
2011 “The Geography of Global Health Targets and the Enclaving of Aid and
Research,” at the Association of American Geographers in Seattle.
2011 “Ethnography, Geography, Affect and Unemployment,” at the Association of
American Geographers in Seattle.
2011 “Examples of Spatio-Temporal Analyses,” moderated discussion at the Global
Health Metrics and Evaluation conference at the Westin Hotel, Seattle.
2010 “Cascading Cascadias,” a contribution to a panel on Cascadia and its discontents at
the fifth Cascadia Geography conference at the University of Victoria, Canada.
2010 “The opportunities of interdisciplinarity,” an introduction for students to the
Consortium of Universities for Global Health conference at the University of
Washington in Seattle.
2010 Participant in the AAG-sponsored Global Geography Education workshop at
Nangyang Technological University, Singapore.
2010 “On Re-Presenting Ontology in Geo-Graphy,” presented at the Association of
American Geographers Meetings in Washington D.C..
2010 Discussant for a session on Geographies of Response and Responsibility at the
Association of American Geographers Meetings in Washington D.C..
2010 Organizer for Author Meets the Critics session on Ananya Roy’s Poverty Capital
at the Association of American Geographers Meetings in Washington D.C..
2009 Discussant for the session International Politics of Health/Disease at the
International Studies Association meetings in New York City.
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2009 “Mapping the field of global health governance: From global challenges to
territorialized treatments,” presented in a session on Global Health Governance
at the International Studies Association meetings in New York City.
2008 “Making sense of market failure: A University Social Forum,” a meeting of
professors and students co-organized by Matthew Sparke and Kyle Easterley at
the University of Washington.
2007 “Imagining the Spaces of Global Health,” presented at the Association of
American Studies meetings in Philadelphia.
2007 “Unpacking economism and remapping the spaces of global health,” presented by
invitation at an international conference on Global Governance and Global
Health at Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia.
2007 “Robert Fisk’s Anti-Geopolitical Eye,” presented at the 2007 meetings of the
Association of American Geographers in San Francisco.
2007 “(Post?)Development, States and Subjectivities: Interrogating social organization
of economic practice III,” discussant at the 2007 meetings of the Association of
American Geographers in San Francisco.
2007 “Labours of Love III: Men Speak about Gender, Social Reproduction, and the
Academy,” panelist at the 2006 meetings of the Association of American
Geographers in San Francisco.
2007 “Neoliberalism in the Global South (I),” discussant at the 2007 meetings of the
Association of American Geographers in San Francisco.
2007 "Between Bio-grahy and Geo-graphy," panelist with Sangtin Writers at the 2007
meetings of the Association of American Geographers in San Francisco.
2006 “Reflections on the geo-graphic work of geno-graphic mappings,” presented at the
American Studies Conference in Oakland.
2006 “Topographies of Struggle,” moderator for session at the 2006 American Studies
Graduate Conference, Cultural Forms, Cultural Politics at the University of
Washington.
2006 “On the persistence of geography,” a response to commentators in an ‘Author
Meets the Critics’ session on my book In the Space of Theory at the 2006
meetings of the Association of American Geographers in Chicago.
2005 “Geopolitical Fears, Global Hopes and the Responsibilities of Geography,” plenary
address to the Association of American Geographers in Denver.
2005 "What does global education really mean?" plenary address to the annual meeting
of the National International Education Association at Pierce College,
Washington.
2004 “Global Knowledge Spaces for Whom? Shared networks, Divergent Subjects,”
presented at the University of Bristol in a workshop on Education and
Globalization organized under the auspices of the World University Network.
2003 "Geographical Reimaginings of the 'Area' in Area Studies," presented at the
meetings of the Association of American Geographers in New Orleans.
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2003 "Empire's Geography," presented at the meetings of the Association of American
Geographers in New Orleans.
2003 "Comments on Miranda Joseph's Against the Romance of Community," presented
in an author meets the critics session at the meetings of the Association of
American Geographers in New Orleans.
2003 "Triangulations of Uneven Development: The Indonesia-Malaysia-Singapore
Growth Triangle," presented at the meetings of the Association of American
Geographers in New Orleans.
2003 "Tips on applying for an NSF Career Grant," presented at the meetings of the
Association of American Geographers in New Orleans.
2003 "Global Entrepreneur vs. Global Citizen: Competing Models of Globalizing
Learning," presented at the meetings of the Association of American
Geographers in New Orleans.
2002 "Postcolonial Speculations on Neocolonial Enframing" presented at a workshop on
Postcolonial Geographies at the National University of Singapore.
2002 "Cross-Border Regionalism in Comparative Context" presented at the annual
meetings of the International Studies Association in New Orleans.
2001 “No Globalization without Representation: Geographical Reflections on
Transnational Labor Organizing,” presented at the annual meetings of the
Association of American Geographers in New York City.
2000 “Comprehending Transnational Regions: a Transatlantic Comparison” joint daylong presentation with James Scott sponsored by the Humboldt Foundation at the
Free University of Berlin, Germany.
2000 “Observations from Britain and France,” commentary presented at the workshop
‘Comparative Perspectives on Regionalisation: Paradigms, Policies and
Practices’ at the Institut für Regionalentwicklung und Strukturplanung, Erkner
by Berlin, Germany.
2000 “From Deterritorialization to Reterritorialization: Comparing Contexts of CrossBorder Regionalism in Europe and North America,” paper presented at the
International Association for the Study of Traditional Environments (IASTE)
meetings in Trani, Italy.
2000 “Comparing Cross-Border Developments in Europe and North America,” a
presentation given as a guest of the Carnegie Endowment of International Peace
at a special workshop organized by Carnegie on the theme of ‘Border Region
Self-Governance’ in Washington, D.C..
1999 “The End of the Nation-State at the Border: North American and European
Borderlands and the Experience of Globalization,” presented at the International
Geographical Union Seminar on Political Landscapes on the Threshold of the
21st Century in Chandigarh, India.
1999 “Engaging Constructively with the WTO,” presentation at the Women and
Democracy WTO event at the University of Washington.
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1999 “Bulldozing Boundaries / Banalizing Belonging: The Political Economy of
Transboundary Regions and the Transformation of Citizenship,” presented at the
Boundaries and Belonging Conference organized at the Jackson School of
International Studies, University of Washington.
1999 “Transnational Regions in Trans-Atlantic Comparison: Transmanche, Cascadia
and Public-Private Partnerships,” presented at the Annual Meetings of the
American Association of Geographers in Hawaii in a session on cross-border
regions co-chaired by Matthew Sparke and Victor Konrad.
1999 “Transnational Regions in TransAtlantic Comparison: Transmanche, Cascadia, and
Public-Private Partnership Parallels,” presented at the Border Regions in
Transition III: Transborder Cooperation and Sustainable Development
conference in San Diego/ Tijuana.
1999 Discussant for the session “European and Asian Border Regions: Case Studies,” at
the Border Regions in Transition III: Transborder Cooperation and Sustainable
Development conference in San Diego/ Tijuana.
1998 Participant in the New York Times College Program advisory meeting, New York.
1998 Discussant for “Masculinities, Space and Power,” a special double session coorganized with Susan Jeffords for the American Studies Association meetings in
Seattle.
1997 Participant in the West Coast group of the New York Times College Program
advisory board national satellite conference, San Francisco.
1997 “Pacing the 49th Parallel: Transnationalism in Cascadia and the transformation of
the border,” delivered at the International Conference in Critical Geography,
Vancouver, 1997.
1997 “The End of the Nation-State and the Regionalization of Governance: Cascadia as
Question-mark,” delivered at the Annual meetings of the Association of
American Geographers in Fort Worth.
1997 “Graphing the geo in geopolitical,” delivered in a special ‘Author Meets the
Critics’ session on Critical Geopolitics at the Annual meetings of the
Association of American Geographers in Fort Worth.
1997 “Emergent transnational regions in the context of NAFTA: The case of Cascadia,”
delivered at the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
meetings in Seattle.
1996 “Pacing the Border: NAFTA and the New Free Enterprize Zones of Law
Enforcement,” delivered at the Rethinking Marxism conference at the University
of Massachusetts, Amherst.
1996 “Cascadian Contentions: Transnational Geographies of Development and Diaspora
in the Pacific North-West,” delivered at the American Studies Association
Meetings in Kansas City.
1996 “Rethinking radical democracy in the public spaces of transnational
neoliberalism,” delivered at the meetings of the Association of American
Geographers in Charlotte.
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1996 Discussant for the session ‘Transforming Political and Gendered Identities:
Transitions to Democracy and the Free Market,” delivered at the meetings of the
Association of American Geographers in Charlotte.
1995 “Contesting Colonial Cartography in Court: First Nations and the Canadian
Public Sphere,” delivered at the meetings of the Association of Canadian Studies
in the United States in Seattle.
1994 “Neocolonialism in the Borderlands: Trading Freedom and Producing Space
around La Frontera,” delivered at the meetings of the American Association of
Geographers in San Francisco.
1993 “Negotiating the Canadian Nation In, Through, and With the Map,” delivered at
the meetings of the American Association of Geographers in Atlanta.
1993 Discussant for the session, “Geographies of Modernity and Hypermodernity,” at
the meetings of the American Association of Geographers in Atlanta.
1992 “Supplementary Work/ Supplementary Knowledge: Notes on the Patriarchal and
Capitalist Relations Underwriting Temporary Work’s Post-Fordist Advantage,”
delivered at the meetings of the Canadian Association of Geographers in
Vancouver.
1991 “Chauvinism: The Complicity of Patriarchy and Nationalism,” delivered at the
meetings of the American Association of Geographers in Miami.
1990 “Feminist Work for Men,” delivered at the meetings of the Canadian Association
of Geographers in Edmonton.
VII. Teaching
Courses
Introduction to Global Health
GH 101, Winter 2011
GH 101, Winter 2012
GH 101, Winter 2013
GH 101, Winter 2014
Introduction to Globalization
SIS 123 / GEOG 123, Winter 2002.
SIS 123 / GEOG 123, Fall 2002.
SIS 123 / GEOG 123, Winter 2005.
SIS 123/ GEOG 123, Fall 2005.
SIS 123/ GEOG 123, Fall 2006.
SIS 123/ GEOG 123, Fall 2007.
SIS 123/ GEOG 123, Fall 2008.
SIS 123/ GEOG 123, Fall 2009.
SIS 123/ GEOG 123, Fall 2011.
SIS 123/ GEOG 123, Fall 2012.
Introduction to Geography
GEOG 100, Spring 1996.
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States and Capitalism
SIS 200, Fall 1999 (co-taught with Dan Chirot, Joel Migdal and Resat
Kasaba)
Canada: A Geographic Interpretation
SISCA308 / GEOG 308, Spring 1995.
SISCA308 / GEOG 308, Winter 1996.
SISCA308 / GEOG 308, Winter 1997.
SISCA308 / GEOG 308, Winter 1998.
Geopolitics
SIS 375 /GEOG 375, Spring 1997.
SIS 375 / GEOG 375, Fall 2001.
SIS 375/GEOG 375, Fall 2004.
Task Force, “NAFTA and Beyond: Economic Policy Making in an
Interdependent World”
SIS 495, Winter, 1996.
SIS 495, Winter, 1997.
SIS 495, Winter, 1998.
Outbreak: Remapping the boundaries of life and death
Mary Gates Summer Institute in the Arts and Humanities
HUM 498, Summer 2013
Ethnicity and Nationalism: Colloquium and seminar series
SIS 522/GEOG 501, Spring 2000, Theme: Borderlands of Globality:
Transnational Spaces and Struggles
Politics in Geography
GEOG/SIS 575, Fall, 1996. Theme for the seminar series: Nation, State
and The Public Sphere
GEOG/SIS 575, Spring 1997. Theme for the seminar series: Power, Space
and the Political Geography of Postcoloniality
GEOG/SIS 575, Spring 1998, Co-taught with Susan Jeffords on the theme
of: Masculinities, Space and Power
GEOG/SIS 575, Spring 1999. Theme of the seminar series: Globalization
and Retrritorialization
GEOG/SIS 575 (cross-listed with HUM 596D), Spring 2000. Theme:
Cosmopolitics in Question
GEOG/SIS 575, Spring 2002. Theme: Globalization and Civil Society
GEOG/SIS 575, Spring 2003. Theme: Globalization and Capital
GEOG/SIS 575, Fall 2004, Theme: Globalization and American
Dominance
GEOG/SIS 575, Spring 2007, Theme: Global Uneven Development
GEOG/SIS 575, Spring 2008, Theme: Global Health
GEOG/SIS 575, Spring 2008, Theme: Global Health
GEOG/SIS 575, Spring 2012, Theme: Postcolonial Theory and Geography
Philosophy and method in Geography
GEOG 511, Fall 1997
GEOG 511, Spring 1998
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Evidence and Explanation in Geography
GEOG 515, Spring 1999
GEOG 515, Spring 2000
GEOG 515, Spring 2002
GEOG 515, Spring 2003
GEOG 515, Spring 2005
GEOG 515, Spring 2006
GEOG 515, Spring 2007
GEOG 515, Spring 2008
GEOG 515, Spring 2009
GEOG 515, Spring 2010
New Wars? Terror, Military Violence, and Performances of Space
GEOG 600, Fall 2006
Co-taught with Derek Gregory
Study Abroad in Question
GEOG 450, Winter 2007
Rome, Space and Power: A 15 credit study abroad course co-taught with
Katharyne Mitchell at the UW Rome Center
GEOG 490/ SIS 399, Winter 2008
Justice and Global Health
HUM 211, Spring 2009 co-taught with Janelle Taylor as a special 150
student Danz Course sponsored by the Simpson Center
Climate Change, Global Health and Inequalities in Risk
JSIS 478G, Special Topics, co-taught with Celia Lowe in conjunction with
organizing the Mellon-sponsored symposium on Climate Change,
Global Health and Inequalities in Risk.
Globalization and You
Offered as a UW MOOC (Massive Open Online Course) on Coursera,
Summer 2014. Analytics: 46,383 enrollees, from 198 different countries,
4,019 committed to complete, 7,502 committed to audit, 2,671 browsed
the forums, 1,600 watched all the lectures to the end. When the course
was finished 16,453 had actively engaged with the course, 262,303
lectures had been watched, and 4,106 forum posts had been made.
Special lectures for students, faculty and alumni at UW
2014 “On the need for worldly-wise relational geographies of crisis”
contribution to a panel on How to Teach About the World When the World
is falling Apart organized by the Jackson School of International Studies.
2014 “Online@UW: From Email to Flipped Classrooms to Online
Degrees and MOOCs,” presentation to the Faculty Fellows Program at the
Invitation of the Center for Teaching and Learning, University of
Washington.
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2014 co-organized with Celia Lowe a Mellon-funded symposium on
Climate Change, Global Health and the Inequalities of Risk.
2014 “The health implications of trade law,” presentation to the MPH
Global health seminar in the School of Public Health.
2013 “Introducing Integrated Social Sciences,” presentation to the
Graduate and Professional Student Senate.
2013 “On Neoliberalism and the University,” presentation for a Freshman
Interest Group taking courses on globalization.
2013 “Introducing Globalization,” guest lecture at the invitation of Dr.
Saadia Pekkanen in Introduction to International and Area Studies, JSIS
594
2013 “Introducing Globalization: A Face and a Facebook page,” guest
lecture at the invitation of Dr. Joe Hannah in Introduction to
Globalization, GEOG/SIS 123
2013 “Pharmaceutical Development Partnerships,” a pilot book club
seminar for Global Health Minor students co-led with Rachel Beck (IS
Major).
2013 “Global health and social science,” a presentation for a panel on
the same subject in Global Health Week at the University of
Washington.
2013 “Contingent faculty, MOOCs and online learning,” a presentation to
the History Department’s graduate training seminar at the University of
Washington.
2013 “Researching globalization and global health,” presentation in the
Odegaard Library Research Exposed series.
2013 “Indonesia, Inequality and Infection: Reflections on connections
and disconnections in global health,” presentation to Celia Lowe’s
class on SE Asia and the Health Implications of Climate Change
2012 “Researching biotech research,” presentation in the Odegaard
Library Research Exposed series.
2012 “Advice on applying to graduate school,” contribution to a forum
convened by Professor Kim England for UW Geography
undergraduates
2012 “Reflections on MOOCs,” Program on the Environment ‘Meet and
Greet’
event
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2012 “Reflections on the global-local ties of Occupy activism,”
presentation at the ‘Past, Present and Promise,’ event organized by Global
99 in the Business School to deliberate the lessons of the Occupy
movement.
2012 “Graphing the geo of crisis,” special lecture to students in SIS 201
being taught by Tony Lucero.
2011 “Introducing global health and the minor,” a talk to students in the
GH 201 and GEOG 123 Global Health Freshman Interest Group.
2011 “Biological Futures in a Globalized World,” panel moderator for a
seminar at the Simpson Center featuring Celia Lowe, Luke Bergmann and
Meg Stalcup.
2011 “Globalization and the targets of global health,” seminar for Joanne
Silberner’s Communications class on global health and journalism.
2011 “Challenging ourselves to go beyond good intentions in
development,” contribution to panel on ‘Can You Save the World?’
organized by the UW student Critical Development Forum.
2011 “Principles for Evaluating Global Health Student Service
Opportunities,” presented to students planning to develop a UW chapter of
GlobeMed
2010 “From globalization to global health,” guest lecture in SIS 123/
GEOG 123 at the invitation of Dr. Hannah
2010 “Global Health, Verticalization, and the Geographical Challenges for
Medical Anthropology,” lecture to ANTH 475, Perspectives on Medical
Anthropology
2010 “Mapping the enclave: A geographic research project for global
health,” presentation to OUGL’s ‘Research Exposed’ Fall series
2010 “Introducing Global Health: The class and the Minor,” talk with
Steve Gloyd to HSERV 480, Issues in Public Health
2010 “Introducing the Global Health Minor,” a lunch with leaders talk at
the Consortium of Universities for Global Health meetings.
2009 “Between critical geography and micro-economics,” presentation to
Social Sciences Link program at the invitation of Rick Roth, Kevin Mihata
and Garrett Strain.
2009 “Globalization and global education,” a guest lecture for Prof.
Walter Parker, for a class on education theory about international
education.
2009 “On your Marx: A primer on Marxist political-economy” guest
lecture for Prof. Gary Hamilton, for a class on International PoliticalEconomy.
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2009 “The meaning of my discipline and interdisciplinarity,” special
lecture for the Honors program class
2009 “Globalization and the Global U,” presentation to the undergraduate
halls of residence at the invitation of the Haggett Hall, International and
Business ‘floors’.
2009 “Making sense of the map,” presentation to the Honors writing group
on the invitation of Frances McCue, UW.
2008 "First Lecture," a special lecture for new students at UW's summer
Orientation
2008 “Migration, Agriculture and the Contradictions of Free Trade,”
presented for a UW undergraduate conference on Migration and Farm
Workers.
2007 "First Lecture," a special lecture for new students at UW's summer
Orientation
2006 “What is Fair Trade?” presentation to Students for Fair Trade
symposium at the University of Washington.
2005 “What is globalization,” seminar discussion in the Department of
Education, University of Washington, Seattle.
2004 “Globalization and the election,” invited pre-election presentation at
the University of Washington sorority of Delta, Delta , Delta.
2003 "The War, Geopolitics and Globalization," a contribution to the
U.W. day of reflection on the Iraq war.
2001 "From Globaloney to Anti-Globalization to Where?" a special
lecture for the Certificate in International Business, UW Business School.
2001 "What do professors expect of UW students," a special lecture for
new students at UW's summer Orientation.
2001 "First Lecture," a special lecture for new students at UW's summer
Orientation.
Advising
Graduate Students—Completed
2014, Yolanda Valencia, MA, Committee member (Geography)
Title: Leyes Crueles - Lugares Violentos: Mexican Women’s Testimonios
Along the Migration Journey
2014, Patricia Lopez, Ph.D. Co-chair (Geography)
Title: Haiti and the History of Health Citizenship
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2014, Will Buckingham, Ph.D. Committee member (Geography)
Title: Assembling Chinese Cities: Place-Making, Subjectivity and the
Transformation of Urban Spaces
2013, John Delport, Ph.D. GSR Committee member (Education)
Title: Consensus competencies of educators of children with social and
behavioral disorders
2012, Agnieszka Leszczynski, Ph.D. Committee member (Geography)
Title: Thinking the Geoweb: Political economies, ‘neo’geographies, and
spatial media.
2012, Jason Young, MA Committee member (Geography)
Title: Refining a Conceptual Basemap: Critical GIS and Political Theory
2012, Stephanie Oldham, MA Co-Chair (International Studies)
Title: Epidemiological transition and the challenge of NCDs in Ghana
2011, Sara Gilbert, M.A. Chair (Geography)
Title: Aspirations and Anxieties: the Neoliberal Geopolitics of the NIC
2011, Monica Farias, M.A. Committee member (Geography)
Title: Embodying Economic 'Crisis': Argentina's Middle Classes and the
Cultural Politics of Difference.
2011, Ron Smith, Ph.D., Chair (Geography)
Title: Occupation ‘from the river to the sea’: Subaltern geopolitics of
graduated incarceration in the 1967 Occupied Palestinian Territories
- went on to the faculty at the University of Bucknell, PA
2011, Allison Schultz, M.A., Committee member (Geography)
Title: (Re)Placing 'The Fattest Americans': A Critical Geography of
Obesity and Diabetes Among the Akimel O'otham
2011, Theron Stevenson, M.A. Chair (Geography)
Title: Balkan Ghosts in Heavenly Gardens: How Nature Parks and
Tourism are making a European Croatia.
2010, Liz Reynolds, Ph.D. Committee member (Education)
Title: Globalization, Localization and African Education
2010, Stephen Young, Ph.D. Chair (Geography)
Title: The Global Redline: Mapping Markets, Movements and Moralities
in the Financialization of India
- went on to the faculty at the University of Wisconsin, Madison
2010, Dominic Corva, Ph.D. Co-Chair with Vicky Lawson (Geography)
Title: The Geo-politics of Narco-governance in the Americas: a Political
Economy Approach
2009, Tim Stiles, M.A. Committee member (Geography)
Title: Internal and external geographies of GIS development in a Pacific
Northwest corporation
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2009, Patricia Lopez, M.A. Committee Co-Chair (Geography)
Title: An Historically Situated Case for Children's Right to Health: The
Birth of the Model Cities Clinic of Odessa Brown Children's Clinic
2009, Rowan Ellis, Ph.D. Committee member (Geography)
Title: Civil Society, Savage City: Neoliberalism and Urban Governance
in Chennai, India
- went on to the faculty at the University of Aberdeen, UK
2008, Sarah Starkweather, Ph.D. Committee member (Geography)
Title: Defining extraterritorial citizenship: The case of
American citizens living abroad
- went on to the faculty at the National University of Singapore
2008, Mona Atia, Ph.D. Committee member (Geography)
Title: Building a House in Heaven: Islamic Charity in Neoliberal Egypt
- went on to the faculty of George Washington University
2008, Kris Erickson, Ph.D. Committee member (Geography)
Title: The Hacker Mentality: Security, Risk and Control in the
Information Society
- went on to the faculty at the Bournemouth University, UK
2008, Tony Sparks, Ph.D. Committee Chair (Geography)
Title: As much like home as possible: Geographies of homelessness and
citizenship in Seattle's tent city 3
- went on to the faculty of Sonoma community college
2007, Chris Fowler, Ph.D. Committee member (Geography)
Title: Ports, Competition and Urban Development in Italy
2007, John Carr, Ph.D. Committee member (Geography)
Title: Urban youth space
- went on to the faculty at the University of New Mexico
2006, Molly Mustappa, Ph.D. Graduate School Representative (Political
Science)
2006, Matthew Sothern, Ph.D. Committee member (Geography)
Title: The Extraordinary Body and (Neo-)Liberal Space
- went on to the faculty at the University of Saint Andrews
2006, Molly Wallace, Ph.D. Graduate School Representative (English)
Title: Bizarre Ecologies and American Literature
2006, Elizabeth Brown, Ph.D. Committee member (Geography)
Title: The Geography of Juvenile Courts
- went on to the faculty at San Fancisco State University
2006, Doris Olivers, MA. Chair (Geography)
Title: A critique of neoliberal hegemony and counter-hegemonic alternatives
of the World Social Forum
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2005, Kathleen A. Wiberg-Rozaklis, M.A. Committee member (Geography)
Title: The Geographies of a Post-September 11th Curriculum: The Authority
and Narration of American Public Education
2004, Clare Newstead, Ph.D. Committee member (Geography)
Title: (Dis)entangling the politics of regional possibility in the post-colonial
Caribbean
- went on to the faculty at Nottingham Trent University
2004, Sarah Wright, Ph.D. Committee member (Geography)
Title: Harvesting Knowledge: A study of the contested terrain of intellectual
property rights in the Philippines
- went on to the faculty at the University of Newcastle, Australia
2004, Richard Heyman, Ph.D. Chair (Geography)
Title: Locating Civil Society: Knowledge, Pedagogy and the Production of
Public Space
- went on to the faculty at the University of Minnesota and University of
Texas
2004, Dominic Corva, M.A. Chair (Geography)
Title: Localization, globalization and the World Social Forum: Towards a
process geography of counter-hegemonic mobilization
2004, Amy Freeman, Ph.D., Committee member (Geography)
Title: Contingent modernity: Moroccan women's narratives in 'post-colonial'
perspective
2003, Carlo Bonura, Ph.D. Committee Member (Political Science)
Title: Political Theory on Location: Formations of Political Community in
Southern Thailand
- went on to the faculty of University of Puget Sound and the University of
Oxford
2003, Carlos Tovares, Ph.D. Committee member (Geography)
Title: San Antonio and the Geography of Race
2003, Barbara Poore, Ph.D. Committee member (Geography)
Title: The Social Construction of GIS archives
- went on to be researcher at US Geological Survey
2003, Karin Johnson, Ph.D. Committee Member (Geography)
Title: Bordering on Health: Origins and Outcomes of the Idea of Global
Health
- went on to be research manager at Childrens Hospital, Seattle
2003, Banu Gokariksel, Ph.D, Committee Member (Geography)
Title: Multiple Modernities: Shopping Malls in Istanbul and Jakarta
- went on to the faculty at the University of North Carolina
2002, Kim Van Eyck, Ph.D. Committee Member (Geography)
Title: Neoliberal Reform and Unionization in the Columbian Banking
Industry
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2001, Alana Boland, Ph.D. Committee member (Geography)
Title: Transitional Flows: State and Market in China's Urban Water Supply.
- went on to the faculty at the University of Toronto
2001, Jackson Zimmerman, Ph.D. Chair (Geography)
Title: Re-Mapping Transborder Environmental Governance: Sovereign
Territory and the Pacific Salmon Treaty.
- went on to the faculty University of Wisconsin
2000, Carolina Katz, M.A. Chair (Geography)
Title: Remapping Rights and Responsibilities: A Legal Geography of the
1996 Welfare and Immigration Reforms.
-went on to work as senior researcher at the US Federal Reserve San
Francisco
2000, Lise Nelson, Ph.D. Committee member (Geography)
Title: Remaking Gender And Citizenship In A Mexican Indigenous
Community
- went to the faculty at the University of Oregon
1999, Wendy Somerson, Ph.D. Committee member (English)
Title: Sexual Spaces: Narratives of U.S. Sexualities in the Era of
Transnationalism.
1999, Philip Craft, M.A. Co-Chair (Speech Communications)
Title: Redefining Local Autonomy and Women’s Empowerment in
Microcredit Discourse: A Study on Hegemony, Rhetorical Strategy, and the
Ideology of ‘Development.
1999, Desiree Desurra, M.A. Committee member (Geography).
Title: Transnational organizing in the context of NAFTA: A Study of feminist
networking.
1998, Richard Heyman, MA Chair (Geography)
Title: Geographical Thought, Ideology, and the University: The Humboldt
Brothers and Daniel Coit Gilman
- went on the faculty at the University of Minnesota, and, then, the
University of Texas
1998, Julia Leyda, Ph.D. Committee member (English)
Title: American Mobilities: Class and Space in U.S. Literature and Culture,
1930-45.
- went on to the faculty at Sophia University, Tokyo
1997, Leigh Culpepper, MA Committee member (South Asian Studies,IS)
Title: Two Essay Option essays on Hindu Nationalism and Gender Politics in
India)
1997, Carlo Bonura, MA Committee member (Political Science)
Title: Under Western Guise: Rethinking the Theory of Communicative Action
through the work of Seyla Benhabib and Chandra Mohanty
- went on to the faculty of the University of Puget Sound and, then, the
University of Oxford
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1996, Monica Varsanyi, MA Committee member (Geography)
Title: The Political Geography of Proposition 187
- went on to the faculty at Vassar College
Graduate Students—In Progress
1. Srinivas Chokkakula, Ph.D. Chair (Geography)
2. Michelle Daigle, Ph.D. Chair (Geography)
3. Brandon Derman, Ph.D. Committee member (Geography)
4. Monica Farias, Ph.D. Committee member (Geography)
5. Tiffany Grobelski, Ph.D. Committee member (Geography)
6. Eloho Tobrise, Ph.D. Chair (Geography)
7. Yolanda Valencia, Ph.D. Committee member (Geography)
8. Yanning Wei, Ph.D. Committee member (Geography)
9. Maggie Wilson, MA, Chair (Geography)
10. Jason Young, Ph.D. Committee member (Geography)
Special Undergraduate Students—Completed
1. Jamie Clausen, JSIS Honors Thesis and SISCA 499 Chinese migration.
2. Jennifer Gager, Geography 350 Project on Student Learning.
3. Kimberly Johnson, SIS 350 Internship at the World Affairs Council.
4. Sena Johnson, SIS 499Project at the Trade and Community Development
5. Amy Kaestner, JSIS Honors Thesis.
6. Nick Slepko, Geography 350 Internship at the Discovery Institute
7. Lawrence Writer, Economics 450, Honors Essay on Transnationalism
8. Ryan Ehlinger, JSIS 499A, Research on Cascadia
9. Karim Hakam, JSIS 395, Qualifying paper on the Channel Tunnel
10. Jeff Laru, JSIS 395, Qualifying paper on Japanese Geopolitics
11. Ryan Halinger, JSIS 499 – Cascadia Project
12. Nicholas Vitek, Globalization Project for JSIS 499
13. Jill Dumler, International Human Rights, qualifying paper
14. Marc Delacruz, IS Major qualifying paper on national narratives of China
15. Yaffa Truelove, IS Senior Thesis on the WTO and civil society
16. Yaffa Truelove, IS Senior Thesis on the WTO and civil society
17. Emily Beaulieu, Honors Thesis Mentor, Political Discourse in BC
18. Jeremy Howard, IS Major qualifying paper on the geopolitics of globalization
19. Anna Prichard, SIS 499, IS Qualifying paper on post 9-11 geopolitics
20. Andrew Christman, SIS 499, IS Qualifying paper on (in-)security in Central Asia
21. Michael Gustafson, Gen St 350A, Corporate Responsibility and Coffee
22. Kirsten Varg, Mentor for Mary Gates research award work on the WSF
23. Stephanie Smith, SIS 499, IS Qualifying paper on NGOs and the Iraq war
24. Riani Townshend, SIS 499, IS Qualifying paper on terrorism and SE Asia
25. Eve Stanley, SIS 494, IS Qualifying paper on US and ICC
26. Scott Boyd, GEOG honors paper on business school globalism
27. Meaghan Snow, GEOG honors paper on the Baghdad Green Zone
28. Agneszka Marta Kowacz, GEOG honors paper on the labor market & Everett
29. Jonathan Galin, JSIS/CHID thesis paper on microcredit and Unitus in India
30. Amrit Sidhu, Business School, sponsor for internship in London
31. Richard Johnson, IS Senior Thesis on neoliberalism in Latin America
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32. Dimitar Anguelov, sponsor and mentor for internship in India
33. Leah Zajac, JSIS qualifying paper on masculinity and nationalism
34. Chelsea Gilmore, special degree paper requirement on global health
35. Hallie Ericson, special degree paper requirement on global health
36. Garret Strain, SIS Honors Paper on neoliberal urban change in Argentina
37. Mikail Blyth, Geography Honors paper on cross-border devel in Korea
38. Dimitar Velkov, research on the geopolitics of infectious disease
39. Stephanie Joy Smith, JSIS qualifying paper on population control
40. Chelsea Gilmore, Public Health degree individual studies paper on HIV prevention
41. Carolyn Gilbert, JSIS QP, social determinants of health in post-neoliberal Ecuador
42. Christena Berner, JSIS QP, global health service learning: risks & recommendations
43. Jillian Zemanek, JSIS QP, Health Diplomacy and the Case of Polio in Nigeria
44. Kathryn Teagarden, JSIS QP, The AIDS tragedy in South Africa
45. Lily Shay, JSIS QP, Immigrant health rights in the UK vs. the US
46. Emily Gibson, Public Health Thesis, Incentivizing the End of Patriarchy?
47. Dean Chahin, mentoring for Critical Development Forum class he led
48. Cole Trevathan Bazemore, WGHA internship mentor
49. Helen Olson, Mary Gates Leadership Award mentor
50. Dawn Tuason, Public Health/Global Health Honors project
51. Haley Millet, Global Health Study and Service in Uganda
52. Rachel Beck, Improving neonatal care in Cote D’Ivoire
53. Cynthia Irene Simekha, limits of global health care in Kenya
54. Marina Fitzpatrick, WGHA internship mentor
Special contributions to teaching and training:
1)- Integrating undergraduates into research
PI on a National Science Foundation: Geography and Regional Science Program,
Undergraduate Research Experiences Grant, “Tourism in emerging transnational
regions,” US$4,774 granted. Named undergraduate student:- Barbara Hall.
2)- Advisor for German Marshall Fund Undergraduate Applicants to the United
Kingdom, Spring 1997.
3)- Member of the UW Rhodes Scholars Selection Committee, Fall 1998.
4)- Preparatory talk for Rhodes Scholars applicants, Summer 2000.
5)- Successful application for Lindenberg Center Mobility Grant to take Kirsten Varg
(undergraduate) and Heather Day, Caroline Faria, Elizabeth Wright and Dominic Corva
to Porto Alegre in January 2003 to conduct research tied to NSF CAREER grant.
6)- Co-published in 2003 an article with 2 geography graduate students, Carolina Reid
and Clare Newstead, an article entitled “The Cultural Geography of Scale” in Kay
Anderson, Mona Domosh, Steve Pile and Nigel Thrift, The Handbook of Cultural
Geography, London: Sage.
7)- Co-published in 2005 an article with 5 geography graduate students, Liz Brown,
Dominic Corva, Heather Day, Caroline Faria and Tony Sparks, and one undergraduate,
Kirsten Varg, an article entitled “The World Social Forum and the Lessons for
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Economic Geography” in Economic Geography. This article was based on research
funded by the grant noted in point 5 above.
8)- Developed in 2008 the first Geography Study Abroad program in Rome with
Katharyne Mitchell using web-based google mymaps platform for developing and
publishing student research on Rome.
9)- In 2008 provided commentaries on the graduate student papers of Joni Vainikka,
Mikko Joronen, Evgania Prokhorova, and Peter Ehrström at the Finnish Geography
graduate school intensive course on Re-Grounding Globalization at the University of
Tampere, Finland.
10)- In Fall 2008 co-organized with UW undergraduates a teach-in at the University of
Washington entitled: “Making sense of market failure: A University Social Forum.”
11) Winter 2010 facilitated GEOG 499 Special Topic reading on critical geopolitics for
Charmila Ajmera, Mikail Blyth, Johnny Chan, Chris Paul, and Jasmine Zhang.
12) Fall 2012 facilitated GEOG 499 for over 20 students in an interdisciplinary 2 credit
class on development and global health led by students from Critical Development
Forum.
13) Moderated the panel “Models, Maps and the Making of Global Health at the 2012
UW Undergraduate Research Symposium
VIII. Professional Activities and Service
Extramural
Member of the Editorial Board of The Professional Geographer
Member of the Editorial Board of Political Geography
Member of the Editorial Board of The Global South
AAG Nystrom award committee, 2009
Member of the International Advisory Board for the Center for the Study of
Geopolitics at Panjab University, Chandigarh, India.
Review work for National Science Foundation, 1998, 2000, 2001(x2) 2002, 2003
(x2), 2004 and 2005.
Review work for the Canadian Social Science and Humanities Research Council,
2004.
Review work for the Annals of the Association of American Geographers (1997,
1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2007, 2008), Acme (2007), Area (2005), Economic
Geography (2005), Environment and Planning A (2004, 2007) Environment and
Planning D: Society and Space (1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999), Antipode
(1997, 2000, 2001, 2001, 2002, 2004, 2006, 2007), Professional Geographer
(1999, 2000), Geopolitics (2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2006, 2007, 2008)
Ecumene (1996), Geografiska Annaler (2001) Gender, Place and Culture (2002,
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2004, 2005), Progress in Human Geography (2001, 2002, 2008x3), Political
Geography (2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008x2), Signs (1996), Social and Cultural
Geography (2004), Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers (2005,
2008), and Journal of Borderland Studies (2004).
Review work for Blackwell publishers 1997, 2001, 2002x2, 2003, 2004.
Review work for Routledge publishers: 1996, 1997, 1998, 2000, 2002, 2003, 2004.
Review work for Kluwer publishers: 1998.
Review work for Guilford publishers: 2000.
Review work for Rowman and Littlefield: 2005.
Review work for Temple University Press, 2006.
Review work for Lingua Franca, 1999
Review work for the John T and Catherine T MacCarthur Fellows Program 1998.
Member of the editorial board of Transgressions: A Journal of Urban Exploration
Antipode graduate student scholarship awards committee, 2002.
Tenure review letter for Patricia Price, Florida International University 2002.
Third year review letter for International Studies, American University,
Washington, D.C. 2002.
Tenure review letter for Dartmouth College, New Hampshire, 2004.
Tenure review letter for Dartmouth College, New Hampshire, 2011.
Tenure review letter for University of Toronto, Scarborough, 2012.
Promotion to Full review letter for University of Toronto, 2012.
Tenure review letter for Georgetown University, 2014.
University
1996-7 Executive Committee, Geography
1996-7 Executive Committee, International Studies Program
1996-7 Undergraduate Program/ Admissions Committee, International Studies
Program
Organiser of the 1996-1997 State-Society workshops for the Jackson School of
International Studies. Speakers included: John Agnew, Jennifer Hyndman,
Priscilla Wald, Robert Walker, Chantal Mouffe, Tani Barlow, Jenny White,
Elizabeth Wood, Luis Guarnizo and Marjorie Cohen.
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1997-8 Executive Committee, International Studies Program
1997-8 Undergraduate Program/ Admissions Committee, International Studies
Program
1997-8 Graduate admissions Committee, Department of Geography
1998
Special committee on research quarters policy, Jackson School of International
Studies.
1998
UW Rhodes Scholars Selection Committee.
1998-9 Executive Committee, International Studies Program
1998-9 Executive Committee, EU Studies Center
1998-9 Admissions Committee, International Studies Program
1998-9 Geography Community Outreach and Development Committee
1999-0 Executive Committee, International Studies Program
1999-0 Executive Committee, Canadian Studies Program, and co-author with
Katharyne Mitchell of the 2000-2003 Canadian Studies, Title VI Center and
FLAS applications to the Department of Education.
1999-0 Executive Committee, EU Studies Program
1999-0 Admissions Committee, International Studies Program
1999-0 Simpson Humanities Center Curriculum Committee
1999-0 Chair of the Geography Undergraduate Symposium Committee.
1999-0 Member of the special review committee on the appointment of Deborah Porter
to the Jackson School of International Studies.
1999-0 Member of the search committee for two positions in Law and Society.
2001-2 International Studies Undergraduate Admissions Committee
2002
JSIS Awards Committee
2001-2 Executive Committee, International Studies Program
2001-2 Executive Committee, Center for EU Studies
2002
Chair of the Geography Undergraduate Symposium Committee.
2002-3 Member of the Executive Board of the Simpson Center for the Humanities
2002-3 Executive Committee, Geography
2002-3 Executive Committee, International Studies Program
2002-3 Executive Committee, Center for EU Studies
2004-5 Member of the Executive Board of the Simpson Center for the Humanities
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2004-5 Executive Committee, International Studies Program
2005-6 Chair of University review Committee charged with reviewing the
Comparative History of Ideas program.
2006
Member of the college chair search committee for Philosophy
2006
Organized Derek Gregory’s visit to UW for a week of seminars and public
lectures as a Simpson Center Katz lecturer
2007
Two reviews for University RRF competition
2007
Peer teaching evaluation for Professor Jonathan Warren
2007
Member of the University Global Learning Goals Committee at the invitation
of Vice-Provost Susan Jeffords.
2007
Executive Committee, Geography
2007
Executive Committee, International Studies Program
2007
Executive Committee, Center for EU Studies
2007
Organized and ran the Provost Teaching Workshop on Globalizing Teaching
without Leaving Seattle
2007
Member of the Brotman award committee at the invitation of Dean Taylor
2007-8 Chair of the Comparative History of Ideas Standing Committee. Appointed by
Deans Ron Irving and Ellen Kaisse this committee serves to provide a
governance executive on all CHID hiring, promotion and tenure decisions.
2007
Chair of CHID tenure review committee for Phillip Thurtle
2007
Chair of the Promotion review committee for Kim England
2008
Member of the Library Research Award Committee
2008
RRF review work
2008-9 Executive committee for Jackson School of International Studies
2008-9 Chair of the Comparative History of Ideas Standing Committee.
2009
Chair of the Promotion review committee for Maria Elena Garcia
2009
RRF review work
2009-10 Chair of the Comparative History of Ideas Standing Committee.
2009-10 Department of Geography Awards Committee Chair
2009-10 Department of Geography Graduate Policy Committee
2009-10 Appointed by Provost Wise to Dean search committee for new dean of public
health
2010-11 Director of the Global Health Department Undergraduate Degree Program
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2010-11 Member of the School of Public Health Undergraduate Curriculum Task Force
2010-11 Member of Department of Global Health Education Executive Committee
2010
“New education initiatives in global health at UW,” talk at recognition
luncheon for volunteers who lead high school tours of UWMC and Health
Sciences
2011
Organized the 6th Annual International Cascadian Critical Geography
conference at the University of Washington.
2011
Organized a two-day Ph.D dissertation proposal advising workshop for 24
students from UW, UBC and SFU at UW’s Friday Harbor facility on San Juan
Island.
2011-12 Director of the Global Health Department Undergraduate Degree Program
2011-12 Member of the School of Public Health Undergraduate Curriculum Task Force
2011-12 Member of Department of Global Health Education Executive Committee
2012
RRF review work
2012
Selection Committee for UW Faculty Lecturer Award
2012-13 Director of the Global Health Department Undergraduate Minor
2012-13 Director of Geography Graduate Program
2012-13 Member of Global Health Education Executive Committee
2012-13 School of Public Health, search committee for Social Determinants of Health
position
2012-13 School of Public Health Curriculum Steering Committee
2012-13 College of Arts and Sciences ad hoc committee on new degree in Health
Science and Society
2012-13 School of Public Health, Undergraduate Degree Steering Committee
2012-13 University Senate Committee on Intellectual Property and Commercialization
(SCIPC)
2012-13 Curriculum Committee, Jackson School of International Studies
2013 President’s Selection Committee for UW Faculty Lecturer Award
2013-14 Provost’s Online Education Joint Task Force Member
2013-14 Curriculum Management Policy and Process Committee, College of A&S
2014 President’s Selection Committee for UW Faculty Lecturer Award
2013-14 Director of Integrated Social Sciences
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IX. Academic Awards and Distinctions
2012
2010
2007
2007
2000-5
2005
1993-1994
1991-1993
1989-1991
1989
1988-1989
1987-1988
Award for Teaching Excellence from the Pan-Hellenic Association
Award for Excellence in Teaching, Jackson School of Intl. Studies, UW
Award for ‘Most Global Professor’ from the Pan-Hellenic Association
Lifetime Distinguished Teacher Award, University of Washington
National Science Foundation, CAREER award
Award for Excellence in Teaching, Dept. of Geography, UW
University Graduate Fellowship, The University of B.C.
University Graduate Fellowship, The University of B.C.
University Graduate Fellowship, The University of B.C.
Congratulatory First Class, The University of Oxford.
Scholarship in Geography, The University of Oxford
Scholarship in Geography, The University of Oxford
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