DAVID WILSON, Ph. D.

Professor of Geography

Professor Urban Planning Professor of Criticism and Interpretive Theory

School of Liberal Arts and Sciences

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 607 South Mathews Avenue

Urbana, Illinois 61801 Phone: (217) 333-0877

Home Address: 201 East Willard Street

Urbana, Illinois 61801

Phone: (217) 344-8304

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Political Economy of Global North and Global West Cities Urban Politics and Urban Political Processes

Racialization and the City Social Theory and the Built Environment

Qualitative Methods

EDUCATION

Ph.D. 1985, Rutgers University, Department of Geography. Dissertation title: "Institutions and Urban Revitalization:

the Case of Manhattan in New York City."

M.A. 1983, Temple University, Department of Geography. Thesis title: "The Spatial Character of Housing Abandonment:

A Case Study of Allegheny West in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania."

B.A. 1978, State University of New York at Albany, Department of Geography.

PROFESSIONAL BACKGROUND

Professor of Geography, University of Illinois 2006

Associate Professor, University of Illinois, 1993

Assistant Professor, University of Illinois, 1990.

Member of the Graduate Faculty, University of Illinois, 1990.

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Assistant Professor of Geography, Indiana University, Indianapolis, 1984-1989.

Member of the Graduate Faculty, Indiana University, 1989.

Acting Director, Center for American Studies, Indiana University, Indianapolis, Fall 1989.

Junior Director, Indiana Academy of the Social Sciences, 1989.

Assistant Professor, Department of Urban Studies, Indiana University, Indianapolis, 1984-1989.

Research Assistant, Department of Human Ecology, Rutgers University, Fall 1983. Project

examined the magnitude and risk of exposure of urban fishermen to toxins in New York Harbor (funded by the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection).

Adjunct Instructor, Department of Geography, Rutgers University, Spring 1983. Taught Geography 200 "Maps and Map Reading."

Research Assistant, Department of Environmental Resources, Rutgers University, Fall 1982.

Teaching Assistant, Department of Environmental Resources, Rutgers University, 1981_1982. Environmental Resources 102 "Fundamentals of Environmental Planning."

Research Assistant, Department of Environmental Resources, Rutgers University, 1980-1981.

Adjunct Instructor, Department of Social Sciences, Rockland Community College, Suffern, New

York. Fall 1980. Taught Geography 230 "Introduction to Urban Geography."

AWARDS LAST SIX YEARS

Appointed Distinguished Lecturer, Summer, University of Shanghai, China, Summer 2012 Appointed to the 2011 Chancellor Dunning Trust Lectureship, Queens University, Kingston Ontario 2011-2012. Appointed the Endowed Sage Professor of Urban Civility, University of Glasgow, Scotland, 2009.

AUTHORED BOOKS AND EDITED JOURNAL VOLUMES

Wilson, D., 2015. America’s New Redevelopment Machine, book manuscript submitted for publication consideration, forthcoming.

Wilson, D., Miraftab, F., and K. Salo, 2015. Urban Inequalities Across the Globe

(London: Routledge).

Wilson, D., 2015. Sustainability and Its Discontents (Champaign: Common Ground).

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Wilson, D., 2012. Invited Guest Editor, “Racialization and the U.S. City,” Urban

Geography, 33, Spring.

Wilson, D., 2009. Invited Guest Editor, “Racialized Poverty in U.S. Cities,”

Professional Geographer, 61, Spring.

Wilson, D., 2007. Cities and Race: the New American Black Ghetto (London:

Routledge).

Wilson, D., 2005. Inventing Black-On-Black Violence: Discourse, Space Representation (Syracuse: Syracuse University).

Wilson, D., and H. Bauder, 2001. Invited Guest Editor of special

issue, Tidschrift Vor Economisch En Sociale Geografie, “Discourse

and the Making of Marginalized People.”

Jonas, A. and D. Wilson, 1999. Two Decades Later: Critical Perspectives On The Growth Machine Thesis (Albany: SUNY)

Edited collection.

Wilson, D., 1997. "Globalization and the Changing United

States City." Invited Guest Editor for The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, Volume

51, May, 257 pgs.

Wilson, D. and Huff, J., 1994. Marginalized Places and Populations:

A Structurationist Agenda (Westport: Praeger) edited collection.

Jakle, J. and D. Wilson, 1992. Derelict Landscapes: the Wasting of America's Built Environment (Lanham, Md: Rowman and Littlefield).

REFEREED ARTICLES AND BOOK CHAPTERS

Wilson, D, 2016. “The Fear Economy Strikes: Living In a World of Neoliberal Inspired Terrors,” Proceedings of the Bavarian Social Sciences, 24, 1, forthcoming.

Wilson, D., 2015. “Urban Ghettoization and Marginalization: the Recent

U.S. Experience.” In Gamerith, Werner and Ulrike Gerhard (eds.) Kulturgeographie der USA (New York: Springer Verlag) in press.

Wilson, D., 2015. “America’s New Fear Governance,” In M. Jayne and

K. Ward (ed.) Urban Theory: New Critical Perspectives (London: Routledge) 52-69.

Wilson, D., 2015. “City Redevelopment, Black Exclusion, and America’s New

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Fear Governance.” In Robert M. Adelman and Christopher Mele (eds.)

Race, Space, and Exclusion: Segregation and Beyond in Metropoitan America

(New York: Routledge) 90-109.

Wilson, D., 2015. “Sustainability and Its Discontents.” In D. Wilson (ed.) A

Critical Appraisal of the Sustainability Concept (Urbana: Common Ground)

forthcoming.

Wilson, D., and R. Keil, 2014. “A Valodi Kreativ Osztaly.” In Kritikai Varosutatas

(Budapest: L’Harmattan) J. Csaba et. al (eds.) 332 -335 (“The Real Creative Class” reprinted in Hungarian).

Wilson, D., 2014. “Merrifield and the City: Praxis and Policy,” Dialogues in

Human Geography, 3, 24-28.

Wilson, David, 2014, “The Legacy of Logical Positivism in Critical Urban Studies: The Agenda,” Urban Geography. 7-9.

Wilson, D., 2014. “The Global Trope and Urban Redevelopment: the American Experience,” Geographica Helvetica,69, 2, 79-89.

Wilson, David and Matthew Anderson, 2013. “America’s New Post Post-

Industrial Economy.” In Lisa Benton-Short (ed.) Cities North America (Totowa: Rowman & Littlefield).

Wilson, David, 2012, ”Updating the Global-Local Concept: A Review of Peck

and Tickell, Area, 34, 71-83.

Wilson, David, Cope, William, and Michael A. Peters, 2012. “The Parable

of the Physicist and the Postmodernists,” Policy Futures in Education, 10, 2, 229-233.

Wilson, David, 2012, “Gentrification Across the Globe: Seven Speculations,”

China Ancient City, 8, 32-45.

Wilson, David, 2012, “Changing Realities: the New Racialized Redevelopment Rhetoric in Chicago,” Urban Geography, 33, 7, 979-999.

Wilson, David, 2012. “Introduction: Racialization and the U.S. City,” Urban

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Geography, 33, 7, 940-941.

Wilson, David, 2012. “Racialized Spaces, Blues Clubs, and Human Mediation.” In Francis

Winddance Twine and Bradley Gardner (eds.) Geographies of Privilege (London: Routledge) 71-95.

Wilson, David and Matthew Anderson, 2011. “Obama’s Discourse on

Poverty.” In Marcus Corsse and Tia Dafnos (eds.) Discourses of Marginality: Marginalizing Discourses (Boston: Red Quall).

Wilson, David, 2010. “Performative Neoliberal-Parasitic Economies and

the Making of Political Realities: the Chicago Case,” International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, in press.

Bauder, Harald, Wilson, David, et. al., 2010. “Contemporary Grant Dynamics:

An Intervention, Acme: International Journal for Critical Geography, 9. 1, 102-112.

Wilson, D., 2009. “The Contemporary Ghetto.” In Barney Warf (ed.) Encyclopedia of Geography (Newbury Park: Sage), forthcoming.

Keil, R. and D. Wilson, 2009. “Mr. O. Goes To Town: the First Urban

American President? Canada Watch, October, 9-23.

Wilson, D., 2009. Racialized Poverty in United States Cities: Toward A Refined Racial Economy Perspective, Professional Geographer, 61, 2, 139-

150. Special Issue: Racialized Poverty in U.S. Cities.

Wilson, D., Beck, D., and A. Bailey, 2009. “Neoliberal-Parasitic

Economies and Space Building: Chicago’s Southwest Side,” Annals of

The Association of American Geographers, 99, 2, 301-324.

Wilson, D., 2009. “Globalization, the Global Trope, and Poor Black

Communities: The American Experience,” Global E-Journal, 2, May,

22-26.

Wilson, D., 2009. “The Urban Underclass.” In Barney Warf (ed.)

Encyclopedia of Geography (Newbury Park: Sage), 99-102.

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Wilson, D., 2008. “America’s New Black Ghetto.” In The Social

Issues Collection (London: Routledge) David S. Smith (ed.).

Wilson, D. and R. Keil, 2008. “The Real Creative Class: True Realities, Real Times,” Social and Cultural Geography, 8, 841-

849.

Wilson, D., 2008. “City Transformation and the Global Trope: Indianapolis and Cleveland.” In Cultures of Globalization:

Coherence, Hybridity, Contestation (London: Routledge) 29-44.

Wilson, D., 2008. “Neoliberal Redevelopment in Western Cities: Neglected Underpinnings,” Urban Geography, 29, 193-196.

Wilson, D., 2008. “Text: Textual Analysis.” International

Encyclopedia of Human Geography (Oxford: Elsevier) Rob Kitchen And Nigel Thrift (eds.), forthcoming.

Wilson, D., 2007. “A Flawed Reading: Notes On Inventing Black-On- Black Violence,” Social and Cultural Geography, 7, 802-808.

Wilson, D., 2007. “The New Segregation in U.S. and U.K. Cities.” In

J.R. Short, P. Hubbard, and T. Hall (eds.) The Compendium of Urban Studies (Newbury Park: Sage).

Wilson, D., 2007. “The Life of David Harvey.” In R. Beauregard (ed.)

The Encyclopedia of Urban Studies (Newbury Park: Sage).

Wilson, D., 2007. “The Global Trope: Rust Belt Cities in America,”

Globalizations, 5, 28-49.

Wilson, D., 2006. “Fractures and Cleavages: The Growing Polarization in Chicago.” In R. Greene, M. Baumann, and D. Grammenos (eds.)

Geography’s Chicago Understanding the Chicago Region (Washington D.C:

Association of American Geographers).

Rhoads, B. and D. Wilson, 2006. “Observation of Our World.” In

J.P. Jones and Basel Gomez (eds.) Interrogating Contemporary

Research Methods (Oxford: Blackwell) 26-41.

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Wilson, D., 2005. “The Counter-Narrative Begins: Confronting Capital

And the Ideas of James DeFilippis,” Urban Geography, 27, 3, 111-114.

Wilson, D. and D. Grammenos, 2005. “Gentrification, Political Struggle,

And the Body: Chicago’s Humboldt Park,” Environment and Planning D:

Society and Space, 23, 1, 295-312.

Wilson, D., 2004. “Making Historic Preservation in Chicago: Space,

Discourse, and Neoliberalism,” Space and Polity, 8, 1, 43-59.

Wilson, D., 2004. “Toward A Contingent Urban Neoliberalism,” Urban Geography, 25, 8, 771-783. Special Issue: New Developments in Anglo

Urban Geography.

Wilson, D., Grammenos, D. and J. Wouters, 2004. “Neighborhood Restructuring and Political Conflict: Chicago’s Pilsen Neighbor-

Hood,” Environment and Planning A, 36, 2, 114-131. Special Issue: New Trends in Gentrification Research.

Wilson, D. and T. Mueller, 2004. “Growth Coalitions, Language, and

Metaphorical Deployment in St. Louis,” Professional Geographer, 56, 2, 282-294.

Wilson, D. Gregory, K. And M. Creekmore, 2003. “Identity

Constituting and Everyday Practices in Rural, Illinois,” Great Lakes Geographer, 24, 71-89.

Wilson, D. and J. Wouters, 2003. ”Spatiality and Growth Discourse: The Restructuring Of America’s Rust Belt Cities,” Journal of Urban Affairs,

25, 2, 123-139. Special Issue: Contemporary Geographical Perspectives

On Urban Politics and Policy.

Wilson, D., H. Margulis, and J. Ketchum, 2002. “Spatial Aspects of Housing

Abandonment in the 1990s: the Cleveland Experience.” In The City: Critical

Concepts in the Social Sciences Michael Pacione (ed.) (London: Routledge) 579-601 (reprinted from Housing Studies).

Wilson, D., 2002. “Constructing “Black-On-Black Violence:” the

Conservative Reality,” Acme: International E-Journal for Critical Geographies, 1, 38-59.

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Rhoads, B.L., Wade, R. Wilson, D., et. al., 2002. “Integrating Science and Technology to Support Stream Naturalization Near

Chicago, Illinois,” Journal of American Water Resources Asso- ciation, 38, 931-944.

Wilson, D., 2001. “Coloring the City: Black-On-Black Violence and

And Liberal Discourse,” Journal of Economic and Social Geography, 92, 3,261-279. Special Issue: Discourse and the Making Of Marginalized

People.

Wilson, D., 2001. “Forum on Byron Miller: Geography and Social Movements,” Political Geography, 20,7, 923-924.

Wilson, D. and H. Bauder, 2001. “Discourse and the Making of

Marginalized People,” Journal of Economic and Social Geography, 92, 3, 259-261. Special Issue: Discourse and the Making of Margina-

lized People.

Wilson, D. and D. Grammenos, 2000. "Progress Report: Spatiality

and Urban Redevelopment Movements," Urban Geography, 21, 4, 361-

371.

Jonas, A. and D. Wilson, 1999. "New Trends In the Growth

Machine Thesis." In A.E.G. Jonas and D. Wilson (eds.) Two

Decades Later: Critical Perspectives On the Growth Machine Thesis (Albany: SUNY) 3-19.

Rhoads, B., Urban, M., Wilson, D. and E. Herricks, 1999. “The Role of Scientists and Non-Scientists in Environmental

Management,” Environmental Management, 23, 3, 302-321.

Wilson, D., 1998. "Progress Report: The Politics of Urban Representation," Urban Geography, 19, 5, 531-542.

Wilson, D., 1997. "Globalization and the United States

City," Annals of the American Academy of Social and Political Sciences, May, 551, 8-16.

Wilson, D. and P. Moss, 1997. "Geography and Sociology

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Interconnect: the Rise of Spatiality Studies in Urban

Geography." In R. Hutchison (ed.) New Perspectives in Urban

Sociology (New York: JAI Press).

Wilson, D., 1996. Metaphors, Growth Coalitions, and Black

Poverty Neighborhoods In A U.S. City, Antipode, 28, 1, 72-97.

Wilson, D., 1995. "Building A Reality: Growth Coalition Representations and Uneven Development in Two U.S. Cities,”

Planning Theory, 14, 1, 96-115.

Wilson, D., 1995. Progress Report: Urban Conflict Politics and the Poststructuralist Gaze, Urban Geography, 16, 8, 734-743.

Wilson, D., 1995. "Excavating the Dialectic of Blindness and

Insight: Anthony Giddens' Structuration Theory," Political Geography, 14, 3, 309-318.

Wilson, D., 1995. "Urban Neighborhood Disinvestment and Altruistic Capitalist Bureaucracies: An Empirical

Assessment." In K. Misra (ed.) Urban Development and Public

Policy: The Dreams and Realities of Transition (Vikas: New Delhi).

Wilson, D., Margulis, H., and J. Ketchum, 1994. "Spatial

Aspects of Housing Abandonment in the 1990s: The Cleveland Experience," Housing Studies, 9, 4, 493-509.

Wilson, D. and J. Browning, 1994. "Politics and Community Development: The Black Underclass On Chicago's Near West

Side," Tidschrift Voor Economische En Sociale Geografie, 85,

53-66.

Wilson, D., 1994. "Structurationist Studies in Geography: A

Critical Review." In D. Wilson and J. Huff (eds.) Marginalized

Places and Populations: A Structurationist Agenda Westport: Praeger).

Wilson, D. and Huff, J., 1994. "Contemporary Human Geography:

The Emergence of Structuration Theory in Inequality Research."

In D. Wilson and J. Huff (eds.)Marginalized Places and Populations: A Structurationist Agenda (Westport: Praeger).

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Wilson, D., 1994. "The Dynamics of U.S. Zoning." In R. W. Fairbridge and D.E. Alexander (eds.) The Encyclopedia of

Environmental Science (New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold).

Wilson, D., 1993. "Everyday Life, Spatiality, and Inner City Disinvestment In A U.S. City," International Journal of

Urban and Regional Research, 17, 4, 578-594.

Wilson, D., 1993. "Connecting Social Process and Space in the

Geography of Religion," AREA, 25, 4, 75-77.

Wilson, D., 1993."Organizations and Urban Spatial Structure: A Review and Appraisal," Journal of Planning Literature, 3, 227-237.

Wilson, D., 1992. "Social Reproduction and Local Organizations:

A Social Constructionist Approach," Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 10, 3, 215_230.

Wilson, D., 1991. "Urban Change, Circuits of Capital, and Uneven

Development," The Professional Geographer, 43, 4, 403-415.

Wilson, D., 1990. "Comments on the Decline of Fieldwork in Human

Geography," The Professional Geographer, 42, 2, 219-221.

Wilson, D., 1990. "Institutions, Agency and Micro_Scale Gentrification: A Tale of Two Neighborhoods," Journal of Urban

Affairs, 12, 3, 267-283.

Wilson, D., 1989. "Toward A Revised Urban Managerialism: Structure, Agency, and Community Development Block Grants," Political Geography

Quarterly, 8, 21-41.

Wilson, D., 1989. "Community Development Block Grants, Politics and Local Development: A Critical Comment," East Lakes Geographer, 24,

143-153.

Wilson, D., 1989. "Local State Dynamics and Gentrification in Indianapolis, Indiana," Urban Geography, 10, 1, 19-40.

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Wilson, D. and A. Slack, 1989. "Toward An Applied Phenomenology: the Case of Abandoned Pier Use in Hoboken, New Jersey," Environmental

Management, 13, 1, 117-123.

Wilson, D., 1988. "Urban Ecology, Managerialism, and Neighborhood Revitalization: A City_Wide Assessment," Southeastern Geographer,

28, 2, 68-79.

Wilson, D., 1987. "Gentrification On The Upper West Side Of

Manhattan: An Urban Managerialist Assessment," Economic Geography,

63, 1, 35-47.

Wilson, D., 1987. "Institutions and Urban Revitalization: the Case of

Chelsea in New York City," Urban Geography, 8, 2, 129_145.

Wilson, D. and G. Lentz, 1987. "Tax Abatement Programs, Targeting and Equity," Geographical Perspectives, 1, 10-18.

Wilson, D., 1987. "Urban Restructuring on Manhattan's Upper West Side,"

Proceedings of the Conference on Urban and Regional Policy, Indiana University, Indianapolis.

Wilson, D., 1986. "Toward A Typology of Institutional Influence:

Gentrification in New York City's Chelsea District," East Lakes Geographer, 21, 26_41.

Wilson, D. and N. Houser, 1985. "Explanation in Geography: the Structuralist Alternative." Indiana Academy of The Social Sciences,

24, 21-32.

Wilson, D., 1985. "Subsidized Housing Rehabilitation and Neighborhood Ecological Characteristics: the Case of New York

City." Proceedings of the Conference On Urban and Regional Policy,

Indiana University, Indianapolis.

Wilson, D., 1983. "Institutions and Urban Residential Structure: A

Theoretical Framework," The Middle States Geographer, 17, 25-32.

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Airola, R. and D. Wilson, 1982. "The Recreational Value of

Residual Open Space: A Case Study of Three Communities in

Northeast New Jersey," Environmental Management, 6, 471-484.

UNREFEREED PUBLICATIONS

Wilson, D. Entries “subculture of poverty” and “gated communities,” for International

Encyclopedia of Geography (Washington: Association of American Geographers).

Wilson, D. Entries “bureaucracy,” “city government,” and “institutions” for Encyclopedia of Human Geography (Thousand Oaks, Cal: Sage).

Wilson, D. and G. Lentz. Tax Abatement Programs, Targeting and Equity. Department of

Geography, Discussion Paper #3, Indiana University, Indianapolis, 17 pgs.

Wilson, D. and D. Mayer. Equity and Community Development Block Grants: the Case of

Indianapolis. Department of Geography Discussion Paper #1, Indiana University, Indianapolis, 16 pgs.

Roundy, R., Weinstein, N., and D. Wilson. A Study of Toxic Hazards to Urban Recreational Fishermen and Crabbers. Technical Report, New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection,

Office of Science and Research, 67 pgs.

Roundy, R., Weinstein, N., and D. Wilson. Fishing and Exposure to Toxins in Urban New Jersey. New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station Report Number J_NJ25413_1_84, New Brunswick,

New Jersey.

Roundy, R., Weinstein, N., and D. Wilson. Subsistence Fishing and Fishermen in Northern New

Jersey. Technical Report to the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection.

Airola, T., Parker, R., and D. Wilson. The Changing Retail Structure of Rural Communities in New

Jersey. New Jersey Agricultural Experimental Station Report, New Brunswick, New Jersey.

EDITORIAL BOARD ACTIVITIES

Editorial Board, Urban Geography (2004- ).

Editorial Board, Geography Journal (2012- ).

Editorial Board, Professional Geographer (2005-2012).

Editorial Board, Space, Place, and Society Book Series, Syracuse

University Press, (2005- ).

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Editorial Board, Social and Cultural Geography (2005- ).

Editorial Board, International Journal of Spaces and Flows (2009 - ).

Editorial Board, ACME: International Online Journal of Critical

Geography (2007- ).

Editorial Board, Urban Planning and Design (2013 - ).

Book Review Editor, Urban Geography (2011- ).

Urban Geography Plenary Lecture Editor, Urban Geography (2015- ).

Debates and Interventions Editor, Urban Geography (2015- ).

Editorial Board, Inter-Cultural Studies (2002- ).

Editorial Board, Open Urban Studies Journal (2007- ).

Editorial Board, Encyclopedia of Human Geography Project (2013- ).

Advisory Board, Urban Geography Specialty Group, Association of

American Geographers (2004- ).

KEYNOTE ADDRESSES AND PROFESSIONAL COLLOQUIA PRESENTED

“The New Fear Economy Goes Global: the American Case,” invited lecture delivered

At the Bavarian-Munich Conference on Global Urban Inequalities, Munich, Germany, July 2015.

“The New Cultural Instrumentalism: Chicago Goes Global,” Annual Cultural Geography Marquee Lecture, delivered at Annual Meeting, Association of

American Geographers, Chicago, April 2015.

“Urban Redevelopment, the New Fear Machine, and the Global Trope,” Melinchamp

Lecture delivered the University of California at Santa Barbara, February, 2015.

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“Sustainability, Relationality, and the Fear Economy,” invited panel lecture delivered

at Workshop on Urban Sustainability and Comparative Urbanization, University of

Freiburg, Freiburg Germany, May 2014.

”The New Fear Machine: Redevelopment in America’s Rust Belt,” invited Colloquium lecture delivered at Illinois State University, Spring 2014.

“Making A Creative City Via Inclusions and Exclusions: the Ordinary Place of Berwyn, Illinois,” paper delivered at the Annual Meeting, Association of American

Geographers, Tampa, Fla. April, 2014 (with Dustin Allred).

“America’s New Growth Machine and the Making of Creative Cities,” invited colloquium lecture delivered at the University of Cincinnati, Fall 2013.

“Redevelopment Machines, Race, Class, and Fear-Scapes,” invited workshop lecture delivered at the State University of New York at Buffalo, Fall 2013.

Deploying the Discursive Suburbia: the Berwyn Case,” lecture delivered at the

Conference on Suburban Revolutions, University of York, Toronto Canada, Fall 2013.

“Intensifying the Creative City: America’s New Redevelopment Machine,” keynote lec-

ture delivered at the International Conference on Making the Creative City, University of Heidelberg, Germany, Summer, 2013.

“America’s New Racial Economy: Trends and Prospects,” invited lecture delivered at

The International Conference on Making the Creative City, University of Heidelberg,

Germany, Summer 2013.

“Racial Segregation: Continuity and Change,” invited workshop lecture delivered at University of California at Santa Barbara, Summer, 2013.

“Trends in Current Spaces and Flows Research,” keynote lecture delivered at the International Conference on Spaces and Flows, University of Amsterdam, Fall 2013.

“Unstable Geographies of Young Heroin Injectors,” paper presented at the Annual

Meeting, American Public Health Association Meeting, San Francisco, November 2013 (with John Lalomio, Basmattee Boodram, Alexander Gutfraind, and Margaret Parker).

Chicago’s New Redevelopment Machine,” Paper presented at the Annual Meeting, Association of American Geographers, Los Angeles, Cal., April 2013.

“Issues in Spaces and Flows: the Current Agenda,” keynote lecture delivered at the

International Conference on Spaces and Flows, Wayne State University, Fall 2012.

“Contemporary Gentrification in the Global West: Seven Speculations,” Keynote Lecture

Delivered at the Department of Global Studies, Shanghai University, Shanghai China, Summer 2012.

“Global Poverty: Competing Explanations,” Keynote Lecture delivered at the Department Of Global Studies, Shanghai University, Shanghai China, Summer 2012.

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“Evolving Urban Form in the Changing United States: Competing Perspectives,” Keynote

Lecture Delivered at the Department of Global Studies, Shanghai University, Shanghai China, Summer 2012.

“Fabricating A Black-On-Black Violence Vision: the American Experience,” lecture delivered

at the Department of Urban Planning Speaker Series, University of Illinois at Urbana-

Champaign, April 2012.

“New Tenacious Inequalities in America’s Rust Belt” (with Faranak Miraftab), Plenary Lecture at the Conference on Global Inequalities and Cities, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,

March 2012.

“Building Black-On-Black Violence: the American Experience,” colloquium delivered at the De-

partment Colloquium Series, Department of Geography, Georgia State University, Atlanta GA., March 2012.

“Redevelopment Governances and the Current Fear Economy.” Paper presented at the

Annual Meeting, Association of American Geographers, New York, New York, February

2012.

“Spaces, Flows, and the Inventing of Black-On-Black Violence in America,” Keynote Address at the International Conference on Spaces and Flows, Prato, Italy, November 2011.

“Deploying the Discursive Suburbia.” Paper presented at the Annual Meeting, RG 21

Conference, Department of Sociology, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Nether-

lands, July 2011.

“Neoliberal-Parasitic Economies and Rust Belt Cities: the Chicago Case.” Paper presented at the Annual Meeting, Association of American Geographers, Seattle, Wash., April

2010.

“Spaces and Flows: the Future.” Lecture delivered at the Conference on Transnational

Futures, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Ill., March 2011.

“The Politics of Representation: Indianapolis in a Global World.” Keynote lecture delivered at the Tenth Annual Joseph E. Taylor Symposium, Indiana University at

Indianapolis, Indianapolis, IN., March 2011.

“Global Ghettos in America’s Rust Belt.” 2011 Dunning Trust Lecture, Endowed

Keynote Address, Queens University, Kingston, Ontario, February 2011.

“Gentrification in North America: Seven Speculations.” Lecture delivered at the Depart-

ment Colloquium Series, Department of Urban Planning, Queens University, Kingston, Ontario, February 2011.

“Black-On-Black Violence American Style.” Lecture delivered at the Department Collo-

quium Series, Department of Geography, Queens University, Kingston, Ontario,

February 2011.

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“Deepening Racialized Poverty and Inequality in U.S. Cities.” Lecture delivered at the

Forum on Race and Racism, Queens University, Kingston, Ontario, February 2011.

“The Changing Neoliberal Redevelopment Governance in Chicago.” Paper presented at

the Annual Meeting, Association of American Geographers, Washington D.C., April 2010 (with Matt Anderson).

“Making America’s New Black Ghetto.” Lecture delivered at the Geography Depart- ment Colloquium Series, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, April 2010.

“Research in North American Poverty: A Summation.” Paper presented at the

Global Poverty Workshop, University of Bergen, Os, Norway, January 2010.

“Racial Economy and the Politics of Globalization.” Lecture delivered at the Depart-

ment Colloquium Series, Department of Educational Policy Studies, University of Illinois, Urbana, October 2009.

“New Urban Politics, Growth Governances, and Contemporary Chicago: Adjust-

ments, Modifications, Alignments.” Paper presented at the Annual Meeting,

Association of American Geographers, Las Vegas, Nev. March 2009.

“Balkanized Rust Belt Cities, Urban Redevelopment and Global-Speak.” Lecture delivered at the Geography Department Colloquium Series, Ohio State University (Columbus),

February 2009.

“Visualizing and Planning an Urban Center: Its Multi-faceted Dimensions,”

Invited Lecture, School of Arts and Sciences, Ohio State University (Columbus), February 2009.

“Afflicted Poor Black Communities in the Neoliberalizing U.S. City.”

Lecture delivered at Geography Department Colloquium Series,

University of Washington (Seattle), January 2009.

“Globalization, Glocalization, the Global Trope, and America’s New Black Ghettos.” Lecture delivered at the Urban Studies Colloquium

Series, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, Scotland, December 2008.

“New Trends in Urban Geographic Scholarship: the Anglo Scene.”

Lectgure delivered at the Urban Studies Colloquium Series, University Of Glasgow, Glasgow, Scotland, October 2008.

“Re-Scripting the Black Poor: the Rhetorical Fix and Redevelopment

Governance in Contemporary Chicago.” Paper presented at the Annual

Meeting, Conference on Race, Ethnicity, and Place, Miami, Fla. November 2008.

“The New Suburban Poverty: Leafy Suburbs and Municipal Governance.”

Paper presented at the Annual Meeting, Association of American

Geographers, Boston, Mass. April 2008.

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“Rust Belt Cities, the New Racialized Marginalization, and the Global

Trope.” Lecture delivered in the Geography Colloquium Series,

University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky 2008.

“America’s New Black Ghetto and the Global Trope.” Lecture delivered in the Geography Colloquium Series, Northern Illinois University,

DeKalb, Illinois, November 2007

“The New Economy in America’s Poor Racialized Spaces.” Paper presented

at the Annual Meeting, Society For the Study of Social Problems,” New York City, August 2007.

“Chicago’s Neoliberal-Parasitic Economy: Space Building and

Institutional Reproduction.” Paper presented at the Annual

Meeting, Association of American Geographers, San Francisco, April 2007.

“Inventing “Black-On-Black Violence.” Lecture delivered for the Inner

Structures – Outer Cities Lectures Series, the City Institute, York

University, Canada, November, 2006.

“Chicago’s Parasitic-Neoliberal Economy: Making Space and Economic Reproduction.” Paper presented at the Annual Meeting, Institute

Of British Geographers and Royal Geographical Society Meeting, London, U.K, September 2006.

“America’s New Black Ghetto: the Global Trope and Neoliberal Politics.” Keynote presentation at the Eleventh Annual Conference “Constructed

Spaces, Contested Places,” University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee, April, 2006.

“The Global Trope and the New Urban Governmentality: Reality and

Impacts.” Lecture delivered at the Dialogic Conference on Globali- zation and the City, University of South Florida, April 2006.

“Global Hype in an Era of Global Realities: the Restructuring U.S. City.

Lecture delivered at the Colloquium Series, Miami University of Ohio, March 2006.

“The Paradox of Neoliberal Redevelopment in Chicago.” Paper presented at the Annual Meeting, Association of American Geographers, Chicago,

Illinois, April 2006.

“Dynamics of Race, Space, and Ethnicity.” Paper presented at the World

University Network Seminar Series “Globalization and Beyond,” telecast to 12 American and European universities, September 2005.

“Neoliberalism and Multiculturalism: the Chicago Experience.” Paper

presented at the Annual Meeting, Association of American Geographers,

Denver, Colorado, April 2005.

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“Historic Preservation and Neoliberalism in Chicago.” Lecture delivered

at the Colloquium Series, Miami of Ohio University, Fall 2005.

“Political Conflict in Illinois Watersheds: the East-Central Illinois

Experience.” Paper presented at the Conference on Water In A Troubled World,” University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, November, 2004.

Neighborhood Restructuring, Space, and the Body: Chicago’s Humboldt Park.” Paper presented at the Annual Meeting, Association of American

Geographers, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Spring 2004.

“The Growth Machine and Beyond.” Paper presented at the World University Network Seminar Series “Contemporary Trends in Human

Geography,” telecast to 12 American and European Universities,

October 2004.

“Gentrification, Social Construction, and the Body: Chicago’s Humboldt Park Neighborhood.” Lecture delivered at the Migration Colloquium Series,

University of Illinois, November 2003.

“Making Historic Preservation in Chicago: Discourse, Space, and

Neoliberalism.” Paper presented at the Annual Meeting, Fourth Annual Transnationalism Conference, University of Illinois, May 2003.

“Making Workfare Work: Discourse and Spatiality.” Paper presented at

The Annual Meeting, Association of American Geographers, New Orleans,

Louisiana. Spring 2003.

“Ethnicity and Spatiality: Changing Pilsen in Chicago.” Paper presented at the Annual Meeting, Association of American geographers, New

Orleans, Louisiana. Spring 2003.

“Restructuring Chicago’s Pilsen Neighborhood in Neoliberal Times.”

Paper presented at the Brownbag Series, Department of Sociology, University of Chicago, May 2002.

“Restructuring Midwest Cities and the Local State: Current Dynamics.”

Lecture delivered at the Colloquium Series, Indiana State University,

Terre Haute, Indiana. April 2002.

“The Discursive Discourse of Gentrification in Three Midwest Cities.” Paper presented at the Annual Meeting, Association of American

Geographers, Los Angeles, California. Spring 2002.

“Gentrifying Indianapolis: Local State Influences.” Paper presented

At the Colloquium Series, Department of Urban and Regional Planning, University of Illinois, January 2002.

“Space and Growth Discourse.” Paper presented at the Migration Studies Theory Group, University of Illinois, November 2001

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“Restructuring the U.S. Midwest City: Ideological Foundations.” Paper

presented at the Annual Meeting, Critical Geography Conference, Cincinnati, Ohio, Fall 2000.”

“Coding and Coloring Chicago’s Violence: A Critical Perspective.” Paper

presented at the Annual Meeting, Great Cities Conference, Chicago, Ill.

Fall 2000.

“Coloring the City: Representation and Discourse About Urban Violence.” Paper presented at the Annual Meeting, Association of American

Geographers Meeting, Pittsburgh, Pa., Spring 2000.

“Violence In the City: Discursive Racializing and Politics. Paper

presented at the Colloquium Series, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, Illinois, Spring 2000.

Farmer Practices and Symbolic Meanings in Central Illinois. Paper

presented at Environmental Horizons Conference, University of Illinois,

Spring 2000

“Constructing Black-On-Black Violence: the Neoliberal Rendition.” Paper presented at Annual Meeting, Conference on Critical Geography,

Cincinnati, Ohio, October 1999.

“Coloring the Inner City: Conservative Constructions of Violence.”

Paper presented at Annual Meeting, Association of American Geographers, Honolulu, Hawaii, April 1999.

“Farmer Agricultural Practices and Identity Politics.” Lecture delivered

at the Colloquium Series, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, January

1999.

“Reading Farmer Identities From the Agricultural Landscape.” Talk Delivered on tour of Central Illinois for the National Endowment

For Humanities Seminar, Champaign, Illinois, Summer 1999.

“Space and Growth Discourse in U.S. Midwest Rust Belt Cities.” Paper

presented at Annual Meeting, Middle States Division, Associate of American Geographers Meeting, New Brunswick, New Jersey October 1998.

“Spatialized Knowledge and the Transforming U.S. City.” Paper

presented at the Annual Meeting, Conference On Critical Geography,

Cincinnati, Ohio October 1998.

“Integrating the Physical and the Social: Results of EPA/NSF Research One Year Later.” Paper presented at NSF Group

Meeting, Eugene, Oregon (with Bruce Rhoads), March 1998.

“Space and Making Fact: the Midwest U.S. City Experience.”

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Paper presented at the Annual Meeting, Association of

American Geographers, Boston, Mass. April 1998.

“Greasing the Growth Machine: Metaphors and the St. Louis Experience.”

Paper presented at the Annual Meeting, Association of American Geographers, Boston, Mass. April 1998 (with Tom Mueller).

“Spatiality and Manufactured Knowledges: the Restructuring Of the United States City.” Paper presented at the Colloquium

Series, Unit For Criticism and Interpretive Theory, University of Illinois, January 1998.

“Space and Urban Redevelopment Movements in the United States.” Paper

presented at the Annual Meeting, Conference Of Critical Geographers,

Cincinnati, Ohio October 1997.

"Making the Reality of Steel Deindustrialization: the Chicago Experience. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting, Association of

merican Geographers, Ft. Worth Texas, April 1997.

"The Discourse of Black-On-Black Violence: the NeoConservative Gaze."

Paper presented at the Annual Meeting, Conference On Critical Geography, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati Ohio, October 1996.

"Growth Coalitions, Discourse, and Uneven Development In Two Midwest

Cities." Paper presented at the Annual Meeting, Association of American

Geographers, Charlotte, North Carolina, April 1996.

"Discourse and the Politics of U.S. City Growth." Paper presented at the Annual Spring Colloquium, Department of Afro-American Studies,

University of Illinois, Urbana, Spring 1995

"Metaphors and Uneven Development In A U.S. City." Paper presented

at the Annual Meeting, Association of American Geographers, Chicago, March 1995.

"Metaphors, Growth Coalition Discourses, and Black Poverty

Neighborhoods In A U.S. City." Paper presented at the Annual

Meeting, Institute of British Geographers, University of Northumbria, United Kingdom, January 1995.

"Gentrification and the Built Environment." Lecture delivered at the

Annual Fall Colloquium, University of Wisconsin at Green Bay, Green

Bay, Wisconsin, Fall 1993.

"Social Reproduction and Local Organizations: A Social Constructionist Perspective." Paper presented at the Annual Meeting, Association of

American Geographers, Atlanta, April 1993.

"Spatiality and the Social Construction of Disadvantaged Neighborhoods."

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Paper presented at the Annual Meeting, Urban Affairs Association,

Indianapolis, April 1993.

"Gentrification and Downtown Restructuring: the Indianapolis

Experience." Paper presented at the Colloquium Series, Department of Landscape Architecture, University of Illinois, October 1992.

"Politics and Community Development: the Case of Chicago's Black Underclass." Paper presented at the Annual Meeting, Association of

American Geographers, San Diego, Cal., April 1992.

"Contemporary Gentrification in North American Cities." Paper presented at the Cohn Scholars Program, University of Illinois, Urbana Ill,

December 1991.

"Space, Place, and Slum Persistence: Indianapolis' Zone In Transition."

Paper presented at the North American Meetings of the Regional Science Association, New Orleans, LA, November 1991 (with Jeremy Browning).

"Slum Persistence as Spatial Construction: the Appropriation of Space and Place." Paper presented at Annual Meeting, Association of American

Geographers, Miami, Florida, April 1991.

"Gentrification and Structuration: A Geographer's Perspective." Lecture Delivered at the Scholarly Colloquium Series, University of Utah, April

1990.

"Contingent Slum Persistence: Toward A Refined Political Economy of

Place Thesis. Paper presented at the Association of American Geographers Annual Conference, Toronto, Canada, April 1990.

"Toward A Revised Urban Managerialism: Local Managers and Community Development Block Grants." Paper presented at the Association of

American Geographers Annual Conference, Baltimore, Maryland, March 1989.

"Geography and Gentrification Dynamics." Paper presented at the

Scholarly Colloquium Series, University of North Carolina, Greens-

boro, North Carolina, January 1989.

"Applied Phenomenology and Residual Waterfront Land in Hoboken, New Jersey." Paper presented at the Association of American Geographers

West Lakes Meeting, Minneapolis, Minnesota, October 1988.

"Gentrification and Urban Restructuring: A Geographers Perspective."

Paper presented at the Scholarly Colloquia Series, Indiana University, Indianapolis, Indiana August 1988.

"Marx and the Child: Implications for Urban Spatial Structure." Paper presented at the Canadian Association of Geographers, Halifax, Nova

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Scotia, May 1988.

"Urban Revitalization and Local State Dynamics: the Indiananapolis Experience." Paper presented at the Scholarly Colloquia Series,

Michigan State University, East Lansing, March 1988.

"Explicating Phenomenology: An Empirical Application." Paper presented

at the Association of American Geographers Annual Conference, Phoenix, Arizona, April 1988 (co_author: Andrew Slack).

"Local Government Influences on Gentrification: the Indianapolis

Experience." Paper presented at the Association of American Geographers West Lakes Annual Meeting, Chicago, Illinois, October 1987.

"Gentrification and Local State Dynamics: the Case of Indianapolis." Paper presented for the Scholarly Colloquia Series, Indiana University,

Bloomington, Indiana, October 1987.

"Institutions and Urban Revitalization: the Case of New York City's

Upper West Side." Paper presented at the Association of American Geographers Annual Conference, Portland, Oregon, April 1987.

"Neighborhood Ecology, Structuralism, and Urban Restructuring: A

City_Wide Assessment." Paper presented at the Association of American Geographers Southeast Division Meeting, Lexington, Kentucky, November

1986.

"Toward An Understanding of Supply Side Constraints on Neighborhood

Reinvestment." Paper presented at the Assocation of American Geographers Annual Conference, Minneapolis, Minnesota, May 1986.

"Gentrification in New York City's Chelsea District." Paper presented at the Conference On Urban And Regional Policy, Indiana University,

Indianapolis, Indiana, May 1986.

"Toward A Refined Institutional Policy in Community Upgrading." Paper presented for the Visiting Scholars Program, Ball State University,

Muncie, Indiana, March 1986.

"Explanation in Geography: the Structuralist Alternative." Paper

presented at the Indiana Academy of the Social Sciences Annual Meeting, Indianapolis, Indiana, October 1985 (co_author: Nathan Hauser).

"Institutions and Urban Revitalization: the Case of the Upper West Side in New York City." Paper presented at the Association of American

Geographers Annual West Lakes Meeting, DeKalb, Illinois, September 1985.

Subsidized Housing Rehabilitation and Neighborhood Ecological

Characteristics: the Case of New York City." Paper presented at the Conference on Urban and Regional Policy, Indiana University,Indiana-

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polis, Indiana, April 1985.

"Urban Revitalization, Tax Abatement Programs, and Neighborhood Ecological Characteristics." Paper presented at the Association of

American Geographers Annual Conference, Detroit, Michigan, April 1985.

"The Dynamics of Urban Managerialism." Paper presented at Association

of American Geographers East Lakes and Canadian Association of Geographers Joint Meeting, Waterloo, Ontario, November 1984.

"Fishing and Exposure to Toxins in Urban New Jersey." Paper presented

at the Association of American Geographers Annual Conference, Washington D.C., April 1984 (co_authors: Robert Roundy and Neil Weinstein).

"Institutions and Urban Residential Structure: A Theoretical Framework." Paper presented at the Middle States Division, Association of American

Geographers, West Point, New York, November 1983.

"Public Versus Private Sector Revitalization: Contrasting Spatial

Processes." Paper presented at the Association of American Geographers Annual Conference, San Antonio, Texas, April 1982 (co_author: Briavel

Holcomb).

"Slum Clearance: A Direct Stimulus Toward Ghetto Housing Expansion?" Paper presented at the Middle States Division, Association of American

Geographers, New Brunswick, New Jersey, October 1979.

CONFERENCES AND CONFERENCE SESSIONS CHAIRED AND ORGANIZED

Co-organized (with Ulrike Gerhard) the Conference ”Making the Creative City:

Tensions, Contradictions, Possibilities,” University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign, October 2014.

Co-organized (with Linda McDowell, Ulrike Gerhard) paper session “Making the

Creative City: Trends, Contradictions, Possibilities” at the 2014 Annual Meeting, Association of American Geographers, Tampa, Fla. April, 2014.

Co-organized (with Phillip Kalantzis-Cope) the Fourth International Conference on Spaces and Flows, Amsterdam, Netherlands, November 2013.

Co-organized (with Phillip Kalantzis-Cope) the Third International Conference on

Spaces and Flows, Wayne State University, October 2012.

Chaired session “The Dynamics of Racial Governances,” Thirteenth Annual Trans-

National Workshop, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, September 2012.

Co-organized (with Faranak Miraftab and Ken Salo) the “Global Inequalities and

Cities Conference,” University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Ill., March 2012.

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Organized the panel discussion “The Legacy of Logical Positivism in Critical Urban

Research,” Association of American Geographers Meeting, New York, New York,

February, 2012.

Organized the panel discussion “New Political Trends in the Western City: Predictions And Speculations,” Association of American Geographers Meeting, New York, New York,

February, 2012.

Co-organized (with Markus Schultz) the Conference on Transnational Futures,

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Ill., March 2011.

Co-organized (with Phillip Kalantzis-Cope) the First International Conference on Spaces and Flows, University of California – Los Angeles, December 2010.

Co-organized (with Phillip Kalantzis-Cope) the Second International Conference on Spaces and Flows, Monash University, Prato, Italy, November 2011.

Chaired and co-organized session (with Kevin Ward) “The Making of Urban

Fringe Economies,” Annual Meeting, Association of American Geographers,

Las Vegas, Nev. March 2009.

Organized session “Racialized Economies in Contemporary America,” Annual Meeting, Annual Conference on Race, Ethnicity, and Place,

Miami, Fla. November 2008.

Chaired and organized session “Author Meets Critics: Alan Cochrane’s

Understanding Urban Policy: A Critical Approach,” Annual Meeting, Association of American Geographers, Boston, Mass. April 2008.

Chaired and organized session “The Western City as Research Object.”

Annual Meeting, Association of American Geographers, San Francisco,

April 2007.

Chaired session “Dynamics of Manufactured Spaces and Places,” Ninth Annual Meeting, Transnational Workshop, University of Illinois,

April 2006.

Co-organized (with Roger Keil) four sessions “Dynamics of Neoliberal

Governance I-IV,” Annual Meeting, Association of American Geographers, Chicago, Illinois, April 2006.

Chaired two sessions “Dynamics of Neoliberal Governance I–IV,”

Annual Meeting, Association of American Geographers, Chicago,

Illinois, April 2006.

Co-organized “2006 Urban Geography Plenary Lecture” (with Bob Lake, Lynn Staeheli) Annual Meeting, Association of American Geographers, Chicago,

Illinois, April 2006.

Co-organized (with Jennifer Massey) Political Geography Mini-Conference

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“Urban Change and Transformation,” two day event at the University of Illinois,

March 2006.

Co-organized (with Jamie Peck, Wendy Larner) World University Network Seminar

“Globalization and Beyond,” seminar series involving 12 American and European universities, originating out of University of Wisconsin and University of Bristol,

2005.

Chaired and organized session “Author Meets the Critics: James

DeFilippis’s “Taming Goliath: Capital in the City,” Annual Meeting, Association of American Geographers, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Spring 2004.

Chaired session “The New U.S. Imperialism,” Francis Boyle Presentation,

Colloquium Series, transnational seminar, University of Illinois, November 2003.

Organized 11 sessions for Tenth Annual Critical Geography Conference,

University of Illinois, October 2003.

Chair, special session “Political Economy Of the South,” Annual

Meeting, Illinois Institute for Humanities Conference: the South, April 2003.

Organized, special session “Space and Changing Inner Cities,” panel

discussion, Annual Critical Geography Conference, University of

Cincinnati, October 2001

Chaired special session “New Trends In Urban Politics,” panel discussion, Annual Critical Geography Conference, Cincinnati,

Ohio, October 2000.

Organized special session “Author Meets the Critics: Byron

Miller’s Grass-Roots Activism and Spatiality: the Peace Movement,” Association of American Geographers, Pittsburgh, Pa. April 2000.

Organized special session “Perspectives on Representation and

Urban Politics,” Association of American Geographers, Honolulu,

Hawaii, April 1999.

Chair of Session, “New Voices in Critical Geography II,” Annual Meeting, Association of American Geographers, Boston,

Mass. April 1998.

Organized three special sessions, "Globalization and

the North American City," Annual Meeting of Association of American Geographers, Ft. Worth, Texas, Spring 1997.

Organized two special sessions, "Critical Appraisals in the Growth Machine Thesis," Annual Meeting of Asso-

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tion of American Geographers, Charlotte, North Carolina,

Spring 1996.

Organized special session, "Facts and Fictions About the Urban

Underclass," Annual Meeting of Progressive Planners Alliance, East St. Louis, Mo., May 1995.

Organized special session, "Perspectives On Urban Growth Coalitions in the 1990s," Annual Meeting of Association of American Geographers,

Chicago, Ill., April 1995

Co_organized special session, "Perspectives on Space and Social Process, "Annual Meeting, Association of American Geographers,

Atlanta, GA., April 1993

Co-Organized special session, "Perspectives on Urban Decline,"

Annual Meeting, National Urban Affairs Association, Indianapolis, IN., April 1993.

Co-organized special session, "Urban Geography and Ethnic Geography Specialty Groups: "Perspectives on North American

Residential Structure," Annual Meeting, Association of American Geographers, San Diego, Cal., April 1992.

Organized two special sessions, "Perspectives on Space and Ideology,"

Annual Meeting, Association of American Geographers, Miami, April

1991.

Chair of Session, "Perspectives on Space and Ideology II," Annual Meeting, Association of American Geographers, Miami, April 1991.

Chair of Session, "Housing Issues," Annual Meeting, Association of American Geographers, Miami, April 1991.

Chair of Session, "Contemporary Geographical Issues," Annual Meeting,

Indiana Academy of the Social Sciences, Bloomington, Indiana, Fall 1990.

DISCUSSANT AND PANEL SESSIONS

Discussant, four papers (He, Mbaye, Myers, Center), in special session “Thinking

the Urban From Distinctive Theorisations?” 2015 Annual Meeting, Association of

American Geographers, Chicago, Ill. April.

Panelist in special session “Future Research Directions” at Conference on Making The Creative City: Tensions, Contradictions, Possibilities, University of Illinois at

Urbana-Champaign, October 2014.

Panelist in special session “Stand Your Ground: Geographies of Violence and

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The Uneven Legal Landscapes I,” 2014 Annual Meeting, Association of American

Geographers, Tampa, Fla. April.

Discussant in special session “Stand Your Ground: Geographies of Violence and

The Uneven Legal Landscapes II,” 2014 Annual Meeting, Association of American Geographers, Tampa, Fla. April.

Discussant, four papers (by F. Miraftab, R. Harvey, M. Sanderson, M. Doussard) In special session “Global Countrysides and Hinterlands: Rural Communities

In an Era of Globalization,” 2014 Annual Meeting, Association of American Geographers, Tampa, Fla. April.

Discussant, four papers (by D. Martin, P. Jones and C. Lorne, S. Salmon, A.

Coppola) in special session “Global Urbanization and Local Politics in an Age

of Austerity II: Reassembling the Local State, 2013 Annual Meeting, Asso- citation of American Geographers, Los Angeles, Cal., April.

Panelist in special session “Spatializing Shatttered Subjects: Geographies

of Trauma,” Annual Meeting, Association of American Geographers, Los

Angeles, Cal., April.

Discussant, three papers (by Zambrana, Neal, and Bohr) in special session “Markets as Communities, Markets as Institutions,” 2011 Transnational

Workshop, Urbana-Champaign, Ill, November 2011.

Discussant, four papers (by Winders and Schein, Brahinsky, Strauss, Branch)

In special session “Race and Space I: The Politics of the Racial Economy,” Annual Meeting, Association of American Geographers, Seattle Wash.,

April 2011.

Panelist in special session “Is There A Thing Like Re-Urbanization: A Critical

Debate About Some Current Shifts in Urban Growth and Decline (organized By Thomas Doerfler), Annual Meeting, Association of American Geographers,

Seattle, Wash. April 2011.

Panelist in special session “Building and Sustaining Community-University Partnerships in Marginalized Urban Areas (Organized by Ahmed Allahwala

and Susannah Bunce), Annual Meeting, Association of American Geographers,

Seattle, Wash. April 2011

Panelist in special session “Race, the Tea Party, and America’s Turn to the Right” (Organized by Sundiata Cha-Jua), Department of African-American Studies,

University of Illinois, Urbana, Ill. November 2010

Discussant, four papers (by Wacquant, Doerffler, Darden, Gerhardt) in

special session “Ghettos, Slums, Favelas: Dynamics and Comparisons,” Annual Meeting, Association of American Geographers, Washington D.C.,

April 2010.

Panelist in art forum commentary on exhibit “Under Control,” Krannert Art Gallery,

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University of Illinois, Urbana, Fall 2009.

Panelist in special session “Where is Urban Politics?” (Organized by Clive Barnett And Scott Rodgers), Annual Meeting, Association of American Geographers,

Las Vegas, Nev. March 2009.

Panelist in special session “Debate: Critical Practice of Grant Application and

Administration” (organized by Harald Bauder), Annual Meeting, Association of American Geographers, Las Vegas, Nev. March 2009.

Discussant, paper presentation by Lauren Langman, “The Dialectic of

Global Identity: Hegemony Versus Resistance,” Transnational Colloquium Series, University of Illinois, October 2008.

Discussant, paper presentation by Clarence Lo, “Straightening the Crooked E: Egalitarianism, Equity, and Retribution After the Global

Scandal at ENRON,” Transnational Colloquium Series, University of Illinois, January 2008.

Discussant, paper presentation by Euan Hague, “Civil Rights, Culture, and the Production of Iconography,” Transnational Colloquium Series,

University of Illinois, October 2007.

Panelist, National Science Foundation, Division of Geography and Regional Science, reviewer for Doctoral Dissertation Enhancement

Awards, Arlington, VA, October 2007.

Discussant, paper presentation by Joe Painter, “Contemporary Biopolitics

in the United Kingdom,” Transnational Colloquium Series, University of Illinois, May 2007.

Panelist and Central Speaker in special session “Author Meets the Critics: David Wilson’s Cities and Race, America’s New Black Ghettos,”

Annual Meeting, Association of American Geographers, San Francisco, April 2007.

Discussant, four papers (by Cox, Theodore and Peck, McCann, Rudry) in

special session “Contemporary Urban Governance: Policy Implications,”

Annual Meeting, Association of American Geographers, San Francisco, April 2007.

Panelist in special session “Racialized Poverty in America: New

Realities,” Annual Meeting, Association of American Geographers,

San Francisco, April 2007.

Discussant, paper presented by Andrew Wood, “Globalization, Urban Growth, and the Commercial Property Sector,” Transnational Colloquium

Series, University of Illinois, November 2006.

Discussant, paper presented by Nik Heynen, “the Changing Politics of

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Hunger: Examples from Milwaukee,” Transnational Colloquium Series,

University of Illinois, April 2006.

Panelist in special session “”Street Level Geography: University-

Community Research and Action in Chicago and Beyond,” Annual Meeting, Association of American Geographers, Chicago, Illinois, April 2006

Panelist in special session “Race and Poverty in America: the Dimension Of Discourse,” Annual Meeting, Association of American Geographers,

Chicago, Illinois, April 2006.

Discussant, four papers in special session “Urban Identities: Subjects, Bodies, and the City,” Twelth Annual Meeting, Critical

Geography Conference, Miami of Ohio University, Oxford, Ohio,

October 2005.

Panelist in special session “Sense of Place and Changing Economic and Environmental Times in the Sangamon Valley, Illinois,” State of Illinois

Research Forum, Decatur, Ill., March 2005.

Panelist in special session “The New City-Region and Issues of Social

Reproduction,” International Geographical Union Meeting, Glasgow, Scotland, August 2004.

Discussant, four papers in special session “Changing Realities in U.S.

Cities,” Eleventh Annual Meeting, Critical Geography Conference, Indiana

State University, October 2004.

Discussant, paper presentation by Faranak Miriftab, “Home, Hope, and Eviction: South Africa’s Anti-Eviction Campaign,” Transnational Col-

loquium, University of Illinois, February 2004.

Discussant, four papers in special session, “Discourse and Inequality,”

Tenth Annual Meeting, Critical Geography Conference, University of Illinois, October 2003.

Discussant, special session “Education, Multiculturalism, and Politics.”

Conference on Race, Education and Multiculturalism, Center for Democracy

And Multiculturalism, University of Illinois, April 2003.

Discussant for four papers in special session “Geography, Discourse, and “Spatiality,” Annual Meeting, Association of American Geographers,

New Orleans, La. March 2003.

Panelist in special session “Interactions, Contingencies, and Synthe-

sis: Exploring Linkages Between Human and Physical Geography,” Annual Meeting, Conference on Critical Geography, Lexington, Kentucky. October

2002.

Panelist in special session “Neoliberalism and the City,” World Uni-

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versity Network Conference on Neoliberalism, Bristol University,

Bristol, England. May 2002.

Discussant for three papers in special session “Geography and Trans-

nationalism,” Annual Meeting, Transnational Dynamics, University of Illinois, Urbana, April 2002.

Panelist in special session ”the Construction of Space and America’s Changing Inner Cities,” Annual Meeting, Conference on Critical Geo-

graphy, University of Cincinnati, October 2001.

Panelist in special session “New Trends in U.S. Community Development,” round-table Discussion, Annual Meeting, Association of American

Geographers, Boston, Mass. April 1998.

Discussant for four papers in special session "Social Construction and

African Cities," Annual Meeting, Center for African Studies, University of Illinois, Urbana, Spring 1996.

Panelist in special session “New Trends in Appropriation of Place," round-table Discussion, Annual Meeting, Association of American

Geographers, Charlotte North Carolina, Spring 1996.

Panelist in special session "Inner City Abandonment and Arson in Context: Some Critical Reflections," Roundtable Discussion, Annual

Meeting, Association of Collegiate Planners, Detroit, Michigan, Fall

1995

Discussant for four papers in special session "The Public University and Urban Outreach" Session, Annual Meeting, Regional Collegiate Planners

Meeting, Urbana, Illinois, Fall 1995.

Discussed "Urban Redevelopment and Gambling in Illinois," for five part

documentary, WAND (ABC) TV, Spring 1995.

Discussed "Black Poverty Neighborhoods and Government Responsibility," National Public Radio, "Focus 580," Urbana and Chicago, Spring 1995

Discussant for four papers in "Social Construction of Urban Space" Session at the Annual Meeting of Collegiate Planners, Philadelphia,

Pennsylvania, October 1993.

Discussed "Derelict Landscapes Across American Places," National Public

Radio Focus 580, Urbana and Chicago, Ill. November 1992.

Discussed Sara McLafferty and Valerie Preston, "Spatial Mismatch and Labor Market Segmentation For Black and Hispanic Women," North American

Meeting of the Regional Science Association, New Orleans, LA. November

1991

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Discussed Steve Mathews and Glenda Laws, "Working On the Margins:

Production, Reproduction and the Labor Market Experiences of Young

Women," North American Meeting of the Regional Science Association, New Orleans, La. November 1991.

Discussed Larry Bourne, "Recycling Urban Systems: Theory, Process, and

Practice," Howard Roepke Annual Lecture, Association of American

Geographers, Miami, April 1991.

Discussed "Homelessness As Emerging Dilemma" and "The Plight of the U.S. Black Athlete" at the Indiana Academy of the Social Sciences Annual

Meeting, Geography Division, Bloomington, Indiana, Fall 1990.

Discussed "The Frankfurt School and the Emergence of the U.S Urban

University" at the Conference On the Urban University In the Twentieth Century, Indiana University, Indianapolis, November 1989.

Discussed "Homelessness and Public Policy Considerations" at the

Symposium on Homelessness in America, Indiana University, Indianapolis,

May 1989.

Discussed "Contemporary Spatial Issues" at the Indiana Academy of the Social Sciences Annual Meeting, Geography Division, Greencastle,

Indiana, Fall 1989.

Discussed "Cypriot Urbanization: A Geographical Assessment" at the

Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, Southeast Division, Lexington, Kentucky, November 1986.

Discussed "Urban/Economic Geography Sessional Presentations, Association

of American Geographers West Lakes Meeting, Chicago, Illinois, October

1987.

BOOK REVIEWS

Judd, Dennis and Dick Simpson, 2012. The City, Revisited: Urban Theory

(Minneapolis: University of Minnesota). For Urban Affairs Review.

Lewis, Robert, 2009. Chicago Made: Factory Networks in the Industrial

Metropolis (Chicago: University of Chicago). For Economic Geography.

Leitner, H., Peck, J., and E. Sheppard, 2008. Contesting Neoliberalism: Urban Frontiers (New York: Guilford). For Annals of the Association of

American Geographers.

Tonkiss, Fran, 2008. Space, the City and Social Theory (Cambridge:

Polity). For British Journal of Sociology.

Maginn, Paul, J, 2005. Urban Regeneration, Community Power and the

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[In]significance of Race (Aldershot UK: Ashgate). For Population,

Theodore, N. and N. Brenner, 2004. Spaces of Neoliberalism (Oxford: Blackwell Press). For Annals of the Association of American Geo-

graphers.

Bridge, G. and S. Bridge, 2002. “A Companion to the City.” Basil

Blackwell Press, for Urban Studies.

Pile, S., Brook, C. and G. Mooney, 2001. “Unruly Cities, Understanding Cities,” Environment and Planning B, in press.

Vergara, C.J., 2001. The New American Ghetto. Routledge

Press, for Urban Geography, 27, 404-405..

Barnes, T., 1999. Logics of Dislocation. Routledge Press,

For Journal of Planning and Education Studies (with Pamela Moss).

Gregory, D., Martin, R., and G. Smith, 1996. "Human Geography: Society, Space, and Social Science." University of Minnesota Press, for

Professional Geographer.

Ball, R., and A. Pratt, 1995. "Industrial Property: Policy and Economic Development." Routledge Press, for Environment and Planning A.

Mills, E.S. and J.F. McDonald, 1994. "Sources of Metropolitan Growth." Center for Urban Policy Research Press, for The Professional

Geographer.

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Indianapolis: the Politics of Unigov." University of California Press, for GROWTH AND CHANGE.

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Geoforum 2009

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University of Minnesota Press, 2012

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GRANTS

Principal organizer, conference on “Making the Creative City: Tensions, Contradictions, Possibilities, Fall 2014. Fund awarded by University

Of Illinois Ibnternational Studies Program, $4,570.

Principal investigator, Center For Multiculturalism and Democracy,

University of Illinois, 2003. “The Constructing of Entitlement: Citizenship And Restructuring in Chicago’s Humboldt Park Neighborhood,” $3,680.

Co-principal investigator, United States Department of Environmental Protection and National Science Foundation, 1997. “Science and Non-

Scientists in Watershed Protection In Agricultural Environments,” $880,200 (with Bruce Rhoads and Edwin Herricks).

Co-principal investigator, United States Department of Environmental

Protection, 1996. "Watershed Protection in Agricultural Environments:

Integrated Social, Geomorphological and Ecological Research to Support Ecosystem-Based Stream Management," $350,699 (with Bruce Rhoads and

Edwin Herricks).

Principal Investigator, University of Illinois Research Board Grant,

1995. "Race and Racial Representation: the Discourse of Black-On-Black Violence In the U.S. City, University of Illinois, $9,000.

Principal investigator, University of Illinois Research Board Grant,

1992. "Persistent Residential Abandonment: Midwest Cities in the 1990s, University of Illinois, $8,300.

Principal investigator, University of Illinois Research Board Grant, 1991. "Black and Hispanic Segregation and Political Response: the Case

of Chicago," University of Illinois, $12,900.

Summer Faculty Research Grant, 1989. "Slum Sustenance and Organizational

Factors," Indiana University, $2,900.

Summer Faculty Research Grant, 1988. "Tax Abatements and the Dynamics of Urban Redevelopment," Indiana University, $2,800.

Summer Faculty Research Grant, 1987. "Political Process and Community Development Block Grant Allocation," Indiana University, $2,700.

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Summer Faculty Research Grant, 1986. "Gentrification As Downtown

Restructuring," Indiana University, $2,100.

Indiana University Faculty Fellowship, 1985. "Block Grants, Politics, And Neighborhood Change," Indiana University, $4,500.

National Science Foundation Doctoral Research Grant, 1983. Division of Geography and Regional Science, Washington, D.C. $4,080.

Walter C. Russell Graduate Fellowship, Rutgers University, 1982_1983.

Tuition waver and $9,000 stipend.

Social Science Graduate Fellowship, Temple University, 1979_ 1980.

TENURE/PROMOTION CASES REFEREED (SINCE 2006)

University of Minnesota – Minneapolis (to Professor)

University of Minnesota II- Minneapolis (to Associate Professor) University of Denver (to Associate Professor)

York University (Canada) (to Professor) Clark University (to Professor)

Clark University II (to Professor) University of Washington, Seattle (to Associate Professor)

Rutgers University (New Brunswick) (to Associate Professor)

Rutgers University II (New Brunswick) (to Associate Professor) University of Kentucky (to Associate Professor)

University of Kentucky II (to Professor) Michigan State University (to Associate Professor)

University of Toronto (Canada) (to Professor)

New School for Social Research (to Associate Professor) University of Indianapolis (to Associate Professor)

University of Vermont (to Associate Professor) University of Manchester (United Kingdom) (to Professor)

Simon Fraser University (Canada) (to Associate Professor) Simon Fraser University II (Canada) (to Professor)

University of British Columbia (Canada) (to Associate Professor)

Miami of Ohio University (to Associate Professor) University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (to Professor)

University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee II (to Associate Professor) Georgia State University (to Associate Professor)

University of Toledo (to Professor)

PROFESSIONAL/SCHOLARLY ORGANIZATIONS

Association of American Geographers

American Planning Association

American Federation of Teachers Urban Affairs Association

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Society for the Study of Social Problems

COURSES TAUGHT

Geo. 104. Introduction to Social and Cultural Geography

Geo. 110. Introduction to Human Geography

Geo. 140. Maps and Map Reading

Geo. 210 Introduction to Urban Geography

Geo. 318. The Geography of Cities and Metropolitan Areas

Geo. 319. The Internal Structure of the City

Geo. 331. Principles of Economic Geography

Geo. 371. Contemporary Trends in Geographic Thought

Geo. 350. Sustainability and the City

Geo. 490. Senior Seminar: History and Philosophy of Human Geography

Geo. 464. Watershed Management: the Physical-Social Inter-Face

Geo. 495. Seminar: The Poststructuralist City

Geo. 495. Seminar: Spatiality and the City

Geo. 594. Seminar – New Political Spaces (World University Network Graduate Seminar)

Geo. 594. Seminar – Globalization and Beyond (World

University Network Graduate Seminar).

Geo. 594. Seminar: The Transforming Anglo City

INVITED LECTURES, KEYNOTE ADDRESSES AND KEYNOTE PANELS

University of Munich (Germany) 2015

University of California Santa Barbara 2015

University of Freiburg (Germany) 2014

Illinois State University, 2014

University of Amsterdam (Netherlands) 2013

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University of Cincinnati 2013

University of Heidelberg (Germany) 2013

State University of New York Buffalo 2013

University of California, Santa Barbara 2013

Wayne State University 2012

Shanghai University, China 2012

Georgia State University 2012

Queens University (Canada) 2011

Indiana University –Indianapolis 2011

University of Bergen (Norway) 2010

University of Minnesota (Minneapolis) 2010

University of Washington (Seattle), 2009

Ohio State (Columbus), 2009

York University (Canada) 2009, 2007

University of Glasgow (UK), 2009, 2008

University of Kentucky, 2008

University of Miami (Florida), 2008

Northern Illinois University, 2008, 2007, 2004, 2003

University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee 2006

University of South Florida 2006

Miami of Ohio University, 2006

University of Chicago, 2004

Northeastern Illinois, 2004, 2004

SUNY New Paltz, 2004, 2003

Indiana State University 2004

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Bristol University (U.K), 2002

University of Minnesota (St. Paul Campus) 2001

University of Wisconsin at Green Bay, 1994

Indiana University, Bloomington, 1990, 1991

Bemidji State University, 1989

Rutgers University, 1989

Temple University, 1991

University of Illinois, 1990

University of Utah, 1990

Middlebury College, 1990

Indiana University, Indianapolis, 1988

Michigan State University 1989

University of North Carolina, Greensboro 1989

Ball State University, 1987

UNIVERSITY, DEPARTMENT, AND DISCIPLINARY SERVICE

Graduate Director and Associate Head, Department of Geography (2014 - ).

Committee Member, Tenure and Promotion Committee, to Associate

Professor, Department of Geography, University of Illinois, Spring (2014)

Committee Member, Search and Screen Committee, for Assistant Professor,

Department of Asian and American Studies, University of Illinois, Spring (2013)

Head, Tenure and Promotion Committee, Department of Geography (2012).

Undergraduate Adviser, Department of Geography (1994-2012).

Colloquium Coordinator, Department of Geography (1992 - ).

Colloquium Coordinator, Transnational Colloq uium Series, University of

Illinois (2-11 – 2012).

Committee member on Admissions and Academic Standards, College of Liberal Arts and

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Sciences (2011 -2013)

Curriculum Committee Member, School of Earth and Social Sciences, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences (2010-2012) 2013.

Proposal Panelist, Focal Point University Proposals, University of Illinois (2010)

Proposal Panelist, National Science Foundation, Dissertation Improvement Grants Division, Washington D.C. (2007-2009).

Head, Undergraduate Committee, Department of Geography, University of Illinois

(2008- ).

Committee Member, Search and Screen Committee for Head of School, School

Of Earth, Society, and Environment, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences (2007-2008).

Head, Search and Screen Committee for Excellence Hire, School of Earth,

Society, And Environment, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences (2007-

2008).

College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Course and Curricula Committee (2005- 2007).

College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Council on General Education

(2004- ).

Committee On A Sustainable Environment, Campus Committee (2001-2004)

Faculty Mentor Program, Summer Research Opportunities Program, Summer,

2002, 2003

College of Business, Committee on Grievances and Standards (2000).

Committee on Admissions and Academic Standards, College of Liberal Arts

and Sciences (1999-2000).

Head of the Faculty Search and Screen Committee, Department of Geography

(1999-2000).

Head of the Faculty Search and Screen Committee, Department of Geography (1988-1999).

Review Committee of Undergraduate Curriculum, Department Of Geography (1998-1999).

Faculty Mentor, Summer Research Opportunities Program, (Summer 1995,

Summer 2002).

Department of Library Sciences, Search and Screen Committee (1995).

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Campus Committee On Financial Aid to Students (1994- ).

Department of Geography Advisory Committee (1994-1996, 1998-2000).

Committee of the Graduate Program, Chair, Urban and Rural Development

Program (1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999).

University of Illinois Faculty Senate, elected member (1994-1996).

Head of the Undergraduate Geography program, University of Illinois

1993-2008).

Affirmative Action Officer, Department of Geography, University of

Illinois (1991-1993).

Colloquium Coordinator, Department of Geography, University of Illinois (1991-2013).

Geography Department Search and Screen Committee, University of Illinois (1991-1992).

Undergraduate Advisory Committee, University of Illinois (1990-1992).

Urban Studies Advisory Committee, Indiana University, Indianapolis

(1988-1990).

Geography Department Search and Screen Committee, Indiana University,

Indianapolis (1989)

School of Liberal Arts Resources and Planning Committee, Indiana

University, Indianapolis (1987-1989).

Social Science Quantification Committee, Indiana University, Indianapolis 1986-1988).

Center for American Studies Advisory Board, Indiana University,

Indianapolis (1987-1990).

United Faculty Union Treasurer, American Federation of Teachers, Local

3950 (1986-1990).

United Faculty Executive Committee, American Federation of Teachers,

Local 3950 (1986-1990).

Hugh O'Brien Foundation Advisory Committee, Indiana University, Indianapolis (1986-1987).

Center for American Studies Executive Board, Indiana University, Indianapolis (1986-1990).

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Indiana University Nominating Committee (Chair), Indiana University

(1987-1988).

Technical Science Review Committee, Indiana University, Indianapolis (1987-1988).

Indiana University Structure Committee (1986-1988).

Center for American Studies Spring Symposium Chair, Indiana University, Indianapolis (1987).

Center for American Studies Spring Symposium Chair, Indiana University,

Indianapolis, (1989).

SERVICE ON GRADUATE COMMITTEES

Matthew Aadland (chair, M.A.)

Matthew Alu (chair, Ph.D.) Matt Anderson (MA., chair, Ph.D.)

Nazal Achjar (M.S.) Barry Barker (M.A.)

Shaunna Barnhardt (Ph.D., Landscape Architecture) Samuel Batzli (Ph.D.)

Dean Beck (chair, M.A., Ph.D)

Elise Bienvenieste (chair, M.A) Jeremy Browning (chair, Ph.D)

Richelle Berneluzzi, (M.A., Ph.D.) Robert Cochran (chair, Ph.D)

Treva Ellison (chair, M.A.)

Sonya Duelberg (Ph.D.) Gregory Dumler (M.A., Landscape Architecture)

Erin DeMuynck (chair, Ph.D) Jennifer Ely (chair, M.A)

Donald Erickson (chair Ph.D). Donovan Finn (Ph.D., Urban Planning)

Jillian Gesty (chair, M.A.)

Serife Genise (Ph.D., Sociology) Daniel Gonzales (chair Ph.D)

Melissa Heil (M.A., chair) Michael Minn (Ph.D.)

Jong Woo (Ph.D.)

Erinn Nicley (Ph.D.) Dustin Allred (Ph.D., Urban Planning)

Dennis Grammenos (chair, Ph.D) Steve Graves (Ph.D.)

Kathleen Gregory (chair, M.A.)

Maria Luz-Daniels (M.A) Dan Haag (M.A.)

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Jennifer Iverson (chair, M.A.)

Jennifer Janke (chair, M.A.)

Thomas Jones (chair, Ph.D) James Ketchum (chair, M.A.)

Gregory Lawrence (M.A., Urban Planning) Francis Machungo (M.A., Ph.D)

Elaine Marielle (M.A.)

Dannel McCullum (M.A.) Thomas Mueller (chair, Ph.D.)

Dawn Morrison (M.A.) Dianne Myncyte (Ph.D., Sociology)

Harini Nayaranan (chair, Ph.D) Tom Paradis (M.A., Ph.D.)

Chris Pederson (Ph.D, University of Calgary, Canada)

Jeff Rodgers (Ph.D.) Clarissa Sampio (M.A., Urban Planning).

Patrice Schoolman (chair, M.A.) Anindita Sengupta (chair, Ph.D.)

Yildarim Senturk (Ph.D., Sociology)

John Sharp (chair, M.A., Ph.D.) Adam Smith (Ph.D.)

John Spindler (M.A.) Susan Smith (Ph.D., History)

Carolina Sternberg (chair, Ph.D) Anthony Tolen (chair, M.A.)

Michael Urban (M.A., Ph.D.)

Marissa Warneke (chair, M.A.) Christa Weidler (chair, M.A)

Rob Whiting (chair, Ph.D.) Jared Wouters (chair, M.A., Ph.D)

Faiza Zafar (chair, Ph.D.)