Curriculum Vitae

JAMES P. MCCARTHY Professor

Graduate School of Geography Clark University

CONTACT INFORMATION: 950 Main St. Email: JaMcCarthy@Clarku.edu Worcester, MA 01610 Telephone: (508) 421-3829

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Nature-society relations (political ecology, environmental politics, property theory, environmental history); environmental policy and social movements; political economy and neoliberalism; social theory.

ACADEMIC EMPLOYMENT

July, 2011 – present. Professor, Clark University, Graduate School of Geography. Editor, Annals of the American Association of Geographers, January 2016 – December 2019. Director, Global Environmental Studies major, 2015 – 2016 academic year.

July, 2006 – July, 2011. Associate Professor, The Pennsylvania State University, Department of Geography. [Officially on leave July, 2011 - July, 2012].

January, 2000 – June, 2006. Assistant Professor, The Pennsylvania State University, Department of Geography.

EDUCATION

Ph.D. 1999. University of California, Berkeley, Department of Geography: “The Political and Moral Economies of Wise Use.”

M.A. 1994. University of California, Berkeley, Department of Geography: ‘“Escaping California’: the Uneven Development of New Rural Spaces in Northern Idaho.”

B.A., 1987. Dartmouth College, English/Environmental Studies. Magna cum laude.

PUBLICATIONS

REVISE AND RESUBMIT

2016. Wilson, C., T. Morrison, J. Everingham, and J. McCarthy. “Private metagovernance by corporate actors: the need for state oversight to ensure democratic legitimacy.” Under revision for Environment and Planning C.

ACCEPTED WITH REVISIONS

Foo, Katherine, James McCarthy, and Anthony Bebbington. “A framework for governing urban green infrastructure.” Accepted pending revisions. Landscape and Urban Planning.

BOOKS:

2015. The Routledge Handbook of Political Ecology. Co-edited with Tom Perreault and Gavin Bridge. Routledge.

2007. Neoliberal Environments: False Promises and Unnatural Consequences. Co-edited with Nik Heyen, Paul Robbins, and Scott Prudham. Routledge.

PUBLICATIONS IN REFEREED JOURNALS AND BOOKS:

[Forthcoming]. Huber, M. and J. McCarthy. Beyond the subterranean energy regime? Fuel, land use and the production of space. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers.

2017. McCarthy, J. and J. Thatcher. Visualizing new political ecologies: A critical data studies analysis of the World Bank’s renewable energy resource mapping initiative. Geoforum. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2017.03.025.

2017. Andrews, E. and J. McCarthy. “Micropolitics in the Marcellus Shale.” In L. Horowitz and M. Watts, eds., Grassroots Environmental Governance: Community Engagements with Industry. Routledge, pp. 188-208.

2017. McCarthy, J. “Political Ecology.” In The International Encyclopedia of Geography: People, the Earth, Environment and Technology. Oxford: John Wiley & Sons.

2016. Wilson, C., T. Morrison, J. Everingham, and J. McCarthy. Steering Affordable Social Outcomes in America’s Energy Heartland: Multi-Actor Meta-Governance in the Marcellus Shale, Pennsylvania. The American Review of Public Administration. DOI: 10.1177/0275074016654012.

2016. Rights for resilience: food sovereignty, power, and resilience in development practice (with Marygold Walsh-Dilley and Wendy Wolford). Ecology and Society 21 (1): 11 http://dx.doi.org/10.5751/ES-07981-210111.

2015. McCarthy, J. “A socioecological fix to capitalist crisis and climate change? The possibilities and limits of renewable energy.” Environment and Planning A 47: 2485-2502.

2015. “Reviewing rescaling: Strengthening the case for environmental considerations” (with Alice Cohen). Progress in Human Geography (1): 3-25.

2015. “Editors’ introduction” (with Gavin Bridge and Tom Perrault). In Perrault, T., G. Bridge, and J. McCarthy, eds. The Routledge Handbook of Political Ecology. Routledge, pp. 3-18.

2015. “Editors’ conclusion” (with Gavin Bridge and Tom Perrault). In Perrault, T., G. Bridge, and J. McCarthy, eds. The Routledge Handbook of Political Ecology. Routledge, pp. 620-629.

2014. “Socio-cultural dimensions of climate change: charting the terrain” (with Cheryl Chen, David Lopez-Carr, and Barbara Walker). Geojournal 79 (6): 665-675.

2014. Foreword. In Padt, F.J.G., Opdam, P., Polman, N., Termeer, C., eds, Scale-sensitive governance of the environment. Oxford: John Wiley & Sons.

2013. “Scale, shale, and the state: political ecologies and legal geographies of shale gas development in Pennsylvania” (with Eleanor Andrews). Journal of Environmental Studies and Sciences 3 (3). Published online first August 24, 2013.

2013. “We Have Never been ‘Post-political.’” Capitalism Nature Socialism, 24:1, 19-25.

2012. “The political economies of political ecology.” In J. Peck, T. Barnes, and E. Sheppard, eds., The New Companion to Economic Geography, Wiley-Blackwell. Wiley-Blackwell, pp. 612-625. 2012. “First World political ecology: lessons from the Wise Use movement.” Reprinted in Elden, S., Thrift, N., Barnes, T. J., Peck, J., Batty, M., Langley, P. A. & Bennett, R. J. eds., Environment and Planning. Sage/Pion; 2012.

2012. “The Financial Crisis and Environmental Governance ‘After’ Neoliberalism.” Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie 103 (2): 180-195.

2011. “L’écologie politique du premier monde : les leçons du mouvement Wise Use” [Translation and reprint by request of “First World political ecology: lessons from the Wise Use movement.”] Écologie & Politique 41: 49-71.

2011. “Manufacturing consent for Engineering Earth: social dynamics in Boston’s Big Dig” (with Kate Derickson). In Brunn, S., ed., Engineering Earth: The Impacts of Mega-Engineering Projects. Springer, pp. 697-713.

2010. “From hope to crisis and back again? A critical history of the global CBNRM narrative” (with W. Dressler, B. Büscher, M. Schoon, D. Brockington, T. Hayes, C. Kull, and K. Streshta). Environmental Conservation 37(1): 5-15.

2010. “Wise Use Movement.” In Warf, B., ed., Encyclopedia of Geography. Sage.

2009. “Carrying capacity,” “Common pool resources,” “Crisis,” “Limits to growth,” “Marxist geography,” “Social movement,” and “Uneven development.” In Gregory, D., R. Johnston, G. Pratt, M. Watts, and S. Whatmore, eds., The Dictionary of Human Geography (Fifth Edition). Cambridge, MA: Blackwell.

2009. “Commons.” In N. Castree, D. Demeritt, and D. Liverman, eds., Companion to Environmental Geography, Blackwell. 498-514.

2008. “The geographies of Global Shadows.” Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography 29: 262–265.

2008. “The annual meeting of the AAG is out of control.” Environment and Planning A 40: 2544-2548.

2008. “Rural geography: globalizing the countryside.” Progress in Human Geography 32 (1): 129-137.

2007. “States of nature: theorizing the state in environmental governance.” Review of International Political Economy 14 (1): 176-194.

2007. “Introduction: false promises.” With Nik Heynen, Scott Prudham and Paul Robbins. In Neoliberal Environments: False Promises and Unnatural Consequences. N. Heyen, J. McCarthy, P. Robbins, and Prudham, eds., Routledge. 1-22.

2007. “Conclusion: unnatural consequences.” With Nik Heynen, Scott Prudham and Paul Robbins. In Neoliberal Environments: False Promises and Unnatural Consequences. N. Heyen, J. McCarthy, P. Robbins, and Prudham, eds., Routledge. 287-291.

2006. “Territoriality.” In M. Bevir, ed., Encyclopedia of Governance. London: Sage. Vol. II: 958-959.

2006. “Rural geography: Alternative rural economies – the search for alternatives in forests, fisheries, food, and fair trade.” Progress in Human Geography 30 (6): 803-811.

2006. “Neoliberalism and the politics of alternatives: community forestry in British Columbia and the United States.” Annals of the Association of American Geographers 96 (1): 84-104.

2005. “Hurricane Katrina and abandoned being.” Editorial (with Bruce Braun, Department of Geography, University of Minnesota). Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 23: 802-809.

2005. “Multifunctional rural geographies: reactionary or radical?” Progress in Human Geography 29 (6): 773-782.

2005. “Scale, sovereignty, and strategy in environmental governance.” Antipode 37 (4): 731-753.

2005. "Devolution in the woods: Community-based forestry as hybrid neoliberalism." Environment and Planning A 37 (6): 995-1014.

2005. “Commons as counterhegemonic projects.” Capitalism, Nature, Socialism 16 (1): 9-24.

2005. “First World political ecology: directions and challenges.” Environment and Planning A 37 (6): 953-958.

2004. “Race, nation, and nature: the cultural politics of ‘Celtic’ identification in the American West” (with Euan Hague, Department of Geography, DePaul University). Annals of the Association of American Geographers 94 (2): 387-408.

2004. “Privatizing conditions of production: trade agreements and environmental governance.” Geoforum 35 (3): 327-341.

2004. “Neoliberal nature and the nature of neoliberalism.” (with W. Scott Prudham, Department of Geography, University of Toronto). Introduction to special issue on “Neoliberalism and environmental governance. Geoforum 35 (3): 275-283. 2002. “First World political ecology: lessons from the Wise Use movement.” Environment and Planning A 34 (7): 1281-1302.

2001. “States of Nature and Environmental Enclosures in the American West,” In Peluso, N. and M. Watts, eds., Violent Environments. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press.

2000. "Social Movement," In The Dictionary of Human Geography, Johnston, R., Gregory, D. and Smith, D., eds. (Fourth Edition). Cambridge, MA: Blackwell.

1998. “The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: Environmentalism, Wise Use, and the Nature of Accumulation in the Rural West,” In Braun, B. and N. Castree, eds., Remaking Reality: Nature at the Millennium. London: Routledge.

1998. “Nature and Capital in the American West.” (with Julie Guthman) Antipode 30 (2), Spring. Introduction to special issue on the theme of nature and capitalism in the American West.

1997. “Nature as artifice, nature as artefact: development, environment and modernity in the late twentieth century,” (with Michael Watts), In Lee, R. and J. Wills, eds., Geographies of Economies. London: Edward Arnold.

BOOK REVIEWS:

2013. “Cultural politics: competing frames or contested hegemony?” Review of Max Boykoff, Who Speaks for the Climate? Making Sense of Media Reporting on Climate Change. Dialogues in Human Geography 3: 306-308.

2013. Review of Brett Christophers, Banking Across Boundaries: Placing Finance in Capitalism. Geographical Review 103(4): 595-598.

2004. Review of Sam Bass Warner, Jr., Greater Boston: Adapting Regional Trends to the Present, Urban Geography 25 (4): 408-409.

2004. Review of E.P. Weber, Bringing Society Back In: Grassroots Ecosystem Management, Accountability, and Sustainable Communities, Environment and Planning A 35 (12): 2252-2254.

2003. Review of Carolyn L. Deere and Daniel C. Esty, eds., Greening the Americas: NAFTA’s Lessons for Hemispheric Trade. Ethics, Place and Environment 6 (2): 183-186.

2002. Review of Cutler J. Cleveland, David I. Stern, Robert Costanza, eds., The Economics of Nature and the Nature of Economics. Annals of the Association of American Geographers 92 (4): 807-809.

2002. Review of Gibson-Graham, J.K., D. Resnick and R. Wolff, eds., Class and Its Others. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 20 (1): 124-126.

2001. Review of Stephanie Pincetl, Transforming California: A Political History of Land Use and Development. Environment and Planning A 32 (11): 2078-2080.

2000. Review of James O’Connor, Unnatural Causes: Essays in Ecological Marxism. Annals of the Association of American Geographers 90 (2): 427-430.

1993. Review of Martin Lewis, Green Delusions. Economic Geography 69 (4): 425-428.

NON-REFEREED PUBLICATIONS:

2013. Rights to Resilience: Conceptual Framework and Measurement Tools. Report to Oxfam America (with Wendy Wolford, W and Marygold Walsh-Dilley). February 20, 2013.

2012. Energy, Volatility, and Vulnerability: Emerging Geographies of Energy. Report to Oxfam America (with Kelly Kay) on the future of energy and rural development in the context of Oxfam’s strategic planning. September 24, 2012.

2011. Land, Energy, Water: From Scarcity to Security. Report to Oxfam America (with Wendy Wolford) on scarcity and natural resources in the context of Oxfam’s strategic planning. August 8, 2011.

2005. “Community forestry in the United States and Canada.” Penn State Geography newsletter 3 (1) Winter/spring 2005: 14.

2004. “Viewpoint: Community forestry: a few sympathetic, but critical questions.” Article in Community Forests in Review, the bulletin of the Global Caucus on Community Based Forest Management. Fall 2004 issue.

2002. “Community-based forestry in the United States: antecedents and new foundations.” A report to the Ford Foundation, funded by the Ford Foundation Community-Based Forestry Demonstration Project. October, 2002.

2002. “Neoliberalism and environmental governance.” Discussion paper prepared for the symposium of the Worldwide University Network’s Geography Exemplar Group, University of Bristol, U.K., May 19-21.

2001. Proposal and commentary on a proposal-writing website at the Institute for International Studies at the U.C., Berkeley: http://globetrotter.berkeley.edu/DissPropWorkshop/sitemap.html.

1999. “The Political and Moral Economies of Wise Use.” Doctoral dissertation, University of California, Berkeley, Department of Geography.

1994. ‘“Escaping California’: the Uneven Development of New Rural Spaces in Northern Idaho.” Master’s thesis, University of California, Berkeley, Department of Geography.

PRESENTATIONS

INVITED LECTURES AND PRESENTATIONS (*KEYNOTE ADDRESSES):

2015. “The garden vs. the wilderness: American landscapes and environmental politics” Cape Cod Academy, Osterville, MA, May 21.

2015. “Climate, crisis, and value: Can renewable energy provide a socioecological fix to capitalist crisis?” Cornell Institute for the Social Sciences, Cornell University. May 6.

2013, Filmed interview for the University of Arizona’s “Public Political Ecology Lab” website: http://ppel.arizona.edu/?p=1039.

2013, “An environmental and political genealogy of neoliberalism.” Paper presented at the University of Georgia (with Scott Prudham University of Toronto; presented by Scott Prudham). October 18.

2012. Mayer lecture, University of Wisconsin Milwaukee, Department of Geography. Annual named lecture. “Socializing urban environments? The case of Boston’s Big Dig.” September 28.

2012. University Lecture. “The social and environmental geographies of Boston’s ‘Big Dig.’” Clark University. April 6.

2011. Oxfam America, Boston, MA. Presentation on scarcity and natural resources in the context of Oxfam’s strategic planning (with Wendy Wolford). November 30.

2011. Invited panelist for panel on “Climate Change Justice,” as part of Nature-Society Justice Symposium at Penn State University, Sept. 30-Oct. 1, 2011. October 1.

2011. Duke University, Nicholas School of the Environment. Invited guest lecture (videoconferenced) on the political ecology of Marcellus Shale natural gas development, in mixed undergraduate/graduate course (with Eleanor Andrews). September 28.

2011. University of Maryland Baltimore County, Center for Urban Environmental Research and Education. Seminar series. “The social and environmental geographies of Boston’s ‘Big Dig.’” April 29.

2011. Clark University, Department of Geography. Invited lecture. “Ecoterrorism and environmental govenance.” February 24.

2010. Penn State University, Department of Geography. Departmental colloquium. “The social and environmental geographies of Boston’s ‘Big Dig.’” November 19.

2010. Uppsala University, Sweden, Department of Social and Economic Geography. Invited lecture. “The social and environmental geographies of Boston’s ‘Big Dig.’” November 16.

*2010. Wageningen, the Netherlands. “Scale, shale, and governance: perspectives from human geography.” Invited keynote address for conference, “Towards a New Knowledge for Scale Sensitive Governance of Complex Systems." November 10-12.

2010. London, London School of Economics, Department of Geography and Environment, colloquium. “The social and environmental geographies of Boston’s ‘Big Dig.’” November 9.

2010. University of California, Berkeley. “A genealogy of ‘ecoterrorism.’” Departmental colloquium. February 24.

2009. Harvard University, Cambridge, Department of Anthropology, Social Anthropology Colloquium Series. “From treehuggers to terrorists: a genealogy of ‘ecoterrorism.’” Invited lecture. October 26.

2009. Dartmouth College, Hanover, Faculty Workshop on Environment and Development. “From treehuggers to terrorists: a genealogy of ‘ecoterrorism.’” Invited lecture/workshop. October 22.

2009. University of Georgia, Athens, Center for Integrative Conservation Research. “Genealogies of ecoterrorism.” Invited lecture. April 6.

*2009. Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam. “Neoliberal conservation and the work of communities.” Invited keynote address at symposium, “Neoliberal Conservation – Promise or Peril?” organized by the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and the Institute of Social Studies, The Hague. Amsterdam, the Netherlands. January 13

2009. “Genealogies of ecoterrorism.” Institute of Social Studies, The Hague, the Netherlands. January 13.

*2008. University of Alberta, Edmonton. “Political ecology: origins, debates, and new directions.” Invited keynote address for workshop, “The Political Ecology and Governance of Alberta,” organized by the Department of Political Science and Department of Rural Economy, University of Alberta; Department of Geography, University of Calgary; and Department of Sociology, King’s University College, Edmonton. November 21.

2007. Clark University, Worcester, Department of Geography. “Neoliberalism & the politics of alternatives: community forestry in British Columbia and the United States” Invited lecture. March 23.

2007. University of Washington, Seattle, Department of Geography. “Neoliberalism & the politics of alternatives: community forestry in British Columbia and the United States” Departmental colloquium. February 16.

2005. Lincoln University, Christchurch, New Zealand. “Just capitalist environments? Contemporary debates in political ecology.” Invited lecture. July 13.

2005. University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand. “Just capitalist environments? Contemporary debates in political ecology.” Invited lecture. July 11.

2005. University of Arizona, Tucson, Department of Geography and Udall Center for Studies in Public Policy, “Community Forestry in British Columbia and the United States: Explaining Divergence and Learning Lessons.” Invited lecture. May 12.

2004. Worldwide Universities Network videoconferenced graduate seminar (Horizons in Human Geography). “Just capitalist environments? Exploring political ecology.” October 12.

2004. University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, Department of Geography. “Political Ecologies of Neoliberalism.” Departmental colloquium. April 23.

2004. University of California, Santa Cruz, Departments of Environmental Studies, Sociology, and Community Studies. “Primitive Accumulation of Conditions of Production? NAFTA and Multilateral Environmental Governance.” Invited lecture. February 23.

2004. University of California, Berkeley, Department of Geography. “Political Ecologies of Neoliberalism.” Departmental colloquium. February 18.

2003. Cornell University, Rural Livelihoods and Biological Resources Forum. Invited lecture and workshop co-leader on “Neoliberalism and environmental governance.” December 1.

2003. Brown University, Watson Institute for International Studies. Two invited lectures on environmental conflict resolution as part of a mid-career training program for professionals from developing countries, in collaboration with the United Nations Environment Program: “States of Nature: Violence and Environmental Politics” and “Community-based Forestry in the United States.” February 10 & 12.

2002. University of Georgia, Athens, Departments of Geography and Anthropology. “Neoliberalism and the Rescaling of Environmental Governance.” Invited lecture in series on, “Space, Culture, and Social Transformations,” jointly organized by the two departments and funded by the University of Georgia Center for the Humanities. February 22.

2001. Penn State University, University Park, Department of Geography. Scale, Democracy, and Environmental Governance.” Departmental colloquium. November 16.

2001. Penn State University, University Park, North Halls. Invited talk to undergraduate student group on the geopolitics of conflict in Afghanistan. October 21.

2001. Penn State University, University Park, Office of International Programs. Invited talk on historical geographies of U.S. foreign policy as part of an orientation for new foreign postdoctoral fellows. October 18.

2001. Syracuse University, Department of Geography. “Wise Use: A Late Capitalist Moral Economy?” Departmental colloquium. April 8.

2001. University of Washington, Seattle, Departments of Anthropology, History, and Geography. “Wise Use: A Late Capitalist Moral Economy?” Invited lecture in series on, “Rethinking nature and identity in a dematerialized world,” funded by the Taylor Institute for Transnational Studies and jointly organized by the departments of Anthropology and History; this talk co-sponsored by the department of geography. February 8.

2000. Rutgers University, New Brunswick, Department of Geography. “Wise Use: A Late Capitalist Moral Economy?” Departmental colloquium. December 8.

2000. Rutgers University, New Brunswick, Department of Human Ecology. Invited guest lecture on “Human dimensions of natural resource management” in mixed undergraduate/graduate course. December 8.

1999. University of California, Berkeley, Department of Geography. “The Political and Moral Economies of Wise Use.” Departmental colloquium. November.

1999. University of California, Berkeley, Environmental Politics Working Group. “The Political and Moral Economies of Wise Use.” Invited paper. October.

1998. University of California, Berkeley, Environmental Politics Working Group. “Environmental Enclosures and the State of Nature in the American West.” Invited paper presented at conference on violence and the environment. September.

1998. Penn State University, University Park, Department of Geography. “Moral Economy and Regional Transformation.” Invited lecture. November 16.

1998. Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH. “Restructuring, Class, and Culture: The Moral Economy of Wise Use.” Invited lecture. February 11.

INVITED DISCUSSANT:

2017. Invited discussant for organized paper session on, “Legibility Acts and Climate Adaptation,” at 2017 AAG meeting, Boston, MA.

2016. Invited discussant for organized paper session on, “Critical environmental governance IV: negotiations and institutional change,” at 2016 AAG meeting, San Francisco, CA.

2015. Invited discussant for organized paper session on, “Geographies of the Climate Movement,” at 2015 AAG meeting, Chicago, IL.

2014. Invited discussant for organized paper session on, “Lively Commodities,” at 2014 AAG meeting, Tampa, FL.

2013. Invited discussant in plenary session on “Climate Assessment, Climate Justice” at the New England-St. Lawrence Valley Geographical Society (NESTVAL) annual meeting, October 9.

2011. Invited discussant for five organized paper sessions on, “Socio-Cultural Dimensions of Climate Change,” at 2011 AAG meeting, Seattle, WA.

2011. Invited moderator for panel discussion at Marcellus Shale Law and Policy Symposium, Penn State Law School, University Park, PA. February 10.

2010. Invited discussant for organized paper session on, “Climate Adaptation, Landscapes, and Institutions (CALI) IV,” at 2010 AAG meeting, Washington, DC.

2010. Invited discussant for invited lecture by Ronan Uhel, European Environment Agency: “Climate Change, Vulnerability and the Planning of Cities: No Challenges in Europe Stand in Isolation,” at 2010 AAG meeting, Washington, DC.

2006. Invited discussant for organized session on, “Neoliberal Citizenship: Governance, Property and Economically Viable Subjects II” at 2006 AAG meetings, Chicago, IL.

2005. Invited discussant for organized session on, “A Distinctive Shade of Whiteness: Rethinking Race and Class through the Lens of White Poverty” at 2005 American Studies Association annual meeting, Washington, DC, November 3-6.

2003. Invited discussant for organized session on, “Geographies of Development and Neoliberalism in Latin America IV: Social Movements, Transnational Politics, and Identity under Neoliberalism” at 2003 AAG meetings, New Orleans, LA.

2003. Invited discussant for organized session on, “Speaking of/for other natures” at 2003 AAG meetings, New Orleans, LA.

2002. Invited discussant for organized session on, “Urban Political Ecology, Justice and Scale in Advanced Capitalist Countries” at 2002 AAG meetings, Los Angeles, CA.

2002. Discussant for session on, “Neoliberalism and Environmental Reform” at 2002 AAG meetings, Los Angeles, CA.

1999. Invited discussant for "Wildness, Hunting Regulation and Social Difference: From Colonialism to Democracy in Bengal,” a paper presented by Kalayanakrishnan Sivaramakrishnan, Department of Anthropology, University of Washington. Berkeley Workshop on Environmental Politics, UC Berkeley. December.

1998. Invited discussant for paper presented by Wolfgang Sachs, The Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment and Energy, Essen, Germany. Berkeley Workshop on Environmental Politics, UC Berkeley. Spring.

PANELS AND WORKSHOPS:

2017. Invited panelist for author-meets-critics session on Jessica Dempsey’s Enterprising Nature, at 2017 AAG meeting, Boston, MA.

2017. Invited leader for workshop at Penn State University, Department of Geography, Penn State Lab for Analysis of Culture and Environment. August 25-26.

2016. Invited panelist for organized panel, “Roundtable discussion in honor of Michael Watts,” at 2016 AAG meeting, San Francisco, CA.

2016. Invited participant at workshop on “Fossil Fuels and Radical Sovereignties,” UC Berkeley, January 28-29.

2015. Invited workshop on work in progress, “Beyond the subterranean energy regime? Fuel, land use and the production of space (w/ Matt Huber),” at Department of Geography, York University, Toronto, Dec. 4, 2015.

2015. Invited panelist for panel on environmental activism (with elected officials, NGO representatives, and others). Cape Cod Academy, Osterville, MA. May 21.

2015. Faculty discussant, “Lay of the Land: Property, Territory, and Governance,” Contested Global Landscapes Theme Project, Cornell Institute for the Social Sciences, dissertation proposal workshop. May 7.

2015. Co-organizer and presenter, “Climate change and the future of capitalism,” as part of Climate Change Teach-In, March 26, Clark University.

2015. Invited panelist for organized panel on, “The Value of Capitalist Natures: Foundations and Debates,” at 2015 AAG meeting, Chicago, IL.

2014. Invited panelist for organized panel on, “Lively Commodities,” at 2014 AAG meeting, Tampa, FL.

2013. Organizer for workshop on “Nature-Society geography” at Clark University Graduate School of Geography, with participation from the departments of geography at Syracuse University, Rutgers University, and Penn State University. September 27-28, 2013.

2013. Invited panelist for author-meets-critics session on Max Boykoff’s “Who Speaks for the Climate,” at 2013 AAG meeting, Los Angeles, CA.

2012. Oct. 10-12. Co-organizer for workshop on “Environmental governance in and for the twenty-first century: Integrating scales, institutions, and approaches” convened by the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future at Boston University and the Clark University Graduate School of Geography.

2012. Invited panelist for panel on “Climate Change Justice,” as part of Nature-Society Justice Symposium at Penn State University, Sept. 30-Oct. 1, 2011.

2012. Invited panelist for panel on, “Apocalypse, the radical left and the post-political condition,” at 2012 AAG meeting, New York, NY.

2012. Invited panelist for panel on, “Unnatural Neoliberalisms? Debating 'Post-Neoliberalism' and 'Alternatives' to Neoliberal Natures,” at 2012 AAG meeting, New York, NY.

2011. Invited panelist for panel on, “The limits of neoliberal natures: debating research agendas,” at 2011 AAG meeting, Seattle, WA.

2008. Invited panelist for panel on “Ethical Political Ecology” at 2008 AAG meetings, Boston, MA.

2008. Invited panelist for panel on “Radical Geography 40 Years On” at 2008 AAG meetings, Boston, MA.

2008. Invited panelist for “Author Meets the Critics” session on Jake Kosek’s Understories at 2008 AAG meetings, Boston, MA.

2007. Invited panelist for author meets critics sessions on James Ferguson's “Global Shadows: Africa in the Neoliberal World Order'” at 2007 AAG Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA.

2007. Invited panelist for panel on “First World Political Ecology and Environmental History: A Roundtable” at 2007 AAG Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA.

2007. Invited panelist for panel on “The Power of Political Ecology: Developing dialogues between Foucault and Gramsci” at 2007 AAG Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA.

2007. Invited panelist for panel on “Labours of Love III: Men Speak about Gender, Social Reproduction, and the Academy” at 2007 AAG Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA.

2006. Invited panelist for panel on, “Neoliberalism, nature, and governance,” at 2006 AAG Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL.

2006. Invited panelist for “Author Meets the Critics” session on Arun Agrawal’s Environmentality at 2006 AAG meetings, Chicago, IL.

2005. Invited Leader and Participant. Emerging researcher workshop on developing a political ecology research agenda in and for New Zealand. Sponsored by the Building Research Capacity for the Social Sciences initiative. Great Barrier Island, New Zealand.

2005. Invited Presenter and Participant. “Sustainable communities in sustainable environments.” Workshop with Maori communities centered on issues of territorial claims and natural resource co-management. Co-sponsored by the Building Research Capacity for the Social Sciences initiative and Te Runanga o Te Rarawa (a Maori community development organization). Te Rarawa, New Zealand. July.

2005. Invited workshop leader. “The difference different questions make – getting inside political ecology research,” Co-sponsored by the Building Research Capacity for the Social Sciences initiative and the Centre for Cultural Inquiry. University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand. July 14.

2005. Invited panelist for panel on, “Capitalist accumulation by dispossession and the rise of resource populisms,” at 2005 AAG Annual Meeting, Denver, CO

2004. Invited panelist for panel on, “Cultural and Political Ecology at the AAG Century Mark II: Future and Prospects,” at 2004 AAG Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, PA.

2004. Invited panelist for panel on, “Capitalism, Nature, Socialism at 15,” at 2004 AAG Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, PA.

2003. Invited participant in conference on “Political Ecology at Home/Environmental Justice Abroad,” Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, March 29-31, 2003.

2003. Invited panelist for panel on, “Political Ecology in the Regions: North America,” at 2003 AAG Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA.

2002. Participant in economic geography workshop, Worldwide University Network, Geography Exemplar Group. May 19-21, University of Bristol, U.K.

2001. Invited panelist for panel on, “Perspectives on Conflicts in a Changing Rural American West,” at 2001 AAG Annual Meeting, New York, NY.

1999. Invited participant in “Global-Local Links: Research Needs and Opportunities.” Sponsored by the Institute for Policy Research and Evaluation at The Pennsylvania State University, with funding from the Ford Foundation and the National Science Foundation. ” June 4 - 6, Pittsburgh, PA.

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS:

2017. Presentation as part of organized session on “Making the future present: political ecologies of prefiguration,” at 2017 AAG meeting, Boston, MA.

2016. “Municipalities and micropolitics in the Marcellus Shale” (with Eleanor Andrews). Paper presented to invited workshop on “Fossil Fuels and Radical Sovereignties,” UC Berkeley, January 28-29, 2016.

2015. “Climate, Crisis, and Value: Can renewable energy provide a socioecological fix for capital?” Paper presented at 2015 Society for Socialist Studies Conference, Jun 2-5, Ottawa, ON.

2014. “Reviewing rescaling: theorizing and exploring future trajectories.” Paper presented at 2014 AAG meeting, Tampa, FL (co-authored with and presented by Alice Cohen).

2014. “Micropolitics in the Marcellus Shale.” Paper presented at 2014 AAG meeting, Tampa, FL (co-authored with and presented by Eleanor Andrews).

2014. “A political ecology of resilience? Stories from participatory community evaluations.” Paper presented at 2014 AAG meeting, Tampa, FL (co-authored with Marygold Walsh-Dilley and Wendy Wolford; presented by Marygold Walsh-Dilley).

2013. “A socio-ecological fix to climate change and the end of fossil fuels?” Paper presented at 2013 AAG meeting, Los Angeles, CA.

2013. “Environmental governance in and for the twenty-first century: Integrating scales, institutions, and approaches.” Paper presented at Earth System Governance Tokyo Conference, January 29, Tokyo, Japan (with Anne Short, Boston University, and Henrik Selin, Boston University; presented by Anne Short).

2011. “Scale, shale, and governance: legal geographies of Marcellus Shale commodification.” Paper presented in organized session on “Geographies of Law and Environmental Regulation” at 2011 AAG Annual Meeting, Seattle, WA (with Eleanor Andrews).

2010. “The privatization of terrorism? ‘Ecoterrorism’ in the neoliberal era.” Paper presented in organized session on “Beyond neoliberal nature: multiple natures and a (post?)neoliberal world” at 2010 AAG annual meeting, Washington, DC.

2010. “An environmental and political genealogy of neoliberalism.” Paper presented at conference, “A Brief Environmental History of Neoliberalism,” Lund, Sweden, May 6-8 (with Scott Prudham; presented by Scott Prudham).

2009. “Neoliberal urban materialities: property, planning, and, politics.” Paper presented in organized session on “Space as Tactic: Neoliberal Governance, Space & Ethnographies of the Everyday” at 2009 AAG Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, NV (with Kate Driscoll Derickson).

2008. “The social and environmental geographies of Boston’s ‘Big Dig’.” Paper presented in organized session on “Neoliberal urban-environmental reconfigurations” at 2008 AAG Annual Meeting, Boston, MA.

2007. “Neoliberalism and multifunctionality: necessary or contingent articulations? Invited lecture presented at RGS-IBG annual conference, August 28-31, London.

2006. “Cracks in the levee: Katrina, environmental politics, and neoliberal hegemony.” Paper presented in organized session on “Neoliberal citizenship: governance, property, and economically viable subjects” at 2006 AAG Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL.

2005. “Scale, strategy, and sovereignty: globalisation and counterglobalisation in environmental governance.” Paper presented in organized session on “Politics of Globalisation and Counterglobalisation” at RGS-IBG annual conference, August 31-September 2, London.

2005. “Commons as counterhegemonic projects.” Paper presented in organized session on “Privatization” at 2005 AAG Annual Meeting, Denver, CO.

2004. “Working landscapes: Operationalizing post-dualist ontologies, or kicking nature off of welfare rolls?” Paper presented in organized session on “Science and environmental governance” at 2004 AAG Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, PA.

2003. "Community-based Forestry as Exotic Policy." Paper prepared and presented for conference, “Political Ecology at Home/Environmental Justice Abroad,” Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, March 29-31, 2003.

2003. "Devolution in the woods: Community-based forestry as neoliberal project." Paper presented in organized session on “Burning Needs: Purity, Efficiency, and Livelihoods in American Forest Politics” at 2003 AAG Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA.

2002. “Neoliberalism and the Rescaling of Environmental Governance,”. Paper presented in organized session on “Political Ecology Looks North: The Politics of Place, Production and Environmental Regulation in the U.S.” at 2002 AAG Annual Meeting, Los Angeles, CA.

2001. “Territorialized Identities, Nature, and Globalization.” Paper presented in organized session on “Beyond the social construction of nature: re-thinking political economy and the environment,” at 2001 AAG Annual Meeting, New York, NY.

2000. “Class, Culture, and Claims to the Commons: Adapting a Political Ecology Framework to Environmental Politics in the United States.” Paper presented in organized session on “Ecologies of Culture and Power: North-South Continuities in Political Ecology” at 2000 AAG Annual Meeting, Pittsburgh, PA.

1999. “Environmental Enclosures and the State of Nature in the American West.” Paper presented in organized session on ‘Violence and the Environment’ at 2001 AAG Annual Meeting, Honolulu, HI.

1999. ‘Economy, Culture, and Rural Social Movements.’ Invited paper presented to Conference on the Adirondacks and the Lake Champlain Basin, as part of a panel on “Rural Regions, Identity, and Politics,” Saranac Lake, NY. May 27.

1998. “The Wise Use Movement and Community Level Conservation and Conflict.” Paper presented in organized session on ‘Political Ecology in the American West’ at 1998 AAG Annual Meeting, Boston, MA.

1996. “Contemporary Rural Restructuring and the Wise Use Movement.” Paper presented in organized session on ‘Contemporary Rural Restructuring in the United States’ at 1996 AAG Annual Meeting, Charlotte, NC.

1995. “Escaping California: Uneven Development in the Post-Productivist Rural West.” Invited paper presented in organized session on ‘Nature at the Millennium’ at 1995 AAG Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL.

CONFERENCE SESSIONS ORGANIZED AND CHAIRED:

2015. Organizer and discussant for sessions on “Critical reflection on the past, present and future of political ecology: the Routledge Handbook of Political Ecology” at 2015 AAG meeting, Chicago, IL (with Gavin Bridge, Durham, and Tom Perreault, Syracuse).

2014. Organizer and chair for two sessions on “Resuscitating ‘resilience’” at 2014 AAG meeting, Tampa, FL (with Karen Bakker, UBC).

2014. Organizer for session on “Rescaled environmental governance: beyond centralization and decentralization” at 2014 AAG meeting, Tampa, FL (with Alice Cohen, Acadia).

2013. Co-organizer for Invited Experts’ Meeting on Resilience convened by Oxfam America, Washington DC. March 8.

2012. Co-organizer for workshop on “Environmental governance in and for the twenty-first century: Integrating scales, institutions, and approaches” convened by the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future at Boston University and the Clark University Graduate School of Geography. Oct. 10-12.

2012. Organizer and chair for organized panel session on, “Radical Environments: Dick Walker's Influence in Human Geography,” at 2012 AAG meeting, New York, NY.

2012. Organizer and chair for organized panel session on, “Placing Capitalism in Economic Geography: Dick Walker's Influence on Industrial and Regional Research,” at 2012 AAG meeting, New York, NY.

2010. Chair for organized paper session on, “Climate Adaptation, Landscapes, and Institutions (CALI) IV,” at 2010 AAG meeting, Washington, DC.

2008. Co-organizer for three sessions on “Neoliberal urban-environmental reconfigurations” (with Kevin Ramsey, University of Washington) at 2008 AAG Annual Meeting, Boston, MA.

2006. Co-organizer for panel on “Neoliberalism, nature, and governance” (with Scott Prudham, University of Toronto) at 2006 AAG Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL.

2004. Co-organizer for three sessions on “Science and environmental governance” (with Scott Kirsch, UNC, and David Demeritt, Kings College London) at 2004 AAG Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, PA.

2003. Organizer and chair for session on “Burning Needs: Purity, Efficiency, and Livelihoods in American Forest Politics” at 2003 AAG Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA.

2002. Co-organizer and chair for two sessions on “Neoliberalism and environmental reform” (with W. Scott Prudham, University of Toronto) at 2002 AAG Annual Meeting, Los Angeles, CA. Jim Glassman, University of British Columbia, and James McCarthy, discussants.

2001. Chaired session on, “Social Movements and Protest in Natural Resource Conflicts,” organized by Christian Kull, McGill University.

1999. Organizer and chair for session on “Violence and the Environment” at 1999 AAG Annual Meeting, Honolulu, HI.

1998. Organizer and chair for session on “Political Ecology in the American West” at 1998 AAG Annual Meeting, Boston, MA. Nancy Peluso, discussant.

1996. Co-organizer (with William Boyd and W. Scott Prudham) and chair for session on “Contemporary Rural Restructuring and the Wise Use Movement” at 1996 AAG Annual Meeting, Charlotte, NC. Richard Walker, discussant.

MEDIA

• Interviewed by and quoted in the New York Times, January 10, 2015, Sunday Review, p. 3, “The Ideological Roots of the Oregon Standofff. http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/10/opinion/sunday/the-ideological-roots-of-the-oregon-standoff.html?ribbon-ad-idx=12&rref=opinion&module=Ribbon&version=origin&region=Header&action=click&contentCollection=Opinion&pgtype=article&_r=0.

• Interviewed by and quoted in in The Hill January 6, 2015 (http://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/264717-gop-candidates-condemn-bundy-takeover).

• Quoted in Vox. http://www.vox.com/2016/1/5/10718128/federal-land-west-oregon-militia. January 5, 2016.

• Expert panelist on ‘Green Cities.’: https://wallethub.com/edu/most-least-green-cities/16246/#james-mccarthy. October 15, 2015.

• Interviewed by and quoted in The Hill, Congressional newspaper, April 2, 2015; picked up by MSN News. http://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/237632-ted-cruz-aims-to-win-the-west

• Panelist on television news program Inside Story, hosted by Ray Suarez, on Al Jazeera America, April 22, 2014. http://america.aljazeera.com/watch/shows/inside-story/articles/2014/4/22/nevada-rancher-vthefederalgovernmentwhosintheright.html.

• Interviewed by and quoted in vox.com, online newspaper, April 16, 2014. http://www.vox.com/cards/nevada-rancher-cliven-bundy-explained/why-does-the-federal-government-own-so-much-western-land

• Interviewed by and quoted in The Hill, Congressional newspaper, April 15, 2014. http://thehill.com/blogs/e2-wire/e2-wire/203525-feds-play-waiting-game-after-nevada-ranch-standoff-ends

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Clark University, Graduate School of Geography, 2011-present:

Lower division courses: GEOG 017: Culture, Place Environment GEOG 075 First Year Intensive: Americans and the Environment (course developer)

Upper division courses: GEOG 220: Property and the Global Environment (course developer) GEOG 225: Environmental Politics (course developer)

Graduate seminars and independent studies: Special Topics: Social Theory and the Environment Capitalist Natures Life, Nature, Accumulation

Guest lectures: Geography 136: Gender and Environment

The Pennsylvania State University, Department of Geography, 2000-2011:

Lower division courses: GEOG 20: Introduction to Human Geography GEOG 130: Nature, Justice, and Power (course developer)

Upper division courses: GEOG 434: Politics of the Environment (course developer) GEOG 439: Property and the Global Environment (course developer)

Graduate courses: GEOG 500: Introduction to Geographic Research

Graduate seminars and independent studies: Topics in Nature-Society Geography Introduction to Political Economy Contested Conservation: Nature, Governance, and Territoriality in the Modern Era Geography and Public Intellectuals Neoliberal Urban Environments Environmental Governance Readings in Political Ecology

Independent studies on topics of: political ecology, environmental social movements, ideas of progress.

Participating faculty member in dual-degree Ph.D. program in Human Dimensions of Natural Resources and the Environment (HDNRE)

Affiliated faculty member in Social Thought Program

Guest lectures: Community Environment and Development 309 (Land Use Dynamics), Earth and Mineral Sciences

297U (Resource Wars), Geography 40 (World Regional Geography), Geography 20 (Introduction to Human Geography, other instructors’), Geography 497C (Qualitative methods), Political Science 297B (The Politics of Nature in Comparative Perspective); Worldwide Universities Network videoconferenced graduate seminar (Horizons in Human Geography)

The University of California, Berkeley, Department of Geography, 1993-1999:

Course instructor positions: The Political Economy of U.S. Environmental Politics

Teaching assistant positions:

The Southern Border The Economy and Culture of the Western City The Ocean World

Course reader positions: The Economic Geography of the Industrial World The Economy and Culture of the Western City Globalization

Guest lectures: Globalization

GRANTS, FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS

Clark University Senior Faculty Fellowship, 2016-2017, for “excellence in teaching, excellence in scholarship, and deep and sustained engagement with the Clark community.” $5,000.

National Science Foundation, Geography and Regional Science Program, Doctoral Dissertation Research Grant, 2015. “Doctoral Dissertation Research: Land Trusts, Conservation Easements, and the Growth of Private Land Protection in the United States.” With Kelly Kay. $15,446.

National Science Foundation, Geography and Regional Science Program, Doctoral Dissertation Research Grant, 2014. “Doctoral Dissertation Research: The Effect of Novel Weather Insurance on Livelihood Practices.” With Christopher Knudson. $15,998.

National Science Foundation, Geography and Regional Science Program, Doctoral Dissertation Research Grant, 2011. “Doctoral Dissertation Research: Natural Resource Management in Bhutan: From Traditional Ecological Knowledge to Gross National Happiness.” With Matthew Branch. $8,770.

National Science Foundation, Geography and Regional Science Program, Doctoral Dissertation Research Grant, 2009. “Promoting Sustainable Communities: Community Forestry as a Conduit of Change.” With Shaunna Barnhart. $11,766.

Ashby Prize, 2005, for Devolution in the woods: Community-based forestry as hybrid neoliberalism." Environment and Planning A 37 (6): 995-1014. Canadian Studies Grant, “Learning from British Columbia’s Community Forestry Pilot Projects.” $8,500. 2004. University of California Chancellor’s Dissertation-Year Fellowship, 1997-1998. University of California Regents Fellowship, 1997-1998. University of California Vice Chancellor’s for Research Dissertation Grant, 1997 University of California Social Science Research Grant, Spring, 1997. University of California Regents Fellowship, 1996-1997. University of California curriculum development grant, Fall 1995. Developed two permanent graduate seminars on human-environment relations for the department. University of California Regents-Intern Fellowship, 1992-1994.

PROFESSIONAL SERVICE

Editor, Nature-Society, Annals of the American Association of Geographers, January 2016 – December 2019.

Editorial board, Annals of the American Association of Geographers, January 2008 – present. International editorial advisory board, Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society, January 2008 – present.

Editorial advisory board, Geographies of Justice and Social Transformation Series, University of Georgia Press, 2013 – present.

Editorial board, Environment & Planning A, January 2007 – December 2012.

Invited article and book manuscript reviews for: Annals of the Association of American Geographers, Antipode, Economic Geography, Ecumene/cultural geographies, Environment & Planning A, Environment & Planning C, Environment & Planning D, Environmental Management, Human Geography, Gender, Place & Culture, Geoforum, The Geographical Journal, Geography Compass, International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, Progress in Human Geography, Journal of Political Ecology, Journal of Rural Studies, Local Environment, Political Geography, Rural Sociology, Social and Cultural Geography, Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, Blackwell, Routledge, University of Chicago Press, University of Georgia Press, University of Minnesota Press, University of North Carolina Press, Temple University Press, Prentice Hall.

External reviewer for twenty-one promotion and tenure cases at national and international peer institutions (thirteen assistant to associate; eight associate/reader to full/chair).

NSF review panel member for IGERT preliminary proposals.

NSF proposal reviewer for Geography and Regional Science (multiple).

NSF CAREER grant reviewer (3).

External reviewer for two geography departments (UC Berkeley and Kent State) and one geography graduate program (UC Davis).

Reviewer for Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada grants.

Reviewer for Leverhulme Trust grant.

Referee for reappointment of Canada Research Chair.

External examiner for doctoral defense at York University, Toronto.

External examiner for doctoral defense at Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

External reviewer for two doctoral dissertations at the University of Queensland, Australia.

External reviewer for doctoral dissertation at University of Sydney, Australia.

External reviewer for doctoral dissertation at Charles Sturt University, Australia.

Judge, Sustainability Competition, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, April, 2015.

Listserv administrator for the Cultural and Political Ecology (CAPE) specialty group of the AAG (2004-2011).

Eastern Regional Councilor for Cultural and Political Ecology Specialty Group of the AAG (2004-2006).

Guest editor for special issue of Environment and Planning A 37 (6) on, “First world political ecology.”

Guest editor for special issue of Geoforum 35 (3), 2004 on “Neoliberalism and environmental governance” (with Scott Prudham).

Guest editor for special issue of Antipode 30 (2), 1998, on, “Nature and capitalism in the American West” (with Julie Guthman).

Director, Global Environmental Studies major, Clark University, 2015-2016 academic year.

Member, Committee on Personnel, Clark University 2015 - 2018 (university P&T committee)

Member, Graduate Admissions Committee, Clark University Graduate School of Geography, 2015-2016.

Member, Undergraduate Studies Committee, Clark University Graduate School of Geography, 2015-2016.

Faculty mentor for NOAA fellow, summer, 2015.

Chair, Atwood Committee/colloquium committee, Clark University Graduate School of Geography, 2012-2014.

Member, Atwood Committee, Clark University Graduate School of Geography, 2011-2014.

Coordinator, departmental review of Director for review and reappointment, 2014.

Chair, nature-society strategic planning group, Clark University Graduate School of Geography, 2011-2012.

Member and College representative, Graduate Council, Pennsylvania State University, 2009-2011.

Member, Graduate Council Committee on Graduate Student and Faculty Issues, Pennsylvania State University, 2009-2011.

Member and College representative, Penn State Institutes of Energy and the Environment, Advisory Committee on the Environmental Inquiry minor, 2009-2010.

Member and geography representative, College Faculty Advisory Committee (advisory committee to dean), Penn State University, College of Earth and Mineral Sciences, 2007-2010.

Member and Graduate Council representative, EMS College Council, Penn State University, College of Earth and Mineral Sciences, 2009-20011.

Member, College of Earth & Mineral Sciences Environment Committee, 2000-2004.

Member, search committee for new Dean of Social Sciences at U.C. Berkeley, 1999.

Chair, Promotion Committee for case for promotion to full professor, 2014-2015.

Member, departmental Promotion & Tenure Committee, 2010-2011.

Co-chair, search committee for energy policy geography faculty member, Department of Geography, 2010-2011.

Chair, search committee for environmental justice faculty member, Department of Geography, 2008.

Chair, member and human geography representative, Department Faculty Advisory Committee (advisory committee to department head), Penn State University, Depausrtment of Geography, (Chair 2010-2011, member 2009-2010, 2005-2006).

Ombudsperson for faculty-graduate student issues, 2010-2011.

Faculty adviser for organization, Graduate Students in the Department of Geography, Penn State, 2010-2011.

Chair, Environmental Justice working group, Department of Geography, Fall 2007.

Member, Graduate Program Committee, Department of Geography, 2009-2010.

Member, Curriculum Committee, Department of Geography, 2009-2010.

Member, department head search committee for Penn State University, Department of Geography, 2005-2006.

Member, departmental awards committee for Penn State University, Department of Geography, 2005-2006.

Chair, Miller Lecture committee, Department of Geography, Penn State University, 2004-2005 and 2006-2007 academic years.

Coordinator, departmental colloquium, Department of Geography, Penn State University. Fall 2002; co-coordinator, 2006-2007.

Chair, E. Willard Miller Award in Geography committees, Ph.D., M.S., and B.S. levels, Penn State University, 2004.

Member, faculty search committee for nature & society position, Penn State University, Department of Geography, 2001-2002.

Member, graduate admissions committee, Penn State University Department of Geography, 2000-2001.

Member, E. Willard Miller Award in Geography committee, Ph.D. level, Penn State University, 2001.

Editorial and administrative work on Antipode, as assistant to Richard Walker, editor, 1994-1996.

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

Member of Association of American Geographers since 1993.

Participating faculty member in the dual-title Ph.D. program in Human Dimensions of Natural Resources and the Environment (HDNRE) at Penn State University (through 2011).

Affiliated faculty member in Social Thought Program at Penn State University (http://www.sociology.psu.edu/stp/welcome.htm) (through 2011).

GRADUATE STUDENT ADVISING AND COMMITTEES

Ph.D. level (year graduated; current position) [year projected to graduate]: Advisor: Clark Dylan Harris [2019] Wenjing Jiang [2018] Chris Knudson (2016; Postdoctoral fellow, Institute of the Environment, University of Arizona) Kelly Kay (2016; Assistant Professor, TT, UCLA; previously Assistant Professor, TT, London

School of Economics) Katherine Foo (co-chair w/ Tony Bebbington) (2015; Postdoctoral scholar, Penn State University) Alex Moulton [2019] James Thatcher (2014; Assistant professor, TT, University of Washington, Tacoma) Penn State Shaunna Barnhart (2012; Director, Place Studies Program, Bucknell Center for Sustainability & the Environment) Kate Driscoll-Derickson (2011; Assistant professor, TT, University of Minnesota) Jessica Hayes-Conroy (2009; Assistant professor, TT, Hobart and William Smith Colleges) Kolson Schlosser (2007; Visiting assistant professor, Temple University) Michael Rios (2006; Associate professor, TT, University of California, Davis) Reuben Rose-Redwood (2006; Associate professor, TT, University of Victoria) Committee member, geography: Clark Yifan Cai Alida Cantor (2016) Juan Luis Dammert (2017) Janae Davis Leslie Gross-Wrytzen Catherine Jampel Miles Kenny-Lazar (2016) Kathryn-Louise Meng (2016) Khury Petersen-Smith (2016) Kevin Surprise (2016) Michelle Wenderlich (2015-2016 only) Penn State Martha Bell (2013) Netra Chhetri (2005) Jeffrey Sasha Davis (2003) Jeremy Fisher (2012) Alistair Geddes (2006) Todd Heibel (2005) Matt Huber (2009) (Clark University Department of Geography) Steve Lachman (2003) Vanessa Massaro Melissa Rock (2012) Anu Sabhlok (2007) Steve Smith (2004) Amy Trauger (2005) Lawrence Wood (2006) Committee member, other departments and universities: J. Dara Bloom (Rural Sociology) (2013) Amy Chadwick (Communications)

Marianne Cotugno (English) (2002) Adam Dorr [2017] (Luskin School of Public Affairs, UCLA) Gyan Nyaupane (Leisure Studies) (2006) Martin Lenihan (Rural Sociology) (2006) Bingchun Meng (Mass Communications) (2007)

Djung Tchoi (Mass Communications) Yi-Fan Tung (Leisure Studies)

Elisabeth Vose (History) Ceit Wilson [2016] (Centre for Social Responsibility in Mining, Sustainable Minerals Institute, The University of Queensland, Australia)

M.S. level (year graduated; current position): Advisor: Eleanor Andrews (2012; PhD candidate in Development Sociology, Cornell University) Jason Beery (2007; PhD University of Manchester; Instructor, University of Pittsburgh) Hans Meyer (2005; PhD Cornell; Research Fellow, Brigham & Women’s Hospital) Nicola Horne Anwoju (2004; PhD candidate in Geography, University College London) Kolson Schlosser (2003; PhD 2007; Visiting assistant professor, Temple University) Committee member, geography: Phil Bansal Maureen Biermann (2009) Jamil Bey Rafael Diaz-Torres (2007) Darrell Fuhriman (2008) Amy Heasley (2004) Allyson Jacobs (2006) Nicole Laliberte (2008) Kelly Prince (2002) Jairrus Rossi (2007) Steve LeDuc (2002)

Member of Ph.D. doctoral exam committee: Clark Alida Cantor Juan Luis Dammert Katherine Foo Catherine Jampel Kelly Kay Miles Kenney-Lazar Chris Knudson Kathryn-Louise Meng Khury Petersen-Smith Kevin Surprise

Penn State Nathan Amador

Max Andrucki Shaunna Barnhart Nnyaladzi Batisani Ryan Baxter Beth Bee Gina Bloodworth J. Dara Bloom (Rural Sociology) Matt Branch Amy Chadwick (Communications) Netra Chhetri Sasha Davis Alistair Geddes Jessica Hayes-Conroy Steve Lachman Martin Lenihan (Rural Sociology) Rui Li Wei Luo Vanessa Massaro Ruth Mendum (Rural Sociology) Michael Rios Kolson Schlosser Jamie Shinn Laura Spess Jim Thatcher Sen Xu

UNDERGRADUATE STUDENT ADVISING AND COMMITTEES Advisor for 10-20 undergraduates per year, 2011-present; advisor for 5-15 undergraduate majors per year, 2000-2011 NOOA mentor for Daniela Reyes Saade, summer (2015) Honors thesis advisor, Kaitlyn Smith (2015) Senior thesis advisor, Kayla Patel (2014) LEEP mentor for Steve Carey, summer (2013) Senior thesis advisor, Sara Rothrock (2007)

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