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NEIL SMITH

CURRICULUM VITAE

NEIL SMITH

CURRENT POSITION:
Distinguished Professor of Anthropology and Geography,
Graduate Center,
City University of New York
365 Fifth Avenue
New York NY 10016
(212) 817 1877
nsmith@gc.cuny.edu

Sixth Century Chair in Geography and Social Theory (part time)
University of Aberdeen (2008- )

EDUCATION:    The Johns Hopkins University – Ph.D., 1982
University of Pennsylvania – 1974-1975
University of St. Andrews – B.Sc., 1977
(1st Class, with Honours)

HONORS:    Progress in Human Geography Annual Lecture, Association of American Geographers, Seattle, 2011

J. Wreford Watson Annual Lecture, University of Edinburgh, November 2006

Bernard and Irene Schwartz Distinguished Lecture, New York Historical Society, June 2005

Political Geography Specialty Group, Association of American Geographers: Annual Lecture, 2005

Los Angeles Times Book Award, Biography, 2004

Henry Adams Book Prize, Society of Historians in Federal Government, 2004

Globe Award for Public Understanding of Geography, Association of American Geographers, 2004

Distinguished Scholarship Honors, Association of American Geographers, 2000

Hart Visiting Professor, University of Sheffield, March 2000

14th Annual Urban Lecture, University of Pennsylvania, October 29 1998

Royal Scottish Geographical Society Lecture, University of Edinburgh, April 1998

John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship, 1995-1996

Wallace W. Atwood Lectureship, Clark University, October 1992

Fellow, Center for the Critical Analysis of Contemporary Culture, Rutgers University 1989-90

Fellow, Rutgers Center for Historical Analysis, 1989-90

Board of Trustees Research Fellowship Award, Rutgers University, 1988-89

Young Research Scholar, Institute of British Geographers, January 1986

Dean’s Day Lecture, Columbia University, March l985

The Scottish Geographical Medal, Awarded by the Royal Scottish Geographical Society, 1977

Robert Lincoln McNeil Scholar, University of Pennsylvania, 1974-75

PREVIOUS POSITIONS

CUNY Graduate Center        Director, Center for Place, Culture and Politics
2000-2008

Rutgers University                 Professor        1990-2000
Acting Director, Center for the Critical Analysis of
Contemporary Culture 1996-97

Associate Professor    1988-90
Assistant Professor    1986-88

Columbia University      Assistant Professor    1982-86

VISITING APPOINTMENTS:

Visiting Professor, Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona (MACBA), Fall 2008

Queens University, Belfast, Visiting Professor, March 2005.

University of Oregon, Morse Chair Professor at the Wayne Morse Center for Law and Politics, Spring 2004.

University of Pennsylvania, Visiting Professor, Department of Landscape Architecture, Spring 2003.

University of Toronto, Visiting Distinguished Johnson-Connaught Professor in American Studies, 2002

University of Oslo, Visiting Professor, July-August 2002

City University of New York, Visiting Distinguished Professor of Anthropology, Spring 1998

University of Sa? Paulo, September 1994

University of Utrecht, Visiting Professor, Winter 1990

University of Queensland, Visiting Research Professor, Winter 1988

Princeton University, Adjunct Assistant Professor, Spring 1988

Australian National University, Visiting Research Fellow, July 1986

Morgan State University, Baltimore, 1982

PUBLICATIONS:

Books:

Después del Neoliberalismo: Ciudades y Caos Sistémico.  Contra Textos, MACBA: Barcelona 2009 (edited).

Democracy, States, and the Struggle for Global Justice, Routledge, New York, 2009 (editied with Heather Gautney, Omar Dahbour and Ashley Dawson).

Uneven Development.  Nature, Capital and the Production of Space, Basil Blackwell, Oxford. 3rd Edition: University of Georgia Press, Athens, GA, 2008; London: Verso, 2010).

La Producci?n de la Naturaleza; La Producci?n del Espacio, Mexico City: Sistema Universidad Abierta, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, 2006

The Politics of Public Space, Routledge, New York, 2006 (edited with Setha Low)

Capital Financiero, Propiedad Inmobiliaria y Cultura, MACBA & Publicacions de la Universitat Aut?noma de Barcelona, Barcelona, 2005 (with David Harvey)

The Endgame of Globalization, Routledge, New York, 2005

American Empire: Roosevelt’s Geographer and the Prelude to Globalization, Berkeley, University of California Press, 2003

Globalización: Transformaciones Urbanas, Precarización social Y Discriminación De Género, Nueva Grafica, S.A.L. La Cuesta, La Laguna, 2000 (with Cindi Katz)

New Urban Frontier:  Gentrification and the Revanchist City; Routledge, New York, 1996

Geography and Empire:  Critical Studies in the History of Geography, Basil Blackwell, Oxford, 1994 (edited with Anne Godlewska)

Gentrification of the City, George, Allen and Unwin, London, 1986 (edited with Peter Williams)

Uneven Development.  Nature, Capital and the Production of Space, Basil Blackwell, Oxford, 1984.  Second Edition, 1990)
(Translated and published as Desenvolvimento Desigual, Editora Bertrand Brasil, Rio de Janeiro, 1988).

Geography, Social Welfare and Underdevelopment, University of St. Andrews, 1977 (edited with Malcolm Forbes and Michael Kershaw).

Monographs:    Gentrification:  A Comprehensive Bibliography. Discussion Paper, Department of Geography, Rutgers University, March 1991, New Series, No. 1 (with Andrew Herod), 92pp.

Art Exhibits:    “Building Codes: The Programmable City”, a Project by the Center for Urban Pedagogy, Storefront for Art and Architecture, 19 July – 25 August 2001

“Urban Encounters,” New Museum of Contemporary Art, 16-July – 20 September 1998.

“A Riot is Now in Progress in Tompkins Square!”  In Andrew Castrucci:  YOUR HOUSE IS MINE.  Exit Art, New York City, March 1992.

Interviews (selected):

“Walk Like an Egyptian,” DietSoap Podcast, February 10, 2011.

http://dietsoap.podomatic.com/player/web/2011-02-10T02_16_25-08_00

“Right to the City,” Diet Soap Podcast, November 18, 2010.  http://dietsoap.podomatic.com/player/web/2010-11-18T02_19_30-08_00

Gentrification. Die Zeit April 19, 2010.

Uneven Development, KPFA, April 19, 2010

Der Zusammenschluss zwischen Anti-Gentrifizierungskämpfen und den Aktivitäten der weltweiten Bewegung für soziale Gerichtigkeit kann extreme bedrohlich werden” in MieterEcho, 324, October 2007, 9-12.

“The Suburbanization of New York” WNYC/National Public Radio, March 6, 2007

“Carrying the Torch for Jane Jacobs” Open Source Radio, WGBH, April 27, 2006.

“Neil Smith over de revanchistische stad”, Argos, January 21, 4, 2005.

“Hurricane Katrina” WGBH Radio, Boston, September 23, 2005.

“Geography” KVRM Radio, Eugene Oregon, February, 2004.

“After Iraq” KLCC Radio, Eugene, Oregon, January 2004

“Der Staat richtet sich in der Marktlogik ein” Kleine anfrage, 3, 2002, 18-21.

“Gentrification in Harlem” Powerpoint, National Public Radio, August 2001.

“Geographers on Film,” AAG/NSF, April 2000.

“Interview mit Neil Smith: The Revanchist City,” in StadtRat,  Umkämpfte Räume. Hamburg: Verlag Libertäre Assoziation, 1998, 132-38.

“The New Urban Frontier,” WBAI Radio, New York City, 1997.

“Die Revanchistische Stadt,” ZAG 25, 1997, 7-10 [Berlin].

“GIS: Research Tool or Means of Surveillance,” WLNM, Albequerque NM, 1997.

“Interju Neil Smith Egyetemi Tanarral az Amerikai Foldrajz es a Feminista Geografia Nehany Kerdeserol” (Interview with Neil Smith about some questions of American and feminist geography).  Ter ES Tarsadalom 7 1993, 43-49. [Budapest].

Articles:
“Ten Years After,” Geographical Journal 177, 2011

“Uneven Development Redux,” New Political Economy 16, 2011, 261-265.

“The Regeneration Railway Journey,” Mute.  Culture and Politics after the Net. March 23 2011, http://www.metamute.org/en/articles/the_regeneration_railway_journey_1

“’The Most Dangerous Knack’:  Fetish and Fascination in the Built Environment,” in Heiko Schmid et. al., eds, Cities and Fascination.  Beyond the Surplus of meaning.  Burlington VT: Ashgate, 2011, 95-106.

“’Martial Law in the Streets of Toronto’: G20, Security and State Violence,”  Human Geography 3.3, 2010, 29-46,

“Remaking Area Knowledge: Beyond Global/Local,” in Terence Wesley-Smith and John Goss, eds., Remaking Area Studies.  Teaching and learning Across Asia and the Pacific. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2010, 24-40.

“Son los Museos Tan Soloun Vehiculo al Servicio del Desarrollo Immobilario,” in Ideas Recibidas.  Un Vocabulario Para Cultura Artistica Contemporánea. n.d. [2010], Barcelona, MACBA, 130-148.

“After Geopolitics? From the Geopolitical Social to Geoeconomics,” Antipode 40, 2009, 22-48 (with Deborah Cowen)

“The Revolutionary Imperative,” Antipode 41, 2010, 50-65..

“Fear, Insecurity, and the Canadian City,” in Bunting, T and Filion, P, eds. Canadian Cities in Transition, Toronto: Oxford University Press, 2010, 293-306 (with Deborah Cowen and Amy Siciliano).

“Preface,” in Sabime Bitter and Helmut Weber, eds.,  Autogestion, or Henri Lefebvre in New Belgrade.  New York:  Sternberg Press, 2009, 81-86.
“Toxic Capitalism,” New Political Economy 14, 2009, 407-412.

“The Imperial Present: Liberalism Has Always Been Conservative,” Geopolitics 13, 2008, 736-739.

“The Evolution of Gentrification,” 66 East, 2008.

“”Class, State, Violence,” Anthropologica 50, 2008.

“Gentificación generalizada: de la anomalía local a la ‘regeneración urbana’ como estartegia  global urbana,” in Ciudades en (re) construcción: Necesidades sociales, transformación y mejora de barrios.  Colección Estudios: Diputació Barcelona, 2008, 31-48

“Novi globalizam, novi urbanizam: gentrifikacija kao globalna urbana strategija,” in Kovacevic, Leonardo, et al (eds). Operacija: Grad: Prirucnik Za Život U Neoliberalnoj Stvarnosti
Zagreb: Prosinac 2008, 60-85.

“Zur Kapitalistischen Produktion von Natur,” Das Argument 279.6, 2008, 873-78..

“The Evolution of Gentrification,” in JaapJan Berg, Tahl Kaminer, Marc Schoonderbeek, and Joost Zonneveld, eds. Houses in Transformation: Interventions in European Gentrification, Rotterdam: NAi Uitgevers, 2008, 15-26.

“Afterword:  Class, state and violence,” Anthropologica, 50:2, 2008, 283-286.

“The Shock Doctrine: a discussion,” Society and Space 26, 2008, 582-595 (with Naomi Klein)

“Comment:  Neo-liberalism — Dominant but dead,” Focaal: European Journal of Anthropology 51, 2008, 155-157.

“Review Essay: David Harvey: A Critical Reader,” Progress in Human Geography, 32:1, 2008, 147-155.

“On ‘The Eviction of Critical Perspectives,” International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 32:1, 2008, 195-197.

“Revanchist City, Revanchist Planet,” Reflect #06, 2007, 30-42

Rächen und Renovieren:Vergeltung bei der Renaissance der Stadt 375 in Volker Eick, Jens Sambale, and Eric Töpfer (eds). Kontrollierte Urbanität. Zur Neoliberalisierung städtischer Sicherheitspolitik, Bielefeld, Transcript, 2007, 375-394

“Gentrificaç?o, a fronteira e a reestruturaç?o do espaço urbano,” GEOUSP -  Espaço e Tempo: Revista da pós-graduaç?o em Geografia, 2007, No. 21, 15-31

“Gentrification, Displacement, and Tourism in Santa Cruz de Tenerife,” Urban Geography, 28, 2007, 276-298 (with Luz Marina García Herrera and Miguel Angel Mejías Vera)

Die Produktion des Raums. In: Belina, Bernd & Boris Michel (eds.): Raumproduktionen. Münster: Westfälisches Dampfboot, 2007, 61-76.

“Another Revolution is Possible: Foucault, ethics and politics,” Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 2007, volume 25, 191-193

“Afterword,”  in Deborah Cowen and Emily Gilbert eds., War, Citizenship, Territory, New York, Routledge, 2007, 385-392

“Disastrous Accumulation,” South Atlantic Quarterly, Fall 2007, No. 106: 769 – 787

“Baska bir devrim mümkün,” Birikim, 205-206, 2006, 170-172

“The Geography of Uneven Development” in Bill Dunn and Hugo Radice eds. 100 Years of Permanent Revolution; Results and Prospects, London, Pluto Press, 2006, 180-195

“Nature as Accumulation Strategy”, Socialist Register, 2006, 16-36

“The Endgame of Globalization”, Political Geography, 25:1, 2006, 1-14.

“On Liberalism: A Response”, Political Geography, 25:1, 2006, 37-41.

“Gentrification Generalized: From Local Anomaly to Urban “Regeneration” as Global Urban Strategy” in M Fisher and G Downey eds, Frontiers of Capital: Ethnographic Reflections on the New Economy, Duram, Duke University Press, 2006.

Foreward in Nik Heynan, Maria Kaika & Erik Syngedouw, eds, In the Nature of Cities: Urban Political Ecology and the Politics of Urban Metabolism, New York: Routledge, 2006, xi-xv.

“Global Executioner”, The South Atlantic Quarterly, 105:1, 2006, 55-69.

“Making and Breaking Neoliberal Spaces” (“Die Konstruktion und Dekonstruktion von neoliberalen Räumen”) in BiterWeber eds, Live Like This!, Edition Camera Austria, 2005, 110-121.

“Neo-Critical Geography, Or, The Flat Pluralist World of Business Class”, Antipode, 37: 5, 2005, 887-899.

“Ny globalism, ny urbanism:ojämn utveckling i det tjugoförsta ?rhundradet,” Fronesis, 2005, 18, 94-111

“There’s no such thing as a natural disaster”, Designer/Builder, November/December 2005, 33-35.

“The Bush hurricane” Clarion October 2005, 9.

“There’s No Such Thing as a Natural Disaster” (http://understandingkatrina.ssrc.org/Smith/), in “Understanding Katrina: Perspectives from the Social Sciences”, Social Science Research Council, September 2005. (Reprinted in Prabha Shastri Ranade, ed.,  Natural Disasters: Management and Preparedness,  Hyderabad, The Icfai University Press, 2006)

“Gentrification, the Frontier and the Restructuring of Urban Space” in N Fyfe and JT Kenny eds, The Urban Geography Reader, New York: Routledge, 2005.

“Geographers, Empires and Victims: a Response”, Political Geography, 24, 2005, 263-266.

“Geografías perdidas y globalizaciones fracasadas. De Versalles a Irak” Documents d’An?lisi Geogr?fica, 44, 2004, 19-41.

“After Iraq: Vulnerable imperial stasis”, Radical Philosophy, 127, September/October 2004, 2-7.

“Planeamiento, desalojos e inversión inmobiliaria en El Cabo-Los Llanos (Santa Cruz de Tenerife)” with  Luz Marina García Herrera in Sánchez García, J. (ed.) Toma de decisiones colectivas y política del suelo. Estudios de caso en Tenerife. Lanzarote: Fundación César Manrique, 2004, 121-140.

“Scale Bending and the Fate of the National” in Eric Sheppard and Robert B. McMaster eds, Scale & Geographic Inquiry, Malden MA: Blackwell, 2004, 192-212.

“Geographies of Substance” in Paul Clarke, Philip Crang, Mark Goodwin eds, Envisioning Human Geographies, New York: Edward Arnold, 2004, 11-29.

“Quem manda nesta fábrica de salsicha?”, Geosul, Florianópolis, v.18, n.35, Jan/Jun 2003, 27-42, (translated by Mario L Láhorgue.)

“Rätten till staden”, Ord & Bild, 5:6, 2003, 11-19, (with Catharina Thörn and Don Mitchell).

“Jelszavak és Könyörtelen Kritika: Marxizmus és Nemzetközi Kritikai Geográfia” (Of Shibboleths and Ruthless Critique: Marxism and International Critical Geography), Tér és Társadalom, XVII, évf. 2003, 37-51.

“After the American Lebensraum: ‘Empire’, Empire, and Globalization”, Interventions, 5:2, 2003, 249-270.

Foreward in Henri Lefebvre, Urban Revolution, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2003, vii-xxiii.

“La gentrification généralisée: d’une anomalie locale ? la “regeneration” urbaine comme stratégie urbaine globale” in C Bidou-Zachariasen, D Hiernaux, & H Riviere D’Arc eds, Retours en ville, París: Descartes & Cie, 2003, 45-72.

“Urban Regeneration: Gentrification as Global Urban Strategy” in Reid Shier ed, Stan Douglas: Every Building on 100 West Hastings Vancouver: Contemporary Art Gallery/ Arsenal Pulp Press, 2003, 62-92 (with Jeff Derksen) [winner, Best Book on Vancouver, 2003, City of Vancouver].

“New Globalism, New Urbanism: Gentrification as Global Urban Strategy” Antipode, 34/ 3, 2002, 427-450.
[Excerpted in “New Urbanism, New Globalism” The Urban Reinventors Issue 2 December 2007 (The Urban Reinventors Paper Series)]

Geografia, diferencia y políticas de escala. Terra Livre (S?o Paulo), Ano 18, nº 19,
July/December, 2002.
“Scales of Terror: The Manufacturing of Nationalism and the War for US Globalism” in Sharon Zukin and Michael Sorkin eds, After the World Trade Center New York: Routledge, 2002, 97-108. [Translated as “Terrorin mittakaavat: nationalismin rakentaminen ja sota ameikkalaisen globalismin puolesta” in Kosmopolis 4:2002, 49-58.]

“New Globalism, New Urbanism: Gentrification as Global Urban Strategy” Antipode, 34.3, 2002, 434-457.
[Reprinted in Neil Brenner and Nik Theodore, eds, Neo-Liberal Urbanism, Malden MA: Basil Blackwell, 2002;  as “Nowy globalizm, nowa urbanistyka: gentrifikacja jako globalna strategia urbanistyczna,” Przeglad anarchistyczny 11, 2010 [Warsaw].    ]

“Ashes and Aftermath” Studies in Political Economy 67, Spring 2002, 7-12.

“Ashes and Aftermath” Philosophy & Geography, 5, 1, 2002, 9-12.

“Kontinuum New York” in Regina Bittner ed, Die Stadt Als Event Dessau, Bauhaus, 2002, 72-86.

“Ashes and Aftermath” The Arab World Geographer, 4, 2, 2001, 81-84.

“Global Social Cleansing: Postliberalism Revanchism and the Export of Zero Tolerance” Social Justice, 28, 3, 2001, 68-74.

“The Changing State of Gentrification” Tijdschrift voor economische en sociale geografie (Journal of Economic and Social Geography), 92, 4, 2001, 464-477 (with Jason Hackworth).

“Local horror/global response” International Journal of Urban and Regional Research,  25, 4, 2001, 901 (with David Harvey, Talal Asad, Cindi Katz, Neil Smith and Ida Susser).

“States, scales and households: limits to scale thinking? A response to Brenner” Progress in Human Geography, Vol. 25, No. 4, 2001, 615-620 (with Sallie A Marston).

“Global Executioner: Scales of Terror”,  www.ssrc.org/sept11/essays/nsmith.htm,  2001.

“Scales of terror and the resort to geography: September 11, October 7″ Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 19, 2001, 631-637.
Reprinted in Klaus Dodds, Geopolitics. Los Angeles: Sage, 2009.

“Giuliani Space: Revanchist City” Debate,  6/7, 2001.

“The ‘Camden Syndrome’ and the Menace of Suburban Decline: Residential Disinvestment and its Discontents in Camden County, New Jersey” Urban Affairs Review,  36, 4, 2001 pp. 497-531.

“New Geographies and Old Ontologies: Optimism of the Intellect” Radical Philosophy, 106, 2001, 21-30.

“Marxism and Geography in the Anglophone World”, Geographische Revue, 3.2, 2001, 5-21.

“Guiliani Space” in Ines M Miyares, Marianna Pavlovskaya and Gregory A Pope (eds) From the Hudsons to the Hamptons: Snapshots of the New York Metropolitan Area, Washington DC, Association of American Geographers, 2000, 70-78.

“An Interview with Garciela Uribe Ortega,” Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 18, 2000, 537-662.

“Urbane Zukunft: Nichtnachhaltiger Kapitalismus und die Notwendikgeit von Dis-Governance,” in Und die Welt wird zur Scheibe ….  Berlin: MieterEcho, 2000, 34-36.

“New Globalism, New Urbanism:  Uneven Development in the 21st Century,” Working Papers in Local Government and Democracy 2000.
[Translated as: “Nuevo Globalismo, Nuevo Urbanismo,” d’An?lisi Geogr?fica 38, 2001, 15-32; “Ny globalism, ny urbanism: ojämn utvreckling i det tjugoförsta ?rhundradet,” Fronesis nr 18, Staden, 2005, 94-111.]

“Socializing Culture, Radicalizing the Social,” Social and Cultural Geography 1.1, 2000, 25-28.

“Who Rules the Sausage Factory,” Antipode 32, 2000, 330-339.

“Global Seattle,”  Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 18, 2000, 1-5.

“What Happened to Class?”  Environment and Planning A 32.6, 2000, 1011-1032.

“Rescaling Politics: Geography, Globalism, and the New Urbanism.”  In C. Minca, ed.
Postmodern Geographical Praxis.   Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 2000.

“Classics in Human Geography: Uneven Development: A Response,” Progress in Human Geography, 18, 2000, 271-4.

“The Restructuring of Spatial Scale and the New Global Geography of Uneven Development,” Jinbun Chiri [Journal of Japanese Human Geography] 28, 2000, 51-66.

“Which new Urbanism?  The Revanchist 90s” Perspecta.  The Yale Architectural Journal  30, 1999, 98-105.

“La Réaffirmation de l’ Économique,” Geographie, Économie, Société 1.1, 1999, 194-7.

“Global Economic Crisis and the Need for an International Critical Geography,” Korean Journal for Space and Environment  12, 1999, 37-65.

“The International Critical Geography Group: Forbidden Optimism?”  Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 17.4, 1999, 379-82, (with Caroline Desbiens).

“Which New Urbanism: New York in the Revanchist 90s,” in Robert Beauregard and Sophie Body-Gendrot (eds.) The Urban Moment.  Cosmopolitan Essays on the Late 20th Century City.  Sage:  Beverly Hills, 1999, 185-208.

“The Lost Geography of the American Century,” Scottish Geographical Journal 115, 1999, 1-18.

“Global Economic Crisis and the Need for an International Critical Geography,” Gendai Shiso (Contemporary Thoughts) 27-13,  1999, 142-159.

“Is a Critical Geopolitics Possible?  Foucault, Class and the Vision Thing,” Political Geography 19, 2000, 365-71.

“The Reassertion of Economics,” International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 23, 1999, 638-653 (with James DeFilippis).

“Wem nützt der neue Urbanismus? ‘Zero Tolerance,’ die ‘Giuliani Zeit’ und der Revanchismus der Neunziger,”  Centrum.  Jahrbuch Architektur und Stadt 1998-1999  [Zurich] 1998, 134-141.

“Giuliani Time,” Social Text 57, 1998, 1-20.

“Preservation in a Neo-Liberal Age: Comment on David Listokin, Barbara Listokin and Michael Lahr’s ‘The Contributions of Historic Preservation to Housing and Economic development,” Housing policy and Debates 9.3, 1998, 479-85.

“El Ni?o Capitalism,” Progress in Human Geography 22, 1998, 159-163.

“Afterward.  Nature at the Millenium: Production and Re-enchantment.” In Bruce Braun and Noel Castree (eds) Nature at the Millenium.  London: Routledge, 1998, 275-289.

“Retro Modern or Revolutionary: Scale Shifts and Political Reaction in Twenty First Century Urbanism,” City and Society 1997, 35-52.

“The Revanchist City,” Harvard Design Magazine Winter/Spring 1997, 20-21.

“The Satanic Geographies of Globalization: Uneven development in the 1990s,” Public Culture 10.1 1997, 169-189.

“Post-colonialism?  Reflections on Hong Kong and Mars,” Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 15.4, 1997 (with James DeFilippi)

“Antinomies of Space and Nature in Henri Lefebvre’s ‘The Production of Space,’” Philosophy and Geography 2 1997, 49-69.

“A Commentary on Peter Taylor’s ‘A Materialist Framework for Political Geography,’” Progress in Human Geography 21, 1997, 557-59.

“Beyond Sleep,” Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 15 1997, 134-5.

“Rethinking Sleep,” Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 14 1996, 505-6.

“O Espectro de Milton Santos,” in Maria Adelia Aparcida (ed.) O Mundo do Cidadao Um Cidadao do Mundo.  Sao Paulo: Editora Hucitec 1996, 187-190.

“The Revanchist City — New York’s Homeless wars,” Polygraph 8, 1996, 44-63.

“Spaces of Vulnerability:  The Space of Flows and the Politics of Scale,” Critique of Anthropology 16 1996, 63-77.

“The Production of Nature,” in George Robertson and Melinda Mash (eds.) FutureNatural. London: Routledge 1996, 35-54.

“On Rent Gaps and Radical Idealism,” Urban Studies 33 1996, 1199-1203.

“Social Justice and the New American Urbanism:  The Revanchist City,” in Eric Swyngedouw and Andrew Merrifield (eds.),  The Urbanization of Injustice. London: Lawrence and Wishart 1996, 117-36 [US edition by New York University Press, 1997].

“After Tompkins Square Park:  Degentrification and the Revanchist City,” In Anthony King (ed) Re-Presenting the City.  Ethnicity, Capital and Culture in the 21st Century Metropolis.  London: Macmillan 1996, 93-107.

“Gentrifying Theory,” Scottish Geographical Magazine 111 1995, 124-126.

“Trespassing the Future,” Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 13 1995, 505-6.

“Nature, Politics and Possibilities:  Debate and Discussion with David Harvey and Donna Haraway,” Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 13 1995, 507-27

“Remaking Scale:  Competition and Cooperation in Prenational and Postnational Europe.” In Heikki Eskelinen and Folke Snickars (eds.) Competitive European Peripheries.  Berlin:  Springer Verlag, 1995, 59-72.
[Reprinted in Neil Brenner, Bob Jessop, Martin Jones, and Gordon Macleod eds, State/Space: A Reader, London: Blackwell 2003, 227-238.

“Geography, Empire and Social Theory," Progress in Human Geography 18 1994, 550-560.

"From Disinvestment to Gentrification: Mapping the Urban 'Frontier' in the Lower East Side." In Janet Abu-Lughod (ed) From Urban Village to East Village.  Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1994, pp. 149-167 (with Betsy Duncan and Laura Reid).

"Reasserting Spatial Difference," ANY 1 1993, 22-3, 29-37.

"Grounding Metaphor: Towards a Spatialized Politics." In Michael Keith and Steve Pile (eds), Place and the Politics of Identity. London: Routledge 1993, 67-83 (with Cindi Katz) (reprinted in Korean Critical Review 30, 1998, 58-82).

"Homeless/Global: Scaling Places." In Jon Bird et. al. (eds) Mapping the Futures. Local Cultures, Global Change. London: Routledge, 1993, pp. 87-119.

"John Wayne Meets Donald Trump:  The Lower East Side as Wild West." In Chris Philo and Gerry Kearns (eds) Selling Places: The City as Cultural Capital, Past and Present. London: Pergamon, 1993, 193-209 (with Laura Reid).

"Gentrification in New York."  In H. Haussermann and Walter Siebel (eds) New York - Strukturen einer Metropole. Berlin: Suhrkamp, 1993, pp. 182-204.

"LA Intifada: Interview with Mike Davis," Social Text 33 1992, 19-33 (with Cindi Katz).

"Contours of a Spatialized Politics:  Homeless Vehicles and the Production of Geographical Space," Social Text 33 1992, 54-81 (reprinted, Antonio Arantes, O Espacço da Diferença .  Campinas SP: Papirus, 2000, 132-75 and in Joanne Morra and Marquard Smith (eds), Visual Culture: Critical Concepts in Media & Cultural Studies, Routledge, 2005).

"A Political Geography of Multiculturalism," Common Purposes 2.2, 1992, 7-8.

"Unseating Furniture Geography," Area 24 1992, 173-4.

"Real Wars, Theory Wars." Progress in Human Geography 16 1992, 257-271.

"Blind Man's Bluff Or, Hamnett's Philosophical Individualism in Search of Gentrification," Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers 17 1992, 110-115.

"Uiteenlopende Verklaringen voor Gentrification.  De Herovering van de Stad," Geografie Jaargang  1.1, 1992, 28-32 (with Jan van Weesep).

"New City, New Frontier:  The Lower East Side as Wild West." In Michael Sorkin (ed) Variations on a Theme Park. The New American City and the End of Public Space. New York: Hill and Wang 1992, 61-93 [“Nueva ciudad, nueva frontera: el Lower East Side como oeste, salvaje oeste”, Variaciones sobre un parquet temático: La nueva ciudad Americana y el fin del espacio público, Barcelona: Gustavo Gili, 2004.

"Geography, Difference and the Politics of Scale." In Joe Doherty, Elspeth Graham and Mo Malek (eds) Postmodernism and the Social Sciences. London: Macmillan 1992, 57-79 (Translated: Terra Livre (São Paulo), Ano 18, nº 19, julho/dezembro 2002).

"Housing for Profits, Housing for People," in Michael Harloe, Ian Gordon, Susan Fainstein (eds) A Tale of Dual Cities. London: Edward Arnold 1992, 175-202 (with Michael Harloe and Peter Marcuse).

"On Gaps in Our Knowledge of Gentrification," in Jan van Weesep and Sako Musterd (eds.) Urban Housing for the Better-Off: Gentrification in Europe. Utrecht: Stedelijke Netwerken, 1991, 52-62.

"The Courtesy of Political Geography," Political Geography Quarterly 10 1991, 338-41 (with Don Mitchell).

"What's Left?  A Lot's Left," Antipode 23 (1991), 406-418.

"Housing: Gentrification, Dislocation and Fighting Back." In Brian Wallis (ed) If You Lived here.  The City in Art, Theory and Social Activism.  A Project by Martha Rosler.  Seattle: Bay Press 1991, 108-114.

"Mapping the Gentrification Frontier." In Michael Keith and Alisdair Rogers (eds) Hollow Promises: Theory, Policy and Practice in the Inner City. London: Mansell Publishing 1991, 85-109.

"Geography Redux?  The History and Theory of Geography," Progress in Human Geography 14 1990 547-59.

"Tompkins Square Park Time Line." In New York City Tableaux: Tompkins Square.  New York: Exit Art, 1990, 14-20.

"Bringing Race In," Professional Geographer 42 1990, 232-234 (with Olivia Mitchell).

"Expertease: Making M/other Nature," Artforum 28.4 1989, 17-18.

"Geography as Museum: Conservative Idealism in `The Nature of Geography.'" In J. Nicholas Entrikin and Stanley D. Brunn (eds) Reflections on Richard Hartshorne's `The Nature of Geography'. Occasional Publication of the Association of American Geographers 1989, 89-120.

"From Disinvestment to Reinvestment:  Tax Arrears and Turning Points in the East Village," Housing Studies 4 1989, 238-52 (with Betsy Duncan and Laura Reid).

"Tompkins Square: Riots Rents and Redskins," Portable Lower East Side 6 1989, 1-36.

"Uneven Development and Location Theory: Toward a Synthesis," in Richard Peet and Nigel Thrift (eds) New Models in Geography. Boston: Hyman Unwin 1989, Volume 1, 142-63.

"Housing is a Human Right," Extra 2.7 1989, 40-42 (with Maureen O'Connor).

"For a History of Geography," Annals of the Association of American Geographers 78 1988, 159-63.

"The Short American Century," Studies in Contemporary International Development 23 1988, 38-46.

"The Region is Dead! Long Live the Region!" Political Geography Quarterly 7 1988, 141-52.

"Regional Adjustment or Restructuring?"  Urban Geography 9 1988, 318-24.

"The Restructuring of Geographical Scale: The Coalescence and Fragmentation of the Northern Core Region," Economic Geography 63 1987, 160-182 (with Ward Dennis).

"Rascal Concepts, Minimalizing Discourse and the Politics of Geography," Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 5 1987, 377-83.

"Gentrification and the Rent Gap," Annals of the Association of American Geographers 77 1987, 462-5.

"`Academic War Over the Field of Geography':  The Elimination of Geography at Harvard," Annals of the Association of American Geographers 77 1987, 155-172.

"Dangers of the Empirical Turn: Some Comments on the CURS Initiative," Antipode 19 1987, 59-68.

"Rehabilitating a Renegade: The Geography and Politics of Karl August Wittfogel," Dialectical Anthropology 12 1987, 127-36.

"Of Yuppies and Housing: Gentrification, Social Restructuring and the Urban Dream," Environment and Planning D:  Society and Space 5 1987, 151-172.
[Translated as:  “Classiques Revisités: ? Propos de Yuppies et de Logements : La Gentrification, la Restructuration Sociale et le R?ve Urbain,”    Geographie, Économie,Société 1.1, 1999,   157-191.]

“Harlem Gentrification: A Catch 22?” New York Affairs 10.1 1987, 59-78 (with Richard Schaffer).

“Uneven Development and the Geography of Modernity,” Social Concept 4 1986, 67-90.

“Bowman’s New World and the Council on Foreign Relations,” Geographical Review 76 1986, 438-60.

“The Gentrification of Harlem?”  Annals of the Association of American Geographers 76 1986, 347-365, (with Richard Schaffer).

“The ESRC Changing Urban and Regional Systems Initiative,” Environment and Planning A 18 1986, 995-996.

“On the Necessity of Uneven Development,” International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 9 1986, 87-104.

“Gentrification, the Frontier, and the Restructuring of Urban Space,” Gentrification of the City, edited by N. Smith and P. Williams, London and Boston: George, Allen and Unwin 1986, 15-34.(Reprinted in S. Fainstein and S. Campbell eds, Readings in Urban Theory.  Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1996; 2002; 2011).

“Postscript on the Production of Nature,” The Best of Antipode 1969-1985, edited by Richard Peet, 1985, 18.

“Endnote on Gentrification and Urban Restructuring,” The Best of Antipode 1969-1985, edited by Richard Peet 1985, 172-173.

“Gentrification and the Frontier,” Dispatch 3.2 1985, 16-23.

“A Producao da Natureza,” Geografia, 9, nos. 17-18, 1984, 1-36.

“Deindustrialization and Regionalization,” Papers of the Regional Science Association 54 1984, 113-128.

“A Class Analysis of Gentrification,” Gentrification, Displacement and Neighborhood Revitalization. In Bruce London and John Palen (eds) Albany: State University of New York Press 1984, pp. 43-63 (with Michele LeFaivre).

“Isaiah Bowman: Political Geography and Geopolitics,” Political Geography Quarterly 3 1984, 69-76.

“Geography:  From Capitals to Capital.” In Bertell Ollman and Edward Vernoff (eds) The Left Academy. New York: Praeger 1984, vol. 2, 99-121 (with David Harvey).

“Gentrification and Uneven Development,” Economic Geography 58 1982, 139-55.

“Theories of Underdevelopment,” Professional Geographer 34.3 1982, 332-37.

“Degeneracy in Theory and Practice: Spatial Interactionism and Radical Eclecticism,” Progress in Human Geography 55 1981, 111-18.

“Geography, Marx and the Concept of Nature,” Antipode, 12.2 1980, 30-39 (with Phil O’Keefe); (reprinted in John Agnew et. al. Human Geography. An Essential Anthology.  Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1996, 282-95; reprinted in Kay Anderson and Bruce Braun, eds. Environment: Critical Essays in Human Geography, Aldershot, UK: Ashgate Publishing, 2008).

“Symptomatic Silence in Althusser: The Concept of Nature and the Unity of Science,” Science and Society 44 1980, 53-81.

“On Althusser’s Misreading of the 1857 Introduction,” Science and Society 43 1979-80,
486-89 (with Nancy Hartsock).

“Toward a Theory of Gentrification: A Back to the City Movement by Capital not People,” Journal of the American Planning Association 45 1979, 538-48.  (Reprinted in Robert W. Lake, editor, Readings in Urban Analysis: Perspectives on Urban Form and Structure, New Brunswick: Center for Urban Policy Research 1983, 278-98).

“Geography, Science and Post-Positivist Modes of Explanation,” Progress in Human Geography 3 (1979), 356-83.

“Gentrification and Capital: Theory, Practice and Ideology in Society Hill,” Antipode 11.3 1979, 24-35.

“Symbol, Space and the Bicentennial,” Antipode 9.2 1977, 76-83.

Dictionary and Encyclopedia Entries:

“Uneven Development,” International Encyclopedia of Social and Behavioral Science, 2001.

“Nature,” Encyclopedia of Social Science  2nd edn., 1995, 566-7.

“Gentrification,” Encyclopedia of Housing.  Sage: Beverly Hills, 1998, 198-199.

The Dictionary of Human Geography (Edited by R.J. Johnson et. al.), Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 3rd Edition, 1994; 4th Edition, 1999; 10 entries, 21 pp

The Dictionary of Geopolitics (Edited by John O’Loughlin), Westport Ct.: Greenwood Press, 1994. 57 entries, 93 pp. Translated as Dizionario di Geopolitica.  Trieste: Asterios Editore, 1998.]

Newspaper Articles:

“German GWOT Misfire,” The Nation 285.8, 2007, 17.

“A harsh look at U.S. policy,” The Los Angeles Times, December 1, 2004.

“Amsterdam: Els/Les Okupes i l’Estat,” DARD, June 2001.

“Del Lower East Side al Raval” in La Vanguardia Dec, 2000.

“A Lesson in Geopolitics for Bush,” Philadelphia Inquirer, October 2, 1990.

“Reading Up on the Housing Crisis,” The Guardian, October 11, 1989.

“Today’s World is a Puzzle Without Geography,” Newsday, February 5, l989.

“When the Street Becomes a Prison,” The Guardian, November 23, 1988.

“How the Press Gentrifies,” Extra, January 1988, 5.

“Home on the Range, Urban Style,” New York Times, August 12, 1985.

Book Reviews:

Mark Mazower, “No Enchanted Place,” Journal of Global History 6, 2011

Leitner, H., Peck, J. and Sheppard, E. (eds.), “Contesting Neoliberalism,” Economic Geography 84, 2008. 359-61.

L. Freeman, “There Goes the ‘Hood: Views of Gentrification From the Ground Up,” City and Community, 7.1, 2008, 81-82.

D.N. Livingstone and C.W.J. Withers (eds) “Geography and Revolution,” Antipode, 39.4, 2007, 778-780.

C. Flint, “The Geography of War and Peace: From Death Camps to Diplomats,” International Journal, 62.3, 2007.

S. Graham, “Cities, War and Terrorism: Toward an Urban Geopolitics, ” International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 30.2, 2006, 469-470.

M. Gandy “Concrete and Clay: Reworking Nature in New York City,” Capitalism, Nature and Socialism, 16.1, 2005, 123-124.

G. Henderson “Fictions of Capital,” Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 92 2002, 597-598.

M. Bell, R. Butlin and M. Heffernan (eds) “Geography and Imperialism 1829-1940,” Albion. A Journal of British Studies 29.2, 1997, 379-81.

J. Pickles, “Ground Truth:  The Social Implications of Geographic Information Systems,” Annals of the Association of American Geographers 86 1996, 608-610.

J. Blaut, “The Colonizer’s Model of the World,” Progress in Human Geography 19, 1995, 433-435.

N. Thomas, “Colonialism’s Culture,” Progress in Human Geography 19, 1995, 577-579.

B. Werlen, “Society, Action and Space,” Contemporary Sociology 1995, pp.75-76.

M. Davis et. al., “The Year Left Volume 4: Fire in the Hearth:  The Radical Politics of Place in America,” Society and Space 11 1994, 733-4.

M. Gottdiener and Chris Pickvance, “Urban Theory in Transition,” Contemporary Sociology 1993.

Michael Storper and Richard Walker, “The Capitalist Imperative,” Antipode 24 1992, 81-3.

Bjorn Hettne, “Development Theory and the Three Worlds,” Geografiska Annaler B, 73 1991, 149-50.

Jean Gottmann and Robert A. Harper, “Since Megalopolis,” Journal of Historical Geography 17 1991, 497-8.

David Ward, “Poverty, Ethnicity and the American City, 1840-1925,” Geographical Review 80
1990, 465-8.

Marie Sanderson, “Griffith Taylor:  Antarctic Scientist and Pioneer Geographer,” Geographical Review 79 1989, 356-8.

J. Wood, “Southern Capitalism: The Political Economy of North Carolina, 1880-1980,” International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 12 1988, 512-3.

Michael Pacione, “Progress in Political Geography,” Environment and Planning C: Planning and Policy, 66 1988, 238-40.

Michael Smith, “Cities in Transformation,” Annals of Regional Science 22 1988, 126-7 (with Tanya Steinberg).

A.D. Thomas, “Housing and Urban Renewal.  Residential Decay and Revitalization in the Private Sector,” Journal of Urban Affairs 9 1987, 298-9 (with Laura Reid).

Ray Hudson and Jim Lewis eds. “Uneven Development in Southern Europe,” Antipode 20, 1988, 73-5.

Richard Foglesong, “Planning the Capitalist City.  The Colonial Era to the 1920s,” Geographical Review 78 1988, 87-89 (with Leyla Vural).

Derek Gregory and John Urry, “Social Relations and Spatial Structures,” Annals of the Association of American Geographers 67 1987, 294-7.

Phoebe Cutler, “The Public Landscapes of the New Deal,” Environment and Planning B: Planning and Design 14.1 1987, 113-4 (with Karen Kuhlke).

Matthew Edel, Elliot Sclar and Daniel Luria, “Shaky Palaces: Homeownership and Social Mobility in Boston’s Suburbanization,” Environment and Planning A 19 1987, 127-8.

Blair Badcock, “Unfairly Structured Cities,” Environment and Planning D 5 1987, 451-2.

M. Gottdiener, “The Social Production of Urban Space,” American Journal of Sociology 1986, 492-4.

Doreen Massey, “Spatial Divisions of Labour,” Geographical Review 70 1986, 350-352.

G. Gappert and R.V. Knight, eds, “Cities in the 21st Century,” International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 9 1986, 131-133.

R.J. Johnston, “Residential Segregation, the State and Constitutional Conflict in American Cities,” Professional Geographer 38 1986, 214-215.

Gordon Clark and Michael Dear, “State Apparatus,” Economic Geography 61 1985, 292-94.

Nigel Harris, “Of Bread and Guns,” Annals of the Association of American Geographers 75 1985, 296-8.

Michael Dunford and D. Perrons, “The Arena of Capital,” Environment and Planning A 17 1985, 138-140.

Moulaert, F. and P.W. Salinas, “Regional Analysis and the New International Division of Labour,” Progress in Human Geography 9 1985, 139-141.

M. Schill and R.P. Nathan, “Revitalizing America’s Cities,” Economic Geography 61 1985, 351-54.

D. Krueckeberg, “Introduction to Planning History in the United States.”  Environment and Planning A 16 1984, 980-81.

D. Rosenthal ed, “Urban Revitalization,” International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 6 1982, 150-152.

S. Laska and D. Spain, “Back to the City,” Environment and Planning A 13 1981, 1318-19.

Harry Cleaver, “Reading Capital Politically,” Review of Radical Political Economics 13.3 1981, 65-67.

Ian Adams, “The Making of Urban Scotland,” and Bruce Lenman, “An Economic History of Modern Scotland,” Economic Geography 56 1980, 85-87.

Dave Elliott, “The Politics of Nuclear Power,” Antipode 12.2, 1980, 49-50.

William Tabb and Larry Sawers eds. “Marxism and the Metropolis,” Economic Geography 55 1979, 89-91.

Editorial:    Editorial Board, ALEFT – Review of Radical Critical Geography, 2007 -

Book Series Editorial Advisory Board, Geographies of Justice and Social Transformation, University of Georgia, 2007 -

Editorial Board, Geofisker Annaler B, 2005-2007

Co-Editor, Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 1993-2003

Co-editor, Antipode, 1986-1987.

Editorial Board, Annals of the Association of American Geographers.  1988-94, 1996-2000

Editorial Board, Arab World Geographer, 1998-2005

Editorial Board, Urban Affairs Review, 1995-2000

Editorial Advisory Board, ACME: An International E-Journal for Critical Geographies, 2001-2007

Editorial Board, Scottish Geographical Magazine, 1995-

Editorial Board, Philosophy and Geography, 1995-

Editorial Board, Urban Affairs Quarterly, 1993-1995

Editorial Board, Sage Annual Urban Reviews, 1992 – 1999

Editorial Board, Social Text, 1996-2002

Editorial Advisory Board, Progress in Human Geography, 1990-1998

Editorial Board, Capitalism, Nature, Socialism, 1990-2004

Editorial Board, Antipode, 1985-1992

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITY:

2010-2012    External Examiner. Graduate Program in Geography, National University of Ireland, Galway.

2010-        Executive Committee, Earth and Environmental Sciences Program, CUNY

2009-2010    Provost’s Distinguished Lecture Committee, CUNY

2008        Distinguished Professor Appointment Committee, CUNY

2007        Jurist, Morse Integrity in Politics Award, University of Oregon

2007-2010    Advisory Board, Center for the Study of Political Economy, University of Manchester

2002-    International Advisory Network, Globalisation and Social Exclusion Unit, University of Liverpool

2001     Provostial Committee on Doctoral Education in the first Decade of the 21st Century, CUNY Graduate Center

2001-    Faculty Advisory Council, Ralph Bunche Insitute for Internaitonal Affairs, CUNY Graduate Center.

2001    Program Committee, American Ethnological Society Conference

2000-2001    Association of American Geographers, Conference Program Committee

1999-2005    People’s Geography Group

1998-                Social Science Research Council, Committee on “Beyond Borders.”

1994-    Consultant, American Masters, WNET Television

1997-2000    Board Member, Urban Geography Specialty Group, Association of American Geographers

1998-99    Director, History of Geography Specialty Group, Association of American Geographers

1996-97    Acting Director, Center for the Critical Analysis of Contemporary Culture, Rutgers University

1991-94    Chair, Department of Geography, Rutgers University

1994-    Senior Fellow, Center for the Critical Analysis of Contemporary Culture, Rutgers University

1993-5    Senator, Rutgers University Senate

1994    Provost’s Advisory Committee for Academic Development,  Rutgers University

1992-93     Search Committee, Vice President for Computing, Rutgers University

1992-94    Nominating Committee, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Rutgers University

1992-94    Curriculum Committee, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Rutgers University

1993-95    Executive Council, Rutgers University Chapter, Association of American University Professors

1992-94    University Faculty Grievance Committee

1991-92    Faculty Search Committee, Puerto Rican and Hispanic Caribbean Studies Department, Rutgers University

1991    Chair, Nominating Committee, Urban Geography Specialty Group, Association of American Geographers

1990-2000    Advisory Board, Center for the Critical Analysis of Contemporary Culture, Rutgers University

1990-92    Social Science Area Committee, Graduate School, Rutgers University

1990-91    Appointments and Promotions Committee, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Rutgers University

1990-91,    Graduate Director, Geography Program, Rutgers University
1992-93

1990-91    Chairperson, Urban Geography Specialty Group, Association of American Geographers

1990-91    Committee on Scientific Freedom and Responsibility, Association of American Geographers

1989-90    Vice Chairperson, Urban Geography Specialty Group, Association of American Geographers

1989    Ad Hoc Building Committee, Assoc. Amer. Geographers

1988-91    National Council, Association of American Geographers

1988-90    Committee on the Status of Women in Geography, Association of American Geographers

1988-    Corresponding Member, International Geographical Union Commission on History of Geography

1986-88    Social Science Research Council, Committee on New York, Workshop on the Built Environment

1986-88    Steering Committee, Workshop on Urban and Regional Studies, New School for Social Research

1986-87    Board of Directors, Urban Geography Specialty Group, Association of American Geographers

1984-86    Steering Committee, Urban Studies Program, Columbia University

1984-86    Advisory Board, Center for American Culture Studies, Columbia University

CONFERENCE ACTIVITY:

Conferences Organized/Co-Organized:

The New Chinese Urbanism, CUNY Graduate Center, May 23 & 24 2005.

Creative Destruction, CUNY Graduate Center, April 15-17 2004.

The World Looks at America, CUNY Graduate Center, April 30 – May 1 2003.

Liberalism and Empire, CUNY Graduate Center, March 12-13 2003. (with Omar Dahbour).

Politics of Public Space, CUNY Graduate Center, February 28 – March 1 2002. (with Setha Low).

Globalization and Inequality. CUNY Graduate Center, December 7 2000, and April 24 2001. (with Ida Susser).

Second International Critical Geography Conference, Taegu, South Korea, August 9-13, 2000.

Inaugural International Critical Geography Conference, Vancouver August 10-13, 1997.

Placements/Displacements.  Rutgers/Princeton Annual Conference, April 8-9, 1994.

Political Geographies of Race.  Rutgers University, February 17 – 18, 1994.

Metaphor and Materiality.  The Politics of Space and Nature.  Rutgers University, October 9-10, 1992.

The Alexander von Humboldt Symposium on Space and Nature in Scientific Thought.  International. Geographical Congress, Washington DC, August 9-14, 1992.

Geography and Empire: Critical Studies in the History of Geography.  An International Conference.  Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario, April 18-20, 1991.

Feminism and the Critique of Capitalism.  Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore.  February 1981.

Keynote Addresses:

“New Slaves to Nature,” Conference on the Urban and the Rural, New York University, October 22 2010.

“For (Political) Climate Change,” Geographing the Future conference, National University of Ireland, Galway, August 24 2010.

“The Production of Nature,” Nature, Ecology and Society conference, City University of New York, April 2009.

“Urban Revolution,” University of Toronto, The City in Theory and Practice, March 2009.

“The Production of Nature.”  Nature, Ecology and Society, CUNY Graduate Center, March 2009

“Neoliberalism: Dominant but Dead”.  Operajicia Grad, Zagreb, December 4 2008

“Culture as Diversion, The Politics of Culture”, International Geographical Union Conference, Buenos Aires, Argentina, November 2007.

“Areas, Regions, Scales:  Fluid Geographies in a Global World”, Diaspora and Area Studies, University of Toronto, Canada, April 2 2006.

“The Endgame of Globalization”, The Inaugural Nordic Geographers Meeting, Lund, Sweden, May 13 2005.

“Beyond Global Local”, Reconstituting the U.S., Institute for Critical U.S. Studies, Duke University, February 24-26 2005.

“The Politics of Scale”, Towards a Political Economy of Scale: Studies in Political Economy Conference, Faculty of Environmental Studies, York University, 4-6 February 2005.

“Making Nature’s Nation”, School of Architecture, Columbia University, December 2004.

“New Globalism, New Urbanism”, International Conference on Globalization, the State and Urban Transformation in China, Hong Kong Baptist University, 15-17 December 2003.

“Beyond Global/Local and the Future of Area Studies,” Middle East Geographies in the Twenty-First Century, School of Geography, University of Texas, Austin, 4-5 April 2003.

“Lost Geographies and Failed Globalizations: From Versailles to Iraq,” XVII Congreso de la Associación de Geográfos Espa?oles, Universitat Aut?noma de Barcelona, 24-27 September, 2003.

“Beyond Global/Local: Scale, Fixity and Fluidity in the New Area Studies,” Conference on ‘Remaking Asia Pacific Studies: Knowledge, Power and Pedagogy.’  School of Hawaiian, Asian and Pacific Studies, University of Hawai’I at Manoa, 2-5 December 2002.

“Gentrification Generalized: From Local Anomaly to Urban Regeneration as Global Urban Strategy,” Conference on Upward Neighbourhood Trajectories: Gentrification in a New Century, University of Glasgow, 26-27 September, 2002.

“Geographies of Urban Terror: Manufacturing Nationalism and the Politics of Reconstruction in New York City”, Conference on Sustainable Development in Urban Communities, University of Arizona, January 31-February 1, 2002.

“New Globalism, New Urbanism,” Institute of British Geographers Annual Conference, January 2-6, 2001.

“New Globalism, New Urbanism,” Conference on Urbanism and Suburbanism in the 21st Century, Maynooth, Ireland, November 25-26, 1999.

“Not With a Bang but a Whimper: Geography as Politics at the Closing of the American Century.”  Challenging the American Century, Loughborough UK, July 1-4, 1999.

“Global Economic Crisis and an International Critical Geography,” East Asian Regional Conference for Alternative Geography: “Socio-Spatial Issues for East Asian Countries in the 21st Century,” Kyongju, South Korea, 23-27 January, 1999.

“Satanic Geographies of Globalization,” Inaugural International Conference on Critical Geography, Vancouver, August 10-13, 1997.

“Satanic Geographies of Globalization, Or, The Territorial Imperative of Capital.”  National Association of Urban and Regional Planning (ANPUR), Recife, Brazil, May 26-30, 1997.

“The Production of Nature.”  First International South African Geography Conference, Durban, July 10-14, 1995.

“Satanic Geographies:  Uneven Development in the 90s”.  Conference on ‘Capitalist Restructuring and Labor:  Asia and the Americas, 1945-1990.’  Duke University, Durham NC, February 17 – 19, 1995.

“Social Justice, Gentrification, and the Revanchist City.”  Fin de Siecle Urbanism:  A Metropolitan Agenda for the New Millenium.  Oxford University, March 14-15, 1994.

INVITED LECTURES (since 1986):

2011        Bogaziçii University, Istanbul
University of Calgary (Anthropology, Geography)
Temple University (Center for Humanities)

2010        Harvard University (Design and Architecture – GSD)
Central European University (Sociology and Social Anthropology)
University of St. Andrews (Geography)
Universidad de La Laguna, Tenerife (Geography)
Catholic Worker, New York
Barnard College

2009        West Virginia University (Geography and Geology)
Cornell University (City and Regional Planning)
University of Arizona (Geography)
Carleton University, Ottawa (Political Economy)

2008        Universitet Autonoma, Barcelona (Geography)
University of the Streets, Vancouver
Rutgers University, Newark (Urban Studies)
Stanford University (Anthropology, Humanities)
University of Toronto (Geography)

2007        University of Heidelberg (Geography)
University of Alberta, Edmonton (Cultural Studies)

2006        University of Mumbai (Geography)
University of Michigan (Architecture and Urban Planning)
York University (Geography)
Trent University (Frost Centre)
Ohio State University (Geography)

2005        Oxford University (School of Geography and the Environment)
University of Miami (Geography)
University of Cincinnati ( History)
Pomona College (History)
Rutgers University (Geography)
New School University (Urban Policy)
Museum of Contemporary Art, Barcelona
Scottish Universities Field School (Geography)

2004    Harvard University (Center for European Studies)

City Club, Eugene, Oregon
University of Oregon (Geography)
Western Oregon University (Social Science)
Centre Cultural Contemporanio de Barcelona

2003                  University of Kentucky (Social Theory)
Brecht Forum

Rutgers University (Geography)
University of Texas (Geography)
Walker Art Gallery, Minneapolis
Ralph Bunch Institute for the United Nations
Columbia University (Geography)
Syracuse University (Geography)

2002    University of Hawai’I at Manoa (Hawaiian, Asian and Pacific Studies)
University of Heidelberg (Geography)
University of Oslo (Architecture)
University of Vienna (Critical Geography)
Yale University (International Studies)
New York University (American Studies)
Okanagan University College (Geography)

2001    Georgia State University (Geography and Anthropology)
NYU (Anthropology)
Sarah Lawrence (Environmental Studies)
Dartmouth College (Geography)
University of Colorado (Developing Areas)
Emory University (International Affairs)
University of Georgia (Geography)
Pratt Institute (Architecture)

2000    Bauhaus
University of Pennsylvania (History of Science)
Columbia University (Urban Planning)
West Virginia University (Geography and Geology)
University of British Columbia (Green College)
University of Minnesota (Geography; Humanities)
University of Lund (Social and Economic Geography)
New York University (Sociology)
University of Delaware (Urban Policy and Planning)

1999    Universidad de La Laguna, Tenerife, Spain
ShinShun University for Women, Seoul
Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo (Economics)
Osaka City University/ Association of Japanese Geographers

1998        New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York City
University of St. Andrews (Geography)
University of Glasgow (Geography)

1997        San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA)
Columbia University (Architecture)

1996    University of Minnesota (Geography)
Vassar College (Geography)
University of Arizona (Center for Cultural and Literary Studies; Geography)

1995        CUNY Graduate Center (Twentieth Century Seminar)
Parson’s School of Design, New School for Social Research, New York City
Ministerio de Desarrollo Humano (UNAS), La Paz Bolivia

1994    Princeton University (Woodrow Wilson School)
Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest
University of Szeged (Geography)
University of Oslo (Geography)
University of Hawaii (Geography)
Virginia Polytechnic and State University (Geography)
University of Georgia (Geography)
Georgia State (Geography)
Georgia Institute of Technology (City Planning)
University of S?o Paulo (USPE) (Geography)

1993    Harvard University (Architecture)
Princeton University (Architecture)
University of California, Irvine (Humanities Research Institute)
University of Lund (Human Geography)
Ohio State University (Geography)
University of Redlands (History)
Helsinki University of Technology (Urban and Regional Planning)

1992        Yale University (Architecture)
Columbia University (Urban Planning)
University of Puerto Rico (Geography and Environmental Sciences)
Portsmouth Polytechnic (Geography)
Brooklyn College (Sociology)

1991    University of Toledo (Social Science Faculty)
Temple University (Geography)
CUNY (Environmental Psychology)

1990        University of Colorado (Geography)
Whitney Museum of American Art
University of La Laguna (Geography)
Edinburgh University (Geography)
Oxford University (Geography)
University of Utrecht (Geography)

1989        Dartmouth (Geography)
Pennsylvania State University (Geography)
Dia Art Foundation
Columbia University (Planning)
Syracuse University (Geography)

1988        Harvard University (Center for European Studies)
Boston University (Geography)
Hunter College (History)
New School for Social Research (Sociology)

1987    Columbia University (Journalism)
University of Iowa (Geography)
LaGuardia Community College (Labor History)
Villanova University (Geography)
University of Kentucky (Geography)
University of Delaware (Geography)
Portland State University (Sociology)
SUNY Albany (Geography; Urban Policy)
Columbia University (Urban Planning)
Fordham University (Division of Social Science)

1986    West Virginia University (Geography; Institute for Regional Planning)
University of Melbourne (Geography; Environmental Planning)
University of Sydney (Geography)
Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (Urban Planning)
Flinders University (Geography and Sociology)
University of Adelaide (Geography)
University of Queensland (Anthropology and Sociology)
Monash University (Geography)
Swinburn Institute of Technology (Sociology)
Footscray Institute (Geography)
Hunter College, CUNY (History)
Indiana University (Geography)

PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS:

Association of American Geographers
American Anthropological Association
CUNY Professional Staff Congress

GRANTS:

2001-2006    “Revitalizing Area Studies: Toward a Synthesis.”  Ford Foundation, $890,000

2000-2001    CUNY Faculty Development Grant: “Globalization and Inequality.” $8,000.

1998-2000    “The Diffusion of Post-Recession Gentrification.”  National Science Foundation Grant Proposal, 1998-2000, $85,273.

1994-97    Co-Principal Investigator, Rockefeller Foundation.
“Culture, Environments, and the Public Sphere.”  Grant to Center for the Critical Analysis of Contemporary Culture, Rutgers University.  $250,000.  (Principal Investigator, George Levine)

1993-94    Principal Investigator.  Political Geographies of Race.   New Jersey Council for the Humanities.  $7,000.

1992-93    Principal Investigator, Rutgers University Research Council. Geography and Empire. $1,500.

1991-92    Senior Researcher, McKnight Foundation.  An Assessment of the Minneapolis Neighborhood Revitalization Program. $330,777 (Principal Investigators: Norman Glickman, Susan Fainstein).

1991    Principal Investigator, National Science Foundation.  Geography and Empire.  An International Conference. $5,000.

1987-89    Principal Investigator, National Science Foundation.  Indicators of Reinvestment and the Diffusion of the Economic Frontier Line in the Gentrification of the Lower East Side. $34,121

1987    Principal Investigator, Rutgers University Research Council. Isaiah Bowman and the American Empire. $1,500.

1983-85    Principal Investigator, Spencer Foundation. The Uses of Geography: The Career of Isaiah Bowman. $7,350

1983-84    Council for Research in Social Sciences, Columbia University. Isaiah Bowman:  Scientist Statesman Geographer. $2,000